The Tree Farm
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A Healthy, Sustainable and Energy Efficient Bonsai Community
Mission and Vision
Our mission is to create one of the best mixed-use communities in the world, designed and built with the human being in mind. Our collective vision for the Tree Farm is to create an environment that is both physically and mentally healthy, allowing residents and visitors to thrive in their passions. The Tree Farm community will adhere to the following design qualities: responsible, sustainable, durable, organic, inspiring, invigorating, practical, of high quality and value, efficient and unique. We envision our children growing up in a world full of real communities founded upon thoughtful human habitats that are scaled and tailored to their inhabitants and their environment. The Tree Farm will be one of these communities.
The Tree Farm will incorporate deep green standards throughout and adhere to strict guidelines for each neighborhood’s energy efficient and healthy living model. This vision is unrivaled by any current neighborhood within the Roaring Fork Valley. The Tree Farm has been carefully designed to be harmonious with its surrounding natural beauty, leveraging substantial open space, while providing a place where its inhabitants can live, work, play and relax, without leaving “home”. As such, the community will have its own internal amenities with a network of nature trails, cascading ponds, streams, wetlands, shopping, dining and pedestrian accessibility to mass transit, adjacent shopping and recreation areas.
Deep green standards are planned, quantified and measured in practice. Specific areas of deep green focus include:
- substantial reliance on onsite alternative energies
- strong passive solar designs for natural heating and cooling
- energy efficient building practices with well constructed, insulated and equipped homes and offices
- resource efficiency with the use of considerably less water and the leveraging of sustainable materials
- healthy living standards through superb indoor air quality, daylighting practices, CO2 offset programs and natural inclusion into the surrounding open space
Amenities
A high allowance of amenities will be incorporated throughout the community, including parks, open space, trails, water features, a pedestrian bridge, and a pedestrian underpass under Hwy 82. Intensive landscaping and pedestrian amenities will permeate each area of the community.
Energy Strategy
The Tree Farm has plans to build and incorporate a 200-Kilowatt photovoltaic solar farm on site. The community is also planned to include at least one hydro-electric power system. The combination of the solar farm and hydro power are anticipated to produce approximately 20-25% of the electrical needs of the community. Residential and commercial buildings within the community will be built and measured to strict self-imposed energy efficiency standards, exceeding those of the popular LEED rating system. Additionally, The Tree Farm will exceed ENERGY STAR compliance on 100% of its homes and buildings.
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