I get that it's hard to do all the homework before every meeting, but they're essentially supposed to be learning about how the city might implement a new state law requiring cities to allow between 4-6 units per lot.
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The legislation requires cities like Seattle to allow up to 4 units per lot, or 6 if 2 are affordable. It does not require developers to build housing on environmentally critical areas or steep slopes where housing is dangerous, and the city's own codes would not permit that.
We're seeing the spaghetti start to hit the wall in response to the state just requiring us to do something we should have done all along, which is to allow housing in the city.
Mark Solomon wants to know if historic districts might be exempt from the new rules allowing up to 4 units per lot. Answer: No. Maritza Rivera wants to know "can the city do something" to exempt those districts. Also no.
Cathy Moore wants to know why developers can still pay a fee toward affordable housing under the city's mandatory housing affordability program when the two extra units allowed under 1110 must be on site.
The answer is that these are different programs, and that MHA (a city program) is mandatory and includes an in-lieu payment option, whereas 1110 is a bonus program that ALLOWS developers to build 6 units if two are affordable.
Hey Bob, let us architects decide whether we can build on slopes, because we do it every day. It's Seattle after all. Where do they find these chuckleheads?
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"Slopes are not flat."
cripes what a dumkopf