CITY HALL — A proposal to allow additional dwelling units such as coach houses and basement units to be built citywide appears likely to pass City Council this week after alderpeople added additional restrictions to the legislation.

The compromise ordinance that was made public Tuesday is the latest version of a plan first proposed more than two years ago by Ald. Bennett Lawson (44th) to allow additional dwelling units to be built across the city without requiring a zoning change.

The ordinance builds off a limited pilot program established in 2021 that allowed additional dwelling unit construction in five pilot areas on the North, Northwest, West, South and Southeast sides. Coach houses and other “conversion units,” such as basement apartments, qualify as additional dwelling units.

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