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Sumner staff propose town center overlay, ADUs and lower Main Street height in 2025 plan update
Summary
City staff described a proposed Town Center Plan update that would create an innovation/enterprise overlay, allow accessory dwelling units per state law, reduce height limits in parts of the historic Main Street commercial district and create a residential-only transition zone at the plan edge.
Ryan Windisch, the community and economic development director for the City of Sumner, outlined proposed changes to the city’s Town Center Plan at a public meeting.
Windisch said the plan area is “basically an area within a half a mile walk of the Downtown Sumner Train Station” and that staff are proposing an innovation and enterprise district overlay to allow “small scale manufacturing, artisan lofts, and incubator type businesses” near the Sumner Post Office area. He also said staff would allow accessory dwelling units in the town center “per state law,” and recommended reducing some building height allowances…
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