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Milwaukie staff outlines middle-housing rules, early local projects and standards
Summary
City planning staff reviewed how Oregon—s House Bill 2001 is being implemented locally, the types of "middle housing" allowed by right, development standards and examples of projects completed, under construction and under consideration in Milwaukie.
Milwaukie planning staff told the commission and neighborhood association members that state law now requires cities to allow so-called middle housing and described how the city is implementing those rules and tracking early local projects.
The presentation by Planning Manager Laura Weigel and senior planner Vera (staff name given as Vera in the meeting) explained that middle housing includes duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, townhouses and cottage clusters (small detached units grouped around a shared green). Under Oregon's House Bill 2001 those housing types must be allowed "by right" in many residential zones: if a project meets the code standards it does not require a discretionary planning-commission review.
Weigel told the group that the only time…
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