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Planning commission directs staff to draft micro‑dwelling language for R‑1 and R‑2 after extended tiny‑house debate
Summary
After an extended discussion of tiny houses and micro‑dwelling units, the Saginaw Planning Commission directed staff to draft ordinance language to allow individual micro dwelling units (minimum 400 sq ft) in R‑1 and R‑2 districts and to retain cluster options for developers.
The Saginaw Planning Commission spent a substantial portion of the meeting discussing proposed zoning standards for tiny houses — referred to by several commissioners as "micro‑dwelling units" (MDUs). Commissioners debated allowable sizes, whether units should be clustered or permitted individually on single lots, foundation and building‑code requirements, financing and marketability, and how new MDUs would fit with the city’s redevelopment objectives.
Commissioner Faust opened in favor of allowing smaller units broadly, saying he had never had a complaint that a dwelling was “too small” and suggesting increases to the proposed minimum from 200 sq ft to 250–300 sq ft to better meet…
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