Bring back the amateur builders.
From “The Low-Rise Speculative Apartment.” (1964)
Conversation
In the Oakland survey, only 7/186 developments in a five year period required land assembly.
Disinterest in land assembly helped by small lot zoning and kept land costs / landowner gains low.
It also produced a distributed development pattern Cf. big projects.
1
2
24
The modal size of surveyed development was 5-8 units.
Really Makes U Think about what we could do with 10 unit and under CEQA streamlining via SB10.
1
27
It appears apartments replacing older single family homes was fairly typical.
Banned in San Francisco this year by Aaron Peskin, realizing a long-held dream of Calvin Welch.
2
2
24
Few of the apartments were built by developers. Majority by GCs, subcontractors and trades people (Not sure about this because GCs and subs pull permits on behalf of devs all the time).
More significant is 1/3 of permit pullers having no real estate industry ties.
2
1
15
