One New Urbanist community's battle for approval

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Thu, 01/22/2009 - 11:50am

See this account of a developer's struggle to gain approval for I'On, a New Urbanist community in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, just outside Charleston:

[T]he neighborhood is located in close proximity to two historic districts that are, if price is any measure, the most sought after places to live in the area; through its Master Plan and Strategic Plan the Town had adopted a clear vision for the kind of development they wanted; we had two of the...



 

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