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Council advances comprehensive plan and opens inclusionary-zoning study; majority backs mixed-use focus and feasibility study
Summary
After a public hearing with mixed testimony on rezoning and affordability, the council passed first reading of the 2024 comprehensive plan update, amended EMU rezoning to exclude two parcels, and directed staff and Planning Commission to pursue inclusionary zoning analysis focusing on mixed-use zones and a consultant feasibility study.
The Woodinville City Council on March 11 passed the first reading of the 2024 comprehensive plan update and launched a more detailed evaluation of inclusionary zoning, a regulatory tool that would require permanent affordable units within new residential development.
Planning staff opened the public hearing for Ordinance 781 and summarized changes since February, including added language to address environmental justice and technical updates to transportation and capital-facilities chapters. Robert Grumbaugh (planning staff) explained the Growth Management Act periodic-review requirement and noted the staff recommendation to incorporate clarifying language from state guidance. “The reason why we’re doing this is that there is a requirement…to do a periodic review,” he…
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