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Planning staff outline risks and benefits of reducing minimum lot sizes; zoning update tied to AIM process
Summary
City planning and public works staff presented options and constraints for smaller minimum lots, highlighting utility and emergency-access challenges for retrofits and recommending code updates as part of a broader zoning rewrite tied to AIM.
Jane (planning director) and Scott Stearns (public works/subdivision official) presented the committee with a review of subdivision scenarios and the practical constraints the city faces if it reduces minimum lot sizes.
Jane described two common scenarios: greenfield subdivisions (large tracts divided into many new lots) and infill short-form plats (splitting a single existing lot into two). She said short-form plats require street frontage and adequate emergency-vehicle access, utility easements and setbacks, and that in many older core-area lots water and sewer lie on opposite lot edges, which…
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