Paying to Keep Green Space

Peter Maller writes about P. Richard Schumann's efforts to purchase farmer's development rights while they continue farming:

Schumann is preparing an advisory referendum for the November ballot asking residents in the Town of Hartford if they are willing to pay higher property taxes to fund such purchases of development rights.

The goal is for the land to remain undeveloped.

"I think we have very strong support," said Schumann, founder and president of the community's newly organized Town Preservation Committee. "Keeping the style of life we have, preserving farmland and green space, is very near and dear to people's hearts."

Spacious, leafy & tranquil - if a little on the dead side:

Sarah Lonsdale asks: "Where better to rest in peace than in a converted mortuary or burial chapel?"

Creative Aspen Housing

FLORENCE WILLIAMS writes about those who have learned to live on the cheap amongst some of the world's most expensive real estate. (I like the yurt....)