Terracina Design


Established in 2013, Terracina Design, LLC is a multi-disciplinary design firm based in Denver, Colorado. With extensive experience in the areas of land planning, civil engineering, and landscape architecture to draw upon, we are able to provide innovative design solutions that meet the needs of our clients while being sensitive to the unique aspects of each project.
Terracina Design utilizes a small studio approach which allows us to provide a high level of personal service for every project. Our staff of twenty includes, five Professional Engineers, four Professional Landscape Architects, one LEED Accredited Professional, and ten support and design professionals.
Terracina Design takes pride in collaborating with clients and other design professionals to create memorable spaces to live, work, and play. We believe that community-based design begins with great placemaking and creative solutions that are translated into effective construction. This is the cornerstone to our success.
Land Use Planning
• Master Planning
• Planned Developments
• Site Plans
• Sustainable Practices
• Oil & Gas Integration
Due Diligence
• Opportunities & Constraints Reports
• Site Analysis
• Yield Analysis & Cost/Benefit
• Phasing and Marketing Strategy
• Demographic Analysis
• Water Conservation & Sustainable Practices
• Preliminary Grading & Drainage
• Capital Improvements & Maintenance Cost Estimates
• Prioritization Action Plans
Entitlements
• Annexation & Zoning
• Subdivisions & Site Plans
• Community Outreach
• Stakeholder Meetings
• Improvement Agreements
• Design Guidelines
• Covenants
Landscape Architecture
• Entry Features & Monuments
• Wayfinding
• Park & Amenity Design
• Trails & Recreation
• Historic Sites & Restoration
• Streetscapes & Public Spaces
• Urban Plazas
• Green Infrastructure
• Gardens & Xeric Landscapes
Civil Engineering
• Site layout & Engineering
• Drainage Facilities, Studies, & Design
• Roadway Design
• Wastewater Collection System Design
• Water Distribution Design
• FEMA Floodplain Determination, Permitting, Mitigation, & Map Amendments
• Construction Plan Engineering
• Grading Plans and Earthwork Estimates
• Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans
Implementation
• Design Review
• Construction Documentation & Specifications
• Construction Administration
• Oversight & As-builts
Project Promotion
• Open Houses & Public Presentation
• Community Theming & Sign Design
• Project & Presentation Graphics
• Powerpoint & Video Presentations
• 3-D modeling
• Aerial Imagery
• Model Home Complexes
Certifications
Minority/Women Business Enterprise (M/WBE)
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)
Small Business Enterprise (SBE)
We believe our responsibility is to avail ourselves to you by sharing our expertise and passion for good design. We believe this ensures the highest level of service and collaboration with our clients. Though we pride our selves on our personal, professional achievements, we take even greater pride in assisting you by taking your vision beginning with its inception, through design and entitlements, and finally, construction.
Our key to urban and regional planning success is providing a multi-disciplinary approach to every project. Successful design of communities requires a collaboration between planners, municipalities, developers, engineers, architects, and landscape architects. We are the bridge between each of these disciplines to create great communities. We are a full service urban and regional planning firm, providing clients with planning services that range from high level master planning and entitlement efforts down to detailed site design and approvals. Our small studio approach provides a quality of product in which everyone takes pride in.
• Master Planning
• Entitlements
• Real Estate Feasibility
• Community Outreach
• Site Plans
• Sustainable Practices
• Oil & Gas Integration
• Reunion Master Plan, Commerce City, CO
• Green Valley Ranch Master Plan, Denver & Aurora, CO
• Erie Highlands, Erie, CO
• Prairie Point, Aurora, CO
• Grand Park, Fraser, CO
Reunion combines the best of urban and suburban planning principals to create a community that has the convenience of suburban development with the diversity of an urban neighborhood. This 3,000-acre community will feature 14,000 homes including an active adult enclave. Reunion provides extensive opportunities for outdoor recreation including an 18-hole golf course, amenity sites featuring aquatic activities, and many neighborhood parks with playgrounds, picnic areas and sports fields.
