Posted on | July 19, 2010 | No Comments
The ViDA Mission
If you feel your neighborhood is missing the vitality and connection that you long for, take the leap to a place beyond suburbia where you and your neighbors can live, work, shop, play, age in place and thrive all within walking distance. With profit sharing and other strategies, you can have a higher Quality of Life, while living lighter on the Planet!
Village Development of America (ViDA!, Spanish for “life”), exists to bring more life into your neighborhood. We assist in gathering a common vision and finding new ways to make life better for everyone – a kind of “neighborhood extended family.”
Goals and Guiding Principles
- Reduce the amount of resources consumed, in both construction and operation
- Demand connectivity, connected open spaces and connected human spaces
- Design safe roads
- Support public transportation
- Mix uses; Combine the Five Components of Community:
- Places to live
- Places to work
- Places to shop
- Places to gather and recreate
- Places to go to school
- Mix Incomes; Create, capture and share wealth locally:
- Shared open space and amenities
- Affordable lifestyle
- Work force housing
- Profit sharing from new, locally-owned commercial space
- Profit sharing from gentrification resale
- Smaller lot sizes, increased densities-smart infill
- Shared amenities and open space
MIRS! -Briske