Kronberg Urbanists + Architects

We are thrilled to announce that KUA's design for the Grace Midtown Church's new sanctuary has been recognized a 2021 Charter Award from @newurbanism! Our thanks to CNU, @gracemidtown, and everyone who we collaborated with on this special adaptive reuse project! Check out CNU's writeup of the project on their website here: https://bit.ly/3dQe3p5 #adaptivereuse #atlantaarchitecture #newurbanism

Preservation advocacy at work! Recently - the Atlanta Preservation Center met with Pastor Winston Taylor, Danielle Willkens - Professor at Georgia Tech School o...f Architecture (and APC board member) and Olivia Pontiff of Kronberg Urbanists + Architects to discuss the focus and community partnership to preserve and promote St. Mark A.M.E. Church in English Avenue. We are proud of this collaboration with Georgia Tech and Kronberg Urbanists + Architects and what it it will do for St. Mark A.M.E.

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Gaming Changing Housing legislation proposed in the NC State Senate. It would be a shame if City Of Atlanta couldn't at least match this with the zoning rewrite. No Pressure Caleb Racicot. Hat tip to Aaron Lubeck and Market Urbanism https://t.co/FPuIRNjJXj?amp=1

@AARP recently updated their model zoning ordinance for ADUs. Really great tool for communities looking to expand #HousingChoice. Proud to be part of the steering committee that put this together. https://www.aarp.org//adu-model-state-act-and-local-ordina.

We always appreciate the chance to share our thoughts on #HousingChoice with AARP. Particularly when we get to include the significant growth challenges facing the Atlanta Metro Region. https://www.dropbox.com//2021_03_11%20AARP%20Presentation.

"single family zoning reform is a systemic reform...it is that rare policy prescription that will cost the public treasury nothing, induce more affordable housing to be developed by the private sector, and most importantly, begin to redress a shameful wrong." Atlantans, go check out this must-read article in SaportaReport by our friends Joel Dixon and Bruce Gunter: https://bit.ly/30oBRZO

Ezra Klein has a great interview with Heather McGhee about her new book, The Sum of Us. We are spending a lot of time on messaging housing choice for more inclusive places. She does a great job laying bare some hard truths about American perspectives and biases. https://www.nytimes.com//ezra-klein-podcast-heather-mcghee

There are lots of great ideas packaged in the Atlanta City Design Housing below. For those that are interested or curious, you might want to compare some of the recent presentations on our blog and presentations at kronbergua.com. You might notice a high degree of similarity. Perhaps a strikingly high degree of similarity. https://storymaps.arcgis.com//e91c43ad299a4634add2bed4cf2e

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ADUs are a promising tool for addressing the nation’s affordable housing crisis - but the complication of securing financing and permits is enough to keep many people from getting started. One critical part of the solution is allowing ADUs to be fee-simple. Today on the KUA blog, we explore how a few changes to Atlanta's zoning code could repair the disconnect between zoning and finance and make building an ADU much easier. https://bit.ly/35JISXk #housing #zoning #affordablehousing #missingmiddlehousing #adu #accessorydwellingunit

Struggling to understand your zoning code? Gracen lays out a great way to start tackling it here: https://www.strongtowns.org//reading-zoning-drawing-sitepl