Not actually in the City of Ithaca, but in the Town of Ithaca fairly close to Ithaca College (on South Hill), from the Ithaca Times:
Town Considers Sketch Plan for Troy Road Cluster Development
Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 10:48 pm | Updated: 12:06 pm, Wed Nov 19, 2014.
By Michael Nocella
reporter@ithacatimes.com
ITHACA—Developer Robert Bates of Leon N. Weiner & Associates of Wilmington, Del. is moving forward with his proposal for a 130-unit cluster development on top of a 63-acre parcel of land in the town of Ithaca located along Troy Road between Coddington and East King roads.
Bates, during a Tuesday, Nov. 18 town planning board meeting, was joined by Whitham Planning and Design, LLC Principal Scott Whitham and Principal of Stream Collaborative Architecture and Landscape Architecture DPC Noah Demarest in the unveiling of a sketch plan for the project. Whitham sent the board a letter to help prep Bates’ vision for the project.
“Currently zoned as Low Density Residential,” Whitham said in the letter, “this property can, in our opinion, better meet the town of Ithaca’s objectives as set in the comprehensive plan by a cluster subdivision approach. It is our goal to create a more sustainable and dynamic development than the current zoning calls for, with smaller, denser residential footprints that both conserve environmentally sensitive areas and create a new sense of neighborhood and identifiable community.”
According to the project’s overview, it will seek to provide a mix of housing types within a designated build zone consisting of 30 to 40 percent of the site, while “conserving and protecting environmentally sensitive areas in the remaining 60 to 70 percent.” During Tuesday night’s presentation, Bates and Demarest stressed that the project would focus on green project initiatives, with sustainable programs such as the community having its own orchard and farm, along with a solar presence. Demarest added that the project is in the very early phases of a sketch plan, with only its general footprint being laid out up to this point. He said the planning board’s feedback would help with the actually design of the units, but that at this point, the team has looked at other cluster development projects such as EcoVillage at Ithaca and Belle Sherman Cottages for inspiration.
That inspiration will come to fruition when Bates and his team presents a site plan for the project in the coming months.
Here's the link:
http://www.ithaca.com/news/town-cons...882f9abe4.html