Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Updates to the Development Code

Here's an article from the West Seattle Herald that discusses some new updates to the city's zoning and development code. The city of Seattle forecasts 100,000 new residents in the next two decades. So one way they are planning on accommodating these future Seattlites is by allowing areas that are currently zoned multi-family to have an additional 5 feet in height of the structure built on the site.

This may not sound like much...but in a city that has no room to sprawl, every inch upward counts!

Read the full article here.

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