I believe our residents want to see that left in place.” Anxiety over existing growth, short-term rentals “When you make it easier for a corporate entity to buy that house in that neighborhood and turn it into two for-profit residential units,” Mendenhall said, “we lose the neighborhood stability that would otherwise be easier to achieve with the ADU ordinance. Removing that rule, she said, also threatened to jeopardize the ability of property owners to build wealth through homeownership.
Mendenhall, in a rare move, has personally urged the council to retain owner-occupancy across residential areas to avoid creating incentives for private-sector investors to buy into the city’s housing stock. “I feel like there has been over a decade that we’ve been talking about this and, to date, the ordinance hasn’t resulted in a significant increase in housing stock.” “I’m trying to make as much change as possible,” Mano said of the revisions. Now, the city is up against a historic shortage of affordable homes and alarming patterns of longtime renters getting displaced, prompting the council and Mayor Erin Mendenhall to want to wipe away barriers on multiple fronts to these tiny dwellings. Tweaks to ADU rules in 2018 and years before, Mano and others have noted, yielded a relative trickle of new units. (Salt Lake City Planning) Accessory dwelling units would be permitted in a much larger area of Salt Lake City, under a proposal in the works for months at City Hall.
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