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Board recommends RPUD ordinance amendment to reduce minimum acreage and correct parking standard
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Board voted to recommend ordinance O-7-2025 to City Council, which would amend the residential planned unit development (RPUD) code to reduce the minimum acreage from 10 to 4 acres, require a minimum of 15 dwelling units per RPUD, retain a 15-unit-per-acre maximum density from the comprehensive plan, and correct an inconsistency in parking-space area to 162 sq ft.
The Planning & Zoning Board voted to recommend City Council approval of an amendment to the city's residential planned unit development (RPUD) regulations intended to make RPUDs feasible for smaller parcels and to streamline procedures.
Connor, planning staff, said the ordinance would amend Chapter 110 to reduce the minimum acreage for RPUDs from 10 acres to 4 acres and to align procedural steps so developers can consolidate preliminary and final development-plan reviews. "The ordinance as amended would adjust that down from 10 acres to 4 acres," Connor said.
City attorney Anthony said the comprehensive plan's maximum residential density of 15 dwelling units per acre remains in force and that the draft ordinance also sets a project minimum of 15 dwelling units so RPUDs apply to substantive projects rather than very small infill proposals. "The maximum residential density stays at 15 dwelling units per acre," he said.
Board member Steven Stroud identified a discrepancy in parking dimensions: the RPUD draft referenced 180 square feet per space but a 2020 ordinance sets spaces at 162 square feet (9 by 18). Staff and the attorney agreed the sections should be consistent; the board amended the recommendation to correct the RPUD text to read 162 square feet per parking space in alignment with the 2020 ordinance.
After discussion about clustering, open-space incentives (including credit for providing genuine river or ocean access), and streamlining redundant site-plan language, a member moved to recommend ordinance O-7-2025 to the City Council as amended (parking corrected from 180 to 162 sq ft). The motion was seconded and the roll call recorded votes in favor.
The recommendation asks Council to consider the ordinance as amended; if Council approves it, the revised RPUD rules would be available for future projects subject to the city's rezoning and site-review processes.
