Project Phasing
The project is designed to be built in phases, starting from the center of the development and working out from there. Click on the image to see a larger view.
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Pocket Neighborhood Design
The vision for Sycamore Ridge is inspired by Ross Chapin’s “Pocket Neighborhood” concept – a collection of residential “pockets” or “pods”, containing houses centered around shared green space and community amenities. In Sycamore Ridge, amenities will include a clubhouse, visitor parking, a community garden, detached storage facilities, numerous pavilions, sitting areas, park benches, a primitive play area with fitness features, and large open spaces for free play.
Community Center
Pedestrian / Event Path
North Pocket
Davis Street
Community Layout
Oak Design Front
Oak Design Back
Elm Design Front
Elm Design Back
Walnut Design Front
Walnut Design Back
Covered Outdoor Space
Oak Living/Dining
Oak Living Room
Oak Kitchen
Oak Kitchen
Master Bedroom
Master Bathroom
Laundry/Mudroom
Hallway/Stairs
Nested Housing Plan
While community, recreation and social interaction are all paramount themes in Sycamore Ridge, personal space is also heavily integrated into the fabric its design. Using layers such as landscaping, garden fences, and building offsets, these homes are intentionally nested together to create cozy, private outdoor living areas.
Eco-Positive Design
The core design tenets for this development center around high efficiency buildings and processes, as well as progressive and environmentally friendly infrastructure. This doesn’t just help protect the future of the planet, it also saves homeowners on their heating, cooling, and electric bills. Sycamore Ridge will include:
- Geothermal Heating and Cooling (all homes)
- Available PV Solar package (optional add-on)
- Neighborhood EV charging
- Home EV charging (optional add-on)
- Community composting and Community Garden
- Tree preservation & minimal site disturbance
- Native plants, trees, and rain gardens
Live Smarter
Added up, this means a low cost of ownership and an environment to foster outdoor gathering and recreation.
50%
50% reduced heating and cooling cost for homeowners. All homes will have Geothermal Heating and Cooling resulting in significant savings
8 kw
Each home owner may opt for an up to 8kw solar generation package
Our Future Lancaster
The future is bright. The Sycamore Ridge Community in Sunnyside is truly special, and one that intentionally paves the way for an exciting future for Lancaster. Sycamore Ridge has immense alignment with the vision and goals of Lancaster County’s Places2040, as well as the City’s OurFuture Lancaster Comprehensive Plan, given it’s proximity (the red arrow is our location) to one of the main focal points: the Conestoga River. Exciting new river clean up initiatives, education, and recreation infrastructure such as the High Foundation’s Environmental Center and Nature Preserve, greenway trails, public river access, and other similar river amenities are in the works.
Beyond delivering on the immense need for more housing, Sycamore Ridge directly achieves the City’s goals for establishing an equitable Eco District with its low-impact and sustainable design features such as green features, renewable energy, solar orientation, low lot coverage, water/sewer facilities that do not require additional City infrastructure.
Sycamore Ridge is NOT…
As we look around, we see housing developments sprouting up everywhere. We see our farmland being rezoned and sacrificed for parking lots, and generic housing that is oversized, overpriced, and underbuilt. We see our infrastructure sacrificed, too. Traffic is getting worse and our utility costs continue to increase. This tired housing template with very few trees, sidewalks to nowhere, and stormwater basins named as “greenspace” aren’t places designed for building community, nor are they safe places for our children to play.
Sycamore Ridge is NOT another cookie cutter community. We want to try something different. And we want YOU to join us on this journey.
Here’s how we’re different:
- R3 housing in an R3 zone, using existing residential lots in an existing neighborhood.
- Reclaim and cleanup of land formally used as an auto salvage facility.
- Housing sized to match and compliment the existing housing stock.
- Development sized to not overburden or require additional municipal infrastructure (water, sewer, traffic)
- Extensive tree preservation and minimal land disturbance (we’re saving over 400 trees and planting nearly 200 more).
- Pocket Neighborhood design with common amenities to promote outdoor activity and safe community interaction
FAQ’s
Yes, there will be a Home Owner’s Association to manage community amenities and shared spaces. We aim to keep the fee as low as possible. Our current estimates are coming in around $100/mo.
To some extent the Community IS one big amenity, but specifically we are planning lots of shared interior walking paths, a primitive playground, community garden, fire pits, small gather pavilions, and of course, access to the Conestoga River.
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No. This is a zero-lot-line planned community, which means homeowners own their entire house (interior and exterior), as well as a portion of the overall community land that is associated to their house.
Yes, there are a total of 16 parking spaces for visitors.