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Planning staff proposes targeted zoning changes to make smaller lots and simpler design rules easier to develop
Summary
Lakeville planning staff and developers discussed proposed ordinance tweaks: reducing some garage-size minimums for townhomes, adjusting perimeter buffer/berm requirements, easing detached-townhome exterior-material mandates, and allowing smaller lots without a conditional-use process. Planning commissioners supported several proposals and asked to
Lakeville planning staff laid out a package of potential zoning adjustments that aim to reduce construction costs and simplify review for certain housing products, including: smaller permitted townhouse garage footprints, reduced required perimeter buffers in some locations, clarifications to baselot setbacks, reduced complexity for minimum lot-size rules, and options to relax some mandatory exterior-material rules for detached townhomes.
Staff said the changes stem from a builders’ meeting called by the mayor and from subsequent consultant analysis. Planning consultant Dan Licht summarized priorities and the history of the ordinance changes, noting that multiple small edits could increase buildable area and reduce per-unit costs while…
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