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City manager: proposed LDC amendment would require special-use permits for multifamily and RV parks
Summary
Taylor staff said city council directed a limited Land Development Code amendment to require special-use permits for new multifamily projects and RV parks; accessory dwelling units and manufactured homes were removed from the proposal and property-owner notice will be mailed.
City Manager Carly Pearson told the Planning and Zoning Commission that staff is preparing a limited amendment to the Land Development Code that would require special-use permits (SUPs) for new multifamily developments and recreational vehicle (RV) parks.
Pearson said the proposed amendment, developed from council direction, would not include accessory dwelling units (ADUs) or manufactured homes. “So this is city manager, Carly Pearson. She's working on that, but it'll just be, SUPs required for multifamily and RV parks. So ADUs are being removed from it, as well as the manufactured homes are being removed from it,” Pearson said.
Pearson told the commission that every property owner in the city will receive a mailed notice explaining the limited change and that staff will present the amendment to the commission in May before forwarding it to council. She described the measure as a short-term, local control “stop-gap” while the state legislature works on related legislation.
Commissioners asked about the scope and legal limits of local action. One commissioner noted uncertainties in the housing finance corporation statute and suggested the city could seek an injunction to bar an out-of-jurisdiction housing finance corporation from operating inside Taylor; Pearson said the SUP requirement is intended to give the city information about projects’ financing and operations rather than to bar multifamily development.
Pearson said neighborhood plans already “grandfather” many projects and that staff estimates more than 6,000 apartment units are already entitled under those plans; the SUP requirement would apply only to new applications received after the amendment is effective. Staff described the proposal as a short-term measure that might remain in place for about “a year or 2” on the city’s timeline.
Pearson said staff is assembling notice language and expects the item to appear on the commission’s May agenda for recommendation to council.
