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Newport council adopts zoning change to allow medium-density multifamily on three tax lots
Summary
The Newport City Council voted to amend the comprehensive plan and zoning maps to re-designate about 1.48 acres from low/medium-density single-family to medium-density multifamily (R‑3), a move applicants and staff say will enable at least one fourplex and add high-density acreage to the neighborhood.
The Newport City Council voted unanimously to adopt Ordinance 2025-01, amending the city comprehensive plan map from low-density residential to high-density residential and changing zoning from R‑1/R‑2 to R‑3 for real property identified as tax lots 00500 and 00501 on tax map 11‑11‑05‑DA and tax lot 01700 on tax map 11‑11‑04‑CC.
Derek Tokos, the city’s Community Development Director, told the council the applicant owns about 1.48 acres that abuts nearly 50 acres already zoned R‑3 and that utilities and neighborhood context support the change. "The materials I provided demonstrate, I think with the findings…
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