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Debate over MOA development credits, ADU rights and stormwater maintenance draws strong public comment in Coupeville
Summary
Planning staff, property owners and residents debated whether to amend or abandon a 20-year Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that governs development credits, lot sizes and ADU rights in a west-side area; residents raised concerns about stormwater ponds maintained by a homeowners association that the town plans to take over.
Coupeville planning commissioners on Sept. 16 continued a months-long review of a 20-year Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) covering development credits, lot sizes and allowable housing types for several parcels on the towns west side. The discussion drew multiple public comments focusing on development-credit availability, how accessory dwelling units (ADUs) would be treated under state law and maintenance of a regional stormwater system.
Planning staff explained that some transfer-of-development-credit pathways had been eliminated after a conservation easement extinguished roughly 19 credits, reducing one set of options staff had presented earlier. Staff said the MOA currently allows smaller 7,200-square-foot lots and that abandoning the MOA would revert lots to a 9,600-square-foot minimum in the applicable zones; amending the MOA could preserve smaller lot sizes while clarifying whether state middle-housing and ADU rules would take precedence when they conflict with the MOA.
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