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Community Development: Local Growth Issues--Federal Opportunities and Challenges

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 6, 2000
Report No. RCED-00-178
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Summary:

Faced with a 50 percent increase in the U.S. population during the next 50 years, communities across the nation face the challenge of planning for and managing growth. Each community has its own unique circumstances that will affect its response to the pressures of growth. GAO surveyed 2,000 city and county governments and visited five metropolitan areas. This report identifies: (1) growth-related challenges confronting local communities; (2) tools and techniques that state and local governments use to help plan for and manage growth; and (3) federal programs and policies that state and local governments believe serve as barriers or aids in their efforts to plan more effectively for and manage growth.

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