Bicycle City

This blog has hi-lighted ideas around Smart Growth, growing and supporting local food producers, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building, and sustainable development. In South Carolina they are building an entire planned community around these principles.  It is being planned as a village that has car free zones, LEED certified and mixed use housing, community gardens and a vibrant city centre which supports arts and culture. The city hopes to deal with some of the problems created by car centric urban planning.   It got me thinking about how these principals could  successfully be transferred to Cranbrook. With a vision and buy in from our development community, local citizens, and political will we could make Cranbrook a model  city of the future.   What sort of families or industries could we draw if our city was able to create these type of life style options? Isn't it about time that Cranbrook started to become the most progressive city in the Kootenays.
To learn more about this development please go to http://www.bicyclecity.com/