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Planning staff reviews narrow-lot conditional-use permit requests under 2024 code change; commissioners raise parking and tree-loss concerns

6490852 · October 23, 2025
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Summary

Planning staff presented conditional-use permit applications to split zoning lots and permit narrow single-family lots allowed under a 2024 zoning ordinance amendment, and commissioners asked for additional analysis on parking, tree loss and neighborhood patterns.

Planning staff presented multiple applications to create narrow, nonconforming single‑family lots and sought conditional-use permits under a 2024 ordinance change that allows lots as narrow as 25 feet and 2,500 square feet when developed with a single-family dwelling meeting form standards.

The commission heard two detailed examples: a proposal to split a single zoning lot at 2314 and 2316 Bolton Street into separate parcels and a separate proposal to develop a narrow lot at 1267 West Fortieth Street. Staff explained both properties are currently held in common ownership as a single zoning lot and that the 2024 amendment…

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