The following uses in the LDR district require a conditional use permit or, where specifically required, a planned residential development approval from the city:
A. Adult day care home facilities serving more than six adults, which meet the following criteria in addition to the criteria found in chapter
18.48 SMC:
1. Meet Washington Association of Adult Day Centers adult day care guidelines;
2. Comply with all building, fire, safety, health code and business licensing requirements;
3. Conform to lot size, building size, setbacks, and lot requirements of this chapter except if the structure is a legal nonconforming structure;
4. Comply with the applicable provisions of the sign code of this title;
5. Make no structural or decorative alteration which will alter the single-family character of an existing or proposed residential structure which would make it incompatible with surrounding residences, if located in a residential structure;
C. Wireless communication facilities subject to the standards of chapter
18.37 SMC;
E. Churches, convents, monasteries and other religious institutions, and associated accessory structures including, but not limited to, assembly rooms, kitchen, library room or reading room, nurseries, recreation hall, adult day care, child day care, Sunday school rooms, private primary and secondary school facilities, and a one-family dwelling unit for use by church officials. In addition to meeting the criteria of chapter
18.48 SMC, new accessory one-family dwelling units shall be placed on site with sufficient distance between structures and in a manner that would allow for future subdivisions that would result in separate lots for the dwelling and church;
F. Major utility facilities;
G. Manufactured housing development:
1. Manufactured home parks subject to chapter
18.34 SMC; and
2. Manufactured housing subdivisions subject to SMC Title 17;
H. Mass transit systems including, but not limited to, bus stations, train stations, transit shelter stations, and park-and-ride lots;
I. Mineral extraction uses (see performance standards per SMC §
18.12.080(Q));
K. Public and private educational institutions, including preschools, schools, religious schools, colleges and universities;
L. Public parks and public recreation facilities;
M. Assisted, Senior and Affordable Housing.
1. Assisted living facilities, board and care homes, hospices or nursing homes that meet building height and other standards in the zone require a conditional use permit;
2. Multifamily senior housing, including retirement homes, senior apartments and continuing care communities may be allowed only through a planned residential development, pursuant to chapter
18.24 SMC;
3. Affordable multifamily housing on properties owned by a religious organization may be allowed only through a planned residential development, pursuant to chapter
18.24 SMC;
O. Water towers and water supply plants;
Q. Temporary homeless encampments in accordance with SMC §
18.36.060; and
S. Permanent supportive housing that exceeds two dwellings on any one lot, subject to the performance standards in SMC §
18.12.080(R); and
T. Transitional housing that exceeds two dwellings on any one lot, subject to the performance standards in SMC §
18.12.080(R);
U. Behavioral health facility, inpatient;
V. Opioid treatment program, mobile unit; and
W. Essential public facilities not otherwise listed above.
(Ord. 1694 § 1, 1995; Ord. 2051 § 1, 2003; Ord. 1830 § 18, 1998; Ord. 2134 § 7, 2005; Ord. 2135 § 4 (part), 2005; Ord. 2147 § 4, 2005; Ord. 2499 § 2, 2014; Ord. 2615 § 5, 2017; Ord. 2642 § 2, 2018; Ord. 2737 § 6, 2020; Ord. 2794 § 7, 2021; Ord. 2812 § 7, 2022; Ord. 2878 § 22, 2024; Ord. 2907 § 4, 2025)