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Council adds missing-middle housing types to Opportunity Housing and rental rules

Bloomington City Council · April 28, 2026
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Summary

Bloomington adopted a supplemental ordinance April 27 adding five missing-middle housing types (three-family, fourplex, detached townhouses, multiplexes, cottage courts) into opportunity housing and rental licensing chapters; council and staff said the change simply aligns definitions across code and does not change incentives.

Planning staff presented a supplemental ordinance intended to align Bloomington's zoning and administrative code after the March 23 adoption that established five new housing types. The supplemental measure adds those housing types into the Opportunity Housing Ordinance (OHO) standards and into rental licensing where appropriate.

Staff explained the supplemental ordinance does not change OHO incentives or area median income…

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