I have the following petition which mentions Downtown; if you would like to sign the petition for a different area, you can also email hello@newbellevue.com to add your name and just say which area you’re from. This petition only talks about the Co-Living that would be allowed on single family lots in areas that are 1/4 mile walk around Downtown and the countywide growth centers (scroll down for maps). People who live in the directly affected areas are likely to want to sign and people who live within a couple blocks may also be affected by overflow parking and potentially reduced emergency vehicle access. If you have opinions about whether it is a good idea for Bellevue to allow 8 units in the place of every single family house and/or to make “cottage” rules to pave over Bridle Trails with 26 or more cottages per acre, please email council@bellevuewa.gov about those things separately.
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Petition: Bellevue is proposing Middle Housing changes exceeding the requirements of HB 1110, with impacts for our neighborhood that are temporarily unclear. Areas that allow six units per lot will soon have Co-living as required by HB 1998, but the rules for Co-living have not yet been determined for Bellevue (they will be defined in the second half of this year). Given this uncertainty, we would request that you avoid imposing Co-living in areas where the state does not require it. Some options would include:
- Not adding by-right density in areas that are ¼ mile walk to Downtown (the state requirement in these areas is only four units total)
- Creating a $1 fee so that the “by-right” number of units is no more than four plus two ADUs, while not preventing the addition of greater middle housing density.
- Using the Model Ordinance provided by the state so that only four middle housing units and two ADUs are allowed in this area.
Please email hello@newbellevue.com to add your name (you can specify which of the options above you prefer, if any).
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Below are some maps that show blue bubbles for the potentially affected areas; they include the larger 1/2 mile walk around Major Transit that was reduced to the state requirement of 1/4 mile walk in the May 10th council meeting.
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