Adaptive Reuse Ordinance (Zoning Text Amendment)
Description
The city's own zoning text amendment would create an Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, making it easier to convert empty offices and commercial buildings into homes with incentives and alternative building standards in designated areas.
Impact summary
If adopted, vacant commercial buildings could become housing faster and cheaper — potentially adding apartments in areas like downtown where they're currently hard to build.
Applicant
- Name
- City of Riverside
At a glance
- Hearings
- 1
- Public comments
- 1
- Total mentions
- 1
Recorded in the meeting · Planning Commission
Last discussed Jun 23, 2026.
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Adaptive Reuse Ordinance
The new ordinance makes it easier to turn empty commercial buildings into apartments, with no parking required for the reused building. Several commissioners warned this could create under-parked projects in areas without transit and asked staff to come back with fixes.
Adaptive Reuse Ordinance (Case PC-2025-00427)
A proposed ordinance would make it easier to convert vacant offices and commercial buildings into apartments, with incentives and relaxed building standards in designated areas. It could shape downtown housing growth for years.
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