The U.S. EPA is soliciting applications, due next week, for their free Smart Growth Implementation Assistance program. Read former SGIA Director Ilana Preuss’s article on the use of NCI Dynamic Planning in the program on our website, here.

Request for Applications: Smart Growth Implementation Assistance

Are you trying to encourage specific smart growth techniques like transit-oriented development? Or direct your state department of transportation investments to better support smart growth? Do you need to retrofit a commercial corridor? Or coordinate your community’s smart growth design with an active aging program?

The U.S. EPA’s Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation is responding to this need by issuing a request for applications for the Smart Growth Implementation Assistance program. Through this program, a team of multidisciplinary experts will provide free technical assistance to communities, regions, or states that want to develop in ways that meet environmental and other local or regional goals.

We are soliciting applications from communities that want help with either policy analysis or public participatory processes. Selected communities will receive assistance in the form of a multi-day visit from a team of experts organized by EPA and other national partners to work with local leaders. Applications will be accepted until May 8, 2008.

For more information and application materials, visit the EPA’s Smart Growth Implementation Assistance website.