Triplexes

It’s also trying to get a 60-unit luxury condominium development of duplexes and triplexes off the ground on Hope Avenue in Portland.

Now, the bill only requires those cities to allow for duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes, and they would only have to allow them in 30% of areas currently zoned for single-family homes.

That’s why my colleagues and I at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii have been promoting regulatory changes that would allow lot-splitting, smaller lots, duplexes and triplexes in single-family lots and accessory dwelling units.

Ever since, the only way to live in the majority of Portland neighborhoods has been to purchase a single-family home, rent a portion of one, or be fortunate enough to own or lease one of the duplexes, triplexes, or fourplexes built before the 1959 ban.

The council had basically decided to keep the sprinkler requirement for such structures when a motion at the February 4 meeting to extend the sprinkler exemption from duplexes to triplexes ended in a 3-3 tie vote.

The design for the triplexes included a two-hour firewall that both the developer and town staff argued was extremely safe.