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Seattle Times on 2019-05-29 15:10

New ban on ‘McMansions’ would dramatically change Seattle’s house-building rules

The proposed limit would have blocked almost half the 3,700 new single-family houses constructed in Seattle since 2010, had it been on the books.

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