The pond is preserved as an accessible amenity, linked with roadways to a trail. With more connections and linkages between streets, travel distances are shorter throughout the development. The sparse arrangement of homes along the main roads on the perimeter, finally, allow an attractive, unobstructed view of the development's rural surroundings. Neighborhood Green . Homes are clustered around a central, shared public space surrounded by working agriculture and meadows.
Hedgerows act as windbreaks and provide definition and variety to the visual landscape.
Preserving Valuable Land. Planners in Howard County, Maryland, produced the graph at right to illustrate how the percentage of land protected reaches a threshold at a base density of 5 acres per unit. They thus concluded that the greatest advantage in terms of land protected can be achieved at this 5 acre density. From Howard County, Maryland, Office of Planning and Zoning. Through Rural Cluster Development Community-oriented Homes.