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Community Development Homes

What we develop

Residential communities and subdivisions

Planned residential communities and subdivisions that can support a credible entitlement, infrastructure, phasing, and delivery plan.

Conceptual illustration

Development approach

How we evaluate communities and subdivisions

Individual luxury residences prove the discipline: site selection, design, cost control, governance, and reporting. Planned communities apply that same discipline at a scale where planning decisions shape how people actually live.

Community work is slower and less forgiving. Entitlement, infrastructure sequencing, and phasing must all hold together before land is worth acquiring, which is why the evaluation is deliberate.

  • Raw, partially entitled, and entitled residential land.
  • Sites capable of supporting a defensible entitlement and infrastructure sequence.
  • Phasing plans that can be evaluated for finished-lot, builder, or vertical-development outcomes.
  • Community planning that considers place, circulation, amenity, and long-term livability.
Aerial view of a planned residential neighborhood in the Arizona desert
Conceptual illustration, not a photograph. It does not depict a Community Development Homes project.

Evaluation

What we examine on a land opportunity

Approvals

Entitlement path

Current zoning, general plan designation, prior approvals, required approvals, and a realistic timeline for each.

Feasibility

Infrastructure

Water, sewer or on-site treatment, power, drainage, and roadway access — including who must build what, and when.

Sequence

Phasing

Whether the site can be delivered in phases that stand on their own rather than depending on the entire plan completing.

Planning

Yield

Lot count and lot mix that the site and the approvals can genuinely support.

Demand

Market

Comparable community activity, absorption, price positioning, and buyer or builder demand.

Outcome

Exit

Whether finished lots, builder sales, or vertical development is the sensible outcome.

Submissions

Land we would like to see

  • Arizona residential land with a credible path to residential use
  • Raw, partially entitled, or entitled parcels
  • Sites with an identifiable infrastructure and utility strategy
  • Acreage that can be phased sensibly rather than all at once
  • Clear ownership, or clear authority to submit on the owner's behalf
  • Assemblages where the pieces can realistically be combined

Photographs of construction partner work are credited where shown. Images labeled conceptual are illustrations and do not depict completed Community Development Homes projects.

Related development focus

Other ways to work with Community Development Homes

For premium lots, teardown properties, estate remodels and luxury new-build opportunities, explore our luxury residential development focus. Investors and family offices can also learn how CDH approaches project structure, governance and reporting.