Shorelines legalizes ‘cottage housing’ clusters north of Seattle

By  Daniel Beekman  Seattle Times staff reporter A new type of housing will be allowed to sprout in Shoreline from now on, though officials aren’t sure whether many developments will actually be built under the city’s new rules. The Shoreline City Council voted Monday to legalize “cottage housing” in low-density zones that are currently dominated by suburban-style

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Seattleites support denser housing, but only up to a point, survey finds

By Neetish Basnet  –  Data reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Jun 4, 2023 Updated Jun 5, 2023, 2:54pm PDT More than 80% of Seattle metro area homeowners and renters support building denser housing in their neighborhoods, according to new Zillow research. However, their support is conditional. 2023 SUBSCRIBER STUDY Improve Your Experience By Taking A Short Survey Share your feedback

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Weekly Update: 03/12/2023

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Last City Council Meeting featured two housing issues. Orcas. An essay on how we got into the mess we're in with the airport, which is really another land use issue, why we continue to handle it incorrectly... and something about casinos? :D Why I'm on the fence about HB1110 and multi-family housing....

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King County needs 17K new homes every year to address housing shortage

Homes are seen along the east side of Beacon Hill in Seattle. King Co. needs 17K new homes every year to address housing shortage. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times, 2022) By  Heidi Groover  Seattle Times business reporter Just how much new construction is necessary to meet our region’s housing shortage? King County would need

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The battle is on to increase housing supply; we’ll see if it works

Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood with the Magnolia neighborhood in the distance as seen from the Space Needle. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times, 2021) By Jon Talton Columnist This may be the year of aggressive efforts to increase the housing supply in Washington and Seattle. A total of 13 bills are moving through the Legislature

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Weekly Update: 03/30/2020

This Week Late again! Same excuse as last week: waiting for information.  This time I’ve been waiting for details on the City’s new ‘Joint Emergency Operations Center’, which I just found out I’ll be touring on Friday. More below. You may have noticed that I’ve cobbled together two new links on the home page. Coro’na

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