AN ORDINANCE amending Section 23.58A.044 of the Seattle Municipal Code to facilitate the transfer of development rights from Pierce and Snohomish Counties to Seattle.
President Gonzalez high nine in favor and unopposed motion carries and the appointment is confirmed. All right. Part two of the Councilmember Strauss show continues. Will the clerk please read item 11 into the record? The Report of the Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee Agenda Item 11 Council Bill 120181 Amending Section 23.50 8.0 44 of the set of the code to facilitate the transfer of development rights from Pearson Snohomish Counties to Seattle. The committee recommends the bill pass. All right, back over to Councilmember Strauss, who's the chair of the committee and is recognized in order to provide the committee's report. Thank you. Council President, do I need to move or second this bill before discussing you. Know it's that it's coming to us straight from committee so you can just give the committee report and then we'll go ahead and call the roll. Fantastic Council president. Colleagues, this is possibly one of the biggest bills that we will take up this year that has caught no attention or limelight. And that's and the reason I say that is because Council Bill 120 181 will allow for regional regional transferable development rates program to work with peers in Snohomish County. As many of you know, we already have a TDR Transferrable Development Rights Program here in the city of Seattle working with King County. And we do not have that program set up to work with Snohomish and Pierce Counties. So, for instance, when we stand in Seattle and look east to the mountains, we now see many different suburban developments on the foothills. Before the Cascades, a regional TDR program allows us to preserve that farmland and forestland and turn that development capacity into built and put it in buildings in downtown in South Lake. Union said another way if we had TDR program set up years ago, we would be able to look east from the city of Seattle to the Cascades with uninterrupted views of the forest land. Now for us to be able to retain our uninterrupted use of forest and farmland from Seattle to Mt. Rainier or to Glacier Peak, we need this program, and this program has not been in place. And that's why I say it's one of the biggest things we've done with the little littlest amount of fanfare. Again, I just want to kind of highlight the aspects of this bill. Currently, Seattle Seattle's PDR program allows receiving sites only in certain parts of our city, such as downtown in South Lake Union, to buy additional development capacity by purchasing credits from eligible sending sites to farmland or forest land such as landmarked properties on first hill or farmland and greenspace in rural King County. The program allows us to accept more growth in our urban centers while preserving green spaces, agricultural lands and historic properties that make our region so beautiful. As the supply of TDR credits from Seattle and King County slows. This legislation before us today allows for additional credits to be purchased from Pearson Snohomish County, encouraging preservation in more of our region while allowing for the continued growth we need in Seattle. Throughout the consideration of this legislation, we've heard from Kingston Homes and Pierce Counties about the importance of this change, as well as from conservation groups such as for Terra. Again, this is probably one of the biggest little things that we will do all year because the impact is so incredible. Yet we have to do very little to achieve preserving farmland, forest land and undeveloped land in our suburbs and creating more density here in our cities. Thank you. Council President colleagues, that is the committee's report. Thank you so much. Councilmember Strauss, are there any additional comments on the bill? I don't see any hands raised. So will the clerk please call the role on the passage of the Bill Herbold. Yes. Suarez, I. Louis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Mesquita, i. Peterson. I. So what? Yes. Strauss. Yes. President Gonzalez. High nine in favor. None opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the corpses affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read item 12 into the record? Agenda Item 12 Casper 120 135 Relating to land use and zoning.