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Cary’s 4-unit small scale project at left. A large scale 80-unit project in background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1592875630388-0A8TEF6K1POIGLKJ4DVJ/Reduction-image-scissors.jpg Blog Posts - Parking Requirements Gave Me a Haircut Image: Why would a city allow development entitlements that are functionally unobtainable? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1592876014294-9XP34KM6SSFM65IWE71Z/fir-street-flats-020320-081-2-web.jpg Blog Posts - Parking Requirements Gave Me a Haircut Cary’s completed fourplex with barbershop on the ground floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1592875747436-7FG7AUK581KO21N072F8/DN-Zone-Parcels-chart-export3.jpg Blog Posts - Parking Requirements Gave Me a Haircut Chart: DN zone parcel size analysis. 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A tailor and a bottle shop. Portland, Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589936424116-JY9TIVQST2P3XU9VPLYB/Lincoln-Greenway.JPG Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution A neighborhood-friendly version at the intersection of two prominent Neighborhood Greenways. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589935649285-EPXZ277TE0YSOYLWU0EL/Small-office.JPG Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution This example has seen better days but could function as a barber, tax consultant, or neighborhood tea house. Portland, Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589935562418-73QXURQ4SJL4FYTAZ9BD/Bernice-color.jpg Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution The Huntress, a two-unit neighborhood-friendly ACU offering affordable retail space in front of a small rental house in Buffalo, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589936290155-0HNYJVJAY4YXW9WW0GOP/Clinton%2BGreenway-low%2Bintensity.jpg Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution This one using excess lot area, and the following two, are found on Portland Neighborhood Greenways, routes where preference is given to bicycles and pedestrians offering a neighborhood-friendly option. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589936636334-MDGHWKIRY6476P0ZIOT4/Pine-State-Biscuits.JPG Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution Startup location of the local favorite brunch spot, Pine State Biscuits, creator of a Portland original, the Reggie Deluxe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589936077310-NLEFVKKM9MFX8VFUOFHA/Basement_Pub.JPG Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution Aptly named, The Basement Pub sits in a portion of the front yard of this residential address. Portland, Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589935412825-MQ663DSW9G2KM7KYMDTZ/Belmont.JPG Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution An example of residential built character on a high-trafficked street. The darker ACU has been renovated and about to come to market. The roof of the lighter blue is used as patio space for the residents. Portland, Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589936518698-68N9MOP97U3WLJUPXDYV/Woodward-Greenway.JPG Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution Also on a Neighborhood Greenway, this one has the appearance of what was likely a small neighborhood grocer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589935038615-UK842MPHVLMO13433EDP/Taste_Tickler.jpg Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution The tuck-under nature of the Taste Tickler is likely to trigger sprinklers in any residential units above. Still the type of ‘hole in the wall’ places people love to discover. Portland, Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589937548924-WNK6ADW33ACBNLETXPKY/Taco_Pedaler.JPG Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution Reducing overhead, the Taco Pedaler started her mobile taco shop on a tricycle. She has now gone brick and mortar in a reasonably affordable ACU. See the original bike mounted on the building face. Portland, Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589935928314-UGHYKJYYTHSNHACACLFK/Bernice2.JPG Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution Bernice’s renovation of The Huntress is used as her Buffalove Development website banner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df9489b2021f24ecfb222cc/1589934715588-SI0OHJ79GZ2RC7KZ8A8L/Luke+Cage.jpg Blog Posts - As Post-COVID Small Businesses Struggle, ACUs Offer a Viable Solution Pop’s Barber Shop, an ACU in the walkout basement of a NY brownstone. 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