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Building Confidence, Building Community.
Recent Actions and Further Opportunities to Facilitate These Housing Types
Housing Type Recent City or County Actions
Additional Opportunity
Mass
Shelters
Updated mass shelter zoning
allowances in 2016. Construction of
X additional shelter beds in 2016/17.
The 2016 code changes represent a minor liberalization of
where mass shelters are allowed. Broader allowances could
be considered.
Tent or
Tiny House
Villages
City efforts to facilitate Dignity
Village, R2D2, Hazelnut Grove.
Existing villages large exist through special code exceptions.
More could be done to write codes (building code and zoning)
to allow such settlements.
In addition, most efforts have been one-time agreements,
reacting to a crisis. What would it take to more systematically
scale-up to create many more of these villages, in partnership
with nonprofit partners?
Single Room
Occupancy
(SRO)
Buildings
No recent changes
?
Micro
Apartments
No recent changes – several market
rate projects have been built.
Some zoning code definitions and procedures are not clear
in how they treat this housing form. Greater code clarity
may help stimulate more of this kind of housing. Definitions
of “congregate housing”, “SRO” and “household” could
be improved, and Conditional Use thresholds could be reevaluated.
Tiny Houses
on Wheels,
RVs
The City recently suspended
enforcement of Title 29 regulations
which make this housing type illegal.
Title 29 could be amended to recognize this form of housing.
Code amendments or construction template/guides could
be provided to facilitate safe water and sewer and electrical
hookups (analogous to work done to facilitate food cart
pods).
Manufactured BPS is exploring a new zoning
Homes
designation to provide greater level
of protection against the closure of
existing manufactured home parks.
Current zoning code precludes very small manufactured
homes. Minimum size limits could be repealed.
ADUs
ADUs are still required to have roof pitch and exterior
materials to match the primary home. This may preclude
most manufactured ADUs, which could cost less.
ADU regulations were reviewed and
updated in 2008. Additional changes
were made in 2016. As a result,
Portland no longer requires owner
occupancy, we allow a greater range
of ADUs relative to other cities, and
we do not require off-street parking.
As SDC fees are updated and reviewed in the future, they
could be designed to be sensitive to unit size, with lower rates
for small units.
SDC fees have been suspended for
ADUs, which expires in 2018.
Lending remains as a barrier, because
banks do not have loan products
aimed at ADSU construction. PSU is
currently working on a solution to this.
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