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Los Altos Hills council introduces ordinance to revise multifamily standards, asks state to consider larger minimum lot
Summary
The council introduced an ordinance to amend multifamily development standards—reducing some setbacks and shifting to a 0.45 floor-area ratio—then unanimously directed staff to ask California HCD whether a 0.75-acre minimum (instead of the state’s 0.5-acre expectation) would be acceptable, while keeping 0.5 acres as the fallback to meet a June deadline.
Mayor Battaglia opened a special meeting April 29 and the Los Altos Hills City Council introduced an ordinance to revise multifamily development standards and amend the land-use element, then voted unanimously to direct staff to ask the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) whether it would accept a 0.75-acre minimum lot size.
The proposed zoning changes, presented by Dan Wherry of Michael Baker & Associates, replace a maximum average unit-size approach with a 0.45 floor-area ratio (FAR), add a 0.05 FAR bonus for senior and assisted-living projects and retain incentives for inclusionary affordable units. The draft ordinance also reduces certain setbacks (from 60 feet in the original standard to 35 feet adjacent to single-family zones and, within multifamily zones, to a 30-foot front, 10-foot side and 20-foot rear) and lowers the minimum multifamily site size from 3.5 acres to as…
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