Location:
Pajaro, CA

Use:
Affordable Multi-Family Flats and Townhomes

Over Ground Level Parking

Facts:
• Density - 25 DU/AC
• Plans - 607 - 1,195 SF
• Units - 63 DU
• Unit Mix:
    13% - 1 Bed
    35% - 2 Bed
    49% - 3 Bed
    3% - 4 Bed
• Parking Ratio: 1.89 / unit Sustainable Design Program
   Infill
• Photovoltaic panels create a net-zero for common use areas
• Indoor air quality
• High efficiency water boiler

Awards:
• 2007 Gold Nugget Merit Award
   Best Affordable Project Under 30 DU/AC

• 2007 BALA

  HUD Secretary's Award for Excellence

Description:

The Nuevo Amanecer apartment community is an almost unprecedented affordable work-force housing development. Built as housing for farm workers in the Salinas Valley, this environmentally-friendly development replaces the derelict housing formerly occupying the site. While being larger than the surrounding buildings, the development integrates well by drawing inspiration from the surrounding agricultural buildings. Developed by South County Housing, simple massing and standard detailing make this building economical and echoes the utilitarian nature of the surrounding farm buildings. Active solar panels offset electricity costs and provide emergency backup for lighting common areas. Energy savings exceed Title 24 by 20 percent. Awards include Best in American Living HUD Secretary’s Award for Excellence, Builder’s Choice Merit Award and Gold Nugget Award of Merit. Additionally, The Center for Community Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley selected Nuevo Amanecer as a finalist for the 2009 I. Donald Terner Prize, a biennale award that recognizes successful and innovative affordable housing projects and their leadership teams.

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