Growing Greener: Putting Conservation Into Local Plans And Ordinances

摘要: "Growing Greener" is an illustrated workbook that presents a new look at designing subdivisions while preserving green space and creating open networks. Randall Arendt explains how to design residential developments maximize land conservation without reducing overall building density, thus avoiding the political legal problems often associated with "down-zoning."The author offers three-pronged strategy for shaping growth around community's special natural cultural features, demonstrating ways of establishing or modifying municipal comprehensive plan, zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance include strong focus. Open protection becomes central organizing principle development, protected laid out form interconnected system lands running across community.The book offers: detailed information on conduct community resource inventory four-step approach extensive model language plans, ordinances, ordinances principles hamlets, villages, traditional small town neighborhoods In addition, includes eleven case studies actual in nine states, two exercises suitable group participation. Case include: Ringfield, Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania; The Fields St. Croix, City Lake Elmo, Minnesota; Prairie Crossing, Grayslake, Illinois; Meadows Dolly Gordon Brook, York, Maine; Farmcolony, Standsville, Virginia; Ranch Roaring Fork, Carbondale, Colorado; others."Growing builds upon expands basic ideas presented Arendt's earlier work "Conservation Design Subdivisions, " broadening scope more sections planning process can be updated incorporate concept design. It first practical publication explain detail resource-conserving development techniques put into practice by officials, developers, site designers, it simple straightforward balancing opportunities developers conservationists.