Required Reading: Walkable City
Written in an entertaining style, Jeff Speck’s Walkable City brings urban planning concepts to a place that anyone can understand. This book takes the concepts of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of...
View ArticlePutting a friendly face on Gentle Density
Attached housing is a really smart way to increase density and provide affordable, small housing in walkable neighborhoods, but it is illegal in most places. Duplexes don’t have to be ugly! This is a...
View ArticlePrairie Queen Missing Middle Neighborhood
Reintroducing the 4 and 6 unit apartment building and placing them in a new neighborhood is a great concept for building housing with the character of lovely turn of the century streetcar...
View ArticleGreen Building December 10th Building Tour: First Passive House in Virginia:...
Tour the first Passive House in Virginia with the General Contractor and Owner as they explain the intentions going into the project and lessons learned. Lankford Passive House has three bedrooms,...
View ArticleBamboo Grove Pocket Neighborhood
Bamboo Grove is a miniature neighborhood with six compact, affordable and energy efficient houses is designed for an acre of land a few blocks from downtown Crozet. Shared green space between the...
View ArticleBamboo Grove Crozet Neighborhood Meeting
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the first neighborhood meeting on February 12th for our little Bamboo Grove pocket neighborhood! Your encouragement and great questions made it an educational...
View ArticleSmall Wonder: Neighborhood Concept Blooms in Bamboo Grove
Lisa Martin wrote a wonderful story in the Crozet Gazette about the little neighborhood we’re trying to build and how it came to be.
View ArticleBamboo Grove Approved!
Bamboo grove was approved last week by the Albemarle Board of Supervisors, which means that the project is moving forward. We get to build a little pocket neighborhood in walking distance to downtown...
View Article999 Rio: Mixed Use Pocket Neighborhood
This interesting little mixed use project is located on a busy arterial road on one edge and a much quieter neighborhood street on another. The plan is to build a small office building along the...
View ArticleMcallister Village: Walkable, Adorable, Affordable
The Mcallister Village concept is to create a neighborhood of small starter homes a short walk from coffee shops, restaurants and the future downtown Crozet. The site is designed to push the parking...
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