North Site: SA/AIA EDC

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VIDEO designteamNORTH team report --------------------- Team Members Problem / Vision Site Data Design Issues Design Images Workshop #3	The North Team studied an undeveloped 1,700-acre site in a hilly area over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, immediately north of Loop 1604. Areas such as this are typically seen as suitable only for large-lot residential development. The team sought an economically viable alternative model that would allow more intensive development in concentrated areas, requiring less automobile use, and still remaining under the 15-percent impervious cover limit for recharge zone development. Thus, the team proposed a group of "hill villages," with a mix of housing types and limited commercial and institutional sites wrapping around the middle ranges of the hills and connected by roads. The hilltops would be retained as open space, as would the valleys. This approach to development, in contrast to the large-lot norm, would allow the aggregation of larger areas of relatively unimpeded natural habitat and provides greater opportunities for filtration of runoff before it reaches recharge features - Mike Greenberg
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