Tryon Farm, my favorite conservation community and one of LandChoices’ good friends and supporters, recently sponsored an educational day for the kids of Lydia Home Association in Chicago. I learned about this wonderful event on the Tryon Farm Facebook page. The games and events were successfully led by educators from the Indiana Soil and Water [...]
Natural neighborhoods, also known as “conservation subdivisions“, “ecological development”, or “green development”, shown in this video, preserve natural areas, water, wildlife and working farmland. Wildlife conservation and farmland conservation are an important part of natural neighborhoods, along with water conservation as large swaths of natural areas filter and absorb storm water. Learn more about natural neighborhoods. [...]
This is a short video we created to promote natural neighborhoods, our new alternate name for “conservation subdivisions“. Please share this video by clicking on the “Share/Save” button below to help spread the word. Image courtesy Randall Arendt, Conservation Design for Subdivisions, Island Press, 1996. Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. //
This is a terrific overview of open space development, known also as “conservation subdivision” or “conservation development”. Open Space Residential Development: Four Case Studies (PDF) is a must read if you want to learn more about open space developments. The study offers a profile, financing, comparison site plans, photos, home value and appreciation, by laws, open [...]
Check out this conservation design poster from the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC). The top site plan is of a 365 acre parcel developed using conventional development, and the bottom site plan is the same parcel developed using conservation design. Quite a difference! //
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 [...]
Serenbe is a conservation community (conservation development) near Atlanta, Georgia. This video tells the story of how Serenbe was started. //
Looking for a fun get away this winter? Want to learn more about a great conservation community? The Tryon Farm Guest House bed and breakfast is available. Tryon Farm is a sponsor of LandChoices. Tryon Farm is a conservation community that preserves 120 acres of the total 170 acre former dairy farm. Ed and Eve Noonan [...]
A model conservation community Heading to Florida? Be sure to check out Centerville, a conservation community (conservation subdivision) in Tallahassee, Florida. It’s designed by noted planner and LandChoices’ member Randall Arendt. Jon Kohler, a member of LandChoices, took this former quail plantation and worked with nature to create a beautiful model of what development should [...]
