Council to Pass MIZ Framework In Spite of New Legal Concerns
Later this morning, the Seattle City Council will take one step closer to imposing a full fledged Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) policy requiring fees or inclusion of price controlled housing units with all new construction. Along with the many arguments we’ve made against the proposal there is an additional one: the City Council is acting […]
Herbold’s New Red Line: Why Make it Harder to Build in Poor Neighborhoods?
Councilmember Lisa Herbold’s amendment to the framework for Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning sends a bizarre signal to the housing market: don’t build housing in poor neighborhoods. We’ve already said over and over again that Mandatory Incentive Zoning (MIZ) adds costs and delays to the production of housing with fees and inclusion requirements. Those costs, imposed to create […]
City Council 1, Grand Bargain 0: Update on Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning
Today the Planning, Land Use, and Zoning (PLUZ) Committee passed 11 amendments to the Mayor’s proposed framework for Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning. I’m not going to get into the technical details of all the amendments but the most significant one passed by the Committee was one that created a big dust up earlier this week. Herbold’s said in […]
