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qASPAL+E REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: 4/18/2011 ITEM NO: 9.a De'artment Approval: City Manager Approval: Item Description: Request by the Roseville Planning Division for approval of a text amendment to Chapter 1009 of the Zoning Code to add regulations pertaining to accessory dwelling units (PxoJ -0017) 1 1.0 BACKGROUND AND PROPOSED AMENDMENTS 2 1.1 The substantial updates to Roseville's Zoning Code, which were the focus of much of the 3 Planning Commission's efforts in 2010, were approved by the City Council on December 4 13, 2010 and became effective when the ordinance summary was published in the 5 Roseville- Little Canada Review on December 21, 2010. Among the new zoning 6 provisions was the process for considering Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) as 7 conditional uses. An ADU is variously known as a "mother -in -law apartment" or "granny 8 flat" and is generally used as additional living area for the property owner or as a small, 9 efficiency -sized dwelling unit that may be occupied by a family member or other 10 unrelated renter. 11 1.2 The conditional use requirements that apply to ADUs mostly address the form of such a 12 unit, ensuring that the single - family character of a property is maintained and restricting 13 the size of a unit as a way of practically limiting the number of occupants to one or two, 14 but Planning Division staff did not account for the potential for larger existing spaces to 15 be used. During the review of the first proposed ADU in February, however, it became 16 clear that existing spaces which exceed the maximum size limit may be considered for 17 conditional use approval, conceivably providing occupancy for several people. For this 18 reason, Planning Division staff is proposing a zoning TEXT AMENDMENT to add a 19 restriction in the number of occupants. 20 1.3 Also, as the Development Review Committee reviewed that first ADU proposal, the 21 Police and Fire Department representatives expressed an interest in ensuring that an ADU 22 have a unique address so that it can be quickly identified by emergency responders if 23 necessary. To this end, Planning Division staff is proposing to add a requirement that a 24 unique address identifier (e.g., 3091 Fairview Avenue Unit B) be permanently assigned 25 to each ADU; a unique address would be assigned to an ADU during the process of 26 issuing a building permit, but it would not serve a practical purpose when an ADU is 27 vacant or is used by the property owner as part of the overall living area of the home. 28 1.4 The proposed amendments are shown in bold and „ „a�, text in the draft 29 ordinance included with this staff report as Attachment A; note that to track the proposed 30 changes in this way, the amendments have been prepared using Microsoft Word and so 31 will not have the same formatting as any final adopted amendments to the Zoning Code 32 as developed with Adobe InDesign. Amdt2_RCA_041811 Page 1 of 2