Westlake was platted in 2020 in Madison County. What follows is how it came to look the way it does.
The land was drawn in phases around a sixty acre lake, and phase one took eighty two lots. Streets were laid to meet the water rather than to turn their backs on it, which is why almost every walk in the neighborhood ends at the same view.
The same materials repeat from one house to the next: painted brick, deep eaves, standing seam and architectural shingle, black metal lanterns, herringbone brick walks. That short and consistent palette is what lets a street of individually built homes read as one idea rather than forty. The association keeps a set of restrictive covenants and an architectural review committee. Both documents are listed in the residents section.
The south bank carries the pool and an open air pavilion with a deck, loungers and room to gather. It is the part of the neighborhood that gets used hardest in July and the part that residents point at first when they show someone around. Rules and reservations live in the residents section.
This is the developer's master plan, as shown on the sign at the Westlake entrance. It sets the sixty acre lake at the center with building lots drawn around it. The sign itself notes that the plan illustrates the general concept of the development, and that the developer reserves the right to alter or revise it, including the uses and locations shown, without notice.