Thin Streets: Turning Asphalt into Affordable Housing
The City possesses an enormous untapped resource in the form of street right of ways which are 66 feet wide. Our basic proposal is to divide existing north-south street right-of-ways into equal parts, producing two new 33' residential lots per block, and a narrower 33' right-of-way.
The new lots would be developed for affordable housing.
The narrower 33' right of way, with a 17' thin street, would accommodate a travel and parking lane for cars/bikes, a sidewalk for pedestrians, and boulevards for street trees.
Implementing the proposal in the single-family zones would:
- make room for 10,000 to 20,000 units of ground-oriented housing;
- establish an endowment fund ranging from $2 billion dollars to $4 billion from the lease of the new lots which would be used to support affordable housing and needed neighbourhood improvements;
- avoid rezonings or the demolition of existing housing.
Our Scheme 3 would consolidate the new lot with the adjacent property. This allows for all sorts of possible combinations up to 24 units per block while still maintaining neighbourhood character.
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