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SUCCESSFUL SOLUTIONS TO SPRAWL : A NORTH CAR OLINA APPROACH <br /> fund can be used to promote infill development for environmentally and economically sensible because <br /> lower-income families , while farmland preservation people enjoy them and are willing to pay more to live <br /> funds will keep portions of Buncombe County's in such an area . Thus far, four single-family houses , one <br /> remaining 87 , 000 acres of farms safe from development . duplex and two garage apartments have been complet- <br /> ed; plans call for 164 dwelling units . New 18-foot-wide <br /> streets , bordered on each side by 10400t planted areas , <br /> are a marked change from the standard street width in <br /> existing code . <br /> A NEW VILLAGE PRESERVES GREEN SPACE PROFITABLY Having a developer who wishes to create aTND <br /> Located halfway between Wilmington and Myrtle in a town that does not have ordinances for it is an <br /> Beach along US 17 , Shalotte is a small but growing increasingly common occurrence in North Carolina <br /> coastal town . New development is inevitable in this as builders and loan officers realize that these develop- <br /> ever-popular region, but the 22 + -acre village of ments are profitable . By working to create a conditional <br /> Woodsong is an attempt to keep that growth compact code with the town , the developer was able to get his <br /> and livable , project started, and in time, may demonstrate the advan- <br /> tages of traditional. neighborhood design . This can lead <br /> In 1994 , Shalotte had no planner and no ordinances to further changes in~ ordinances _ that would allow for <br /> pertaining to traditional neighborhood development. more TNDs in the future . <br /> TND developer Buddy Milliken worked with officials_, �" <br /> to add a subsection to the existing ordinance that :, FAI <br /> " <br /> allowed him to begin the development of a pedestrian FF <br /> oriented, mixed-use community next to the downtown <br /> area that makes use of existing infrastructure, -. <br /> The sensitive environmental areas common along the <br /> IFF <br /> coast are preserved in this neighborhood in the form <br /> of protected wooded areas , while severalnore formal <br /> and informal parks are spaced throughout the commu= <br /> pity for a total of about 35 percent open space. Most r j <br /> t_ <br /> residences will be within a one-minute walk of a park, <br /> 3 <br /> and within five minutes of the village center. k ' "' <br /> Perhaps more notably, Woodsong has actually provided C. IF- <br /> , <br /> nT- .r <br /> a net increase in wetlands area through a man-made IF <br /> wetland for storm water treatment and has preserved - IF IF <br /> an existing natural wetland as a community amenity. IT <br /> l 1 <br /> Milliken points out that these features are socially, IF I <br />