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Dundee council adopts code changes to allow duplexes and update ADU rules
Summary
The Dundee City Council unanimously approved comprehensive amendments to the development code and comprehensive plan to align local rules with recent state middle-housing laws and to update standards for duplexes and accessory dwelling units (ADUs).
A public hearing and staff report led the Dundee City Council to approve ordinance 591-2025, adopting amendments to the comprehensive plan and municipal code to treat duplex dwellings and accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as permitted housing types in low- and medium-density residential zones.
City Planner Doug Rucks told the council the package—case LU R A 24-29—brings Dundee into compliance with a series of state legislative changes since 2017 and administrative rules, including provisions from recent bills and revisions to ORS 197 and Oregon Administrative Rule Division 46. Rucks said the proposal updates definitions, lot-size tables, lot-coverage rules and middle-housing land-division procedures.
The changes place duplex dwellings on the same regulatory footing as detached single-family dwellings in R-1, R-2 and R-3 zones; set R-1 lot size parity at 9,000 square feet, R-2 at…
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