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File #: 33307    Version: 1 Name: Housing Cooperative-bedroom increase
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/5/2014 In control: PLAN COMMISSION
On agenda: 4/29/2014 Final action: 4/29/2014
Enactment date: 5/8/2014 Enactment #: ORD-14-00085
Title: Amending Section 28.151 of the Madison General Ordinances to allow Housing Cooperatives to obtain conditional use approval to increase the number of bedrooms beyond what is allowed in TR-V1 and TR-V2.
Sponsors: Marsha A. Rummel
Attachments: 1. Staff Memo.pdf
Fiscal Note
No appropriation is required.
Title
Amending Section 28.151 of the Madison General Ordinances to allow Housing Cooperatives to obtain conditional use approval to increase the number of bedrooms beyond what is allowed in TR-V1 and TR-V2.
Body
DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS:  This amendment would allow Housing Cooperatives to obtain conditional use approval to increase the number of bedrooms beyond what is allowed in TR-V1 and TR-V2.  
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
      Subdivisions (b) and (d) of Subsection entitled "Housing Cooperative" of Section 28.151 entitled "Applicability" of Subchapter 28J: Supplemental Regulations of the Madison General Ordinances is amended by amending herein the following:
"(b)      In the SR-V1, SR-V2, TR-V1, TR-V2, NMX, TSS, and CC-T Districts, buildings with more than one (1) dwelling unit may be converted for use as a Housing Cooperative if the occupancy is the lesser of the number of legal bedrooms prior to conversion or the legal occupancy allowed at the time of conversion, except that any occupancy greater than twenty (20) requires conditional use approval.
(d)      In the TR-V1, TR-V2, TR-U1, TR-U2, DC, UOR, UMX, DR1 and DR2 Districts, Housing Cooperatives may locate in any single-family dwelling or convert a building with more than one (1) dwelling unit if the occupancy equals the number of legal bedrooms prior to a change in use to a Housing Cooperative.  Occupancy greater than the legal number of bedrooms prior to a change in use requires conditional use approval."