It takes guts to make change happen, and some cities have them, others don’t. In Vancouver, they changed the regulations to permit housing in back lanes, calling it EcoDensity; it is a carefully crafted bit of legislation that protects views and privacy but gets rid of the NIMBY factor that has paralyzed this kind of thing elsewhere. (See http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/vancouver-approves-back-lane-housing.php) Now it is coming to fruition, with the first laneway houses designed under the bylaw getting built. First up in Bryn Davidson’s Lanefab house, 710 square feet of green modern design in at the back of a house on Vancouver’s east s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Vancouver’s EcoDensity Program Produces an Explosion of Small Green Modern Design
