Three Chicago area organizations — the Campaign

Three Chicago area organizations — the Campaign for Sensible Growth, the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, and the Metropolitan Planning Council — have produced a 66-page workbook, Sensible Tools for Healthy Communities: A Decision-Making Workbook for Local Officials, Developers, and Community Leaders, available at www.growingsensibly.org. Although the workbook is to some extent specific to northeastern Illinois, its principles can be applied throughout the nation, says Kim Grimshaw Bolton of the Metropolitan Planning Council. “There’s a group in Atlanta, the Georgia Conservancy, that’s already using it as a model for their own book,” she points out.u