Envisioning Better Communities, the new planning book by Randall Arendt, is a gem. (Full disclosure: Randall Arendt is a dedicated member of LandChoices. I’m a big fan.) This week I received a review copy of the book from the American Planning Association. I will review the book in a series of blog posts. The subtitle, Seeing [...]
You can help us raise funds for a new website to more efficiently protect water quality, natural areas, wildlife and working farmland near you. Our new website will help planners preserve land in your community. The most important reason we are building a new website is to make it easier for you, the user, to [...]
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 [...]
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. //
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! //
At LandChoices we are always on the lookout for tools that help promote conservation design for subdivisions to preserve clean water, working farmland, wildlife and natural areas on lands where development is inevitable. Our friends at 10,000 Friends of Minnesota have created a really neat and useful Conservation Design Scorecard (PDF). From the start, the Scorecard [...]
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 [...]
I came across this video on the conservation design ordinance for McHenry County, IL. I hope you enjoy it and learn more about conservation subdivisions. a2a_linkname=”LandVoices, The Land Conservation Blog for LandChoices.org”;a2a_linkurl=”http://www.landvoices.org/”; a2a_linkname=”LandVoices, The Land Conservation Blog for LandChoices.org”;a2a_linkurl=”http://www.landvoices.org/?feed=rss”;
