Tell (H) Housing Members, You Support SB 5466
This Monday, the Senate Transportation Committee will consider SB 5466, a bill that will create a "housing gap voucher pilot program. Tell legislators we can solve the housing crisis with solutions that make it easier to build housing and increase supply.
This bill:
- Establishes that cities planning under the Growth Management Act (GMA) may not enact or enforce any new development regulation within a station area or station hub that prohibits the siting of multifamily residential housing on parcels where any other residential use is permissible, with some exceptions.
- Establishes that cities planning under the GMA may not enact or enforce any new development regulation within a station area or station hub that imposes a maximum floor area ratio of less than the applicable transit oriented density for any use otherwise permitted, or imposes a maximum residential density, measured in residential units per acre or other metric of land area.
- Provides that, to encourage transit-oriented development and transit use and resulting substantial environmental benefits, counties and cities planning under GMA may not require off-street parking as a condition of permitting development within a station area.
- Requires the Department of Transportation to provide technical assistance and establish grant programs.
- Expands the categorical exemption for infill development to facilitate the timely and certain deployment of sustainable transit-oriented development.
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