Michael Pyatok's "Cozy By Design" Presentation from the City of Boulder's "Why Housing Matters!" community forum on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015.

1. Cozy by Design
Communities of the 21st Century
Boulder, CO
Michael Pyatok, FAIA

2. Manhattan
65,000/ sq mi
Phoenix
2,700/ sq mi
San Francisco
16,000/ sq mi
Salt Lake City
1640/ sq mi
Brooklyn
37,000/ sq mi
Phoenix
Austin
2,515/sq mi
Seattle
7,430/sq mi
Chicago
12,400/ sq mi
Tucson
2675/sq mi
Denver
3,250/ sq mi
Boulder
4,170/ sq mi

3. Amsterdam
11,200/sq mi
London
11,000/sq mi
Paris
64,000/sq mi
Rome
5150/sq mi
Kowloon
154,000/sq mi
Athens
26,500/ sq mi

4. Boulder, 25 sq mi 103,000 people
Berkeley , 10.5 sq mi 115,000 people
Cambridge, 6.4 sq mi 105,000 people

5. Boulder Berkeley Cambridge
Population: 103,000 115,000 105,000
Land Area: 25 sq mi 10.5 sq mi 6.4 sq mi
Coziness: 4170/sq mi 11,000/sq mi 16,400/sq mi
Median Fam. Inc.: $114,000 $103,000 $94,000
Median Price Home: $485,000 $645,000 $585,000
Rate of Poverty: 23% 20% 15%
Median Male Income: $72,000 $67,500 $44,000
Median Female Income: $47,500 (66%) $57,300 (85%) $38,500 (88%)
Median US Male: $45,000
Median US female: $37,200 (83%)

6. Boulder Portland
Population: 103,000 610,000
Land Area: 25 sq mi 133 sq mi
Coziness: 4170/sq mi 4,585/sq mi (10% more)
Median Fam. Inc.: $114,000 $72,000
Average Sales Price: $1,200,000 $487,000
Rate of Poverty: 23% 18%
Median Male Income: $72,000 $35,300
Median Female Income: $47,500 (66%) $30,300 (86%)
Median US Male: $45,000
Median US female: $37,200 (83%)

7. Where people live in relation to centers of jobs,
recreation, education, and other land uses of everyday
life, effects amount and cost of travel.
Transportation is a Housing expense.

8. % of Income Low Income Households Spend for
Housing + Transportation Based on Location
32%
22%
54%
35%
31%
66%
33%
37%
70%

9. Some Benefits of Higher Coziness

10. So, what do different levels of Coziness look like??

11. Benefits of Community Participation in Design

12. Benefits of Community Participation in Design

13. Seattle: 25’ curb-to-curb, new two-way streets
with parallel parking on both sides. If drivers in Seattle
can do it, why can’t others?
Manhattan Beach, CA: 20’ R.O.W.
16’ Alley for back-loaded parking
25’ 20’
Smaller Streets use less land, allowing more land for homes, yards, parks

14. Rear-loaded lots Rear-loaded parking
Front-loaded parking
Phoenix
Front-loaded parking
Street
Backyard
Rear-loaded parking
Street
Alley
8/acre
Smaller Lots, smaller side yards use less land. Set garages back from street, or use alleys,
and modulate the heights so that one-story elements separate two-story elements.
Alley
10/Acre

15. Smaller Lots, smaller side yards use less land. Set garages back from street, or use
alleys, and modulate the heights so that one-story elements separate two-story elements.
10/Acre

16. Cluster Courts, two-story homes attached by one-story garages, grouped with 6 per courtyard.
Front doors on pedestrian courts, back doors on auto courts.
.
12/acre

17. Cluster Courts, two-story homes attached by one-story garages, grouped with 6 per
courtyard. Front doors on pedestrian courts, back doors on auto courts.
.
Front pedestrian court Rear auto court

18. 15/acre
autos enter from rear alley
The Big ‘House’, Three smaller town homes (900-1400 sf) are grouped together to look
like one larger home to fit into a neighborhood of single-family homes.
.

19. 20/acre
Apartment Building as a ‘Bed and Breakfast Inn’. Sixteen one-bedroom
dwellings for people with HIV/AIDS, made to look like a small, ‘Craftsman’ style inn.
.

20. ‘The Resort’: attached townhomes on cluster courts. Sixty-four homes
and 8 shelter dwellings for formerly homeless families, with social services.
.

21. ‘The Resort’: attached townhomes on cluster courts. Sixty-four
homes and 8 shelter dwellings for formerly homeless families with social services.
.
22/acre
Child Care Center
Town Park

22. ‘The Village’: attached townhomes on cluster courts. Fifty-Two
townhomes for first-time homebuyers
.

23. ‘The Village’: attached townhomes on cluster courts. Fifty-Two
townhomes for first-time homebuyers, alternating front auto courts and rear pedestrian courts.
.
25/acre

24. Emeryville, CA Live/Work 35/Acre
Live-Work Townhomes. 17 homes, 11 home businesses, 6 accessory
rentals on a busy boulevard. Divided by an underground creek, the homes are
organized around a central auto-pedestrian drive
35/acre

25. Live-Work Townhomes. 17 homes, 11 home businesses, 6 accessory rentals on a busy
boulevard. Divided by an underground creek, the homes are organized around a central auto-
pedestrian drive

26. Live-Work Townhomes. 17 homes, 11 home businesses, 6 accessory rentals on
a busy boulevard. Divided by an underground creek, the homes are organized around a
central auto-pedestrian drive
35/acre

28. Auto + Pedestrian Courts 35/acre
1 auto/unit
450 rental homes for families and seniors. 6-acre park, restored creek, 2 blocks
from a BART station, child care, recreation center, job straining and computer literacy programs

29. Pedestrian
Court

30. Auto Courts

31. Hillside
Townhomes
40/acre
35 rental homes for families. ¾ acre lot next to community vegetable garden in
downtown Tacoma, on a hill with 20’ drop in elevation, 3 blocks from UWT

32. Downhill Townhomes: Clustered Garages

33. Mid-Level
Central Court

34. Seniors
40/acre
40 Seniors. In a single family neighborhood, restored rear yard wetland
25 formerly homeless families. Downtown Redmond with childcare, job referrals

35. By placing the parking garage 7’ into the ground, the lid is 3’ above ground, similar in height to
porches in the neighborhood. This rental housing for 50 lower income families then fits the
context of high-priced single family homes where the median sales price is $2 million.
50 low-income families. In a single family, high-income neighborhood. Partially
underground garage, stoops and porches
50/acre

36. 92 low-income families. 1.6 acres, on a major boulevard with retail, child care,
community facility, social services
55/acre

37. 80 affordable units. For low- and very low-income families and singles, in stacked
townhomes, flats on .9 acres, downtown Oakland. With child care and retail.
90 units/acre

39. 65 affordable senior units. For low- and very low-income seniors, on a
busy boulevard, with services, on 2/3 acre in East Oakland.
100/acre

40. Rear Courtyard

41. Central High School
Light Rail Station
Site
65 affordable units. For low- and very low-income families, in stacked townhomes
and flats, some singles and couples. 2/3 acre, on light rail line in Phoenix.
100/acre