CITIZENS UNITED FOR RESPONSIBLE GROWTH

• Established network of individuals and representatives of member organizations through e-mail alerts and updates on issues, meetings, and timely information regarding subjects important to CURG members. Stimulating cross conversations between members of this network concerning identified issues. (Growth management, environmental, neighborhood, Comp Plan, Sustainable Community, Election/Political issues.)
• Internet Web site providing pertinent information concerning CURG and its activities. Included are links to informative internet sites containing information important to CURG members. Also included are a calendar with dates of upcoming community meetings and public hearings of importance to CURG members. (See www.curg.org)
• Providing links and or pages on CURG home page to member organizations or individuals.
• Keeping members informed concerning proposed amendments to the comp plan and providing synopses of same.
• Board members who are active in various government appointed citizen task forces and advisory committees who promote concepts of sustainable community and help to ensure that these concepts are part of group considerations. (Leon County Land Development Citizen Advisory Committee, Leon County Water Resources Committee, Leon County Charter Government Committee, Interview committees for planning department personnel)
• Three board members serving on the Economic and Environmental Consensus Committee have worked to see that the concepts CURG identified as critical to support a sustainable community were adopted as part of Blueprint 2000 (Water resource protection, comp plan implementation, implementing sustainable community goals providing for a healthy environment, a vibrant economy, and a thriving social/cultural community, and advancing dialogue with developers and the business community).
• Board members speak at public hearings on behalf of CURG members and on issues of priority to CURG.
• Co-sponsors political forums (usually with Big Bend Environmental Forum and the League of Women Voters) for prospective political candidates during each election cycle.
• Board members are panelists on various growth-related symposiums and forums and speak on growth issues and sustainable community concepts before various civic groups.