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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1407 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:19 pm    Post subject: Residential Tuesday 2007.0306 Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers, Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis every week in this free email newsletter from the editors of ArchitectureWeek. It's not just the gradually developing needs of parents in my own family. This week, from Boston to Utah and California, home accommodations for the elderly seem to be in the news, from elevators, to safety options, to inclusive or exclusionary zoning... Home Elevator Use Zooms - Contra Costa Times, 2007.0305 http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/16836709.htm Too Grown Up? - Boston Globe, 2007.0304 http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/04/too_grown_up/ A Home for the Ages - Salt Lake Tribune, 2007.0304 http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5357449 Residential Design and Building News ------------------------------------ How Big Is Too Big? - Stamford Advocate, 2007.0305 http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-nor.big.house5mar05,0,3331107.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines Builders Paying to Start Home Building Program at Oakland - Murfeesboro Post, 2007.0305 http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=2778 Jupiter Among the Best in Housing Design Audit - Easier Property, 2007.0304 http://www.easier.com/view/UK_Property_News/West_Midlands/article-102938.html Closing the Door on Open Houses - New York Times, 2007.0304 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/realestate/04COV.html?ref=realestate Living Large on a Tiny Lot - New York Times, 2007.0304 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/realestate/04sketch.html Homey, If You Don't Mind a Building Boom - New York Times, 2007.0304 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/realestate/04Livi.html?ref=realestate Seeking to Preserve Eccentricity - New York Times, 2007.0304 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/realestate/04LiZo.html?ref=realestate Building Better Value Homes Using Modern Approaches - First Rung, 2007.0304 http://firstrung.co.uk/articles.asp?pageid=NEWS&articlekey=4240&cat=44-0-0 Million-Dollar Middle America? - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2007.0304 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070304-9999-lz1n4million.html Are Home Builders Out of the Basement Yet? - Wilmington Star, 2007.0304 http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070304/ZNYT01/703040494/1002/business Rock-Solid Homes - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.0303 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/home/16826015.htm Maybeck's First House Was a Design Laboratory - Berkeley Daily Planet, 2007.0302 http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=03-02-07&storyID=26477 Modern Building Methods Leave Contractors Stumped - Inside Housing, 2007.0301 http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/article/?id=1448704 Housing Slump Hurts Home Depot - Chicago Tribune, 2007.0228 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0702238homedepot-story,1,1281064.story?coll=chi-bizfront-hed A Basement as Bright and Airy as a Loft - Washington Post, 2007.0228 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/28/AR2007022800606.html Stronger Building Codes Are Needed for Mississippi - Clarion-Ledger, 2007.0226 http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070226/OPINION/702260315 U.S. Government Investigating KB Home Stock Options - International Herald Tribune, 2007.0225 http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/25/bloomberg/bxoptions.php Lofty Ambitions - Patriot Ledger, 2007.0224 http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/02/24/business/biz01.txt Lowe's Reports Record Earnings for Fiscal 2006 - Lowe's Press Release, 2007.0223 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-23-2007/0004533247&EDATE= Product News - The Menswear Collection from Lees Contract Carpeting http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/products_update.html People and Places This Week - Savannah River Landing to add luxury mixed use to historic Georgia Covenant House in Manhattan is getting a $25 million renovation http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/people_and_places.html This Week's Quiz - Please provide a definition of "gloss" as it refers to paint. 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phansford Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Posts: 853 Location: SW Ohio	Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:30 am    Post subject: How Big Is Too Big? - Stamford Advocate, 2007.0305 "What we're trying to do is encourage houses that are more in proportion to the size of the lot," said Glenn Chalder, a principal with Planimetrics who has worked with New Canaan and Ridgefield on house sizes. "If zoning doesn't change to keep pace with the community, then people are going to be unhappy." Some builders say new zoning regulations are not the answer. "Every time this discussion comes up, I've always said the marketplace determines the size of houses, not the zoning regulations," said builder Rick Benson, who has also served on the Planning and Zoning Commission. "Houses built now are smaller than ones built three years ago. As energy costs continue to rise, people are going to want more energy-efficient houses." For some developers, design, not size, is the problem. "I personally feel that you can build some very ugly small houses," Westport builder Michael Greenberg said. "I think the objection, which is rightfully so, is that there are these out-of-scale, out-of-context homes that seem to be on life support, in terms of the fact that they can be plunked down anywhere . . . without fitting in to the site." I think these three quotes demonstrate some of the various positions on the residential development. Locally we have the opposite problem. We have communities which have codifed the minimum house size then push for larger houses, which of course means more tax revenue, even if the market won't support larger houses. We worked on a development in a community whose ordinace called for a minimum of 1,400 SF. We designed a series of production houses in the 1,800 SF to 2,400 SF (Price point of $175K to $225K) area and the City Manager pushed the developer to promise 3,600 and up (Price point of $360K and up). The area is a working middle-class area with probably the lowest property values outside the city of Dayton. The golf community development across the street was in foreclosure for the zillionth time. The demand's by the City killed the project.
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