What We Do

1000 Friends of Wisconsin advocates and promotes uses of land, water and air that shape healthy communities where people want to live, work, and play.
Our work focuses on helping communities make the connection between our everyday land use and transportation decisions and our state’s economic, environmental and cultural health.

Three main strategies:

  1. Promote and advocate beneficial land, water and air use policies.
  2. Evaluate, update implementation of Smart Growth Law.
  3. Educate and market Smart Growth concepts through Green Tier Communities.

Policy & Advocacy

1000 Friends of Wisconsin is the leading voice for sensible land use policies in the legislature and state agencies. We know the citizens of Wisconsin care about building efficiency into our public policies on land use, transportation, development and energy. You can help us inform the legislators who are shaping our state’s future. Sign up …

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Smart Growth

In October 1999, the State of Wisconsin enacted the most ambitious land use legislation in a generation. Wisconsin’s Comprehensive Planning Legislation ensures that by 2010, every city, village, county and most towns in the state will be guided by a comprehensive plan as defined by state statute. The law came about in response to four …

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Transportation

Our Transportation Vision 1000 Friends’ transportation vision for Wisconsin is an affordable, reliable, and balanced transportation system that will benefit the economic health of communities, preserve and promote environmental quality and social equity, as well as meet the mobility of all Wisconsin’s residents. Our goal is to move the state from the transportation system we …

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