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Hearing examiner recommends approval for Canyon Crossing plan to convert all lots to duplexes amid neighborhood opposition
Summary
The hearing examiner recommended City Council approve a preliminary plat and a development-agreement modification for Canyon Crossing Phase 2 that would convert 20 lots into duplexes (40 units). Neighbors urged single-family transition housing; the examiner said zoning permits duplexes in the R-2 designation.
The City of Caldwell hearing examiner on Dec. 3 recommended that City Council approve a preliminary plat and a development-agreement modification allowing all 20 lots in Canyon Crossing Phase 2 to be developed as duplexes, producing about 40 dwelling units on a 5.57-acre parcel at the southwest corner of Saringa Lane and South Florida Avenue.
In a staff presentation, Morgan Bissau of planning and zoning said the property is zoned R-2 and that the applicant MTP Acquisitions 460 Florida LLC is proposing to convert previously approved single-family lots into duplex lots. "The applicant is requesting with this preliminary plat to turn all 20 of those lots into duplex lots," Morgan said, noting duplexes are a permitted use in R-2 but that a development-agreement modification is needed because earlier…
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