Residential Density Credits and the Old Woodinville Schoolhouse at Tuesday's Council Meeting

The Woodinville City Council will continue to discuss housing density per lot and the city's zoning codes at the Tuesday, April 9 meeting at 7 p.m. at City Hall.

Currently, Woodinville’s municipal code allows developers to put more houses than the R-1 zone allows, with subdivision approval, but the city has never stated the exact minimum size for a residential lot in R-1, the public hearing is to consider Ordinance 532 which attempts to define lot size. The council currently  in order to pass an ordinance defining minimum lot size.

Many residents, particularly people living in the rural Wellington neighborhood () are concerned that the new ordinance does not go far enough in protecting R-1 which is usually thought of to be one house per one acre, which characterizes most of Wellington. Many of the residents, who spoke at the March 13 council meeting when the public hearing was first opened, said there were loopholes in the new law that could allow for single family house lots to be as small as 12,000 square feet (an acre is 43,560 feet).

The council will also review three proposals to renovate the Old Woodinville Schoolhouse. The council unanimously decided in May, 2011, to allow the marketplace to decide what should be done with one of Woodinville's few remaining historic buildings (). The council must decide what type of renovation it wants before a call for proposals can be released to the marketplace. It will be presented with three possible renovation plans at the meeting (see PDF).

See the entire agenda here.