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Yakima City Council opens 2025–26 comprehensive plan amendment process; planning manager previews middle‑housing changes
Summary
Planning manager Trevor Martin reviewed planning and zoning history and new state mandates for middle housing. The council adopted a resolution opening the consolidated 2025–26 comprehensive plan amendment period (6–0).
Trevor Martin, the City of Yakima planning manager, outlined planning and zoning basics and the implications of recent state laws on housing before the council authorized a formal update to the city’s comprehensive plan.
Martin told the council, “My name is Trevor Martin. I'm the planning manager here in the City Of Yakima,” and then walked through the history and legal framework that guides city land‑use policy, from early zoning to the state Growth Management Act. He highlighted House Bill 1110 on “middle housing” and told councilmembers the…
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