Homestead, a portion of the Newhall Ranch Master Plan, is an approximately 2,800-acre community in northwest Los Angeles County. For this project, Hunsaker & Associates-Los Angeles is preparing and processing one of the largest tentative tract maps in the history of Los Angeles County. The community includes 5,400 units, a 1.3-million square-foot business park; a fire station; a wastewater reclamation plant; flood control facilities; three parks; elementary, middle and high schools; and a variety of active and passive open spaces.

There are a number of complexities in this project, such as hillside development, the existence of a floodway/floodplain, geotechnical constraints, State Route 126 adjacency, oil wells, endangered species habitat, oak trees, and a system of major and secondary arterial roadways.

Hunsaker & Associates-Los Angeles is providing the following services:

• Land planning.
• Preliminary engineering.
• Design survey.
• Constraints mapping.
• Entitlements.
• Program management.
• Environmental analysis assistance.
• Water quality analysis.
• Private Drives implimentation.
• Walkability.
• Grading design that preserves critical natural resources.