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Diana van Eyk's avatar

I'd love to see these buildings co-operatively owned too. It would keep them affordable and would give people living in them more ownership and control over their living spaces.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

I'm sure I would. When I have more time I'll read them.

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Zelda Mazur's avatar

I feel like 5 over 1's get a lot of flack, and it's mainly for one of the reasons you pointed out. Even though they're very much needed to solve the housing crisis, when they depend on tons of parking space they simply look out of place, these giant structures in the middle of a sea of asphalt. Encouraging the development of these in transit-oriented areas is crucial if we ever want the American public to see them as an overwhelmingly positive thing.

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John Frost's avatar

Yes. I have no problems with the 5 over 1 structure or even the usual uninteresting architectural design, but I really dislike how they're being constructed as little islands surrounded by moats of parking spaces and walled off from the community with a lack of access to transit or commercial amenities. They only create more car dependency, which in turn makes it a challenge to abate climate change.

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Michael Moore's avatar

Yes these are the elements we need to work to change, it usually comes down to current city requirements for parking and setbacks

We can create rules to get what we want, and remove or reform the rules that create spaces we don't want

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