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RATIONALE <br />Allowing Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU), both attached and detached, on <br />single-family properties across the city can help to increase housing supply <br />and diversity while creating more financial flexibility for homeowners. ADUs <br />offer a small-scale and incremental way to increase density while protecting <br />existing community character and without putting pressure on existing <br />infrastructure systems. <br />DESCRIPTION <br />ADUs can provide less expensive housing solutions, but not to the <br />same degree or guarantee as income restricted housing. ADUs <br />can be right -sized and adjusted for a variety of household types, <br />such as multigenerational households, young adults, and seniors. <br />In addition to providing more housing to renters, ADUs can <br />inversely assist affordability or financial flexibility for property <br />owners through the rental income that they collect. <br />Allowing attached and detached ADUs does not guarantee that <br />ADUs will be produced. The cost to individual property owners to <br />design and develop compliant ADUs can limit program <br />kii <br />Housing Goals <br />WHAT IS AN ADU? <br />ADUs are an additional dwelling <br />unit— typically with its own <br />sleeping, bathing, and cooking <br />facilities —on properties with a <br />primary home, designed in a way <br />that blends in with the existing <br />neighborhood. <br />participation. To overcome this barrier, the city can provide pre - <br />approved plan sets to property owners that requires little to no permit review time. <br />Additionally, barriers to ADU development could be removed if design and development standards for <br />ADUs are sensitive to neighborhood character. For example, the City should consider allowing ADUs to <br />use the same water tap as the primary dwelling and not charging an expansion fee within the limits of <br />the ADU policies for the size and type of unit. <br />Action 1.4 Relevant Themes Heard from Housing Plan Community Engagement <br />o Incentivize tiny homes or ADUs that can be a path to homeownership rather than <br />manufactured homes that can leave people vulnerable to displacement. <br />o Heard more support for ADUs that can be ownership units rather than rentals. <br />ACTION 1.4 BENEFITS SUMMARY <br />INCOME LEVEL <br />GEOGRAPHIC <br />ACTION TYPE <br />HOUSING PRODUCTION <br />COST <br />SERVED <br />SCALE <br />Policy Change <br />All <br />Residential Zones <br />Louisville Housing Plan Part 4: Housing Strategies and Actions 34 <br />