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Originally Posted by animatedmartian
For Brush Park as a whole, the off-street parking requirement ratio is 0.75.
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Just out of curiosity, where'd you find this number? I wasn't aware the Form Based Code for the neighborhood had been passed, because otherwise, you can't have different requirements for different parts of the city regardless of the zone. However, it being zoned PD (Planned Development) gets around ther requirements, regardless, since it would ultimately be up to the Planning Commission to reject or approve the plan. Obviously, they've approved all of these and the Brush Park neighborhood association has been very open to supporting all of this.
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Found it. The code sets the minimum for the neighborhood at 0.75 of the existing requirement and the maximum up to 2.0 per dwelling. I also forgot that the city is requiring developers to adhere to the code whether it's been enacted or not. I imagine they are doing this through the Planned Development approval process, whereas approval would require them adhearing to the proposed code. In any case, carriage homes have one garage and it appears the townhomes have a garage, plus a dedicated surface spot in the small parking alleys behind the townhomes, and altogether the neighborhood is around 400 units, I think.
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Originally Posted by ardecila
^ Sounds about right. Surprising that Detroit developers are embracing underground parking like that. In Chicago, our high water table and garbage swampy soil makes underground construction too expensive for neighborhood-scale buildings. I always assumed Detroit as another flat (ish) Great Lakes city would have similar issues, but maybe not.
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Detroit is only really bad in parts as it relates to drainage. For at least a mile on either side of Woodward the city sits on a very gentle rise, the Detroit Moraine. It continues to rise far into Oakland County. The Native Americans had already known this, which is why Woodward is where it is today. The whole westside north of Michigan Avenue raises up to 8 Mile, which is why drainage has never been that bad on that side of town. The only places that are really bad are parts of the lower east side and parts of Southwest Detroit.