The City of Hattiesburg adopted a Comprehensive Plan on December 16, 2008 which adheres to the principles of Smart Growth. These principles are credited to the Smart Growth Network, www.smartgrowth.org; and International City/County Management Association,www.icma.org. (see illustration below)

The principles, as copied below from Chapter 9 of the Comprehensive Plan, can be found HERE on page 186.

Smart Growth is another term for Agenda 21, so to clarify, Hattiesburg has adopted Agenda 21. The United Nations purposely recommends avoiding the term Agenda 21 and suggests a cleverly named alternative: "smart growth." While it comes with beautifully designed streetscapes, eloquently worded and designed plans and funding from the federal government, behind the curtain, you will find the enslaving world of global governance, controlled and funded by elitists who seek to rob our country of the freedoms that we hold dear.

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Below is information on the creation of Hattiesburg's Comprehensive Plan through a Visioning Process. Additional input came from the community through a series of meetngs at which input was gathered from the public.

This came from Chapter 3 of Hattiesburg's Comprehensive Plan on pages 17 and 18 and can be viewed at
http://government.hattiesburgms.com/images/stories/UrbanDev/comprehensivePlan/chapter%203%20the%20planning%20process.pdf

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VIEW HATTIESBURG'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The City of Hattiesburg's 'Comprehensive Plan 2008 - 2028', was adopted December 16, 2008.

This document appears to be modeled to support sustainability principles as outlined in The EarthCAT Workbook which accompanies a software program available to help communities achieve their sustainability goals.

In Chapter 4 on Page 39 under the heading "Land Use and Development, we find the following:
"G. Establish an Environmental Court system to enforce violations of the Land Development Code Ordinance."
This is something that is not in our law code and deserves some explanation.

EarthCAT stands for The Earth Charter Action Tool
http://www.earthcat.org/cgi/earthcat/aboutus.html?id=5CX7Yj2Z

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"The City of Hattiesburg was awarded $150,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which the city submitted an application for in August of 2010. The Community Challenge Planning Grant was created to help support local planning designed to integrate housing, jobs, and transportation...This grant will fund the Mid-Town Hattiesburg Master Plan and focus on stimulating livability in the mid-town area of the city...The outcome of this project is to achieve six livability principles developed through the "Partnership for Sustainable Communities" between HUD, Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency."

The EPA's website has a section on Smart Growth which lists available grants (see the following link).
www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/grants/index.htm

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Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny Dupree signed theThe U.S. Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement which pledges to support the Kyoto Protocal / Climate Change Treaty (which was never ratified by our Senate) at the U. S. Conference on Mayors' Climate Protection Summit in February 2005.

Under the Agreement, participating cities commit to take following three actions:
-  Strive to meet or beat the Kyoto Protocol targets in their own communities, through actions ranging from anti-sprawl land-use policies to urban forest restoration projects to public information campaigns;
- Urge their state governments, and the federal government, to enact policies and programs to meet or beat the greenhouse gas emission reduction target suggested for the United States in the Kyoto Protocol -- 7% reduction from 1990 levels by 2012; and
- Urge the U.S. Congress to pass the bipartisan greenhouse gas reduction legislation, which would establish a national emission trading system

The summit was hosted and funded by the International Council for Local Envirnomental Initiatives (ICLEI - remember this name!), a United Nations organization funded by tax-exempt institutions such as the Rockefellers Brothers Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. This is from Agenda 21/Chapter 28.