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Urban Waterfront-Housing Zone – Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (rezone from Urban
Olympia Community Planning and Development, Advance Planning and Historic Preservation
Analysis of proposed new housing zone for the Council consideration in order to assure that housing will develop on the blocks identified by previous City studies.

The analysis for the proposed new zone includes comprehensive plan, development regulation and design guideline amendments (based on previous studies). The amendment process included a request for a shoreline master program amendment to allow development of feasible buildings on the portions of property within 200 feet of the shoreline (Budd Inlet and Capitol Lake). The City approved a five block Urban Waterfront-Housing area and the Shoreline Amendments were approved by the City and State Department of Ecology. The new zone allows the equivalent of one floor of commercial with the remainder of the height required to be housing (five or six stories can be developed on four of the blocks, and up do seven stories on one block.)

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Featured Case Study

Poulsbo Place
The Poulsbo Place Cottages are the first phase of a 34- acre mixed-use development. This first phase of this 164-unit development consists of 45 cottage homes at a net density of 14.2 units per acre. The detached two- and three-bedroom homes range in size from 870 to 1265 gross square feet...
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