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Living in a Neo-Traditional Community like Battery Point, Beaufort SC

Perhaps you have never heard of the term Neo-Traditional Community.  In short Neo-Traditional Communities or developments are more compact in design.   The these communities include features such as interconnected streets, slow speed limits, narrower streets to slow down traffic, designed to discourage through traffic for safety, shorter spaced out street lamps and developed to reduce the need for vehicular trips.  Some communities that have adopted this design also include their own town centers like Habersham in Beaufort, South Carolina.  The town centers are intended to become a thriving part of the community all supporting the growth of a hometown feeling complete with cafes, restaurants and bars right down to the trip to your dentist.  With all of the features mentioned above a Neo-Traditional community promotes walking and bicycling with beautiful tree lined sidewalks. 

 

 Battery Point Community in Beaufort, South Carolina is a Neo-traditional community.  I remember the first time my wife and I drove our car into the sub-division and we both said to each other Wow this is beautiful.  What we were not aware of was that a large part of the Wow factor, as I like to call it was the Neo-Traditional Design in conjunction with Beautiful Local architecture.  The Charleston Style two story homes with single or double front porches graced with the quintessential rocking chairs.  We knew right there and then this was a place we wanted to call home.  Battery Point is also located on a beautiful piece of land that backs up to the Battery Creek,  which is feed by the Port Royal Sound.  Expansive marsh views are part of the beauty.  The tide comes in every twelve hours.  The neighborhood design includes a marsh front walking trail that can be enjoyed by all of the homeowners not just the homeowners who have the waterfront lots.  Whether it be a walk on the trail, launching your boat from the community dock, a walk or bike ride in the community, a dip in the pool or taking your children to the playground it is simply a wonderful place to call home.   There is so much to do and friends are easy to make as you will see them out and about enjoying all of the great community features.