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MEMORANDUM TO: Dennis Welsch FROM: Rick J opke ~ SUBJECT: R-2 Uses in R-l Districts The following is my understanding of the City policy concerning R-2 uses in R- 1 districts. First of all, single family dwellings and two family dwellings are consistent with the low density residential designation on the City's comprehensive plan. According to Dahlgren, Shardlow, and Uban, this policy was established 1959 to allow duplexes and twin homes on a scattered site basis throughout the low density residential designated areas of the City. The Council, at that time, chose not to create a specific designation for R-2 areas. In 1983, the City undertook a major reevaluation of the possibility of housing alternatives within the R-I district. The study was in response to a Metropolitan Council directive for the community to allow accessory apartments in homes to provide housing opportunities. Roseville reconsidered its policy of allowing R- 2 in the R-l district and concluded that its policy was working. The action in July of 1984 was to accept Howard Dahlgren's and the Planning Commission's recommendation to stick with the long established policy to require rezonings, to consider rezoning any parcel in an R-l district to R-2, and to consider each request based on its own merits. ~t~ ^ the zoning ~inance creates an R -1 zoning. disW...£! ~~yh ~ws single family dwellings Îflt-an R-2 zoning district which allowsl\fWo family dwellings. This goes back to the original zoning ordinance passed in May of 1959. There was an ordinance provision~at one time, which allowed a two family dwelling as a F""'~ transitional use:i;-a šitya~l1 where there ';;as an R-l :l0Red let adjacent to.. business zoned property. In those cases, the two family dwelling could be constructed on the R-l zoned lot without a rezoning. This provision was repealed in the last year or two and now rezonings must occur in all cases.