Get the Lay of the Land
The overall size of your development project isn’t the only important factor for how your project can be designed. The shape and slope of your lots also plays a big role in determining how to build, and creating a design ill-suited for your lot means either problems down the line or added costs to alter the lot before development.
Lots Over Layout
A Malibu land development project isn’t worth anything if nobody wants to move in once it is completed. Although it can be tempting to lay out an appealing array of streets first, then designing your homes around them, you are better off reversing it. Identify and lay out appealing lots for homes, then layout streets in order to most-efficiently service those lots. Your future buyers don’t want to have a confusing labyrinth waiting after a long day at work, but more importantly they want to love the home they get to when their commute is done.
Design a Cohesive Community
Efficiency is everything in land development. Always keep a logical flow of pedestrian traffic in mind when laying out your neighborhoods, and make use of natural occurrences like stormwater in ways which allow you to gain value from the needed act of moving it away from homes.
Stand Out from the Crowd
Although you want to avoid being all over the place with your design as it lowers efficiency, that doesn’t mean you can’t have some fun. Adding your own creative and unique touches to the community makes it pop for potential buyers. Nobody wants to live in a development of cookie cutter homes with no wow factor. A successful Malibu land development project strikes a happy balance between efficient design and eye-catching flourishes.