File #: 13632    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Zoning Item Status: Passed
File created: 6/26/2017 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: 7/13/2017 Final action: 7/13/2017
Title: County of Humboldt Zoning Ordinance Revision Case number OR 17-002 Countywide The Planning Commission will consider a zoning ordinance text amendment to County Code, Title III, Chapter Four, Regulations Outside the Coastal Zone. The existing county zoning ordinance sets a development limitation in single-family residential zones that no more than 35% of the total lot may be covered by the vertical projection of any structure (excluding structures not extending above grade). The text amendment would provide an exception to development standards to allow an increase in lot coverage to 50% in an R-1 Zone on lots 10,000 sq. ft. or less in size within a mapped Housing Opportunity Zone (HOZ) provided residence is limited to single-story construction. The proposed text amendment is consistent with Housing Element policies H-P1, H-P6 and H-P14 that promote infill, flexibility in design and a mixture of housing types and sizes. NOTE: The Humboldt County Planning Commission will consider the c...
Attachments: 1. OR 17-002 Staff Report

Title

County of Humboldt Zoning Ordinance Revision

Case number OR 17-002

Countywide

 

The Planning Commission will consider a zoning ordinance text amendment to County Code, Title III, Chapter Four, Regulations Outside the Coastal Zone. The existing county zoning ordinance sets a development limitation in single-family residential zones that no more than 35% of the total lot may be covered by the vertical projection of any structure (excluding structures not extending above grade). The text amendment would provide an exception to development standards to allow an increase in lot coverage to 50% in an R-1 Zone on lots 10,000 sq. ft. or less in size within a mapped Housing Opportunity Zone (HOZ) provided residence is limited to single-story construction.  The proposed text amendment is consistent with Housing Element policies H-P1, H-P6 and H-P14 that promote infill, flexibility in design and a mixture of housing types and sizes. NOTE: The Humboldt County Planning Commission will consider the consider zoning ordinance amendments and make a recommendation to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors.  

 

Recommendation

Move to make all of the required findings, based on evidence in the staff report, and adopt the resolution in the staff report which recommends that the Board of Supervisors adopt the proposed revisions to the Ordinance.