Enjoy our new short two minute test drive video through natural neighborhoods, aka conservation subdivisions. Less-wide, safer streets and swales instead of curb and gutter reduce stormwater run off pollution. Large swaths of preserved land and natural landscaping filters stormwater, protects wildlife, groundwater, natural areas, and working farmland. Please share this video with your local [...]
The Louisville Metro Planning Commission and Louisville Metro Council offer information about and list the advantages of conservation subdivisions. In their fact sheet, ”The Economic Benefits of Conservation Subdivisions” (PDF), under the category “Reduced Infrastructure”, they state, “Reduced street costs are sometimes another benefit. In Pleasant View TN, Randall Arendt recently redesigned an 86-lot subdivision in [...]
The benefits of conservation design for subdivisions, also known as “conservation subdivision design”, are many. Conservation subdivisions offer the following benefits: Conservation subdivisions preserve *50% to 70% or more of the buildable land. Conservation subdivisions preserve a much higher quality and percentage of land than “clustering“. Protect clean water in lakes and rivers by eliminating [...]
A good friend of LandChoices, Dan Paulson, asked us to post information about a green build conference in Traverse City, Michigan. Dan is the creator of Cedar Valley Ridge, one of my favorite conservation neighborhoods, located near Traverse City, Michigan. Dan preserved more than 70% of the property. View the Cedar Valley Ridtge site plan. The [...]
This is a repost, a reminder that “clustering” is not the same as conservation subdivision design (conservation development): “We already have clustering!” That’s the common response often heard from township officials when they consider conservation subdivisions to preserve rural lands. Whereas with clustering preserved land is often an afterthought, conservation subdivisions (conservation development) preserve the [...]
