Editing Melbourne Village, Florida (section)

===Planned development===
The Vision 2012 Committee was chartered by the Town Commission in March 2006, as a response to trends and concerns about recent construction that, if not addressed, could significantly change the existing neighborhood character via the larger size of structures, greater lot coverage, and the loss of green-space.<ref>[http://www.melbourne-village.com/20060805flatoday.html Reprint of Florida Today article, August 5, 2006]</ref>

The result of this work was the Responsible Growth Plan,<ref name="RGP">Town of Melbourne Village, Ordinance 2007-01</ref> a set of ordinances that developed building coverage ranges for all lot sizes, devised incentive strategies to encourage homeowners and builders to minimize the visual and environmental impact of larger lot coverage, improved the town's code emphasis on tree canopy, green conservation, and native vegetation,<ref>Town of Melbourne Village, Ordinance 2008-01</ref> and provided a way to manage all these objectives via the Town Review Board.<ref name="RGP" />