Seattle's roadmap for more housing options begins to take shape.
operates as a roadmap for how the city plans to expand jobs, housing, and transportation over the next 20-plus years, with updates planned by leaders over the next two years. As part of that process, Councilmember Tammy Morales led a community forum in late March focusing the growing need for denser housing, and what Seattle will need to do to address that.As Morales noted, “land use planning really is the most powerful tool that we have as a city.
The hope with the updated Comprehensive Plan is to design a “shared vision” for how Seattle can keep up with the ever-increasing demand for housing, particularly in a city where a large majority of areas are zoned for single-family homes. Without dramatic changes to that ratio, Seattle Planning Commissioner and architect Matt Hutchins warns that housing affordability could only be maintained with a significant increase in new homes.
That’s compounded by the fact that the city’s existing zoning does not allow for the basic infrastructure needed to build and maintain well-served, denser communities, VIA Architecture’s Dylan Glosecki described.
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