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Council hears wide-ranging zoning-code rewrite, including short-term rental cap and hospital lot-size change
Summary
At a public hearing on PC-25-00008, city staff outlined comprehensive text changes to Kettering’s zoning code: a new neighborhood-business district, a 25% cap on short-term rentals in multi-tenant buildings, removal of a 10-acre hospital minimum lot-size, and alternatives to masonry buffering and dumpster enclosures; the planning commission recommended approval.
City planning staff presented a proposed comprehensive text amendment (PC-25-00008) to the Kettering zoning code during a public hearing on Aug. 26, summarizing revisions across numerous chapters and explaining the planning commission’s earlier recommendation for approval.
Ryan Holsy, who led the presentation for the city, said the package is designed to broaden options for code compliance, remove arbitrary requirements and lay groundwork for future rezoning of economic-development overlays. Key changes highlighted in the presentation include:
- Creation of a "neighborhood business" district permitting office use plus non-auto-oriented retail and restaurants. - New short-term rental regulations, including a proposed cap: "caps short-term rentals in those buildings at no more than 25% of the living units in those buildings," Holsy said. - Addition of light-industrial product-assembly uses to attract tenants for larger vacant retail spaces. - Removal of a 10-acre minimum lot-size requirement for hospital uses to allow smaller health projects to move forward. - Revised daycare access standards to permit ingress/egress from non-arterial streets when appropriate. - Reorganization of buffering and masonry-wall requirements (moving buffering rules into the buffer-yard chapter) and adding an alternative option that would allow certain high-performance privacy fence products in lieu of masonry walls or masonry dumpster enclosures. - Modest increases in allowable detached storage size (from 100 to 144 square feet) before stricter architectural requirements apply, and a new category for "uncovered front porches." - Narrower front-yard setback in suburban business pattern districts (from 35 ft. to 25 ft.) and other edits to development-pattern districts, lighting, access management, parking/driveway standards, and architectural exceptions for some industrial/metal buildings.
Holsy told the council the planning commission held public hearings on July 21 and Aug. 4 and recommended approval. He explained that some changes aim to give the zoning and engineering departments discretion on access-point separation on major streets and to prevent requiring full compliance with modern standards in ways that create impractical outcomes for redevelopments.
Council opened the floor to public comment specific to PC-25-00008; no members of the public spoke during that public-hearing period. The council concluded the public hearing and proceeded to other business; no final vote on the text amendment was recorded that evening.
