Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

James FeatherThank you. Okay. Next item on our work session is a discussion of potential zoning text amendments regarding accessory dwelling units, occupancy, reducing special use permits, and other miscellaneous amendments. Nice to see you back, Mr.

Eric Formanstaffby voiceAnd the potential amendments we're talking about tonight include a few different topics. So first are amendments related to accessory dwelling unit occupancy. Planning Commission and City Council both held work sessions on accessory dwelling units or ADUs. In general, ADUs overall, this is a very complex topic, and the city is planning a comprehensive review of ADU regulations over the next year. But this one element, this element of eliminating occupancy requirements for age and disability, this is something that both Planning Commission and City Council identified as a priority, and it's something that can be done independently of a larger ADU review. So that's the first item that we'll be talking about.

so first up we'll discuss the potential adu occupancy amendments and as i'd mentioned the overall topic of accessory dwelling units this is something that planning commission and city council have discussed and staff has been asked to examine adu standards in in total so the big things like physical characteristics of ADUs or where or how they're permitted. But there's also some existing standards on ADU occupancy. And like it says here, both Planning Commission and City Council discuss these occupancy standards at their work sessions. Both bodies saw benefits to eliminating some of these standards. And this particular topic, it's reasonable to address separately from other ADU issues because it's relatively minor.