Issaquah Highlands combines the convenience and excitement found in dense cities with the quality of life found in the suburbs. Environmentally sensitive with safe neighborhoods, excellent schools, and many recreational opportunities-our community provides an ideal place for you and your family to live, work, and play.

Guiding Principles

Living Green

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Guiding Principles
Issaquah Highlands is an Urban Village dedicated to Living Green� that will grow and evolve with time to meet the changing needs, opportunities, and personalities that contribute to its future. At Issaquah Highlands, we have established these Guiding Principles to help unify our efforts and assure a rewarding outcome for all who will live, work and play in our community.

Principle #1: Sustainability and Stewardship
We will create a thriving, efficient, sustainable community that cares for and preserves the natural environment for ourselves and for generations to come.

Principle #2: Pedestrian Friendly Design
Issaquah Highlands community plan, infrastructure, and amenities will be designed to encourage walking, bicycling, and transit use.

Principle #3: Diversity
Issaquah Highlands will plan in a way that attracts a diversity of incomes, household makeups, lifestyles, activities, ethnicities, and backgrounds. A diversity of land uses, architecture, and amenities will be encouraged to enrich people's lives.

Principle #4: Community Values
Issaquah Highlands will have an atmosphere of valuing individual privacy and will provide opportunities for social interactivity and community life for adults, children, and seniors that promote common values and shared responsibilities.

Principle #5: Civic Celebration through Public Amenities
Issaquah Highlands will give special prominence, maximum public exposure, and extraordinary architectural quality to common buildings and public spaces.

Principle #6: A Local Context
Issaquah Highlands will have a unique and memorable identity as a neighborhood within the City of Issaquah. We will commemorate and celebrate the rich history of the region.

Principle #7: Contribute to the Good of the Region
Issaquah Highlands will be a complete community that accommodates living, working, learning, playing, and nurturing while contributing to the richness, opportunity and quality of life of the region.

Principle #8: Vitality, Flexibility, and Collaboration
Issaquah Highlands will be an economically vital and viable community where the collaboration of public and private interests offers positive responses to the changing needs of the future.

Principle #9: Stewardship
Issaquah Highlands will produce public infrastructure that is high quality, efficiently maintained, and economically serviced.

Living Green
We Can Choose A Better Way to Live
The choices we all make affect the future of our planet, our neighborhoods and our way of life. Living Green� is all about making choices that help us all "tread more lightly on the earth." Those choices can be as simple as how often we choose our two legs instead of four wheels to the type of home we choose to live in. Issaquah Highlands strives to make Living Green practical and accessible for everyone.

Some of us will make a few small choices toward Living Green. Others will commit to a whole new green way of life. Each is important. From small choices, like increasing the energy efficiency of a new home, to major choices, such as creating an entire sustainable infrastructure like Issaquah Highlands, these choices, individual, corporate and community efforts, will help us leave our community a little better than when we found it.

Links

http://www.energystar.gov/
Energy efficiency program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy

http://www.builtgreen.net/
Certification process of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties

www.usgbc.org/LEED
Green building rating system of the U.S. Green Building Council

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Find Out More
For more information on New Urbanism, check out the following websites:

http://www.newurbanism.org/

www.newurbannews.com