Crushing suburbia? Washington state could end single-family zoning
Washington could join fellow West Coast states Oregon and California in legalizing zoning for multifamily dwellings statewide as part of a legislative agenda on housing policies recently announced by Gov. Jay Inslee.
The governor’s policy brief says that the housing supply has failed to keep pace with the population growth over the last two decades because many municipalities only allow single-family houses to be built.
“Despite the dire need for additional housing stock and a greater variety of housing types, we continued to build low-density, detached residential homes and units at about double the rate of other high-density housing types,” according to the plan’s outline. – READ MORE
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