Avondale Park provides 65 dwellings as transitional housing with community support facilities. The housing is arranged in courtyard clusters with individual neighborhood character defined by colors, materials, landscaping, and a variety of secured play areas. Through a clear definition between public and private space, the placement of windows/bay windows, the limitation of entries to courtyard clusters, and dispersed private parking, each of the residents has visual surveillance of the activities of their visitors, children, and automobiles. Contiguous with the street front and site entrance, the nucleus of the Avondale Park community is the ‘town square’, a group of community facilities and higher density housing surrounding a public auto/pedestrian plaza. Fronting the plaza, a more civic character combines with diverse social gathering spaces, pavement and landscaping patterns to enhance pedestrian activity in the urban village square. A network of circulation and open spaces connects the development to an adjacent city park.