Living Alternative Available with Master Planned Communities

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From swimming pools and golf courses, to lush landscaping and strict building controls, master planned communities can offer an attractive alternative to typical new-home communities, said Hugh Smeed, vice president of sales and marketing for Aurora Venture, developer of four master planned communities in the DuPage County portion of west suburban Aurora.

What is a master planned community? Smeed defines one as a several-hundred-acre community with a single land developer who creates an overall land plan and environment. This setting typically includes heavily landscaped greenbelt areas, distinctive neighborhoods with landscaped entrance walls and non-obtrusive directional signs to allow for several types of housing products - from traditional single-family homes to landscape maintenance-free single-family homes to …