Category: David Tuch

Does being sustainable mean you can’t make money?

David Tuch
sustainable development
I recently was in front of city council asking for approval of a residential infill development project that featured many good examples of green building and promoted smart growth principles.  The development included 45 home sites on a little more than 8 acres of land near a major transportation corridor...

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Design with Plants

David Tuch
designing with plants
Plants are a keystone to the sustainable landscape and using native plants, drought tolerant plants, and edible plants is one of the easiest ways to promote a more ecologically sensitive landscape. One last thing, please don’t dig up native plants in the wild and don’t plant invasive plants. Why use...

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Top Five Strategies to a Sustainable Site

David Tuch
DroversRd-Footbridge&Path
As development continues its rebound the question remains if we will build better than we did before, the same, or worse.  The opportunity to build better sites, working with the landscape as opposed to against the landscape and working with the environmental assets on a property, is in actually not...

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