#missing middle

[ersatzpenguin]

What if… 🙈 we both had houses 👉🏻👈🏻… and they touched? 😳

[mchai]

Testing new ideas with cottage courts

This missing middle housing type is a highly adaptable tool for developers and builders in many locations.

[the-city-in-mind]

About Here (Uytae Lee) looks at why the double-staircase building code limits apartments to one-bedroom or studios, meaning family-sized multi-room apartments can’t be built.

[archi-playground]

"Stealth Density", "Disguised Density", "Gentle Density"

How Architects tactfully design and pitch infill housing that responds to context and the politics of upzoning.

How Architects Create Disguised Density in Housing Design

Replacing single-family houses with more homes on a lot could help reduce prices in desirable locations without disrupting the neighborhood.

[cnu-newurbanism]

Great Idea 2: Missing middle housing

Increasingly in demand today, missing middle housing forms the backbone of the quintessential American neighborhood. Read more.

[threadatl]

As Decatur welcomes denser residential development, will Atlanta learn from its neighbor? - Atlanta Civic Circle

The city of Decatur is opening up its residential land to house more people. Experts say Atlanta should take note.

Good news from Decatur! This week, the city voted to allow duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes to be built on parcels currently designated only for standalone homes. Will it truly have an effect on affordability? Yes, in context: Decatur has become a bubble of expensive housing even middle-income families can't afford. This move is expected to make housing more attainable by those groups. For lower income households, Decatur has other initiatives in the works (such as a community land trust) to target deeper affordability. It's part of a multi-pronged effort to break up the solid block of expensive housing & add diversity. One big benefit of legalizing missing-middle housing: it should slow down the massive rise in resale values of existing homes. According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the median home price in Decatur has risen by a whopping 92% since 2017 -- something that's influenced by the static supply of homes in 'hot' districts. Adding new homes in those places will help broaden supply and lower that rate of increase on median prices.

[35letters]

(via The Living Warehouse / Haddock Architecture | ArchDaily)

[onpoli]

Memos from the city’s chief planner Gregg Lintern outline substantial amendments made by the province to plans outlining where and how development can be built for decades to come.

Toronto’s chief planner says hundreds of surprise changes by the province to the city’s plans to manage growth in midtown and downtown has scrubbed requirements for developers to provide new office space, reduces protections for sunlight on public parks, and strips the need to build community services.

In memos sent to all council members Thursday evening, Gregg Lintern outlined key changes to the city’s Midtown in Focus and TOcore plans delivered by the province a day earlier — these are plans that set out the rules and requirements for development in those fast-growing areas — saying there is more review still to be done and that a report to council was being prepared for the July meeting.

In total, the province made 194 modifications to the midtown plan and 224 changes to the downtown plan, Lintern said.

Broadly, the changes highlighted in Lintern’s memos confirm the provincial changes loosen the city-proposed rules to allow taller, denser residential development, while removing requirements for developers to provide more space for new jobs, thereby ensuring mixed, not bedroom, communities in close proximity to transit. It also deletes measures the city introduced to “to ensure development does not outpace infrastructure.”