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Planning Commission continues Housing Action Plan review; many recommendations deferred for legal guidance and code drafting
Summary
Commissioners reviewed items in the Housing Action Plan including co-living (single-room-occupancy), ADUs, lot-size and setback adjustments, small-unit height bonuses and elevator requirements. Staff will return with state-law guidance and draft code language for several items; commissioners left multiple items for additional review.
The Anacortes Planning Commission continued its review of the Housing Action Plan on Jan. 22, discussing a range of strategies intended to increase housing supply, affordability and type. Commissioners agreed to defer several items pending state guidance or staff-prepared development-code language.
Chair Linda Martin summarized the commission’s role: narrow the menu of HAP strategies to those most likely to increase affordable housing, expand housing types or be accepted by the community. Commissioners work in pairs to recommend which strategies should be advanced for code drafting.
State guidance and co-living: staff reported new guidance from the Washington State Department of Commerce and a 2024 state law on “co-living” that affects the HAP recommendation on single-room-occupancy housing. Libby…
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