« Holland Municipal Marina | Main | Ada - Michigan's Green Stronghold? »
New Urbanism in Holland
December 13, 2004
Well, looks like I need to read all of the Holland Sentinel in order to find the good articles. My good buddy Pete has a buddy who writes for the Sentinel, and this buddy happened to write an interesting story about New Urbanism in Holland for the Sunday Sentinel. However, since it was in the Business section, I didn’t find it myself. Good catch Pete.
The article mentions Knollwood, linked in a previous post of mine, as well as two other developments that I cannot find websites for. The Kensington Place development is ambitious, and really the only New Urbanist development in the Holland area. The driving force behind the design of the development? Terry Sanford of Nederveld Associates Inc.
Terry is not only a member of the Congress of the New Urbanism, but will be the President of the Michigan Chapter (when it comes to be - it’s being formed right now). When you have engineers/planners who are willing to guide their clients in new directions, good things will come.
After a little searching of the CNU website, here’s a list of Hollanders who are members of CNU:
- Michael Bosgraaf - Bosgraaf Homes
- Philip Meyer - City of Holland Director of Community Services o& Development
- Mark Miller - Nederveld Associates Inc.
- Terry Sanford - Nederveld Associates Inc.
- Mark VanderPloeg - City of Holland Planner
There are also another handful of members in Grand Rapids and the West Michigan area.
Hurray for progressive planning!
Posted by paul at December 13, 2004 09:41 AM
Post a comment
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.meermacatawa.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/41
Comments