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Council reviews proposed RMF 35/45 zoning text amendments aimed at incremental multifamily housing
Summary
City planning staff presented proposed revisions to the RMF‑35 and RMF‑45 multifamily zoning districts designed to remove barriers to moderate- and mid-density housing. The proposal would reduce minimum lot-area requirements, change lot-width rules, add design standards and offer bonus units for preserving existing structures; no vote was taken at
City planning staff presented comprehensive text amendments to the RMF 35 and RMF 45 multifamily zoning districts at the Oct. 7 work session, proposing to streamline lot-area standards, adjust setbacks, add design standards and offer development incentives intended to allow incremental multifamily development without prompting large-lot consolidation.
Chrissy Gilmore (planning manager), Mikaela Bell (assistant planning director) and Brian Fulmer (council policy analyst) described the rationale: the current ordinance (adopted in 1995) does not match built conditions in many mapped RMF neighborhoods and created barriers to the housing types these zones were meant to allow. Staff presented data showing that under the current code a majority of lots are too narrow or too small for the multifamily building types the zones nominally allow: staff cited that “75% of the lots don't allow three-plus units” under current rules, “66%…
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