GLRPPR Sector Resource: Creating Equitable, Healthy, and
Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth,
Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development Creating
Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for
Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable
Development Communities across the country are integrating smart
growth, environmental justice, and equitable development
approaches to design and build healthy, sustainable, and
inclusive neighborhoods. For example, residents of Spartanburg,
South Carolina, partnered with the local government, federal
agencies, and industry stakeholders to create new housing,
parks, businesses, and health clinics where brownfields,
landfills, and abandoned buildings once existed. On the Ohkay
Owingeh reservation in New Mexico, tribal leaders are
implementing a Master Land Use Plan that creates affordable
housing, preserves valuable water resources, and revives
traditional Pueblo settlement patterns and historic plazas.
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