An overview of the project plan, site and community. POWERPOINT SLIDESHOW conversion by PPT2TOOLS

TCR believes that the best urban development policy is a strong rural development policy. Relieving the costs of simulataneous sprawl and high density living in the city by allowing those individuals who prefer to live in a rural area rebuilds the demographic base of these communities. A key element in building a strong global region is allowing communites to compete based upon their respective qualities of life- an equitable distribution of individuals based upon age, income and education is the intended outcome of this strategy. The digital divide is a major impediment to this goal.

The Res-Tech Project is TCR's attempt to demonstrate the viability of this concept. It is composed of the following elements:

• a land use district based upon clustered housing, consolidated road access points, and a large outlot for agriculture, wildlife habitat etc.
• a residential/office/conferencing facility to demonstrate environmentally sensitive design incorporating earthsheltering, geo-thermal HVAC,
• deployment of an Internet/on-Site conferencing system as a catalyst to build Information Age transitional policy for the community including:
• Community Catalyst as a consultant working within the community to help the community discover itself.
• Inter-generational "technology transfer"
• integration of student/business tech development
• marketing to attract telecommuter/mobile warriors

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