A4 Architects

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For the early part of the twentieth century, ADUs remained largely unregulated and were common throughout the following decades, particularly in cities where large houses were available to be divided up. Additionally, navigating financing options and streamlining permitting processes remain areas needing improvement.

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Community Architect Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

"The full weight of city government is ready to make this a reality. The bills are intended to create the zoning necessary to permit the proposed size of the project which cannot be built with the existing Urban Renewal Plan and current zoning in place. This gives everyone a chance to mull this over.

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The Architecture Designs

AUGUST 22, 2022

Nursing homes for the elderly are popular in many large, modern cities. To give your parents the gift of elegant aging, a granny apartment is a wonderful option if space and finances permit. Because of modern life’s constant motion, many older people are now geographically isolated from their families.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

We’re more likely to envision congested freeways, overpopulated cities, heavy resource extraction, and industrial smokestacks. 1) Land-use planning: Cities, counties, and communities can focus on changing land-use planning strategies and guide growth and development toward compact, vertical, walkable neighborhoods and districts.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 24, 2023

Chapter 22 concludes Part II of the book, whose final two chapters record the two major projects that sparked the Providence renaissance, which followed a series of major hiccups in the city’s development, which have been described in the other chapters of Part II, reprinted here over the past several months. The club sued, but lost.

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Santa Cruz Architect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Accessory Dwelling Units are more popular than ever, and cities across California are recognizing the importance of ADUs in the fight to end the state’s housing crisis. Just recently, Freddie Mac updated their ADU financing options and CalHFA extended their ADU Grant Program to help even more homeowners build backyard homes.

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A Better Built Environment

APRIL 4, 2021

It has also been a week of back to back celebrations: living one full year in New York City, accepting a new job offer, getting our vaccine, and turning 40. I’ll be joining them as a Senior Account Manager, consulting with firms to help improve their operations, management, and finances.

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Santa Cruz Architect

JULY 16, 2023

The upshot is that the City’s Planning Department has become more proactive in support of folks wanting to build ADUs, with the result that the associated rules and fees have become considerably more reasonable over the past several years. The City has posted interim guidelines at its website. What is an ADU?

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Dwell

AUGUST 2, 2023

But can downloadable drawings provide the affordable housing the city desperately needs? Last week, the City of Los Angeles rolled out a new tool to address the city’s housing crisis. The You ADU is the first city-owned plan that is publicly available and can be downloaded from the city’s website.

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Brandon Donnelly

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Metro Vancouver, which includes the City of Vancouver and 20 other municipalities, is proposing to increase its development cost charges (DCC) : Metro Vancouver is proposing to increase DCCs by roughly $23,000 per new single-family home; $21,000 per new townhome; and $14,000 per new apartment. This makes some sense.

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Santa Cruz Architect

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Individual cities and counties would have latitude to decide if they want their residents to have the option to sell their ADUs. Currently, California properties having ADUs are not permitted to be condoized – AB 1003 proposes to change that. Finally, from a social perspective, it could increase gentle density in many cities.

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Santa Cruz Architect

MARCH 19, 2024

This transformation aims to simplify and expedite the permitting process, making it more accessible for homeowners to expand their properties with additional housing units. Effective statewide from January 1, 2022, SB-9 mandates compliance from all California cities.

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Santa Cruz Architect

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Regulators have yet to adapt building codes and permit processing to the technology. The climate savings of the very greenest house, if constructed on the periphery of a city, will be consumed in that household’s carbon cost to commute to jobs in the inner city. Significant barriers remain.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Besides the environmental challenges related to urban stormwater runoff and flooding already mentioned, there are social challenges related to race and access to the city. Developer input was certainly helpful in understanding market tolerance and financing metrics, which shape much of what gets built in everyday environments.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Finally, I thought I would include a letter I wrote from my spiral notebook that covers several cities but recounts the story of when I was in Budapest and our group got caught up in the middle of revolt, an uprising, maybe an attempted coup d’état … whatever it was, it was pretty serious. Good times. Yes it was warm. Well saved.

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Architecture Quote

JULY 16, 2020

From this we can deduce that: Residential construction permits, starts, and under construction, all fell in 2018 Residential construction permits fell by 14.6% Due to this project, the process for applying for a permit can take only a few hours. 600 building permits – the fourth-highest result since 2010.

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