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8A Page 4 single-family detached, town homes, and traditional multi-family apartments and condominiums. Examples of additional types of housing that are appropriate to changing demographics and responsive to today's market include row housing, high rise, live/work spaces, and industrial lofts. Another question for the Downtown Precise Plan area is: Should fewer than five condominiums (per current code) be allowed to be built in order to encourage residential development of small lots? Rezoning and Reuse Another program that some cities are implementing is rezoning under-utilized industrial or commercial sites to residential. This helps reduce the jobs/housing imbalance both by increasing residential and by minimizing future job growth. Redwood City is considering this approach in reviewing an application for a hlgh- density residential project at 333 Main Street which is currently zoned "IP-V" (Industrial Park-Vehicular combining district). An additional approach is to add residential to under-utilized portions of existing developments. For example, office complexes that have large areas of surface parking. It may become cost-effective to put some of that parking into structures and to make some of the surface lot area available for construction of new higher density housing. Mixing residential on such sites could make joint use of some of the parking (office use during the day and residential use during nights and weekends) and the residential traffic would flow the opposite direction from the office traffic, thus making more effective use of the lane capacity. Adding residential units might also support local-serving retail at these locations, with the potential to reduce vehicle trips even more. Accessory Dwelling Units A convenient - but sometimes controversial - way to add housing to an existing neighborhood is through adding Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) to existing single- family homes. This can provide needed housing for students, elderly and others who need only a small, but self-contained living space. Many cities, including Redwood City, permit such units, but to mitigate neighborhood impacts, impose various requirements on the creation of such units. One key provision that may discourage ADUs is the parking requirement. Redwood City Zoning Code Section 37.2J, for example, requires a total of three off-street parking places for the main dwelling unit and the ADU. Eliminating the parking requirement and accepting that an ADU resident may park on the public street could help in achieving more units. Staff acknowledges that the Council has considered this issue twice in the past eight years and turned it down. However, if increasing the supply of affordable housing is viewed as a City obligation, not just a Redevelopment Agency obligation, this option could be reconsidered. 2. Inclusionary Housing Policies Some cities have "inclusionary housing" pOlicies that require, for example, that all new housing projects include a percentage (say 15%) of "affordable" housing units. Page 2 of 7