Re-imagining Communities

This compact, 12-acres neighborhood of 91 homes, a community pool house, and two parks tuck into a historic district of a coastal beach town. The nearby retail main street, high school, cinema, local theater, and bus transit is all within a short 5-minute walk. The community’s tree-lined ‘Skinny Streets’ and rear alleyways offer a network of pedestrian and bike-friendly ways through the neighborhood, to the two parks, and to the public beach stairway, all provided as amenities of the development. A broad range of house designs and craftsman details was created from inspirations of the finest traditional towns along the coast. Native plants and crushed oyster shell pathways along with the local vernacular housing settle the new neighborhood into its natural and built environment, bringing new and old together as one.

A Form-Based Code specifies that all the houses face the streets with broad front porches, and stoops. Rear alleyways access garages, which are all detached from the homes. Buyers have the choice of a single-car garage or upgrades to accessory units above one or two-car garages. With an average of 4,000 sq ft lots, the homes sit close to the sidewalks, encouraging vibrant social interaction between neighbors.