Aerial rendering of the proposed garden-style residential community, showing repeating two-story buildings around a central clubhouse, pool and playground.

Rendering Residential

Multifamily RezoningA garden-style residential community, master-planned on land we rezoned from agricultural to residential.

Ag → ResRezoned from agricultural to residential

3Repeating building types

5+Community amenities

The project

A new residential neighborhood, unlocked by a successful rezoning.

Paper Plane Architecture led the rezoning and design of a new garden-style residential community. The site began as agricultural land; we secured its rezoning to residential and then master-planned a full apartment community across it — a repeating kit of two-story buildings organized around shared open space and amenities.

Three building prototypes repeat across the site to keep construction efficient while varying the streetscape, wrapped around a central amenity spine: a clubhouse, pool, playground, and dog park, with landscaped parking courts and pedestrian walks connecting it all. The result is a complete neighborhood designed from the entitlement up.

Type: Garden-style multifamily residential
Entitlement: Rezoning — agricultural → residential
Amenities: Clubhouse, pool, playground, dog park, courtyards
Scope: Rezoning & entitlements; master plan; architecture

The entitlement

From farmland to neighborhood

The defining move on this project happened before a single building was designed: changing what the land was legally allowed to become.

Before

Agricultural land

An undeveloped agricultural parcel — zoned for farming, not housing. Building a residential community here first required a change of use.

After

Residential community

We prepared and won the rezoning to residential, then master-planned the apartment community shown here. Aerial rendering of the community master plan across the rezoned site.

Rezoning work like this ties architecture to the approvals process — site capacity, density, parking, open space, and neighborhood fit all have to line up before a plan can move forward.

Master plan

One site, organized around its amenities

Colored site plan showing rows of Building Types 1, 2 and 3, a central clubhouse and pool, a kids area, a dog park, parking, and two entrances. — **Site plan.** Three building types are arrayed around a central spine — clubhouse, pool, and kids area at the heart, a dog park to the east, and two site entrances feeding the parking courts.

Aerial rendering of the full community from above. — **The community** across the rezoned parcel.

Wide aerial rendering of the community in daylight haze. — **Scale & setting** against the open landscape.

Renderings

Streets, homes & open space

Design renderings of the proposed community — building fronts, courtyards, and the shared landscape between them.

Sunset rendering of a landscaped pedestrian courtyard between two rows of two-story homes. — **Courtyard walk** between buildings at sunset.

Street-level rendering of a two-story residential building with brick and wood-accent siding. — **Building frontage** & entries.

Close rendering of a two-story building front with a gabled center bay. — **Type detail** — gabled center bay.

Dusk rendering of a row of residential buildings along the street. — **Streetscape** at dusk.

Rendering of a parking court framed by residential buildings. — **Parking court** between buildings.

Street rendering with a small gabled building and a fenced dog park beyond. — **Neighborhood edge** & dog park.

Community amenities

A shared heart for the neighborhood

Rendering of the resort-style pool with shaded dining tables and residents. — **Pool & terrace.** A resort-style pool with shaded seating anchors the center of the plan.

Rendering of the pool deck with loungers and umbrellas, playground beyond. — **Pool deck** & sun loungers.

Rendering of the children's playground with climbing structures and slides. — **Kids area** & playground.

Rendering of the fenced dog park in a central island between parking courts. — **Dog park** with agility features.

Clubhouse

Reception, a large multipurpose room, gym, kitchen, locker rooms, and management offices.

Pool & terrace

A central pool with a paved terrace and shaded dining.

Playground

A children's play area beside the clubhouse.

Dog park

A fenced run with agility features and seating.

Courtyards

Landscaped pedestrian walks between building rows.

Outdoor seating & BBQ

Gathering spaces woven through the open space.

Building types

Three prototypes, repeated across the site

Type 1

A long two-story bar building with stacked flats and central stair cores.

Type 2

A paired two-story block with townhouse-style and flat units around shared stairs.

Type 3

A compact, symmetrical two-story building clustered around central circulation.

Type 1 first-floor and second-floor plans showing stacked units, kitchens, baths and central stairs. — **Type 1** — first and second floor plans.

Type 2 first-floor and second-floor plans with paired units and shared stair cores. — **Type 2** — first and second floor plans.

Type 3 first-floor and second-floor plans, symmetrical around central circulation. — **Type 3** — first and second floor plans.

Clubhouse floor plan with reception, a 899 SF multipurpose room, gym, kitchen, locker rooms, restrooms and manager office. — **Clubhouse.** Reception and a large multipurpose room, plus gym, kitchen, locker rooms, restrooms, and management offices.

What it demonstrates

From raw land to a ready-to-build community.

This project shows Paper Plane Architecture working at both ends of development: winning the rezoning that made housing possible on an agricultural parcel, and then master-planning and designing the community that fills it.

It reflects the range the work demands — entitlements and zoning strategy, site and open-space planning, a repeatable set of building types, and a full amenity program — brought together into one coherent neighborhood.