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MEMORANDUM
Date: October 11, 2012
To: Mayor and City Councilmembers
Through: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
Diane Jones, Deputy City Manager – Policy, Planning and Transportation
Karen Cumbo, Planning, Development, and Transportation Director
From: Laurie Kadrich, Community Development and Neighborhood Services Director
Re: Work Session Summary – October 9, 2012, Phase 2 Multi-Family Housing Land Use
Code Proposals
City Council in Attendance: Mayor Weitkunat, Mayor Pro Tem Ohlson, Councilpersons Horak (via
telephone), Kottwitz, Manvel, Poppaw, and Troxell.
Presenting Staff: Laurie Kadrich, Seth Lorson, Ted Shepard, Beth Sowder.
CDNS Staff presented four proposals and requested feedback from Council:
1. Consider creating a threshold size for multi-family developments that can be reviewed
administratively (Type I) up to a maximum of 50 dwelling units or 75 bedrooms. Any larger
will have to be reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Board (Type II).
Council Feedback: City Council directed staff to develop an Ordinance and schedule it for
Council Hearing November 6, 2012. Council also suggested that staff consider establishing
neighborhood meetings for Type 1 Hearings.
2. Consider creating a 30% limit on the amount of 4-bedroom units that can be permitted in
multi-family developments.
Council Feedback: City Council was not certain that this was the “right” percentage to use as
a limitation or that this was the right tool. Council directed staff to provide more information
regarding how/why 4 bedroom units more adversely impact neighbors as opposed to 3
bedroom or fewer units. Council recommended that further discussions take place through
the Student Housing Action Plan process. Council also expressed that the concern is really
about the total number of people that may be in one location rather than the configuration of
the units and/or bedrooms. Council also asked whether creating definitions for different
housing types was still being explored and suggested that more information needs to be
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provided regarding different housing types. This option is also being forwarded to the
Student Housing Action Plan for further evaluation.
3. Consider creating a definition of student housing and/or create a university district.
Council Feedback: City Council agreed with the staff recommendation not to define
“student” housing. Council also agreed with the staff recommendation to evaluate whether a
University District should be created and if so, what land use restrictions would apply in the
new district (if any) that would help mitigate the impact of higher density development on
existing single family residents. Council directed that the University District options be
moved to the Student Housing Action Plan (SHAP) process for further vetting.
4. Consider adjusting the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Overlay Zone boundary.
Council Feedback: City Council agreed with the staff recommendation to leave the TOD
boundary in its current location. Council reasoned that the boundary has only been
established since 2007, the transit system is not yet fully built and large scale developments
within the district are too new to recommend changes to the boundary.
Council further directed staff to move Landmark Preservation Phase 2 discussions to 2013
and use the dates previously reserved for that project to report back on SHAP. Those dates
are December 11, 2012 for Work Session and January 15, 2013 for Council Hearing.