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Duvall staff outline large rezoning and affordable-housing code changes after Commerce appeal
Summary
Public Works staff told the planning commission the Department of Commerce appealed Duvall's comprehensive plan, and staff proposed a three-phase work program that includes rezoning roughly half the city, new affordable-housing requirements (STEP), and a major public-notice process ahead of hearings.
Loretta Grondell of Duvall Public Works presented the city's work program to respond to a Department of Commerce appeal of the 2024 comprehensive plan adoption, saying Commerce challenged the city on two points: insufficient demonstration of housing capacity and failure to remove code barriers to affordable housing.
Grondell said staff organized the work into three phases: updating the land-capacity analysis (to show residential and employment capacity), adopting zoning-code amendments and incentives to support affordable housing, and then updating comprehensive-plan language and tables. "We were appealed on 2 things," Grondell said, "1 is that we didn't show our work in housing capacity…
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