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Planning commission continues hearing on housing-element zoning changes; requests clearer vacant-lot and household definitions
Summary
Staff presented proposed municipal code amendments to implement the certified Housing Element. The commission asked for clearer definitions for "vacant lot" and "single housekeeping unit" and continued the hearing to May 5 for adoption of the zoning text amendments.
Senior planner Stephanie Cervantes presented a package of zoning text amendments intended to implement Lafayette's recently certified Housing Element. The draft revisions address multiple provisions required or encouraged by state law, including allowing permanent supportive housing by right in zones that permit multifamily housing, clarifying treatment of group homes and emergency shelters, adopting definitions for employee and farmworker housing, and adding a clear vacant-lot definition for state-law implementation.
Cervantes said the proposed changes also would extend the city's inclusionary housing ordinance citywide (it currently references downtown), and…
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