Community Design

As you make your way through the thicket of honeysuckle a crisp breeze welcomes you back onto the trail. The path, lined with tall pines is a crush of rock well worn from others that have explored these natural places. You can’t yet see it, but the path leads to a clearing you know is there from the faint yowls and squeals of children playing in the not too far distance. A couple hundred yards later you emerge out onto a green the locals call the ‘big field’. Google Maps knows it more formally as ‘Vernon Park’.

You scan the rolling expanse sprinkled with decades old giant oaks and poplars and follow the low stone wall that leads up to the village square defined by two rows of tight-knit shops woven together with balconied upper floors and fanciful local art. There’s always something going on there, but on this morning your impulse is to make your way over to the bakery where you’ll share some gossip and eat the best pastry in the world.

Adopting a town & country approach to community building, Kettlesong is the first of what is intended to be a collection of vibrant, compact, mixed-use communities that protects wild places, prioritizes people above cars, and welcomes the wonder of a future world. These sibling settlements will be part of a larger patchwork in the area and will form a regional tapestry of sustainable, highly livable home places.

As you make your way through the thicket of honeysuckle a crisp breeze welcomes you back onto the trail. The path, lined with tall pines is a crush of rock well worn from others that have explored these natural places. You can’t yet see it, but the path leads to a clearing you know is there from the faint yowls and squeals of children playing in the not too far distance. A couple hundred yards later you emerge out onto a green the locals call the ‘big field’. Google Maps knows it more formally as ‘Vernon Park’.

You scan the rolling expanse sprinkled with decades old giant oaks and poplars and follow the low stone wall that leads up to the village square defined by two rows of tight-knit shops woven together with balconied upper floors and fanciful local art. There’s always something going on there, but on this morning your impulse is to make your way over to the bakery where you’ll share some gossip and eat the best pastry in the world.

Adopting a town & country approach to community building, Kettlesong is the first of what is intended to be a collection of vibrant, compact, mixed-use communities that protects wild places, prioritizes people above cars, and welcomes the wonder of a future world. These sibling settlements will be part of a larger patchwork in the area and will form a regional tapestry of sustainable, highly livable home places.