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Council increases minimum dwelling size for R‑O suburban residential district
Summary
Ordinance 9-56 updates Basehor’s R‑O (suburban residential) district to keep a one-acre minimum lot size and raise the minimum dwelling size from 1,250 to 1,500 square feet; council corrected a scrivener's error and reconfirmed the vote.
The council adopted ordinance 9-56 to clarify the R‑O suburban-residential district. Planning staff said the ordinance retains the one-acre minimum for R‑O classification and raises the minimum dwelling size from 1,250 square feet to 1,500 square feet to better align with expected development patterns.
After the initial vote the council identified a scrivener's error in the ordinance text that referenced the wrong article. Staff requested that the motion be amended to correct the article number; council accepted the amendment and retook the vote, which passed again 5-0.
