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The recommendations aim to revise two residential zoning districts to implement best practices for midscale apartments, townhomes and other "missing middle" housing options between single-family homes and dense apartment complexes, she said. The current zoning laws lack a mechanism for small to midscale housing.

freedog wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:45 pm Prairie Villiage city council voting on changing zoning laws tonight.

The recommendations aim to revise two residential zoning districts to implement best practices for midscale apartments, townhomes and other "missing middle" housing options between single-family homes and dense apartment complexes, she said. The current zoning laws lack a mechanism for small to midscale housing.

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The Prairie Village City Council voted unanimously Tuesday for changes in zoning that helps the city advocate for and preserve attainable housing.

By revising zoning for the R-2 district (two-family) — like the city's Corinth area — and the R-3 district (garden apartment), he said the committee aims to shift away from density and focus on building form, scale and provisions for small and medium apartments.

Cratedigger wrote: ↑Wed Jun 22, 2022 2:31 pm Voted unanimously for changes

The Prairie Village City Council voted unanimously Tuesday for changes in zoning that helps the city advocate for and preserve attainable housing.

By revising zoning for the R-2 district (two-family) — like the city's Corinth area — and the R-3 district (garden apartment), he said the committee aims to shift away from density and focus on building form, scale and provisions for small and medium apartments.

The amended recommendation now explicitly suggests that the city planning commission exclude multi-family housing units, like duplexes and apartments, from areas of the city already zoned for single-family housing districts.

The city council’s action Monday also completely removes multi-unit houses and courtyard patterns from the housing task force’s first recommendation.

Accessory dwelling units, including small-lot detached single homes, will still be allowed in single-family districts under the revised recommendations.

Using Zillow page-view traffic, available housing inventory, price appreciation, sales data and other housing metrics that indicate consumer demand, Zillow analyzed thousands of ZIP codes within the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas to create a ranking of the site's most popular U.S. cities.

Cratedigger wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 1:51 pm https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 07890.html

Prairie Village was Zillow's most popular market of 2022

Methodology

Using Zillow page-view traffic, available housing inventory, price appreciation, sales data and other housing metrics that indicate consumer demand, Zillow analyzed thousands of ZIP codes within the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas to create a ranking of the site's most popular U.S. cities.

UMKC Roo wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:01 am That's great news about KC's closest suburb to downtown topping the list. Usually those lists are all just fLoRiDa tExAs aRiZoNa random suburbs.

FangKC wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 9:04 pm Where did you end up?

Highlander wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 7:41 pm

Cratedigger wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 1:51 pm https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 07890.html

Prairie Village was Zillow's most popular market of 2022

Methodology

Using Zillow page-view traffic, available housing inventory, price appreciation, sales data and other housing metrics that indicate consumer demand, Zillow analyzed thousands of ZIP codes within the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas to create a ranking of the site's most popular U.S. cities.

Why is there so much noise about multi-family housing in Prairie Village? Is there even any space in the city that is undeveloped?

Single-family and ‘by right’ references would be removed:

The amendments, proposed by Councilmembers Dave Robinson and Courtney McFadden, would remove references to single-family zoned districts.
As written, the recommendations urge the adoption of more affordable housing solutions — including duplexes, triplexes and row housing — in all areas of the city, including single-family zoned neighborhoods.
The proposed amendment would remove single-family zones from that discussion.
Likewise, the current recommendations would also allow for homeowners to build projects like accessory dwelling units on their property “by right,” without having to notify their neighbors.
By removing “by right” references, the amended recommendations would essentially make it easier for neighboring homeowners to challenge such projects.