UDO: New/Amended Zoning Districts Meeting Tonight
Decatur Metro | April 23, 2014
From Decatur Next…
New/Amended Zoning Districts
Wednesday, April 23 | 7-9pm | Decatur City HallThe Strategic Plan’s goals for a more diversified housing mix reflect a gap — what we’re calling the missing middle — between our predominantly single-family residential and our downtown. This session explores the idea of transitional districts in the Unified Development Ordinance to accommodate things like live/work units, downtown-friendly townhouses, small-scale apartment buildings, neighborhood-scaled mixed use, cottage courts, and more, and gauges the circumstances under which such solutions might make sense.
The site also provides specific examples of what it’s describes as the “missing middle” and notes there will also be discussion of
- Modifications to existing zoning districts
- The possibility of a new R-50 residential zoning category
- A suggested neighborhood mixed-use category
Photo courtesy of TheTinyLife via Decatur Next
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I really like the idea of smaller home communities. Sometimes simplicity is more. And it would allow some people to purchase instead of rent that could not afford to buy in the Decatur area. Many middle class people are being priced out of the Decatur market in my opinion. A 1500 square foot home easily and quickly sells for 400K in the Oakhurst area currently. Homes twice that size are going for 600-800K without a view!!! That is insane. I truly believe there is a market for “tiny houses” as they say. Just my two cents. I am moving to Marietta where there are still good schools and I can afford to buy a house twice this size for half the money. I will miss Decatur of course.