Planning
I have worked on a variety of sustainable master planning projects in the Caribbean ranging from an eco-resort, an eco-industrial park, a nature park, residential second home developments, and agro-tourism attractions. Below is an overview of some of these projects and my role in their planning.
2007 Sweet Bottom Estates – 18 Acres, 50 Villas
Planning Team Member, GIS, CAD, Graphics, Photography
Member of the two-person planning team responsible for master planning the Sweet Bottom Estates expansion; a phase-one 18-acre development of 50 fractional villas. I managed the project's environmental consultants, was responsible for GIS mapping, designing the project's natural non-mechanical wastewater treatment system, and was responsible for the production of all project graphics.
2006–2007 Southgate Crossing – 250 Unit Home Development, St. Croix USVI
Lead Planner, GIS, CAD, Architectural Design, Graphics
I was the lead professional on this project and was responsible for the sites layout, GIS mapping, architectural design for the project's community center, model villas, and designing the project's sub-surface vegetated sand bed wastewater treatment system. Southgate Crossing was planned to be St. Croix's first sustainable residential development project that would generate a significant amount of its electrical needs from roof top solar, use a non-mechanical wastewater treatment system to reclaim all wastewater for on-site irrigation, and include a small district for commercial services.
2007 Vista Pariso Eco Resort – 265 Acres, 140 Villas
Planning Team Member, GIS, CAD, Graphics, Photography
I was a member of the two-person planning team responsible for the initial master plan for the Vista Pariso Eco Resort located on a 265-acre site in the Dominican Republic. The design program called for utilization of local building material and skilled labor, a hospitality training program for workers drawn from the town of Paraiso, 60 two-bedroom resort villas, 80 three-bedroom residential villas, on-site solar electrical generation, and a non-mechanical vegetated sand bed wastewater treatment system with reclaimed water used for on-site irrigation.
2004–2006 St. Renaissance Park Master Plan – 1,200 Acre Brownfield
Planning Team Member, GIS, CAD, Graphics, Photography
Member of the two-person planning team responsible for the initial design charrettes and coordination of engineering & environmental consultants. The 1,200-acre brownfield, formerly St. Croix Alumina, was purchased in 2004 by Energy Answers Corporation with the intent of developing the site into an "Eco-Industrial Park". The proposed redevelopment of the site evaluated such diverse activities as a cement storage facility, an EPA certified ship breaking & recycling dry-dock, a waste to energy facility (WTE), concrete block production utilizing ash from the WTE facility, an aquaculture production and seafood processing plant, cruise ship refueling docks, boat building & ship repair drydock, an 18-hole golf course, a rum distillery, a nature hiking trail on the property's perimeter, and more.
2001–2004 Southgate Pond – 100-acre Nature Park
Planning Team Member, GIS, CAD, Graphics, Photography
I was a member of the two-person planning team which was responsible for conducting both the community design charrettes and managing a team of the architectural & environmental consultants. The 100-acre site contained a natural salt pond, turtle nesting beaches, an abandoned model condominium in a flood plain, the second largest red mangrove forest on St. Croix, and was home to a wide variety of tree and ground nesting birds. The project's goal was to develop a master plan that would protect and enhance the site's natural resources, allow traditional community uses such as camping and beach fishing, create a visitor center that would also contain classrooms for use by local schools for natural science education, and create a new tourism attraction, bird watching, for island visitors.