It’s not enough to tear down dilapidated residential and commercial structures and leave vacant lots. There must be an easier way to build on vacated lots. Especially in residential areas. The process is tedious, and long. First the Council person has to approve the plan for the structure that one wants to build. A site plan must be submitted along with a model home design. That must be approved before a zoning application with the appropriate fees can be submitted.
If the neighborhood has been full of multifamily houses, and bungalows, then a plan for a ranch style modular or manufactured home may not be approvable. Even though that style of structure is obsolete for the most part. Given the urban demographic of aging baby boomers as home owners, surely there is a necessity to re-think and re-plan the neighborhoods. Therefore, there are only empty lots where new homes should have been. Energy efficient and ecologically appropriate homes for a ecologically conscious population.
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