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Public commenters press council to expand housing capacity, bonuses and remove parking mandates
Summary
At a June 23 Seattle select-committee public hearing, dozens of residents, housing advocates and business representatives urged the council to expand zoning capacity citywide, expand affordable-housing bonuses (including for stacked flats), and reduce or remove parking mandates to increase housing supply and affordability.
A broad coalition of residents, housing advocates and business groups urged the Seattle City Council's select committee on the comprehensive plan on June 23 to substantially increase the city’s zoning capacity, expand affordable-housing bonuses and eliminate parking requirements to address the region’s housing shortage.
Tiffany McCoy, co-executive director of the nonprofit House Our Neighbors, told the committee that the mayor’s proposal should be changed so that “affordable and social housing can be sited in every neighborhood in Seattle” and that the city should make an affordable- and social-housing bonus available citywide, remove parking mandates for affordable and social housing and increase the bonus level to “maximize the impact of affordable and social housing.”
Why it matters: Commenters said current limits on where denser housing can be built…
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