Westview Village is a low-income housing development based on conventional neighborhood designing principles. A background study of Westview Village provided an understanding of the relationship of buildings within the immediate area. The surrounding area’s thriving diversity together with existing Westview Village resources was the foundation for the masterplan.

Rangwala Associates teamed with KTGY and Amador Whittle Architect, Inc, to conduct a charrette focusing on the implementation of key guiding principles of traditional neighborhood design. Community feedback and series of design efforts inspired ideas for a final masterplan.

A shared vision for a new neighborhood implements six guiding principles that regain the essence of traditional neighborhood design with key aspects that emphasize the streets redesigned to facilitate pedestrian safety, the preservation of trees, the creation of block patterns, articulation of well-defined open space and connectivity, and pursuing sustainable design supervised by LEED requirements. Collectively, the outcome of a final masterplan emphasizes the design of what the neighborhood can become and ultimately defining the ethos of the Westside Community.

The Westview Masterplan provides a diverse set of building types, including courtyard housing, bungalow courts, rowhouses, combination of flats and townhouses, and economically devised flex space units with small businesses on the ground floor and living spaces on the upper floor. These units offer a variety of living arrangments in the form of single, duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes that range from two-,three-, and four-story massing.