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Kent planners outline Phase 2'3 updates to Recode Kent, emphasizing middle housing, historic preservation and unit-lot changes
Summary
Long-range planning staff briefed council on Recode Kent progress: phase 1 (ordinance 4517) is complete; phase 2 includes communal-living and small-development exemptions; phase 3 will add site-design standards, incorporate Mill Creek Historic District rules, and consider expanding unit-lot subdivision caps beyond nine.
Dasia Mitchell, Long Range Planner for the City of Kent, told the Committee of the Whole that Recode Kent is a multiphase effort to update the city's housing code, permitting processes and development standards to align with state law and the 2044 comprehensive plan. "Recode Kent is a multiphase project, to update our housing code, our permitting processes, and our development standards," Mitchell said.
Mitchell said Phase 1 was adopted June 30, 2025 under ordinance 4517 and included zone consolidation, new permitting processes and the city's middle-housing regulations. She said two Phase-2 ordinances were adopted last year: ordinance 4529 (communal-living regulations) and ordinance 4530 (an exemption on new infrastructure improvements for developments of four units or fewer in certain zones). The department expects to finish the remaining Phase-2 work in the first quarter of…
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