QUALITY GROWTH TOOLBOX

Creating a Variety of Housing Choice

A Range of Housing Types is needed to meet the needs of our region’s residents and economy

• New jobs• Population growth• Shrinking in

household size• Location• Cost and value• Design• Life cycle needs

Housing Trends Influenced by:

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Identify the Housing Needs of Each Community

Examine Existing Planning and Zoning Regulations

Expand Comprehensive Plans to Allow More Housing Options

Design to Create Attractive Communities and Housing

Use Incentives to Promote Housing Choice

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Identify the Housing Needs of Each Community

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Perform a housing needs assessment Accommodate housing for all life stages

Create a range of housing choice through planning and zoning processes

Allow innovative design and building techniques

Adopt performance based development regulations

Allow a mix of housing size and types

Examine Existing Planning and Zoning Regulations

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Establish a Community Plan for housing expansion

Encourage infill and reuse Encourage

redevelopment of strip centers

Expand Comprehensive Plans to Allow More Housing Options

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Focus on quality design Adopt design standards

for small-lot, townhouse, and multi-family housing

Preserve open space Encourage energy

efficiency

Design to Create Attractive Communities and Housing

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Soulsville, Memphis, TN: College Street

Soulsville, Memphis, TN: College Street

Soulsville, Memphis, TN: College Street

Soulsville, Memphis, TN: College Street

Soulsville, Memphis, TN: College Street

Commissioned by the Fannie Mae Foundation

Soulsville, Memphis, TN: College Street

Provide an incentive to create workforce housing

Make the right things easier

Support historic preservation and affordable housing

Use Incentives to Promote Housing Choice

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New Housing Types to Consider• Rural Conservation Development• Design that Retains Rural

Character

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New Housing Types to Consider

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New Housing Types to Consider

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New Housing Types to Consider

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Example: Nashville’s Germantown Historic District – Redevelopment Success and Housing Choice Creation• Historic Germantown located north of downtown Nashville

• Contains a surprising housing diversity for a compact scale neighborhood

• Excellent example of revitalization over five decades• Germantown and beyond - adaptive reuse of

industry sites and pioneers in urban housing and design

• Some of Region's best examples of new housing types to consider to meet Housing Life Cycle Needs