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Planning commission reviews RM-11 zoning updates and seeks council work session on affordable-housing definition
Summary
Commissioners reviewed proposed RM-11 zoning standard revisions—clarifying lot size, density, setbacks, open and usable space, and related definitions—and discussed adding an 'affordable housing' definition to city code; commissioners agreed to prepare a cleaned-up draft and send it to the city council for a work session and a likely public hearing in April.
The Richfield City Planning Commission spent a sizable portion of its March 4 meeting reviewing a proposed ordinance to amend the RM-11 residential zoning standards and related definitions in chapter 17.23.
Staff introduced proposed changes to Table 31-3 that would clarify RM-11 standards for lot size, density, setbacks, open and usable space, building height and spacing between structures. Commissioners focused much of…
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