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Auburn to adopt state-required "co-living" zoning; council weighs details on short-term rentals
Summary
City planners presented a text amendment to comply with state law requiring cities to allow co-living housing; the proposal would treat sleeping units as 0.25 dwelling units, require 0.25 parking spaces per sleeping unit, and prohibit short-term rentals under 30 days.
Owen Good, Planner II in Auburn27s Community Development Department, presented a zoning text amendment Dec. 8 to bring Auburn into compliance with a revised state RCW that requires cities to allow co-living housing.
Good described co-living as a denser housing typology "similar to studio apartments comprised of sleeping units where kitchen facilities, and sometimes bathrooms as well are shared in common with other residents." Under the draft code, a sleeping unit would count…
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