Today, the National Complete Streets Coalition and Smart Growth America are launching a new site to help local communities better model and evaluate the potential benefits of Complete Streets projects—measuring and proving their many economic, health, environmental, equity, and safety benefits—without ever turning over a shovel.
Our brand new Benefits of Complete Streets site and tool is going live to the public today, allowing a local community to quantify the benefits of Complete Streets projects, which can equip and arm local leaders and advocates to make these projects more likely by clearly communicating the benefits to their communities.
While the tool also measures other important benefits, the economic angle here is one more way we are making the economic case for a different way to grow. Our economic development team helped build this tool—read more about why economic development is a fundamental part of smart growth with our summer of ongoing content here.