One wonders: how did Haussmann get his variances for stormwater, stepbacks and parking?
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One wonders: how did Haussmann get his variances for stormwater, stepbacks and parking?
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lot.
https://triangleblogblog.com/2023/05/24/liveblog-may-24-chapel-hill-town-council-meeting/
The @triblogblog liveblog of Chapel HIll's #housing debate is pretty interesting:
There seems to be fewer young people. So many of the comments are "I want my kids to be able to afford to live here", which is not a pro-housing testimony you hear a...
It's so frickin' easy to design a decent urban building.
An equitable Durham would produce TEN of these every year. In the last century-, we've built close to ZERO. https://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/news/2023/05/10/boutique-hotel-coming-to-the-battery-ii.html
I ♥️#Durham
MOTHER JONES went full #YIMBY this week. @billmckibben in @MotherJones:
"Imagine a community considering a new wind turbine or solar farm, or thinking about denser housing along transit corridors......
The lengths people will go to prevent affordable housing in their community is TRULY incredible.
Durham would currently score a 7, and will vote soon to become a 9.
It could be a pure 10, but #3 (1-4 family IRC reform) can only be done at the state level. This reform would have done more for affordable housing than any other, but was killed off by the @NCLeague in 2021.
Cities can reasonably quantify how progressive their zoning regimes are by using the 10-point "Anderson Scale" by @johnthebad.
What does YOUR city score?
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2023/03/28/top-10-code-reform-priorities-housing-crisis
Great story on the renovation of @JamesTaylor_com’s Chapel Hill childhood home in the @wsj. https://www.wsj.com/articles/james-taylors-childhood-home-was-a-ghost-of-itself-until-a-new-york-couple-saved-it-11668096042
Those defending off-street parking mandates are suburban-sprawl apologists:
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2023/03/23/parking-reform-snowballing
Intentional micro-communities will be a major characteristic of #Durham development moving forward. Learn about one of the best (@DurhamCoHo) at their virtual open house May 6 11am.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvlB3vL4P53_FWxIrh9idwYHnVPamFppCKZvl-2sjJ45oDNA/viewform
The Mosaic House has the same vibe as St. Louis' @citymuseum, an organic industrial playground developed by Bob Cassilly, the cousin of #Durham architect Ellen Cassilly.
The Mosaic House in #Durham is an absolute treasure.
Excellent mini-doc by @PBS.
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-mosaic-house-in-durham-3ikhsz/?fbclid=IwAR2MwEKX5MB5h9H0NASkznCJvuykj-9KzkbQkKnQVQ-0tAcXYx8m17qCh2A
#Durham is the perfect place to allow churches to once again, provide through the creation of homes.”
-Evan Bille
http://PublicGoods.substack.com
“This SCAD amendment exemplifies how the churches can be a vehicle for pro-housing policies in cities. We have a calling to create a diversity of housing options that offer abundance where there is currently scarcity…
"...We are committed to addressing the needs of the Durham community and social justice. Our church sits on a large site that has the potential to serve our congregation and community in a number of different ways."
"The SCAD text amendment would open up opportunities for us to build affordable housing, elderly communities, or housing that could support our other efforts to benefit the community. We support the adoption of the SCAD text amendment to #Durham’s UDO...
- Pastoral Council Chair
"The purpose of #zoning is to prevent affordable housing."
- Bob Chapman, supporter of Durham's SCAD reforms, is not wrong.
https://indyweek.com/news/opinions/op-ed-the-purpose-of-zoning-is-to-prevent-affordable-housing/
Of course, you don't need to bother with segregation if you just eliminate the people you wish to segregate.
Hill'".
https://triangleblogblog.com/2023/02/22/goodbye-structural-racism-hello-status-quo/
If you want to know how zoning perpetuates segregation, read this piece on Chapel Hill tactics.
And keep in mind that Durham's loudest anti-housing voice advocates to make Durham "more like Chapel...
It feels like @RDU is going to take the best airline terminal in America, and
1) make it worse
2) put it into multi-year construction zone
3) incur a greater expense than just building a shiny new Terminal 3 to the East.
The distinction is ideological. Those who love central planning loathe ADUs. Why? Because ADUs are distributed, citizen built, incremental & unplanned.
In this context it’s no surprise that NCs statewide planner group (APA-NC) lobbied AGAINST statewide ADU legalization in 2021.
It’s so funny when people dismiss ADUs as not relevant to the housing markets. Portland, and now Seattle, today build more ADUs than single family homes. 1/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-is-now-building-more-adus-than-single-houses/
The biggest concern I have about affordable housing industry in NC is that at times it feels entirely focused on shaking free additional subsidy.
Whether or not that is necessary, it deprioritizes the fact that there actually a host of tools to lower the cost of actual housing.
it.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-henry-george-program/id1241740873?i=1000601963168
This is the best podcasts on urbanism I can find. Out of @Stanford, this episode discusses west coast efforts to re-legalize lower cost “single stair” “point access block” towers.
They are currently 100% illegal NC, and no one at #NCLeg is working on...