State & Local Growth Polling Program

Survey your community’s residents on their attitudes toward growth and development. This information can help your association formulate land use policies. NAR will cover the cost of the polling....

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Customized State Smart Growth Legislation Program

This customized resource can help your state association set the stage for sustainable development practices by proactively altering the state’s land use laws....

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Walkable Community Resources

Walkable communities are one of the latest trends in real estate, and REALTORS® need to be aware of how the demand for walkable communities impacts real estate and their business. Access a fact sheet, how-to guide, advocacy overview, and webinar to learn how to make your community more walkable. Leverage…...

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Placemaking Resources

The Placemaking Guide, webinars and Spaces to Places blog offer ideas, guidance and project examples....

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Community Preference Survey

Gain valuable information about consumers’ preferences toward transportation, housing, and smart growth from this biennial survey. Access a customizable press release to communicate details to members and/or to help advocate for a range of housing types, open spaces, and walkable neighborhoods....

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Placemaking Grant

Placemaking is the creation of vibrant, public spaces and destinations for the whole community. The Placemaking Grant funds projects that transform vacant lots, underutilized alleys, or overgrown green spaces into new public spaces for the community to gather....

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Planning & Zoning Class

A community functions best with homes for all incomes, jobs, schools, open space, desirable destinations and services, and different ways to reach them—by foot, bicycle, public transit, or automobile. But a well-functioning doesn’t happen by accident. It takes knowledge of the process cities use to create a vision for their…...

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Growth Management Fact Book

Use the Growth Management Fact Book to obtain with factual information and analyses concerning modern growth management techniques and land use related controls. This publication reflects NAR’s belief that REALTORS® must be able to engage with citizens, legislators and government officials effectively on regulatory issues of importance to the real…...

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Land Use Initiative

Upon request, state and local associations can receive an analysis and talking points of proposed legislative and regulatory land-use measures—comprehensive plans, amendments, ordinances—that impact the transfer of real property. Search past analysis by key word, issue, and state within the Land Use Memo Database....

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Smart Growth Action Grant

Supports state and local REALTOR® association initiatives, including trainings, community input planning and studies, in a wide range of land-use and transportation- related activities with the primary goal of affecting public policies that support development that meets one or more of the ten Smart Growth Principles....

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