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Advisory committee reviews code, permitting and design options for permanent supportive housing
Summary
Kenmore staff and an advisory committee discussed whether to tailor development standards, permitting steps and design expectations for permanent supportive ("step") housing, including parking, security and density counting, and agreed to draft recommendations and examples for council review.
Staff member (Speaker 1) opened the meeting saying the committee’s main task is to prepare a recommendation for city council on development standards: “the bulk of the meeting will be looking at what our the actual deliverable is for council, which is a recommendation number ending the development standards.”
The committee focused on how permanent supportive housing — referred to in the meeting as “step housing” — is treated under current rules and what targeted changes (if any) to code or process are appropriate. “Currently, step housing is evaluated very similarly to how most multifamily projects are evaluated in the city,” Staff member (Speaker 1) said. The discussion covered permitting level, density counting, parking, security and buffering.
Why it matters: committee members said choices about whether to add distinct standards or rely on the existing multifamily rules will affect how quickly projects can be permitted, how neighbors…
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