At 1:29 AM -0500 10/16/02, dyna wrote: [...] > So we start with a "basement". Code requires we go down at >least 4 feet, so we might as well do poured concrete walls a full 7 >feet high. Keep the design pretty much square, so one wood or corn >stove can heat the whole place. Then put the kitchen and bathroom on >opposite sides of the same wall for a hilariously simple plumbing >system. Put on a gently sloping roof, for a shape right out of the >prairie school. > > We now have a modest house that is energy efficent, >inexpensive, and nearly indestructable. Outgrow it? Well, you can >always ad a house on top or turn it into a garage.
Well, sure. Around town there's lots of quite small houses built at the back of the lot. I was told these were meant to be turned into garages when the owners got up the scratch to build a house. And many never did. Does anyone know if this is true, or just a story told to meet the apparent facts? Examples abound: across from the Nokomis Station post office on 34th Av., for one, and another is 2 houses south of 38th Street on the west side of 17th Ave. Surely there are more. Karen Cooper, in Tangletown, thinking that mandating garages is a terrible idea to solve the problem of too many cars, and extra storage is what garden sheds are for. _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
