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Committee reviews three neighborhood rezoning requests; no public opposition recorded
Summary
The committee considered three separate rezoning applications for small parcels in Districts 1 and 4, including requests to convert small office or RS‑3 parcels to residential designations. Planning staff described sites and potential outcomes; staff said Planning Commission unanimously recommended one case and no neighbors spoke at committee.
The committee reviewed three separate rezoning applications affecting small parcels in several Council districts.
Planning staff summarized the cases: (1) rezoning Z‑7796 from an office (OL) designation to RS‑4 for a tiny corner lot on East 15th Street South so an owner could build a single‑family house and take advantage of a smaller residential setback; (2) rezoning Z‑7801 from RS‑3 to RM‑2 for a nearly half‑acre site near North Union Avenue and West Newton Street where a small multifamily structure is proposed; and (3) rezoning Z‑7802 from RS‑3 to RS‑5 to split a larger lot into two smaller single‑family lots with separate street frontage on Tacoma and Union.
Staff noted the OL parcel had been zoned office since about 1970 but that no office has ever located there and that the requested RS‑4 setback would reduce the residential setback from 10 feet (office adjacent to residential) to 5 feet (residential to residential). For the RM‑2 request, staff said the Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval and that staff could not find a backing package describing the exact unit count the applicant might build, but that, given density allowances, the site could potentially accommodate up to about a dozen units depending on design and other requirements. For the RS‑5 request, staff described a typical lot split along two frontages to create two narrow single‑family lots.
Staff reported there were no speakers from the neighborhood on these items at committee and no public opposition recorded in the meeting. The items were presented for committee consideration and will proceed through the normal public‑hearing and rezoning process; no formal committee votes were recorded in the transcript.
