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RVC Newsletters
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Coalition
Unhappy with Plan - July 5, 2007 - Vail Sun
Kudos
for 'job well done' - May 23, 2007 - Vail Sun (letter)
Pole-removal
Project Completed - May 23, 2007 - Vail Sun
Good
News may be Double-edged Sword
- May 16, 2007 - Vail Sun
Rocking
K Planner Makes Concessions
- April 26, 2007 - AZ Daily Star
Diamond's
Development Plan Discussed - April 26, 2007 - Vail Sun (Note:
1 acre-foot = 43,560 cubic feet = 325,900 gallons)
Developer
Follows Scenery East with New Development - April 2, 2007 - Inside
Tucson Business
Citizens Group Fights
Apathy - March 8, 2007 - AZ Daily Star [Alternate link: 3/9 AZ Daily Star]
Southeast
Side Nears South in Housing Starts - March 2, 2007 - Inside Tucson
Business
Incorporation Fever in
Vail - January 25, 2007 - AZ Daily Star
Tucson's
'Leaders' Lack the Willingness to Lead Us - January 18, 2007 - AZ
Daily Star (Guest Opinion by Evan S. Eglin)
Trading
Development Rights - December 7, 2006 - AZ Daily Star
Caretaker's
Colossal Success - July 6, 2006 - AZ Daily Star
Reviled Stop Sign
is Uprooted - April 27, 2006 - AZ Daily Star
Traffic Relief is
on the Way - April 13, 2006 - AZ Daily Star
Non-Native
Weeds Get Whacked in Southwest - March 26, 2006 - NPR
The First Old
Spanish Trail - December 15, 2005 - AZ Daily Star
Annexation: Some
Want It, Some Don't - December 1, 2005 - AZ Daily Star
Family
Values: Close Relationships with In-town Vendors Key to Success, Quik
Mart Says - July 25, 2005 - Inside Tucson Business
Population
Growth in Region Challenges Plans in Three Counties - July 18,
2005 - Inside Tucson Business
Following
Rooftops: Retail, Office Developers Follow Houses Down Interstate
Highways - July 18, 2005 - Inside Tucson Business
Vail
Awakens from 35-Year Sleep as Benson Stirs - July 18, 2005 -
Inside Tucson Business
Living
With the Desert - March 28, 2005 - TIME Magazine
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Recommended Reading
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Rural By Design / Randall
Arendt, 1994
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Nate Riggle
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Rural by
Design advocates creative, practical land-use planning techniques
to preserve open space and community character. Topics range from
sewage disposal and farmland
preservation to greenway planning for interconnected open space and the
design of rural subdivision streets. The book includes numerous case
examples of residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects that have
used these innovative design techniques. And it takes an in-depth look
at the design elements of the traditional town—and how to reinvent
those elements in today's communities. (This book can be purchased from
the American
Planning Association.)
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March 21, 2007
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The Lorax / Dr. Seuss
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Nate Riggle
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"UNLESS
someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get
better...It's not." (Available at the Pima
County Public Library, Amazon.com,
and other booksellers.)
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March 6, 2007
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| Green Development / Rocky
Mountain Institute |
Nate
Riggle
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Subtitled
"Integrating Ecology and Real Estate"
From the back cover:
"What's good for the Environment is good for business. Environmentally
responsible real estate development makes dollars and sense. Green Development describes an
exciting new field in which environmental considerations are viewed as
opportunities to create fundamentally better buildings and communities
-- more comfortable, more efficient, more appealing, and ultimately
more profitable." (This book can be purchased
from Rocky Mountain Institute and other booksellers.)
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October
28, 2005
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Higher
Density Development:
Myth and Fact
/ Urban Land Institute
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Nate
Riggle
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A
collaborative effort of the National Multi Housing Council, Sierra
Club, American Institute of Architects, and ULI, this publication
considers and dispels eight myths about higher density development.
Emphasis on higher density; it
needn't mean giant
buildings, and it needn't even occur in Rincon Valley. But support of
higher density development, even if only in other areas, could help to
relieve the pressure for rampant growth in Rincon Valley. It
is available
free of charge at ULI's web site. There are also two companion
Microsoft® Powerpoint® presentations.
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September
8, 2005
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Ecological Design Handbook
/ Fred A. Stitt, Editor
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Nate
Riggle
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Subtitled
"Sustainable Strategies for Architecture, Landscape Architecture,
Interior Design, and Planning," this is a compilation of "green"
writings by numerous authors. (This book is available at the Pima
County Public Library.)
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August
2, 2005
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Designing the Future /
Vernon Swaback
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Nate
Riggle
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A
positive vision for the future in which the natural and built
environments are each made more beautiful by the presence of the other.
It presents an alternative to the present polarity between development
and preservation. (This book is available at the Pima
County Public Library.)
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June
6, 2005
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Sustainable Architecture White
Papers
"Mystic View Task Force"
PDF/ Tate, et al.
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Nate
Riggle
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A
white paper describing how the community of Somerville, MA, worked
together to control, manage, and redirect undesirable development. If
it worked
there, it can work here! (Right-click on link at left and select "Save
As" to download the file.)
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