Agenda Packet 12-12-18 Work Session

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40 Strategy 1: Remove land use code barriers Option Key Explanation 4-A. Improve the adjustment review process for adaptive re-use. property line. By changing these rules, builders would have more flexibility in design and construction. 5. Enable more multi-family development along key corridors. (See glossary for a map of Eugene’s key corridors.) + Key corridors in Eugene are major roads that provide the backbone of connectivity. They have public transit stops and bring cars and buses from neighborhoods into and out of central areas. They typically include a mix of residential and commercial uses, including retail that serves the surrounding neighborhoods. Current zoning allows for denser residential development on some, but not all, of Eugene’s key corridors. 5-A: Create a ‘key corridor overlay’ (with design standards), which allows multi-family development on all key corridors. 5-B: Reduce parking requirements for certain multi-family housing types along key corridors 6. Replace current code with a form-based code. Traditional zoning codes separate specific uses (commercial, residential, etc.). Form-based codes focus on building form and how the building interacts with the public space (streets and sidewalks) around it. Form-based codes don’t regulate what happens inside buildings, only how they look from the outside. Eugene has two form-based codes that apply to specific neighborhoods. 6-A: Create a city-wide form-based code, which would replace the current land use code. 6-B: Create form-based codes in certain areas. + 7. Remove neighborhood-specific zoning. Eugene has “special area zones” which allow for or prohibit special land uses in specific areas or neighborhoods. 7-A*: Review, evaluate, and adjust neighborhood-specific zoning. Several areas of the city include zoning that was developed to apply to only a small portion of the city. Over time, the land use code has grown in size and complexity as more neighborhood-specific or special- area zones were completed. In some cases, these zones include barriers to housing production, such as more specific design and density requirements, that don’t exist citywide. A review of these zones, through a code audit, could uncover barriers that would be worthwhile to consider removing. See Option 9. 8. Activate “Opportunity Siting” Program. The City’s Opportunity Siting Program was envisioned to proactively identify sites for multi-family development. It could increase successful multi-family housing in certain areas through collaborative design review (directly involving Neighborhood associations in the approval process) and apply incentives such as a density bonus or SDC reductions to those sites. In 2009, the Opportunity Siting task team made recommendations for this program. December 12, 2018, Work Session - Item 2