AN ORDINANCE relating to street and sidewalk use; amending Section 11.40.250 of the Seattle Municipal Code to authorize the Play Street program as an allowable use of the public place.
Thank you. The bill passed and chair of the Senate. Please read the next agenda item. Agenda item six Constable 118 792 relating to street and sidewalk use amending section 11.40 point 257 Mr. Code to authorize the Place Street program as an allowable use for public play for public place. The committee recommends the bill pass. Cuts from O'Brien. Thank you. I should say thank you to Councilmember Johnson for cover for me in council briefing this morning. I had a chance to watch you and it's very informative. I thank all of you. It's really fun to sit in bed, blowing my nose, watching the council briefing proceed. The idea behind the play street is great. This is a pilot program that's going on for a little while now. Just so folks know this. This legislation does a little small piece. But I want to take this opportunity to highlight that neighbors throughout the city can apply for a free street. Permit to close down their street. They can if they want to have, for instance, you know, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, after school, kids are going to ride their bikes around the street. They want to close it off at either end. They can get a one time permit that will last for up to six months, for up to three days a week for up to, I think, 6 hours of closure. The idea is that as we find as our city continues to grow with more and more people living in it, we need to find places for folks to play, which is a really exciting program, is great to see folks out there doing the play streets in a number of places. However, what's been discovered is that we have language in our municipal code that specifically says people are not supposed to play on streets. It was driven by safety concerns, I'm sure. What this legislation actually does is in the section that talks about no roller skating, riding a coaster skateboarding toy vehicle should happen on the streets. It adds the language that says except where allowed by a street use permit. So that's the bulk of this legislation. But the concept is something that's been going on and will continue to go on through the pilot program, which in committee. We asked about that and they said how much longer is going to be a pilot? They said, we're we're about done with the pilot phase and it's going to be a full on program in the city, which is great. Thank you, castro brian, any comments? Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Whereas I. O'Brien. Hi. So what? Bagshaw Burgess. I. Herbold I. Johnson President Harrell I. Aden favor and then oppose. The bill passed and the chair was silent. Please read Agenda number seven.