How a Texas developer saved a quarter of a million dollars by NOT destroying the land: Conservation subdivision video

(This photo is of a ranch in Colorado, sorry, I did not have a photo of the Texas property)

It costs money to cut down trees, clear cut property, grade land flat and put in expensive water retention ponds - or as noted land planner Randall Arendt calls them, "bomb craters".

Using conservation subdivision design, Randall Arendt, the nation's foremost authority on conservation subdivisions and a member of LandChoices, saved a Texas developer $250,000.00, preserved land, and saved 23 of the 24 historic, beautiful Oak trees that the original engineer planned to decimate. Watch the short video clip.

This clip is taken from LandChoices' documentary film in production, Walk With Me Through My Neighborhood: America's Land. We are currently raising funds to have the film edited for broadcasting so we can spread the word to landowners and planners in Michigan and nationwide about ways to preserve land.

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Kirt Manecke
Founder and volunteer president
LandChoices