Posted Jan 8, 2015, 1:11 AM
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What It's Like to Live Near a Micro-Unit Building
What It’s Like to Live Near a Micro-Apartment Building
http://www.lifeedited.com/what-its-l...ment-building/
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Much of the controversy surrounding the addition of micro-apartments in Seattle involved what might happen should the micro-apartment dwellers move into neighborhoods that had theretofore been the habitat of dwellers of single-family and other more conventional housing types. While we’ve heard one account of what it’s like to live in a micro-apartment, we have not heard as much about what it’s like to live near one of the buildings. Were the protesters right?
After a couple years of living next to a micro-apartment building in Seattle’s popular Capitol Hill area, one of those more conventional house-dwellers, Jason Weill, decided to report whether the fears had any basis in truth. His account is something of a mixed bag. In many ways, he confirmed many of the concerns, but in other ways, he seemed untroubled about their impact–at least weighed against the benefits the building brings...
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I'm excited about the micro unit buildings going up across the country. Do any SSPers live in one or near one?
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