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Speaking for myself, I'd love a small house with no parking and without a backyard. These houses are basically impossible to find because of zoning rules.
by 5040 8y ago
Speaking for myself, I'd love a small house with no parking and without a backyard. These houses are basically impossible to find because of zoning rules.
- claydavisss 8y agoHuh? In most suburbs this is the only type of housing being built. Go look at any new construction in San Jose etc, its all vertical townhouse stuff with one parking spot and communal green space.
- tacomonstrous 8y agoPerhaps this is because most suburbs are not in the Bay Area?
- claydavisss 8y agoWhat reasonably large metro in the US has no available townhouse-style housing? edit: responses below are moving the goalposts. I didn't ask what major metros are missing culturally vibrant dense communities with a great mix of walkable amenities, I asked what metros didn't have townhouse-style developments (small house, no yard). The answer is obvious if you spend ten minutes in redfin - every major metro has plenty
- tacomonstrous 8y agoIt's possible that the GP doesn't live in a large metro area and therefore doesn't have access to a good supply of townhomes.
- rayiner 8y agoMost of them. What makes Japanese dense detached housing work is mixing residential and low impact retail. In many US suburbs, you have town house style housing, but vast swaths of it with no retail. So you need to get in a car (and cross a giant parking lot) to pick up milk. It’s a problem even in mixed residential retail areas. I lived in a development in Atlanta that had a Target. But going there meant crossing an enormous, unshaded parking lot. Very different than Japan, where you might walk down some tree lined streets to get to the corner store.
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- francisofascii 8y agoTownhouses are tough to find in medium size metros in good school districts. And the ones you do find are over 55 communities.
- magduf 8y agoThere's tons of this stuff in the northern Virginia/DC metro area too.
- rayiner 8y agoNote that in Japan, where people are allowed to build what they want, there are tons of detached houses with no yards or small gardens. http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4113/4983103056_ec5b955217_b.jpg http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4113/4983103056_ec5b955217_b.j... http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2143/2206169789_71e4f452b3_b.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2143/2206169789_71e4f452b3_b.j...