Code amendment · Planning application

City staff seek to define multifamily housing as two or more units

The change would count duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes on a single lot as multifamily by dropping the sentence that excludes them. A hearing was held Sept. 15, and the Planning and Zoning Commission has the item on its Oct. 20 agenda before the City Council decides.

In reviewPZ-26-38Mountain Home

Location

This filing changes the city's rules rather than a specific site, so there's nothing to map.

From the filing

The application's description as it appears in City of Mountain Home's record. See the official record

City staff are asking the Planning and Zoning Commission to change the city's zoning definition of "multifamily" housing. The change would define it as two or more units and remove the sentence that excludes duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes on a single lot. The item appears on the October 20, 2026 agenda as a findings of fact action.
a request by City Staff to consider changes to an ordinance of the City of Mountain Home, Idaho, amending Title 9, Chapter 4, Section 2, 9-4-2: Definitions: Multifamily. The amendment would modify the definition by striking the word "multiple" from the definition and adding in its place "two or more units", and striking the last sentence, "This definition does not include duplexes, triplexes, or fourplexes on a single lot.".
Project name on file: Zoning Title Amendments 9-4-2: Definitions

Timeline

Sept. 15, 2026
Public hearing: Mountain Home Planning and Zoning Commission

Documents

Decisions

Agenda for the Oct. 20, 2026 meeting covering a preliminary plat extension request, findings of fact on a zoning code amendment for storage uses, and approval of minutes.
Oct. 19, 2026 · 2 pages · 215 KB · Agenda
Download Planning and Zoning Commission agenda for Oct. 20 meeting