Progress Report: North
Evening, February 24, 1996
Day One
by Mike Greenberg
Further development of the "hilltop vilages" shows each served by a ring road and a few parallel
streets veering up from the ring road. Higher density housing (row houses) would occupy the
lowest street, and density would shade down to zero lot-line and detached single-family
housing at higher levels. The tops of the hills would be preserved as park and pcnic areas. At
the recommendation of Pliny Fisk, the row houses would be located on the downhill side of the
ring road, rather than on the uphill side, to reduce runoff.
Over the objection of the team's naturalist, the team settled on a two-lane surface road
connecting the east and west portions of the site across Salado Creek, with a low bridge across
the creek itself. Another road would roughly parallel the southern perimeter of the site.