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Committee continues zoning-reform talks; staff asked to refine R2 district, public-hearing and protest-petition options
Summary
Lee's Summit staff presented options to add missing-middle housing types and a new conventional R2 district, and to alter public-hearing timing; council preserved R1/RP1 protections, favored moving triplexes to RP2, and asked staff for more detailed R2 options and protest-petition timing.
City staff returned to the Community & Economic Development Committee with a multi-part zoning reform presentation intended to increase housing choice and speed the development-review timeline.
Amy Nassif, deputy director of development, reviewed options to expand allowable residential uses in conventional districts (R1/RP1/RP2), including restricted townhomes, duplexes as conditional uses and triplexes in selected districts. Nassif said the goal is to remove "zoning barriers or barriers" that slow housing delivery while protecting existing neighborhoods. "One of the main things that we hear from home builders...is…
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