Assembly members feel part of the issue is Anchorage’s zoning code, which some saying is too restrictive and burdensome.
Vice-chair Zaletel and members Daniel Volland and Anna Brawley plan to introduce an ordinance in two weeks that will simplify the zoning code from 15 residential zones to just five — LLR, or large lot residential; STFR, or single family and two-family residential; compact mixed residential – low; compact mixed residential – medium; and urban residential – high.
“Exclusionary zoning where you’re only allowing single-family zoning — rather than small multifamily you know, duplex, triplex four-plex — it just creates less opportunity for folks to be housed in Anchorage. It takes up a lot of our valuable land here in Anchorage,” Volland said. “How can we squeeze in more dwelling units … so we want people to have housing options and to not be rent overburdened.
“Our density problem is more is that we don’t build to density — we build way under the density. So you may have a lot that was zoned for eight or 10 units but because of the building restrictions or the additional requirements under Title 21, a builder may only build like a duplex, or a couple duplexes. And so what happens is a lot that was intended to provide homes for maybe a dozen families only provides housing for one or two,” Cross said.
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