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Planning board debates bonus‑floor amenity rules, asks staff for clearer language and cost examples
Summary
Board members discussed the draft formula that ties bonus‑floor height to additional amenity space (10% of building footprint) and asked staff to draft clearer, more flexible language allowing public amenity and indoor civic space and to produce example cost/benefit scenarios comparing amenity requirements to affordable‑housing incentives.
The Edmonds Citizens Planning Board discussed how community‑benefit incentives and bonus floors should be measured and asked staff to return with clearer language and sample financial examples. Planning staff described a draft incentive that requires an additional 10% of public amenity space (on top of a base requirement) to qualify for a bonus floor; the board debated whether that should be measured only as outdoor plaza area or could also include indoor civic/community space.
Planning staff (Navusha) explained the draft: “The public amenity space is 10% of the building footprint. And if they want to qualify for the bonus…
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