home and work
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How allowing and facilitating commercial uses in residential buildings--hanging a shingle--helps to make lively urban neighborhoods.TRANSCRIPT
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Home and Workcommercial uses in residential spaces
and why they’re important
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The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. Jane Jacobs
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Notice in this 1811 ad that J. Cook is operating from the home of Mr. Spencer.
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In many residential areas today, you can’t hang your shingle. It simply isn’t allowed.
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Even some spaces built for retail can’t be used that way anymore.
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You can live in a store, but can’t have a store in your home.
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Yet some of the most interesting retail districts and best urban neighborhoods mix stores and homes, blending those functions in buildings.
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This one is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Retail hasn’t hurt the housing values here, the median
sales price is $1,162,500 (Feb ’09).
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This one is in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, one of the state’s most desirable small towns.
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This attractive home in Chagrin Falls, Ohio is also a
gift shop.
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Businesses in buildings built as homes are common in
Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village.
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The Olde Pink House Restaurant operates
out of one of Savannah’s old
homes.
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Even Celebration, Florida brings commerce to new buildings that look like they were built as homes.
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Many historic buildings fall into disrepair and are demolished. A commercial use might have
saved them.
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If car ownership is mandatory, [the place is] not urban. Donald Baxter
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Not allowing retail uses in residential areas and buildings forces residents to have a car
and drive to the suburbs (or risk life and limb waiting for a bus).
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What gets us into trouble isn't what we don't know; its what we know for sure that just ain't so. Yogi
Berra
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In 1920, no major U.S. city had a zoning ordinance, which keeps businesses out of
homes.
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Zoning is not a cure for the disease, it is the disease. James Kunstler
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What Can Be Done?
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Eliminate zoning. Underperforming urban neighborhoods will only come
back to life when zoning codes are rewritten or eliminated.
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Being able to hang your shingle on your home as an
artist, lawyer or dentist, is an idea as old as the city itself.
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Being able to hang your shingle on your home as an
artist, lawyer or dentist, is an idea as old as the city itself.
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The best places to live enable an organic mix of homes and businesses.
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Many not-so-good ones prevent it.
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