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Ideal Gulf Coast Vernacular


woolie

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I've been going to UTMB every other week for a while now to work with a collaborator. Typically we'll walk through the neighborhood to a nearby restaurant for lunch.

I'm trying to imagine if Houston had 2 million units of stuff like this instead of the soulless sprawl.

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Are row houses with yards in the back just not family friendly enough? Is it the lack of SUV parking? Please enlighten me.

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Ideally I'd put parking in alleyways in the back, or onstreet.

That's been tried in several communities. When I've done site visits, I always notice that the alleys are aesthetic dead zones of concrete and hardi-plank, with little or no landscaping, yet more human activity than that front yards or common areas.

These are done by Parkside Homes, if I'm not mistaken, which is a subsidiary of K. Hovnanian.

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That's been tried in several communities. When I've done site visits, I always notice that the alleys are aesthetic dead zones of concrete and hardi-plank, with little or no landscaping, yet more human activity than that front yards or common areas.

That's what I'd expect, frankly. As are most suburban backyards even without alleyways. :)

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That's what I'd expect, frankly. As are most suburban backyards even without alleyways. :)

Yeah, for the same kinds of price points as these communities, you don't get much more than sod in a back yard of a normal home...but you do get sod and a wood fence, and that's something.

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with the width of the lots in the first pic, the homeowners could only have one car. not sure how attractive that would be to a family.

There's room for a two cars in the lot-parallel orientation or a single car parked street-parallel on the alley.

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There's room for a two cars in the lot-parallel orientation or a single car parked street-parallel on the alley.

i can see that if there weren't stairs coming down. looks like the corolla can't pull up farther so it would have to be parked in a way to block the invisible sidewalk. the placement of the no parking sign in that pic is interesting. i wonder what that is about.

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