ZA-2025-003

The city’s Housing Production Strategy (HPS) identifies a variety of action steps to increase housing development in Milwaukie, including evaluating incentives for affordable housing development.

Staff is proposing a new code section that would aggregate all code-based affordable housing incentives to centralize information for prospective applicants.  The proposed code language includes eligibility requirements for qualifying developments and specific incentives, including variances to setbacks, lot coverage, and certain minimum design standards. The goal is to remove barriers to residential development that includes income-restricted units.

The proposed code includes a variety of incentives for qualifying developments that are middle housing, multi-unit, or mixed-use residential, organized as a package of variance requests to existing land use regulations and design and development standards for housing development.  The proposal would limit variance applications to no more than 10 distinct variances to these standards.  The proposed review process for these variances is an expedited Type II review already included in Milwaukie Municipal Code (MMC) 19.1005, that would reduce the timeframe for a decision from 120 days to 100 days.
 

File Number
ZA-2025-003

Application Type
Code Text Amendment

Current Status
Notice of Public Hearing posted June 18, 2025

Hearing Dates
Planning Commission July 22, 2025

Staff Contact
Vera Kolias, Senior Planner
koliasv@milwaukieoregon.gov
503-786-7653