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Anacortes to add state-defined co‑living housing to zones where multifamily is permitted
Summary
Staff recommended code text to implement 2024 state law requiring cities to allow co‑living in zones that permit multifamily; the proposal would make co‑living an outright use in R-4/R-4A and several commercial/mixed-use zones, and apply most multifamily design standards while clarifying a special parking rule.
Anacortes staff presented draft code language to implement state law that requires cities to allow co-living housing where multifamily housing of six or more units is permitted. Planning Manager Libby Grage told the commission that the state law “basically requires cities to allow cohousing living wherever multifamily with 6 or more units are allowed by right currently.”
Grage described co-living as “a residential development with sleeping units that are independently rented and lockable and provide living and sleeping space. Residents share kitchen facilities with other sleeping units…
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