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Edmonds staff revives push for Unified Development Code to reduce redundancies and speed permitting
Summary
Planners told the council they will pursue a Unified Development Code to consolidate development regulations and reduce permitting time by removing duplicated provisions across titles.
Edmonds planning staff told the Committee of the Whole on Oct. 21 that the city will pursue a Unified Development Code to bring the community-development provisions (titles 15'24) into a single, stacked format that reduces redundancy and makes code updates more efficient.
"When you open up the Critical Area Code, you start with the general provisions and then you work through what the application or review requirements are gonna be," planner Brad Shipley said, describing a stacked or form-based approach in which building types and frontage types sit at a higher…
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