Gov. Jay Inslee is pushing for a bill this legislative session that would alter single-family zoning requirements across many of the state’s major cities. Windermere Chief Economist Matthew Gardner — who sits on Inslee’s economic advisory council — spoke to KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross to explain what the proposal would look like in practice.
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Other cities and states have enacted legislation to do away with single-family zoning entirely. That includes Minneapolis, as well as all of Oregon and California. The bill being proposed by Inslee, though, is more limited in scope.
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