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How Smart Coast Began
From a one-day workshop for county commissioners to a regional nonprofit.
From the archive. This page keeps material published on this domain by Smart Coast, a Fairhope, Alabama nonprofit, in the years around 2004–2013. It is preserved as a record; the magazine that publishes smartcoast.org today is independent and is not that nonprofit. Contact details and personal information have been removed, and pictures that no longer exist have been replaced with credited photographs.
Photo: Mike Tilley, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Its two co-founders joined forces in June 2000 to develop a one day workshop for County Commissioners on Effective Growth Management Strategies via Alabama’s Local Government Training Institute at Auburn’s Center for Governmental Services. This led to a decade of work focused on developing partnerships and coordinating educational efforts related to achieving healthier communities via use of smart growth principles, green building, and Complete Streets policies.
Now Smart Coast has moved from broad educational efforts to two concrete, specific initiatives designed to create healthier communities and businesses. The initiatives are: Healthy Coastal Communities and Green Coast Council.
