Given the choice, I wouldn't want to live in a single-family home next to a stack box multi-family home. All of a sudden my 6' privacy fence needs to be 30' tall and the street is littered with fights over tight on-street parking. No thanks.

>Only one vehicle per SSN. That would help with climate change and reduce roadway wear and tear right?

Why does it matter how many vehicles a single person owns? Only one of those vehicles can be on the road at a time.

And what's wrong with that? What's wrong with regulating to ensure that everyone has the ability to live?

They have adhd, dyslexia and covid how tf are they going to read all of that

Law allow 1 big house become 6 small house. Some 1 big house owners no want 6 small house next door and it makes them cry.

You would think, but there have been too many new people moving into Washington over the past 15 years and construction just did not keep up. I think we are way behind. I joke, but we really just need large scale Soviet era apartments built (and rented at fair rates) just to offer affordable housing and to our citizens.

I doubt it would pass though. Lots of nimbys out here

There is literally NOTHING stopping Seattle upzoning itself. Spokane did. Seattle CC could hold a vote and zone the entire city SM500 (seattle mixed 500 foot) today.

If many developers build apartments, the price comes down. It doesn’t matter what the developers want lol

They'll try every year until it passes.

There is nothing stopping Seattle upzoning itself like Spokane did. About 5 cities in WA have significantly upzoned already.

They can't move further out. There is an urban growth boundary. Long term, this is the end of SFHs.

Yeah, developers love building cheap apartments /s

Urban growth boundaries. The metro cannot expand, so as the suburbs are flipped for 4/6plexes - it goes away.

Probably the space.

I feel like a lot of people have a misconception about this headline.

It’s not banning single family homes.

It’s banning exclusionary zoning. You can still have single family homes, but you will also be able to build other things as well on that land you own.

Your home isn’t getting fucking outlawed dude.

Why do you think that people are going to build apartment complexes that don’t get rented out? That’s not how things generally work. They develop these things because they are in demand and make money.

It’s highly in demand to have more, cheaper, rentals available in cities, to provide for more people. There will be 5 people moving in for every person moving out because they just really wanted a single family home.

Single family zoning is literally just government authoritarianism. Let markets decide how they want to build housing. If you don’t want to live in an apartment you don’t have to, but you also don’t get to dictate how other people use the land beyond reasonable health and safety restrictions (I.e. limiting pollution and heavy industry). That’s how it should be.

Wouldn’t this be the developers’ problem? Doesn’t seem like something the state needs to worry about

Yes we should never do anything

It’ll probably increase the cost of houses in Seattle but decrease the costs of apartments and condos. Not really a bad thing unless you reeeeeally want to buy a house in Seattle.

Why would developers be opposed to mixed use?

In all fairness the Venn diagram of people who can get by without a car because they can walk on errands, take transit or bike but also can’t live in a multi story house is pretty small.

it wont, it will be more apartment complexes to feed the tax machine

It makes sense for seattle. There’s no reason why anyone should be banned from buying a single family home there, tearing it down and building multifamily developments with the demand for homes we have here.

Adding that I’m a homeowner here and a lot of the city looks like Shoreline or Edmonds

I hope this goes through this year. It's a good first start.