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Commission discusses modest code amendments for cottage clusters, density and bike parking
Summary
Staff presented a second part of proposed Milwaukie code amendments focused on cottage-cluster standards (orientation to common greens vs. street), clarifying minimum density and lot-consolidation effects, retiring unenforceable maximum-density numbers, and changing bicycle parking requirements for cottage clusters.
Milwaukie planning staff presented a package of "policy-light" code amendments and a set of housekeeping edits intended to clarify development standards for cottage clusters, residential density rules in the R-MD zone and bicycle-parking requirements for small-cluster housing.
Senior planner Ryan Dire summarized housekeeping fixes that clean up cottage-cluster parking and garage/carport language and remove a redundant approval criterion that elevated minor modifications in natural-resource areas. Dire said those clarifications address inconsistencies that arose after the city updated its code to comply with House Bill 2001.
On policy items, staff flagged three main topics: the orientation requirement for cottage…
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