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Pennsylvania Business
Central has announced that
Alexander J. Graziani, the
executive director of the
Smart Growth Partnership of
Westmoreland County, has won
a 2007 Entrepreneur Award in
the government/economic
development category.
Smart Growth, based at the
University of Pittsburgh at
Greensburg, is a non-profit,
non-governmental community
group that deals with
quality and growth issues.
Smart Growth encourages
interaction among
municipalities, planners,
townships, developers, and
local and state agencies.
Graziani has a bachelor’s
degree in political science,
a master’s degree in public
policy and management. He
serves on the Pennsylvania
State Planning Board, is an
associate director of the
Westmoreland County
Conservation District, is on
the board of directors of
the Greensburg Hempfield
Library, is a member of the
Westmoreland County Public
Participation Panel for
transportation planning, and
is an active member of the
Greensburg Alliance Church.
He points to the Route 30
Master Plan as Smart
Growth’s biggest
accomplishment, because it
involves land use,
maintenance, access, and
planned development to avoid
congestion. “We’re taking
the lead – with the state,
PennDOT, developers, local
and county (agencies) –
doing this study,” Graziani
said during the nomination
process for the Entrepreneur
Award. “We’re all in a ‘big
tent,’ talking about a
common approach to land use,
infrastructure, improved
access, and a higher level
of intra-governmental
cooperation.”
For more
information about Smart
Growth, visit
www.smartgrowthpa.org.
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