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Salem staff outline zoning changes to speed middle-housing, streamline trees and permit rules
Summary
City staff presented a housing code project intended to implement the city's Housing Production Strategy, proposing expanded cottage clusters, exemptions for small lots, streamlined tree removal permitting for certain housing types, shared utilities for middle housing, and boundary-street exemption for 3- and 4-unit developments.
City planning staff presented a package of proposed zoning and process changes Dec. 8 aimed at increasing housing production and affordability.
"The housing production strategy includes 17 actions," Eunice Kim, the city's long-range planning manager, told councilors. She said the code update aims to promote single-family infill, 'middle housing' (two- to four-unit homes, townhouses, cottage clusters) and multifamily development, and to align the city's rules with a state-required Housing Production Strategy.
Highlights presented by Kim included a proposal to increase the maximum size of cottage clusters from 12 to 16 units and to allow attached as well…
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