From my morning walk, some serious missing middle. C. 1910. One house lot; 32 homes. This kind of “gentle density” could make a real impact if we let it. 
This would be 16 kinds of illegal right now. No parking. No garbage-truck access. Basically no setbacks. All sorts of “overlook” and shadowing on one neighbouring house.
Adding housing to a walkable neighbourhood is not a complicated technical or architectural problem. Do this. Make the airshafts bigger. If there isn’t enough soft landscaping, widen the street, which is too wide, anyway. Repeat x 5000.
Of course none of this is going to happen, because our homeowner-led politics and our regulation (which are linked) will never let it happen.
Up the street, the missing middle poster child,. Colonial Apartments, J. Hunt Stanford, 1911.
Across the street from it, a recently renovated house that’s got to be worth ~$4m. Apartments will not kill your neighbourhood.
*Narrow* the street, not widen it. (Another obvious move, for resilience and road safety, that is politically impossible.)
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