Snohomish County Explores Higher Lot Coverage Allowances in Medium Density Zones for Housing
Land use reform in Snohomish County could bring increased lot coverage to multifamily and commercial zones in unincorporated urban growth areas. Increasing the development standards in those zones would enable more housing to be built in areas of the county that have been in particularly high demand in the past decade. County planners principally hope that the code amendments will solve lot coverage mismatches between zoning types, allow more flexible building and site design, and help development proposals reasonably achieve allowed zoning densities. Under a proposal endorsed by the planning...
Source: theurbanist.org