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Common Guiding Principles for Development

Below are the common principles developed by the 300 participants in the Reality Check exercise to guide where they would accomodate 2 million new residents and 1.6 million new jobs in our region by 2030.

• Preserve and protect open spaces

• Focus development near transit stations

• Maintain jobs-housing balance

• Concentrate development along transportation corridors

• Concentrate development near existing towns

• Create mixed use nodes

• Develop east side of region

• Offer housing choices

View the Summary Presentation of the growth scenarios developed by 300 elected officials, developers, business and community leaders.

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