And no complaints of them destroying the character of the neighborhood?
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It took a single family home and made it a more expensive single family home, the neighbors probably helped out.
Others of us were less happy to see a Milton Small designed international-style residence that was listed in the National Register of Historic Places get renovated so heavily, although it did try to stay in character.
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Didn’t that ‘Small residence’ also get the ‘Love it or List It’ treatment before it was sold and the current owners did the reno with In Situ ?
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Yeah. From what I heard from the neighborhood grapevine, the house looked cool but was really hard to live in in its original form.
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I suppose hard to live in for rich people who “need” lots of space.
Yeah. I bet poor folks would not find that place hard to live in. It’s all perspective.
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Really good podcast on a new paper that analyzes how building heights change the cost of a building. Lots of good info on the idea of “donuts” where costs jump up between for example 7 to 8 stories. These “donuts” end up being heights where no one builds because it’s so much more expensive that you would really want to build 12 if you are over 7. Just an example but stuff that has been discussed here on the dtr community a lot. Would be cool to dig into the paper because they apparently have the data regionally where it is different across the country. Makes you wonder if our zoning height could be tuned to this for our regional costs. [UCLA Housing Voice] Ep 78: Building Height and Construction Costs with Anthony Orlando #uclaHousingVoice
UCLA Housing Voice - Ep 78: Building Height and Construction Costs with Anthony Orlando - Podcast Addict via @PodcastAddict
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