City staff proposes zoning text amendment to simplify high‑occupancy housing rules; open house June 5

Tiffany Antolf, a city planning staff member, presented a zoning code text amendment to the Housing Commission on May 20 aimed at simplifying and realigning high‑occupancy housing (HOH) standards with the forthcoming regional plan.

Antolf said HOH standards were originally updated to address large mixed‑use student housing projects and that a coming regional plan redraws land‑use categories the code currently depends on. She told commissioners the amendment will simplify density tables, replace several layered density tiers with a single maximum, and modify the HOH definition by replacing an “or” with an “and” to allow form‑based projects to exceed a units‑per‑acre threshold if they do not exceed a specified bedrooms‑per‑acre cap.

Antolf described the change as a technical fix that would “bring back a bit more life into our…