Green Valley Ranch Aurora is a 900-acre mixed use community located just south of DIA. This community features over 2,800 homes along with a 150-acre commercial center to be located at the interchange of 56th Ave and E-470. The residential neighborhoods include an exclusive active adult enclave, a K-8 school along with and extensive parks and open space network with miles of trails.
Erie Highlands is a 300-acre mixed use community in Erie, CO. This neighborhood includes 860 homesites along with 13 acres of commercial property. The residential portion of the community includes an 8 acre neighborhood park for the Town, a K-5 school, and clubhouse and pool for the residents. Miles of trails in over 30 acres of open space help foster an active lifestyle within the community.
Prairie Point is a unique property nestled in the rolling terrain of Aurora’s Black Forest. The natural features of the property define the community with preservation and relocation of black forest ponderosa pines. Prairie Point encompasses over 900 acres with 1,786 residential homes proposed. The community provides extensive opportunities for outdoor recreation including an 18-hole golf course, 2- amenity sites featuring aquatic activities, and 3 neighborhood parks with playgrounds. In addition, the community will provide direct access to High Plains Trail which follows E-470 and ties into the Cherry Creek Trail.
Grand Park is a 1,200 acre mountain resort nestled along the mountainsides of the Fraser Valley. The master plan is carefully designed to conserve the pristine natural features of the land while creating a vibrant resort community offering a mix of residential, lodging and commercial uses. Significant preserves of open space and an extensive trail system offer the residents of Grand Park a mix of year round and seasonal activities.
Our landscape architecture team approaches every project with a holistic point of view that begins with a creative vision, a collaborative and team-oriented process, and clever design solutions that are individually tailored to each project. We strive to create sustainable, creative, and realistic outdoor spaces. We believe in presenting our clients with multiple options and clear information, so they can feel confident in their decisions and our process. The combined experience of our landscape architecture team provides us with the necessary tools to ensure design and construction documents are delivered in a timely fashion and abide by local codes and regulations.
• Entry Features & Monuments
• Wayfinding Signage
• Park & Amenity Design
• Trails & Recreation
• Historic Sites & Restoration
• Streetscapes & Public Spaces
• Gardens & Xeric Landscapes
• Community Theming
• Public Art
• 3D Visualizations
Parklands community is fortunate to be in a unique place where there is an opportunity to be influenced by three environments. Situated on the Colorado Front Range, the community is primarily a natural mixed grass Prairie. Over the years the predominantly flat site has been cultivated to create a rich agricultural history. Centrally located on the property is the historic homestead of the Smith Farm. Today the main barn, windmill, and auxiliary structures stand as a reminder of the past. Adjacent to the farm, Coal Creek meanders through an established cottonwood gallery. These important natural features provide the foundation for Parklands
The theme of Parklands focuses on how these three environments blend to create a successful community. A theme that equally reflects the prairie and Coal Creek corridor with accents from the historical farm, “Where the creek meets the prairie”. The main characteristic of the community will focus on the transitional zone between Coal Creek and the Colorado Prairie. An ‘ecotone’ is the transition boundary zone between two environments. In Parklands, this occurs within the Cottonwood gallery. It is the boundary between Coal Creek and the Colorado Prairie. In this zone the environments meet and integrate, forming new communities that are rich in landscape, material, and diversity. Our vision is to BLEND, BALANCE, and INTEGRATE these natural environments into the built community.
The primary landscape theme will consist of large sweeping native areas that use landforms, native grasses, and water-wise plantings indicative to the Colorado Prairie. As the large native landscape areas move through the site and open space corridors, they will gently blend into developed spaces creating soft transition zones. These developed spaces of parks, accent nodes, or community entries will create the landscape patches in Parklands.
These patches and their edges will become the critical points of interaction between open space and development. The landscape character within the patches will use a wider variety of plant material, dense shade areas, and programmed uses, creating an oasis. The patches are an area of habitat differing from the surrounding landscape area. They are the balanced steppingstones that link the open space corridors. As an interconnected system of parks, open space, trails, and the Coal Creek corridor, these patches when linked become the landscape mosaic of Parklands.
