{"id":2748,"date":"2011-11-21T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T13:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2011-11-21T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T13:14:46","slug":"conformity-and-compatibility-in-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/11\/conformity-and-compatibility-in-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Conformity and Compatibility in Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">And finally on Seaside (I promise), the community brings to mind the issues of compatibility that we confront in our regulatory reviews and in creating community design guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Seaside began as a plan, intended to be executed through private lot owners conforming to build-to lines and heights. Picket fences would ensure some streetfront compatibility no matter what filled the allowed building envelope.<\/p>\n<p>But the power of Seaside&#8217;s image (beach town nostalgia) proved so strong that most owners\/builders\/designers defaulted to a Victorian bungalow hybrid style for a charming but less than varied result.<\/p>\n<p>People talk about mixed use and varied communities but how much variety are they willing to tolerate before community comfort mode kicks in? And it&#8217;s unlikely that a builder will buck the market once that Victorian hybrid starts selling.<\/p>\n<p>When we develop design guidelines, which are only guidelines&#8211;suggestions for a way to look at and contribute to a place&#8211;we need to identify the particulars of that place: aconvergence of roads and the view from that intersection, atopography that connects or\u00a0creates a barrier, houses on edges that want to be connected but protected.<\/p>\n<p>Identify conditions, determine a desired outcome (someone in that edge house can walk to the shops but doesn&#8217;t have to see the parked cars from their backyard), and demonstrate a few of the infinite\u00a0ways the outcome can be reached.<\/p>\n<p>Fitting in is easy. What&#8217;s hard is\u00a0looking at a place and applying our own knowledge and experience in a way that allows others to\u00a0apply their knowledge and experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2751\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Seaside_9158.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2751\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2751 \" title=\"Seaside_9158\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Seaside_9158-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Seaside_9158-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Seaside_9158-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">good neighbors<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">And finally on Seaside (I promise), the community brings to mind the issues of compatibility that we confront in our regulatory reviews and in creating community design guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Seaside began as a plan, intended to be executed through private lot owners conforming to build-to lines and heights. Picket fences would ensure some streetfront compatibility no matter what filled the allowed building envelope.<\/p>\n<p>But the power of Seaside&#8217;s image (beach town nostalgia) proved so strong that most owners\/builders\/designers defaulted to a Victorian bungalow hybrid style for a charming but less than varied result.<\/p>\n<p>People talk about mixed use and varied communities but how much variety are they willing to tolerate before community comfort mode kicks in? And it&#8217;s unlikely that &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/11\/conformity-and-compatibility-in-communities\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[330,313],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-design-guidelines","tag-seaside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}