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Planning commission reviews 2025 moderate-income housing plan and recommends five strategies including impact-fee relief
Summary
Staff presented the state-required 2025 Moderate Income Housing Report, recommending five strategies (ADU support, allowing residential in commercial/mixed-use zones, PDD incentives with deed-restricted units, CRA/RDA set-asides, and waiving/reducing impact fees) and summarized recent local projects that include deed-restricted units.
Cottonwood Heights planning staff presented the city’s 2025 Moderate Income Housing Report during the June 4 planning commission work session, summarizing local housing data, recent projects with deed-restricted units, and five recommended strategies the city will include in the state-mandated plan to be submitted by the August 1 deadline.
Staff said state law requires municipalities to adopt a housing plan every five years (and submit annual progress reports in intervening years). The statute sets a menu of state-defined strategies (26 options); cities must adopt at least three strategies and may adopt up to five to qualify for higher tiers of priority funding. Cottonwood Heights staff recommended adopting five strategies to preserve access to those funding opportunities.
Staff summarized local housing indicators: roughly half the city’s housing stock was built between about 1960 and 1980, single-family detached homes comprise approximately 80% of the housing stock, and the city’s area median…
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