AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending Section 23.41.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code to approve the 2018 University District Neighborhood Design Guidelines.
The report of the Planning and Zoning Committee Agenda and 13 Constable 119 362 relating to the license earning in many section 23.40 1.0 ten and said I misspoke her to approve the 2018 University District Neighborhood Design Guidelines Committee recommended the passes amended. Katherine Johnson I'm sorry to say that applause is not for, you know, you know. Rarely does anyone applaud land use decisions. Council President But we don't do it for the recognition. We're going to take action this afternoon and to design guidelines that actually many members of the community have spent a long time working on to get us to this point. The first as our clerk read out, so everybody is the university district design guidelines. And these are really critical in this state of time because of the recent zoning changes that we made in the neighborhood and now prevalence of new projects that are going on in the neighborhood that are taller buildings. So these design guidelines reflect a change in the character of the university district and will allow for more compatibility with those new high rise character buildings of the University District by the light rail station. It started with a series of community workshops in 2017 2017 and resulted in the design guidelines that are here in front of us today. I'm happy to talk through some of these, but really this is about how do we create more opportunities for those tall towers to reflect both off of each other and have a presence in the neighborhood? How do we create better urban context and Ali space activation in particular? We've got a lot alleys in the University District, not dissimilar from downtown that we'd like to do a lot more activation. How do we create some setbacks, particularly in the University District, to reflect the unique character of the Ave itself? And then how do we do better with public space realm connectivity? So a lot of really great stuff in here. Happy to ask for your support. Thank you very much. Any questions or comments? If not, please call the role on the passage of the bill. Whereas I must get to I so what I thank John Gonzalez Herbal Johnson by President Harrell eight in favor and unopposed. Bill passed and share of assignment. Please read the United Number 14.