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Sarasota outlines density bonuses and tiered attainable-housing rules as pipeline grows
Summary
City planning staff described a suite of zoning incentives (downtown 4x density bonus; corridor mixed-use 3x base density) with minimum 15% attainable units for 30 years and a tiered AMI requirement; more than 20 applications and roughly 800 attainable units are in process.
Steve Coover, planning director for the City of Sarasota, described the city's recent policy approach to incentivize "attainable housing." The program pairs density bonuses with minimum set-asides: downtown projects can seek up to four times base density if at least 15% of bonus units are reserved as attainable housing for a minimum 30-year period, and corridor mixed-use zones allow up to three times base density with similar set-asides.
City staff explained a tiering requirement intended to spread…
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