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A Water Sensitive Landscape Design in Gold Hill Mesa

by John W. Olson | Jul 27, 2011 | Landscape Architecture, Sustainability

It was a pleasure to produce landscape design plans for a new home in Gold Hill Mesa with the desire to become the first home in Colorado Springs to become registered by LEED for Homes as well as EPA’s WaterSense for New Homes.  GJ Gardner’s home...

Olson to Present at REpowering Southern Colorado Renewable Energy Expo 2011 in Pueblo

by John W. Olson | Jul 25, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Events, Sustainability, Urbanism

John Olson will be presenting at the REpowering Southern Colorado Renewable Energy Expo 2011 on August 6, 2011.  He wil participate in a panel on Future Jobs Potential in NEED©.  The following is a bio for John and a brief abstract of his portion of the presentation. ...

Infill: A Term with a Variety of Scales

by John W. Olson | Jul 21, 2011 | Sustainability, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism

Infill is one of those development terms that gets interpreted in a multitude of ways. I like to reference the definition supplied for the National Association of Realtors in the White Paper titled Best Practices to Encourage Infill Development written by Robinson...

Colorado Springs Sustainability Bike Tour 2011: Recap

by John W. Olson | Jul 18, 2011 | Events, Sustainability

Another successful Sustainability Bicycle Tour is now behind us in Colorado Springs.  On Saturday, July 16, 2011, approximately fifty people participated in the three-stage Sustainability Bike Tour.  We were extremely pleased with the turn out for the event and...

Lake Community Design: Access is Critical

by John W. Olson | Jul 7, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Landscape Architecture, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design

Upon returning from a week-long vacation at Laketime Retreat on Grand Lake in northeast Oklahoma, I thought about how to best design a retreat complex on a lake setting. I came to the conclusion that the experiences of a lake visit vary greatly by the personalities of...
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