Participate in Public Hearing on HB 1110 in Final Senate Committee Friday 3/31. Your Voice Matters!

E2SHB 1110 Middle Housing is scheduled for a Public Hearing in the Senate Ways & Means Committee this Friday 3/31 at 12:30 p.m.

If you live in Woodway you are included in this bill as well as Edmonds. 

This bill REQUIRES all single-family lots to allow at least 2 units and single-family lots 1/2 mile from Hwy 99 transit and the Downtown Edmonds train station to allow at least 4 units.

Take a quick minute to comment CON on HB 1110 now and pass it on. 

This final Senate Committee has many Senators opposed to HB 1110. Please give them support!

Take one minute to vote CON – here is the easy link to do that:

VOTE CON link

Select: “I would like my position noted” to sign in with CON. 

• Fill in your information (street address not necessary)
• Check “I’m not a robot” and click “Submit Registration”

An email is great help to include information they look at to decide their vote:

EMAIL COMMENT link.

Select “I would like to submit written testimony”.   

If you need help with talking points here are some you could use along with your own thoughts:

• E2SHB 1110 is a developer-friendly bill that will allow random, uncontrolled, and virtually unlimited building in traditional single-family neighborhoods.                                                                                                                  
• E2SHB 1110 will allow at least 2 to 4 housing units in place of one on a lot. Our aged and stressed infrastructure will be unfunded to support this outsized increase.
• E2SHB 1110 limits required off-street parking to between zero and two spaces per housing unit, depending on lot size and location. This will force possibly half of vehicles in residential areas off private lots and into the streets, many without safe sidewalks.
•  E2SHB 1110 ignores local planning and conditions. Blanket state-coerced up-zoning is not a reasonable solution to housing affordability nor to sustainable density.
• E2SHB 1110 will cause significant loss of tree canopy and increase impervious surfaces.
• E2SHB 1110 will cause displacement, especially affecting BIPOC, low-income, fixed-income, and elderly people, due to increases in tax assessment because assessed valuations are based on the development potential of a lot, not actual use.
• E2SHB 1110 fails to exempt all national and state residential historic districts, which will be irretrievably eroded and lost under its provisions.
• E2SHB 1110 preempts planning at county and city levels expected to be done in accordance with the Growth Management Act and their Comprehensive Plans. 
• E2SHB 1110 will stack upon the remaining housing bills under consideration with no coordination of compounding effects. E2SHB 1110 with additional ADU/DADU bills could double or triple each unit further.

Thank you for staying engaged to keep zoning and land use decisions here in Edmonds, not Olympia.