PROPOSED RESTRICTED OCCUPANCY OVERLAY (ROO)
City staff hosted a series of virtual, public input meetings and an online poll throughout February 2021. The meetings contained identical content but were tailored to specific audiences. This multi-prong public input approach allowed for meaningful discussions among each group and for City staff to adequately convey the content and tailor the language to each audiences’ familiarity with development terms and knowledge of zoning and City processes. The data collected from each meeting and the poll was consolidated and will be presented to the City Council on March 11, 2021. The Council meeting is open to the public. If you would like to submit written comments or sign up to speak at the meeting, please see these
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Recordings of the meetings are below:
Feb. 8 Meeting (real estate and development community)
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Feb. 22 Meeting (students)
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Feb. 23 Meeting (neighborhood organizations and associations)
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BACKGROUND
The College Station City Council asked staff to draft an ordinance and application handbook that would allow neighborhoods the option to restrict occupancy to no more than two unrelated persons. They requested a draft ordinance with a process that mirrored the
Neighborhood Conservation Overlay (NCO), and used the City of Bryan’s R-NC district as a base. The Restricted Occupancy Overlay (ROO) ordinance and rezoning application handbook were drafted and presented for feedback to Council in June 2020.
The purpose of the June meeting was to receive direction on whether or not to proceed with further research and potential adoption of an ordinance at a later date. At the June meeting, City Council decided that they were generally in favor of continuing to pursue research on the ROO, but wanted substantial public input before making any further decisions.
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June 18 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting (ROO discussion starts at 0:05:52)
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June 25 City Council Meeting (ROO discussion starts at 02:40)
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Aug. 3 Neighborhood Seminar Supper
Through discussions during the public input phase of the Restricted Occupancy Overlay (ROO) ordinance development, also known as "no more than two unrelated ordinance," city staff learned that there are substantial concerns regarding the city’s current definition of “related” and how it affects the determination of a “family.”
We paused the development of the proposed ROO to allow staff and the Council an opportunity to consider alternative definitions of “related” and “family,” and adopted the new definitions in December 2020. Public input began again in February 2021 with the new definitions in place.
The City will host and promote a series of virtual meetings and an online poll with plans to specifically reach neighborhood groups, the real estate and development community, and students. The data collected from each meeting and poll will be consolidated and presented to Council after all public input has concluded.