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Council hears planning and policy updates: middle‑housing interim ordinance, cabaret code review and state bills to watch
Summary
Staff reported a change in the schedule for middle‑housing code work to meet a Commerce grant requirement; council received a memo and will discuss cabaret-license code changes and is tracking state legislation on AI bargaining and a proposed 3% property-tax cap increase.
Port Orchard — Council and staff discussed several planning and policy matters, including a pivot on middle‑housing code work required by state law and grant deliverables, a forthcoming memo on cabaret-license code changes, and continued monitoring of state legislation on artificial intelligence bargaining and a potential increase in the property-tax cap.
Middle housing: Staff reported a June 30 statutory deadline for code updates and said the Washington State Department of Commerce — which provided the grant supporting the…
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