Cottage Housing Survey

What is Cottage Housing:
A type of housing that combines the privacy of single-family living, with the sense of community and amenities of dense living environments. Functionally, cottage housing is a group of homes built around a shared yard or park. This group of homes will have one area for parking and have pathways to the individual residences. Each residence has its own private open space or yard, and orientation of front doors are pointed towards the shared open space or the street.

Why are we working on this:
Cottage Housing is part of several goals in the comprehensive plan to increase housing affordability and access. Ten cities and towns in Pierce County currently have some form of cottage housing regulations. Cottage housing provides a unique combination of detached homeownership while creating smaller units within a compact urban form to allow for individual units to be profitable for developers.

1. Should we prioritize front-yard aesthetics or parking accessibility?

2. Should we require consolidated or separate parking?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

3. Select all of the options that you think should be allowed in the shared community space

4. How important is it that this type of development looks similar to your existing community?

Not Important

Neutral/Unsure

Very Important

5. How many units do you think should be allowed in a cottage development?
In other municipalities in Pierce County the number of units allowed range from 4-16. 4 units fit best on very small sites, and larger developments of 12-16 units would fit best on a larger plot with multiple smaller groupings of homes.

6. Do you own or rent?

7. What is your zip code?

8. How large is your home?