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Planning commission forwards affordable-housing zoning updates to council, adds requirement for further study
Summary
The commission recommended City Council adopt the proposed affordable housing zoning-code amendments but amended the recommendation to request further work, including consideration of mandatory elements and study of thresholds and offsets. The vote to forward the amended recommendation was unanimous among commissioners present.
The Bothell Planning Commission on Nov. 5 recommended that the City Council adopt proposed affordable housing zoning-code amendments but amended its recommendation to request additional follow-up work and analysis before the city considers mandatory requirements.
Senior Planner Ray Sosa described the package as a city-initiated update (originally called inclusionary zoning) intended to encourage and incentivize affordable housing and to help Bothell meet state planning goals stemming from the state bill cited in staff remarks. Staff said the draft amendments would apply to Downtown, Canyon Park, the residential activity center and…
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