Stakeholders split over unit caps in new Community Housing zone; provisional 175‑unit trigger forwarded
Members debated whether to set an upper unit cap for the Community Housing zone to prevent very large developments; staff warned a hard cap risks legal exposure while several members urged a safety valve. The SSR provisionally forwarded 175 units as a trigger for full PUD review for further analysis.
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The session devoted a sustained block of time to whether the Community Housing (CH) zone should include an absolute cap on units before a project must undergo a full planned‑unit development (PUD) review. Several participants argued a cap is a necessary guardrail to avoid a single large parcel being developed into an outsized project; one member warned such a scenario could produce "2,000 units" on paper and alarm neighbors.
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