Ua hoʻolaha ka US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) i nā hoʻolālā e kōkua i nā aupuni kūloko, mokuʻāina, a me nā ʻohana 125 i manaʻo ʻia e hana i nā koho hale hou aʻe, e hoʻomaikaʻi maikaʻi a hilinaʻi hoʻi ka halihali a kākoʻo i nā kaiāulu olaola a maikaʻi hoʻi e huki ana i nā ʻoihana. Ke hele mai nei ka neʻe ʻana ma muli o ke koi kiʻekiʻe o nā mea hana e hoʻoulu ai i ka hoʻomohala ʻana i ke kaiapuni a me ka hoʻokele waiwai e hele mai ana mai nā kaiāulu like ʻole a puni ka lāhui.
"Ke hana nei ʻo EPA e kākoʻo i nā kaiāulu i kā lākou hoʻoikaika ʻana e pale i ke olakino a me ke kaiapuni, a me ka hoʻokumu ʻana i nā hale hoʻomau a me nā koho kaʻa kaʻa i kumu no ka hoʻokele waiwai ikaika," wahi a ka Luna Hoʻokele EPA ʻo Lisa P. Jackson. "E hana pū nā poʻe loea EPA me nā kaiāulu kūloko, kaona, a me nā kaiāulu, a kōkua iā lākou e hoʻomohala i nā mea pono no ka hoʻoulu ʻana i nā wahi olakino no nā ʻohana a me nā keiki, a me nā wahi nani no ka ulu ʻana i nā ʻoihana."
ʻO ka hoʻokō ʻana o ka EPA i ʻoi aku ma mua o $1.5 miliona e loaʻa mai ma o nā papahana ʻokoʻa ʻelua - ka polokalamu kōkua kōkua ʻo Smart Growth Implementation (SGIA) a me ka papahana Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities. E ʻae ana nā papahana ʻelua i nā leka mai nā kaiāulu hoihoi mai Sepatemaba 28 a ʻOkakopa 28, 2011.
ʻO ka papahana SGIA, ka mea a EPA i hāʻawi mai ai mai ka makahiki 2005, hoʻohana i ke kōkua ʻaelike e kālele i nā pilikia paʻakikī a ʻokiʻoki i ka hoʻomohala hoʻomau. Hāʻawi ke kōkua i nā kaiāulu e ʻimi i nā manaʻo hou e lanakila ai i nā pale i pale iā lākou mai ka loaʻa ʻana o ke ʻano hoʻomohala a lākou e makemake ai. Hiki i nā kumuhana kūpono ke kōkua i nā kaiāulu e noʻonoʻo pehea e hoʻomohala ai i nā ala e hiki ai iā lākou ke kūpaʻa i nā pōʻino kūlohelohe, hoʻonui i ka ulu waiwai, a hoʻohana i ka ikehu i hana ʻia ma ka ʻāina. Manaʻo ka ʻOihana e koho i ʻekolu a ʻehā mau kaiāulu no ke kōkua me ka pahuhopu o ka hana ʻana i nā hiʻohiʻona hiki ke kōkua i nā kaiāulu ʻē aʻe.
Hāʻawi ka papahana Building Blocks i ke kōkua ʻenehana i manaʻo ʻia i nā kaiāulu e kū nei i nā pilikia hoʻomohala maʻamau. Hoʻohana ia i nā mea hana like ʻole e like me ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i ke ala hele wāwae a me ka palekana, nā loiloi zoning code, a me nā loiloi hale a me ka halihali. E hāʻawi ʻia ke kōkua ma nā ʻano ʻelua i ka makahiki e hiki mai ana. ʻO ka mua, e koho ʻo EPA a hiki i 50 mau kaiāulu a hāʻawi i ke kōkua pololei e nā limahana EPA a me nā loea ʻoihana pilikino. ʻO ka lua, ua hāʻawi aku ʻo EPA i nā ʻaelike pili i ʻehā hui ʻole aupuni me ka ʻike kaiāulu hoʻomau e hāʻawi i ke kōkua ʻenehana. Aia nā hui i ka Cascade Land Conservancy, Global Green USA, Project for Public Spaces, a me Smart Growth America.
Ke kōkua nei nā Papa Hana a me nā polokalamu SGIA i ka hana a ka Partnership for Sustainable Communities, ka US Department of Housing and Urban Development, a me ka US Department of Transportation. Hoʻokaʻawale kēia mau keʻena i ka pahuhopu like o ka hoʻonohonoho ʻana i nā hoʻopukapuka federal i nā ʻoihana, nā lako, a me nā lawelawe e loaʻa ai nā hopena maikaʻi aʻe no nā kaiāulu a hoʻohana pono i ke kālā ʻauhau.
ʻIke hou aku e pili ana i ka Partnership for Sustainable Communities: http://www.sustainablecommunities.gov
ʻIke hou aku e pili ana i ka papahana Building Blocks a me ke noi no nā leka hoihoi: http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/buildingblocks.htm
ʻIke hou aku e pili ana i ka papahana SGIA a me ke noi no nā leka hoihoi: http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/sgia.htm