1. Housing Choice Principle: Create a range of affordable, quality housing choices
2. Vibrant, Walkable Complete Communities Principle: Foster development that creates vibrant, unique, walkable complete communities where uses like residential and commercial are mixed to create attractive places to live, work and play.
3. Smart Building Design Principle: Encourage building designs that contribute to the context of a pedestrian-oriented neighbourhood and use green building technologies
4. Renew Existing Communities Principle: Direct development away from unsettled areas and encourage growth and renewal in existing communities
5. Green Infrastructure Principle: Utilize green infrastructure to save money and protect the environment.
6. Green Space, Farmland and Ecologically Sensitive Areas Principle: Preserve and enhance green spaces, farmland and environmentall sensitive areas.
7. Broad-Scale, Integrated Planning Principle: Undertake broad-scale planning for cities and towns in adjacent regions and towns in adjacent regions and towns in a way that integrates land use and transportation planning for the entire region
8. Transportation Options Principle: Provide varied transportation options and infrastructure for walking, bicycling, car pooling, car sharing, scooters, public transit and others
9. Community Involvement Principle: Encourage effective community involvement early in the process to find unique solutions that fit with the community's vision of itself
10. Focus on Implementation Principle: Utilize planning processes, tools and incentives to facilitate private sector investment and ease of navigation in achieving smart growth solutions

~ Based on the The Ahwahnee Principles