Examples in CLE:
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It would be interesting to ask developers what they would do in the absence of any city parking requirements. We've seen instances where developers have pushed to provide both more and less than city requirements.I'm not sure we have any way of knowing if the market would support no parking - the sort of people who would buy that type of housing are not developing it (with the possible exception of Tim Springer), and certainly no municipality is encouraging it. But at the least I would like to see the parking issue scrutinized - there should be a parking study that is comprehensive enough to predict parking demand - on and off-street - by neighborhood, from which could proceed some decision-making about whether we should relax or eliminate parking minimums and encourage street parking, or contrarily quit providing so much street parking.
The elevator issue is the no-brainer, in my opinion. I don't see why the city should be involved in that particular decision at all, since it's not a question of safety. You could argue that there is a property value interest, but I really don't think it starts at two stories - 3 at least and even 4 is reasonable.
This type of approach is exactly whats needed for Uptown and other areas. Hopefully , we'll see more of this as the housing market recovers, and it would actually be quite refreshing IMO. As much as I do like some of these apartment projects, I'm a little weary of them , especially their redundant scale and design.Modern Rowhouses in Vancouver's Oakridge Neighbourhood
It would be neat to see something like this on smaller parcels as an alternative to superblocks. These could work well on streets that are 1-2 blocks away from arterial streets or transitways and seem to mix in better with the single-family housing than a 4-6 story structure would. These rowhouses would be good for an infill project where there are smaller-scale surface lots like on 31st and Holmes in Uptown.
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