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Council reviews zoning amendment to allow single‑family and duplex homes in some multifamily districts
Summary
Planning staff explained ordinance 8053 would add single‑family and two‑family dwellings as permitted uses in multifamily‑medium and multifamily‑high zoning classifications, enabling duplexes and certain single‑family homes where they were previously disallowed.
Council planning staff and members discussed an ordinance (calendar item 8053) that would change the parish Unified Development Code to permit single‑family and two‑family dwellings in zoning districts currently designated as multifamily‑medium and multifamily‑high.
Ross, a planning staff member, said the change would expand housing opportunity by adding single‑family and duplex (two‑family) uses to those multi‑family classifications and would create related site and structure provisions such as minimum lot dimensions (for example, 75 by 100 feet for certain structures).
Councilmember Coogle asked for clarification about what the change would allow; staff confirmed that the amendment would not authorize high‑density single‑family projects or apartments but would allow duplexes and single‑family homes where previously prohibited. The change grew out of multiple stakeholder requests, staff said, aimed at broadening housing options across St. Tammany Parish.
Council members asked follow‑up questions about where neighborhood protections remain in place; staff clarified that neighborhood commercial zoning and single‑family residential areas (such as the subdivisions cited by a councilmember) would remain unaffected.
Next steps: the ordinance was pulled for discussion and will be referred to the appropriate committee and returned for further consideration at a later council meeting.
