The town of East Greenwich set aside eighty undeveloped acres along Division Road for new housing, in answer to a Rhode Island still short on homes for families and seniors. The default answer to a site like this is an apartment complex. The better answer is a neighborhood.
The plan gathers four hundred eighteen homes into a network of streets, blocks, and greens that hold the rhythm of a small town rather than the form of a development. Single-family houses anchor the quieter lanes. Six-unit manor buildings — neighborly in scale, modest in profile — sit at the next register up. Two thirty-four-unit multifamily buildings hold the most density. The plan moves between these scales the way East Greenwich already does: house, then manor, then something larger, on the same walk.
