Are Fayetteville coyotes trying to find safe habitat in Benton County?

Business briefs in the newspaper are often nothing but news releases copied and pasted onto a "news" page. Time was, newspapers didn't run business propaganda without the same rules that are supposed to be applied to news stories. The reporter is responsible for gathering the other side of the story!
This announcement of having hired a bunch of out-of-state architects isn't something to brag about. Let's hope the only Fayetteville architect, Rob Sharp, is the lead architect in this mess. Or was he simply hired to greenwash the project. Claiming LEED certification on a project that has already destroyed a magnificent hillside and created a "construction road" where a "road" wasn't to be built until later stages of the development makes a mockery of LEED certification.
Ruskins Heights coyote's habitat now gone. Did she move to the Siloam Springs airport? It has a lot less dangerous traffic than Mission Boulevard



FROM THE GROUND UP : Ruskin Heights announces project architects
STACEY ROBERTS
Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008
URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Business_Matters/233955/
Ruskin Heights, a traditional neighborhood development in east Fayetteville, released its list of architects July 23.

The developers of the project are Morgan Hooker, Dirk Van Veen and Ward Davis.

Houses in the first phase of Ruskin Heights include 20 single-family house lots, seven cottage houses, 17 townhouses, 11 live / works studios, two carriage houses and 20 village flats.

The neighborhood is based on the principles of “New Urbanism” or “Traditional Neighborhood Design” by providing houses in a walkable, mixeduse environment. Once completed, the project will have 295 residential units and 58, 500 square feet of retail space.

Architects selected for the project are Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., developers of Seaside, Fla.; Michael Watkins; Donald Powers Architects; Moser Design Group Inc.; Harrison French & Associates, Ltd.; Brown Design Studio; Daryl S. Rantis, Architects, PA; Robert Sharp Architect Inc.; Allison Ramsey Architects Inc.; and Historical Concepts.

Ruskin Heights is the first neighborhood in Northwest Arkansas to offer Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Homes certification. LEED is the evaluation system developed by the U. S. Green Building Council to encourage sustainable building practices, water conservation, energy efficiency, materials selection, indoor environmental quality, and process and innovation.