Coos Bay considers allowing live-work units but flags code alignment issues
The consultant recommended allowing live-work units in residential areas with clear standards for percentage of residential use, employee counts and parking; he warned zoning standards must be reconciled with building codes to avoid conflicts.
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Matt Hasty described "live-work" units as housing designed for combined living and working, often with the business on the ground floor and living space above or in the rear. "Live work units are kind of, units that are designed to have somebody working and living in them," Hasty said, and he recommended adding clear definitions and limits (employee numbers, percentage of the unit used for work) to protect neighboring residences.
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