Smart growth is an approach to community design that connects housing, transportation, and land use to create healthy, prosperous, and resilient neighborhoods.
Over the past two decades, communities across the U.S. have increasingly embraced the Complete Streets approach. The 2025 Best Complete Streets Policies report evaluates and ranks the 43 policies adopted in 2023 and 2024, highlighting what sets the top performers apart.
The National Complete Streets Coalition evaluates policies and scores policies on a 100-point scale using our policy framework’s standardized set of ten elements. For this report, we reviewed and scored 43 Complete Streets policies adopted in 2023 and 2024. Based on policy evaluation using our Complete Streets Policy Framework, the scores for all new policies can be found below.