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    Compact building design is an important principle of smart growth because urban sprawl has serious negative environmental, economic, and social impacts such as reducing open spaces and increasing transportation emissions. Compact development uses less land more efficiently by accommodating multiple uses, preserving natural areas while requiring less infrastructure spending. This enables communities to be designed in a way that protects more open space and uses land and resources more effectively by encouraging vertical expansion of buildings rather than horizontal sprawl and using structured parking instead of surface lots.

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    Compact building design is an important principle of smart growth because urban sprawl has serious negative environmental, economic, and social impacts such as reducing open spaces and increasing transportation emissions. Compact development uses less land more efficiently by accommodating multiple uses, preserving natural areas while requiring less infrastructure spending. This enables communities to be designed in a way that protects more open space and uses land and resources more effectively by encouraging vertical expansion of buildings rather than horizontal sprawl and using structured parking instead of surface lots.

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    Rose Ann Villamea
    Compact building design is an important principle of smart growth because urban sprawl has serious negative environmental, economic, and social impacts such as reducing open spaces and increasing transportation emissions. Compact development uses less land more efficiently by accommodating multiple uses, preserving natural areas while requiring less infrastructure spending. This enables communities to be designed in a way that protects more open space and uses land and resources more effectively by encouraging vertical expansion of buildings rather than horizontal sprawl and using structured parking instead of surface lots.

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    Among the 10 principles of smart growth, I think it would be taking advantage of compact building

    design. It is crucial because urban sprawl's cause have serious negative effects on the environment, the
    economy, and society. It causes a reduction in open space and environmental amenities as well as
    higher road transportation emissions. Since appropriately sized compact development accommodates
    more uses on less land, it would result to well-designed, natural areas are preserved and less
    expenditures are necessary to develop and preserve infrastructures. It enables communities to be set in
    a manner that safeguards more open space and uses land and resources more effectively. Communities
    can lessen the environmental impacts of new infrastructure and maintain more green space by, for
    example, encouraging buildings to expand vertically rather than horizontally and using structured
    instead of surface parking.

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