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A. Standards. Inclusionary units must meet the following standards:

1. Inclusionary units shall be dispersed throughout the residential development projects to prevent a concentration of affordable units within the development project.

2. Inclusionary units shall be consistent with the design of market rate units in terms of exterior appearance, materials, and finished quality.

3. The applicant may reduce square footage of inclusionary units as compared to the market rate units as long as the minimum square footage of the affordable units is no less than seventy-five percent of the average size of all market rate units in the residential development project with the same bedroom count. For the purpose of this subsection, the “average size” of a unit with a certain bedroom count equals the total square footage of all market rate units with that bedroom count in the residential development project divided by the total number of market rate units with the same bedroom count in the residential development project.

4. For residential development projects with multiple market rate unit types containing differing numbers of bedrooms, inclusionary units shall be representative of the market rate unit mix. For example, a for-sale residential project includes fifty dwelling units; ten three-bedroom units, twenty two-bedroom units, and twenty one-bedroom units. To represent the units within the residential project, the five required inclusionary units would be one three-bedroom, two two-bedrooms and two one-bedrooms.

5. The required inclusionary units shall be constructed concurrently with market rate units, unless an alternative development schedule is otherwise stipulated by the applicable review authority of the residential development project.

6. Inclusionary units shall be subject to the city’s and/or the administrator’s fee schedule in accordance with Section 17.138.110. (Ord. 1719 § 3, 2022)