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Staff refines middle-housing code: narrower lot-widths, removed 20% administrative variation; appeals follow for nonconforming lots
Summary
Planning staff presented text amendments to middle-housing standards (lot-width clarifications, revised building articulation rules, and removal of a 20% administrative variation); staff also summarized denials and appeals of two middle-housing applications that staff said did not meet the intent of the standards.
Lindsey, a planning staff member, reviewed proposed refinements to the city's middle-housing standards and told the commission the changes came after 18 months of application experience and stakeholder input. "The intent of the code amendments are not to be a silver bullet for the city's housing crisis," Lindsey said, adding the changes are focused on clarity and consistency. Key draft changes presented included narrower minimum lot widths in certain cases (for example, duplexes through fourplexes may be allowed on 40-foot lots with an alley and 45-foot lots without an alley, and a two-story duplex option reduced to a 35-foot lot width with an alley), a rewritten articulation…
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