Sustainable Planning and Land Use Project

I decided to post a little assignment writeup about two sites we are developing projects for. It is a nice little snippitt.....we had to select four main uses for these two sites.....

For land use themes in our environmental planning class :
I would like to emphasize 4 main themes for these two parcels....educational living trail and recreation/ PR, eco-village/eco-community, faculty housing and recreation area, nature preserve.

I believe all of these to be important and essential to the project we have now undertaken. The living trail will connect to the FF loop system and will include the MUM campus in the loop system. This will allow the loop and MUM to form a symbiotic link together which is a unique relationship between land use and planning to begin with. The two are mutually beneficial as PR proponents. The trail and education angle will propel the trail into a new realm, it is already quite famous but could be more so as an educational living trail with stations along the route that describe the various features of the prairie system, wetlands and woodlands. This also connects both parcels of ZimE and ZimW. In essence it is a eco-corridor with many functions and uses as a trail system in and of itself. We then can add the other functions of faculty housing and recreation....ecovillage and community and nature preserve quite nicely to the trail system. It is an enhancement in and of itself..with or without anything else..but..to add more functions however, would be a permaculture principle..stacking functions. We can turn these two parcels into reflections of this principle...into a living breathing permaculture principle....'stacking functions'.