Return to search

Smart sprawl : an examination of successful conservation development ordinances and practices and recommendations for Central Texas

This report is not intended to argue how sprawl is to be stopped. Infill
development is too limited to support the growth cities are expecting, and with a market
of buyers who desire to live outside of the city and own a little piece of the country, can
there really be an end to sprawl? Rather, this report identifies a method of sprawling
smartly: conservation development. As an alternative to conventional subdivision,
conservation subdivision developments perpetually preserve a significant portion—
usually half—of the development site as open space. This report examines the
conservation subdivision ordinances that municipalities have adopted as an alternative or,
in some cases, to replace conventional subdivision regulations, and the strategies they
exercise that affect a change in the way we sprawl. / text

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/22309
Date20 November 2013
CreatorsMcCarthy, Meghan Joyce
Source SetsUniversity of Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatelectronic
RightsCopyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.

Page generated in 0.0018 seconds