As I viewed the photo of new homes on the front page of The Columbian this morning (“County continues to grow,” The Columbian, April 18), I immediately thought of an old song which contained the lyrics “ticky, tacky, little boxes,” referencing identical mass housing units built in the Daly City area just after World War II. Ugly, but functional.
So, why would the developers of The Meadows at 58th Street in our own Minnehaha area repeat such a design abomination, 70 years later? More directly, why would design-conscious Vancouver city planners approve such a cookie-cutter development in this day and age? In the photo I count at least eight identical houses on the same block. Couldn’t every other floor plan at least be reversed? Hopefully, each will be painted a different shade of tan.
When my mass-produced Vancouver home was built, the developer utilized multiple exterior designs and floor plans, and never situated like designs next to each other.
