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[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Car parking isnt needed because there’s nowhere to go

[–] MrMusAddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

True, but what I'm saying is that there are losses in livable square footage represented in the apartment. A home's SqFt excludes the garage, so a 1500 SqFt home is actually 1740 SqFt with a 1-car garage. I.e. a 1-car garage only takes up 14% of the area underneath a roof of a 1500 Livable-SqFt house. Yet, the represented apartment has lost 42%.

That implies that if the the houses in the picture are 1500 livable square feet, then the apartments are 1009 livable square feet; a ⅓ loss in livable area.

Apartment Complex = 58 Homes' worth of area including garage (1,740 × 58 = 100,920 SqFt)
100,920 / 100 apartments = 1,009 SqFt per apartment