A development can ensure its potential for sustainability by planning for a greater amount of flexibility in its use of the land. Attention to flexibility will ensure that the development can evolve over a period of time and that there has been a high level of pro-active planning involved to ensure that additional uses can be accommodated into the existing development.
This contributes to reducing or eliminating the need for the development to sprawl beyond its boundaries. The normative quality associated with the flexibility of the use of land in a development is measured by the development plans ability to be (re)-configurable.
A development plan that is re-configurable ensures long-term sustainability by allowing for the adaptation of different uses and methods to be implemented through the life span of the development. This will allow the development to evolve over a period of time while responding to the needs of the users without compromising the other qualities that are essential to a development’s sustainability.
The flexibility of use of the land should pro-actively respond to the challenges the development may face in the future without abandoning the principles of sustainability.
Providing for a diverse social structure will help to encourage a developments ability to re-configure itself when responding to the community structure. A diverse community structure or fabric allows a development to re-configure the uses of land through an organic manner that responds directly to the needs of the community itself. In order to maximize flexibility, the planning process of the development is essentially an ongoing process throughout the life of the development.
There is, however a certain level of community involvement with the ongoing planning process that will ensure the development’s flexibility. While logical and sustainable contingency plans can be formulated, it will be the evolution of the development’s community that will drive the need and direction of the flexibility of the use of the land.
The flexibility of use within a development allows for the conservation, preservation and the adaptation of the natural environment. Through ecologically sensitive design, the use of the natural environment can be monitored in order to ensure its sustainability.
It is only through a pro-active planning strategy that a high level of flexibility can be achieved, and it is through the planning process that the development can re-configure its objectives and practices in order to maximize its flexibility.
Flexibility of use within a development fosters a long-term plan for economic vitality throughout the life of the development. Throughout the design and implementation of the development, adjustments can be made to respond to the needs of the users in a manner that reduces unnecessary spending on elements that may not be relevant to the overall community.
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts. -Clarence Stein
This contributes to reducing or eliminating the need for the development to sprawl beyond its boundaries. The normative quality associated with the flexibility of the use of land in a development is measured by the development plans ability to be (re)-configurable.
A development plan that is re-configurable ensures long-term sustainability by allowing for the adaptation of different uses and methods to be implemented through the life span of the development. This will allow the development to evolve over a period of time while responding to the needs of the users without compromising the other qualities that are essential to a development’s sustainability.
The flexibility of use of the land should pro-actively respond to the challenges the development may face in the future without abandoning the principles of sustainability.
Providing for a diverse social structure will help to encourage a developments ability to re-configure itself when responding to the community structure. A diverse community structure or fabric allows a development to re-configure the uses of land through an organic manner that responds directly to the needs of the community itself. In order to maximize flexibility, the planning process of the development is essentially an ongoing process throughout the life of the development.
There is, however a certain level of community involvement with the ongoing planning process that will ensure the development’s flexibility. While logical and sustainable contingency plans can be formulated, it will be the evolution of the development’s community that will drive the need and direction of the flexibility of the use of the land.
The flexibility of use within a development allows for the conservation, preservation and the adaptation of the natural environment. Through ecologically sensitive design, the use of the natural environment can be monitored in order to ensure its sustainability.
It is only through a pro-active planning strategy that a high level of flexibility can be achieved, and it is through the planning process that the development can re-configure its objectives and practices in order to maximize its flexibility.
Flexibility of use within a development fosters a long-term plan for economic vitality throughout the life of the development. Throughout the design and implementation of the development, adjustments can be made to respond to the needs of the users in a manner that reduces unnecessary spending on elements that may not be relevant to the overall community.
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts. -Clarence Stein
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