Woodbee House has been selected as a finalist in the "Best Patio Project" category for the 2024 NanaWall NanaAwards Project and Design Competition. To win this competition we need your votes! Follow the link to submit your vote and to learn more about the NanaAwards. Voting ends on November 5th! ...
Good morning - Redmond has been on our minds and we recently checked back in with them to see where middle housing changes are going and when it might be here. The answer is soon - Redmond is currently targeting the new middle housing codes being adopted and in effect by January 1, 2025! Current zoning code draft regulations are showing the new middle housing codes being grouped under Neighborhood Residential zoning (NR), with many other changes to Redmond’s zoning...
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...
Hello middle housing fans - Bellevue is making progress! COMP PLAN APPROVED Bellevue approved their comp plan on September 27, 2024 which clears the way to focus on middle housing and HB1110 code updates among others! Next steps include a working session by City planning staff with the Planning Commission to review the state legislation and mandates and discuss staff recommendations for how to proceed. PLANNING COMMISSION WORKING SESSION #1 City staff met with Bellevue Planning Commission on October 9, 2024 to begin working...
Many thanks to AIA Seattle for hosting a continuing education seminar last month which featured 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 SHORELINE. COMP PLAN UPDATE Shoreline’s draft comprehensive plan and draft EIS documents are headed to Planning Commission on October 24, 2024 for review. After that, City Council ideally has the documents in their hands sometime in later November....
Construction began this week on our first cottage housing project in Kirkland. Located a few blocks from downtown Kirkland, the 11th Avenue Cottages are creating two new homes and remodeling a third on an existing site. Kirkland’s cottage housing allowances already largely follow the forthcoming middle housing code changes and intent, so Grouparchitect for one is anxious to see where the final code language falls to see what’s next in the city for higher density residential projects like this one. ...
Our newest multifamily project in Redmond, CRU at Willows, just earned its Built Green 4-Star rating in September 2024. Many thanks to the design and construction team on this project for all their hard work. CRU is now open and leasing units, with commercial tenants already in design and permitting. More updates To learn more about Built Green follow the link below! https://www.builtgreen.net/about/#mission...
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...
Welcome to September! 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 you on SEATTLE. Seattle is making progress on middle housing but also in other types of upzone changes as well. Many other areas besides Neighborhood Residential will be updated for new zoning types and designations, so...
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...
