Fremont townhouses
Morgan Square, 4450 Peralta Blvd., Fremont Map
Villa D’Este, Ardenwood and Paseo Padre Parkway, Fremont Map

At Morgan Square, townhouses with small front gardens face pedestrian walkways. Garages are behind homes, facing alleyways.
Drainpipes lead rain from roof to below-ground flow-through planters. In these, engineered soil filters pollutants. Some runoff bubbles up for irrigation and inviltrates into ground. Buried drains carry heavy flows to the municipal storm-drain system.

Villa D’Este also has housing facing pedestrian walkways, with garages behind and additional parking on facing street.
Below left, roof and street runoff is partly filtered in below-ground media in utility courtyards. Shrubs will hide equipment as they grow.
Below right, this development also uses tree-well filters. These flow-through planters are buried boxes filled with media engineered to filter runoff and also support plantings. Click for larger images.





