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Nonprofit MicroLife Institute presents 'gentle density' housing concepts for Windsor/Osborne and Claremont sites
Summary
MicroLife Institute showed conceptual designs for the Windsor/Osborne roundabout assemblage and a city-owned Claremont Road parcel, proposing cottage courts, row houses and small commercial space to add missing-middle housing and neighborhood-serving retail while preserving neighborhood scale.
Will Johnston, executive director of MicroLife Institute, told the council the nonprofit is proposing ‘naturally affordable’ housing typologies — smaller lots, smaller footprints and gentle density — as alternatives to townhomes and large single-family homes.
For the Windsor/Osborne assemblage of about 14 parcels, MicroLife described a quadrant-based concept with small commercial uses, pedestrian courtyards, on-street-facing row houses and buffer single-family cottages on adjacent residential…
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