Land Awareness
Plan - Preserve - Perform - Prosper
Donald R. Belk, AICP
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THIS PAGE WIL BE UPDATED IN EARLY 2010.
A Rural Development Strategy for the Fort Bragg Region
Sustaining Working Landscapes in North Carolina's Central Southeast
Regional Agriculture Sustainability Program
BRAC Regional Task Force, in partnership with Sustainable Sandhills, Moore County Cooperative Extension Center, and Sustainable Fort Bragg, received a $203,100 grant from the NC Tobacco Trust Fund to implement the "Feed the Fort" initiative. The Program seeks to link the natural resource capacity of the central southeast region to the commodity needs of Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall. The goal of the RASP is to develop a replicable model for other regions in the southeast US that are centered around Department of Defense installations. Also, the RASP seeks to develop 'best practices' can be applied to any urban center as a means to sustain viable farms and other primary activities amidst economic growth and community development.
This Land: Yours, Mine, and Ours: Debating Economic Growth in 'Areas of Competing Values'
A series of lectures will illustrate an application of the LUCIS model to promote sustainable land planning based on accepted community values, property rights, and natural laws. An approach toward 'value-based' land planning can enable meaningful community debate about economic growth and the built environment and spark innovative design and business practices to preserve natural and cultural resources. The first presentation in a series will be held on December 3 in Raeford. Others will follow throughout 2008.
NEXT UP:
Release of BRAC RTF Comprehensive Regional Growth Plan (Executive Summary)
The Role of Agriculture in Regional Land Planning
A Planning Model for the Fort Bragg Region
The Sustainable Sandhills Growth Suitability Model provides a basis for describing the elements of regional planning, and for the proposition of the classic ‘Center, Corridor, and Wedge’ concept as a regional planning model. Steeped in planning theory, history, and application, regional planning is experiencing a revival, along with ‘neotraditional’ and ‘New Urbanist’ ideologies, as an approach to dealing with 21st century growth issues.1 Theoretically, the Growth Suitability Model (GSM) and the proposed Regional Planning paradigm stem from the divergent disciplines of ecology and landscape design, respectively.
