The Pinehills is a 3000 acre master planned community located in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is made up of several residential neighborhoods, two golf courses, restaurants and a racquet & fitness club. It has its own water and sewer companies, post office, gas station as well as its own fire station. The commercial center has a bank, a grocery store and a number of small shops and businesses and was designed to host its own hotel. The Pinehills has been described as "a town within a town". [more...]
What's unique about The Pinehills is its extraordinary sensitivity to the environment and to the history of the area. 70% of the land has been left as open space, Old Sandwich Road (the first public road in the country) which runs through the center of the community, remains a gravel road surrounded by tall pine trees and the 206 acre Pinehills Conservation Restriction has been set aside for conservation purposes. The Pinehills was recognized as the "Best Smart Growth Community" in 2005 by National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and is used as a case study for smart growth by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. NOTE: The Pinehills open-space, mixed-use development (OSMUD) zoning overlay was established under Section 205-63 of the Plymouth Zoning Bylaw to "preserves open space and mandates smaller lots and roads to protect and to reflect the rural character of Plymouth and provides protections to existing forest roads and particularly to Old Sandwich Road, an existing scenic street". |
