College Station’s planning and development office invites residents to one of two gatherings Monday at city hall to discuss proposed changes in residential regulations.
Planning administrator Justin Golbabai says city staff is also collecting opinions from housing providers.
Golbabai wrote on the city’s blog that the meetings will focus on these concepts:
Allowing accessory living quarters — also known as garage apartments or granny flats — to be rented similar to other housing units.
Requiring single-family houses to provide one parking space per bedroom, no longer capping it at four spaces.
Altering how single-family height and distance protections are applied to non-residential properties.
Allowing increased flexibility for neighborhoods seeking to create Neighborhood Conservation Overlays.
Creating a new Middle Housing zoning district that allows for a variety of housing types such as triplexes, fourplexes, and live-work units that are between the existing single-family and multi-family zoning categories.
Monday’s come and go meetings are at city hall between noon and 1:30 and between five and 6:30.
Click below for comments from Justin Golbabai, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver.