The Rules and City Government Committee voted to recommend favorably on O-29-25, a Tyler Avenue complete-community overlay district covering the corridor from Forest Drive to Bay Ridge Avenue.

Planning staff and the sponsor said the overlay is the product of community meetings and technical analysis and aims to increase housing options, improve transportation safety and create community open space while respecting existing neighborhood scale. "The goals here are threefold. We're trying to make this corridor safer, from a transportation perspective; we're trying to expand housing options; and then we're trying to integrate community open space opportunities as properties redevelop," said Eric Leshinski, chief of comprehensive planning.

Key elements include maintaining the existing height limits (2
2' stories/35 feet), lowering minimum lot sizes (for example, the minimum lot to build a smaller single-family home would be reduced from 5,400 to 2,700 square feet), reduced lot-size thresholds for duplexes/triplexes/fourplexes, and a requirement that new development dedicate a public easement along the streetscape to allow future sidewalk and streetscape improvements. Staff noted short-term work to restripe parking and define road edges to slow speeding drivers would also occur.

Committee members praised the community engagement that preceded the proposal; several members said they saw the overlay as a planning-driven, site-specific implementation of the comprehensive plan. The committee voted for a favorable recommendation and will forward O-29-25 to the full City Council.