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File #: DVSA-24-0006    Version: Name: Prospect Village - A Tiny House Community
Type: Planning Case Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 2/18/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 5/13/2025 Final action:
Title: A Development Standards Adjustment to City Code Section 7.3.301.D.8 to allow the parking standard for a Tiny Home Community to be one-half (1/2) space per Tiny House where one (1) space per Tiny House is required located at 3103 North Prospect Street. (Quasi-Judicial) Presenter: William Gray, Senior Planner, City Planning Department Kevin Walker, Director, City Planning Department
Sponsors: Planning Department
Attachments: 1. 7.3.301 RESIDENTIAL USES, 2. 7.5.525 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS ADJUSTMENT
Related files: DEPN-24-0123, DVSA-24-0011, CUDP-24-0014, DVSA-24-0005, ZONE-24-0017, DVSA-25-0001, DVSA-24-0004

Title
A Development Standards Adjustment to City Code Section 7.3.301.D.8 to allow the parking standard for a Tiny Home Community to be one-half (1/2) space per Tiny House where one (1) space per Tiny House is required located at 3103 North Prospect Street.
(Quasi-Judicial)


Presenter:
William Gray, Senior Planner, City Planning Department
Kevin Walker, Director, City Planning Department

Body
Summary:
Owner: We Fortify
Representative: John Olson, Urban Landscapes and Shelly Jensen, We Fortify
Location: 3103 North Prospect Street
Located in Council District 5

A Tiny House Community consisting of 18 tiny houses, a community meeting and storage building, off-street parking, landscaping, and private green space. The project includes the following applications: a Rezoning from R-5 (Multi-Family High) to R-Flex High; a Conditional Use and Development Plan for a Tiny House Community; and development standard adjustments to reduce setbacks from public streets from 20-feet to 10-feet, setbacks from adjacent residential and mixed-use districts from 10-feet to 5-feet, parking requirement reduction from one (1) space per tiny house to a 1/2-space per tiny house, minimum lot area per tiny house from 1,000 square feet to 650 square feet, and minimum separation of Tiny Homes from 10-feet to 6-feet.

Background:
Please see the attached City Planning Commission Staff Report for a complete analysis of the proposed applications.

Review Criteria:
DVSA-24-0006 - Prospect Village (Parking Standard)
The Criteria for Approval for DVSA-24-0006, Development Standards Adjustment, as set forth in City Code Section (UDC) 7.5.525.E are indicated below:

1. The alternative design achieves the intent of the subject standard to the same or better degree than the standard for which a waiver is requested;

2. When considered together with compensating benefits, the alternative design advances the goals and policies of this UDC to the same or better degree than the standard fo...

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