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Committee to refine resiliency code: staff proposes keeping minimum unit sizes, removing average requirement as optional with anti‑STR covenant; understory home
Summary
Planning staff proposed making the average unit‑size requirement optional while preserving existing minimum unit sizes, and recommended an optional covenant against short‑term rentals for projects that waive the average; staff also urged steps to encourage understory single‑family homes for resiliency while retaining design review safeguards.
Planning staff briefed the Land Use and Sustainability Committee on proposed amendments to the city’s resiliency and unit‑size rules and described a path to reconcile concerns raised at the prior Commission meeting.
Key points: Staff proposed leaving the existing minimum unit sizes in place (550 square feet for market‑rate units; 400 square feet for workforce/affordable units) while removing the current administrative average‑unit‑size requirement (800 square feet average for market projects). Staff said the change would increase flexibility for attainable and workforce‑adjacent units but noted a primary concern raised in the prior meeting is that smaller units could convert to short‑term rentals. To address that, staff proposed an optional program: an…
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