23.42.057

Low-income housing must meet the development standards for the zone in which it is located except as follows: A. Requests for waivers or modifications. The Director may consider requests for waivers or modifications from the following development standards in this Title 23 : 1. Requirements for the size of parking spaces; 2. Requirements for ratios of vehicle parking sizes; 3. Requirements for overhead weather protection; 4. Requirements for facade openings, articulation, and modulation on the facades of buildings except limitations on structure width may not be waived or modified; 5. Requirements for the size and design of common recreational areas, amenity areas, community rooms, or similar indoor amenities; 6. Requirements for outdoor open space and amenity areas; 7. Requirements related to residential uses, transparency, blank facades, and floor-to-floor height at street level; and 8. Other similar physical development standards as determined by the Director that do not increase the size of the building envelope. B. Waiver or modification decision. Requests for waivers or modifications shall be evaluated by the Director, in consultation with the Office of Housing and may be granted by the Director as a Type I decision if the waiver or modification would facilitate development of low-income housing. C. Community engagement and relations. For permanent supportive housing, the applicant shall submit a draft community relations plan in a form acceptable to the Director and the Director of Housing. The draft community relations plan shall describe the overall community engagement and communication strategy throughout the project's pre-development, design, construction, and operation phases. In addition to compliance with the draft community relations plan, the applicant must hold at least one community meeting in-person, or virtually in the event of an emergency that makes in-person meetings impracticable as declared by the Mayor. Virtual meetings may be offered to supplement in-person meetings. This meeting shall be exclusively about the project and the applicant must send notice of the meeting to neighbors at least within 500 feet of the site. D. Applicability. Low-income housing that vests according to Section 23.76.026 prior to August 14, 2023 may also request waivers and modifications as authorized by this Section 23.42.057 and the provisions of the zone. (Ord. 126855 , § 6, 2023; Ord. 126684 , § 3, 2022; Ord. 126287 , § 2, 2021)