Demand for housing continues to rise in Greenville as more people move to the city every year.
The city’s Planning and Development Department is exploring ways to expand Greenville’s housing supply by promoting the creation of missing middle housing. This concept refers to house-scale buildings containing multiple residential units. Examples include duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes, townhomes, cottage courts, courtyard apartments and similar developments.
Mary Douglas Hirsch, the city’s director of planning and development, said missing middle housing is “gentle density” that can be used for infill development within the city. Missing middle housing is ideal in walkable neighborhoods near retail, food, open space and other amenities. These housing types sit between detached single-family homes and high-rise apartments on the housing-density spectrum…