What is the Difference between Traditional Neighborhood Design and Conventional Suburban Development?
Mountainside Village has been designed to incorporate many of the benefits and features of “Smart Growth” and Traditional Neighborhood Design. We have designed our community to: • Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place and community; • Offer connected open space networks preserve farmland, natural beauty and critical environmental areas; • Provide diverse, well-connected street and path networks, allowing a variety of transportation choices that reduce auto reliance, creating walkable communities; • Treat streets as interesting civic spaces; • Offer a variety of housing needs within a compact neighborhood design; • Create good jobs through mixed use development; • Remain adaptable to a variety of uses and change over time; and • Create an attractive and comfortable space for our residents and visitors. This kind of development stands in stark contrast to most of the growth in Teton County, which typifies the sprawl of conventional suburbia. Some traits
