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 [...]
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 [...]
We asked LandChoices’ advisory group member and conservation developer Ed Noonan, “What advice do you have for planning departments?” Watch the video to hear his answer. Planners can use innovative conservation design for subdivisions to preserve water quality, natural areas, working farmland and wildlife. But they have to understand it first. Then they need to [...]
