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Housing Attainability Public Hearing

Housing Attainability Public Hearing

Audit of County Development Standards

November 9th Plan Commission

With the passing of House Enrolled Act 1001 at the Indiana State House earlier this year, communities are required to hold an audit of their development standards at a public hearing with the intent of increasing housing attainability for working Hoosiers. The state has recommended 9 topics in particular, which have been listed below.

If you are unable to attend the November 9th Plan Commission hearing, you may send comments to planning staff.

  • To: Fwalden@floydcounty.in.gov
  • Subject Line: Housing Attainability Public Hearing

HEA 1001 Indiana General Assembly

“Young adults need starter homes and statistically right now, in the State of Indiana, young adults, first time home buyers are waiting until they’re 40 plus years of age to move into the market” 

-HEA 1001 Bill Author Dough Miller

Providing for higher density development of duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes in areas designated for single family homes.

note: At the moment approximately 97.52% of zoned acreage in the unincorporated county allows residential use.

Approximately 0.37% allows residential uses other than single family detached, such as town homes, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, or apartment buildings.

Constructing other housing types including accessory dwelling units and manufactured and modular housing. (State law already allows manufactured and modular housing by right where stick built is allowed.)

note: An accessory dwelling unit is also known as a granny flat, mother in law suite, carriage house, or garage apartment and is currently not allowed under our ordinance.

Adaptive reuse of commercial buildings for residential use such as allowing multifamily development in retail, office, and light manufacturing zones.

Increasing the allowable floor area ratio in multifamily housing areas.

note: Floyd County does not have floor area ratio standards, though we do require a minimum of roughly 6,000 square feet per unit for our multifamily zoning districts.

Waiving or eliminating regulations such as requirements for garage size and placement; steeper roof pitch; minimum lot size and square footage; greater setbacks; off-street parking; design standards that restrict or prohibit the use of code compliant products; or property height limitations.

note: These are covered in sections 4 and 5 of our zoning ordinances.

Reviewing impact fee zones with zone advisory committee for improvements.

note: The county currently has no impact fee zones.

Streamlining or shortening the permitting processes and timelines, including through one stop and parallel process permitting by fifteen (15) days or more.

note: the current permitting process for a *complete* application is roughly one month for planning cases and roughly 7-10 business days for building permits.

Using property tax abatements to enable higher density and mixed income communities.

note: This would not be the purview of the Plan Commission.

Donating vacant land for affordable housing development.

note: This would not be the purview of the Plan Commission