NORTHEAST FLORIDA PONDERS NOCATEE
The Davis family owners of the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain want to develop a self-sustaining 15,000-acre community in Duval and St. Johns County, Florida where 30,000 people would live, work, and shop. The $1.2 billion development named Nocatee would include about 14,000 houses and apartments but also 7,000 acres of nature preserve, parks, and greenery. It would be built over 25 years. Nocatee's planner Roger O'Steen of The PARC Group, a Jacksonville company, says careful design of the development would help, rather than exacerbate, the need for transportation and for preservation of undeveloped land in an area experiencing dramatic growth. A town center with shops, offices, and live-work buildings arranged on grid-like streets would contain most of the commercial and retail property. Yet, for Florida Sierra Club leader Linda Bremer, the idea of even the best-quality development raises some concerns. "The reality is, a totally rural county such as St. Johns, which has a little pocket of development that is St. Augustine, is now going to become a huge urbanized area," says Bremer. About a sixth of the development would lie inside Jacksonville's boundary. Its mayor John Delaney has offered preliminary support, preferring the Nocatee project to disjointed, piecemeal development. "It seems," says the mayor, "to be embracing modern growth management techniques by setting aside huge amounts of open and green space and intense planning of the residential and business development in a structured way." In part, fear of losing control of their property through government projects like highway construction prompted the Davis family's decision to build. - Florida Times-Union, 20 Mar 99, by John Dunbar and Steve Patterson.

HAWAIIAN ECORESORT AIMS FOR SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE
The Kohala Mountain Camps now under construction on the north shore of the big island of Hawaii integrate an ecoresort with subsistence farming while restoring lost forest. Years of sugar cane production on the inherently beautiful site had ruined its soil, subsequent cattle grazing had denuded upland areas, and eventually erosion clogged mountain streams with silt. Working with local land planner Thomas Yamamoto, New York City landscape architect Patricia Crow located the 15-acre camp in the middle of the 485-acre site owned and developed by Pacific Plains Company. Crow's husband, architect Jim Hadley of Wank Adams Slavin Associates, designed the camp's 100 tent pavilions. Below the clustered village Crow set aside a 50-acre plot for subsistence farming requested by locals during public charrettes. Land above the camp will be vigorously reforested to prevent continued degradation of the slopes, preserve the gulches, and provide visitors with a wild verdant landscape to enjoy. To reduce visitor impact on the site, the plans include raised boardwalks, on-site stormwater retention, and photovoltaics. [For more information, email Patricia Crow <pattycrow@aol.com>.] - Landscape Architecture, Feb 99, p 40, by Paul Bennett.

ECO-PARKS A TOUGH SELL
Eco-industrial parks, where one company's manufacturing waste is a neighboring company's raw material, are not an easy sell. When a company is picking a manufacturing site, the chance that eco-parks offer to lower disposal or material costs pales next to considerations like availability of workers, taxes, and nearness to customers. The sheer logistics of figuring out the proper mix of waste exchange among companies can be daunting. Even if that's worked out, there's no guarantee that no one will move, change its process, or go belly up. "We thought we could handpick a perfect assortment of businesses that would move right in, but it just doesn't work out that way," says Michael Krause of the Green Institute, a nonprofit developer that just abandoned the idea of guaranteeing waste exchange as a draw for an industrial center it's building in Minneapolis. Yet the Mississippi Economic and Community Development Department recently wooed a power plant to its new Red Hills Ecoplex in Choctaw County lignite coal mining territory in part by pointing out the availability of on-site coal and water. Though the power plant won't start operating for two years, the agency says it's close to leasing space to a brick maker that would use the clay left over from coal mining. The mining company, which normally uses the clay to fill the holes its strip mines leave, will instead use fly ash, a byproduct of the power plant. The agency is also trying to interest a wallboard maker in the fly ash. - The New York Times, 17 Mar 99, p C1, by Claudia H. Deutsch.

CAN'T LIVE OUT VALUES? NEXT DESIGNER, PLEASE!
When environmentalists Tom and Sue Leaf hired their college friend and architect Steve to design their home in Center City, Minnesota he told them "all architects are well versed in energy efficiency matters." Yet Steve's first set of plans lacked certain features. Though he lined the south and east exposures with windows to create warm and sunny rooms, there was little thermal mass to retain the winter sun's heat nor overhang to shade from the hot summer sun. The closet arrangement gave no added protection from the north wind. Overall the rooms seemed too large, too spacious, too luxurious. The Leafs tried to work out their concerns with Steve, but his second and then third plans were progressively more expensive and still unsatisfactory. In one crucial phone call, Steve let out his frustration. "You cannot - you cannot - live out your values. It is just impossible." A friend introduced the Leafs to Tod Drescher, a passive solar specialist in Marine On St. Croix, who not only understood their ideas but expanded on them. Over the [3,300 square-foot] home's first winter, the Leafs paid less than $400 for heat. [For more information, call Tod Drescher Architecture, 651 433 5600.] - Architecture Minnesota, Mar-Apr 99, p 38, by Sue Leaf.

PALLAS OFFERS ASIAN-INSPIRED ECO WALLCOVERINGS
Pallas Walls has developed three new ecological wallcoverings inspired by the Asian aesthetic of visual simplicity, neutral colors, and earthy textures. Textile designer Linda Thompson had the DialTone, Earth Papers, and Alabaster Matte products made in Japan under its strict residue and emissions laws. The papers are made with few chemicals. DialTone is 50 to 70 percent recycled Japanese phone books and 30 to 50 percent pulp. Since the pages are already tinted, the paper needs only a little dye. Earth Paper blends 65 percent pulp, 25 percent stone powder, and 8 percent straw for a soft, stucco-like appearance. Alabaster Matte comes from 67 percent bark infused with linen and mulberry and 33 percent pulp. The papers work well in corporate conference areas, executive suites, and hospitality rooms but not in heavy duty corridors, elevators, or health care facilities. [For more information, call Pallas Walls, 800 472 5527.] - Interiors, Feb 99, p 30, by Katherine Day Sutton.

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