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4: Co-Living Housing (RCW 36.70A.535) Cities and counties planning under the Growth Management Act are required to adopt development regulations allowing co-living as a permitted use on any lot located within an urban growth area that allows at least six multifamily residential units, including a lot zoned for mixed-use development. The bill provides standards for unit size, parking, density, fees, and other development regulations. For context: "Co-living housing" means a residential development with sleeping units that are independently rented and lockable and provide living and sleeping space, and residents share kitchen facilities with other sleeping units in the building. Local governments may use other names to refer to co-living housing including, but not limited to, congregate living facilities, single room occupancy, rooming house, boarding house, lodging house, and residential suites. RCW 36.70A.535 "Sleeping unit" is defined in the International Building Code as "A single unit that provides rooms or spaces for one or more persons, includes permanent provisions for sleeping and can include provisions for living, eating and either sanitation or kitchen facilities but not both." Proposed Change (Summarized): • Revise boarding houses as "co-living housing"to link to statutory definition. • Add "Boarding house" definition to apply to 17.08. • Permit boarding houses/co-living housing in Table 17.15.080. • Adjust the definition of adult family home and community residential facility to clearly define as group care facility which is held to laws under 72.05.020 and cannot be regulated the same as co-living. • Add footnote exceptions around calculating density for co-living housing to table 17.15.080. • Add footnote clarification that minimum sizes or mix of sizes for co-living is not required to table 17.15.080. • Add footnote limitations to parking requirements for co-living housing (County may not require more than .25 parking stalls per sleeping unit)to table 17.15.080. Code Change "Boarding houses, lodging houses, sororities, fraternities"type of co-living housing, means an establishment with lodging for five or more persons on a weekly or longer basis with a central kitchen and dining area maintained exclusively for residents and their guests. Allow boarding houses as permitted in the following zones: Residential, Urban Residential, Historic Trailer Court, Agricultural 3, Rural 3, Rural 5 in the Urban Land Use Table. Add footnotes to Table 17.15.080 Allowed uses in urban lands. 53. Boarding House (Co-Living)the following exceptions shall apply: a. No room dimensional standards are required beyond what is required under building code. b. Co-living parking requirement is 0.25 off-street parking spaces per sleeping unit. c. Density calculation for co-living spaces is one-quarter of a dwelling unit for every sleeping unit.