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Planning Commission recommends rezoning Page Street from R-1 to R-6 amid neighbor opposition
Summary
After extended public comment raising drainage, density and neighborhood-character concerns, the Planning Commission voted to forward a recommendation to the mayor and aldermen to rezone a Page Street parcel from R-1 to R-6; staff said R-6 in the city allows only single detached homes and subdivision-level issues will be addressed later.
The McMinnville Planning Commission voted to recommend that the mayor and aldermen rezone a parcel on Page Street from R-1 to R-6 after a lengthy public hearing in which multiple neighbors raised concerns about drainage, street capacity and neighborhood character.
The project manager for the property told the commission that rising lot prices have made it difficult to build median-priced single-family houses and that changing the zoning would create more, lower-cost lots on the city portion of the parcel. He estimated an additional dozen to 15 lots might be possible in the city portion; at other points in the hearing broader estimates were…
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