LandChoices: Opportunities for Landowners to Preserve Their Land

Land Choices: Changing Development in America

Conservation Subdivision Videos

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Video Clips

Two Minute Test Drive through a Natural Neighborhood (conservation subdivision)
(2 minutes)

Conservation subdivisions from LandChoices.org with Randall Arendt
(1:57 minutes)

Randall Arendt, national expert on conservation subdivisions, discussing the benefits of conservation subdivision design at Tryon Farm, a conservation community in Michigan City, Indiana.

From the LandChoices' documentary film in production "Walk With Me Through My Neighborhood: America's Land"

Natural Neighborhoods (conservation subdivisions) (34 seconds)

Why do most subdivisions look so bad? With land conservation planner Randall Arendt (26 seconds)

Noted land conservation planner Randall Arendt, the nation's expert on conservation subdivisions Randall is talking with architect Ed Noonan, creator of Tryon Farm, a conservation community in Michigan City, Indiana.

Water quality, natural areas, wildlife and working farmland can be preserved using innovative conservation development. Approximately three-quarters of the 170-acre landscape at Tryon Farm will always be preserved as rolling pasture, meadows, woods and ponds.

From the LandChoices' documentary film in production "Walk With Me Through My Neighborhood: America's Land"

Conservation planning. "You'd never drain a lake, why cut down an oak forest?"
(2.50 minutes)

We asked conservation developer Ed Noonan, "What advice do you have for planning departments?" Planners can use innovative conservation design for subdivisions to preserve water quality, natural areas, working farmland and wildlife.

But they have to understand it first. Then they need to update outdated land use ordinances.

Noted planner Randall Arendt, expert on conservation design for subdivisions, is also featured.

From the LandChoices' documentary film in production "Walk With Me Through My Neighborhood: America's Land"

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