Overland Park hopes a short-term revision to its development codes will jumpstart its small-scale housing pilot program. The temporary amendment will allow up to 12 projects to move forward using home designs in the city’s new Portfolio Homes program. The exact sites are unclear, but the emphasis is on sites that are ripe for redevelopment or may be hard to build in a typical residential project. The pilot program was originally designed to make it easier to build a wider variety of housing options at less expensive price points — often called “missing middle” housing — amid a widening housing shortage. The city’s Portfolio Homes offers a collection of 26 pre-reviewed plans for smaller single-family homes and duplexes. City planning staff hoped to see developers or homeowners come forward with interest in using one of the home designs for an infill project or single-family lot. However, so far, no projects have moved forward under the Portfolio Homes program since it officially launched last year.
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