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Kent staff propose zoning changes to allow more housing in community commercial areas
Summary
City planners want to remove barriers in the Community Commercial zone to encourage infill housing, raising site coverage from 40% to 80% and increasing allowable height from three to five stories (up to seven with incentives); staff aim to adopt the interim changes by March 17.
Daja Mitchell, the city’s Long Range Planner, told the Kent City Council Committee of the Whole on Tuesday that staff are proposing interim revisions to the Community Commercial (CC) zone intended to clear regulatory barriers to residential redevelopment.
The changes would permit multifamily housing types such as fourplexes through larger multifamily buildings within the CC zone (previously limited to the CC mixed‑use overlay), remove the minor conditional‑use permit requirement for residential facilities within a quarter mile of 100th Avenue and 4th Avenue, allow live‑work units, increase site coverage from 40% to 80% and update height allowances from three stories to five stories — with an additional two stories (seven…
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