Community Open House Project Introduction
Project Schedule
Key Engagement Takeaways
• Dayton has a housing supply and a ordability problem, with very few opportunities for families with low or middle incomes to buy or rent a house.
• Dayton has a limited variety of housing options, with a limited supply of apartments or other smaller housing units.
• Having a diversity of housing types that meet the needs of people with di erent incomes is very important to engagement participants.
• Middle housing could be a good way to help address housing needs and problems in Dayton, particularly cottage cluster housing.
• Design of housing is important and the City should adopt standards to ensure that new middle housing is diverse and ts the character of Dayton. Cookie cutter designs should be avoided.
• More businesses and commercial development are needed and desired and could be supported by new housing.
Dayton Housing Plan Update
Buildable Lands Inventory (BLI)
What is a Buildable Lands Inventory (BLI)?
It is an estimate of the land within the Dayton Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) that can accommodate additional housing development.
Residential Zones in Dayton
R-1 (light yellow)
• Allows for single-family homes on individual lots.
R-2 (medium yellow)
• Allows single-family homes and multi-family development on larger lots.
R-3 (light orange)
• Allows for multi-family developments (e.g. apartments) on higher residential density lots.
Overview of Findings
The BLI provides evidence that there is a lack of buildable land within the Dayton city limits, especially buildable land zoned R-2 and R-3. Additionally, most of the buildable acres within the Dayton UGB are outside of the city limits. Before these parcels can be developed at urban densities, they must be annexed into the city of Dayton and given a residential zone.
What does this mean for Dayton?
This means that Dayton should look at expanding housing opportunities within the single-family (R-1) zone and expanding middle housing options to meet the growing needs of the community. Additionally, Dayton should consider expanding the R-2 and R-3 zones.
Dayton Housing Plan Update
Middle Housing Examples
What is a Middle Housing?
Middle housing refers to a range of attached or detached housing types that are smaller than single-family homes. Middle housing types can often be accommodated on smaller lots in existing neighborhoods.
An important distinction between middle housing and single-family homes is that middle housing typically entails building multiple dwellings (housing units) on a single property (parcel or lot), whereas single-family housing typically is limited to one dwelling per property.
Duplex
Triplex/Quadplex
Townhome
Cottage Cluster
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Community Open House
Middle Housing Opportunities and Benefits
What are the main benefits of Middle Housing?
Allowing for these housing types will help alleviate the housing challenges Oregon is experiencing and has the potential to increase the overall supply and range of housing choices available to residents in communities such as Dayton. In Oregon, middle housing is often de ned as duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, townhomes, and cottage cluster housing.
What are other benefits?
• Smaller homes make space for housing at a lower cost.
• Smaller units allow for older generations to age in place with dignity.
• Housing types like cottage clusters surrounded by shared open space allow for community gathering spaces and allow for alternative routes to homeownership.
• These developments typically allow for exibility in where units can be built.
• Middle housing o ers opportunities for multigenerational living, and in some cases, o ers more a ordability than traditional single-family dwellings.
Dayton Housing Plan Update
Community Open House
Housing Strategies: Goals & Policies
Existing Housing Goals
1. To encourage housing that will meet the needs of the community in a manner that will best a ord adequate choices in all income ranges and housing types.
2. To improve the quality of the existing housing stock.
3. To ensure that the citizens are provided with safe and sanitary housing while promoting residential energy conservation design and construction techniques.
4. To establish a residential zoning pattern and use which reduces the dependency on the automobile and encourages pedestrian connections to commercial and public areas.
Existing Housing Policies
1. Programs that will increase the supply of housing for low- and moderate-income families should be encouraged by the City.
2. The City shall establish zoning and subdivision ordinance regulations which encourage innovative land developments and incentives to provide a range of housing types, densities and price ranges that will adequately meet the present and future needs of the City.
3. The City shall encourage higher density residential development in those zones where multiple family homes are permitted.
4. The City shall provide alternative housing opportunities in all residential zones to meet the special housing needs of residents.
5. Residential development should be encouraged to locate within areas presently served by public services.
6. The City shall zone a minimum of 7.0 acres of land to either R-2 or R-3 to provide opportunity to create multiple family residences for the projected population of the year 2025. This land should be located within reasonable distance of the City’s downtown.
7. The City shall continually monitor the urban land supply and residential development to ensure adequate opportunities are available to meet current and future housing needs.
Interim Policy Direction
Discourage Annexations prior to HCA Adoption
Discourage annexations until the updated Housing Capacity Analysis (HCA) is adopted.
Encourage R-2 or R-3 Zoning
If property owners decide to move forward with annexations before the HCA is adopted, zone annexed parcels as R-2 or R-3 to facilitate more dense residential development.
Review Annexation Criteria
Develop annexation criteria that more explicitly conforms to the Dayton housing policies and land needs.
Coordinate Extension of Public Facilities
Continue to plan for extension of public facilities to the UGB swap area by providing information to property owners, exploring nancing options, and ensuring public facility plans allow more dense residential development.
Dayton Housing Plan Update Community Open House
Recommended Housing Strategies
# 1
Encourage Right-Sized Residential Density
# 2
Align Comprehensive Plan Designations and Zones
Encourage Housing Patterns that Support Neighborhood Commercial # 3
Develop Affordable and Accessible Middle Housing # 4
Policy 1.1 Reduce minimum lot sizes and increase density requirements in all zones to encourage the development of more dense housing and reduce public facilities costs.
Policy 1.2 Ensure that minimum lot sizes in higher-density zones facilitate middle housing homeownership opportunities.
Policy 1.3 Research additional development code requirements that may be preventing the development of middle housing, such as setbacks. Amend these requirements to facilitate the development of middle housing.
Policy 1.4 Clarify the relationship between density standards, requirements, and regulations, and have clear language throughout the development code surrounding density.
Policy 2.1 Develop two different Comprehensive Plan residential designations; one for low density development (R-1) and one for limited, medium density development (R-2 and R-3).
Policy 3.1 Clarify the criteria for implementing neighborhood commercial in the PUD standards.
Policy 3.2 Allow mixed use buildings with ground floor commercial, or residential on the side or behind commercial in the R-3 zone, in conjunction with more flexible development standards.
Policy 4.1 Encourage the development of middle housing units that are accessible for residents who have physical disabilities. Programs could include offering tax incentives and/or SDC exemptions.
Policy 4.2 Encourage the development of middle housing units that are affordable to residents with low- and middle-incomes. Programs could include requiring a certain percentage of affordable units in new developments, offering tax incentives, and/or SDC exemptions.
Design Standards for Middle Housing # 5
Policy 5.1 Implement clear and objective design standards for middle housing types (duplexes, townhomes, triplexes, quadplexes, and cottage clusters).
Policy 5.2 Encourage a diversity of middle housing types that have aesthetic variety and that are aligned with Dayton’s small-town character.
Housing Strategies: Comments
Please add any additional feedback, input, or concerns here regarding housing policies, strategies, or suggestions!