Sprawl And Conservation: Searching For A Middle Ground

Architects and developers are clustering homes in smaller areas in an attempt to find a middle ground between conservation and rampant urban sprawl.

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December 7, 2002, 11:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

A landowner of a large wilderness area "plans to develop this land selectively, saying that it will be better protected as a private retreat for affluent, conservation-minded people like himself than as a state park... This plan reflects a growing effort across the country to carve out a middle ground between traditional land conservation and the kind of urban sprawl embodied by McMansions and strip malls. During the past decade, architects and developers have begun to cluster houses in smaller areas with more trees and nature areas."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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