Goodyear, Arizona

Client: Urban Fabric Builders

Master Planning | Entitlement | Site Planning | Thematic Design

Hadley Design was engaged by Urban Fabric Builders to plan, design and entitlement DeRosier Ranch in Goodyear, Arizona. Hadley Design created a “Pocket Neighborhood” community with multiple pocket neighborhoods organized around “commons” open spaces while “corraling” the car. The community was also designed around a major central park and clubhouse facility with a resort style pool complex as well as mixed-use “neighborhood commercial”.

The community design for DeRosier Ranch started with identifying a “pattern language” or a list of desired patterns that shape and define the community. The patterns are derived from the surrounding conditions, sound planning and design principles and the desire to create a community that is viable, vibrant and lives well. Streets, walks and greens were designed to relate and connect, creating a “necklace” of parks, green spaces and greenways as a haven for pedestrian activity. This network of walkways and the “corralling” of the car were identified patterns guiding development of the framework for the master plan for the overall community. The next design level was to create Pocket Neighborhoods within the overall framework, forming a scale of sociability and a self- managed community. These pocket clusters of homes share outdoor spaces, a commons framed by human scaled architecture. The patterns and design elements of these neighborhoods are rooted in place making, in creating that sense of Home, Human Scale and Proportion, Community and Building. These patterns shaped and guided the planning process, becoming the “design tenets” for the community.