Building Sustainable Communities Conference Visits Oak Terrace Preserve

This week the Southeast Watershed Forum is meeting in downtown Charleston holding a conference called Building Sustainable Communities.  A couple hundred participants have come together to talk about their successes and challenges to building sustainable futures for all of us.  Oak Terrace Preserve project manager, Elias Deeb gave a tour of the neighborhood to a smaller group on Tuesday.  On Wednesday, about 75 participants gathered to hear Elias Deeb, Mayor Keith Summey and others present on the history of the neighborhood’s development and the success it has seen to date.  Although many groups at the conference know of examples where private developers are seeing the value of building more sustainable communities, Oak Terrace Preserve is relatively unique by being a public-private partnership that is giving developers, builders, and communities an example of how these projects can prosper.

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