The community theme focuses on blending the existing environment into the built community, creating balance through development with programmed patches, and then integrating the network of landscape mosaics. These themes will be reflected through the landscapes, built features, and architecture.
With extensive experience throughout the Colorado front range, the engineering team has the experience and knowledge base that produces creative and cost-effective solutions for any civil design need. Every project presents different engineering challenges, from grading and drainage to water and wastewater capacities. We pride ourselves on being able to effectively problem solve with the client and the governing agencies, and this has proven to be a key to our success. Our engineering team prides themselves on thoughtful design that translates into construction plans from which our clients can build with confidence.
• Site layout & Engineering
• Drainage Facilities, Studies, & Design
• Roadway Design
• Wastewater Collection System Design
• Water Distribution Design
• FEMA Floodplain Determination, Permitting, Mitigation, & Map Amendments
• Construction Plan Engineering
• Grading Plans and Earthwork Estimates
• Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans
• The Canyons, Castle Pines, CO
• The Meadows, Castle Rock, CO
• Denmore, Firestone, CO
• Grand Park, Fraser,CO
The Canyons encompasses approximately 3,300 acres located on the east side of Interstate 25 in Castle Pines. The community is planned for 4,500 dwelling units, 270 acres of mixed-use, 110 acres of parks and schools, and 1,400 acres of open space. Site development features open space preservation, low impact development strategies, LEED certified community facilities, and extensive recreational opportunities. The Canyons amenities includes the coffee exchange, a recreation center with a swimming pool, multiple community parks with playground structures, shade shelters, picnic areas, fire pits, and activity lawns, miles of paved and single track trails, a community farm, a K-5 school, and a high school.
A PARCEL OF LAND BEING A PORTION OF SECTIONS 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 24, & 25 TOWNSHIP 7 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, CITY OF CASTLE PINES NORTH, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO, 3,342.4 ACRES ± ZR09 - 001
Notes:
1 -Roads, trails, Planning Area access and locations of schools sites, neighborhood commercial, park dedications are conceptual in nature and subject to modification and refinement.
2 -Canyons Parkway R.O.W. will vary in width depending on landscaping and median design. Land use areas are calculated using a set R.O.W. width of 120'.
3 -Existing contour interval - 10 feet.
4 -The boundaries of each planning area are conceptual and are subject to minor adjustments, provided such adjustments in boundaries do not alter maximum densities, minimum open space or other development requirements set forth in this plan.
5 -The total number of Dwelling Units and/or non-residential square feet (within any individual Planning Area) permitted shall be limited only by the overall cap of 2,500 D.U., the maximum square footage in sections 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, the Development Standards, and the standards contained in section 4 of this Development Plan. Ancillary units shall be limited to 250 units.
6 - Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, until such time as construction has commenced within an area of the Property subject to a Final Plat, those uses specified in sections 302.01, 302.02, 302.04, 302.05, 302.06, 302.08 and 302.09 of the Zoning Ordinance shall be permitted principal uses on all portions of the Property.
7 - To accommodate at least 650,000 square feet of non-residential uses of which at least 280,000 will be retail sales tax generating uses on the Property, not less than 75 acres of land located collectively in Planning Areas 1, 2 and 3 will be reserved for predominately retail sales tax generating uses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, every square foot of retail sales tax generating uses constructed on the Property will count towards such 280,000 square feet, regardless of which Planning Area the retail sales tax generating uses are located and for each retail sales tax generating square foot constructed outside of such 75 acre reserved area, the 75 acre area shall be reduced by 5 square feet . Once a minimum of 280,000 square feet of retail sales tax generating uses are built anywhere on the Property, this restriction on Planning Areas 1,2 and 3 will be completely eliminated.
• Oakwood Homes
• Lennar Homes
• Richmond American Homes
• Tri-Pointe Homes
• Infinity Homes
• Delwest
• Forestar Group
• Shea Homes
• Century Communities
• Castle Rock Development
• Stratus Development
• Cornerstone Holdings
• Massimino Development