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Staff proposes alternative standards to ease infill housing in Michigan City's older neighborhoods
Summary
City planning staff presented an ordinance to allow alternate, 'by-right' infill standards for R-1D and R-1E lots (smaller historic lots), aiming to reduce the need for variances and speed modest residential redevelopment; staff will provide a draft ordinance at the next meeting.
Planning staff presented a proposed zoning approach on Sept. 23 intended to make it easier to rebuild homes and add modest new housing on Michigan City's smaller, older lots without requiring a board of zoning appeals variance.
Planner Skyler York described an "alternative standards" approach that would apply only in R-1D and R-1E single-family residential zones — the city's older, gridded neighborhoods with many 40- to 50-foot-wide lots. Under current rules, typical front and corner setbacks of 20 feet can render a 40- or 45-foot lot effectively unbuildable without a variance; staff said the…
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