off grid mini home for urban infill
Submitted by Susan Miller on Wed, 10/04/2006 - 21:21.
Norm, If you're in Toronto October 6-9 check out the mini home at the International Home and Garden Show. MiniHomage Here’s the history: http://sustain.ca/ This is an affordable way for young professionals to stick it to the city. Buy the cheap lot and live there with the elements and no utility bills. When you’ve had enough of the BS polotics, just roll, dude. They’re lovely in the pics. I can imagine a few of them sitting lightly along the bluffs looking so moderne.
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Very cool and in line with one solution for Cleveland
I should be in Toronto then but I don't know if I could handle a home and garden show.... we were thinking of going to Fashion Week the following week and they'll be there then, too. What we should do is visit them in Exeter, Ontario (direct North of Cleveland) about doing some manufacturing and beta installations in Cleveland! These mini-homes are awesome, and the website is very cool - a primer on sustainable, eco-friendly living practices, like ...
But a fully tricked out unit is over $180,000... I bet Jeff Buster could come up with a design for half that, which we could start placing on the 1,000s of vacant lots around the inner city - the urban RV park land could probably be had for free.
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still it's an option
Still, it's an option for the DINKS (double income no kids) who are thiniking of moving into the city and want a single family home ready-made for retirement. Not for everyone, but an option for some. A good way to downsize from your half million dollar commuter home in Hunting Valley and still have a single family home. I'd love to see one of these in an upcoming citirama. And it's a nice package for the gentleman's or gentlewoman's pied a terre for really late nights at the office.
Also for camps in the country
Well, at $120,000K US with everything, including an Ikea kitchen, some solar, systems, etc., amortized over 15 years, operating off the grid, they would be very cost effective for anyone who could live in a small space. These would also be great for people who live in the city but want that camp in the country, instead of building a McRanch. The coolest visual is a group of these in an urban RV park in the Flats... like Scranton Peninsula... and if there is a major toxic explosion they can be decontaminated and moved somewhere else... much safer then building permanent condo towers in the industrial zone down there.
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