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Subject:ARC meeting 12/15/2025, item 4a. - Bedroom design changes
Dear ARC Commissioners,
At the ARC meeting on 12/15/2025, item 4a. - 137 and 175 Crandall Way development, the bedroom
design in the apartments (Type A and Type B) are designed for easy conversion to make each bedroom
into two bedroom. The same is true with the town home bedrooms on second and third floors.
They designed them with two entry doors, two closets and two windows so that the rooms can easily be
converted (with or without permits) in the future by adding a single wall between the two door entry and
the window wall.
This effectively increases the bedroom count. For instance in the town homes the bedroom count would
go from a 3 bedroom to a 6 bedroom with modifications that can be done easily. Why do that? Because
the owners would be able to increase the rent for each of the apartments as single bedrooms rent for
more that the shared bedroom, even if you do not increase the headcount in the unit, you increase the
income and value of the property. Why else would a builder that is trying to keep costs down add two
entry doors to most larger bedrooms, so they can be converted easily later. If the bedroom are divided
and the room is large enough to fit two beds, then the occupant doubles and the owners make more
profit.
In my opinion, to avoid potential future problems the bedroom design should be changed to only one
entry door for each room. That makes future illegal conversions much more costly and time consuming
and hopefully deters it. Do you really want 6 bedroom townhomes and 4 bedroom apartments
there? That is the future as designed.
Thanks for your consideration of solutions to this future problem.
Matthew Roberts
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