Home Buyers Want A 'Backyard Forest'
29 July 2002 - 8:00am
A new zoning category called "conservation subdivision" allows developers to build communities with forests.
"Developers have discovered that many home buyers are looking for neighborhoods with swaths of trees and green space. Through a zoning category fairly new to metro Atlanta called the "conservation subdivision," they're creating communities with forests, some as big as public parks."
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 28, 2002
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