Density We Support

We've proposed modifying commercial zoning to allow all-residential buildings on streets like Poplar, Madison and Lamar, putting more people nearer to surviving commerce and nearer to mass transit. (Presently, the bottom floor must be retail, an encumbrance on developers.) Additionally, we've proposed that if the affordable housing aspect of the Tillman Station project is effective, then replicate that plan in these buildings. (That's one proposal more for affordable housing than is contained in Memphis 3.0.)

We supported allowing ADU's—additional dwelling units—on lots where they'd not been allowed and we compromised with DPD on the required lot size.

We've supported allowing multi-family housing at particular types of intersections where it had been forbidden.

We agreed to three new types of dwellings in RU-1: Townhouse, stacked townhouse and “large homes” which are multi-family uses that can be built on a single lot or as an apartment complex. Negotiating with DPD, we have agreed to allow smaller homes, "cottages," in R6 where they'd not been allowed, and to diminish the lot size required for a cottage. We reduced the required lot size in RU-1 too.

We support the project at Central and Cooper because its design is respectful of the neighbors, tapering lower as it gets to traditional midtown homes.

We are not against development. We are against allowing random development without planning.