Committee reviews "Missing Middle" overlay to accelerate density on transit corridors
A council member presented a Missing Middle Housing Opportunity Overlay (MHOP) intended to relax dimensional standards on transit‑supportive corridors to allow duplexes, triplexes and 4‑plexes. The presenter said the overlay is meant to accelerate housing supply; members and staff flagged concerns about parking, snow removal and neighborhood impacts and set assembly public hearings for Sept. 15 (continued to Oct. 6).
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Member Baldwin Day presented the Missing Middle Housing Opportunity Overlay (MHOP) as a tool to expand housing types that fall between single family homes and large apartment buildings. He said the overlay would change dimensional standards in the multifamily tax incentive map to enable missing‑middle types in transit‑supportive corridors and cited permit and housing‑supply data as rationale.
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