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Edmonds board splits over how broadly to allow state-required coliving housing
Summary
Planning staff presented the state-required coliving-housing amendment and a range of local options; the board split on whether to adopt the state’s minimum threshold (lots allowing six multifamily units) or to allow coliving more broadly across RM zones.
Presentation and legal background
Planning staff briefed the board on Second Substitute House Bill 1998 (adopted by the state legislature and codified in 2024), which requires cities to allow coliving housing on any lot that allows at least six multifamily residential units and to limit off-street parking to no more than 0.25 spaces per sleeping unit. Planner Rose summarized the draft local code language and an earlier board decision to exclude short-term rentals from coliving definitions, noting two remaining open questions: whether to replace the 1964 boarding-house definition and whether to allow coliving only where local density permits at least six multifamily units or to lower that threshold to five or four units.
Data and options
Rose presented…
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