Consent item: put 1210 Lakeshore Drive on the same house zoning as most of the rest of that block.

The house came down in 2021. The lot sat next to Cole’s Quality Foods for years and was a leftover residential use under the old industrial map. In 2018 it went into form-based Urban Residential with the Nims expansion because it had been a house. Staff now say neighborhood residential would have been the better 2018 call.

Neighboring homes

Why it is back: the owner cannot get house plans through the form-based rules. Those rules want the garage 40 feet back (an alley-loaded idea) — there is no alley, and the slope blocks one. They also cap house width at 36 feet. The lot is 61 by 132, and Lakeshore houses have long been wider. After citywide zoning changes that already allow duplexes and accessory units in R, staff prefer R on lots with no alley.

Staff’s answer to “is this a one-lot exception”: same size as other Lakeshore house lots, most already R, and the future land-use map is low-to-moderate residential.

Planning Commission recommended approval 5–0, with four members absent.

Vote: Yes or NO

A yes lets a house be drawn under ordinary neighborhood rules. A no leaves the form-based garage and width limits on an empty lot with no alley.

Packet: September 22, 2026 agenda packet