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Planning staff seek public input on allowing street-level residential or short-term rentals behind Front Street storefronts
Summary
Planning staff presented a proposal to allow suite-level residential or transient accommodations in the rear or upper portions of waterfront/frontage buildings and asked for public outreach before drafting code changes.
Planning staff told the Coupeville Planning Commission on June 3 that they will gather public input on proposed changes to the Shoreline Master Program and local development regulations that would allow suite-level residential or short-term transient accommodations behind Front Street storefronts.
The staff presentation noted that some waterfront buildings have rear spaces or suites that are poorly suited to retail and typically underused because they lack street frontage and visibility. “Those buildings that have backs that face that cove, those are not particularly well suited for retail commercial space,” a planning staff member said…
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