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Modern living: Housing by the yard

PressJanuary 12, 20244KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Coach house. Tiny home. Granny flat. There are plenty of names for what is essentially a second smaller house in the backyard. Here in Toronto, they being called by a new name lately: garden suites. The city is currently conducting a formal review to create a bylaw that, if approved, could see these detached mini-homes…

The Globe & Mail – Garden suites: A new strategy for adding gentle housing density

PressJanuary 12, 20244KViews 0Likes 0Comments

With Toronto’s 2018 laneway rental housing program finally generating new projects in older parts of the core, city planners are working on the sequel – zoning policies that would allow homeowners to build “accessory dwelling units” or “garden suites” in their backyards. Read the full story.

Working With City of Windsor

Planning ResourcesJanuary 12, 20244KViews 0Likes 0Comments

City of Windsor City of Windsor (ADU Search) does your home qualify?

Working With Town of Essex

Planning ResourcesJanuary 12, 20243KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Town of Essex provides a guide to secondary dwelling units, see attached. Typically the municipality will allow for 3 units on one property, (One located in the main dwelling and one ADU). Laneway Homes will work directly with the town to ensure you comply – OR – you can call the planning staff at town…

Financing Your ADU & Taxes

Planning ResourcesJanuary 11, 20242KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Finance Your ADU with Libro Credit Union & Laneway Homes Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit (MHRTC), is a refundable credit to assist with the cost of renovating an eligible dwelling to establish a secondary unit that enables a qualifying individual (a senior or an adult who is eligible for the disability tax credit) to live with…

Adding a Second Unit to an Existing House

Planning ResourcesJanuary 11, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Adding a Second Unit to an Existing House

The HST Implications of New Tiny Homes & Rebates

BlogsMarch 13, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

With the relatively recent legislation allowing laneway suites and garden suites in various municipalities across Ontario, it is very important to ·understand the HST implications of building these accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and the rebates that are available to the owners of these structures. There are 3 main reasons for building an ADU: 1) Some…

Windsor Star – Windsor summit hears of tiny homes, big dreams to end housing ‘crisis’

PressMarch 17, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The homes might be tiny, but the dreams are huge when it comes to Windsor’s homegrown advocates, including designers and builders, pushing to kickstart a new local industry aimed at providing a more modest, yet much more affordable, avenue to home ownership. With average local home sale prices last month surpassing the $700,000 mark, owning a…

Laneway Housing & Garden Suites in Toronto

PressFebruary 9, 2021957Views 0Likes 0Comments

A laneway suite is a “self-contained residential unit located on the same lot as a detached house, semi-detached house, townhouse or other low-rise dwelling.” Laneway suites are typically located in the rear yard next to a public laneway and are generally smaller in scale and completely detached from the main house on the lot. Read the…

Why tiny backyard homes might be the next big thing in Toronto

PressDecember 8, 2020831Views 0Likes 0Comments

Sometimes known as granny flats or coach houses, they're structures — either existing or purpose-built — at the rear of some backyards in which people can legally live. The city's housing committee meets Tuesday to launch consultations aimed at a new bylaw that would legalize and regulate the units. The push for garden suites comes at…

Windsor Star – Tiny house built off alley unveiled in downtown neighbourhood

PressNovember 6, 20201KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The creator of one of the city’s first tiny houses held an open house Friday to show the end result to the many people interested in her project. Sarah Cipkar broke ground on the 430-square-foot, one-bedroom cottage on Aug. 10 and it’s almost completed after three months. Originally budgeted at $115,000 to $120,000, she came fairly…

Windsor Star – Construction of tiny house off downtown alley sign of ‘gentlefication’

PressAugust 14, 2020948Views 0Likes 0Comments

Public school board trustee Sarah Cipkar broke ground Wednesday on a cute little cottage in her backyard — not a playhouse for her daughter Harvest, but a tiny house that adds badly needed housing to the downtown core. “I’m really excited, I wanted to start this in April,” she said of the project she’s been planning…

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Laneway Homes

Modern living: Housing by the yard

The Globe & Mail – Garden suites: A new strategy for adding gentle housing density

Working With City of Windsor

Working With Town of Essex

Financing Your ADU & Taxes

Adding a Second Unit to an Existing House

The HST Implications of New Tiny Homes & Rebates

Windsor Star – Windsor summit hears of tiny homes, big dreams to end housing ‘crisis’

Laneway Housing & Garden Suites in Toronto

Why tiny backyard homes might be the next big thing in Toronto

Windsor Star – Tiny house built off alley unveiled in downtown neighbourhood

Windsor Star – Construction of tiny house off downtown alley sign of ‘gentlefication’

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