2030 Comprehensive Plan Update, April 2024

Land Use

Policy LU 8.1 Housing Variety

Policy LU 8.5 Neighborhood-scale Housing New homes within residential neighborhoods should respect the existing scale. Residential neighborhoods that currently consist largely of detached houses can accommodate additional housing types. These housing types should be at a similar scale to existing detached houses.

Accommodate growth in newly developing or redeveloping areas of the city through mixed-use neighborhoods with a variety of housing types.

Policy LU 8.2 Neighborhood Revitalization

Facilitate neighborhood revitalization and stabilization by focusing grants, loans, housing rehabilitation efforts, commercial investment programs, capital improvements, and other government actions in those areas that are most in need. Use social, economic, and physical indicators such as the poverty rate, the number of abandoned or substandard buildings, the crime rate, and the unemployment rate as key indicators of need. Policy LU 8.3 Conserving, Enhancing, and Revitalizing Neighborhoods Recognize the importance of balancing the need to increase the housing supply and expand neighborhood commerce with the parallel need to protect neighborhood character, preserve historic resources, and restore the environment. Policy LU 8.4 Rehabilitation Before Demolition In redeveloping areas characterized by vacant, abandoned, and underutilized older buildings, generally encourage rehabilitation and adaptive use of existing buildings rather than demolition.

Policy LU 8.6 Teardowns

Discourage the replacement of quality homes in good physical condition with new homes that are substantially larger, taller, and bulkier than the prevailing building stock.

Policy LU 8.7 Lot Sizes and Flag Lots

Allow flag lots and smaller lot sizes and widths for “missing middle” and other housing types in order to improve housing choice.

Policy LU 8.8 Finer-grained Development

Large oversized blocks in new neighborhoods and subdivisions should be avoided in favor of smaller blocks and enhanced pedestrian networks that create better connections and help facilitate walking and reduce driving.

Policy LU 8.9 Open Space in New Development

New residential development should be developed with common and usable open space that preserves the natural landscape and the highest quality ecological resources on the site.

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