![]() This housing development-later to feature a commercial district-comes from Dan Griffin and Tony Eyerman of the Evans Farm Land Development Company. Simultaneously, the masterminds behind this mystifying utopian community are bringing a new phrase into the Ohioan vernacular: “new urbanism.” What is Evans Farm? What if a new kind of place made using cars so often unnecessary? What if everything and everyone you wanted to see was within walking distance? Evans Farm is attempting to combine all the best parts of Ohio small towns and big cities to create an old-fashioned kind of community that doesn’t require so much driving. In response to all of this is a new idea: what if we could make cars obsolete? ![]() Public transport isn’t a viable option in all cities, and gas prices only threaten to grow as nonrenewable fuel sources get eaten up. Ohioans drive to work, drive home, drive to restaurants, drive to college, drive to see friends, etc. Either way, the favored mode of transportation in Ohio has got to be cars. ![]() For many born-and-bred Ohioans, life in the Buckeye State comes in one of two locales: small towns with lots of cornfields, or big cities with lots of people.
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