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Harrisville planners debate minimum lot sizes, design rules for housing-affordability overlay
Summary
At a May 14 work session, Harrisville planning staff and commissioners discussed draft ordinance 562 — a housing-affordability overlay focused on detached single‑family homes — debating minimum lot sizes, density targets and design controls intended to preserve neighborhood character while enabling compact, lower‑cost housing.
Harrisville planning staff led a May 14 work session on draft ordinance 562, a proposed housing‑affordability overlay that would apply to the city’s residential zones and focus on single‑family detached homes.
Sarah (staff member) said the draft uses the state definition of affordable housing: “we just took the definition from the state, and that is our definition of affordable housing, which just means, purchase price, affordable to a household with a gross income of no more than a 20% of area median income.” Staff framed the ordinance as an overlay that could be added to R‑10 and R‑15 zones, with separate design standards to guide developers’ expectations.
The work session centered on whether to include a minimum lot size and how to set density. Staff presented examples from Ogden, Layton and Daybreak, showing lots ranging from about 3,000 to 6,000 square feet and house…
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