AN ORDINANCE relating to the sale of lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Block 7 of the Latona Addition to the City of Seattle, as per plat recorded in Volume 4 of Plats, on page 28, records of King County (the “Property”); finding that City ownership of the Property no longer serves municipal purposes; amending Ordinance 96106; authorizing the sale of the Property for not less than $2,575,000; authorizing the Director of Finance and Administrative Services to execute all documents and take other necessary actions to complete the Property’s sale; directing the deposit of the net sale proceeds; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Thank you and congratulations. I look forward to working with both of you. Okay. Let's go to agenda item number three and please read the short title. Engine item three, cancel 119 357 relating to the sale of lots one, two, three and four of block seven in the Latin edition to the City of Seattle Committee recommend civil pass. Jasper and Beck show. You this is a sale of property over on Burr Gilman next to Dun Dun Lumber. It is a 15,000 square foot property that is known as the Brickyard and it has a sales price of not less than $2.575 million. It is in an area that is zoned industrial. I see 45. The possibility of residential uses there have been eliminated simply because of the zoning. And I would just want to say council members want your legislative aide came to my office this afternoon and asked if there was a reason why the money could not go back into the housing fund. And the answer is, is that when the property was purchased, it was purchased with gas tax fund moneys that must go back into the Transportation Department. So I just want you to know that we did look into it. We did ask that question. And if this is approved and the transfer is completed today, the receipts that the city Department of Transportation receives will go back into as stock money and into their funds. So there has been great community support for this. I just want to acknowledge that at my meeting last week, we had members of the Neighborhood Cascade Bicycle Club, the pedestrian organization Feet First were there just to support this. And we really appreciate the visuals that we saw from Dunn Lumber with the idea that it will be part of the neighborhood. It will tie itself into Burke Gilman, that people will be invited to come in, use the facilities, and just it will be a real neighborhood asset. At the same time, it expands some space for that company that is very important to the Wallingford neighborhood. So we recommend that this purchase and sale proceed. Very good. Any questions or comments? Customer I'm a skater. Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to say thank you to Chair Bagshaw for her work on this and for her staff and central staff's willingness to answer the various questions that I had. One of the issues that you've heard us continually talk about this year is the ability to keep public land in public hands and build housing on it. This is the question that we look forward to asking for every parcel of land as soon as we're able to hopefully pass the disposition policy here soon. Here's a great example where our city departments did ask that question, and the answer was, we cannot build housing on this relatively small plot of land. It is not zoned for housing. It is not zoned for mixed use, and thus we cannot put housing above it. And given the size of this lot, it makes sense to continue to allow done lumber to expand their production there in this industrial area, to promote good living wage jobs in this area and make sure that we're connecting the community. I really appreciated that. Even though we don't have the ability to build housing here, the vision, the model that has been outlined for us includes, as Councilmember Bagshaw just mentioned, the use of a public space on the ground floor so that we're connecting the trail to community space there. And so I'm really looking forward to how we partner more with organizations that are interested in this trail oriented development, as they called it, so that we can get more individuals of all ages, ethnicities, languages, races, genders, abilities, using the Burke Gilman connecting our community to public assets like the ones that we already have down there on the north end of Lake Union and the ones that are soon coming. So I will be a yes in support of this legislation. Thank you. Thank you. Coach Marion Johnson. I won't repeat the excellent points made by both of my previous colleagues, but just want to say thank you to the folks from the Department of Transportation Affairs and in particular the folks representing the Dunn family and the Dunn family themselves. First learned about this project about four years ago, and it's taken us a little while to get to this point. But we're glad to be here and excited to see a project that has such strong commitment from so many different diverse stakeholders move forward. Excellent customer. GONZALEZ Thank you. Just to join the chorus here, I also wanted to take a moment to recognize the good work done on the efforts here. I think this is a good example of what happens when we do have surplus land and we have a property owner excuse me, a a purchaser of the property who has really gone gone above and beyond to do the necessary community outreach to make sure that folks in the neighborhood understand why it's going to be repurposed for X, Y, Z purposes. And so I want to commend the folks over at Dunn Lumber for the good work you all did to do some of the hard work and lifting around making sure that the Wallingford community really understood what the project meant and what the scope would be. And so I just want to thank you all for for that and also for briefing me personally about, I think, a year ago already at this point to make sure that we understood in our office exactly what was going to be done on this parcel of land and also all the work that had already been done in terms of community outreach. So kudos to you all for having a very smooth process and really look forward to seeing the end result. I think it's going to be a huge contribution to this part of part of the city. So thank you. Thank you for those words. Okay. When anyone else like to comment or ready to vote, please call the roll on the passage of the Bill. Bagshaw. I. Gonzalez Herbold High Johnson Macheda I O'Brien All right. So what President Harrell high eight in favor and. Unopposed the bill passes and the chair of the Senate please read the items four and five.