The motivation to create nodes within the town limits allows concentrated development at strategic points. This allows the town the opportunity to acheive a number of goals: create a more distinctive sense of place, safeguard primary spans of open

Creating a 'Nodal Town'

space, maintain the small town feel, characteristic of Pinetop-Lakeside, and emphasize specified types of development in designated places. The creation of the nodes also focuses on keeping the natural environmental systems healthy and thriving within the urban mix.

Adopting these principles and synthesizing the optimum conceptual ideas will create a thriving 'urban' system within the context of the natural systems existing in the town.

Developing in this manner will allow the town to relieve the pressures of increasing development by defining limits of growth; such actions naturally require tactical phasing strategies, which will be discussed in more detail in conjunction with the final Master Plan.