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Staff outlines 2025 code changes on driveways, bike parking and parking counts; public hearing closed

6689101 · October 27, 2025
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Summary

City planning staff presented a package of minor code updates to the Unified Development Code (Title 8) including driveway length flexibility using CC&Rs, bicycle parking capacity changes, and clarified parking‑stall measurements; the council held a public hearing, received no in‑chamber speakers on this item, and closed the hearing.

City planning staff presented proposed 2025 miscellaneous code updates to Title 8 at the Oct. 27 Lynnwood City Council meeting, describing changes to driveway length standards, bicycle‑parking requirements, vehicle‑parking tables, and several definition clarifications.

Planner Carl Almgren explained the proposal to allow developers to use conditions, covenants and restrictions (CC&Rs) to require on‑lot garage parking as a supplement to the driveway length standard; staff said this flexibility could enable…

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