TUF understands that decent, affordable housing is important to families. … Decent, affordable housing reduces stress, toxins, and infectious disease, which leads to improvement in both physical and mental health. Affordable housing also frees up funds within families’ tight budgets to spend on health care and food.  TUF’s Residential Development Company is setting out to create more successful residential communities — one that excites everyone involved including residents and city staff, commissions and councils. How are we doing it?

TUF’S HIGH STANDARD

TUF’S residential development is a long-term investment for every community. For TUF,  this involves understanding the communities in which we are from and taking a step back to, “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child.”   With this in mind, TUF designs, develops and create sustainable residential  communities, rather than stick with development patterns of the past, we are redesigning the layouts of the past to fit the higher standards and expectations of today’s residents and communities.

MAXIMIZING POTENTIAL WITH THE RIGHT VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT. 

Every TUF Village Development must meet a wide range of objectives in order to be successful. For a residential development, the key lies in a subdivision layout that maximizes the number of lots. While smaller lots are good for the city and for the developer, they end up creating lots that make residents feel cramped. With new design techniques and philosophies, TUf has found that on a typical site, we are able to serve the same density as a conventional design with significantly less streets and infrastructure. 

IDENTIFY WASTE OF SPACE.

Corner lots are the most expensive to build, are typically the last to sell and usually sell at a lower price point. Eliminating corner lots by reducing unneeded intersections is step one. Step two is to stretch the setback line along the proposed streets to increase the number of lots—with less street. Step three is simple. Why build local and residential streets if no houses front the street or only front it on one side? An efficient design will have lots on both sides of every street.

REAP THE BENEFITS

In a time of budgetary constraints, successful TUF’s land development is measured by how efficient the design is in its infrastructure requirements and how quickly the tax assessment stream can begin. TUF benefits from this shift in design because it creates a market advantage and reduces upfront costs, which lowers risk. For communities, the advantages are a decrease in life cycle maintenance costs including street cleaning and snow removal, while increasing the lot numbers and valuation for greater tax base.

ATTRACTING RESIDENTS BY CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE.  

TUF designs with the people and community in mind, the development will automatically attract home buyers. TUF’s successful Residential developers recognize this trend. In addition, TUF is bringing a strong desire and full understanding to create not just a community, but a sense of place for their future children, families and residents.