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Sandpoint planners revisit lot-size and impervious-surface rules as a tool for housing affordability
Summary
Staff proposed lowering the minimum RM lot size from 5,000 to 3,500 sq ft to reflect historic platted lots and discussed four models for impervious-surface limits (including a simple 70% standard and a 'smooth-curve' marginal approach); commissioners asked staff to return with refined code language for a Dec. 2 hearing.
City planning staff presented Nov. 18 a package of code changes aimed at producing additional housing capacity in Sandpoint’s residential-mixed (RM) neighborhoods by allowing smaller lot sizes and modifying impervious-surface/building-footprint limits.
Planner Bill Dean and Community Planning Director Jason Welker said the Comprehensive Plan supports varied lot sizes and that much of Sandpoint’s existing housing pattern…
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