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Ohio's Largest Neo-Traditional Development

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Fred Guerra
16 July 2001 - 8:00am

Ohio's Barberton development is an alternative to sprawl -- a community where every resident is a five-minute walk from the lake.

"Akron industrialist O.C. Barber founded this city in 1891 as a planned community for his match factory and for several hundred houses built on 550 acres. The city spread out in concentric circles from Lake Anna ... with large Victorian homes bordering the lake, followed by a ring of retail stores. The outer ring was a swath of smaller homes. An able-bodied resident can walk to the lake within five minutes from any point in the old city limits." A new proposal for the community would create Ohio's largest neo-traditional neighborhood community.

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Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 13, 2001
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Under the proposal, the government would assign the populace the task of counting and mapping dog droppings as a first step to greater penalties for owners who fail to clean up after their mutts.
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