Smart Growth

Mont Luzerne has been designed for Smart Growth
using the principles of Traditional Neighborhood Development.

By definition,  Smart Growth is sensible, planned, efficient growth that integrates economic development and job creation with community quality of life by preserving and enhancing the built and natural environments. By placing homes, parks, offices and shops in close proximity to one another and consolidating development, alternatives to driving such as walking or biking, once again become viable and open space is preserved.

The preservation of open space provides significant environmental quality and health benefits, protects animal and plant habitat and places of natural beauty, fights air pollution, reduces noise, helps control wind, provides erosion control, and moderates temperatures. Open space also protects surface and ground water resources by filtering trash, debris, and chemical pollutants before they enter a water system.                                                               

A smart growth "TND" is designed to be a community, not just a random collection of homes.

At Mont Luzerne, we have combined the best ideas of the past with today's best planning technologies to plan a community of neighborhoods connected by attractive streets, wide sidewalks and public gathering spaces. The result is a safer, pedestrian-friendly community in which to live, work and play. Each neighborhood features a community center, recreation area or park for an appealing destination and meeting place within a short walk of your home.  

                              ~The View From the Front Porch~   

Tree-lined streets, designed to slow and minimize traffic, along with well thought-out architectural and landscape standards, combine to create a serene and peaceful village setting. Front porches provide  opportunities for greeting neighbors and, in some places, service roads provide access to rear entrance garages. Buildings are placed closer together and nearer to sidewalks, with functional exteriors designed to be pleasant and attractive to people passing by.  Mont Luzerne's homes will be available in a wide variety of designs and floor plans to match any budget and lifestyle.