new skinny house designs being built
FYI--From a member of the Roseway NA Land-Use/Trans
Sandra Lefrancois
Neighborhood Involvement Specialist
Central Northeast Neighbors
4415 NE 87th Ave, Portland, OR 97220
(503) 823-2780 cnnoutreach@teleport.com
Web: www.cnncoalition.org
-----Original Message-----
For those of you who may remember, my neighborhood was instrumental in
starting the conversation about improving the quality of infill housing on
narrow lots in existing neighborhoods - the infamous "skinny house". Three
years of hard work has paid off with the first real permit-ready infill
house being constructed in the City.
Chris Caruso - see below for the formal announcement:
The Living Smart narrow lot house designs will begin to be built in several
locations beginning this month! Area developer Jack Wagnon will be building
2 Higgins houses in North Portland and 2 Vargas houses in SE Portland.
Additionally, a Portland couple will be building the Vargas house on a lot
adjacent to their property in SE Portland.
It is exciting to see an idea translated into action--bringing well designed
narrow lot house designs to the Portland market.
I have attached the press release and the signage that will be sent tomorrow
to the media.
Thank you for your contributions to this project.
Anne Hill
Anne Hill, Senior Management Analyst
Bureau of Development Services
City of Portland
503.823.4807
Sandra Lefrancois
Neighborhood Involvement Specialist
Central Northeast Neighbors
4415 NE 87th Ave, Portland, OR 97220
(503) 823-2780 cnnoutreach@teleport.com
Web: www.cnncoalition.org
-----Original Message-----
For those of you who may remember, my neighborhood was instrumental in
starting the conversation about improving the quality of infill housing on
narrow lots in existing neighborhoods - the infamous "skinny house". Three
years of hard work has paid off with the first real permit-ready infill
house being constructed in the City.
Chris Caruso - see below for the formal announcement:
The Living Smart narrow lot house designs will begin to be built in several
locations beginning this month! Area developer Jack Wagnon will be building
2 Higgins houses in North Portland and 2 Vargas houses in SE Portland.
Additionally, a Portland couple will be building the Vargas house on a lot
adjacent to their property in SE Portland.
It is exciting to see an idea translated into action--bringing well designed
narrow lot house designs to the Portland market.
I have attached the press release and the signage that will be sent tomorrow
to the media.
Thank you for your contributions to this project.
Anne Hill
Anne Hill, Senior Management Analyst
Bureau of Development Services
City of Portland
503.823.4807
posted by Vernon Neighbors at 4:26 PM
1 Comments:
Folks,
I appreciate the announcement about the "skinny houses" being built, but not all find these designs to be "smart", or "well-designed", etc. In fact, quite a few of us find them to be an ugly, unaimaginative way to bring homes to ever-shrinking lot sizes (pushed by private developers, in general).
the posted announcement this is in response to seems to be promoting this way of development as the best available. It's not.
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