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Edmonds planning staff to draft middle-housing code that allows duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes citywide with targeted overlays for townhomes and courtyards
Summary
Planning staff presented Phase 2 of the city’s middle-housing work to comply with House Bill 1110; board members favored allowing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes broadly while using mapped overlays (for example, near arterials and hubs) to restrict townhouses, courtyard apartments and cottage housing to places where they fit.
Edmonds planning staff on Wednesday asked the Planning Board for direction on a Phase 2 draft code that would implement middle-housing requirements from the state’s House Bill 1110 and tailor allowed building types to neighborhood contexts.
Staff planner Brad said the city must adopt local code aligned with HB 1110 or the state’s model ordinance would supersede local rules. Brad asked the board to decide what building types to allow in which parts of the city so staff can return with mapped subdistricts and draft language for Phase 2.
The issue matters because HB 1110 requires cities to allow specified ‘‘middle housing’’ types (including duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, stacked flats, courtyard apartments, townhomes and cottage housing) in areas formerly zoned for single-family housing. The board focused on where to allow the different building types and how prescriptive the local code…
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