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Commission agrees to focus nonconforming-use rewrite on residential rebuilding and disaster recovery
Summary
The commission began a structured discussion of nonconforming-use rules and agreed to prioritize residential issues: making it easier for homeowners to rebuild in-place, clarifying when natural-disaster exemptions apply, and reconsidering the 50%/value trigger for required full-code upgrades.
On Nov. 19 the Newcastle Planning Commission opened a review of nonconforming-use rules and reached a preliminary consensus to limit the first phase of updates to single-family residential issues, including homeowner renovations, disaster recovery, accessory structures and measures that help residents remain in their homes.
Staff presented examples from Kirkland, Renton and Seattle and highlighted…
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