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Planning staff outline overhaul of Edmonds design-review rules to comply with state law
Summary
City planning staff presented a draft rewrite of the city's design-review code to comply with Washington state law (HB 1293) and to consolidate multiple, partly redundant design-review processes. The Planning Board discussed changes to process, glazing and garage rules, and the role of the Architectural Design Board in departures.
Edmonds planning staff presented a consolidated draft of the city's design-review rules and asked the Citizens Planning Board for early feedback, saying the rewrite is intended to comply with state law and reduce processing time for development permits.
Brad Shipley, identified in the meeting as planning staff, told the board that state lawmakers passed HB 1293 in 2023 and that Edmonds must make standards "clear and objective and focused on exterior design only." Shipley said the city will eliminate the two-stage district-based design-review process and consolidate standards into an administrative (staff) review plus an advisory role for the Architectural Design Board (ADB) where applicants seek a departure from objective standards. "We're gonna have to, eliminate the 2 stage design review process," Shipley said during his presentation.
The draft moves standards that were scattered across zoning chapters and the comprehensive plan into a single design-review chapter (20.10 in the draft packet). Shipley said…
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