AN ORDINANCE relating to the Seattle Department of Transportation jurisdictional property located in Lots 1 and 2, Block 12, Eden Addition No. 2 to the City of Seattle, commonly referred to as 911 Aurora Avenue North (“Property”) and declaring it as surplus to the City’s needs; removing the limited access highway purposes property designation; authorizing the sale of the Property for fair market value through an open and competitive sales process managed by the Department of Finance and Administrative Services; authorizing the Director of Transportation or the Director’s designee to execute all necessary documents to accomplish the sale of the property; and designating the proceeds from the sale.
And frankly, a committee, the executive wasn't there to make that case known to us or to the public. And so we're going to operate on the assumption that it's not ultimately critical. And so I think this is fine, but we can send the signal that in the future, if these are really timely, please be explicit on that . So we know the issues, the broad issue around housing, too. I in the interim, I would hope that Councilman Gonzalez, you and I can connect with the Office of Housing to talk about that, because if, in fact, the framework for looking at affordable housing needs to adjust a bit, then I think we'd want to consider putting these on the back burner for some time so that there's a possibility to use them as affordable housing in the future. But I, I want everyone off the housing to have a chance to make that case to you about why they do it. And we may end up that we're just in different places policy wise, but I don't think either of us know enough about that yet to do that. So let's take a little more time to do that. I agree. Okay. And I would also suggest we take advantage of this opportunity. I want to thank the community members for coming out and voicing your opinion. Their did I heard you loudly and clearly by saying we perhaps we followed the letter of law, but perhaps not at Spirit or its intent. So maybe we can take advantage and make sure we're listening to all voices in and type the have a better process as well. So thank you for your public testimony. Is there any further business to come coming for the Council? Our next meeting will be on January 3rd, 2017 at 2:00. And everyone have a happy holiday season. And if there's no further business, we will stand adjourned. Thank you. Thank you. You.