‘Mostly, I agree with you and even have more possible code tweaks to ensure neighborhood features are preserved (like limiting garage doors to a small proportion of the front façade or requiring they be set back from the principal façade – I hate garage doors). I’m especially interested in preventing what my uncle’s Detroit suburb of Birmingham called Bigfoot houses – a middle class suburb became increasingly upscale with increasingly large houses on an increasingly large portion of the lot and of increasing height – this is the Linden Hills problem, too. But on Linden Street, that duplex does not look like a means to gentrify the area, but to provide more housing, perhaps more affordable housing. It doesn’t fit harmoniously into its surroundings, but I think the land use regulations should also not prohibit creative infill, including higher density housing options. For Northfield, the trick will be to limit blots on the landscape while preserving housing options. The Maple Hills subdivision (just north of Jefferson Parkway across from the soccer fields) blended multi-family housing, including supportive housing man aged by the CAC with market rate homes and the effect is pretty good, I think. Not the same style as Linden Street, but perhaps a model.’