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Consultant urges ‘missing middle’ housing, council asks staff to pursue targeted redevelopment
Summary
A consultant told the Addison City Council work session that boosting owner-occupied housing will require non-townhome products, targeted commercial-to-residential redevelopment and outreach to developers; council asked staff to return with parcel analyses and implementation options.
Paris Rutherford, a consultant with Catalyst Urban Development, told the Addison City Council work session that the town's low owner-occupancy rate stems from land economics, past planning choices that favored apartments, and household-income patterns that limit demand for for-sale housing. "There is a whole missing zone of housing," Rutherford said, describing mid-density options such as small condo buildings, row houses and pocket-cottage clusters.
Rutherford urged the town to focus redevelopment in commercial zones and to recruit developers that build the 'missing middle' product types. He said townhome projects and very high-rise for-sale towers are unlikely, by themselves, to reach a proposed owner-occupancy target because commercial…
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