Promoting Preservation While Growing
Vibrant Communities
One of ELA Group's defining principles is a strong commitment
to promoting resource conservation and heritage preservation
while preparing plans for the private development of residential,
institutional, and commercial / industrial land uses that
encourage a vital economy and growing population. This same
ethic applies to our work in the public sector for such
projects as streetscapes and parks. We believe that these
characteristics are essential to the development of vital
communities.
Richard
L. Jackson, Registered Landscape Architect, and
one of the founding partners of ELA Group, is an excellent
resource for all things Smart Growth and Main Street Community
Planning. He even serves as President of Lancaster's Smart
Growth Coalition...
Although higher-density
development is the key to using land more efficiently, it
is often met with resistance. The Urban Land Institute's publication,
"Higher-Density
Development: Myth & Fact," provides succinct insight into
how to address common misperceptions about higher-density
development. (more)
ELA's vision,
devotion, expertise and funding support, along with the excitement
catalyzed in our property owners, represent a commitment to
realization of our goals which cannot be surpassed, we are
certain. — Delta Borough