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On October 7, 2024, Euclid's City Council voted unanimously to adopt zoning code updates for the City's residential districts. County Planning collaborated with the City to write code updates after Euclid was selected as part of a pilot program to incorporate infill best practices into its zoning code.
Zoning updates included expansion of permitted principal and accessory uses to include various housing types, right-sizing lot dimensional standards, accommodating flexibility in front setbacks to preserve neighborhood character, and simplifying approval processes for smaller-scale residential infill projects. In total, the zoning code updates ensure that more than 12,000 parcels that may have required variances previously no longer need variances.
The updates were completed as part of the Single-Family Zoning Analysis, an initiative undertaken in partnership with the First Suburbs Consortium, the Cuyahoga Land Bank, the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, and First Federal Lakewood which sought to promote single-family infill development in the First Suburb communities.
This initiative first identified zoning regulations that hindered the development of infill housing and then outlined best practices for improving zoning regulations to make infill more practicable.
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