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Lakewood staff previews half of 2025 comprehensive plan amendments; April 2 hearing set
Summary
Planning staff reviewed roughly half of a 12-item comprehensive plan docket including co-living rules, parking and multiunit definitions, civic-use updates, commute trip reduction requirements and several rezonings; the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing April 2.
Planning staff briefed the Lakewood Planning Commission on five to six of 12 proposed 2025 comprehensive-plan amendments at the March 5 meeting and confirmed a public hearing on the full docket scheduled for April 2.
Staff said the docket includes changes required by recent state law and city-initiated updates: a co-living (single-room-occupancy) ordinance to be allowed where multifamily developments have six or more units, updated definitions for multiunit residential buildings, residential parking regulation updates aligned with state law, civic-use and religious assembly clarifications, a commute trip reduction plan, two rezones (one private, one city-initiated to create a downtown park), a proposal to revisit minimum sizes for accessory dwelling units, and a state-driven amendment to allow housing in certain existing commercial or mixed-use buildings.
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