// Environment — 4-beat compression. // // Question → Three numbers → Thesis → Check. Was cream (2026-05-13 rebuild // retired an all-dark forest-950 band that read as "another site" against // an otherwise all-white canon). 2026-08-03 design pass reintroduces dark — // deliberately different this time: it's the ONE full-bleed dark editorial // moment in a page that now alternates white/warm/ink tones on purpose, not // an orphaned dark section in an all-light site. Numbers are honest and // tied to commitments you can read in the site plan; on ink-navy they get // the type-scale drama the brief asks for (bigger, wheat-lit, tighter // leading) since this is the one section built to carry it. function Environment() { const ref = useRef(null); const [inView, setInView] = useState(false); useEffect(() => { if (!ref.current) return; const io = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => { entries.forEach(e => { if (e.isIntersecting) { setInView(true); io.disconnect(); } }); }, { threshold: .2 }); io.observe(ref.current); return () => io.disconnect(); }, []); const openSpace = useCountUp(10, { when: inView }); const setback = useCountUp(150, { when: inView, duration: 1800 }); return (
{/* Divider ornament — the one visible band-transition marker on the page: white Water above gives way to the ink-navy editorial band. */} {/* Signature texture — faint topo contour behind the big numbers. Opacity kept low enough that it never competes with the numerals. */}
{/* Header */}
04 Environment
 {/* Resident question — calm-trust scale, attributed */}
“What about the deer? The night sky? The tree line?”

From neighbor conversations

{/* Three numbers — defensible, sourced as mock */}
{openSpace.toFixed(0)} %+
Open space, kept undeveloped
Site plan commitment.
{setback.toFixed(0)} ft
Setback at every property line
Buffer for neighbors and wildlife.
0
Lights aimed up
Dark-sky lighting standard.
 {/* Thesis */}

Construction stays inside the site.{' '} The edges stay as they were.

{/* How you check */}
How you check
County engineer. Annual review. On file.
); } window.Environment = Environment;