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.