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Fife staff outline middle-housing code changes required by state law; commission reviews administrative design standards
Summary
Senior planner Taylor Jones presented draft middle-housing code amendments on Feb. 3 to implement state law for tier-3 cities, emphasizing an administrative, objective design-review path and clarifying rules for cottage housing and unit counts.
FIFE, Wash. — The Fife Planning Commission on Feb. 3 reviewed draft code amendments to implement the state’s middle-housing law and related changes to the city zoning code.
Senior planner Taylor Jones presented the draft amendments that implement House Bill 1110 (as cited in the staff presentation) and explained how Fife, a tier-3 city, must allow two-unit middle-housing configurations in predominantly low-density residential zones. Jones said the draft adopts Commerce’s model middle-housing ordinance as the basis for administrative, objective design standards and places the new regulations in a single code chapter (19.68) to improve usability.
Key provisions presented
- Applicability: The state mandate requires tier-3 cities (population under 25,000) to allow…
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