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Staff outlines state-driven changes to Edmonds parking code; board to review next week
Summary
Planning staff summarized recent state law changes that limit minimum parking requirements for certain housing and commercial uses and asked the board to recommend the city fold the statutory language into the municipal code. Staff will return next week with a proposed ordinance and GIS layers showing transit stop buffers.
Planning Department staff briefed the Edmonds Planning Board on pending changes to the city’s residential parking code tied to recent state legislation and sought board concurrence to bring draft code text to Council.
Staff said the state has moved to limit local minimum parking mandates for many types of development, and that the city’s existing parking chapter — which contains many use-specific ratios developed over decades — needs simplification and alignment with new statutes. The staff presentation proposed inserting statutory language and…
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