Flagstaff staff present three zoning scenarios to boost housing; parking, resource protections and HB 2721 highlighted

City planning staff presented a land-availability, suitability and zoning code "code concepts" report to the Flagstaff Housing Commission that models three distinct approaches to increasing housing supply while balancing sustainability and neighborhood protections.

Shelby Golty, planning director for the city, and Tiffany Antal, zoning manager, described three scenarios tested with prototype development models and spatial analysis: (1) optimize existing incentives so more projects use voluntary density and sustainability bonuses; (2) raise by-right densities while adding baseline sustainability standards and smaller parking minimums; and (3) maximize market-rate housing production by substantially raising by-right densities and lowering parking requirements, with fewer mandatory sustainability measures. Antal said the report’s prototype modeling applied those scenarios to different zone groups and examined revenue and cost impacts as well as likely greenhouse-gas…