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Ann Arbor council makes it easier to open child-care centers by changing zoning rules
Summary
Council voted to amend the Unified Development Code to permit child-care centers in single- and two-family residential districts (and restore them in certain nonresidential districts), maintaining a 7,500 sq. ft. lot-area minimum; council members cited severe local childcare shortages.
The Ann Arbor City Council on Dec. 16 approved an ordinance amending sections 5.15 and 5.16 of the Unified Development Code to allow child-care centers as a permitted use in certain residential districts and to restore them in some office and light industrial districts. The change removes a special-exception requirement that council members and staff said added significant time and cost to opening new facilities.
Council Member Disch and others framed the measure as an…
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