Agenda Date: 11/18/2024
Subject:
Title
PC Resolution 08-2024: Recommending approval to city council of a code text amendment to Title 10, the Unified Land Use Code related to neighborhood housing opportunities.
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Prepared by:
Zareen Tasneem, Senior Planner
Presentations:
Zareen Tasneem, Senior Planner
PURPOSE:
Final planning commission review and recommendation to city council for approval of revisions to Title 10, the Unified Land Use Code (ULUC) related to neighborhood housing opportunities.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
High Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
When the Unified Land Use Code (ULUC) was adopted on October 18, 2021, it included several land use categories that fall under the missing middle housing types. Generally, this term covers the transect of housing types that fall in between single-family detached houses and mid-rise apartment buildings. Examples include duplexes, accessory dwelling units (ADUs), cottage court communities, and multiplexes. These land use categories often have restrictive standards associated with them in the ULUC that make them difficult to build. As a result, the city has only received a handful of building permits and site plans proposing to construct these types of uses.
Staff established several goals with the neighborhood housing opportunities project that the proposed changes categorically fall under:
* Clarify zoning code regulations
* Incorporate requirements of recently passed state legislation regarding ADUs
* Reduce existing zoning code barriers
* Expand land use types as permitted in more zone districts
The ULUC proposed code changes are now ready for planning commission final review and recommendation to city council.
BACKGROUND:
Envision Littleton, the City's comprehensive plan, names housing diversity as one of its goals. To align with this goal, staff made incremental changes to the ULUC's ADU regulations last year as part of a larger code amendment. During that process, both Littleton's Pl...
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