Climate-Friendly Areas Evaluation Report

Medford Climate Friendly Area Study – Evalua Ɵon of Candidate Loca Ɵons Revised December 2023 22 Calculating the existing developed land, redevelop able land, and vacant land together, yields the following potential residential units: Units per acre (2 floors) Candidate B Acreage Porten tial Residential Unit Total 96 151.35 14,529.6 Units per acre (3 floors) Candidate B Acreage Pote tial Residential Unit Total 144 151.35 21,794.4 Table 8: Candidate B total estimated po tential residential development capacity Mathematically, the land proposed to be designated in this CFA has the capacity to exceed 14,060 residential dwelling units. Of course , this assumes uniform development across the entire Candidate B geography at the average dens ities used in Table 8. In reality, reaching this goal would look much di fferent. Existing residential development density in this area is higher than Candidate A when averaged over the entire 151 acres of the study area. This is due to the presence of higher density develop ment that has been developed over the last ten years. This type of residential development, which is more suburban in format (3-story garden apartments with surface parking and 2-story townhomes stacked over parking and/or flats), develops at much lower densities th an those used to estimate potential capacity above. Table 9 depicts a development mi x that assumes that th is will continue to be the predominant building type in this area, wi th some larger, very hi gh density development that could occur later in the planning period. Li ke the estimate for Candidate A, this scenario assumes that 55 percent of existing properties remain unchanged. Unlike Candidate A, there is no signi ficant opportunity for sm aller, high density in fill or adaptive reuse of existing multistory buildings, because those opportunities simply do not exist. Development Type Total Land Area (net acres) % of CFA Avg. Density (DU/net acre) Total Units 6-story over parking/employment 8 5% 200 1,514 3-story w/limited onsite parking 0 0% 150 0 3-story w/onsite parking 61 40% 35 2,119 Small infill 0 0% 40 0 Mixed use adaptive reuse 0 0% 30 0 Existing 83 55% 15 1,249 4,881 Table 9: Candidate B potential buildout scenario