A brand-new town is going green from the ground up.
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| Brand new town going green from the ground up. |
Kitson: “Our goal has been to create the most sustainable new town in America.”
Twelve years ago, developer Syd Kitson bought a Florida ranch about five times the size of Manhattan. He sold most of it to the state as a wildlife preserve. He’s using a portion of the rest to build Babcock Ranch, an entire town with restaurants, stores, a school, and 20,000 homes. The first residents will move in this winter.
The town includes rain gardens, an irrigation system that uses recycled water, fifty miles of trails, and a huge solar farm that will meet the town’s daytime energy needs.
Read the Yale Climate Connections story - “Developer wants to build a town where no one will need to drive.”
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