College - Author 1
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Department - Author 1
City and Regional Planning Department
Degree Name - Author 1
BS in City and Regional Planning
College - Author 2
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Department - Author 2
City and Regional Planning Department
Degree - Author 2
BS in City and Regional Planning
Date
6-2021
Primary Advisor
Adrienne Greve, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, City and Regional Planning Department
Abstract/Summary
The state of California has been facing a housing crisis for several decades (Buhayar & Cannon, 2019). The state, along with other municipalities have been enacting laws to help mitigate the issue such as SB 35 (2017) and AB 2162 (2018). In recent years, cities and other municipalities have been using different methods of integrating missing middle housing into their planning practices. Missing middle housing is defined as being the “range of house-scale buildings with multiple units - compatible in scale and form with detached single-family homes” (missingmiddlehousing.com). There are different methods of implementing missing middle housing, however, in the past years the State of California has passed two bills, SB-35 and AB 2162, which specify the use of objective design standards in a municipality’s building policy, particularly for housing development. Therefore, the City of San Luis Obispo has initiated a process to develop an updated and expanded set of objective design standards for residential development. The intent of this effort is to address recent changes in State law that seek to streamline and increase housing production, focused on making approval processes more routine and predictable for anyone trying to develop housing in San Luis Obispo. While at the same time allowing San Luis Obispo to be architecturally distinctive. Additionally, the Objective Design Standards will protect natural resources and integrate the natural environment into building and site planning wherever appropriate.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/crpsp/231