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Council directs staff to remove parking mandates for affordable and senior housing; vote 4–3
Summary
After a staff briefing on state law changes, Edmonds council narrowly approved a motion to incorporate state-mandated parking exemptions for affordable and senior housing into the city’s residential parking code, 4–3.
Edmonds City Council voted 4–3 on July 1 to direct staff to amend the city’s residential-parking ordinance to prohibit municipal parking minimums for state-defined affordable and senior housing, aligning Edmonds code with recently adopted state statutes.
What happened: Mike Clugston of the Planning and Development Department told the council the draft code updates respond to recent state legislation (Senate Bill 5184 and related earlier bills) that limits local minimum-parking requirements for certain multifamily and affordable units and establishes a 0.5 parking‑space-per-unit standard for some multifamily developments. Councilmember Payne moved that the city…
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