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MRSC Index Housing - Cottage housing
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Housing: HO 4.7000 - Cottage housing
Electronic Documents (11 Results)
- Cottage housing white paper
Other Gov Doc | Document Date: 12/07
Jurisdiction: Bainbridge Island - The Right Size Home - Housing Innovation in Washington. The Housing Partnership
Article | Document Date: nd - Ordinance No. 558 - Demonstration ordinance which allows development of a limited number of projects that demonstrate innovative housing choices, including cottage housing
Ordinance | Document Date: 9/09
Jurisdiction: University Place - Ordinance No. 08-101 - Repeals and amends sections of
and adds sections to Title 30, urban residential design standards, including standards for residential development, cottage housing, roads and landscaping
Ordinance | Document Date: 1/09
Jurisdiction: Snohomish County - Ordinance 2742 - Adds Sections 19.14.040 and 19.05.120, cottage housing developments
Ordinance | Document Date: 6/08
Jurisdiction: Marysville - Ordinance No. 4120 - Adds Ch. 113, cottage, carriage, and two/three unit homes to zoning code
Ordinance | Document Date: 12/07
Jurisdiction: Kirkland - Ordinance Nos. 321, 362, 371, 408, and 362 - Provides for (and repeals) amendments to the development code related to cottage housing bonus densities between March 2003 and February 2006. Standards intended to require integration of new cottage housing in residential development would not create ahigh quality development necessary to compliment Shoreline's lowest density residential neighborhoods
Ordinance | Document Date: 03/03
Jurisdiction: Shoreline - Resolution No. 2006-068 - Supports incentives for accessory residences, including cottages and carriage houses
Ordinance | Document Date: 10/06
Jurisdiction: Whatcom County - Ordinance No. 06-533 - Cottage and compact single family housing
Ordinance | Document Date: 9/06
Jurisdiction: Federal Way - Cottage Housing Development
Other Gov Doc
Jurisdiction: Seattle - Cottage Housing in Your Community: A guide to drafting a cottage housing ordinance
Other Gov Doc
Jurisdiction: Seattle
Paper Documents (3 Results)
- Ordinance No. 1101 amends permitted use matrix to allow cottage housing and mixed-use developments
Request this document | Document Date: 04/04
Jurisdiction: Mukilteo - "Minimum space, maximum use: Ravenna Cottages make less seem like more," by Sam Bennett. Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, February 21, 2001, p.3
Request this document | Document Date: 02/01 - "Cottage Housing Developments," APA Conference Session. September 2002.
Request this document | Document Date: 09/02
MRSC Library Catalog Documents
Featured Inquiries (2 Results)
- Request for sample ordinances and information on innovative single-family infill development
Sample ordinances and information on innovative single-family infill development are availabe on the following MRSC web pages:
- Infill Development: Completing the Community Fabric
- Alternative Single-Family Development (scroll to section)
- Innovative Housing Demo Programs (scroll to section)
- Cottage Housing
- Request for information about other jurisdictions that have developed standards for cottage housing
Information about and examples of cottage housing ordinances are posted on MRSC's Cottage Housing webpage.
Subject Pages (1 Results)
- Cottage Housing
This page contains information about Cottage Housing which is generally defined as a grouping of small, single family dwelling units clustered around a common area and developed with a coherent plan for the entire site

