Stoney Creek Apartments, Livermore
Stoney Creek Apartments is an existing affordable housing project that completed a major renovation effort to both the buildings and the site. The site improvements included replacing an existing landscape featuring primarily lawn areas irrigated with a spray irrigation system to a low water use, drought tolerant landscape featuring flowering accent trees, shrubs, ground covers and vines, bringing a fresh, colorful look to the site. The project features five interior courtyards and two play areas. The courtyards were re-designed to integrate new plants with existing trees, add new picnic tables and BBQ units for the use of courtyard residents. Existing lawns were replaced with tan decomposed granite surface, which introduced a warm ground plane that is very complementary to the new building exteriors. The existing play areas received new play equipment, surface games, as well as new safety surfaces. The renovation work was completed in the Fall of 2018.