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A Florida community has a novel strategy to reduce how much its residents drive: buying them a golf cart instead.
The planned community of Babcock Ranch recently reported its best sales month ever after it offered a free golf cart with the purchase of any new home, besting its previous one-month record by nearly 25 percent.
And many of these caddy wagons aren’t zipping around the links — they’re replacing car trips. Long before the golf cart promotion, Babock Ranch set out to create a haven for the “joy of golf cart living,” using Vision Zero tools like low speed limits, dedicated non-automotive paths and dense land use that places everything residents need within the seven-mile radius of the community.
Read more from Kea Wilson — and check out the other news from around the country — at the links below!
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Hyperscale AI data centers and highways are both harmful forms of fossil fuel infrastructure that get built without much community input — and it’s time to fight back against both, one of our favorite podcasters argues.
