Population and Housing

[ijmorlan]

There are a handful of these types of buildings around, but we need to be building a thousand of them per year at least.  And frankly, I'm not sure what zoning allows this, but I'm betting you won't find a single one of these in 60's era neighbourhoods and newer.

Residential zoning is appallingly prescriptive. Separate zoning for “single-family” (whatever that means), semi-detached, townhouses, stacked townhouses, small apartment buildings (I mean, even 3 apartments is a separate category), …. If I were in charge I would probably collapse it all to a single zone, with some sort of rules on height so you don’t suddenly end up with a huge tower right next to you.