Small Lot Legislation: An Architect’s Perspective.
As an architect who specializes in housing, I occasionally get involved in discussions with DPD and the city council about land use issues. In general, I look at proposed legislation from this perspective: What kind of outcomes will the new legislation encourage? Are these good outcomes? If I’m trying to design housing using these new rules, is the code helping or hindering? […]
DPD Tried to Regulate Small Lots;You Wouldn’t Believe What Happened Next!
Over the last part of the week I kept hearing noises on social media about problems with the Department of Planning and Development’s (DPD) efforts to constrain small-lot development. Here’s the comment that set off the biggest discussions and concerns. According to one homeowner the legislation means that about 8,755 existing homes . . . […]
Good Ideas for Better Housing Choices: Keep Single-Family Infill
I came away from yesterday’s meeting of the Planning, Land Use, and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee with mixed feelings. On the one hand there was a great presentation by Mike Scott of Dupre and Scott which confirmed a number of things for the Committee, not the least of which is that supply and demand really does apply […]
