From the front porch of his newly built ranch house in Auroras Painted Prairie neighborhood, Michael Kearns can see a wide array of homes — duplexes, single-family, townhomes.
Its a departure, as Kearns sees it, from the cul-de-sacs, the row after row of garage doors out front, that has typified suburban development over the last few decades. Having moved to Painted Prairie from a home in Denvers Central Park with his wife and daughter in November, he calls his new neighborhood “a porch community…

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