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All tagged Middle Housing

Feb 15

Feb 15 Bingen Livability: City partners with architecture firm to establish middle housing

Ken Park

Business, Klickitat County, Home Page

The move is the first step in creating additional, land-efficient housing in the community as a shortage in housing stock has gripped the Gorge and the Pacific Northwest generally.

May 27

May 27 Residents appeal City of HR 'Middle Housing' decision

Columbia Community Connection

Hood River County

Five local residents are challenging the city of Hood River’s new “Middle Housing” zoning change, citing inadequate public notice. 800-square-foot cottages “may be used as vacation rentals--or sold to people who want a second home here. This is market-rate housing, it will not be the affordable housing Hood River needs.”

Mar 15

Mar 15 HR Council Talks to Increase Housing Density, March 15

Susan Crowley

Home Page, Hood River County

On Monday, March 15 at 7:00 p.m. the Hood River City Council will hold a Zoom public hearing on a proposal to increase the number of dwellings allowed on a single city lot to as many as four dwellings or 12 cottages.