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Lyle Solla-Yates<p>It is very early days, but I have written two draft submissions to allow safer and more affordable <a href="https://cville.online/tags/MissingMiddle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MissingMiddle</span></a> homes in <a href="https://cville.online/tags/Virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Virginia</span></a> which I intend to submit for public consideration next month as soon as that becomes possible. Thanks to <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/stephenjacobsmith.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/stephenjacobs</span><span class="invisible">mith.com</span></a> for doing the work at the national level to make this much more possible here. <a href="https://cville.online/tags/BuildingCodeReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuildingCodeReform</span></a></p>
Cameron MacLeod<p>This has big Onion energy. </p><p>(1) <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/two-years-after-allowing-four-unit-multiplexes-in-residential-neighbourhoods-a-new-toronto-area-pilot/article_5e222914-d4ef-11ef-ae9f-3743ac761081.html?source=newsletter&amp;utm_email=1B3C39ACA2AAAC6DB12B362B98CF3E1A" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thestar.com/news/gta/two-years</span><span class="invisible">-after-allowing-four-unit-multiplexes-in-residential-neighbourhoods-a-new-toronto-area-pilot/article_5e222914-d4ef-11ef-ae9f-3743ac761081.html?source=newsletter&amp;utm_email=1B3C39ACA2AAAC6DB12B362B98CF3E1A</span></a><br>(2) <a href="https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theonion.com/fuck-everything-w</span><span class="invisible">ere-doing-five-blades-1819584036/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Housing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TOPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TOPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/MissingMiddle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MissingMiddle</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GentleDensity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GentleDensity</span></a></p>
Brent Toderian<p>Some historical precedents for ground-oriented denser housing choices (what I dubbed <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23GentleDensity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GentleDensity</a> and what <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:hroxv7zrtipwokkorlz2wjso" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@danielparolek.bsky.social</a> called <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23MissingMiddle" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MissingMiddle</a>) make you melt. This is Schnoor Quarter in Bremen, Germany. Nothing stops us from building something like this today, except our rules.</p>

Communal cooking done right is something most of us don't know we're missing.

I have friends and family who live in a 6-story #cohousing development. Around 50 people in 30 units. Each apartment is complete but the kitchens are slightly smaller than typical.

Cohousing is mutual ownership of the building. About 20% of the building is common areas, like widened hallways with couches and bookshelves, or a games nook, music room, workshop, laundry, etc. It's basically a tall village, and they are like roommates with privacy.

The giant kitchen and dining room is used six nights a week. One person is chef with a small crew, and dinner is for around 30 people. It costs $5 CDN per meal, though if you raid the leftovers later it's pay what you want, usually $2.

The cooking volunteer roster is optional and organized by a Slack channel. Out of 50 people there are those who like to spend their duty time showing off culinary skills. Dinner is usually awesome and everyone wins.

I was able to lecture at a graduate level landscape architecture course at #uva this week talking through the dimensional challenges of the new #cville zoning. As zoning has stepped out of the way of more diverse and affordable #missingmiddle housing, other rules that assume large lot single family detached wood frame homes are becoming critical. Local and state stormwater treatment regulations appear to be the largest challenge now to the new homes we were expecting.

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20 “An Arlington County circuit court judge Friday struck down the county’s “missing middle” housing ordinance, saying officials in the Northern Virginia suburb did not adequately study the potential impacts of allowing townhouses and small apartments to areas that had been zoned exclusively for single-family homes.” #zoning #arlington #missingmiddle #housing #shortage #segregation #equity #inflation

The Washington Post · Circuit judge strikes down Arlington’s ‘missing middle’ housing planBy Teo Armus