Providence Journal Applauds Smart Growth School Siting Guidelines

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September 25, 2005, 7:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"How easy it has been for a school committee to go to the municipal voters and say that a new school may be built on cheap land out on the fringes of town or otherwise distant from most of the school's students. So, increasingly over the decades, public schools have emerged in outlying areas. And so we applaud the Rhode Island Department of Education for adding to its School Facility Planning Guidelines incentives for school districts to implement such "smart growth" ideas as building new schools closer to the center of town."

Thanks to John Flaherty

FULL STORY: Smart New Schools

Friday, September 23, 2005 in The Providence Journal

Community / Economic Development Rhode Island

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