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<br />Housing Tools and Strategies Action Inventory 10 Recommended Actions <br />3. Recommended Actions <br />This section lists actions that emerged from the HTS process and other outreach and research conducted by City staff. These actions are <br />not being pursued at this time, but could be in the future. Many of the ideas are preliminary in nature, and the implications of <br />implementing them have not been fully researched. <br />A. Remove Barriers in the Land Use Code <br />Action <br /> Impact <br />Explanation <br />Level of <br />Support <br />Does this action increase housing affordability, <br />availability, and/or diversity <br />LU-5 Enable more multi-family <br />development along key <br />corridors. <br />Key corridors in Eugene are generally Major <br />Arterial roads that provide the backbone of <br />connectivity. They have public transit stops and <br />bring cars and buses from neighborhoods into <br />and out of central areas. They typically include a <br />mix of residential and commercial uses, including <br />retail that serves the surrounding neighborhoods. <br /> <br />The Metro Plan Diagram shows high-density <br />residential along portions of the key corridors, <br />and current zoning allows for denser residential <br />development on some, but not all, of Eugene’s key <br />corridors. In some places the two maps conflict. <br />The HTS WG <br />identified 3 <br />different options <br />to allow for <br />additional <br />housing units on <br />major streets. All <br />3 had strong <br />support from the <br />WG, ranging from <br />93% to 100% <br />support and no <br />one opposing the <br />options. <br />Yes - The City could create a ‘key corridor overlay’ <br />(with design standards), which allows multi-family <br />development on all key corridors. This would require <br />Metro Plan redesignations and rezoning. This action <br />would enable multi-family development, by right, in <br />areas currently zoned for single-family use along <br />portions of Coburg and River Road. Allowing these <br />types of developments outright eliminates the need <br />for builders to go through a lengthy land use process <br />to use the land in a previously-approved way, <br />reducing time and administrative costs. <br />LU-6 Allow for additional <br />housing units on minor <br />arterials. <br />This is similar to Action LU-5 above but would <br />expand housing options on major streets that are <br />not key corridors, for example Hilyard, 24th, <br />Irvington, or Harlow. <br />HTS working <br />group supported <br />this option (89%). <br />No one in the WG <br />opposed it. <br />Yes - By allowing additional housing types such as <br />duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, rowhouses, cottage <br />clusters, small apartments, or any subset of these <br />actions. This action would require Metro Plan <br />redesignations and rezoning. This action could <br />increase the quantity of housing options along minor <br />arterials, allowing residences to be close to amenities <br />and transit in an appropriate scale to the rest of the <br />neighborhood. Allowing these types of developments <br />outright eliminates the need for builders to go <br />through a lengthy land-use process to utilize the land <br />in this way, reducing time and administrative costs. <br />LU-7 Allow for more tiny <br />homes (typically less <br />The land use code restricts where collections of <br />tiny homes, such as Emerald Village, are allowed. <br />HTS working <br />group supported <br />Yes - By allowing more locations for tiny homes the <br />diversity of housing could be increased. A tiny home <br />March 13, 2019, Work Session - Item 2