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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3-5 story single stair walk up apartments (with or w/o elevator) are the next frontier in adding housing density to our low density suburbs.

Long outlawed by zoning and the fire code, British Columbia is taking the lead on rewriting the code to allow for these single stair apartments in order to provide much needed housing, due to the dire need for more affordable and diverse housing types in cities and suburbs alike.

There is a movement here in the U.S. to reintroduce this type of housing to our neighborhoods and communities. [/quote]

Which low density suburbs are you talking about? This thread is about the University Boulevard corridor plan, not Potomac.

More about single-stair buildings, aka point-access blocks, here: https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16880-exit-strategy-the-case-for-single-stair-egress There is nothing revolutionary or second-best about them.

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Imagine attractive rows of slender one story walk ups about 5 stories in height with corner stores and/or first floor retail—perfect where the consolidation of adjacent properties would be challenged. That would not preclude other complementary taller, more dense developments. There is room for more density all up and down University Boulevard on the Montgomery County side. And the surface parking lots at the Takoma Langley Crossroads could be redeveloped into more dense housing and retail with some room left over for small parks and public spaces. [/quote]

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