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AVAILABLE PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS & CD'S
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“The Green Book” a.k.a. Bluegrass Regional Economic Analysis
In 2006, Bluegrass Tomorrow and numerous regional partners including Kentucky Association of Counties, Kentucky League of Cities, Commerce Lexington, Bluegrass ADD and many businesses and private citizens, hired noted regionalist Myron Orfield and his firm Ameregis to conduct an economic profile of communities in an 18-county area of central Kentucky. We undertook this ground-breaking study to better understand our regional communities and economy. Our goal was to determine how we can be more economically successful by growing jobs and tax base, while at the same time improving our quality of life.
The Economic Analysis examined the overall health of the Bluegrass Region’s economy and public sector in the context of important related issues. The maps and analysis created through this process provided hard data on the region’s recent past and recommend innovative policies for the future, including regional economic and planning reforms designed to respond to fiscal inequity, economic competitiveness and land use. This Profile has the potential to result in effective government and economic policy change at the regional level and improve our competitiveness throughout the nation.
As a result of this study, Bluegrass Tomorrow developed and published the Bluegrass Regional Economic Analysis, otherwise known as the “Green Book.” It is an Executive Summary of the findings of the study and a list of recommendations and action items that local governments may take to improve our region’s economic competitiveness.
Free to members, $10 non members, $5 (S & H).
Click Here for a
downloadable PDF of the report.
"Planning
a Great Region"
A collection of essays written from 1997 – 2006 that illustrate Bluegrass Tomorrow’s “Vision” for the future.
The articles demonstrate our continuing commitment to achieving a healthy balance of economic competitiveness while preserving the characteristics that make Central Kentucky unique.
Many people living within a community recognize their community’s heart and soul. It is the physical, economic, and cultural aspects that give a community its special character. It is why they live there and choose to stay. As growth and development pressures increase dramatically in our region in the years to come, new planning tools and processes are needed to engage people to participate in and influence planning decisions and their consequences. “Planning a Great Region” discusses ways to achieve a healthy balance and strengthen our region. From PDR Programs to brownfields, protected greenspaces, safe, scenic roadways, dense, diverse downtowns and inviting, walkable neighborhoods, Bluegrass Tomorrow is promoting a high quality of life that will enhance our economic
success in the 21st century and create places with enduring character; places where we choose to stay.
Free to members, $10 non members, $5 (S & H).
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Connections:
Understanding Our Region
Free to members and non-members,
$5 (S & H).
Click Here
for a downloadable PDF of the report.
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2006
Vision Report
Free to members, ($5 S & H), $5 non-members,
plus $5 (S & H).
Click Here
for a downloadable PDF of the report.
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BLUEGRASS
CHOICES HANDBOOK is a common-sense guide to better planning in the Bluegrass. This handbook's graphical illustrations describe common planning issues and solutions in an interactive form.
Free to members, ($5 S & H), $10 non-members,
plus $5 (S & H)
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LESSONS IN REDEVELOPMENT: BUILDING GREAT DOWNTOWNS
Free to members, ($5 S & H), $10 non-members,
plus $5 (S & H)
5 Essential Lessons
FOR
SUCCESSFUL DOWNTOWNS
LESSON 1:
The right land uses are critical
LESSON 2:
Design should be urban and traditional
LESSON 3:
Provide variety in housing
LESSON 4:
Renew - not just build new
LESSON 5:
New rules are needed for implementation
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 SUBURBAN EVOLUTION:
SOUTHLAND DRIVE, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY Call us
for your copy. Free to members, ($5 S & H), $10 non-members,
plus $5 (S & H)
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BLUEGRASS CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT PLANNING HANDBOOK*
A manual, unique in the USA, which outlines the steps necessary to ensure coordination and communication between transportation officials and citizens when involved with roadway planning projects.

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$50.00
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BLUEGRASS CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT PLANNING
HANDBOOK INTERACTIVE CD*
Contains a printable version of the above handbook, as well as an interactive version which can be used at civic meetings as well as with an internet enabled computer at work or at home.
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$75.00 |
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THE BLUEGRASS HANDBOOK-A GUIDE TO COMMUNITY DESIGN
UDA Architects of Pittsburgh. This handbook describes how to
build new neighborhoods that depict the distinctive image of
their communities, while providing for more efficient use of
public services and land, lower development costs, more common
open space and reduced traffic congestion.

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$14.00 |
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THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF TREND VS. VISION GROWTH IN THE LEXINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA Drs. Robert Burchell and David Listokin of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University. This fiscal impact study, one of the few done nationally, documents how the implementation of local and regional growth patterns described in the Preferred Regional Vision will yield considerable savings in land, infrastructure, and housing costs.
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$26.00 |
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TOOLS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A PLANNED REGIONAL VISION A large anthology of best practices, sample ordinances, and codes for "smart growth" planning.

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$35.00 |
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