BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

SB 5555: Zoning regulations

Concerning zoning regulations in commercial, retail, and mixed-use areas in cities and code cities.

Summary

Requires planning cities to allow the addition of housing units in ground floor commercial or retail in a station area that is not designated as a major pedestrian corridor.
Stipulates that planning cities may not designate more than 10 percent of its area zoned as mixed-use or commercial as a major pedestrian corridor.
Requires planning cities to allow an expedited ability for a development to deviate from any street level use standards based on a showing that the requirement would result in the creation of fewer housing units in the development.
Requires cities to adopt zoning regulations that allow for greater building height and increased density in all commercial and mixed-use zones for developments built with all mass timber products.

From the Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SB 5555), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to zoning regulations in commercial, retail, and mixed-use areas in cities and code cities;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

SB 5555 (2023–24) Certified peer specialists · Enacted with partial veto · Chapter 469, Laws of 2023
SB 5555 (2021–22) Safety telecommunicators · Enacted · Chapter 286, Laws of 2022
SB 5555 (2019–20) Solar energy components · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5555 (2017–18) Wage and salary information · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5555 (2015–16) Irrigation distrct authority · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 5555 (2013–14) Space heating · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5555 (2011–12) Water rights transfers · Enacted · Chapter 112, Laws of 2011
SB 5555 (2009–10) Lifelong learning accounts · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House