• Revitalize existing communities and business districts
• Strengthen local, regional, and Commonwealth land use planning and consistency of implementation through legislation, education, and incentives
• Encourage future development near existing infrastructure
• Reduce traffic congestion and air and water pollution
• Provide housing for people of all ages and incomes in our communities
• Protect historic, natural, agricultural, and recreation areas
• Reduce land and resource consumption
• Conserve fiscal resources

In order to accomplish these objectives, we are working to:

• Seek adoption of policies, including legislation, providing for consistent, sustainable, long-term growth strategies that address property tax reform, incentives for investment in existing communities, and the need for diversity in our local communities
• Provide leadership, information, and funding to achieve these objectives
• Educate, assist, and build consensus among state and local leadership
• Build a constituency to provide ongoing leadership

These principles were adopted in 1996 by the seven founding organizations of 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania.

We ask individuals and organizations to endorse these principles when they become a Friend of Pennsylvania or a Friend of Pennsylvania organization.