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Home in Tacoma Update – October 2024…and a Case Study

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Tacoma
October 16, 2024

Hello Home in Tacoma fans – Today’s update fills in the current status of the plan as well as including some lessons learned after reviewing a few sites under the new code. First – the code updates. Timeline for voting / City Council actions per City of Tacoma’s HIT page below: This timeline seems on point with what we heard last month, so signs are looking good. We look forward to the first reading of the ordinance in late October as that...

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Kirkland Comprehensive Plan Update – October 2024

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Tacoma
October 10, 2024

Hello middle housing fans - Kirkland is active in the development of their comprehensive plan updates. Current activity as of the upcoming October 10th Planning Commission meeting shows current focus is on review of proposed Housing Element language and policies for incorporation into the comprehensive plan document. Policies in the approved comp plan are what ultimately will guide zoning code updates later, so this is very important framework for what’s to come. The housing element policies are rooted among many...

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Keasy.ai: Collaborate, Create, Celebrate

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Tacoma
September 18, 2024

Keasy.ai is a startup company offering a property management platform oriented to all scales of multifamily properties and landlords. Brian Palidar with Grouparchitect was recently invited to attend a celebration party for the initial launch of their new app. Keasy was initially founded by Liat and Guy Arama, both ex-tech entrepreneurs as well as multifamily owners and landlords, who wanted to offer up to others the innovative property management tools they had developed for themselves to automate much of the process. It...

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Home in Tacoma Update – September 2024

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Tacoma
September 13, 2024

Many thanks to AIA Seattle for hosting a continuing education seminar this week which features multiple planning managers from Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, and Shoreline talking about their cities and how they’re approaching the middle housing code changes. Today we’ll focus on updating everyone on TACOMA. Tacoma is making progress on middle housing, and it now has some working calendar dates attached to everything. Per my discussions this week with Shirley Schultz, Interim Planning Manager, the final stages of the process are...

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Home in Tacoma, House Bill 1110 and You

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Tacoma
May 7, 2024

Tacoma is hot on the heels of HB1110 so we found a lot of great progress to share for how they are proceeding with implementing middle housing legislation as discussed last month. Home in Tacoma is the name of their plan documents, you can read more about it here. The timeline for things being updated is very reasonable, far better than expected. Here’s what they are currently saying for implementation: Tacoma is already a leader here from what we can see, as...

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