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County’s "Housing Now" text amendment would allow duplexes and small multifamily on corridor lots; locals raise infrastructure and clarity concerns
Summary
A county zoning amendment called "Housing Now" would allow duplexes, triplexes, townhouses and small apartments on single-family lots that front specified arterial corridors, subject to affordability covenants and site-plan review; Martin's Additions residents and legal advisors raised questions about eligibility, deed-restriction lengths and local infrastructure costs.
Michelle, a real-property and land-use lawyer, briefed the Martin's Additions council on the county’s new "Housing Now" program, focusing on a zoning text amendment that would allow additional housing types on lots that front designated corridors. "The housing now program, the zoning text amendment is very different from the attainable housing strategies initiative," Michelle said, explaining it is geographically limited to roadways with master-plan rights-of-way greater than 100 feet and will require site-plan review rather than allowing by-right building permits.
Under the draft, lots that front those corridors could be redeveloped with duplexes, triplexes, townhouses (four or more units with shared vertical walls) or small apartment buildings (four or more units with shared horizontal walls), provided the project meets financial-eligibility…
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