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Originally Posted by mhays
That's why you don't see much in the 3-6-unit multifamily range even when it's allowed, unless other types aren't.
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That's interesting, I've never thought it about that way before, but the bolded is probably why chicago still sees so much small unit-count multi-family construction.
It's not that developers out in the neighborhoods wouldn't build more intensely, if allowed, but because they can easily snatch up individual underdeveloped 25'/50'x125' lots and throw up a 3/6-flat as of right, as opposed to going through a costly and laborious entitlement process (not to mention all of the increased construction costs of elevators, structured parking, etc.), 3/6-flats get built around me with unsurprising regularity.
So a lot of it really is zoning.
And local building culture.
When you've got an entire cottage industry of small-time players that know how to build 3/6-flats (and make a modest profit doing so), and the path of least legal resistance is to just build more 3/6-flats, guess what?
you get more 3/6-flats.
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