Re: Variations on low cost housing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Brian Bartholomew (bbstat.ufl.edu) | |
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 14:04:19 -0700 (PDT) |
> Zoning, which has been panned a lot on this list recently, is also > sometimes used to prevent sprawl. Most of the sites our group looked at allowed a maximum density of one house per five acres, whereas we wanted 30 units. The zoning on much of our almost-rural-fringe permitted sprawl by rather-well-off people, and banned low-cost non-sprawl. > but city and county planners still need to take you into account for > purposes of planning emergency services I think that requirement mostly amounts to, have a road that is engineered to support fire trucks that goes within X feet of every dwelling. Every layout we considered satisfied it. > Most rural zoning (in areas I'm familiar with) forbid such a high > density as well. Our zonings seemed to permit clustering the dwellings. If the lot is big enough to allow X houses, you would be allowed to put all the houses in one corner. We still needed at least 3 families/acre from zoning to make our price work. > you can rent a space in a mobile-home park for ~$500/month, and you > can buy a mobile home to put in it for ~$20k. We looked at the MH zoning, and one defunct MH park, as being actually closest to what we wanted to do. It wasn't clear that it would allow site-built houses for those who wanted them. We didn't even consider petitioning to switch to MH zoning, everybody would protest. Brian
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