Why plan for growth and change, when it seems so much easier to simply react? When there is a distinct and shared vision for your community - when residents, businesses and local government anticipate a sustainable town with cohesive and thriving neighborhoods - you have the power to conserve your beautiful natural spaces, enhance your existing downtown or Main Street, enable rural areas to be productive and prosperous, and save money through efficient use of existing infrastructure. This is the dollars and sense of smart growth. Success is clearly visible in Maine, from the creation of a community-built senior housing complex and health center in Fort Fairfield to conservation easements creating Forever Farms to Rockland's revitalized downtown. Communities have options. We have the power to manage our own responses to growth and change. After all, “Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.” - Richard I. Winwood And in the end, this means that our children and their children will choose to make Maine home and our economy will provide the opportunities to do so. The Summit offers you a wonderful opportunity to be a part of the transformative change in Maine that we’ve seen these gatherings produce. We encourage you to consider the value of being actively involved in growing Maine’s economy and protecting the reasons we choose to live here.

1. Leveraging Private Sector
Investments and Public
Funds to Support Smart
Growth
Through the Lens of Greenprinting
Wolfe Tone, Maine State Director
wolfe.tone@tpl.org; (207) 772-7424

2. Looking Back: GrowSmart’s 2005 Summit and
Charting Maine’s Future
Brookings Institute Recommendations:
•Protect and enhance Maine’s Quality of
Place: promote the revitalization of Maine’s
towns and cities; augment land and farm
conservation; protect traditional access to
Maine forests, farms and lakes
•Provide substantial new visioning and
planning resources to help towns reach
consensus on how they wish to grow, and then
implement their vision.

3. Central Penobscot Valley and the Lake Region
Community Greenprints
 Combine Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and
facilitated conversations to make informed, strategic
decisions about land conservation and resource
protection priorities - regionally
Conservation
Finance
Analysis
Greenprinting /
GIS Analysis Action Planning
Regional Goal
Setting and
Constituency
Building

4. Central Penobscot Valley Lake Region
Greenprinting in Maine

5.  Assign relative weightings
that reflect community or
regional priorities.
 Create alternative scenarios
by adding additional criteria
or modifying relative
importance of existing criteria.
 Combine the building blocks
into a composite conservation
priority map.
The Greenprinting Model
50%
10%
10%
30%
Composite
Water Quality
Trail Connections
Park Equity
Wildlife Protection

6. Protect Habitat and
Unfragmented Natural Areas
Maintain Scenic Values
and Protect Scenic Vistas
Protect Working
Landscapes
Protect Water Quality
Establish Areas for
Public Access and
Recreation
Create Trails
Articulation of Six Conservation Goals (CPVGP)

8. Action Planning Outcomes
 CPVGP – 6 Action Items
 Pursue land conservation
implementation strategies
that utilize Greenprint maps
 Integrate regional
coordination and planning.
Bring communities together
for problem solving:
• Economic
• Transit
• Demographic
• Environmental
 LRGP – 5 Action Items
 Promote Conservation of
Natural Resources and
Recreation to Support the
Economy/Tourism
 Discuss and Determine
Appropriate Methods for
Financing Open Space
Protection Projects in Mapped
Priority Area

9. Schedule, Budgets, and Sources
 Schedule:
• CPV: 3/2007-6/2009
• LR: 2/2010-4/2011
 Budgets: ~$185,000
 Sources:
• Public: Municipal & State
• Private
- State Foundations
- Individual Philanthropy
Central Penobscot Valley
Regional
Municipalities
23%
State Planning
Grant
8%
Foundations
29%
Individual
Philanthropy
40%
Regional
Municipalities
11%
Lake Region
Foundations
89%

10. Sample of Tangible Outcomes
• Stronger partnerships between conservation non-profits and
municipalities
• Genesis of new Conservation Commissions in Harrison and
Conservation Committee in Otisfield
• Integrating/Training of GP maps with Selectboards, Planning
Boards, and Code Enforcement Officers
• Regional Trail Mapping: Lake Region Tourism and Heart of
Penobscot Regional Trails
• Strategic Acquisitions: Hackers Hill, Perley Mill Community
Forest, Raymond Community Forest; Case for Holden
Community Forest
- Including, Local votes for local conservation dollars

11. Lessons Learned
 Challenges
• 2008 - 2010
• Loss of two local champions (CPV)
• Planning vs. jobs and the economy
• Constricting program funding
• Internal staff capacity
 Take-aways
Engagement Thru Time
• Tough to maintain regional momentum
• Local leadership was fundamental to success
• Success demands a returning focus on
outcomes
Trust for Public Land
Regional Partners

12. Resources
 Central Penobscot Valley Greenprint
• http://tplgis.org/Penobscot_Greenprint/
• www.tpl.org/penobscot-valley-community-greenprint-report
• Heart of Penobscot Trails (watch this space)
 Lake Region Greenprint
• http://tplgis.org/lakeregiongreenprint/ (pass. prot.)
• www.tpl.org/sebago-lake-region-greenprint
 Conservation Vision and GIS
• www.tpl.org/services/conservation-vision-and-gis