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A senior living community in Gastonia is planning a multi-million dollar expansion that will spruce up the existing facilities and add apartments and cottages to the campus.
Cluster development, also known as conservation development, is a site planning approach that is an alternative to conventional subdivision development. It is a practice of low-impact development that groups residential properties in a proposed subdivision closer together in order to utilize the rest of the land for open space, recreation or ...
Good planning uses transit oriented development, which attempts to place higher densities of jobs or residents near high-volume transportation. For example, some cities permit commerce and multi-story apartment buildings only within one block of train stations and multilane boulevards, and accept single-family dwellings and parks farther away.
Barnstone is an English village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, forming part of Langar cum Barnstone parish. It lies on the border with Leicestershire. The nearest retail stores, schools and railway station are in Bingham (4.5 miles, 7 km). The spelling in the 19th century was usually "Barnston". [1]
Asheville Planning and Zoning Commission voted on 208 London Road apartments and a Biltmore Village hotel at its Feb. 7 meeting. Asheville Planning Board OKs 208-unit apartment complex, 99-unit ...
Apartment complex with retail and medical offices on ground floor, Kirkland, Washington Ballston Quarter in Arlington, Virginia, part of the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, is transit-oriented, mixed-use and densified, giving a "downtown" feel in an edge city. Traditional mixed-use development pattern in a city center: Bitola, North ...
An abiding axiom of urban planning, urban design and city planning has been the promotion of people friendly places, pedestrian walkways and public domains where people can meet freely. These can be parks, gardens, glass-covered gallerias, arcades, courtyards, street side cafes, river- and hill-side stroll ways, and a variety of semi-covered ...
Planning Portal was established by UK Government in 2002 to allow planning applications in England and Wales to be processed electronically. It later added guidance and information content, interactive guides, an application service for Building Regulations approval and the ability to purchase site location plans.