North Hills Design Concept

pc_working.jpgThe idea for North Hills evolves from the advanced design forms of Traditional Neighborhood Development, New Towns, Master Planned Communities, and Transit Oriented Development.

The North Hills Master Plan is being designed using the concepts of health, wellness and sustainability to help the region achieve regional housing goals for all income levels and improve the jobs/housing balance.  It will be based on extensive community input.

  1. The North Hills Master Plan is not a contiguous addition to an existing developed area. It has its own open space greenbelt. The plan is for five or six villages where each village will be a distinct environment surrounded by permanent open space.
  1. North Hills fits into the natural landscape. By its being surrounded by open space, North Hills will fit into the natural landscape. The planning will focus on the natural topography.
  1. North Hills has a Center. Each North Hills Village is planned as a walkable community with a village center that will provide a sense of community identity based on shared uses including a shared economic, social and cultural environment. The Plan will cluster walkable networks to educational facilities, recreational facilities, shops, restaurants, commercial development, and public service facilities. When a village has a school the school will be connected by walkways to the village center.

  2. North Hills is sustainable. Traditional rural communities sustained themselves within their environmental and physical limits. North Hills, as part of its vision of Health and Wellness, will be a model of sustainability - employing energy efficient buildings, water conservation and reuse, waste recycling, and walkability.

  3. Each Village of North Hills will have its own unique feel. Its central Core will have a street network and developed streetscape. The scale and character of the villages will flow from formal features and higher density at their centers to lower density at their edges