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CENTRAL PARK DEVELOPMENT
This project was a 120-acre multi-use development which included
commercial, retail, and residential parcels. The scope of the project for
POD, Inc. was the development of landscape guidelines for the complex,
planted boulevards, lake and stream features, placement of tennis courts,
swimming pools, spas, and a site jogging path. The project construction
was phased with the commercial/retail parcels developed first.
Construction drawings were developed to include hardscape layout,
grading, drainage, landscape, and irrigation items. Bidding and
construction of the first phase followed.

GRISSOM ROAD STORAGE
This project was a 35 acre multi-use development which included
commercial, retail, a convenient store, outdoor storage facility, parkland
and detention ponds. The scope included: preparing a woodland
delineation plan, and master plan development. The project is currently
under permitting with construction starting in 2007.

HORTON PROPERTIES LAND USE STUDY
Huntsville, Alabama. This project was a 1272 -acre multi-use development
Land-Use Study that included location of commercial, retail, residential
parcels and a Golf Course. The scope of the project was to assist the client
in studying land uses and zoning issues prior being annexed into the City
of Huntsville Alabama.

JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS
San Antonio, Texas. As the director of landscape architecture for the firm of
Ford, Powell & Carson Architects and Planners, Inc., Cullen Coltrane
assisted an associated architectural firm in master planning and
implementing a the 28-acre campus for the San Antonio Jewish
community. The project consists of a 120,000 square foot multi-use
building. Uses include office space, an elementary school, childcare
facility, senior citizen center, mental health services, health club, library,
and a holocaust museum. Outdoor recreational amenities include seven
tennis courts, three playgrounds, combination softball and soccer field, two
swimming pools and a network of nature trails.Siting of the program
elements without stripping the natural topography and landscape were
the primary site issues. Minimal tree and understory planting removal
utilized the native vegetation to blend the facility into is surroundings.
Minimal tree removal also reduced installation of new landscaping,
providing an existing low maintenance landscape approach that reduced
landscape and site irrigation costs.

LAKELINE DEVELOPMENT
This master plan was created as a marketing tool to illustrate development
potential of a tract of land based its zoning at the time. Land uses included
high density residential, commercial, office, retail, a regional shopping
center, and transit facilities. Major landforms were identified and converted
into detention ponds, hike and bike trails, and other site amenities.

MARINE CREEK TECHNOLOGY PARK
Austin, Texas. The Master Plan was developed to conceptualize a multi-use
Technology Park. Uses included corporate campuses, retail developments,
multifamily and a regional transit facility. The project also included
development of landscape guidelines planted boulevards and trails, lake
and stream features.

TOWN OF NORTHCOTE
Huntsville, Alabama. This 800 acre tract consists of a 560 acre lowland
site and a 240 acre mountain site located in Northwest Huntsville,
Alabama. The study consisted of two phases: 1) data collection and analysis
and 2) land use plan/master plan development. During the first phase the
property was researched and analyzed in terms of demographics, roadway
infrastructure, schools, site geography, geology, zoning, utility supply and
demand, and drainage. Once the analysis was completed the concept plan
embraced a mixture of up-scale residential, multifamily, office, retail and
recreational facilities within a traditional town format. The town of
Northcote is distinguished by its decreased dependency on automobiles and
an increase emphasis on a pedestrian life style, fostering a sense of community.