AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending Section 25.05.800 of the Seattle Municipal Code to repeal the categorical exemption for SEPA review of proposed “infill” development.
The Report of the Planning, Land Use and Sustainability Committee Agenda Item six Council Bill 118518. Relating to land use and zoning amending sections 25.05.800 of the Seattle Municipal Code to repeal the categorical exemption for SIPA review of proposed infill development. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember O'Brien. Great. So this is the first of four ordinances that we're going to be voting on today. They all relate to the comprehensive plan, although this one a little peripherally. The amendment states sorry, is the bill title states. This would repeal the categorical exemption for SIPA that we passed a few years ago. Just as a reminder for folks that exemption allowed for projects within urban villages that hadn't met their growth targets, where area wide CPA analysis had already been done. Those projects could be exempt from CPA because later on in one of the bills they were adopting for the comprehensive plan in the amendments, the growth estimates that we will replace the growth targets with are not at the urban village level. There is no longer a possibility for this to happen. So we're repealing this allowance. It's possible that next year DPD may come back with a new bill, but for now this would be repealed. Thank you. Questions or comments? Please call the roll on the passage of the bill. So I want back shot I got in. High. Hero I Muqata II. O'BRIEN Hi, Okamoto. All right. RASMUSSEN Right. And President Burgess, 90 favorite nine, opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item seven.