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Shoreline council leans toward studying citywide elimination of parking minimums; staff to flesh out impacts
Summary
Councilmembers signaled support for studying the citywide removal of parking minimums to reduce development costs and increase housing supply. Staff will analyze impacts, including ADA access, loading zones, EV charging, bike parking and enforcement, and return to the council after Planning Commission review.
Shoreline City Council on Feb. 24 directed staff to study how the city could implement Land Use Policy LU-3.2 by updating development code parking regulations — including a possible citywide elimination of parking minimums — and to return with recommendations after stakeholder outreach and Planning Commission review.
City planning staff framed the discussion by noting that parking requirements can make housing development infeasible. Staff cited typical construction costs for parking spaces ($10,000 for surface stalls; about $24,000 and up for structured parking, with some local estimates as high as $50,000 per stall in the Puget Sound region) and said existing code already allows some parking reductions near frequent…
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