A blast from the past that is now more relevant than ever: #GREENZONING. I'm reposting this excellent article from @phnetwork.bsky.social 's 2019 Policy Resource Guide. We elevated this, along with many other excellent policies that have shifted markets. Looking at you #LosAngeles Dept. of Planning!
As an architect, it feels really natural to have a foot in advocacy, policy making, and education.
I am really surprised that more architects aren't engaged in this manner.
It not only great marketing, it is creating markets that you are then expert in.
#GreenZoning
We also got tapped to write a new ADU code for the city of Kent.
#GreenZoning
Variation of #Seattle6 on a smaller 40x100 lot:
Ground floor focus on flexible use:
Accessory Commercial Unit (ACU) ie cafe, shop or coworking
Short term ‘Flex flat’ rental for guest, caregiver, temporary disability of a resident or party room
#greenzoning #SeattleCompPlan
I wanted to compare Seattle’s basic development pattern using ADUs as townhouses against a more efficient use of Neighborhood Residential land (#Greenzoning ) like the #seattle6 .
If you think reformulating Single Family zoning to allow for more diverse housing types and a lot more households is radical, wait until you see the consequences of doing nothing.
#SeaCompPlan
#GreenZoning
I'm excited to say that I’ve been nominated to join the Seattle Planning Commission!
I’m going to go all out to focus our big picture planning efforts on #GreenZoning
1 affordable housing options
2 equitable development
3 complete walkable n'hoods
4 fighting climate change
Last fall, before the world fell apart, I gave a 10 minute presentation on #GreenZoning at the @NW_EcoBuilding Green building slam.
Enjoy:
https://vimeo.com/401776973
Last week I was part of a fun panel : New Ideas for Constructing Affordable Homes Panel, with @PaloAltoForward. Here is just my presentation on #Greenzoning and making our neighborhoods more open to opportunity for different types of housing!
https://youtu.be/rksoEoJ7yAc
I’ll be talking about #greenzoning and #missingmiddle at this event this week!
siliconvalleyathome.org/event/new-ideas-for-cons...
Exciting news—our team got selected to help a local city find new ways to bring in more housing options around mass transit. Woot!
It’s the natural extension of the #GreenZoning work I’ve been doing!
The work is funded by HB1923
Thanks @joefitzgibbon @votenicolemacri et al
#greenzoning
Housing form, governed by zoning, has bigger impact than energy efficiency. But let’s do both: legalize more housing options in compact forms like apartments, then build in super efficiency with...
For the future of new housing options in ‘single family zones’ we need to be very intentional abt the narrative framework. #GreenZoning is 1 way to frame future growth in a climate context but need to use complimentary economic, equity, and justice lenses for holistic approach.
Ready for my http://northwestgreen.org GREEN BUILDING SLAM + SUMMIT. #GreenZoning
I hope you're up for some kick ass graphs!!!!
What is #GreenZoning? Putting people close to jobs, transit, schools, parks and amenities, where they can live a low carbon life.
5) ..”Fundamentally, you need to make vehicles pollute less, make people drive less, or both, she said....”
One way is by applying #GreenZoning : put new residents where they won’t have long commutes, then in new very green, low energy buildings.
1) Great article here. Let’s unpack it to show how #GreenZoning can fight climate change
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/10/c...
My article from summer on #Greenzoning. Enjoy!!! NAPHN19-Policy_Resource-singles.pdf - Google Drive drive.google.com/file/d/1x49Xmey6qaqfG-XD...
#Greenzoning seminar tonight--I'm talking about Residential Small Lot zoning tonight at the Columbia City Library starting at 5pm. How can sensitive development for additional households integrate into and improve our established neighborhoods. #RSLZ
Ready to do my #RSLZ pitch for #greenzoning at #builtgreen19. Woot!
I’m presenting Fighting Climate change with #greenzoning at the Northwest Green Building Slam on 10/25. I hope you’ll come out to support sustainability in the Pacific Northwest with me. Tickets can be purchased online:...
In September I’ll be talking about #RSLZ / #greenzoning at #builtgreen19 9/12 and in Columbia City 9/25.
At #builtgreen19 I’ll be presenting how #RSLZ Residential Small Lot Zoning will reshape Seattle and how much more we can do. #greenzoning
Register here, because look at all these other intriguing topics, speakers, and hands on knowledge.
Inspiring!...
OK, so excited to have this article come out in the @naphnetwork 2019 Policy Resource Guide! it is kinda a summary of the latest #greenzoning infill in single family zone strategies.
Thank you @PassiveHouseBB for the opportunity to write about this!
#greenzoning step up intensity in zoning everywhere where we already live, work. Leave the rest as connected network of open spaces.
www.metropolismag.com/cities/bohlin-cywinski-j...
cool beans--i'll be speaking at the Builtgreen Conference this fall, so OMG you better sign up, because it is so rare to hear me talk about small scale infill housing, #greenzoning and #RSLZ Residential Small Lot zoning.
#greenzoning
Little jumps in density have a big environmental benefit. Check it out on the granular level then extrapolate!
www.sightline.org/2019/06/07/a-duplex-a-tr...
#Greenzoning: creating new places for people to live near urban amenities, where they can live a low carbon lifestyle. Let's bake in housing opportunity, not unsustainable land use patterns! #rslz
I’ll be presenting #greenzoning and #RSLZ at @AIASeattle ‘s Residential design Forum: #DensityDoneRight
Sign up here:
https://www.aiaseattle.org/event/housingdesign2019/
Seattle’s zoned development capacity map-showing where potential for new development is highest (reds). territory outside urban villages (white lines) is detached Single Family (olive). There is nearly no way to add households to those areas. That’s not #GreenZoning
