{"id":5,"date":"2025-03-13T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2025-03-21T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T21:34:24","slug":"middle-housing-changes-for-bellevue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Middle Housing changes for Bellevue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bellevue may go far beyond the requirement in HB 1110 and 1337<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>HB 1110 requires that Bellevue make rules to allow 4-6 units on each single family lot in Bellevue&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>HB 1337 allows each lot to have up to two ADUs (which count toward that total)&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>On February 24th, Bellevue planners released a draft that would allow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 middle housing units + 2 ADUs = 6 housing units<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 middle housing units + 2 ADUs = 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 middle housing units + 2 ADUs = 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other differences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No exceptions for Critical Areas\/Shoreline, though these could reduce building size <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonus FAR for multifamily and reduced FAR for SFH&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Setbacks,&nbsp; impermeable %,&nbsp;and lot coverage adjustments<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-housing\/boarding houses in much of the city&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possibly 8-10 units near neighborhood centers, tbd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADUs are allowed to be 1200 square feet in the draft, but it looks like that will be increased to allow three-bedroom houses to count as ADUs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellevue may go far beyond the requirement in HB 1110 and 1337 HB 1110 requires that Bellevue make rules to allow 4-6 units on each single family lot in Bellevue&nbsp; HB 1337 allows each lot to have up to two ADUs (which count toward that total)&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbellevue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}