By Brady Wheeler | AZ Daily Sun
After being threatened with a collective $51 million in claims from property owners, the City of Flagstaff will waive the enforcement of a high-occupancy housing land use law for dozens of local properties.
The Flagstaff City Council on Tuesday approved a resolution precluding 70 land parcels from zoning code changes brought by the High Occupancy Housing amendment adopted by the council in November of last year.
The amendment placed stricter restrictions on density and the maximum number of bedrooms that can be built on a property. For example, if 20% or more of the apartments in a large development have four or more bedrooms, it is automatically considered high-occupancy housing.
