SCH Number 2025091327

Project Info

Title

The City of Blue Lake 2019-2027 Housing Element Update - Implementation Program HI-14 (Multi-Family or MF combining zone)

Description

Amendment of Title 17 (Zoning) of the Municipal Code to add Section 17.20.070 (Multi Family or MF combing zone) that would create a new combining zone that could be applied to sites within the Residential Multiple-Family (R-3), Mixed-Use (MU), Opportunity (O), and/or Planned Development Residential (PD-R) zones for the purposes of allowing multi-family residential uses by-right (principally permitted). This Zoning Code Amendment is proposed to implement Program HI-14 from the City’s 6th Cycle Housing Element Update. In order to comply with State Housing Law during the 6th Cycle, the MF combing zone must be applied to a single site that is a minimum of 1-acre. As such, this action also includes a Zoning Map amendment to apply the MF combing zone to a single site in the City. The site proposed for application of the MF combining zone is a 1-acre portion of a vacant site in the City’s Powers Creek District that is zoned Opportunity (APN 025-201-023). When applied, the MF combing zone would require: 1) residential development at a minimum density of 16 dwelling units to a maximum of 20 units per acre, except as may be modified by State Density Bonus Law; 2) a minimum of 50 percent of the square footage in a mixed-use development must be residential; 3) a development cannot be precluded from providing 100 percent residential square footage due to the requirements of the principal zone; 4) if at least 20 percent of the residential units are affordable to lower-income households then the development would be principally permitted and would not require Site Plan Approval by the Planning Commission; 5) new residential or mixed-use structures or additions/renovations to existing residential or mixed-use structures would be subject to the objective design standards applicable to the principal zone.

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