Acknowledgements

The Smart Growth Toolkit was prepared by the Horsley Witten Group under contract to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. Special thanks to our subcontractors, the Cecil Group, Jane Estey, Esq., Susan Jones Moses and Alan McLennen, FAICP.

The project was supervised by Kurt Gaertner, Eric Hove, Andrea Cooper and Jane Pfister of EOEA. Valuable comments and guidance were provided by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), the Citizen's Housing and Planning Association, Carol Harper (Town of Franklin), Tad Read and Bob Mitchell of OCD, Doug Gillespie and Kent Lage of the Department of Agricultural Resources, Elisabeth Krautscheid, Sarah Young, Toni Hall, Alex Whiteside, Esq. Don Schmidt, Esq. of DHCD, Patricia Singer (Department of Economic Development) and James Stergios (EOEA).

We also thank all of the municipal officials, private developers, consultants and citizens who contributed to the case study materials.