Population and Housing

[ijmorlan]

As long as fundamentalist accessabilitarians don’t prevent the construction of such housing! I’m pretty sure we had a discussion here where somebody said that both units of a duplex should be required to be accessible…I’m hoping I was misunderstanding them.

I'm definitely not qualified to talk about accessibility as it pertains to housing, other than opining "it's important." But I've always liked the utilitarian appeal of a 3 or 4-storey walkup, with the ground floor designed and reserved for those with accessibility concerns, mainly because elevators are expensive and always have the potential to fail. 

I think this is a great way of ensuring the existence of lots of accessible units without imposing unreasonable elevator costs on small buildings. It should be possible for one floor of every building to be reached from outside without stairs.

I really do wonder if developers and small-scale land owners would be attracted to building more infill walkups if the zoning rules were relaxed, and if they didn't need to waste land/resources on parking spaces. Or is there something else holding them back? I'm new to this game, so I apologise if this is an obvious question.

Definitely. Eliminate parking minima and allow triplexes in all residential zones and watch the City’s density increase gradually.