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Port Orchard staff seek input on landscaping updates and how to treat middle housing
Summary
Staff presented redlines to Chapter 20.128 and asked whether 'middle housing' should follow the same landscaping rules as detached single-family homes to comply with House Bill 1110; committee requested clarification, cost impacts, and further review once tree-canopy mapping is complete.
Jim Biss, principal planner, reviewed proposed updates to Chapter 20.128 that aim to clarify landscaping requirements, expand applicability to all residential and nonresidential development, strengthen invasive-species control, and modernize buffer and fence standards.
Biss said a central policy question is whether middle housing should follow the same landscaping rules as detached homes to align with House Bill 1110’s equal-treatment requirement: "House Bill 1110…
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