Tools Database

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The Tools Database is a resource to help communities and planners identify tools and processes for better community planning. Launch Tool

The Smart Growth Tools database was designed as a resource to help communities and planners identify tools and processes for better community planning. It was developed by Ken Snyder, former Director of Planning Tools at the Foundation and now Executive Director of PlaceMatters, with financial support from the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. Several of the tools listed in this database come from the U.S. EPA report on Projected Land-Use Change.

PlaceMatters is a new, national non-profit organization that is developing from the Foundation's Planning Tools program; it will assume management for the Tools Database. In the meantime, you can explore and use the website in its current location at www.smartgrowthtools.org.

Click here to visit and explore the Tools Database.

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