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Originally Posted by bilbao58
Chicago does that three-story/three-flat thing really well.
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the "chicago 3-flat", the "boston triple-decker", the "montreal tri-plex".
any other cities where this "3 homes stacked on top of each other" arrangement is so common that it has its own local name?
it's a really nice middle ground between maximum-density full-blown apartment blocks and detached SFHs. they can allow for the necessary unit density to make things more functionally urban at the neighbrohood level, while still sorta maintaining the scale, feeling and intimacy of a SFH neighborhood.
for instance, without ever being taught/told to do so, my kids both instinctively refer to our 3-flat unit as "our house", not "our building" or "our apartment". it's totally not a "house" in the conventionally understood way, but because it is small-scale, with some small shared yard spaces and a somewhat individualized sense of place to it, these kinds of buildings do blur the lines nicely, particularly because they can work really well for city families by often being larger than units in a typical apartment block (and also
WAY more affordable than a detached SFH).
it's like they took a regular old bungalow, and then just multiplied it vertically by 3.