HB 5613: Development of clear and objective standards, conditions, and procedures for residential development to prevent sloppy standards from enabling frivolous legal challenges and fight back against unreasonable permit denials.

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HB 1491, to support transit-oriented development.

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• Five Flaws That Would Destine WA’s TOD Bills to Backfire

• To Fix Inclusionary Zoning, Fund It

HB 1183:  Goodie bag bill! Small elevators, facade modulation, upper-level setbacks, and more improvements to boost homebuilding.

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SB 5509: Childcare center siting.

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HB 1217 Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.

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SB 5156: A small elevator is better than no elevator. For buildings in which elevators are not required—like a small apartment building—an elevator can be smaller than gigantic ones normally required. Small elevators are common in other countries, and they improve accessibility for residents, including the growing population of older adults in the US. 

Stephen Jacob Smith, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Center for Building in North America, discussed the issue expertly on the Missing Middle podcast last summer, and wrote a guest essay for the New York Times about it. 

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• Five Reasons Four-Story Apartment Buildings Are Good

• Sunlight Suites: A Simple Change Could Unlock These Beautiful Homes (Photos) 

HB 1576: Require owner consent for historic landmark designation.

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HB 1096, to allow lot splitting. Sign in pro, submit written testimony, or register to testify in person or remotely. 

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• Washington Lot Split Bills Would Create Starter Homes, Support Community Stability

HB 1491, to support transit-oriented development. Sign in pro, submit written testimony, or register to testify in person or remotely. 

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• Five Flaws That Would Destine WA’s TOD Bills to Backfire

• To Fix Inclusionary Zoning, Fund It

HB 1757, to relax energy standards for building conversions. Sign in pro, submit written testimony, or register to testify in person or remotely. 

SB 5184, to free Washington communities from parking mandates—and the excess cost, red tape, asphalt, and pollution they bring with them—has a hearing in the House Committee on Local Government at 10:30 AM. Sign in pro, submit written testimony, or register to testify in person or remotely. 

Read more about it here.

Learn more:

• Washington Bill Would Cap Excessive Parking Mandates Around the State

• Washington’s Most Parking-Burdened Towns and Cities

• Report: The State of Parking Mandates in Washington

HB 1135, to ensure accountability for cities and towns to build more homes, in alignment with Growth Management Act plans, has a hearing in the Senate Committee on Local Government at 1:30 PM. Sign in pro, submit written testimony, or register to testify in person or remotely.

HB 1183:  Goodie bag bill! Small elevators, facade modulation, upper-level setbacks, and more improvements to boost homebuilding.

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SB 5148: Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.

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SB 5604: Promoting transit-oriented development.

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HB 5613: Development of clear and objective standards, conditions, and procedures for residential development to prevent sloppy standards from enabling frivolous legal challenges and fight back against unreasonable permit denials.

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• I would like my position noted for the legislative record

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HB 1576: Require owner consent for historic landmark designation.

Read more about it here.

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HB 1299: Parking reform unlocks more homes and great neighborhoods, while cutting red tape and excess asphalt, sprawl, and pollution.

Read more about it here.

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SB 5554: Require owner consent for historic landmark designation.

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SB 5148: Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.

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SB 5184: The bill would cap how many parking spots local governments can require for new homes and commercial buildings, and give full parking flexibility to a set of building types that need it the most.

Read more about it here.

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HB 1183:  Goodie bag bill! Small elevators, facade modulation, upper-level setbacks, and more improvements to boost homebuilding.

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• I would like my position noted for the legislative record

• I would like to submit written testimony

SB 5156: A small elevator is better than no elevator. For buildings in which elevators are not required—like a small apartment building—an elevator can be smaller than gigantic ones normally required. Small elevators are common in other countries, and they improve accessibility for residents, including the growing population of older adults in the US. 

Stephen Jacob Smith, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Center for Building in North America, discussed the issue expertly on the Missing Middle podcast last summer, and wrote a guest essay for the New York Times about it. 

• I would like to testify in person during the hearing

• I would like to testify remotely

• I would like my position noted for the legislative record

• I would like to submit written testimony

HB 1096 (WA's lot split bill) would create an administrative process to make it easy for typical homeowners to split their lots. Lot splitting is a key to community infill that offers anti-displacement “mortgage helpers” to homeowners and creates affordable smaller-lot starter homes.

Read a write-up of legalizing lot splitting here.

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Residential housing regulations – HB 2071

Feb 20 - Scheduled for executive session in the Senate Committee on Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs at 8:00 AM (Subject to change).

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Residential housing regulations – HB 2071

Feb 15 - Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs at 10:30 AM

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GMA housing element requirements – HB 2113

Feb 3 - Scheduled for executive session in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM

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Residential housing regulations – HB 2071

Feb 3 - Scheduled for executive session in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM (Subject to change)

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GMA housing element requirements – HB 2113

Feb 1 - Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM

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Residential housing regulations – HB 2071

Feb 1 - Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM (Subject to change)

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