SMART Planning: Framing Goals for Meaningful Community Outcomes

Learn about setting Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound (SMART) planning goals that strategically align with a community’s desired outcomes. Panelists highlight how intentional goal-setting, supported by effective tracking of progress, ensures that planning is recognized as a vital profession in shaping communities for health, prosperity, sustainability, and other positive results.

The SMART framework is an effective tool that every planner should use in their professional practice. Find out how planners in Jersey City, New Jersey, are using a Vision Zero program to set and track progress toward eliminating traffic-related deaths and serious injuries, while simultaneously advancing other important community outcomes.

As a signatory of the Planning2050 initiative, this entity will make sure they track achievement of their goals by using the Planning2050 Dashboard Platform and contributing to a database of actions. Within the Planning2050 framework, cities and communities are intentionally sharing best practices that can be scaled or replicated to ensure a just and livable future.