InPhil Designs – Transformations Block by Block

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As our suburbs and fringe cities continue to sprawl, the most walkable locations closest to Downtown hold a world of opportunity.

Just blocks from Downtown in an emerging small-town outside of Raleigh, lies the possibility to create a thriving, sustainable, and affordable community.

Together, these four tracts are largely vacant but in the future could house up to 46 families with a range of housing styles from single family cottages, townhomes, duplexes, and ADUs.

Tract one features eight townhomes and four duplexes all with front porches, garages and driveways, a seating area with fire pit, playground and reuses a set of historic brick stairs along the roadway.

Tract two contains six single family homes and four townhomes with front porches, garages and driveways, and a neighborhood clubhouse.

Tract three is a 15 home cottage court with wide front porches and surface plus street parking. It also features a community walkway with two seating areas.

Tract four has six townhomes, two duplexes, and five ADU’s. The townhomes contain garages with driveways, while the ADU’s have surface parking. All homes feature full front porches and there is a small amenity area with seating.

Together, these four parcels provide nearly 50 homes for a range of incomes and lifestyles without disturbing any new areas. The future is infill!

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Phil Veasley is a Professional Engineer working to design safer multimodal infrastructure in cities throughout the US.  My goal is to create cites that are safe and effective for all people to move about outside of cars. To achieve that we have to focus on creating equitable, dense, and vibrant cities full of walkable neighborhoods with a various mix of housing choices, schools, restaurants, and services. We cannot have safe multimodal infrastructure without the density to support it and we cannot have equitable density without safe multimodal infrastructure. Outside of designing safe streets, my passions are sketching ideas for infill neighborhoods, floor plans, urban photography, and exploring our cities on foot or bike. Please check out the menus above for all of my ideas and also check out my YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter accounts.

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