Title
Adoption of a Resolution Accepting Recommendations, Findings, and Conclusion of the Hearing Examiner and Granting Preliminary Approval of an Amendment to the Woodard Lane Co-Housing Planned Residential Development
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee. The Olympia Hearing Examiner recommends preliminary approval.
City Manager Recommendation:
Move to adopt a Resolution accepting the recommendations, findings and conclusion of the Hearing Examiner and granting preliminary approval of the Woodard Lane Co-Housing Planned Residential Development (PRD) amendment.
Report
Issue:
Members of the Woodard Lane Co-Housing Planned Residential Development seek preliminary approval of an amendment to the existing Planned Residential Development (PRD). If approved the amendment would increase the total number of residential units from sixteen to eighteen, in the R 4-8 zoning district, through the use of Transfer of Development Rights (TDRs), OMC 18.04.080(A)(5).
Staff Contact:
Catherine McCoy, Associate Planner, Community Planning & Development, 360.753.8649
Presenter(s):
None. Consent Calendar Item.
Background and Analysis:
The Olympia City Council approved the Woodard Lane Co-Housing Planned Residential Development in 2008. At that time, members of the development requested 21 units as part of its PRD proposal. However, in the R 4-8 zoning district, the maximum density is capped at seven units per acre, which in the case of the Woodard Lane Co-housing site at 2.3 acres in size, limits the total number of units to sixteen. An exception to that cap is through the use of Transfer of Development Rights (TDRs) from a sending zone in Thurston County (OMC 18.04.080(A)(4) and (5).
Since the Council's 2008 decision on the PRD limiting the site to sixteen dwelling units, the Woodard Lane Co-Housing PRD has obtained two development credits from a Thurston County TDR sending site. Using one TDR unit for each ...
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