The city of Madison’s Common Council voted Tuesday to approve a set of changes to the zoning code designed to support the creation of more types of housing.
The approved changes include:
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Allowing for more options in the placement of an attached garage in residential districts;
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Allowing open porches to be in a part of a lot’s required side yard setback;
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Making the side yard setback the same for single-story buildings and buildings that are more than one story;
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Increasing the allowable interior size for an attached accessory dwelling unit (ADU) to be up to 1,000 square feet;
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Increasing the allowable footprint for a detached ADU to be up to 1,000 square feet, consistent with the requirements for other types of accessory buildings in residential and mixed-use districts;
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Eliminating the limit on the number of bedrooms in an ADU;
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Allowing for more flexibility in how units are arranged within two- and three-unit buildings;
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Removing the Usable Open Space requirement while still maintaining existing stormwater management and landscaping requirements; and
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Allowing demolition requests of properties deemed not to be historic after a Landmarks Commission review to bypass Plan Commission consideration and proceed directly to the demolition permitting process.
