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Pasco staff outlines state 'middle housing' requirements, warns city will forfeit state grants if out of compliance
Summary
Director Watson Mountain briefed the commission on the 2023 state middle‑housing law, noting Pasco must implement changes by the end of the year (including a 4‑units‑per‑lot requirement), discussed design and emergency‑access constraints, and flagged potential impacts to grant eligibility if the city does not comply.
Director Watson Mountain led a workshop explaining how the 2023 state "middle housing" law will affect Pasco, describing required unit types, timeline and design constraints and answering commissioners’ questions about parking, setbacks, safety and enforcement capacity.
Staff described middle housing as the range of housing between single‑family homes and larger apartment buildings — including duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhomes, cottage clusters and stacked flats — and showed local examples. Watson Mountain said the law changes the metric from units per acre to units per lot and requires Pasco (a Tier 1 city) to allow at least four units per lot; the rule becomes effective for…
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