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College Station council directs staff to draft changes to "family" definition and to explore a shared-housing/congregate-living category
Summary
Council heard a wide-ranging workshop on the city's UDO family definition after Senate Bill 1567; staff recommended keeping the general family definition to comply with state law while adding a physical-criteria-based shared-housing or congregate-living designation to regulate future developments. Council voted to direct staff to prepare an ordinance that would adopt a clarified definition including the phrase "including but not limited to those related by blood, marriage, adoption, or guardianship."
Council members spent an extended workshop considering the local effects of Senate Bill 1567 on the Unified Development Ordinance's definition of "family" and options for re-establishing enforceable controls on high-occupancy or student-oriented housing.
Anthony Armstrong, client development services, explained that state law required a broadly worded definition of family to avoid limiting occupancy by relation. He told council that while the current language—"any number of persons occupying a single dwelling…
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