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Strong Towns Principles

Strong cities, towns, and neighborhoods cannot happen without strong citizens (people who care).

Strong cities, towns, and neighborhoods cannot happen without strong citizens (people who care).

Strong cities, towns, and neighborhoods cannot happen without strong citizens (people who care).

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The hallmark of a strong community is a local government that is focused on its shareholders; on serving them, on the co-creation of a place, this municipal corporation of 'us'. Citizens certainly are not experts in how to reduce stormwater runoff, or pave roads, or engineer a utility project; but citizens of the village do know how the built environment makes them feel, and how they would like to feel. 

Local government is a platform for strong citizens to collaboratively build a prosperous place.

Strong cities, towns, and neighborhoods cannot happen without strong citizens (people who care).

Strong cities, towns, and neighborhoods cannot happen without strong citizens (people who care).

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Local government will benefit when we move from merely serving customers to engaging citizens by bringing local government closer to the people. Orienting towards our people and elevating our strong citizens, the people who care, will ensure we create Bellevue by design, our design.

Financial solvency is a prerequisite for long term prosperity.

Strong cities, towns, and neighborhoods cannot happen without strong citizens (people who care).

Land is the base resource from which prosperity is built and sustained. It must not be squandered.

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The goal of our community is to endure. We must have the revenue to cover our expenses.  The budgeting of local government, our balance sheet, is a continuous game; if we fail to have revenues that exceed expenses, we do not go away, declare bankruptcy, or sell our assets, instead we linger on and provide services poorly.

Land is the base resource from which prosperity is built and sustained. It must not be squandered.

Land is the base resource from which prosperity is built and sustained. It must not be squandered.

Land is the base resource from which prosperity is built and sustained. It must not be squandered.

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Farmers grasp this principle.  Open fields are not just a grid outline of future development.  Land has to have a certain level of productivity and you do not squander or waste it. We need to be very intentional about the land assets inside our municipal limits.  

A transportation system is a means of creating prosperity in a community, not an end unto itself.

Land is the base resource from which prosperity is built and sustained. It must not be squandered.

Job creation & economic growth are the results of a healthy local economy, not substitutes for one.

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In very simple terms, infrastructure is a platform for expanding wealth.  If infrastructure doesn’t build enough wealth to justify its construction, it’s not a productive investment. It’s merely a form of consumptive spending.

Job creation & economic growth are the results of a healthy local economy, not substitutes for one.

Land is the base resource from which prosperity is built and sustained. It must not be squandered.

Job creation & economic growth are the results of a healthy local economy, not substitutes for one.

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Chasing growth or jobs at any cost is one that puts us in a position that ultimately we will become insolvent.  When we focus on making our community more financially productive, we may not grow as fast, or produce jobs as fast, but what we create will be viable and will be enduring.  Small changes over time can bring about big results.

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