AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending the Seattle Comprehensive Plan to incorporate changes proposed as part of the 2019-2020 Comprehensive Plan annual amendment process.
Agenda Item 18 Council Capital. 119838 relating to land use and burning amendments to have a comprehensive plan to incorporate changes proposed as part of the 2019 to 2020 Comprehensive Plan Annual Amendments Process. The committee recommends the bill passes amended. Thank you so much. Casmir Strauss. As chair of the committee, you are recognized in order to provide the committee report. Making Council President. State law allows the city to make amendments to our comprehensive plan once a year, with limited exceptions. This legislation is the annual round of amendments to our comprehensive plan based on proposals that were docketed for consideration last year. This year we are making two amendments to the comprehensive plan First Amendments to expand the boundaries of West Shalhoub Urban Village to the portion of campus of Providence. Mount Saint Vincent for the Mount Providence is seeking to renovate and expand the current uses on the property, including building additional senior housing service space. City staff conducting public engagement before proposing these changes. And we heard support from the local community members at the public hearing. The Second Amendment amends the Delbridge neighborhood plan based on the recommendations in the Work Village Action Plan. The Action Plan is the result of many years of engagement with the college community and was promoted by several factors, including planning for the Village Multimodal Corridor Project and planning for Sound Transit three and the community support for changes to the neighborhood plan. This legislation Warman the comprehensive plan and should not be confused with our next resolution, which sets the docket of potential amendments that we should consider for next year's comprehensive plan. Thank you. Councilmember Strauss, are there any additional comments on the bill as members want, please? Thank you. I will be voting yes on this year's comprehensive plan amendments because I don't oppose what what is included. But I did want to mention specifically what's being left out of the bill, which I do find objectionable. In particular, there is no mention of developer impact fees. Developer impact fees can only be passed into law after they are put into the city's comprehensive plan, and the comprehensive plan is amended only once each year. So the fact that developer impact fees are not included in this bill means that there will be another year wait at least to make big developers pay for the impacts they have on our city infrastructure. Of course, we have to be clear, just amending the comprehensive plan to that effect is hardly the end of the fight that we've seen for six sites over six years. I've observed that developer impact. These are have been opposed by the to the nail by big developers and so making it happen actually will require a housing justice movement to fight for it. But I did want to mention that that is missing through the in these updates. And we know that there is a long and bureaucratic process for establishing developer impact fees before they can be passed. They need to be in the plan, a comprehensive plan, and before they can be put in the comprehensive plan, they need to be studied under the State Environmental Protection Act. And I do find it unacceptable that even though developer impact fees were included in the resolution the Council passed last year listing the issues that should be discussed for this study studied for this year's comprehensive plan. Mayor Durkan has refused to do that study. If we had developer impact fees available this year, we could have raised the funds to reimburse all the guards to metro busses. So as I said, I will vote yes. But also note that this leaves missing something extremely crucial. Thank you. He to remember. So what? Are there any additional comments on the bill? Councilmember Herbold. I want to speak to the things that I believe are in the bill and my support for the bill because of their inclusion. I want to thank Councilmember Strauss for making sure that we added additional language to Section B, requesting that I start work with Stsci and and object to review changes that could be made to the comp plan due to the closure of the West Seattle Bridge. Of course, also including the Del Del Ridge Neighborhood Plan Inclusion. Appreciate that. And then finally, appreciate inclusion of the request to the executive to study the designation of the South Park Urban Village . I know all that's in there, and I'm pretty sure Councilmember Strause, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure that we actually did include the impact fee amendments so that we can actually make progress in implementing them in 2021. Checking with staff right now because as my comments just before I wrap up my comments was this bill should not be confused with the next bill, which sets the comprehensive plan document for next year. Just double checking. I do know that the study was conducted and that currently we are waiting on the hearing exam. It will take just 1/2 and I'll be right back with. Yeah. I'm sorry. I might be confusing the bills to. Madam President, if it's okay, may I confirm? Are we on the agenda? Item number 18. Yes, we are on agenda item 18, which is the bill related to the amendments to the comprehensive plan. Excellent. Thank you very much. Governor Swann, please. Yeah. Just wanted to clarify that the next bill does have it. And yeah, I think we're confusing the bills. This one doesn't as far. Right. Okay. Yes, go ahead, Counselor Strauss. Thank you. Just to clarify, yes, it is included in the following bill for further analysis, as requested by the committee Senator. Excellent. Any other comments or questions on the bill? Councilmember verbal yes. That I think all of the comments I just made for number 18, I won't repeat them. Transfer them to number 19. Awesome. All right. Any additional comments on this bill? Councilman, let's get a plea. I just want to say thank you to the chair of Land Use and Neighborhoods, and thank you, Councilmember Strauss, for shepherding us through this process. It's been really incredible for our office to be able to work with your office and with you directly on trying to get in as many components as we possibly could into this piece of legislation. Obviously, I'll talk about in the next bill a piece that we're looking forward to continuing to push on. But I really appreciate the way in which you have been inclusive of community comments. I know you've spent a lot of time not only in public comment, but also individually meeting with various constituents across the city on these issues that are of utmost importance to those who are calling in and testifying. And you're spending a lot of time outside of these public meetings meeting with folks on a one on one basis , too. So thank you for that work. I know it takes a lot of time and this is something that people are very invested in. So it is imperative that we have your leadership on this and you have done a tremendous job on this effort and look forward to working with you in the future years as we continue to advance these priorities that you got into this legislation. It's been a pleasure for our office to work with you, so thank you. Councilmember Mosqueda, are there any additional comments on the bill? Okay. Looks like we are ready. I will go ahead and ask that the clerk please call the role on the passage of the bill. Morales must get a yes. Peterson. Yes. Sergeant. Yes. Strauss Herbold. Yes. Suarez. Yes. Lewis. Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Nine in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation? Item 19 Will the clerk please read the title of the now? Very well introduced item 19 into the record.