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In Amish country, TND suffers a setback
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New Urban News Article with images, 3/1/2008
Lancaster County has a regional plan that supports smart growth and many projects underway, but one township may have gone too far too fast.
Two major new urbanist plans were shot down when a traditional neighborhood development (TND) ordinance failed to win approval near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in January. It’s not clear what will happen to the Independence and Lime Spring projects in East Hempfield Township — but if they had been approved as previously submitted, they could have served as models of TND in central Pennsylvania.

Top 10 TND mistakes
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New Urban News Article with image, 6/1/2006
Developers get into trouble when they fail to address the following issues in building a new urban community.
It is much easier to develop a traditional neighborhood development (TND) today than it was a decade ago. At that time, discussions were dominated more by entitlement and financial issues than by design, marketing, and construction. Few tools were available to help in the process. There was no Best Practices Guide from New Urban Publications, no Lexicon, no SmartCode, no National Town Builders Association. There were few built projects to visit and study, even fewer development teams with TND experience, and no email listserves that connected practitioners across the globe.

New urban community promotes social networks and walking
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New Urban News Article with image and tables, 9/1/2009
A study of Orenco Station, a large traditional neighborhood development in Hillsboro, Oregon, backs claims that new urban design fosters physical activity and adds to the richness of community life.

Land development
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Chapter 15 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide
New Urbanism often fits many types of houses and uses into a single neighborhood — a mode of development that demands relatively sophisticated planning. This chapter examines lot dimensions, how much density to aim for, the impact of construction costs, and other facets of neighborhood development. John Anderson of New Urban Builders tells how parking has led him toward laying out lots in six-foot increments. Analyses by Strategic Economics suggest that a medium density often produces the best value in urban locations. A Houston study looks at the most profitable form of transit-oriented development.

'Cohousing' bolsters new urban neighborhoods
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New Urban News Article with images and sidebar, 6/1/2005
An alternative to the solitary household finds a place in TND projects.
Cohousing communities — developments whose residents share dining facilities, gardens, recreation space, and other amenities — have cropped up in 80 locations in the US since 1991, when the first such project, containing 26 townhouses and community gathering places, was built on a 2.9-acre plot in Davis, California. Now, as the cohousing movement learns how to organize projects faster, cohousing is becoming an increasingly promising option for new urban developments.