Middle housing means Duplexes, Triplexes, Quadplexes, Cottage Clusters, & Townhouses.

HB 2001 will impact areas in Bend that are zoned residential and allow detached single-family dwellings. That includes the Low Density Residential District (RL), Standard Density Residential District (RS), Medium-10 Density Residential District (RM-10), and Medium Density Residential District (RM). There are also amendments proposed to the High Density Residential District (RH) which currently allows middle housing. 

You can find the zoning of your property online using the Community Development Data Explorer and navigating to the “Zoning Lookup Tool” tab.

Yes. HB 2001 does not prohibit single-family detached dwellings or make it more difficult to build single-family detached dwellings where they are currently allowed, rather it allows middle housing types like duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, cottage clusters and townhomes to be built in the same residential areas where single-family detached dwellings are allowed.

While HB 2001 does prohibit the creation of new CC&Rs that conflict with HB 2001, it does not affect existing CC&Rs. The City of Bend does not enforce CC&Rs or other such private agreements.

HB 2001 is intended to provide more opportunities for a variety of housing types in traditionally single-family neighborhoods and to increase the overall housing supply in and around cities. To ensure duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes as well as accessory dwelling units (ADU) provide housing, short-term rental applications submitted after November 4, 2021, located in the RL, RS, RM, RH, and MR outside of the Old Mill District boundary (noted as Type II in Figure 3.6.500.C) that include more than one dwelling unit on a property (e.g., ADUs, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, multi-unit, cottages, etc.) can only have one unit permitted as a short-term rental.

Where spacing allows, unique addresses will be assigned to all new lots created as a result of a middle housing land division. For example:

Existing Primary Residence or New Residence with Street Frontage: 123 NE Main St

Newly Created Middle Housing Lot: 125 NE Main St, etc.

Where there is no room for additional unique addresses in a street sequence, new homes constructed under the middle housing land division process will be assigned a “unit”. The original residence or the newly created lot with street frontage will maintain or be assigned an address with no unit designation. For example:

Existing Primary Residence or New Residence with Street Frontage: 123 NE Main St

Newly Created Middle Housing Lot: 123 NE Main St – Unit 2, 3, etc.