I made a conscious effort to design homes to fit in with the contextual stream to save time and cost. Another benefit may be to avoid the toxicity of fighting with neighbours, communities, etc regarding differing views on development. Sure, some people will oppose just about anything, but if you do a detached dwelling that meets all the contextual rules you should be swimming with the current. A permitted use project is quite unappealable as well if some person should decide to pursue that route. I don’t enjoy funding a legal battle at the appeals board, nor the time and energy wasted to do this. The key to sticking to a highly marketable permitted use is land selection, the design brief to your design team, and knowing your end product. All of this stuff I’ve now got a fair bit of battle scars from time spent in the trenches on a broad portfolio of work. This is a snapshot of an upcoming Inglewood project I hope to submit soon. I’m way behind on this one (mostly my fault) and have wasted a lot of carrying cost and opportunity cost value. Hopefully I can get approval in a reasonable period and a good spring start on the excavation.
Current state of affairs this will fit nicely into this community and be a highly marketable home for me to sell.