Flying over Connecticut and Rhode Island at night you’re likely to notice a dark gap along the states’ border, separating it from the bright lights of the rest of the Eastern Seaboard. This gap is known as the Borderlands region, which includes 20 towns and over 200,000 people. Though rural relative to surrounding areas, these communities also struggle to balance growth and conservation as nearby cities creep outward.

Two Pilot towns tackled this challenge by exploring ways to preserve land by steering development to existing or planned town centers. Following creative visioning and in-depth planning processes, Exeter is exploring the development of a new village center, and Killingly plans to revitalize an existing town gateway. The Village Innovation Pilot is a “project within a project” —part of the larger Borderlands Project spearheaded by The Nature Conservancy.

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