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15 staff, Planning Commission meetings, and City Council meetings in an effort to advocate for the opportunity to utilize ADUs on their property in the future. There are many reasons to include an ADU on a property, some of the comments we received included: • Increase housing supply and the range of housing types available to residents in the City. • Provide opportunities for existing residents to age in place in the City and promote Age- Friendly Communities initiative within the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. • Allow families to support each other across generations while maintaining independent households and opportunities to age in place. The recommendation below reflects the comments we received along with guidance from the Planning Commission, City Council, and city staff for including ADUs within the zoning code. City Code References After adoption of the zoning code, City Staff will work to update the section references within the City Code in order to align with the changes made in the zoning code. Planning Commission: The Planning Commission at their October 14, 2021 meeting recommended unanimous approval for the Zoning Code update. At the meeting, they discussed the additional separate ADU language in addition to the entire zoning code. There were three people from the public come to speak about this ADU topic, Councilmember Christian Torkelson, Karen Ryan, and Jill Winegar. Each of them had various ideas of how to improve and change the language for the ADU portion in order to add it to the zoning code. The Planning Commission took in the information and thought it was a good idea to review the language at their next meeting in November, which will occur on November 10th. All of the Planning Commissioners are proponents of ADUs and so they want to make sure that the language represents the needs of the community as well as the comments heard from the public. Public Hearing A Text Amendment requires a Public Hearing and the City Council will need to open the hearing at tonight’s meeting to take comment from the public. At that time, they will consider the comments from the public and the application after the hearing has been closed. A public notice has been published in the newspaper. RECOMMENDED ACTIONS Approve Ordinance No. 856 – An Ordinance Amending Section 900 of the Little Canada Zoning Code for the City of Little Canada Zoning Code with publication of the summary ordinance.