Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Position Papers

01/01/1987

Design Matters, Proposal Brief

Collection of the nine initial ‘position papers’ presenting the consultants’ solutions after investigating the existing problems of the areas under study. The 25-page collection includes the following ‘position papers’: 1) Replacing current density measures with context-sensitive FAR; 2) Parking ratio; 3) Driveways; 4) Building type; 5) Building height; 6) Garden size; 7) Side and backyard set-backs; 8) Single lot development – The need for cooperation among single lots; 9) Character of the street. Further to the above, there is also one additional ‘position paper’ titled ‘The overall structure of multifamily housing – A single ideal block’, and edited versions of three of the initial papers.

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Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Daniel Solomon, Kathryn Clarke, Susan Haviland, Phoebe Wall, Daniel Solomon and Associates with Phoebe Wall, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.