A 1300 acre development of 10 communities is marketed as being "inspired" by the paintings of Thomas Kinkade and promises a return to "simpler times." But it should not be mistaken for New Urbanism.
"The planned town has been a slow starter -- only a few hundred communities have applied its principles -- largely due to laws that discourage the mixed-use zoning of new-urbanist developments. Meanwhile, plans for conventional developments tend to sail through planning commissions eager to increase tax revenues, despite some distant, but growing, grumbling about sprawl...Imagine if the enormously famous Kinkade had brought his 'artistic sensibilities' to a new-urbanist architect and an enlightened group of town planners instead of an enormous profit-seeking development conglomerate, and matched his cutesy aesthetics with their concepts of a new American suburb: He could have built something responsible and meaningful, and helped promote a community-building movement that is still struggling for widespread recognition."
Thanks to Hilary Perkins
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