Laneway Housing and Garden Suites

[Sunnyside]

Is anyone else disappointed that the CMHC's design catalogue didn't produce any narrow ADU designs suitable for Southern Ontario laneways? For example, both the ADU 1 and ADU 2 are far too wide for the thousands of potential laneway lots in downtown Hamilton and most of the upper city's slightly wider lots. https://www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-s...929-1d42-463e-b3ca-c2fb6cf24f10&sortOrder=A-Z

Considering the designs were intended for mass production via prefabrication, its disappointing this wasn't a focus for our cities with major housing shortages that also have extensive laneways (Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Calgary, Halifax).

This does legitimately seem like an oversight. There are few places with laneways that have wide lots in the first place. Are our older lots substantially narrower than Toronto’s? If not, this is their problem too.

I don’t know who would be best to reach, but they couldn’t be that inaccessible. I’d love to know how they got to these designs- you’d think they’d be a ‘minimum viable product’.

 

[gregv]

Manor Rd. & Mt. Pleasant. As seen on MLS C12127825.

 

[flonicky]

Something different on Sandown Lane at Sharpe Street and Kingston Road.

Two houses and two laneway houses on a lot that used to look like this:

For now they face the rear of a gas station.

 

[rdaner]

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[rdaner]

Taken 25 March. First set is from Wales Ave in Kensington and the second are from Christie Pits.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Taken 25 March. First set is from Wales Ave in Kensington and the second are from Christie Pits.
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Hopefully a few more eyes on the street will deter some of these taggers.

 

[evandyk]

My little laneway got an additional two houses this year, so we're up to 5 now, in a space of about 100 metres.

There will likely never be enough eyes on a laneway to deter taggers, especially in the middle of the night. But some nice artwork of your own does deter taggers.

 

[Admiral Beez]

There will likely never be enough eyes on a laneway to deter taggers, especially in the middle of the night. But some nice artwork of your own does deter taggers.

My neighbour coated his garage door with this anti-graffiti film and it works amazing. You just hose the tags away.

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[evandyk]

I coated my house with this, which has also worked amazing.