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Commissioners consider smaller lots and revised lot-coverage rules to encourage infill housing
Summary
As part of long-running affordability work, staff proposed reducing minimum RM lot size from 5,000 to 3,500 square feet and offered multiple models for impervious-surface limits; commissioners asked for more study before formal adoption.
Planning staff told the commission Nov. 18 they are exploring changes to lot-dimension and lot-coverage rules intended to unlock more infill housing and accessory dwelling units (ADUs).
City planner Bill Dean and Community Planning & Development Director Jason Welker said much of Sandpoint's built environment consists of historic "substandard" lots — often about 37.5 feet wide by 140 feet deep, or roughly 3,500 square feet — and that the current RM minimum lot size of 5,000 square feet does…
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