Doug Farr and Land Development Meeting Thursday, January 29

Doug Farr,, of Farr Aassociates, will be present at a public presentation on the Lakeland land development regulation project beginining at 7:00.p.m. Thursday, January 29, 2009 at the IH Club on 4523 Canada Road. This project will substantially impact all future development in Lakeland. All interested residents, developers, and builders should attend this meeting!

Farr, principal of Farr Assoc., will discuss his new book, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature. Named a top ten book of 2008 by Planetizen, Sustainable Urbanism is a guidebook that visualizes Sustainable Urbanism—the growing sustainable design convergence that integrates walkable and transit-served urbanism with high-performance infrastructure and buildings— as the normal pattern of development in the United States by 2030.

This joint meeting of the Lakeland Board of Commissioners and the Municipal Planning Commission is a public presentation about the ongoing project to rewrite Lakeland’s land development regulations. This project impacts all future development in Lakeland.