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Commission reviews proposed Title 21 code edits including middle‑housing clarifications and debate over 3,000‑square‑foot limit
Summary
City planning staff returned Oct. 16 with draft redline edits to SMC Title 21 covering definitions and regulatory clarifications for cottage housing, ADUs, unit‑lot subdivisions, shoreline permits and permit timing, and a debated proposal to limit floor area above ground floor.
Planning staff returned Oct. 16 with draft redlines to Sammamish Municipal Code Title 21 and asked the commission for feedback before a Dec. 4 public hearing.
Avril Beatty, current planning and permit center manager in the Community Development Department, presented about 10 proposed edits. Beatty said the package includes clarifications and new definitions (for example, codifying a cottage‑housing size tied to a recent director’s interpretation and an accessory dwelling unit definition that requires a separate entrance), regulatory clarifications for quasi‑judicial versus area‑wide rezonings, and a proposed change to unit‑lot subdivision rules so unit lots could carry more than one dwelling unit (to allow, for example, duplexes or triplexes in ownership forms such as condos). She said staff would add a reference to the…
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