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Santa Lucia Preserve - Carmel Valley, California
The Santa Lucia Preserve represents some of the most beautiful landscape of Northern California’s coastal region, and an innovative model for combining development and conservation. This 20,000-acre watershed is both a residential community and a functioning nature conservancy, where homeowners act as invested stewards of the land. By bringing our unique environmental-design aesthetic to the master plan of the project as well as to the civil engineering design of many custom homes, we were able to preserve the rural feeling and environmental integrity on this stunning ranch property, as well as contribute to a groundbreaking model for sustainable community planning.
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Catalina - Los Angeles, California
Located 20 miles from the Los Angeles coast, Catalina Island offers miles of pristine beaches, isolated coves, beautiful mountain trails, and a glimpse of nature found nowhere else in the world. On 2,000 acres surrounding the island's beautiful coastal town, Sherwood has developed ecologically-based analyses and master planning engineering services to support the client's 100-year conservation and development vision. Our studies include alternative transportation analysis and infrastructure design that can be applied to both the development site and the greater island, which will remain a nature conservancy. Our work will provide amenities for Catalina residents, while preserving a healthy ecosystem for the island's many visitors to enjoy. |
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Guangzhou Baietian Area Plan - Guangzhou, China
In conjunction with a world-class team of designers, including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Hargreaves Associates, Sherwood collaborated on this large-scale urban redevelopment master plan in China's rapidly growing Baietan Urban Area located on the banks of the Pearl River. Sherwood worked with the design team to develop a comprehensive sustainable infrastructure plan for the historic and rapidly evolving city of Guangzhou. Infrastructure elements included potable water, wastewater, reclaimed water, stormwater, power, gas, telecommunications, and solid waste. In addition, we developed a comprehensive stormwater management and flood control plan to mitigate extensive flooding hazards and sea level rise scenarios, improve severely deteriorated water quality, and resuscitate local ecosystems.
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Fisherville - Fisherville, Tennessee
Along with a high-profile team of consultants, Sherwood undertook a rapid but rigorous planning process to define a conceptual design for the town of Fisherville. The Master Plan included the development and costing of an "off-the-grid" site-wide wastewater design for the 600-acre town. The plan incorporated a stormwater master plan that provided retention and detention that was used conjunctively with tertiary treated wastewater effluent during the growing season and functioned as a groundwater recharge location in the winter months. Sherwood also developed stormwater mitigation measures that connected from individual lots and public parks to a large on-site treatment wetland which doubled as an aesthetic feature for the town center. |
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Middle Green Valley - Solano County, California
At Middle Green Valley, Sherwood teamed with a select group of consultants to prepare a Specific Plan for the rapidly growing community in the heart of Solano County. In addition to land analyses and LID stormwater mitigation, Sherwood developed a plan for large naturalized storage ponds that were designed to accommodate the seasonal fluctuation in irrigation demands while providing a "polishing" wetland for the Town's wastewater. Using a conjunctive approach to reuse wastewater, mixed with runoff and groundwater supplies, we were able to provide irrigation for all decorative landscaping and small farms. |
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Cattle Creek Crossing - Cattle Creek, Colorado
Forty-five minutes from world-famous Aspen, Colorado, Sherwood Design Engineers helped to develop a SmartCode master plan for a new community abutting the Roaring Fork River. The Cattle Creek project comprises 1000 units around an urban core with a school and mixed-density neighborhoods which include over thirty percent affordable housing. Using SmartCode methods, we are developed appropriate strategies for the different density transects of the community, including adopting traffic-calming and pedestrian-oriented streetscapes. Our plans also transformed an old rail corridor on the site into a wildlife corridor for local elk and other species. By enhancing this natural pathway with landscaping and stormwater features, we were able to incorporate it into the development as a working feature of this pristine landscape. |
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Punta Mita - Nayarit, Mexico
On the pacific coast of Mexico, in the pristine coastal community of Punta Mita, Sherwood collaborated with a team including Gluckman Maynor Architects and WRT Landscape Architects on the design of a resort spa community. Given the sensitive coastal habitat and limited water supply, we applied our expertise of water management and ecological conservation to reduce the development impact and enhance the landscape through natural water management processes. Working closely with the architect, we helped select circulation patterns and building footprint layout to minimize earthwork and land disturbance. By comparing capital costs and maintenance costs, we recommended water conservation and reuse measures including reduced irrigation, rainwater and wastewater capture and reuse. Through close design integration with WRT, we developed a water circulation system for natural water treatment, habitat restoration and landscape enhancement. |
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Panama Island - Pearl Island Archapelago, Panama
Located off the pacific coast of Panama, Sherwood collaborated with Hart Howerton to develop the master plan and phase one design detail for a new whole-island community. Sherwood led the effort as related to opportunity and constraints mapping, green infrastructure design and ecological planning while providing a sustainable approach to all infrastructure and circulation systems. Performance standards were developed in conjunction with the master planning documents for systems that will lead this island toward energy and water independence in the future. An island-wide stormwater management plan was developed that integrates landscape-based best management practices with the urban systems and local restoration efforts. |
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The Idaho Club - Sandpoint, Idaho
In a spellbinding setting surrounding the largest, deepest lake in Idaho, Sherwood helped to shape a comprehensive land-use plan for a 904 acre site on wooded, mountainous terrain. To preserve the remote feeling of the locale, we assisted with a master plan that nestles a full-service spa, 18-hole Jack Nicklaus signature golf course, and a rustic rock-and-timber clubhouse among the majestic pines surrounding the lake. We developed grading and drainage plans for the roads, designed an extensive network of hiking and biking trails, and established open space areas to improve access on the site while maintaining privacy for homes and cabins. |
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