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Everett staff weigh detailed objective design standards as middle-housing code draft
Summary
City staff presented a draft approach to middle-housing regulations based on the Department of Commerce's detailed objective design standards toolkit, sparking commissioner questions on height, setbacks, lot coverage, parking and trade-offs between design quality and housing capacity.
Kelsey Hyde, land use planning manager for the City of Everett, updated the Planning Commission on Dec. 17 about staff work to implement middle-housing regulations required by state law.
Hyde said staff are using the Department of Commerce's detailed objective design standards toolkit (the Puget Sound region detailed standards) as a primary reference and have developed a full draft of code language that they are now paring back where appropriate. She said, "We're going with the detailed standards because I think they provide the most, thought out and the most carefully designed set of standards for middle housing to achieve…
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