This chapter presents a case study comparing two different ways of providing detached ground oriented housing. We compare them for the purpose of providing a detailed social, ecological, and economic comparison between the two. We examine a larger portion of the Traditional with Ecological Underlay proposal (from chapter two) in much greater detail, referring to it here as the Sustainable Alternative Development. In order to perform this more detailed analysis, we have elaborated and detailed the hypothetical proposals from the charrette to a level approximating that which would be required if the project were to be built.  Having done so, we can now make accurate comparisons with a second project, this one real, in a different part of Surrey, but on a site that is nearly the same size as our hypothetical Sustainable Alternative Development case study site (Status Quo Development).  With this site of similar size, and the construction drawings from that project available at our basis for accurate comparison, we can compare attributes of each plan, including but not limited to: total residential density; infrastructure type location and cost; site F.A.R. (floor area ratio); road layout and horizontal dimensions; and the dollar cost for the dwelling, building, and infrastructure on a per dwelling unit, per parcel, and per interior square foot basis.(Comparison Matrix)

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