• Access to Jobs and Workers Via Transit Tool
  Geospatial data resource and web mapping tool for comparing the accessibility of neighborhoods via public transit service.

• Attracting Infill Development in Distressed Communities: 30 Strategies to Help Local Governments Overcome Obstacles and Encourage Infill Development in Distressed Communities
  Helps economically distressed communities determine their readiness to pursue infill development and identify strategies to better themselves to attract infill development.

• Equitable Redevelopment of Petroleum Brownfields for Zuni Pueblo and Other Tribal Communities
  Step-by-step guide to redeveloping petroleum brownfield sites to bring new investment and opportunity to communities that focuses on sites in Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico but can be useful to tribal communities across the nation.

• Essential Smart Growth Fixes for Rural Planning, Zoning, and Development Codes
  Tool to help rural communities strengthen their economies while preserving rural character.

• Essential Smart Growth Fixes for Urban and Suburban Zoning Codes
  Tool to help local governments apply targeted fixes to their zoning codes to address specific issues.

• Examples of Smart Growth Communities and Projects
  Links to examples of smart growth projects and policies around the country.

• Flood Resilience Checklist
  Checklist to help communities determine whether they are prepared for a flood.

• Framework for Creating a Smart Growth Economic Development Strategy: A Tool for Small Cities and Towns
  Step-by-step guide to building a place-based economic development strategy. It is intended for small and mid-sized cities, particularly those that have limited population growth, areas of disinvestment, and/or a struggling economy.

• Infrastructure Financing Options for Transit-Oriented Development
  Comprehensive overview of existing tools and implementation strategies for transit-oriented development and emerging, innovative models for financing.

• Mixed-Use Trip Generation Model
  Spreadsheet tool that makes it easy to estimate trips generated by a new mixed-use development to more fairly assess these projects in development review processes.​

• Smart Growth and Economic Success
  Series of four publications that outline the benefits of smart growth development for developers, businesses, local government, and other groups.

• Smart Growth Publications
  List of publications from EPA's Smart Growth Program on a wide variety of topics.

• Smart Growth Scorecards: Useful Examples from Across the Country
  Sample scorecards that can help communities assess their development patterns and related aspects like walkability.

• Smart Growth Self-Assessment for Rural Communities
  Tool that lets communities evaluate their existing policies to create healthy, environmentally resilient, and economically robust places.

• Smart Growth Tools
  Links to tools on a variety of smart growth topics, including simple checklists, mapping tools, and spreadsheet tools.

• Smart Growth Topics
  Links to pages with resources from EPA and other sources on smart growth and specific topics, including climate change, disaster resilience, equitable development, rural communities, and transportation.

• Smart Location Calculator
  Simple tool for exploring how workplace location affects worker commute travel. Indicators include worker commute greenhouse gas emissions, mode-share, vehicle miles traveled, and workplace accessibility via transit.

• Smart Location Database
  Nationwide geospatial database characterizing the built environment for use in travel demand studies and scenario planning.

• The Smart School Siting Tool
  Helps communities align school site selection with planning policies and capital investments and compare school siting alternatives.

• Sustainable Communities HotReport
  Web-based tool that gives community leaders and residents a quick and easy way to determine how well their community is performing on a variety of sustainability indicators, including transportation, housing, economic development, income, and equity.

• Sustainable Community Indicator Catalog
  Catalogue of indicators to help communities measure progress toward their sustainability objectives.

• Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments
  Toolkit on local codes of ordinances that affect the design, construction, renovation, and operation and maintenance of a building and its immediate site to help local governments, the development community, and other building professionals identify and remove barriers to sustainable design and green building in their permitting processes.

• Tribal Green Building Toolkit
  Provides information on how tribes and other communities can prioritize and implement green building codes, policies, and practices.

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