A home that was built about 100 years ago is being demolished to make room for affordable housing in Raleigh.
The plot can be found at 907 Williamson Drive, where the developers intend to put up 17 townhouses on a 2.5-acre area. A development such as this one is now possible in Raleigh after the City Council made numerous changes to land development rules over the last three years. The new rules allow for more housing types and more houses per plot. New rules in cases like this can be published on documents with official Letterheads.
Before these changes were made, most of the city was restricted to single-family housing. The new type of housing is called “missing middle” housing and it is something in-between large apartment buildings and single-unit dwellings. The types of houses that fit in this category include duplexes, townhouses, small garden apartments, and backyard cottages. Missing middle types of houses were popular in Raleigh before World War II, but local ordinances made them illegal because of the strain on utility services.
This type of housing developments could be important for the community because the cost of housing in Raleigh is relatively high. The City Council has put several safeguards and rules in place that will ensure missing middle housing does not worsen the quality of life for residents by bringing problems with traffic and stormwater runoff.
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