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House Bill 1110 and Shoreline

by Grouparchitect
House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Shoreline
November 26, 2024

Shoreline is now in Step 4 of the Shoreline 2044 Comprehensive Plan Update with last week’s presentation of the draft Comp Plan to the Planning Commission on November 21, 2024. You can view the entire staff presentation here, but below are some highlights. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN  Planning commission recommended the Shoreline 2044 draft plan for adoption by City Council by a vote of 5-0. The comp plan will now move on to City Council for voting likely at their next meeting in...

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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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Redmond Middle Housing Update – October 2024

by Grouparchitect
House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Redmond
October 15, 2024

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...

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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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House Bill 1110 and Bellevue Update – October 2024

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

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...

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House Bill 1110 and Shoreline Update – October 2024

by Grouparchitect
House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Shoreline
October 9, 2024

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....

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11th Avenue Cottages Break Ground in Kirkland

by Grouparchitect
House Bill 1110, Kirkland, Middle Housing, Multi-family
October 2, 2024

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.    ...

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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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One Seattle Plan and Middle Housing Update – September 2024

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family
September 14, 2024

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...

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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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