AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle’s construction codes; adopting the Seattle Boiler Code, Building Code, Electrical Code, Existing Building Code, Fuel Gas Code, Mechanical Code, Plumbing Code, and Residential Code by reference, amending certain chapters of those codes, and adopting new chapters for those codes; correcting references to those codes in the Seattle Municipal Code; making technical corrections; adding a new Chapter 22.101 to the Seattle Municipal Code; amending the title of Subtitle I of Title 22, Sections 5.73.020, 6.410.070, 6.420.030, 22.170.010, 22.170.050, 22.206.090, 22.206.130, 22.206.160, 22.208.020, 22.502.016, 22.801.030, 25.09.100, 25.09.110, 25.09.120, 25.09.220, and 25.09.520 of the Seattle Municipal Code; repealing Chapters 22.100 and 22.110 and Subtitles IA, III, IV, IVA, and IVB of Title 22 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and repealing ordinances or sections of the following ordinances that adopted or amended older editions of construction codes: 117723, 118654, 119478, 121865, 125156, 125157, 125158, 125160, 125161, 125162, 125337, 125408, 125409, 125410, 
Thank you. The motion carries and the appointments are confirmed. Thank you. Moving on now to the report of the Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee. Will the clerk please read the short title of item 31 into the Record Report of the Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee Agenda Item 31 Council 119992 relating to sales construction codes adopting the Seattle Boiler. Code Building Code Electrical Code, existing building code, fuel gas. Code, mechanical code, planning code and residential code by reference. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I'm going to go ahead and had this over to Councilmember Strauss, who is the chair of this of the committee. Please tell us more stress. Thank you. Council President. Colleagues, this legislation adopts construction codes, including a new boiler code building code, electrical code, fuel gas code, mechanical code, plumbing code and residential code. As Amelia just noted, this this item in particular does not include the energy code updates, which we will consider in the next agenda item. Construction codes are updated every three years, following a process of updating national and state level codes. This update comes to comes at the end of the 2018 construction codes cycle. The changes in this legislation adopt and align with the new state codes and adopt some Seattle specific provisions that go further than the state codes. These codes were developed by Department of Construction Inspection and their Technical Code Development Team in consultation with the Construction Code Advisory Board. They were also informed by extensive stakeholder outreach. Code updates are largely technical in nature, but a few highlights of these new codes include establishing standards for cross limited timber structures up to 18 storeys in height , creating standards for gender neutral toilets. New standards are new standards for tsunami loads in areas that are at risk of tsunami inundation and updating seismic design standards based on modeling. Thank you. Council President. That is the report from the committee. Thank you so much, Councilmember Strauss colleagues. Did you want to open it up for any additional comments? Are there any additional comments on the bill? Council members want, please. Thank you. And I know items 31 and 32 are. Connected on the building energy grid update. So I will speak to both. I'm happy to vote in favor of these two bills to update Seattle's energy codes for new large buildings to prohibit fossil fuel heaters and boilers. Really appreciate everybody who testified today and before in public comment. Carpet developers have proven again and again that capitalism's private market has no interest in stopping climate change. As was mentioned, the latest greenhouse gas emissions report from the Office of Sustainability and the Environment found that rather than reducing emissions, Seattle increased emissions from buildings by 8.1%. This is alarming. We know indisputably that we have to end greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid a global climate catastrophe, endangering every person on the planet, not just slow down emissions and certainly not accelerate emissions like corporate developers have done. You would think that since climate change is destroying the planet for everyone, even corporate executives would care about addressing it. But this is the inexorable logic of capitalism. Whatever corporation pursues short term profits most ruthlessly at the cost of ordinary people, humanity and the planet, and is the most successful in shifting its costs to the workers and the environment. Those are the corporations with a Darwinian advantage at the expense of all of society. So I very much support this legislation prohibiting those developers from building new fossil fuel burning boilers and heaters in the largest new buildings in Seattle. This is a step forward, and it is a testament to the organization's legacy. 50 Sierra Club Climate Solutions and Puget Sound Sage and other organizations which have been campaigning against natural gas hookups for years, including the native activist community. It is a substantive step forward, although it is obviously limited. It does not address preexisting buildings, new construction of smaller buildings. And since the dark times on movement one funding to retrofit older buildings, it would not make sense to at the same time continue building new fossil fuel burning infrastructure. And most importantly, it does not address how electricity generated in Washington state. Seattle City Lake generates emission free hydropower, largely because of the power plants built during the New Deal almost 100 years ago. So the buildings in Seattle will use clean energy for their electricity, but that is not the end of the story because the light trades electricity back and forth with every other utility in the region. Any word that is not used in Seattle is sold to other places on the West Coast. That means that if Seattle uses more electricity with its own energy, you will have more of a market to sell. Electricity outside Seattle and Puget Sound Energy burns, fracked natural gas to generate electricity. So in addition to these important bills, we need a full fledged green new deal with green jobs to build clean power plants across the state and across the country, like in the 1930s Green New Deal program. Just like we cannot rely on for profit developers to protect the climate when building in Seattle, we cannot trust for profit energy companies like PSC generate our electricity. This is another key reason why I am a socialist and I'm, as I said, I'm happy to vote yes on these legislation. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Silent. Are there any additional comments on the bill? Councilmember Herbert Place You know, I'm not a member of somebody else's committee, but I want to thank them for doing the work necessary to bring this legislation forward together with the work of his committee members. When I also give a shout out to former Councilmember Mike O'Brien for spearheading this work at the at the council level, consistent with the activism referenced by Councilmember Salant of organizations like 350 Board. And. A Green New Deal for Seattle. After we passed a resolution in August 2019 and an executive order working to advance many, many pieces of of of. Regulation that this is, I think, one important part moving forward but has been stated. There's a there's a lot to be done in order to reach the goal of significantly reducing carbon emissions to the existing pool of increasing energy efficiency. Of course, as as has been mentioned, we we will need to do more to address the existing buildings as well as to figure out how to. Incentivize efficiency of smaller buildings, including single family homes that use natural gas. Heating the Urbanists reports that fossil fuel gas from Puget Sound Energy produces 15% of the city's CO2 emissions in 2018. So I think, again, that really points to the work that we need to do together. I also want to highlight that the Council did fund positions in the 2021 budget to move forward the work of the Green New Deal Oversight Committee, look forward to their recommendations and want to again recognize that the advocacy necessary to fund those positions is is advocacy that's coming from the community to hold us accountable and make sure that we are charting a path forward. Thank you. Thank you for that. Colleagues. Any other any additional comments on the bill? Hearing no additional comments on the bill. Will the clerk please call the vote on the passage of the bill? Morales Yes. Macheda. I, Peterson. Yes. Sir. What? Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold Yes. Suarez, I. Lewis. Yes. President Gonzalez. High nine in favor. None opposed. The bill. Check the pill. Excuse me. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Okay. Item 32 Will the court please read the short titled item 32 into the record?