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“We should be seeking and encouraging everything we can to enable incredible density and ingenuity, if we really care about having a diversity of incomes in the city,” says Keane. city-lower than, say, Smyrna-Atlanta is hardly full, Keane posits, and remains a relative infant in its growth trajectory. Tim Keane, Atlanta’s planning commissioner, says fundamental changes to land use are necessary in a city where 70 percent of properties carry single-family zoning, allowing for just a standalone, often expensive house. “So, if you carry a mentality that renters are bad, well, this may not be accommodating.” “Part of that’s a screening mechanism,” he says. The architect and developer, Eric Kronberg, says three duplexes are being reserved for renters. Duplexes commingle with one-bedroom units of just 720 square feet, allowing for some “workforce housing” sales in the $200,000s and maximizing density and income diversity.

Solar arrays, rainwater barrels, and Tesla battery packs abound.

They’re used for long-term rentals, Airbnb suites (generating up to $1,800 monthly), home studios or offices, or in-law crash pads.

Like other recent intown builds claiming vacant, larger lots in Reynoldstown (Abode’s Mattie Branch project, with its studio flats and light-commercial component) and Summerhill (European-influenced townhouses by Hedgewood Homes, some as small as 750 square feet), La France Walk is more innovative than a typical cluster of townhomes or a subdivision-style community carved into historic neighborhoods.įor starters, each standalone house comes with an attached guest suite. La France Walk-a 24-home “pocket neighborhood,” in urbanist lingo-has entered its final construction phase, aiming for a timeless look that reflects the farmhouse style of the lot’s original house (which still stands).

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