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Morgantown staff outline housing affordability package including ADU ordinance, density bonus and rehab programs
Summary
City staff summarized listening-session findings and proposed a multi-pronged housing strategy: an ADU ordinance (attached by right, detached via conditional use with owner-occupancy expectation), a density-bonus incentive for affordable units, owner-occupied rehab loans, community land-trust exploration and zoning-code updates; council agreed to refer the ADU draft to the Planning Commission.
Morgantown— City staff on Tuesday summarized stakeholder and public listening sessions on housing affordability and presented a package of short-, medium- and long-term policy tools aimed at creating more attainable housing options.
Ricky Yeager told council staff held four stakeholder meetings and two listening sessions in January 2026 that identified six main barriers: housing cost burden and market pressures, rental availability and stability, infrastructure and utility costs, regulatory and development barriers (setbacks, minimum-lot sizes), workforce capacity constraints and…
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