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Public Hearing on Land Use Ordinance Amendments Relating to Boarding Houses and Rooming Houses
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is for the Board of Aldermen to receive public comment on text amendments to the Land Use Ordinance relating to definitions for boarding houses and rooming houses.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon - 919-918-7325; Patricia McGuire - 919-918-7327; Bob Hornik - 919-929-3905
INFORMATION: The Town communicated with residents from the Lloyd-Broad neighborhood in the late summer and fall of 2017 regarding the renovation of an existing home on Lloyd Street. Subsequently, on November 28th, the Board of Aldermen discussed possible modifications to regulations related to the size and scale of residential buildings, and occupancy/definitions of family, and work on Land Use Ordinance amendments got underway. On February 20th, the Board received additional information from the Lloyd-Broad neighbors on these topics and related issues associated with increasing housing sizes.
A draft ordinance has been prepared that clarifies the definition of a boarding or rooming house in relation to both the number of rooms available to be rented as well as the number of unrelated individuals living in the dwelling unit. The ordinances goes on to amend the definition of family by distinguishing a group of unrelated individuals living in a boarding house as something different from groups of related individuals. As written these ordinance provisions would apply to all residential occupancies.
The change to the definition of family has brought attention to a need for the Town to establish provisions for reasonable accommodations per the Americans with Disabilities Act. A draft ordinance relating to reasonable accommodations has been prepared and was presented to the Board as a consent item on May 22nd; a public hearing on the item has been scheduled for June 26th. Action on this ordinance is recom...
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