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Planning commission backs design-review code changes to comply with House Bill 1293
Summary
The commission voted to recommend KCC chapter 92 and related design-guideline amendments to council to conform local design-review procedures to House Bill 1293; staff said changes convert many guidelines to regulations, reduce some glazing requirements to 60% and move some review from the Design Review Board to administrative planning review with expanded noticing.
At a public hearing the Planning Commission reviewed staff-proposed amendments to the city’s design-review regulations and recommended forwarding the package to City Council.
Senior planner Tony Levitt framed the code changes as responses to recent state law, citing House Bill 1293 and a related RCW provision. He said the state requires cities to apply clear-and-objective regulations to exterior design, conduct design review concurrently with permit review and limit design-review proceedings to a single public meeting. To conform, staff proposes converting many existing design guidelines into regulations, establishing administrative design-review application types (ADR1…
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