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- Protect and preserve environmental resources, open space, working landscapes and unique natural environments, and reduce air and water pollution.
- Promote diverse housing types in all communities to enable households from a wide range of economic levels, cultures and age groups to live and work within their boundaries.
- Foster economic and social equity and provide choice and opportunity for all Massachusetts residents.
- Reinforce our tradition of compact, walkable cities, towns and villages by encouraging lively, mixed-use development near existing infrastructure and promoting efficient land use that minimizes sprawl.
- Invest in transportation choices, including high quality public transit services, which provide alternatives to automobile use.
- Encourage fiscal policies that allow all communities within a region to share in the benefits and responsibilities of growth.
- Promote local, regional and state planning and investment to promote smart growth.
- Create sustainable, shared prosperity through economic investment and development policies that provide jobs and opportunity, strengthen communities, and streamline development processes that avoid sprawl.
- Encourage development that conserves resources, minimizes waste, utilizes good design, promotes environmental health and enhances the community in which it is located.
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