# Case study: 9-unit infill rental development in DC

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2017-11-15

cities, development, ditto-residential, infill-development, low-rise-development, martin-ditto, real-estate-development, uli-case-study, uncategorized, urban-infill, urban-land-institute, urbanism, washington-dc

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This is an interesting ULI case study about a 9-unit infill rental development in Washington, DC called Oslo ([click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8FfT6UREuc) if you can’t see the video below):

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The units are a mix of 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom apartments. The target market is recent graduates and millennials who might otherwise be sharing (”group living”) in a townhouse or single-family home to save on rent.

Another notable aspect of this project is the fact that the previous building was a _legal non-conforming_ 9-unit apartment building. In other words, the current zoning wouldn’t allow it today. So to preserve their zoning status, they had to figure out a clever workaround during construction.

A project exactly like this – where you’re replacing an existing apartment building – probably wouldn’t be possible in Toronto because of our rental housing demolition and conversion bylaw. 

But I wanted to share it because I am sure that many of you, including those outside of this city, will appreciate it as a good example of low-rise infill development.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/case-study-9-unit-infill-rental-development-in-dc)*