After neighborhood and city official resistance to two coliving homes in Shawnee, a revised ordinance will go before the City Council on Monday to approve new definitions in single-family residential districts. Last month, the Shawnee Planning Commission proposed that city staff could require unrelated tenants to be subject to one lease per household or to restrict subleases within single-family homes. Rather than discourage transiency by imposing a lease requirement, the staff suggested redefining a “single housekeeping unit” as no more than three unrelated tenants who share a kitchen, household activities or responsibilities, according to city documents.
Source: Kansas City Business Journal
