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Where do people store bicycles - especially larger ones - in your cool four/five prototypes?

In the cargo bike garage! At-grade. Warm/dry. Auto open garage door. Dedicated spots with charging. Easy access to outside and the stair/elevator. Smaller bikes can be in the unit.

Amazing! also love the watercolor

More: www.onecityvancouver.ca/news/housing...

And yes we're channeling a retro futurism vibe with these prototypes. There was a lot of great urbanism at the start of the 1900s (before cars took over) and a lot of that same aesthetic can work well with modern passive house principles, low embodied carbon, and dense single stair urbanism.

This is my oldest Vancouver opinion: go back to the Edwardian age! The last time most of us here actually wished to be a proper city.

Too much of Vancouver has seen "Character Gentrification": extreme land value lift in areas where character zoning has excluded new apartments. We need to bring more housing options, incl sub $1m homes, more rental, more alt-ownership (like co-op, land trust) to these n'hoods.