Business View Civil & Municipal - May 2023

102 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 5 Other areas have also been developed, but the challenge is all these communities are very far apart and separated by various green belts. Soon, however, these areas will be joined via well-designed pathways. The city planners want to ensure that the sidewalks have trees, city blocks are short, and communities are mixed. These communities are being designed so residents can stroll to a location quickly, creating an environment with a sense of being walkable, something along the lines of the “Garden City” design moment of the early 1900s. These developments have gone according to plan, and Maslow elaborates, “Groveland is a collection of towns, villages, and hamlets, interweaving diverse people into an eco-agrarian landscape embodying the city’s core values.” Another area that the city has explored is providing dark sky lighting, with the goal of increasing its natural charm factor. Groveland Together we shine. At Duke Energy, our well-established economic development partnerships mean everything. duke-energy.com/LocateFL