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Erin Baldwin Day
18:59 - 19:22
“what the Missing Middle Housing Opportunity Overlay does is it says that minimum lot dimensions are not static. They are determined by subdivision requirements, which are located in a different place in Title 21. It increases maximum lot coverage to say you can cover more of a parcel, up to 70%. It says that you do not have any minimum required setbacks from the front of the lot.”
- Speaker
- Erin Baldwin Day
- Timestamp
- 18:59 – 19:22
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 17, 2026
From the transcript
And so what the Missing Middle Housing Opportunity Overlay does is it says that minimum lot dimensions are not static. They are determined by subdivision requirements, which are located in a different place in Title 21. Mm-hmm. It increases maximum lot coverage to say you can cover more of a parcel, up to 70%. It says that you do not have any minimum required setbacks from the front of the lot.
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