Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
Vancouver, BC
Co-owner & Lead Designer
Lanefab Design/Build
Oori Architecture
B.Eng M.Arch
Build beautiful.
Build for a livable climate.
www.Lanefab.com
#ThickWallsAreSexy / #SingleStair #ElectrifyEverything / #Passivhaus #NetPositive
- Hi Bsky - If you like our climate friendly homes, rainway work, tiny house prototypes, single stair buildings, or west coast / mid century modernism… we’d appreciate a positive review on Google: g.page/r/CaQJoX_DZa...
- Looking for a name for these. Infill Micro Towers? Accessible Stacked Flats? Traditional Apartment Buildings? Super SSMUH?
- 6 Storey, Single Stair, Accessible 12 Plex 1.75 FSR (1.6 FSR + 10% passive house bonus) 30% Lot Coverage = more green space than adjacent houses
- My favourite executive director @juliaboyledavidson.bsky.social (Ishtar Women's Resource Society) was on site in Langley today to open a new 2nd stage transition house with YWCA @bchousing.bsky.social and @christineboyle.bsky.social
- RFK and Miller toast their success.
- This sucks. There are so few decent trails where you can go off leash.
- Looking at detached home prices vs zoning changes (up-zoning) in Vancouver, year over year % change Upzoning: 2004 - Full basements 2009 - Add LWHs 2012 - Larger LWHs 2018 - Duplex (no change) 2023 - Multiplex and/or larger LWHs
- My thesis is that other factors (interest rates, cap gains taxes, immigration, asset protection through bylaws etc) have a far larger impact on land value vs citywide incremental upzoning.
- "Imagine if every city had 12 different parts of town that defined what kind of Apple computer you can buy, and if your Neighbours could complain and make you buy a PC instead." * Trying to explain zoning to tech investor guys who want to be the Steve Jobs of housing disruptors.
- Crunching more numbers for a "Baugruppe". Assuming 12 partners buy this $2.5m lot on the west side and co-develop a 12 plex, then they could have a 920sf 2br and den for ~800k (but not a simple or straightforward process!). A more conventional developer could could sell at ~$970psf or $900k.
- The existing bungalow could be put on a barge and moved to a piece of land where the house and land value are more appropriate to each other.
- Home relocation and deconstruction are both better than demolition, and both better than doubling down on exclusionary zoning. Home Relocation: www.renewaldevelopment.ca
- Deconstruction (using the "De-Fab" method: vemadeconstruction.com
