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Inkster planners outline zoning overhaul to boost walkable downtown, add missing-middle housing
Summary
Planning commissioners heard a detailed presentation on a proposed zoning ordinance update to adopt hybrid form-based rules, encourage mixed-use and missing-middle housing (including ADUs), strengthen design and enforcement, and embed anti-displacement measures; staff said final housing costs are not yet determined.
Commissioner Tanya Williams presented a proposed update to Inkster’s zoning ordinance that she said is intended to align the city’s rules with the master plan and help the city achieve redevelopment-ready community certification. "Why are we updating the zoning ordinance? Essentially because it needs to be updated," Williams said, adding the revision would make rules clearer, update language and graphics, and support walkable, mixed-use downtown development.
Williams described a shift toward hybrid form-based codes to guide not only land use but building form and materials, saying…
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