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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:49 AM
Subject: kentucky smart growth


Dear Mr. Riley,

Thank you for contacting RPPI about Smart Growth. I am increasingly involved in Kentucky Smart Growth issues. (In fact, I will be on a Louisville talk radio station (Kentucky New Network) talking about light rail Wed. at noon.

We are currently assembling a Smart Growth home page for Kentucky and hope to have it up and running by early next week. It can be accessed through www.urbanfutures.org.

In the meantime, you might want to take a look at our policy studies on farmland preservation and urban growth boundaries at the same web site. There are also several presentations that outline varioius dimensions of the Smart Growth concept and its applications.

In general, you can expect the Smart Growth task force to recommend significantly greater involvement by the state into local land-use decisionmaking. This will come primarily through farmland protection measures (which are really open space protection). The committee will probably also recommend urban-growth boundaries given the perception of Lexington's success with its urban-service area.

My guess is that the state will come up with something much more aggressive than either Ohio or Michigan, and probably closer to Tennessee's growth management law.

Let me know if I can be of any further help.

Sam

Samuel R. Staley, Ph.D.
Director, Urban Futures Program
Reason Public Policy Institute
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