Serenbe is a community created by Steve Nygren, located thirty miles to the southwest of Atlanta, Georgia. Made to be an example of what green development can accomplish, the Serenbe town development spans 1000 acres. Nygren and other developers took about 62 square miles of that space and created a municipality, the City of Chattahoochee Hills, and took advantage of that to create zoning regulations such as that 70% of the land in any development must be kept as open space, which can include recreational areas, farming areas, or natural land. The wild areas of the development disguise a developed wetlands designed for wastewater management, complete with a trail network and a boardwalk.
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