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Committee advances Tramway Center PUD to preserve nonprofit space and allow 63‑unit affordable housing
Summary
CPD and the Urban Land Conservancy presented a PUD to conserve the historic Tramway nonprofit building, bring existing nonprofit uses into compliance and build a four‑story, 63‑unit affordable housing development on a vacant pad. The committee voted to forward the PUD to the council floor amid neighbor concerns about height, parking and density.
The Community Planning and Housing Committee voted to forward a Planned Unit Development (PUD) request on the Tramway nonprofit center block in the Cole neighborhood to the City Council after an in‑depth presentation and extensive questions from councilmembers and neighbors.
Edson, a CPD planner, described the application as PUDG 38. The request would convert the site from former chapter 59 zoning to a PUD that explicitly conserves the Tramway (Motor Coach Division) building, allows continued nonprofit uses and permits a four‑story (up to 45 feet) affordable housing building of roughly 63 units on a vacant portion of the block. CPD noted the project has an affordable housing plan signed with HOST and won low‑income housing tax credits (LIHTC) in November 2025.
Andrea Burns of Urban…
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