I designed this 48-lot conservation subdivision on a parcel encompassing a little more than 100 acres in the Dallas area for Willard Baker, a successful developer with decades of experience with conventional layouts, who decided to try my approach after attending a seminar at which I presented a session on conservation subdivisions, at the request of the City of Flower Mound, which was encouraging this technique as a method of conserving open space and rural character. Following the success of this development, the client engaged me again to help him lay out a second development in that municipality, again using my four-step design approach (identifying conservation areas, locating house sites, aligning streets and trails, and drawing in the lot lines). The large 10-acre “Conservancy Lot” shown in the lower right corner borders the public road and provides protected open space that was also sold (at a very high premium price) under an agreement stipulating that no more than one home would be built there, and that it would be situated outside the public viewshed. (This approach is known as “non-common” open space, benefitting both the community and the developer.)
Stratford Hall, Weddington, NC || Stablewood Park, Pass Christian, MS || North Oaks, MN ||
The Park at Wolf Branch Oaks,
Mt. Dora, FL || The Fields at Cold Harbor, Hanover County, VA ||
Partridgeberry Place, Ipswich, MA || Cedar Meadow, Charlestown, RI || Chimney Rock, Flower Mound, TX ||
Winfall Village, Winfall, NC || Deep Bay Village Extension, Regional District of Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC