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Planning staff lays out UDC options; commissioners lean toward starting with ‘hub’ areas
Summary
Staff presented implementation options for the comprehensive land use plan — including a citywide CLT text amendment, a floating residential district, or phased rezoning — and commissioners signaled a general preference to begin rezoning in hub areas while staff resolves lot-size, infrastructure and engagement questions.
Planning staff used the April 14 work session to walk commissioners through three broad ways to implement the comprehensive land use plan: (1) targeted rezoning that begins in hub or transition areas, (2) a citywide text amendment (the petition submitted by the Ann Arbor Community Land Trust) to allow duplexes/triplexes in existing residential districts, and (3) creation of a floating residential district that would be crafted and then applied by rezoning petitions.
Planner Michelle Bennett summarized the background memo, peer-city interviews and an engagement framework that breaks engagement into "inform, consult, involve, collaborate" and…
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