Background

City of Spokane adopted a cottage housing ordinance in 2006 with the intent to support diversity of housing, increase variety of housing types for smaller households and provide the opportunity for small, detached single-family dwelling units within existing neighborhoods. Due to developer/property owner suggestions for improvements combined with the knowledge that no cottage housing projects have been built and only two applications have been filed, it seemed apparent changes were needed. The Infill Housing Task Force was formed in December of 2008 to review existing cottage and single family regulations to determine the type of amendments that would be needed in order to encourage/enable development.

Updated Document August 24, 2009 & Presentation July 27, 2009

Infill Housing Policy Support (318 KB) posted September 9, 2009