Unsure I follow. The title is "banning single family zoning" means it no longer exist - which seems equivalent to "banning single family only zoning".

Direct link to bill page: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1110&Year=2023...

I read it as requiring multi family residences, which would be extreme and unwanted by all.

No, it would only ban zoning that allows only single family homes, as zoning laws often do now. It would not require multifamily homes. The article points out that similar laws in California so far have resulted only in limited change to home building.

solarmist is suggesting the title sounds like zoning now forbids single-family houses, whereas it actually bans requiring single-family houses (ie them being the only type of residence allowed).

I thought that's what "single-family zoning" means: a requirement to have nothing else besides single family houses. Eliminating this category of zoning means you can no longer mandate "only single family houses".

I'm unsure if zoning laws behave radically differently, but I'm thinking the best model is what they have in Japan:

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

Things that can only be built in "low rise residential" zones can still be built in "neighborhood commercial", etc. See chart:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sV5ETXDs_8M/Ux-axBTuF2I/AAAAAAAAAs...

"single family zoning" means zoning that is only for single family housing. there is nothing misleading about the title.

To someone not familiar with the technical meaning "bill banning single-family zoning" reads like "a bill which imposes a ban on allowing you to build single-family houses".

just because someone doesn't know what words mean it doesnt mean that the words are misleading

It absolutely can, as evidenced by several comments here.

As a second example. If you tell people that an object is inflammable. I would except that some non-negligible portion of people to assume that the object is not flammable.

It’s misleading because it implies that single family homes will be banned.

It was to me. I am not familiar with zoning terminology.