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Regional Summit - March 5, 2010

Action Tools Online

This page contains detailed information about some of the action tools. The action tool summary sheets answer questions such as:

How does this tool work?
How important is this tool to achieving the vision?
What are the costs and benefits, and who will they affect?
What are the biggest potential stumbling blocks to the use of this tool, and how can they be addressed?

Who would be responsible for using this tool?
How would it be funded?
What are the next steps to put this tool in place?
What examples of this tool are available in North Texas or elsewhere?

Table of Tools

Transportation	Economic Development	Environment
Inter Agency Partnerships	Development Bonds	County Landuse Authority
Managed HOV Lanes	Enterprise Zone	Regional Ecosystem Framework
Park and Ride	Foreign Trade Zone	Watershed Based Zoning
Passenger Rail	Free Port Tax Exemption	Greenprinting
Sustainable Development Infrastructure Funding	In State Tuition	Regional Strategies Section 404 Permitting
Sustainable Development Planning Funding	Skills Development	iSWM intergrated Storm Water Management
Transportation Investment Boundary	Tax Abatement	Conservation Easements
Transportation Management Associations	TIF Districts	Grassed Water Ways
Travel Demand Management		Compact Development
Value Capture		Soil Engineering
Veloweb
		Land Use
		Density Height Parking Codes
		Form Based Codes

Online tool summaries may be updated and new summaries may be added to the website in the future. In addition, Vision North Texas has the benefit of ‘toolkits’ developed by national organizations and regional planning efforts in other regions. The Vision North Texas website now contains links to those toolkits so stakeholders in this region can benefit from the experience in other communities

First list of visioning projects from around the country

Follow these links for more information about the Summit Overview, the North Texas 2050 Document and Presentations from the Summit.


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