Green: Common Sense Sustainable Site Development

Best Site & Land Use Strategies - That Can’t Be Cut in a Budget Crunch

Jack Wilbern/Meda Ling, Cohousing Collaborative

What is Sustainable Site Development? This discussion will look at Cohousing’s potential as a catalyst for renewed understanding of the interrelationship between environment, economics, and human society, and will examine several common sense approaches toward building truly sustainable communities.

Jack Wilbern and Meda Ling are principal partners of Cohousing Collaborative, LLC, a cohousing development company serving the mid-Atlantic region.

Jack is the architect/planner for Blueberry Hill cohousing community in Vienna, VA (completed in 2000). He is also a principal partner of the architectural firm, Butz • Wilbern, with extensive experience in project development and management. Jack is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo (where he and Chuck Durrett were classmates). He is a member of ULI-The Urban Land Institute, holds an NCARB national certification and is currently licensed as an architect in 12 states.

Meda is a professional site architect who provides the Collaborative with innovative problem-solving and project management skills honed from more than 27 years of diverse international project experience including numerous award-winning planned residential communities, urban revitalization, resort, institutional, commercial, recreational parks, arboreta, ecologic sanctuary and mitigation projects. A graduate of University of Virginia, her areas of expertise include site acquisition, property visioning, RE investment, and sustainable land use planning and design.