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down on tHe farm Cont'd from page 25 'Our job is to achieve the highest and best use. Taking advantage of what the landscape gives us is important to us.' The Grande offers 2 paths. Nestled against 80 Celebrating years! lifestyle MHBA new built homes are professionally designed for the way we live today. Now is a great time to build! "When you're trying to create a neighbourhood, you want to create reasons to come together, places to go and things to do other than drive into your ga rage. What we've achieved is a diagonal park system that ends at a riverbank park and continues north west right up to the commercial area opposite nick's inn. you have the potential of having a parkpedes trian link that ties together a future neighbourhood service area with a riverbank feature," he says. Phase i lies directly off Bridge road just north of the taylor Bridge. taylor farm road runs west off Bridge road and will connect the entire development along its south side. A portion of Phase ii, which will include river lots, is located between taylor farm road and the Assini boine river. "this isn't going to be a monolithic development. We're doing it with a number of different builders and some adjacent commercial," vogan says. "our job is to achieve the highest and best use. taking advantage of what the landscape gives us is important to us. the landowners and municipality said the best uses for this land include the riverbank piece. it turned out our land was a good piece of the ideal park site. We said, 'you other owners chip in a piece of riverbank so we're not singled out, so we're providing to gether a better park than would oth erwise be possible.' it results in a bet ter neighbourhood and municipality and we're going to string together an active nonvehicular corridor. We like pulling stuff like that off." the neighbourhood was named in honour of John taylor, the local pioneer, teacher and politician who bought land fronting on the Assini boine river from the hudson's Bay company in 1856. vogan believes home buyers will be attracted to taylor farm for its loca tion close to the city as well as its rural feel. the land use plan is generally for singlefamily residential units. "the municipality doesn't want to have a whole bunch of little houses here. We pushed the density up to provide a variety of lot sizes and hope fully more diversity in house type," he says. "We also steered the focus toward the junction of Bridge road and Portage to offer the possibility of commercial services and slightly higher density closer to Portage." 26 Parade of Homes Spring 2017

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