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page 2 12/21/2020 In 2019, the Washington State Legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1923, an Act relating to increasing urban residential building capacity. Now codified in the Growth Management Act (RCW 36.70A.600), the Act encouraged cities to take actions to increase its residential building capacity. This is the second background report to help facilitate the Housing Action Plan (Rethink Housing). The first report focused on review of development code provisions in the following areas: (a) Authorize development in one or more areas of not fewer than five hundred acres that include at least one train station served by commuter rail or light rail with an average of at least fifty residential units per acre that require no more than an average of one on-site parking space per two bedrooms in the portions of multifamily zones that are located within the areas; (b) Authorize development in one or more areas of not fewer than two hundred acres in cities with a population greater than forty thousand or not fewer than one hundred acres in cities with a population less than forty thousand that include at least one bus stop served by scheduled bus service of at least four times per hour for twelve or more hours per day with an average of at least twenty-five residential units per acre that require no more than an average of one on-site parking space per two bedrooms in portions of the multifamily zones that are located within the areas; (c) Authorize at least one duplex, triplex, quadplex, sixplex, stacked flat, townhouse, or courtyard apartment on each parcel in one or more zoning districts that permit single-family residences unless a city documents a specific infrastructure of physical constraint that would make this requirement unfeasible for a particular parcel; (e) Authorize cluster zoning or lot size averaging in all zoning districts that permit single-family residences; (h) Adopt increases in categorical exemptions pursuant to RCW 43.21C.229 for residential or mixed-use development; (j) Authorize a duplex on each corner lot within all zoning districts that permit single-family residences; (k) Allow for the division or redivision of land into the maximum number of lots through the short subdivision process provided in chapter 58.17 RCW; (l) Authorize a minimum net density of six dwelling units per acre in all residential zones, where the residential development capacity will increase within the city. For purposes of this subsection, the calculation of net density does not include the square footage of areas that are otherwise prohibited from development, such as critical areas, the area of buffers around critical areas, and the area of roads and similar features; Since that first report was written, the Everett City Council passed Rethink Zoning (www.everettwa.gov/rethink), which included several amendments that address the ESHB 1923 provisions above. The following summarizes what has been accomplished and what has been drafted to increase residential capacity in Everett.