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Ordinance No. Page 17 of 25 §18.86.060 Findings and decision. A. Findings. The written decision regarding a request for reasonable accommodation will be consistent with the Fair Housing Laws and shall be based on consideration of the following factors: 1. Whether the housing, which is the subject of the request, will be used by an individual disabled under the Fair Housing Laws. 2. Whether the request for reasonable accommodation is necessary to make specific housing available to an individual with a disability under the Fair Housing Laws. 3. Whether the requested reasonable accommodation would impose an undue financial or administrative burden on the city. 4. Whether the requested reasonable accommodation would require a fundamental alteration in the nature of a city program or law, including, but not limited to, land use and zoning. 5. Potential impact on surrounding uses. 46. Physical attributes of the property and structures. 57. Alternative reasonable accommodations which may provide an equivalent level of benefit. B. Conditions of Approval. In granting a request for reasonable accommodation, the reviewing authority may impose any conditions of approval deemed reasonable and necessary to ensure that the reasonable accommodation would comply with the findings required by subsection A. Amend §18.106.040 as follows: §18.106.040 Standards for attached accessory dwelling units—Height limitations, setbacks, open space, and other regulations. Attached accessory dwelling units shall meet the requirements in Section 18.106.060 of this chapter and the following requirements: A. Attached accessory dwelling units shall not exceed 2516 feet in height except when the accessory dwelling unit is the result of the conversion of existing space or accessory dwelling units are proposed as part of a new planned unit development. Except for an attached accessory dwelling unit that meets the Statewide Exemption Accessory Dwelling Unit Standards in Section 18.106.020, attached accessory dwelling units shall be subject to the minimum front, rear, and side yard requirements of the main structure as identified in Chapter 18.84, including requirements prescribed in Section 18.84.100. Only in instances when complying with the front yard setback for the main structure precludes an accessory dwelling unit shall the accessory dwelling unit be permitted to encroach into the front yard setback but this encroachment shall be limited only to the extent necessary to accommodate the accessory dwelling unit. No setbacks are required for a legally existing living area that is converted to an accessory dwelling unit or to a portion of an accessory dwelling unit. Height of the attached accessory dwelling unit is measured vertically from the average elevation of the natural grade or finished grade, whichever is lower, of the ground covered by the accessory dwelling unit to the highest point of the structure including parapet or to the coping of a flat roof, to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the mean height between eaves and ridges for a hip, gable, or gambrel roof. Accessory dwelling units are limited to two stories. An accessory dwelling unit proposed on the second story shall not exceed 2516 feet in height and shall meet the objective standards for second-story accessory dwelling units identified in Section 18.106.060(C)(2). B. The gross floor area of an attached accessory dwelling unit shall not exceed 50 percent of the gross floor area of the existing main dwelling unit, with a maximum increase in floor Page 27 of 559