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Westminster council adopts urgency zoning ordinance raising housing-overlay minimum to 30 units per acre
Summary
The City Council adopted an urgency ordinance Sept. 10 raising the minimum density in Westminster's housing overlay from 20 to 30 units per acre to align with the city's housing element assumptions and avoid reopening site designations; the Planning Commission had earlier recommended denial.
The Westminster City Council on Sept. 10 adopted an urgency ordinance to amend the city's housing-overlay zoning, raising the minimum density from 20 to 30 units per acre and introducing a standard that staff says is necessary to match the density assumptions used in the city's sixth-cycle housing element.
Planning staff told the council the change is intended to prevent shortfalls in the city's Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) accounting and to encourage development products that will support local commercial…
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