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  • Please submit your nominations for Smart People, Smart Places Awards

  • An event to honor the people and places that use Smart Growth planning to make Wisconsin a great place to live.

  • October 11, 2012 at Union South

  • Help us find the people and places that personify Smart Growth principles!

    Fill in the boxes below and select the category of your choice and provide answers to the questions in the nomination form.

    All nominations must include an image. They are a very useful way of depicting the character of a place, and how people use it.  (You will be asked to upload your image in the nomination form).

    Please also include information about your relationship to, and your experiences in this place or with the person, program or organization.

  • Categories: The definitions of criteria for the awards in each category are those used by 1000 Friends in our mission and programs:

    1. Smart Growth Leadership: The most effective leader in promoting Smart Growth development.

    2. Land Conservation: The best example of protection of public land by a conservancy, community, organization or company.

    3. Land Use Design Visionary:  An individual who has developed a vision for good land use design principles that has inspired others to excel in land use design.

    4. Adaptive Re-use of Urban Land: Property that has been transformed to a higher and better use.

    5. Transit Leader: A person that has championed transit for the betterment of all Wisconsinites.

    6. Working Landscapes Innovation: A person who has led efforts to promote sustainable land use principles on working lands in Wisconsin.

    7. Great Neighborhood:  Simply the best neighborhood in the state.

    8. Civic Journalism: A person that has best used the principles of using journalism to promote best land use practices.

    9. Public Space: The best example of public space that attracts people and services as a social hub in a neighborhood or an entire community.

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  • Tell us about features, size, layout, etc. and/or what makes this place special. Why It Works: Not all places have all of the qualities below, but tell us how your place measures up. Please give us up to three sentences for each of the following aspects:

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