Climate-Friendly Areas Evaluation Report

Medford Climate Friendly Area Study – Evalua Ɵon of Candidate Loca Ɵons Revised December 2023 26 96 140.35 13,473.6 Units per acre (3 floors) Candidate C Acreage Potential Residential Unit Total 144 140.35 20,210.4 Table 10: 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 C geography at the average dens ities used in Table 10. In reality, reaching this goal would look much di fferent. Planned high residential development density in this area is relatively low (probably about 30-40 DU /net acre), which includes some mixed use with one or two stories of residential over on e story of commercial. Multifamily development has been contemplated as 3-story garden ap artment buildings with surface parking. Table 11 depicts a development mix that departs signi ficantly from the planned buildout of this CFA, but may be feasible as a wider range of higher density resid ential building types gains acceptance within the development co mmunity. Even with these relatively signi ficant changes to building type and the average dens ities they could support, this buildout scenario would only contribute a little more than half of the units (nearly 8,000) needed under these conditions. Development Type Total Land Area (net acres) % of CFA Avg. Density (DU/net acre) Total Units 4-story over parking/employment 14 10% 170 2,386 3-story w/limited onsite parking 14 10% 150 2,105 3-story w/onsite parking 56 40% 35 1,965 Small lot SFR/middle housing 42 30% 30 1,263 Mixed use adaptive reuse 0 0% 30 0 Existing/Future Nonresidential 14 10% 0 0 7,719 Table 11: Candidate C total estimated pote ntial residential development capacity