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State bills on housing density, wildland interface and a county infrastructure bank draw city scrutiny
Summary
Council members reviewed several state bills with potential local impacts: a density-overlay housing tool tied to affordability requirements, a Wildland-Urban Interface mapping program that could carry a small assessed fee, and a county-level infrastructure bank funded by an added sales-tax fraction. Staff recommended monitoring rulemaking and discussing interagency coordination.
Council members used the work session to review a bundle of state bills that could affect local land use, homebuilding and public-safety funding.
One bill discussed would add a density-overlay or density-bonus tool to the statewide housing toolbox. "If you get one of that, you can then acquire and you can put instructions on it," said an advisor to the council (Unidentified Speaker 1), describing a mechanism that grants developers more units per acre in exchange for…
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