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In an effort to create a more sustainable community, we’ve incorporated a number of green features.  We’ve clustered our homes to preserve more than ¾ of our property in its natural state.  We’ve built adobe brick homes with metal roofs that are well insulated and energy efficient.  We’ve oriented them to take advantage of passive solar principles and equipped them all with solar hot water heaters.  Our landscaping features permaculture design and an emphasis on native plants.  We utilize a wetlands and underground irrigation system for wastewater recycling.  For more information on these and other environmental community design features, please see the links below.