Just found this plot of land that, at one point in time, had a prefab home on it. All that's left of it is the gravel where the prefab sat and stub-ups of the utilities. It's fairly inexpensive for being about a mile from a Max stop. I think the reason for its lower price is the fact that half of the property sits within a FEMA flood zone and is zoned Agriculture/Forest.
From the FEMA map, a large corner of the original footprint of the structure seems to sit within the 100-year flood plain. Perhaps a flood damaged the home and the owner collected on the insurance?
In any case, I've started sketching out ideas on how to build on this site. First move was to push the building area outside of the previous building's footprint, to higher ground -- some 30 feet away from the original footprint's lowest corner. The original owner had located a two-car carport at the high side of the property, which makes no sense.
What makes this property so appealing despite its tight buildable area constraints is that it backs right into a sliver of a wetland forest with a full-time creek. Literally, a creek flows through the corner of the property. Wake up, walk to the window with your cup of coffee and enjoy the view as the sun rises -- hard to beat that.
Early volumetric blocking and basic material palette with some site details developed, but this is how it'd look like when you come home every day. To the left is a 520sf ADU. To the right is a 1200sf main residence and a 288sf workspace in front of it. A site like this really gets me excited. I can even see using shipping containers for this site. It's perfect, in fact, because the site demands a linear design.
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