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Originally Posted by fumanchu41
Can somebody tell me what TND is? It's driving me crazy!
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Traditional Neighborhood Development.
It is generally characterized by smaller lot sizes which are counterbalanced by larger neighborhood parks/green spaces, by houses with front porches and rear garages (and/or condos & townhomes), and by improved walkability via sidewalks and trails connecting homes to parks to retail (and to schools in the bigger developments). Some TNDs are more urban infill while others are built to be suburban towns. The general idea is the older (traditional) way of building neighborhoods where there is a defined town center, but also a mixing of uses: residential of different pricing points, retail, public, etc. you can walk to as opposed to a typical suburban separation of uses: mall over here, neighborhoods over there of $175k and over there of $300k and over there of $500k, an area park over there you have to drive to.
The best TNDs remember that since you're taking away from individual lot size, you need to be generous with neighborhood park space. Not all TNDs do such a great job of that either. One more thing- in the TND literature you read, you'll find the philosophy of mixing house pricing points in TND developments. Well, the truth is that most of the newer TNDs end up pricing exclusively to wealthy clientele and therefore end up being neighborhoods for rich people. Unfortunately this means that the TNDs which do this are some of the LEAST diverse neighborhoods around. The best TNDs, the ones truest to philosophy, turn in housing prices that are more reflective of middle class prices for that area than of high end prices, having offerings up and down the scale.
TND is a rebellion against the suburban sprawl neighborhood with huge front yards that people don't use but waste sprinkler water on and homes which do not foster neighbor interaction and streets which do not foster safe walking and biking for residents, especially for children, and layouts which do force the use of a car for every single thing, even just going to the park to play.
IMO, the BEST example in the US of how a TND is supposed to be done is Stapleton in Denver, CO.
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