I’ve blogged many times about the fact that I live in Stapleton, a new urbanism and master planned community in Denver where the old airport used to be. I’ve long appreciated the sustainability vibe in this community, and frankly all the research I did on where to move my family played a lot into the development of V1 Magazine with Jeff Thurston. Exploring new urbanism and community quality-of-life issues gave me a good grounding in the tenets of sustainability, and I’ve been happily reporting on this topic for the past seven months.
I was browsing the Stapleton Development website today, and found a page on sustainability that I could have written:
The development of Stapleton is grounded on the principles of sustainability. Simply put, our goal is to create a community that not only enhances the quality of life for people today, but also ensures that the needs of future generations can be met. It’s a common sense approach that involves understanding and planning for the long-term viability of the community’s natural resources as well as its social and economic systems.
Reading this is a nice affirmation. As I enjoy walking around in the large preserved open spaces, it’s nice to read that the designers have the community’s natural resources in mind. The wild areas will remain wild and unmanicured as there’s enough of that going on in the neighborhoods.
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Are you wishing for those long-forgotten days that wild airplanes roamed the Stapelton savannah? How about all that airline fuel that sits just below the ground level of your “open spaces”?
Looks like more of the same old real-estate marketing hype to me.