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Environmental commissioners question proposed UDO change to allow up to 80% impervious coverage for affordable-housing projects
Summary
City planning staff told the Environmental Commission that proposed Title 20 changes would let developments using an affordable-housing incentive increase impervious surface allowances (current R‑1–R‑4 limits range from 30%–50%) to as much as 80%; commissioners sought details about stormwater, green space and enforcement and agreed to draft comments before the council takes the item up again.
City planning staff presented proposed updates to Title 20 of the Unified Development Ordinance that would expand incentives for developments that include affordable-housing units and raise allowable impervious-surface coverage for those projects.
"In the current UDO ... one of the changes that is being proposed to council has to do with the maximum impervious surface coverage and increasing that to 80% for developments that are using affordable housing," Jamie Kreindler, the city's senior zoning planner, told the Environmental Commission. Kreindler said the change is intended to incentivize developers and that language in the proposal would favor owner-occupied units.
Commissioners pressed staff for details about environmental tradeoffs and implementation. "Are we incentivizing the use of…
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