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RATIONALE Ir About 70% of Louisville's housing stock are single family detached units, one of the highest rates in Boulder County. Most of the City's zone districts acknowledge single family and multiunit dwellings as the only two residential land uses. Expanding allowances for all types of housing will help create Housing Goals more affordable homeownership and rental opportunities. DESCRIPTION The City can approach expanding allowances for more housing types in several ways. This action focuses on more nuanced approaches to expanding allowances for certain housing types, including multifamily development in commercial zones, promoting "middle housing", internal conversions of appropriate single-family buildings into additional units, and changing occupancy requirements that might inhibit residents from forming a household and reducing housing costs. PotentialSummary of Action 3.2 POTENTIAL ACTIONS• . •APPROACHES Evaluate expanding allowances for middle housing types into single- family zone districts to increase their feasibility and foster more inclusive Evaluate Allowing More neighborhoods in appropriate Current opportunities for middle housing in Middle Housing Types in Low - locations. Middle housing can Louisville largely only exist within the RM and Density and Single -Family include a range of housing types RH zone districts. Zones from multiunit to townhomes and smaller detached single-family units that are compatible with neighborhood scale and character. Consider allowing stand-alone multifamily development throughout designated commercial Consider opportunities to allow zones while preserving the economic vitality of key stand-alone residential development commercial corridors. in commercial zones to expand Consider limiting ground floor commercial residential capacity and increase requirements to only parcels with frontage Consider Allowing Stand- housing production. Currently, large along specific commercial corridors in certain Alone Residential areas of Louisville with commercial zones. This will allow multifamily Development in Appropriate zoning prohibit residential uses while development more broadly while protecting Commercial Areas other areas mandate a mix of sites that are most conducive to commercial residential and nonresidential uses development and key pedestrian -oriented within each project. This ties closely commercial areas (including downtown) from to Action 1.1 related to developing developing with entirely residential uses. If criteria for such potential zoning street -level activation is a concern with this changes. approach, consider requiring ground floor activation requirements in stand-alone residential developments. Louisville Housing Plan Part 4: Housing Strategies and Actions 46