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@onecityvan.bsky.social posted their housing platform. Lots to like: more housing options, more non market housing, better support for renters. Also, they're calling for affordable & accessible flats (like our Four/Five prototype 👇) to be allowed everywhere we already allow plexes and large homes.

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.

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.

Anyway, enough ranting about housing narratives that are past their due date, here’s a yard sign in the wild.

Also, vis a vis the original rendering. One commenter said (the least realistic thing is the Kei truck). To that person I offer this:

A few other variations on the FourFive in terms of style. The left one borrows heavily from our friends at MA&HG. The right borrows from one of our previous passivhaus projects. Given the political challenge with bringing apartments into detached 'hoods, the 'mod-wardian' is what we now lead with