AN ORDINANCE relating to land use; amending the Seattle Comprehensive Plan to  incorporate changes related to Mandatory Housing Affordability as proposed as part of the 2019 Comprehensive Plan annual amendment process.
Any comments or questions before we take this appointment? Okay. Those in favor of confirming the appointment. Please vote i i those opposed vote no. The motion carries and the appointment is confirmed. Congratulations, Mr. Short. I'll please read the next agenda item. The Report of the Select Committee on Citywide Mandatory Housing Affordability Agenda Item three Constable 119443 relating to land use amending the sale a comprehensive plan to incorporate changes related to mandatory housing affordability as proposed as part of the 2018 Comprehensive Plan Annual Amendment Process. The Committee recommends of a pass as amended. Okay. Councilmember Johnson, I know we have some amendments that you will make, so we'll just sort of let you walk us through it. But, Councilman Johnson, you have the floor. Thank you. Council President. So we have four items related to the citywide image today. And in sequence, we're going to start with the first council bill which amends the comprehensive plan or move to the second council bill which amends the Seattle Municipal Code to implement city wide image. A third will have a solo bill that implements a major on a tiered side and Northgate. And finally, a resolution which is a companion resolution which is consistent to what we've done and all of our other image zoning changes. There are individual amendments for several of those, so I'll address those as we get up to it. But I wanted to start, if you'll indulge me, the council president, by just reflecting a little bit on the four plus year process that has gotten us to this point. And then after those prepared remarks, walk people through some of those individual and please. So, folks, today we're voting on legislation that addresses a very personal issue, I think, for everyone in Seattle. And that issue is change. We all have stories to dramatize how our city has changed over the last decade. Being something is where it is now struggling to make rent in Seattle's brutally expensive housing market to something as wasteful as missing our favorite neighborhood haunts because it's closed down. For my part, I missed dailies and Eastlake with its great shakes and low key charm. But Eastlake is a great example of how urbanism can work. It's a neighborhood without single family zoning, but with a lot of character. It's the place where I met and married the girl who lived across the hall from me and our little five unit apartment building. And it's where we had our twins and where we'd still be today if we hadn't realized that after doing the math, we were going to be paying more in rent than we would have if we bought that little house and rent it. But that's not an option for many Seattleites now, a majority of whom are renters. Ultimately, too many of our stories are about struggling and struggling to make the cost of living, struggling with traffic congestion, struggling to make rent or struggling to find affordable housing to begin with. Like many in my little fifth generation cousins who struggle to afford to live in the neighborhood they grew up in, and the source of that change is no mystery. Seattle is growing at a phenomenal rate. Consider that at the beginning of this decade, Seattle was 25th largest city in the United States. But by the end of this decade, we've passed Washington, D.C., Boston and other East Coast cities climbing to 18th biggest in the United States. During this decade, in raw numbers, we've grown from 608,000 to more than 730,000 people, a nearly 20% jump. And whether you're maneuvering your cart in the grocery store or waiting to board a 36 to go to work, whether you're stuck in line at a pharmacy or at a packed restaurant before a show on a Saturday night, it's impossible not to notice Seattle's leap from a mid-sized city to a major metropolitan metro metropolis. Unfortunately, the rules we have in place now have not kept up with that pace of growth. And in fact, the status quo policy, which bars us from building townhouses and low rise condos in most of Seattle, has undermined, which should be a real boon to us as a city economic success and population growth. But for too many of us, has turned success into a source of disenchantment. But it's time for city government to step in and change that status quo. I'm proud to say my colleagues have risen to the occasion. My colleagues, Councilmembers Misgender and Suarez have been rightfully getting credit for their work to highlight urbanism as a critical social justice issue. My district two colleagues have worked hard to build winning coalitions neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block to implement major in their districts. And three different mayors work to get us to this point, starting with Mayor Murray's 2015 proposal to Mayor Burgess, who sent MHL a major bill to council in 2017, to Mayor Durkan, who has helped us get the bill here to the finish line. Countless city staff from OPEC. dd0nohs TCI, the planning commission, the law department, the mayor's office put in long hours to make this moment possible. And I'd like to thank some of those folks this afternoon. Directors Sarah Stouffer, Kathleen Ireland, Diane Sycamore, Steve Walker, Andrés Mantilla and Nathan Torgerson. Thank you for your leadership. Staff numbers including Sarah Mac, Santa. Jeff Wendland. Robert Feldstein. Michelle Chan. Nick Welch. Jessica Brand. Susie Phillips. Laura Hewitt. Walker. Jason Kelly. Jim Petro, Lindsay Masters, Mike Podolski, Dave Clark, Jeff Weber, Leslie Price, Emily Alvarado, and many others who I've left off. Thank you for your long nights and many tears that we've all sat around DiMaggio. I want to thank John Howell, who facilitated the hall committee and the council's community design workshops for your leadership. John. And I want to thank the thousands of neighbors who participated in our community engagement events. We relied on the help of our clerk's office and our council communications team. Our central staff land use team has been critical in the last few years. And I want to thank Ali, panicky Kito Freeman, Les Woodson, Yolanda Ho and Eric McConaghy for their good work. I also want to thank my team who's worked on this legislation since the Hall recommendations were released on the same day the ballots were mailed