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Who is Randall Arendt ? . . .

Randall G. Arendt is a land use planner, site designer, author, lecturer, and an advocate of conservation planning.  A magna cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University and a St. Andrew’s Scholar at the University of Edinburgh.  He co-authored the award-winning volume, Dealing with Change in the Connecticut River Valley:  A Design Manual for Conservation and Development and is the principal author of Rural by Design:  Maintaining Small Town Character.  An elected member of the Royal Town Planning Institute in London, Mr. Arendt has lectured in forty-seven states, five Canadian provinces, and in Europe (most recently Switzerland), and has designed conservation subdivisions in 21 states.


—  Randall on Residential Land Design  —

Principles of Alternative Rural Design* . . .

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Identify primary conservation areas.
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Identify secondary conservation areas.
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Identify potential development areas.
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Locate potential house sites.
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Design road alignments and trails.
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Draw in the lot lines.
Quotes from Randall for your thoughts . . .

Conventional zoning regulations inevitably mean that every square foot of land becomes someone’s front yard, backyard, street, sidewalk, or driveway.

Garages should not dominate street scapes.

County regulations do not stand up to scrutiny for saving sights or buildings.

Wider streets only bring on faster and more cars.

Thirty-two percent more dangerous — wider streets over narrow.

Fifty percent more expensive to pave a 30 foot street over a 20 foot street.

Design with nature will work with nonprofits and towns but not developers.

Look at other communities and see what they did with low budgets.



* Conservation Design for Subdivisions, A Practical Guide to Creating Open Space Networks
 Randall G. Arendt, Copyright 1996 by Island Press.


Visit Randall Arendt’s website at www.greenerprospects.com to learn more about him and to order any of his publications.