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Commission backs housing-opportunity overlay rezones to support state-required by‑right affordable housing
Summary
Planning staff proposed, and the commission recommended to council, a zoning text and map amendment that implements a housing-opportunity overlay and by-right development incentives to meet state housing-element requirements and to encourage projects with a 20% lower-income affordable set-aside at higher densities.
The Planning Commission recommended that City Council adopt zoning text and map amendments to implement a housing-opportunity overlay district and to align incentives with the city’s certified housing element and recent state requirements.
Senior Planner David Schlegel explained the change as part of the housing-element implementation. The housing element identifies vacant higher-density sites that have been included in consecutive planning cycles. State law expects jurisdictions to facilitate development on those “carryover” sites; staff said the proposed overlay will allow by‑right development on qualifying parcels when…
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