This Old Vancouver House » laneway http://www.thisoldvancouverhouse.com Home renovation to restore this old house back to the 30s Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:07:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 More on the laneway http://www.thisoldvancouverhouse.com/2009/06/25/more-on-the-laneway/ http://www.thisoldvancouverhouse.com/2009/06/25/more-on-the-laneway/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:51:33 +0000 john http://www.thisoldvancouverhouse.com/?p=222 Well, six months have come and gone, and it has been a busy time for us indeed.  Updates coming soon.

In the meantime, laneway housing continues to progress.  Attended the “information session” (really, more like a bunch of posters flanking the walls, with people milling about reading them, while holding coffee and gulping down cookies) yesterday at the Italian Centre.  The public hearing is set for July 21st (here are the report and minutes).  For a 33′ lot like ours, we’re talking a max of 500 sq feet (1 or 1.5 stories).  One or two parking spaces may be required too — still TBD.

It looks like another company specializing in laneway housing, Vancouver Laneway Housing,  has come into play.  The spokesperson mentioned that there will be two options — either you can go with a custom design or choose from several predesign floorplan “models”  to keep costs down (this option starts in the ~$150/sq ft ballpark).

For the full scoop on the laneway housing proposal, see the official website.

]]> http://www.thisoldvancouverhouse.com/2009/06/25/more-on-the-laneway/feed/ 0 Carport on the backburner http://www.thisoldvancouverhouse.com/2009/01/21/carport-on-the-backburner/ http://www.thisoldvancouverhouse.com/2009/01/21/carport-on-the-backburner/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:11:10 +0000 lola http://www.thisoldvancouverhouse.com/?p=216 All of our dawdling on the garage/carport meant that we have spent the fall and winter scraping or squeegee’ing our car’s windows on a daily basis, getting soggy unloading groceries, and suffering from nasties like destroying a tire (thanks to running over the metal bracket remaining from one of the carport’s beams).  But on the upside, our procrastination means that Laneway Housing is now in a pilot phase.  Sure, that kind of renders our exorbitant carport permit kind of useless, but imagining a wee house in place of our ramshackle garage and concrete monostrosity of a parking pad seems a lot more…desirable.  Media stories have been quoting $150k as the estimated figure for replacing/converting a garage into 600 sq.ft. living quarters, which sounds rather ridiculous (one can only hope that was the pre-”the economy is falling!” quote).  Zoning changes apparently TBD, and the info available about permits seems to be rather sparse for the time being.

So, we’ll probably continue to procrastinate…err, strategically wait.

More laneway info here.

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