Huge Step for Smart Growth in New York State!

Green Village Consulting is proud to have supported Empire State Future’s marshaling of the groundbreaking Public Infrastructure Priority Act through the New York State Assembly and Senate. This bill requires New York State agencies to carefully examine their infrastructure programs and funding to ensure that they are not subsidizing or in other ways enabling inefficient land use and development known as “sprawl.”

Such sprawl–especially Upstate, where development continues unabated into much of the suburban and rural areas even with flat and declining population–has for decades undermined the economic, ecological, social, and aesthetic health of all community types in New York. And much of it has been fueled by state infrastructure programs and resources.

The Public Infrastructure Priority Act signals unprecedented state government understanding of sprawl and its causes and consequences, and its real commitment to smart growth and sustainable development, from Montauk to Chautauqua, and everywhere in between!

For more information on the legislation and process, see these links:

http://www.empirestatefuture.org/2010/06/smart-growth-bill-receives-legislative-approval.html

http://www.empirestatefuture.org/2010/07/nys-legislature-passes-the-smart-growth-public-infrastructure-policy-act-empire-state-future-urges-g.html