Advocates for Quality Development (AQD)
Smart Growth
Planned Growth for Better Community Living
- Smart, planned growth encourages residential and commercial projects that
- provide quality housing for all income levels
- creates stability and predictability that encourages new businesses to come to our community
- protects quality of our drinking water
- add job opportunities
- promote sound infrastructure
- offer environmental and safety protections
- incorporate aesthetic appeal to maximize property values
- preserve & improve quality of life for residents
- Unplanned, uncontrolled growth can lead to development that
- is incompatible with neighboring properties, potentially devaluing the properties
- impact residents' quality of life
- creates unnecessary, expensive burdens on existing infrastructure-sewer, roads, fire, law enforcement, etc.
- causes traffic congestion and compromises public safety
- discourages quality developers who fear investing in projects with so many uncertainties about what might happen next door