See How Many Luxury Garden Units Your Parcel Holds
Start from a Class A garden community of three-story breezeway walkups with large units and 11.5 ft floors, fitted to your parcel. You see unit count, parking and density before you price the land.
How Many Luxury Garden Apartments Will Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For a luxury garden community, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Larger units affect parking ratios
Bigger units mean more bedrooms and more cars per unit. The parking field grows with the plan, and it is usually what caps the unit count.
Buildings need room to breathe
Luxury product needs space between rows, landscaped edges and a clear entry. That spacing comes out of the land the buildings could cover.
Taller floors, same three stories
11.5 ft floor to floor puts the roofline at 34.5 ft. Check it against the height limit before you count on three full stories.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the luxury garden community your team would build, tune it to your standards, and finish with one model for the site, plan, tabulation and pro forma.
Your parcel and its constraints
- Site boundary: pick the parcel from built-in parcel data with current owner info, draw it, enter metes and bounds, or import a KML/KMZ file
- Setbacks and frontage: front, side and rear setbacks set to the parcel edges
- Zoning: FAR, building and impervious coverage, height limits and parking ratios, pulled in for your parcel so you don't have to dig through the zoning code
- Easements: areas the layout keeps buildings out of
- Site conditions: flood zones, wetlands and topography from Site Intelligence
Every layout starts inside your site's real constraints.
Your product, fine-tuned on the site
- Product: 3-story breezeway walkups, 11.5 ft floor to floor (34.5 ft), the largest garden units, 12 x 7 ft balconies
- Site layout: surface parking courts on fire-access drive aisles
- Your edits: unit mix, unit sizes, buildings, parking and drives
You see the building your team would propose, on your parcel.
A source of truth for the deal
- Site plan geometry: buildings, courts, parking and drives drawn to the parcel
- Tabulation for this product: building sf, dock doors, trailer and car stalls against what's required, site coverage and FAR
- Earthwork: cut and fill for the layout
- Financials: the geometry turned into development costs, revenue and returns
- Shareable results: a link or PDF report for your team, partners and other stakeholders
You know whether the deal works, with numbers to back it.
We made a goal to seek out more multi-family work, and TestFit has allowed us to win over developer partners while saving over $200k in labor hours. We can easily provide our clients with quick studies as they vet out sites to see if the sites are the right fit for them based on the data we can find in TestFit like cost of yield, number of units, square footage and more
Luxury Breezeway Walkups Site Planning FAQ
What is a garden-style apartment?
A low-rise apartment community, usually two to four stories, with several buildings spread across a larger site and surface parking around them. Garden product is common in suburban and Sun Belt markets.
What is a breezeway walkup?
A garden building with open-air stairs between unit stacks instead of an interior corridor or elevator. Residents walk up from a covered breezeway, which keeps common area and construction cost low.
What makes a luxury garden community different?
Larger units, taller floors and bigger balconies. This layout uses 11.5 ft floors and 12 x 7 ft balconies.
How many units per acre does a garden community get?
It depends on unit size, parking and the shape of the parcel. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see the unit count and density your site supports.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit the unit mix, buildings, parking and drives in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
Find it in TestFit
Test This Layout on Your Next Garden Site
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