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  • Not only is the federal transportation spending bill up for reauthorization in 2009, but Barack Obama (whose hometown of Honolulu just voted for its own local rail project) has explicitly supported smart-growth agendas, and plans to create a White House Office on Urban Policy.

    Road Worriers 2009

  • That strikes me as good smart-growth policy, but the farmers aren't necessarily the only ones who'll squawk about it.

    O'Malley's bold proposals on environment face sizable challenges Robert McCartney 2011

  • It seems fitting - and long overdue - for Maryland to enact this smart-growth legislation.

    Smart growth bill capitalizes on Maryland transit 2011

  • A trio of conservation and smart-growth groups announced Wednesday their opposition to Gov.

    Updated: Conservation groups oppose McDonnell's transportation plan Anita Kumar 2011

  • That strikes me as good smart-growth policy, but the farmers aren't necessarily the only ones who'll squawk about it.

    O'Malley's bold proposals on environment face sizable challenges Robert McCartney 2011

  • There have been complaints in the neighborhood about these smart-growth plans, but those complaints are the worst sort of NIMBYism.

    One of the best things for D.C. in decades Philip Kennicott 2011

  • Yet three prominent environmental and smart-growth groups have come down the other way, saying the plan will do little to create real jobs, will push unneeded projects and will stick the state with too much debt.

    Lines drawn over McDonnell's transportation plan Peter Galuszka 2011

  • Not only is the federal transportation spending bill up for reauthorization in 2009, but Barack Obama (whose hometown of Honolulu just voted for its own local rail project) has explicitly supported smart-growth agendas, and plans to create a White House Office on Urban Policy.

    Road Worriers 2009

  • That strikes me as good smart-growth policy, but the farmers aren't necessarily the only ones who'll squawk about it.

    O'Malley's bold proposals on environment face sizable challenges Robert McCartney 2011

  • • New EPA water infrastructure policy seeks to encourage smart growth: A policy released late last month by the agency instructs states to adopt smart-growth principles in allocating the $3.3 billion in water infrastructure funding that the federal government doles out each year.

    Health-care relief for the children of feds? 2010

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