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Cash-strapped builder: Green homes project still a go
October 7th, 2009, 3:00 am · 4 Comments · posted by Marilyn Kalfus, real estate reporter
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Despite financial woes, a developer is moving forward with plans to build what could be Huntington Beach’s first green residential project.
Hearthside Homes is seeking the city’s approval for a single-family planned unit development at Bolsa Chica Street and Los Patos Avenue. The project is near the Brightwater development, which Hearthside, owned by California Coastal Communities, also is building.
California Coastal announced last Friday that it missed a $1.7 million debt payment but is working with the lender to restructure its loans. The company reported in August that it would not be able to repay at least $57 million due over the next 11 months unless it could restructure its debt.
Ed Mountford, senior vice president of Hearthside Homes, said this week that the proposed 22-home development, The Ridge, is still on track.
The lots at The Ridge would range from 5,114 to 12,250 square feet. The 2-story 4- and 5-bedroom homes would be 2,700 – 4,200 square feet and have 2- or 3-car garages.
Green features are to include solar panel roofing, Energy Star-rated homes, drought-tolerant landscaping and a storm drain system designed to capture water so it can percolate into the ground, acting as a groundwater recharging system.
A city report says the builder would arrange for an archeologist and a Native American monitor to be present during ‘ground disturbing’ construction, and that work would be stopped and the coroner notified in the event that human remains are discovered.
The development of Brightwater has been controversial partly because it sits on a site believed to be an ancient burial site and village once shared by the Gabrielino-Tongva and Juaneño Band of Mission Indians.
A news report last April said that over the last 30 years, archeologists discovered 174 ancient American Indian remains, half of them unearthed in the period from mid-2006 to April, 2008. Human remains can mean whole sets or a fragment belonging to a person.
City reports on The Ridge are available for public review now. A hearing before the Planning Commission on whether an Environmental Impact Report should also be done is scheduled for Oct. 27.
The reports on the project are HERE. Those who want to provide comments to should submit them to Jennifer Villasenor, Associate Planner, city of Huntington Beach Planning Department, 2000 Main Street, Huntington Beach, California 92648 by Friday at 5 p.m.
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Great concept of designing green, but when I saw 4,200 s.ft all I could think of was Al Gore.
JR nailed it.
Anything that size needs two average sized families in it to be sustainable.
Excuse me, Marilyn Kalfus, but there is no such thing as a “Native American.”
This politically correct term for the American Indian (and Eskimo) was coined by a U.S. Census Department bureaucrat in 1970. Like the catch-all “Pacific Islander,” it lumps peoples of disparate ethnicities, nations, or tribes together and deprives them of their individual identities.
Everyone in the Western Hemisphere came from another part of the world at some point in history.
Thanks for your post Richard….Are you suggesting we simply refer to them as “Americans?” If not, I’d like to be reffered to as an “English Irish Mexican American.” In my opinion, America is still a melting pot and the terms “African American,” “Native American,” “Sioux American,” “_______ American” are dead to me. We are simply Americans.