Responding to Demand for Walkable Urban Living: The Missing Middle Housing types provide diverse housing options, such as duplexes, fourplexes, cottage courts, and multiplexes. These house-scale buildings fit seamlessly into existing residential neighborhoods and support walkability, locally-serving retail, and public transportation options. They provide solutions along a spectrum of affordability to address the mismatch between the available U.S. housing stock and shifting demographics combined with the growing demand for walkability.
The Building Our City Speaker Series is presented by The Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation with support from the Asheville Downtown Association Foundation, the City of Asheville, Carleton Collins Architecture, Mosaic Lifestyle Realty, Kimpton Hotel Arras and The Collider. The series is produced by the Asheville Downtown Association and Urban3.
The series is focused on housing for 2023.
Doors open at 5:30pm and the session begins at 6pm.
Featured Speaker:
Jennifer Settle, Senior Associate | Opticos Design, Inc.
Jennifer Settle leads the newly-established Chicago office of Opticos Design and brings over 15 years of experience in transforming the built environment to enhance people’s everyday lives. She has led numerous community design charrettes and played a critical role in neighborhood, city, and regional master planning projects. These visions formed the basis for innovative comprehensive and zoning plan overhauls, as well as the future build-out of important development sites. Jennifer advocates for intentional communities and neighborhoods that provide diverse housing choices, closely collaborating with cities to better calibrate their regulations to enable missing middle housing. She recently led the zoning code update for the City of South Bend, winner of the 2021 Richard Driehaus Form-Based Code Award, and created a set of pre-approved buildings to help implement infill housing. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Urban Design from the University of California, Berkeley.
What is missing middle housing?
Responding to Demand for Walkable Urban Living: The Missing Middle Housing types provide diverse housing options, such as duplexes, fourplexes, cottage courts, and multiplexes. These house-scale buildings fit seamlessly into existing residential neighborhoods and support walkability, locally-serving retail, and public transportation options. They provide solutions along a spectrum of affordability to address the mismatch between the available U.S. housing stock and shifting demographics combined with the growing demand for walkability.
What we will discuss:
Plant the seeds for decision makers, the development community, and community members to enable housing choice and MMH in Asheville.
1. What’s the problem and why is it so important to discuss?
2. What is Missing Middle Housing?
3. What are the important Characteristics of MMH?
4. Understanding the Barriers to Delivering MMH
5. How is MMH being Implemented by Communities and Delivered by Developers?