New Urbanism Comes To Twin Cities Suburb
23 January 2002 - 10:00am
Despite costs 10-20% higher than traditional suburban planning, city planners have adopted a new urbanist approach.
"Chaska city leaders took an unusual step for a developing suburb when they decided a year or so ago that the city had enough big-buck housing... That decision set the city on a path toward a development now under construction that will include both New Urbanist design and housing units affordable to people with moderate incomes."
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Chaska tossed the status quo aside
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Star Tribune, January 20, 2002
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