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Planning commission revisits STEP housing rules, debates buffers near parks and schools
Summary
Principal Planner David Levitan updated commissioners on the city’s STEP housing code amendments—separating emergency shelters/housing from transitional and permanent supportive housing—and on proposed supplementary use regulations, expanded noticing and potential protective buffers near parks, schools and childcare centers. City Council members’
Lake Stevens planning staff returned to the Planning Commission on Oct. 15 to update commissioners on the city’s STEP (shelter, transitional, emergency, permanent supportive) housing draft code amendments and to solicit further input on proposed protective buffers and noticing requirements.
David Levitan, principal planner, summarized recent steps in the process and the distinctions among housing types: “When we think about emergency shelters, these are still indoor uses. Basically, the difference between an emergency shelter and an emergency housing emergency shelter, you basically can't have kind of prescriptive tenancy or kind of a lease agreement required… The next level up from that would be emergency housing… Transitional housing… up to 2 years in duration. And then permanent supportive housing is kind of something…
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