Oregon Explores Ban on Single-Family Zoning

[MarkDaMan]

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/...ban-areas.html

Oregon House Speaker proposes to abolish single-family zoning in many urban areas
Updated Dec 14, 4:55 PM; Posted Dec 14, 4:27 PM
By Elliot Njus enjus@oregonian.com

House Speaker Tina Kotek has outlined a plan to allow duplex, triplexes and four-plexes in low-density neighborhoods throughout the state – an idea that would effectively end single-family zoning in many urban areas.

The legislative concept from Kotek, a Portland Democrat, would require cities with more than 10,000 residents to allow the higher-density development in neighborhoods zoned for single-family houses. The proposal also calls for allowing “cottage clusters,” or small detached homes that share a common yard.

More than half of Oregon’s population lives in the cities that would fall under the new zoning. The plan would include towns as small Cottage Grove and Prineville, each with 2017 populations just over 10,000.

The Legislature could beat Portland to the punch. The city is weighing a policy that would do the roughly the same thing at Kotek’s proposal, but it’s not scheduled to go before the City council until next summer. (The basic outline was approved in 2016, but the city has spent years writing the code.)

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[urbanlife]

I really hope this happens, it will be a major step forward for Oregon.