Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation aims to support communities that have recognized the value and importance of smart growth, and now seek to implement it. It does so by highlighting and describing techniques to help policymakers put the ten smart growth principles into practice. The policies and guidelines presented in this primer have proven successful in communities across the U.S., and range from formal legislative or regulatory efforts to informal approaches, plans, and programs. They do not represent the only means to achieve the principle identified, but they do represent real and innovative ways for communities to realize smart growth.