Residential Development

Bella Vista

East Winchester Boulevard, Los Gatos, CA
Client: Robson Homes/Santa Clara Development

• Partnered with Robson Homes, MVE Architects, and SWA
• 5.5 acre subdivision located above Vasona County Park
• 32 single family homes with a private pocket park
• Site plan design for preservation of significant trees

HMH provided consultation through the entitlement process including PD Rezoning, and Architectural Review. HMH also provided topographic survey, mapping and on-site civil engineering. For this project HMH designed a unique Infiltration Trench System (permeable gutter) that provided storm water treatment for the site.

The Ranch on Silver Creek

Silver Creek Valley Road, San Jose, CA
Client: William Lyons Homes

• 538 Single Family Residential Units
• 18-hole golf course
• Design needed to respond to environmentally sensitive habitat
• Hillside development with complex grading design

The Ranch is a 580 acre master planned hillside community made up of four residential neighborhoods with detached luxury homes, townhomes, duets, nature trails, and abundant open space. An 18-hole championship golf course with water features, elevated tees and greens and a clubhouse winds in and out of the neighborhoods. HMH Provided Planning and Civil Engineering services taking the project through a complex entitlement process, development of construction plans and construction support. Additional coordination was required in designing for the preservation of endangered plant and animal species and existing PG&E gas and electric power transmission facilities crossing through the site.

Del Rosa at Miramonte

Basking Ridge Ave, San Jose, CA
Client: KB Home, Lennar Homes

• Teamed with two developers to complete project
• 215 single family attached homes split by developers
• Built along the edge of the foothills
• Coordinated retaining walls and grading challenges
• Prepared landscape design for parking lot, sales office, and model homes.

HMH worked closely with three entities to complete this project that has high visibility from Highway 101. HMH managed the complex project coordination between the master development partnership made up of KB Home and Lennar Homes as well the individual portions of the home builder's projects. Services provided included Conceptual Master Plans and Site Plans, Entitlement Management and Processing, Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Construction Staking.

Hampton Park

Oakland Road, San Jose, CA
Client: Taylor Morrison Homes

• Underutilized industrial land conversion to new neighborhood
• 151 Single Family Residential Attached Units
• Combined open space and water quality treatment areas
• Major street and median improvements

HMH helped SummerHill Homes and Taylor Morrision Homes turn underutilized industrial land into residential land uses to create a new community in San Jose. The two separate parcels and its unique property configuration presented complex site plan challenges. HMH was able to maximize unit yield while providing two significant useable common open space areas. The project included the widening of Oakland Road and installing a new median island. Services provided included Conceptual Master Plans and Site Plans, Entitlement Management and Processing, Storm Water Quality Plans, Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Construction Staking.

Kingston Village

King Road, San Jose, CA
Client: KB Home

• 78 High Density Detached Tuck Under Style Homes
• Project street was designed for the installation of a future flood bypass box culvert
• Intricate conform grade relationships for this infill project required retaining walls at many of the property lines
• Tuckunder Architectural design required complex fine grading coordination

This new home development emphasizes family and community with porches and sidewalks in the front and attached garages in the back alley. The color, shape and material choices for the landscaping elements reflect the architectural vision created for the buildings. Successful coordination of the drainage and grading considerations resulted in full integration of the retaining walls during construction. Services provided included Conceptual Master Plans and Site Plans, Entitlement Management and Processing, Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Construction Staking.

Morgan Lane / Linfield Drive

Linfield Road, Menlo Park, CA
Client: Taylor Morrison Homes

• Underutilized industrial land conversion to new neighborhood
• Project was designed around existing mature trees
• Street improvements included large decorative median
• Project anchored by custom decorative monumentation

HMH worked with Taylor Morrison Homes to create a new integrated neighborhood on an underutilized commercial lot in Menlo Park. Carefully planned around mature cedars, oaks, pines and magnolias, the site plan was developed to maximize the number of lots and carefully balance the open space. By centralizing the open space, playground areas and open playing fields were created. The retention and protection mature trees resulted in an established project with character.

Boulevard

Santa Clara, CA
Client: Shea Homes

• Industrial conversion to residential neighborhood
• 131 Single family attached residential units
• Anchored by a central park with a play structure and active turf area
• Saved and relocated existing trees and palms

This former Underwriter Laboratory Facility provided and opportunity for HMH to create a new neighborhood of that bridged retail and commercial businesses. HMH was able to develop a site plan that provided a good street presence to the neighborhood while also providing livable interior environment. HMH provided Conceptual Master Plans and Site Plans, Entitlement Management and Processing, Storm Water Quality Plans, Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Construction Staking.

Vanderbilt

Winchester Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA
Client: SummerHill Homes

• New Infill Project of Mixed housing types
• 74 Single Family Detached Tuck Under Homes
• 36 Single Family Detached Traditional Homes
• New 1 Acre City Park

A new community of 110 single family detached homes located in Santa Clara close to shopping and transportation connections. This project will combine two housing types to increase density in the area and also blend into the existing neighborhood. Part of the project will be dedicated to a city park that will include a tot lot, game tables, picnic tables and semi active turf area. The common area landscape will be planted with new shade trees, accent plants and architectural monuments. Services provided included Conceptual Master Plans and Site Plans, Stormwater Compliance, Entitlement Management and Processing, Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Construction Staking.

Village Square

West San Carlos Street, San Jose, CA
Client: Summer Hill Homes

• 136 Single Family Attached residential units
• Infill reuse of an old restaurant site.
• New 1 acre private park with integrated water quality solution
• Architecture along San Carlos included Work / Live units.

Located on the old Lou's Village Restaurant this project infused much needed residential units in the West San Carlos Neighborhood Business District. Village Square Live-Work units that front West San Carlos blends a commercial frontage with new homes in this urban infill project. A community park includes a play structure, mailbox kiosk, bike racks, barbeques, picnic tables and the central lawn is also functions as a vegetated storm water treatment area. Services provided included Conceptual Master Plans and Site Plans, Stormwater Compliance, Entitlement Management and Processing, Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Construction Staking.

Trellis

Alberta Ave, Sunnyvale, CA
Client: Centex Homes

• 55 Single Family Detached residential units
• Infill reuse of an old mobile home park
• Hybrid sidewalk / water quality treatment area.
• HOA maintained front yard landscape design

A once dilapidated mobile home park was turned into a new community in an established neighborhood of Sunnyvale. A new private street connected the new neighborhood to the existing homes in the area. The new homes have an expanded side yard use area through a reciprocal use easement over the adjacent property owners land. This additional side yard allowed for creative space planning and access for the home owner to utilize. Services provided included Conceptual Master Plans and Site Plans, Entitlement Management and Processing, Stormwater Compliance, Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Construction Staking.