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Housing coordinator Jennifer Adams unveils draft infill chapter to allow up to four units per lot
Summary
Jennifer Adams presented a draft "infill residential development" chapter to implement state middle-housing and ADU laws, proposing a "unit-as-unit" approach allowing up to four units per lot (the fourth tied to affordability at 80% AMI for 50 years) and capping ADUs at 1,000 sq ft.
Housing coordinator Jennifer Adams presented a first briefing to the Lacey Planning Commission on March 11 on a draft infill residential development chapter designed to implement recent state laws on middle housing and accessory dwelling units.
Adams told the commission that the draft consolidates middle-housing and ADU provisions into a single chapter and adopts a "unit-as-unit" approach that counts total dwelling units per lot rather than relying only on units-per-acre calculations. "This middle housing structure introduces this new concept of we are now talking about units per lot," Adams said.
Key proposals explained by staff include allowing up to three…
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