An architect is preserving a farm and its natural areas using a newapproach in housing development. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’sLester Graham reports:
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An architect is preserving a farm and its natural areas using a new approach
in housing development in the region. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Lester Graham reports.
Chicago architect Ed Noonan plans to build more than 100
houses on the 160 acre Tryon Farm in northern Indiana. But he
plans to keep three-quarters of the land as a working farm
and preserve natural areas. He says it’s a matter
of carefully placing the development.
“Put it on the worst land where the farming wouldn’t go. Put it so
that you could cluster it, hold it together. Put it so that the houses would
form a little settlement so that they were related to each other both in
size and color. And then allow for a lot of differences in small ways.”
The new residents get to experience life on a farm while the
original owners
of Tryon Farm still raise animals and sow the fields. The land
that’s to be
preserved is being put in the hands of a not-for-profit
organization so
future owners aren’t tempted to add more houses.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, this is Lester Graham.