This document summarizes the sustainable development practices of the Corky McMillin Companies, a premier builder of mixed-use master planned communities. It discusses how the company has preserved thousands of acres of open space and wetlands. It also outlines current practices like LEED certification and highlighting green building options for homebuyers. The document concludes by describing plans for a future development called the Eastern Urban Center, which will utilize sustainable features like transit integration, urban parks, and compact neighborhoods to create an energy efficient community.

1. Green is the New Blue
Sustainable Development Practices
at the Corky McMillin Companies

2. Where Have We Been?

3. • Premier Builder of Mixed Use
Master Plan Communities
• Sensitive and Responsible Land
Planning
• Preservation of thousands of acres
of permanent Open Space
• Hundreds of acres of wetlands
preserved or restored
• Examples: Scripps Ranch North;
Otay Ranch

4. What Are We Doing
Today?

5. • Award- winning Mixed Use Land Plan –
Residential, employment, retail,
hospitality, educational and civic /
cultural uses
• Adaptive Reuse of historic buildings
• Hundreds of acres of plazas, parks and
recreational uses
• Connective tissue of sidewalks, paths
and promenades
• Recycling of construction debris and
materials
• LEED certification

6. McMillin Green
A healthier, smarter way to live.
• Showcases McMillin’s commitment to green building
practices, with a focus on our homebuilding company
• Focus on green features and options that McMillin offers
on our homebuyers
• Emphasizes the commitment to ongoing education of
our residents and buyers

7. The Eastern Urban Center
What Does Tomorrow
Look Like?

9. EASTERN URBAN CENTER – SUSTAINABLE FEATURES
•Flexible Mixed Use Format
•Intimately Scaled Grid Street System
•Compact Walkable Districts
•Transit Integration
•Urban Parks Program
•Community at a Neighborhood and Project Level
• Other Sustainable Initiatives and Modeling Efforts

10. Site Utilization Plan

11. Vehicular Circulation

12. Pedestrian Circulation
Pedestrian Grid
Loop Trails
Regional Trail
Village Pathway
Internal Connections /
Paseos
Park Promenade

14. Regional Transit

15. The Plan
•Urban Parks and Public Spaces

16. The Plan
•UrbanPark and Public Spaces
•North Parks

17. The Plan
•Civic Plaza
•North Park

18. The Plan
•Town Plaza
•Civic Square

19. “Always do right. It will gratify
some and astonish the rest.”
-Mark Twain

20. Sustainability
•Implementing the City of Chula Vista’s sustainability initiative
through a cooperative venture between:
The United States Department of Energy
The Gas and Technology Institute
The City of Chula Vista
San Diego State University
Creating model processes and market based designs for energy
efficient community development
•LEED-Neighborhood Design Pilot Program participant – one of 234
projects from six countries; also accepted into the Focus Group – a
select group of 60 projects. EUC is one of eight focus group projects
from California and the only one located south of Los Angeles

21. Developing Sustainable
Development
The “Green Building” movement started
through an analysis of development on a
building by building basis.
Now we must step beyond that approach
of analyzing individual components and
embrace a whole systems approach
which will allow us to utilize the
efficiencies that can be created through
integration.

22. LEED for Neighborhood
Development
Designed to certify exemplary development
projects that perform well in terms of smart
growth, new urbanism, and green building

23. LEED-ND Point Categories
• Smart Location & Linkage
30 Points Possible
• Neighborhood Pattern & Design
39 Points Possible
• Green Construction & Technology
31 Points Possible
• Innovation & Design Process
6 Points Possible

24. LEED-ND Certification Levels
•LEED Platinum
80-106 points
•LEED Gold
60-79 points
•LEED Silver
50-59 points
•LEED Certified
40-49 points

25. Chula Vista Research Project
Intended to determine how advanced
building energy technologies and land use,
transportation and urban design features can
be integrated to produce energy-efficient
development projects in California

26. The CVRP has allowed us to… Input Land Use Scenarios
Create Building Analyze Annual & Hour By Hour
Prototypes Energy Performance for Different
Building Specifications
Measure aggregate
impacts
Evaluate Preferred Plan
(Buildings AND Land Use)
Experiment interactively &
see changes

27. Eastern Urban Center
…presents the opportunity to
address peoples’ desire for a
sense of community and
connection.
This holds the promise of a
sustainable future, one that is
part of the ‘solution’ vs. the
‘problem’ posed by ongoing
sprawl development.

28. Questions / Comments?