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2020 VISION: Planning for Growth in the Northern Middlesex Region

Title Page

Executive Summary

1. The 2020 Vision Planning Process
2. Development Patterns in the Northern Middlesex Region
3. What is Sprawl and Do We Have It?
4. What is Growth Management and Should We Have It?
5. Why Do We Need a Regional Management Plan?
6. Growth Management Tools and Techniques
7. A Regional Vision for the 21st Century
8. Where Not to Grow: Environmental Protection and Open Space
9. Economic Development: Greenfield's or Brownfield's?
10. Infrastructure: Efficient Public Investments
11. Housing
12. Community and Landscape Character
13. A Regional Growth Management Action Agenda
14. Trade-Offs: Making Choices
15. Noticing Change and Taking Action: Indicators and Implementation

Bibliography

Maps:

1971/91 Land Use Change
Northern Middlesex Open Space Land Ownership
Northern Middlesex Open Space Protection and Planned Regional Trails
Environmental Concerns
Infrastructure
1989 Median Annual Household Income

Tables:

Land Use Change Data by Town
Change in Agricultural Land Use