Planning commission recommends zoning code tweaks to implement Moraga housing element; forwards ordinance to council

The Moraga Planning Commission on April 15 voted to recommend that the Town Council adopt a set of amendments to the Moraga Municipal Code implementing the town’s 2023–2031 Housing Element. The changes cover a range of items required by state law and by the housing element’s implementation program, including definitions for co‑housing and live‑work, rules for carryover sites, clarifications on manufactured and group homes, allowances for low‑barrier navigation centers, and revised multifamily parking rules.

Barry Miller, the town’s planning consultant on the housing element, told the commission the package is intended to remove regulatory constraints the state identified and to codify state requirements. Several items were described as mandatory under recent state law, including provisions for “carryover sites” (sites listed in multiple consecutive…