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«Older home owners, in recent years, have been able to sell their large homes in the suburbs and buy an energy - efficient right - sized home, often in walkable communities with a wealth of opportunities for activities and social engagement,» said Jim Chapman, chairman of NAHB's 55 + Housing Industry Council and president of Jim Chapman Communities in Atlanta.

Whether by choice or necessity, the millennials are also living in smaller spaces, tend to favor walkable communities with transit.

TransForm promotes walkable communities with excellent transportation choices to connect people of all incomes to opportunity, keep California affordable, and help solve our climate crisis.

The development will transform eight dilapidated parcels into 78 affordable homes in a walkable community with easy access to transit, retail and other amenities.

Not exact matches

Along with others in the community, we have developed a plan to buy and tear down the building and replace it with a small walkable «neighborhood town center.»

Among the nine criteria used to evaluate projects are the location of the development in relation to the municipality's master plan, efforts to advance the creation of walkable neighborhoods, a «significant unmet need» in the community for senior housing, and whether the project will be at least 50 % occupied by seniors with an income at or below 60 % of the median income in Erie County.

From CDPHP Cycle, to traffic - calming projects that have made major thoroughfares more bikeable and walkable, to a police force that appears to now better understand the communities it is tasked with protecting — Albany feels more like the progressive city its political representatives always claimed it was.

An hour from Queenstown, it's popular year - round with New Zealanders for its stunning location, variety of outdoor activities, and walkable community that punches above its weight when it comes to food and wine.

With great year - round weather and easy access to all amenities, Downtown Oxnard is the ulitmate «walkable community.»

Of course, as with any of the other solutions StreetFilms offers up, diverters won't work in every situation — but by providing an overview of the vast diversity of strategies we can deploy, Clarence and co are certainly helping us understand that walkable, bikeable, liveable communities need not remain a pipe dream.

More car - dependent communities are less walkable and linked to higher incidents of obesity and other health concerns associated with less active lifestyles.

Transportation is on the cusp of a major transition, with more efficient cars and trucks, new technologies such as electric vehicles and zero - emission buses, services such as ride sharing, and a renewed emphasis from planners on creating accessible, livable, walkable, and bikeable communities.

The group's work is in sync with consumer demand for walkable communities — and that demand is not isolated to large population centers.

Baby boomers» preferences seem to be merging with those of Millennials, particularly when it comes to walkable communities, says Amy Levner of the AARP in Washington.

The New Town project team studied St. Charles and other communities in the region with vibrant urban fabrics, cataloging street widths, setback distances, building facades and other urban characteristics — the DNA of compact, walkable, mixed - use neighborhoods — at a block by block level.

The Renaissance is a beautiful hotel in a walkable community, with shops and restaurants galore!

«I recently met with the person who is responsible for monitoring air quality in our county (Mecklenburg County, home of Charlotte), and she said the best thing communities can do to improve air quality is to create walkable communities,» said Graham.

The owner, Rodney Graham, who worked on the project along with his wife Melissa, believes that homes located in walkable locations offer many benefits for residents and the community.

Pat Kaplan: With Portland's urban growth boundary, we have always driven people to the center of the city, but it was about four years ago that I saw the properties that were close to public transportation and in walkable communities begin to appreciate much more rapidly than other properties.

Consumer preferences for walkable communities and energy - efficient homes are on the rise, according to NAR research, along with a considerable and growing market for green building.

The new term, discussed by a panel of experts at the recent Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting in Chicago, refers to a cohesive design used to create more urban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connectivity.