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Sustainable Community Development
In designing communities, Macdonald Environmental Planning is very sensitive to what the community needs for bringing residents together. Pedestrian friendly planning and design includes bicycle and walking trails, community parks with water features and arbors and native plantings to help support wildlife and promote water conservation. Providing access to open natural spaces and activity areas reinforces a healthy lifestyle and healthy community.
Green Belt Development
Providing interlocking green spaces for gathering and accessing the more active community parks helps to ‘promote the community internally‘. This weaving of natural elements of the immediate surroundings into the newly designed community combined with restoring natural systems that once existed makes for a more sustainable community.
Multipurpose Community Development
Creating a variety of spaces that offer active, passive, recreational, and educational experiences add quality to the residents living experience.
Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED)
Our deep commitment to sustainable practices leads our Neighborhood Developments towards the use of soft methods of stormwater management or ‘keeping the pipes out of the ground‘. Also, the use of native plant materials and providing pedestrian friendly pathway systems is essential to the environmental vitality of the each community we touch.
Our featured community projects:

Hospice of Washington County: We prioritized therapeutic landscape elements to create spaces of respite and reflection for patients, family, and staff.
Rose Villa: