ULI San Diego/Tijuana 5th Annual Smart Growth Awards

ULI San Diego/Tijuana 4th Annual Smart Growth Awards

ULI San Diego/Tijuana
5th Annual Smart Growth Awards

Awards will be presented on May 12th - 6:00pm

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

THE BEST OF SMART GROWTH: 2000-2010

Nominations are due by March 19, 2010, 5:00PM

ULI is now accepting nominations for our Smart Growth Awards program. This year we will be focusing on the Best of the Decade.

Nominated projects are to have been entitled, built or significantly redeveloped between 2000 and 2010.
Nominations for smart growth leaders, policies, events, plans, programs or initiatives need to be yielding smart growth benefits with proven results.
Nominations should represent smart growth and sustainability concepts that represent ideas and standards from which future endeavors can be modeled.
All past nominees are encouraged to resubmit. Click here to preview past nominees. Previous nominees and winners are encouraged to submit an updated entry to showcase the evolution and progression of the project.
The jury will be selecting 3 - 6 winners.

Online Nomination Form

It's Easy. It's Free. There is No Application Fee. Anyone can nominate any project whether you are affiliated with it or not.

Projects, plans, policies, leaders, events and initiatives in the field of Smart Growth and Sustainability are evaluated for their response to ULI's Smart Growth Principles. Nominees for the award may be submitted if they represent smart growth ideals, as described below:

Attributes of a Smart Growth Project

In the past decade we have come a long way in dispelling the long held belief that "The right thing to do" is too expensive and not consistent with the pragmatics of the development industry. Today leading edge planning, design and development projects are built around principles of sustainability. Increasingly smart decisions are made about where and how development occurs that lead to the building of community, the growth of culture and the realization of a healthy environment.

In focusing on these principles the "smart thing to do" has grown synonymous with "The right thing to do". This year ULI seeks to recognize those projects that have, over the past 10 years, sought the right thing to do and have thus reflected the growth of a vision for a sustainable urban future for our region. Such projects can be defined by the following attributes:

Located near existing and planned development, job centers and public facilities and away from rural areas.
Employ existing infrastructure capacity.
Increase the range of housing options including affordable housing.
Protect open space, farmland and critical environmental areas.
Minimize the use and impact on natural resources.
Create or enhance a vibrant mix and balance of uses (residential, retail, office).
Create or enhance personal mobility for persons of all ages and abilities.
Are walkable, designed for personal interaction and promote active lifestyles.
Reduce the need to travel long distances.
Facilitate transit and other non-automotive travel.
Use land efficiently.
Promote social equity.
Respect community character, design and historic features.
Maintain and reinforce existing communities.
Seek to be energy neutral or positive in their overall construction, use and operation.

Nominee Information:

Nominee Name (Person, Project, Program, Plan, Event, or Initiative):
If you do not have all of this information, please provide what you do know.
Address or nearest cross street :
Location (City, Community or development name):
Year Built or Remodeled:

Nominee Contact Information (if Known):

Name:
Phone:
Mailing Address:
Email:

Smart Growth characteristics (please write up to a 750 word description):

Nominator Information

Name:
Phone:
Email:

Each project must submit at least 1, no more than 3, images of the project, plan or person.

Images should be at least 1000 pixels by 800 pixels.
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