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Staff proposes removing 'rooming house' from code as state-required co-living rules take effect
5869422 · October 2, 2025
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City staff recommended deleting the obsolete ‘rooming house’ definition because state-required co-living housing standards now cover the use; commissioners discussed how single-family houses with many unrelated occupants remain regulated under state law.
City planning staff told the commission that current state law requires jurisdictions to allow co-living housing in certain zones and that the co-living definition largely supersedes the older “rooming house” term in the municipal code. Libby Grange explained that staff reviewed the code and…
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