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ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY/CODE INTERPRETATION
ADMINISTRATIVE
POLICY/CODE
INTERPRETATION #: CI-141
MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTIONS: 4-10-060, Nonconforming Uses
REFERENCE: N/A
SUBJECT: Nonconforming Uses: Manufactured Home Parks and Detached Dwellings
BACKGROUND: RMC 4-10-060, Nonconforming Uses, provides standards for legally
established uses that are no longer allowed in the governing zone.
Currently, this section of RMC doesn’t address legally established
Manufactured Home Parks that are no longer zoned under the
Residential Manufactured Home Park zone, and are therefore
nonconforming uses.
Single-family houses that are nonconforming uses (i.e., located in any
zone other than RC through R-14) are provided an exception that allows
them to be “enlarged subject to current code requirements (e.g., height
limits, lot coverage, density limits, setbacks, parking, etc.).” However, in
order for a single-family house to be nonconforming as to use, it would
be located in the RMF (high-density multifamily) zone, an industrial zone,
or a commercial zone, which would allow it to be enlarged to the current
standards of those zones.
DECISION: A new provision will be added to RMC 4-10-060 that allows the
placement of a manufactured home on a previously approved
manufactured home park “lot,” regardless of current zoning.
Single-family houses (i.e., detached dwellings) nonconforming as to use
will be allowed to be enlarged based on the standards of the R-14 zone.
JUSTIFICATION: RCW 35A.21.312 requires code cities to allow the placement of
manufactured homes on previously approved manufactured home park
“lots.”
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Standards of the RMF, industrial or commercial zones are not suitable
when applied to single family houses. The R-14 zone is the least
restrictive of residential zones that allow detached dwellings.
ADMINISTRATOR
APPROVAL: _______________________________________
C. E. “Chip” Vincent
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 15, 2018
APPEAL
PROCESS: To appeal this determination, a written appeal--accompanied by the
required filing fee--must be filed with the City's Hearing Examiner (1055
South Grady Way, Renton, WA 98057, 425-430-6515) no more than 14
days from the date of this decision. Your submittal should explain the
basis for the appeal. Section 4-8-110 of the Renton Municipal Code
provides further information on the appeal process.
DISCLAIMER: Excerpts from the Renton Municipal Code shown below may not contain the most
recently codified text. In such instances, code amendments implemented through this
Administrative Code Interpretation shall be construed to affect the current code and past/future
Administrative Code Interpretations not yet codified in the same manner as shown below.
Should any conflicts result the Administrator shall determine the effective code.
CODE
AMENDMENTS
NEEDED TO
IMPLEMENT
DETERMINATIONS:
4-10-060 NONCONFORMING USES:
D. EXTENSION OR ENLARGEMENT:
This subsection shall not apply to single family dwellings, and the
property thereunder, that are nonconforming as to use, which may be
enlarged or altered subject to development standards and use provisions
of the R-14 zone current code requirements (e.g., height limits, lot
coverage, density limits, setbacks, parking, etc.).
H. MANUFACTURED HOMESRESERVED:
Nothing herein shall be determined to prohibit the installation of a
manufactured home on a previously approved manufactured home “lot,”
pursuant to RCW 35A.21.312, notwithstanding the applicability of RMC
provisions.
STAFF CONTACT: Paul Hintz, x7436