Mark Allen Lakins

PUD Undisclosed

Market Square Architects · 100 acres

Entitlements · Concept · Permitting
The green at the centre of the district

A hundred acres- forty of it already spoken for, sixty of it raw. The job was to turn that into something a city would approve and a market would build, and the drawing is not what decides that. The zoning does.

The whole argument is on one sheet

The land was rezoned to two form-based districts, CD-4 and CD-5, and CD-5 was pushed to allow more density. That single move is what the rest of the plan hangs on: build-to lines within twelve feet of the street, three to five storeys where the street can carry it, parking garages set at least twenty feet back so they stop being the front of the building.

Under it sits a kit of five types- house, townhouse, apartment, mixed-use shopfront, general commercial- so that density arrives as a set of buildings people recognise rather than one object. Roughly 1,280 units in total, plus retail, a hotel, and a sports complex.

Parkland is not landscaping

The plan dedicates 11.7 acres of parkland against a requirement of 5.7, and the parks are public and connected rather than left over. In an entitlement that is not generosity. It is the thing you can point at in a council meeting when somebody asks what the neighborhood gets.

Thirteen acres of it were carried further as workforce housing- 310 units at one, two and three bedrooms.

Type
Master plan · planned unit development
Site
100 acres
Zoning
Rezoned CD-4 and CD-5, CD-5 for added density
Programme
~1,280 units, retail, hotel, sports complex
Parkland
11.7 acres dedicated against 5.7 required
Workforce housing
13 acres, 310 units
Firm
Market Square Architects
My role
Entitlements, Concept, Permitting

The entitlement, in three drawings

Credits

Architect
Market Square Architects
Renderings
Market Square Architects
Mark Allen Lakins
Entitlements · Concept · Permitting