City of Hampton - File #: 21-0058

• File #: 21-0058
• Version: 1
• Name: ZOA2020-00021 Multifamily Additional Standards Ch 3
• Type: Zoning Ordinance - Text
• Status: Public Hearing
• File created: 1/22/2021
• In control: City Council Legislative Session
• On agenda: 2/10/2021
• Title: Ordinance to Amend and Re-Enact the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Hampton, Virginia by Amending Sections 3-2 Entitled, “Table of Uses Permitted” and Section 3-3 Entitled, “Additional Standards on Uses,” to Modify Where and How Multifamily Dwellings and Upper-Floor Dwelling Units are Permitted
• Indexes: , , , DO NOT USE - 21 - Economic Base Growth, DO NOT USE - 21 - Living with the Water, DO NOT USE - 21 - Placemaking, Economic Vitality
• Related files: 21-0057, 21-0267

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/10/2021	1	City Council Legislative Session	deferred	Pass

Title
Ordinance to Amend and Re-Enact the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Hampton, Virginia by Amending Sections 3-2 Entitled, “Table of Uses Permitted” and Section 3-3 Entitled, “Additional Standards on Uses,” to Modify Where and How Multifamily Dwellings and Upper-Floor Dwelling Units are Permitted

Purpose
Background Statement:
This amendment is accompanied by a separate, related amendment to Chapter 2, which includes new definitions and removal of another definition to clarify the proposed changes in this amendment.

City Council directed staff to review how and where multifamily development occurs within the City of Hampton, and how zoning regulations could better align with City priorities and policies for multifamily housing. Staff reviewed the existing regulations and identified areas where the City envisions greater density and to improve development standards for those areas where multifamily development would be permitted by-right. For areas without those standards the regulations would require a use permit application for consideration of the merits of the project on an individual basis.

This amendment would modify two existing uses in our “Table of Uses Permitted”, ‘upper-floor dwelling unit’ and ‘multifamily dwelling’, altering where and how the uses are permitted. Both uses also have additional standards related to how they are permitted.

The ‘upper-floor dwelling units’ use is currently permitted in two of the Downtown Districts and all three of the Phoebus Districts by right, as well as in the Limited Commercial (C-2) District with an approved use permit. This amendment proposes expanding the use to the Buckroe Bayfront special districts of BB-3, BB-4, and BB-5 and the Fort Monroe special districts of FM-2 and FM-3. This expansion is in keeping with the vision of the area and in places where the mixture of multifamily and commercial uses are permitted at a larger scale than the four unit limit defining ‘upper-floor dwelling unit’ as propose...