Do I need parking for an ADU in Shoreline?
✓ Verified against code · August 19, 2026
No — and not because of an ADU carve-out. Shoreline eliminated minimum vehicle parking requirements citywide in August 2025 (Ordinance 1043). Sources describing a one-space ADU requirement predate that repeal.
Citation: Ord 1043 §1
How current is this?
Shoreline’s ADU rules run under SMC 20.40.210 (Shoreline Municipal Code) (Ordinance 1027 (amended by Ord 1043)). Shoreline rewrote its ADU section in January 2025 (Ord 1027), then went further than the state ever asked in August 2025: Ordinance 1043 eliminated minimum vehicle parking requirements for everything, citywide. We verified this answer against primary sources on August 19, 2026, and every change we catch is logged in the changelog.
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Not legal advice — lot-specific overlays can change the answer for your parcel. The citation above points at the governing code section; check it, or ask the city to confirm.