Seattle can continue housing plan after legal challenges dismissed

What happens now  

At an April 16 Comprehensive Plan Committee meeting, Councilmembers took their first look at the interim missing-middle zoning legislation. The interim legislation will meet the basic requirements of the state law, while the permanent version proposed in the comp plan allows for more density.  

Per state law, the bill would allow two to six units of housing to be built on lots that traditionally allowed only stand-alone single-family homes, currently called neighborhood residential zones. Neighborhood residential zoning accounts for nearly three-quarters of all the land in Seattle where housing can be built.  

State law allows up to four units to be built on any lot that

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