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Lynnwood staff outline unified development code plan, seek council direction on middle‑housing rules
Summary
City planning staff briefed the council on a months‑long effort to consolidate development rules into a single unified development code and to implement state middle‑housing and ADU requirements, setting a timetable of reviews through June to meet a July 1 state deadline.
Lynnwood’s community planning manager told the City Council on March 3 that staff are assembling a unified development code (UDC) and related design‑standards updates so the city can implement new state middle‑housing and accessory‑dwelling‑unit (ADU) requirements before the state’s July 1 implementation deadline.
The update, reviewed by Community Planning Manager Carl Olmgren and planner Joe LeBlanc, described the UDC as a consolidation of regulations scattered across multiple Lynnwood Municipal Code titles into a single, clearer chapter (proposed Title 8). Olmgren said the rewrite aims to make permitting and review more predictable for applicants and to reflect recent state laws requiring cities to allow a range of “middle housing” types.
Olmgren said the outreach‑preferred middle‑housing types identified so far include duplexes, triplexes,…
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