Cohousing-L Mailing List: 9' x 18' Parking & Affordable Housing

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

An interesting article in the NYTimes today: 

Trading Parking Lots for Affordable Housing
‘9 x 18’ Plan Ties Development Rules to Public Benefits

9' x 18' is the size of a typical parking space. That lowly slice of asphalt 
has prompted three young architects — Miriam Peterson, Sagi Golan and Nathan 
Rich, fellows at the Institute for Public Architecture — to come up with what 
could be an innovative way to ease the housing crisis.

It calls for a new regulation that would tie the number of required parking 
spaces to the number and size of apartments, their affordability and proximity 
to mass transit. That last part — which promotes density and discourages cars 
around transit hubs — is critical.

The drawings comparing the size of a parking space to the size of an apartment 
has changed what I see when I look at parking spaces. 2 spaces = one micro 
unit, 4 spaces a one bedroom, and less than 6 spaces, a 2 bedroom.

http://tinyurl.com/nzeqbdh

Sharon
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