It seems so many big houses are going up and so little green space, there's going to be too much impervious ground cover.

This space used to have two houses on the front. Then a developer, James Mathias, purchased it and was going to build 48 apartment units. But he was patient enough to allow us to acquire the funds to buy the land.

The only limiting factor is water but with more town houses and flats, there won't be space for lawns to be watered and if the water becomes scarce, the price will go higher and everyone will only use that quantity that is needed. The answer is technology.

They are going to be building the same houses. (After driving around the township,) my conclusion is: You aren't getting much affordable housing now.

Our philosophy was to maximize the water views, to keep the open space that's typical of carriage houses and to keep the feeling of a Tuscan farmhouse, which is obviously what the architect in 1910 tried to do.

Anything from grass to bushes to wildflowers will grow in the earth above the houses about the second year after building,