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Council committee advances middle-housing package — code changes, unit-lot subdivisions and RM rezone — to first reading
Summary
The committee forwarded combined amendments to Federal Way Revised Code Title 18 (subdivisions) and Title 19 (zoning), unit-lot subdivision rules and a legislative rezone that consolidates three multifamily zones into one RM zone. Staff cited House Bill 1110 and Senate Bill 5258; the council moved the package to first reading on May 20.
City planners presented a package of code and map changes to implement the state's middle-housing directives and to add unit-lot subdivision procedures. Holly Bosack and Stacy Welsh said the amendments respond to state legislation and local policy choices to allow a range of middle-housing types — duplex, triplex, fourplex, townhouses, courtyard apartments and cottage housing — on lots in single-family and suburban estate zones.
Why it matters: House Bill 1110 requires jurisdictions to allow 4–6 unit middle-housing types in qualifying areas; staff said the amendments align local regulations with the statute's requirements. The city also proposed unit-lot subdivisions (required by 2023's Senate Bill 5258) so that individual housing units can be sold as separate lots while a…
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