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• <br />• <br />• <br />• <br />• <br />design. the four-step approach is so user - <br />friendly and simple to understand that in <br />1996 a group of non - designers (including <br />local officials. developers. and grassroots <br />conservationists) mastered the process in an <br />hour and produced their own competent con- <br />servation designs with relative ease. Those <br />results are reproduced in the handbook's ap- <br />pendix. along with model ordinance lan- <br />guage that should help readers introduce <br />these procedures into their zoning and sub- <br />division codes. <br />An important feature of the model code <br />language is the treatment of conservation <br />subdivisions as a use by right" (rather than <br />as a special exception or conditional use), <br />together with standards for the quantity, qual- <br />ity. and configuration of open space. This <br />recommended approach can aid in discour- <br />aging conventional layouts and help ensure <br />sound design. Toward this end, the handbook <br />has been written to help persuade local offi- <br />cials that this approach should be welcomed <br />and even actively promoted as an alterna- <br />tive to cookie-cutter development. <br />From a broader perspective. the general <br />location of conservation land in these kinds <br />of subdivisions can be predetermined <br />through a community-wide open space plan. <br />thereby ensuring that individual conserva- <br />tion areas in separate but adjoining devel- <br />opments will ultimately merge together to <br />form an interconnected network .of open. <br />space linking numerous properties that will <br />some day be developed. • <br />TRACK RECORDS SPEAK <br />VOLUMES <br />The track records of several conservation <br />subdivisions detttonstrute the advantages <br />such designs offer. <br />Farmview was the fastest - selling devel- <br />opment in its price range (high 8200,0(K)s) <br />in Bucks County. Pa., despite the fact that <br />its lots wcrc one -third to one -half the usual <br />1 -acre size that is required for conventional <br />Workshop <br />subdivisions in this district by Lower <br />INakelicld Township. • <br />What distinguishes Farntview's layout is <br />the fact that its 310 house Tots cover less than <br />hull the parcel and that a large number of <br />homes abut either 137 acres of permanently <br />protected fields or 100 acres of wet woods <br />on the 431 -acre site. The developer. Realen <br />Homes, questioned the conventional wisdom <br />that people move to rural areas primarily to <br />live on large Tots; figuring instead that what <br />really attracts buyers is rural ambience, as <br />reflected in sweeping views of farm fields <br />that many of its houses were positioned to <br />•,enjoy. <br />The fast sales at Farmview were a signifi- <br />cant factor in Realen's impressive 24 percent <br />annual growth in total sales during the slug- . <br />gish 1989 -1991 period. Reduced infrastruc- <br />ture costs at Farmview, with its more com- <br />pact development form, contributed to the <br />project's profitability. according to its presi- <br />dent. Joe Duckworth. Although subdivision <br />Figure 7. Drawing in the lot lines. <br />
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