Your Town Alabama: Designing Our Future

Links Continued

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Land_use/ From the Cornell Law School, this site provides information on Federal, state and local land use laws, including links to specific state laws, including Alabama’s.

http://www.ecoiq.com/ From the website: “EcoIQ.com exists to support and promote a transition to sustainability.” The site contains a variety of links to different governmental agencies, groups and organizations that promote smart growth, ecological preservation and other similar goals. Some links are very useful, others less so.

http://www.transact.org/ The Surface Transportation Policy Project. This group is, according to their site, "working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment." The site includes factsheets on transporation as it relates to many issues, from housing and social equity to traffic congestion problems.

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