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Council adopts permanent step-housing ordinance with enforcement expectations after narrow vote
Summary
After debate and two votes, the Edmonds City Council adopted a permanent step-housing ordinance that retains language on operator expectations for nuisance and related issues; an attempt to adopt the planning-board version without that language failed first.
Planning and development staff presented a permanent step-housing ordinance on May 6 to replace an interim ordinance the council had adopted in February.
Mike Clugston, planning and development, told the council staff had provided two draft versions: the Planning Board’s recommended version, and a draft that retained language on operator expectations in Section B (recorded in staff materials as proposed 17.120.030(b)). He said either draft would meet the city’s requirements but that the versions differed on whether to…
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