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Forsyth County staff propose UDO changes to standardize single-family lot sizes in RM districts
Summary
Planning staff briefed the Board on a text amendment that would set a uniform 5,000-square-foot minimum lot size for single-family homes across multifamily (RM) zoning districts and align related UDO tables to reduce inconsistent standards and remove the need to rezone for infill development.
Planning and Development Services Director Chris Murphy told the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners that staff has proposed a Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) text amendment to clarify and harmonize single-family dimensional requirements within multifamily (RM) zoning districts, with the aim of removing inconsistencies that have placed single-family uses under stricter standards than more intense multifamily uses.
The amendment would add a footnote to RM district tables referencing RM-5 table requirements and set a uniform minimum lot…
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