{"id":15507,"date":"2016-10-11T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/?p=15507"},"modified":"2016-10-11T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T16:25:24","slug":"laneway-homes-becoming-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/2016\/10\/11\/laneway-homes-becoming-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Laneway homes becoming popular"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laneway homes and carriage houses are becoming an extremely popular and affordable way to provide new housing options in desirable neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n

What are laneway homes?<\/h4>\n

\"Laneway<\/a>
More than 1,000 laneway homes have been built in Vancouver since they were first approved in 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n 
\nLaneway homes are small detached rental houses\u00a0 that are typically at the back of a property opening to a lane. They\u2019re usually one and a half storeys with one or two bedrooms. Most of them\u00a0also integrate a garage as regulations require they be built in the space normally occupied by a garage.<\/p>\n

What are carriage houses?<\/h4>\n

Carriage houses, or coach houses, are also secondary dwellings on a property; but they can be strata titled and sold separately from the main house. Carriage houses in Vancouver also don’t have to be situated on a lane. They can be larger than laneway homes, as long as the combined floor space ratio of the carriage home and main home doesn\u2019t exceed .75 of the entire property.<\/p>\n

Why are laneway homes popular?<\/h4>\n

The first laneway home in Vancouver was completed in 2010, less than a year after the city adopted a bylaw allowing<\/a> their construction in single-family zones, on lots at least 32.15 ft. wide. Since then there have been more than 1,000\u00a0 construction permits issued.
\nIn a community where property values are rising, space is limited and supply of rental housing is tight, laneway homes \u201ccontribute to the overall sustainability of the city,\u201d says the City of Vancouver\u2019s website. \u201cThey give people more opportunities to live close to where they work, shop, and play, and they make the city\u2019s urban lanes more green, livable and safe.\u201d
\nThey can also help homeowners with the mortgage.
\nTypically laneway homes cost about $300,000 to build, including permits, sewer and water hookups, and can be rented out for $1,500-2,500 a month.
\n\u201cGenerating a second stream of income by investing in a laneway home is more affordable than applying for a secondary mortgage to purchase a condo,\u201d says Kenny Wong of PHW Homes, a Burnaby builder that specializes in constructing laneway and custom homes.
\nLaneway homes are permitted to varying degrees in the City of North Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Richmond, Coquitlam, Port Moody, Maple Ridge and Surrey. They\u2019re not allowed in Burnaby.
\nNew Westminster is currently considering the regulation and construction of laneway homes and other infill housing options. We’ll look at that process in the second part of this blog, later this week.<\/p>\n

<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laneway homes and carriage houses are becoming an extremely popular and affordable way to provide new housing options in desirable neighbourhoods. What are laneway homes?  …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[887],"tags":[273],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":887,"label":"Your Community"}],"post_tag":[{"value":273,"label":"Featured"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"James Garbutt","author_link":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/author\/james\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":887,"name":"Your Community","slug":"your-community","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":887,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":146,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":887,"category_count":146,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Your Community","category_nicename":"your-community","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":273,"name":"Featured","slug":"featured","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":273,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":99,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garbuttdumas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}