Vice President Gore Calls For Healthier, More Livable Communities


THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Vice President

For Immediate Release Wednesday, September 2, 1998



VICE PRESIDENT GORE CALLS FOR HEALTHIER, MORE LIVABLE COMMUNITIES

Announces New Targeted Incentives to Encourage Smarter Growth

Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore called today for strongerefforts nation-wide to build livable American communities as a foundationfor continued economic competitiveness and strength in the 21st Century.

In a major speech at the Brookings Institution, the Vice Presidenthighlighted successful efforts across the country to achieve smart,sustainable growth in cities, suburbs, and rural areas, and he announcednew federal initiatives to encourage similar efforts nationwide. He alsoannounced that, this fall, he and members of the President?s Cabinet willhold a series of "listening sessions" around the country to hear howcommunities are grappling with sprawl and how the federal government canhelp.

"In the future, livable communities will be the basis for ourcompetitiveness and economic strength," the Vice President said. "Ourefforts to make communities more livable today must emphasize the rightkind of growth -- sustainable growth. Promoting a better quality of lifefor our families need never come at the expense of economic growth.Indeed, in the 21st Century, it can and must be an engine for economicgrowth."

The Vice President said the Administration will work "to put morecontrol, more information, more decision-making power into the hands offamilies, communities, and regions -- to give them all the freedom andflexibility they need to reclaim their own unique place in the world."

In addition, the Vice President announced the following new Federaland private efforts to provide the tools necessary to make communitiesmore livable and to target new incentives to encourage smarter growth:

REMARKS BY VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE AT
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION


Vice President Gore Calls For Healthier, More Livable Communities

Remarks By Vice President - The Brookings Institution


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