I think we're ready to get started.

Call the study session to order.

Roll call.

Mayor Scott Anderson.

Here.

Vice Mayor Bobby Buckley.

Here.

Councilmember Chuck Bon Giovanni.

I am here.

Councilmember Kenny Bucklin.

Here.

Councilmember Monty Lyons.

I am here.

And Councilmember Jim Torgeson.

Here.

A quorum is present.

Thank you.

Our one single item tonight is presentation and discussion from development services on text amendment related to middle housing legislation.

Ashley.

Thank you, Mayor.

I have been before you on this item last year, so I will do just a brief run through of it and then answer any questions that you might have.

This is Z 2511.

It's a text amendment, as you mentioned, related to middle housing.

Just by way of background, this is related to House Bill 2724 2721 that came out of the 2024 legislative session.

And it required that municipalities by January 1st of 2026 adopt an ordinance that allows for the development of middle housing, which is defined within the within the bill as duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes, and townhomes.

There's a couple of different criteria that are required for towns to comply with in allowing these middle housing units.

So we have to allow it on lots zoned for single family within one mile of our central business district.

Council may recall that I was before you last year around around summertime to adopt the heritage district as our central business district to conform with this provision.

We also have to allow it on any new development that's 10 contiguous acres or more, and that would be 20% of that new development.

That's throughout the town, not confined to that one mile buffer around the central business district.

If the municipality does not adopt these regulations prior to January 1st of 2026, middle housing would be allowed by right on all single family lots without limitation.

So it's really important that we get these rules in place in order to be able to ensure that we've got a little bit of control about where they locate.

So you'll notice in our draft that we bring before council that there's a number of things that we specify that we're not going to do as we apply these middle housing standards.

So those include restricting middle housing to less than two stories.

We can't restrict the floor area ratio to less than 50%.

We can't have regulations or permit requirements that are more restrictive than those for single-family dwellings within the same zoning district.

So we can't have greater setback requirements, you know, shorter uh height, um, those types of things.

We can't require an owner to occupy any of the structures on the lot.

Uh we can't require them to comply with the commercial building code or to contain a fire sprinkler.

And we can't require more than one parking space per unit.

Uh so as I go through the draft, you'll see that our draft is reflective of these things that we are prohibited from regulating.

Um the first section of our text amendment is to update our terms.

Uh we are defining middle housing specifically, and then um including duplex, floor area ratio, four-plex townhomes, and triplexes under the umbrella of middle housing.

So these definitions that you see relate only to the development of middle housing.

Um the reason that we did this is because there are some um maybe unique uh ways to define these that we didn't want to apply to our broader zoning districts.

Uh for example, a duplex is defined as attached, detached, or semi-detached.

Uh, typically when you think of a duplex, that's one structure that's got two units in it.

So we didn't want to replace our current definition of duplex with these.

So these definitions will only relate to middle housing.

Uh we're also updating our land use table to show that middle housing will be allowed in all of our single family zoning districts.

Uh, you'll see on the right hand side of this table under additional standards.

Um, we're adding in a new section to see middle housing, and so that'll refer to the next section that I'm gonna talk about.

So this is our supplemental use regulations, and this is where the meat of this text amendment is going to um be.

It talks about eligibility.

So one of the things that um I had mentioned is that we have to allow it within one mile of our central business district.

The uh statute is not um clear on whether or not that includes the central business district or not.

Um the town has um added in here that we would allow it on land that is um zoned single family residential and entirely within the buffer area.

Uh and we would also allow it within the boundaries of our central business district.

Um so looking for any feedback that council might have on that, that is uh a space that we've got some room to to maybe change that.

Um in addition, uh item number two in a single family residential zoning district of 10 acres or more, uh, we wanted to clarify that the 20% allowance has to occupy no more than 20% of the development's net area and no more than 20 percent of the lots.

That wasn't clear in the statute, and we wanted to make sure that that 20% applied to both the unit count and the area of the development.

In terms of development standards, this section talks about um they have to comply with the base zoning district standards, uh, they have to be built on legal lots.

Um they can't be constructed in phases, so if you're doing middle housing, um they wouldn't construct maybe that per portion first, and then the rest of the development maybe never comes to fruition.

Uh, one of the other things that we um added in here was related to the number of units.

So the bill says that we have to allow uh duplex, triplex, four plaques, and town homes, but it doesn't specify the number of town homes.

So within this section of the code, we have limited it to no more than four town homes, which is consistent with the four plaques notion that they've that they've included within the the legislation.

Um we've also added in here that uh for the for the purposes of this, they can't add um accessory dwelling units to their town homes.

Um you may recall that in a previous legislative session we were required to allow accessory dwelling units within um single family zoning districts, and so we wanted to make sure that we weren't quadrupling density on these single family lots by allowing town homes plus ADUs.

Um and then we're also talking about application process, and this this gets into uh the requirements where we would ensure that we're not making this process more onerous than a typical single family development.

Uh so it just outlines the process by which somebody would submit those applications and they would be reviewed.

I also mentioned that uh the legislation indicates that we can't require more than one space per unit, and so we've added uh use classification to our parking table for middle housing and then specified that those um just require one space per unit, uh which is different than our typical multifamily parking requirements.

Um and then lastly, we are adding in a map that identifies the central business district, and then that one mile buffer area.

This is going to our planning commission at the November 5th um hearing for recommendation to council, and then it'll be brought back to council for action on um November 18th.

Uh that'll ensure that we get this um in effect prior to January 1st.

Happy to answer any questions that council might have.

Thank you, Ashley.

Questions?

Councilmember one Giuani?

Thank you, Mayor.

Ashley, thank you.

Um quick question.

Can we, should we, or could we add in here to make it so they can't use metal housing for say sober living homes?

That's that's a good question.

That's not something that we could that we've explored, but we can certainly take that back and and see if we thought that that's something that that we could certainly do.

Thank you.

Other questions.

Thank you, Ashley.

Thank you.

Thank you, state legislature.

Thank you, state legislature.

No other items on uh the study session.

I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

Oh we are adjourned.

We will reconvene at six o'clock.

What time is it?

543.

Thank you.

We had no idea what to do.