Planning & Analysis Category

The Village at Galisteo Basin Preserve - HONOR AWARD
Site Workshop

Jury Comments:
The Village at Galisteo Basin Preserve is recognized for environmental planning and village urban design.

This plan presents a model for the careful balance of conservation and development. Through thoughtful planning, a significant landscape is protected with an appropriately sited new village. The plan advances environmental, economic, and social goals simultaneously. The plan is based on a suitability analysis of environmental opportunities and constraints that shapes one structure of the village development. The landscape architects organize the plan clearly both in writing and visually.

The jury appreciated the thoroughness of the plan. Some 12,000 acres of important landscape are conserved, a 965-unit mixed-use, mixed-income village is proposed for development within a carefully sited 300-acre area. The focused development approach is contrasted with “business as usual” development to illustrate the wisdom of good landscape planning.