Each of the moves Salt Lake City is contemplating to address housing affordability carries controversy with it. Here’s a look at what the city is exploring.
found, among other alarming trends, that the city has no more affordable neighborhoods and escalating rents are forcing many vulnerable residents to move away, especially people of color and families with lower incomes.
Over time, though, they’ve been virtually zoned out of the city, according to City Planning Director Nick Norris, who noted the “growing market demand for this type of housing.”Shared housing is allowed in a few city zones close to transit, but the proposed changes would permit them in many residential neighborhoods, commercial and business districts and across the downtown area.
The updated shared-housing plan includes design standards for how projects can be built and requirements for 24-hour on-site management, meant to address potential neighborhood concerns. Caps are being considered on the number of units per shared amenity, and council members are eyeing limits on what facilities tenants share — maybe a kitchen or a bathroom but not both, as the proposed changes now allow.
The off-street parking revisions essentially put all the different flavors of parking rules across city zones into one of four groups — a move Norris said would “strike a balance between those regulations that were overly burdensome and barriers, while also creating avenues to promote alternative use of transit to get back to creating a more walkable, bikeable city.”
That reasoning infuriates some residents and business owners, especially in areas where on-street parking is already in high demand, highlighting how divisive the issue can be. By tweaking setbacks, shrinking lot widths and creating design standards, these changes would allow new varieties of backyard cottages, side row houses, town homes and other smaller dwellings to be built on RMF-30 parcels, roughly two-thirds of which are now occupied by single-family homes.
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