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Sustainable development district
Cyburbia - urban planning community -
In my fair Town, we have a very large PUD that would like to become a "Sustainable Development District" They have submitted an amendment to our Unified Development Ordinance and a PUD Plan. They are asking for the Town to waive many of its development fees to in order to encourage ‘green’ development methods, buildings and energy systems. Its in the very beginning stages and I while reviewing it I have had a little trouble finding anything comparable in our region. Any Cyburbians out there know of anything like this out therethat is in the review stage or approved? Its a very exciting project, but I want to give it a fair review without giving away the farm for my Town. Thanks in advance!
05/24/2009
If you’ll send me an email, I can send you a copy of “The Reduction of Urban Vulnerability: Revisiting 1950s American Suburbanization as Civil Defence” by Kathleen A Tobin, Purdue University, Cold War History, Vol.2, No.2, January,2002 or you can find it on-line. This is an unrecognized if not forgotten history of the roots of sprawl in the U.S. as a defensive measure. The outcome of the defense was similar to that of the attack it was meant to survive - a cratering of the cities. That removing people from cities would hurt them was known by the policy people involved.