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A Traditional Neighborhood Development, or TND, also known as a village-style development, includes a variety of housing types, a mixture of land uses, an active center, a walkable design and often a transit option within a compact neighborhood scale area. TNDs can be developed either as infill in an existing developed area or as a new large scale project.


Sustainability Principles 

• Encouraging economic diversity and vitality
  
• Encouraging development into areas that can best accommodate it
  
• Using existing infrastructure
  
• Encouraging clustering
  
• Preserving and reusing structures of historical and/or architectural significance
  
• Encouraging development patterns similar to traditional neighborhoods, including pedestrian scale
  
• Maintaining distinctions between rural/suburban/urban areas
  
• Encouraging economic expansion, job creation and stability
  
• Insuring that municipal services and facilities are adequate to meet public needs, without subsidizing development
  
• Minimizing infrastructure costs
  
• Minimizing traffic congestion caused by new development
  

Benefits

• Creates walkable neighborhoods
  
• Brings life to communities by allowing mixtures of uses
  
• Encourages transportation mode options
  
• Protects open space
  
• Preserves "village center" and public spaces concept
  
• Creates communities designed for live, work and play
  
• Reduces vehicle congestion