The Environment
By embracing our local wildlife and habitats, our projects are able to find a natural balance and transcend their surroundings.
Our goal is to integrate our community developments and golf courses into the natural landscape. We institute designs that compliment the open space and minimize impacts on the environment and animal habitats. The guiding principals of the site plans are to preserve and protect this diverse landscape character and to blend proposed structures and activities within it. Much of the projects we develop provide habitats for a diversity of wildlife species in the region.
Our communities follow an open space and natural habitat protection concept that focuses on limiting development to a clearly defined ′build zone′, in order to retain the balance of the parcel ownership as natural open space, or ′wildland′. This minimizes disturbances to the natural landscape and preserves the area's natural resources. Using a clustering approach to the location of buildings and recreational facilities also greatly minimizes environmental impacts. We take great care in respecting adjacent undeveloped areas to maintain water quality in the wetlands, and to preserve existing vegetation. The build sites employ sensitivity to native and naturalized plants, water conservation, waste management, energy conservation, and allowance for animal linkages throughout.