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Committee advances bill to cut St. Louis minimum lot sizes to expand infill housing
Summary
The St. Louis City Board of Aldermen’s Housing, Urban Development and Zoning Committee voted to advance Board Bill 42, which would lower minimum lot-size requirements in several residential zoning districts to encourage infill development and reduce variance requests.
At a meeting of the St. Louis City Board of Aldermen’s Housing, Urban Development and Zoning Committee, members advanced Board Bill 42, a zoning change that would reduce minimum lot-size requirements in multiple residential districts and ease construction of single-family and two-family housing on smaller parcels.
Proponents said the change would revive many vacant lots that have been undevelopable under the city’s long-standing 4,000-square-foot-per-unit minimum and reduce time and cost associated with variance requests. “Board Bill 42 is a board bill that I am particularly excited about,” Alderman Cone said as he introduced the measure. Miriam Keller of the St. Louis City Planning Department explained that “minimum lot size is the main approach we have in…
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