Planning commission holds public hearing on allowing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes by conditional use; defers decision to October

The Topeka City Planning Commission held a public hearing on a proposed zoning text amendment to allow duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes in single-family residential districts and voted to defer further action to its October meeting after extensive public comment and commissioner discussion.

Planning staff told the commission the item is a text amendment to the zoning code — not a rezoning — and said the Planning Commission Housing Committee had revised its recommendation to allow duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes by conditional use permit. “The public engagement on this item has been robust,” planning staff said, noting at least five or six neighborhood meetings and a survey that returned 405 responses concentrated in…