out in 2015. Amy Gaw, Noah and Spencer Williams. Jerry Morris, Patty Camacho. Maya Elisha couldn't have done this without you guys and I'm so grateful. I want to say a quick thank you to Katie and our girls who spent a lot of nights on their own because of the number of public hearings that we took to get us here. And finally, I want to send extra thanks to my vice chair, Councilmember Gonzalez. You've been a champion, confidence and passionate advocate for the program. And Lorena. If if I'm allowed to do so, I'd like to bestow upon you an honorary master's degree in land use planning. For all of your meticulous work over the last three and a half years. I am really passionate about zoning. It seems like a trivial thing that makes for boring meetings and migraines. But however, I think my colleagues have realized that within the finicky zoning formulas for low rise one, low rise two and residential small lot housing, there's a formula for equity. And today we passed that formula, a formula that provides for growth and affordable housing. It does this by creating more opportunities for multifamily stock while tying that new development to an affordable housing fund. And the mandatory housing affordability program will create 6000 new units of affordable housing in the next decade. That growth should be synonymous with creating a sense of place, a place for everyone to live. And that place should be building more housing. Housing for single moms like Jessica, a service worker who moved back here to pursue her sociology degree when she found affordable housing and a tiered project on the light rail line housing for graduate students like Marlen, who couldn't afford Seattle without a subsidized apartment in a new affordable housing building in the Central District. Housing for young parents like Laura and Matt, who live in an affordable housing townhome on first sell with their three kids. Housing for social workers like Natasha Hanley, who lives in Bellwethers, housing on Stone Way. And she said she wouldn't be able to attend good public schools in Wallingford if it wasn't for that affordable housing. In short, we're embracing growth by embracing inclusion, and today we're embracing inclusion by updating plans that were drafted 25 years ago, largely by single family neighborhoods. And we're acknowledging what we've learned in those last 25 years or more, so even in the last five years, that effectively planning for growth means sharing space to make room for everyone who wants to find their place in Seattle. So for a while we were able to get by without original approach, one that maybe didn't fully embrace equity because Seattle was growing only incrementally and many of us didn't notice something unfair was happening. But while King County has grown by 13% in the last eight years, Seattle has grown by 20%, while our fastest growing cities such as Redmond, Kent and Bellevue have added about 2000 people in the last year. We've added nearly 17,000 people, so we've had to jump into action. And to create a proactive housing policy, we had to get proactive about engaging the community. And to create that policy, we had to engage more of Seattle. So we did that by hosting more than 200 meetings. And I met Jay when it was first proposed since 2015. We've knocked on more than 10,000 doors. The city council itself has hosted more than 40 public meetings, including community design workshops, open houses and public hearings. We drafted and considered more than 80 amendments to create more childcare space and new buildings, more affordable small business spaces to protect trees and historic buildings to incentivize more affordable homeownership opportunities and allowed for taller buildings to be built near frequent transit service without mandate, without mandating unnecessary and unaffordable parking requirements. To my deep satisfaction, that outreach has been accompanied by something policymakers in the city haven't seen in the past. And that's a surge of pro housing activism from a diverse coalition of stakeholders more representative of the city's housing needs. This coalition reflected what solutions can look like when we all work together. We've regularly had the MLK Junior County Labor Council show up to. Support building more housing for their union members. The Chamber of Commerce often stood by their side. Groups like the Sierra Club and 350 Seattle recognized this is an environmental issue and join the cause. Traditional housing advocates like DC Future Ys and the Seattle Transit blog were joined by new groups like Welcoming Wallingford, Seattle for Everyone. Seattle Greenways. Seattle Tech for Housing Share the Cities. The Miller Park Weber's. The Capitol Hill Renters Initiative and the Urbanist. And they all helped us frame this policy with one guiding question Who is this city for? Our new mandatory housing affordability policy answers that question by saying the city is for people like Jessica and Marlin and Laura and Matt and Natasha. And with that, I'm proud to introduce this legislation, Councilperson. Thank you, Christine Johnson. So I would like to move. We have got one technical amendment which would require adoption of an amendment to attachment one. It would reflect changes to the urban center and urban village boundaries that were adopted by the Select Committee on February the 25th. And that amendment has shown an attachment of the central staff memo. So with your permission, Council President, I'd move to amend Council Bill 119443 Attachment one by submitting version two for version 1/2. Has been moved in second. And this is just the amendment attached from one, as Councilmember Johnson described. Any questions on the amendment only? All those in favor of the amendment. Please vote i. I opposed. The ayes have it. It is amended. Did any other council members want to speak on item three? We have several companion items to follow, but we're on item three as amended right now. Everybody good on this one? Pretty good. Okay. The next one's the next one. The big one. The next one's the big one. So we have and we have four amendments, I think, scheduled for the next item. So why don't we pass this 1/1? Okay. Okay. Please call the role on the passage of the amended Bill. Bagshaw High Gonzalez High. Purple High. Johnson High. Juarez Macheda O'Brien. So on President Harrell High nine in favor and. Unopposed, the bill passes and the chair signage. Please read agenda item number four the short title.