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Planning staff brief council on zoning code refresh; recommends overlay approach for higher-density near corridors
Summary
Assistant Planning Director Boss reported that the zoning refresh is midway through draft development and seeks to reduce nonconformities, modernize use rules and add flexible tools such as overlays and adaptive-reuse incentives.
Assistant Planning Director Boss told the Housing Plan Development Committee that the city’s zoning refresh is midstream and that staff and consultants are about 50% complete on draft standards. The update aims to reconcile existing nonconformities, modernize use definitions, and create clearer processes for plan development and adaptive reuse.
Boss said the team is proposing a set of residential districts (RS1–RS3 and an RM1 that corresponds to much of today’s R2) with stepped lot-size and frontage standards intended to reduce…
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