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Start your day the 'smart growth' way.

Byline: Tiffany Ray

Mar. 2--Envision 2020 and Faulkner University's Jones School of Law are teaming up to host monthly breakfast meetings to discuss "smart growth" planning for local communities. Their goal is to improve the quality of life for residents in the River Region.

Chad Emerson, an associate professor of law at Faulkner, said the meetings will be of specific interest to developers, planners, landowners and related professionals, but they will be relevant to others. The meetings will be the second Tuesday of each month between September and the end

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