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Jennifer Vogel

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Baldwin Township has experienced incredible growth, but it's not alone in thinking about the consequences of that growth. More than 100 subdivisions have gone up since 1995, and some feel the resulting landscape is disjointed, a patchwork of housing developments with too little green space and too many roads to maintain.

The new trend in development circles is conservation planning, which aims to protect local flavor and natural resources, while still accommodating growth.

If you're interested in learning how other towns and cities have experimented with conservation development, tune in to TPT on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 8 pm for "Land Matters: Rethinking Main Street."

The program features a talk by Randall Arendt, a Rhode Island-based conservation planner who was brought to Minnesota last year by 1000 Friends of Minnesota. The broadcast will be followed on March 4th by another TPT-televised Arendt presentation, "Land Matters: Smarter Subdivisions."