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Typical parking areas in Lacey are built on a 6-inch subbase and a 2- inch crushed stone base. After conducting soil-bearing tests, the developer of The Park requested and received approval to construct parking areas with a 2-inch crushed stone base and a 2-inch asphalt cover. Lacey standards also require concrete wheel stops to be […]

Automobile parking poses a significant land use problem in subdivision planning. In the recent past, common practice provided for wide local streets, often capable of accommodating a row of parked cars on each side in addition to two lanes of moving traffic. Such parking space has often been provided where there are also private driveways […]

At Woodpointe, the Knoxville/ Knox County Planning Commission approved modifications in right-of-way, road width, and road construction require­ments, as follows: • The right-of-way width requirement was reduced from 50 feet to 35 feet on streets leading into cul-de — sacs, and from 50 feet to 30 feet on other streets. • The street width requirement […]

Streets are an integral part of neighborhoods, and must be designed to provide adequate access to individual lots with minimal interference in the daily lives of residents. Wide pavements and rights-of-way occupy land which could be used to increase housing density or as open space. Following are guidelines for local streets: • Limit right-of-way widths […]

The accompanying illustrations show some site plans from demonstrations in the’Affordable Housing Program. The sites vary greatly in shape and in their physical characteristics. However, each of the plans represents a creative relationship to the existing land. Densities vary from five units per acre for the least dense single — fam’ily detached homes to 17.4 […]

Successful approaches to affordable housing require more efficient utilization of land than has often characterized American home building practices in the past. In most of the demonstration projects, reducing land cost per housing unit was the biggest single factor in achieving affordability. Lower housing cost is therefore closely linked to greater density of land utilization […]

Site planning and land development represent major areas of potential cost reduction for most builder/developers. These costs often increase in direct propor­tion to the complexity of local regulations, zoning requirements, and levels of required standards. It is widely recognized that: • One of the most rapidly increasing components of housing cost is the cost of […]

Most of the projects in the Affordable Housing Program received some form of fast-tracking processing. In many instances, the city used the program as a test for the improvement and expediting of procedures, and success­ful innovations were frequently adopted for general use. When Phillips Homes joined the. Affordable Housing Program, a number of changes to […]

A majority of the projects in the Joint Venture for Affordable Housing (JVAH) were developed under some version of Planned Unit Development zoning or subdivision regulations. Knoell Homes, developer of Cimarron, the’JVAH Project in Phoenix, saved at least six months by utilizing the PUD approach instead of applying for rezoning under the standard sub — […]

The Affordable Housing Demonstrations show that active participation by local government is essential in encouraging the production of housing at prices opening the market to those needing housing. In establishing a climate supporting the production of affordable housing, local government must: • Support the concept and specific activities at the highest levels, including elected officials […]