VIA ZONING REFORM
What is missing middle
housing? A housing term describing a range of house-scale residential building
types with multiple units compatible in scale and form with detached
single-family homes.
“Going back to Colonial times, Vermont villages had a pattern colloquially characterized as big house, little house in back and barn, small homes above general stores, carriage houses, and buildings with many porches and apartments.
This accommodated multiple families and cottage commerce and industry in the barn or store,” Amy Tomasso, planning coordinator for the Vermont Department of Housing & Community Development, said.
“Then our mid-20th century zoning code made it harder to build that historically occurring range of options and mix of uses.
We stopped building missing middle housing, which
is very much needed to accommodate a growing population of young families, the
workforce and seniors wanting to downsize.”
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