A RESOLUTION designating the Grand Street Commons Redevelopment Opportunity Zone pursuant to RCW 70.105D.150(1) and making findings in support of such designation.
Bill passed and chair of the Senate. Please read the next agenda item. Agenda item ten Resolution 318 36 designee the grants she comments redevelopment opportunities and pursuant to ICW 70.10 5.1 50.1 and making findings in support of such designation, the Academy Committee recommends the resolution be adopted. In your district. Good. So I am very pleased to be able to present this resolution. What we are doing here is identifying a parcel of property that is going to have a what is called a redevelopment opportunity zone. It is at or close to the future site of the Judkins Park Light Rail Station. I believe this is in your District Council President Harold the Grand Street Commons. It's an a very impressive project that will be going on a Browns field, very polluted area, but that area is going to be demonstrably cleaned up. And part of the reason that we're doing this resolution is the Department of Ecology requires us to make this designation. There will be approximately 700 units of housing total on the site. About half will be affordable. 150 will be for households earning less than 60% of the area. Median income and 150 will be for households earning more than that, and then the other will be market rate. So because we have to make the determination that this brownfield property is something that can get cleaned up, that we are supportive of the project, that we will provide the designation, then they can go forward for additional funding and approval. And we definitely recommend that the revitalization of this property is very much the the juice is worth the squeeze and we're prepared to move forward with it. Any further comments? Councilman Gonzalez, thank you. Council President setting aside that, saying that, I'm not sure what it actually means. A lot of work and you actually get something for it. Okay, good. Thank you for the translation. I I'm really excited to support this particular resolution there. There's been a lot of effort at the city and in the city council in particular to really take a look at a lot of publicly available land that the city regularly surpluses for purposes of identifying those parcels of land to build additional affordable housing or to develop in some other way to advance our priority around affordable housing. And one of the things that I think we need a greater strategy around is identifying more of these contaminated sites that are either publicly or privately owned that cannot currently be utilized to build affordable housing upon because of the degree of contamination. And this provides us, I think, a really good example and model in the city of Seattle moving forward in terms of how we can be a little bit more creative about identifying buildable lands within the city and work with our representatives in our state delegation to secure funding through the state budget to allow for this type of environmental cleanup to occur within neighborhoods who are really just in desperate need of land and property to build on. And I'm really excited about the opportunity to work with these developers in particular to see if we can move forward a body of work over the next year to take, take, take a riff off of the work that we did on that Hope for Home program and see if we can come up with an inventory list, for example, to begin identifying other brown sites throughout the city of property that would be able to be utilized for affordable housing, but for the fact that it's contaminated. So I'm excited about this being the first step and excited about more to come in this in this space. And if I can just build a little bit more of the comment you just made, I want to say and recognize that Lake Union Partners Joe Ferguson and the Mount Baker housing group, Connor Hanson have done a tremendous amount of work. And one of my colleagues and it may have been you, Councilmember Gonzalez, said, what's it polluted with? And the litany is unbelievable that there was former commercial equipment manufacturing. There was actually a former commercial dry cleaner offsite, but the water was leaching from one property to the other. We've got petroleum hydrocarbons, words that I can hardly even begin to pronounce, let alone explain what they are. And because of their willingness to go in and remove the soils completely and then bring in fresh, we're going to have a site where people can live in a very healthy way. Very good. There are no further comments. Those in favor of adopting the resolution. Please vote i. I. Those oppose vote no motion carries the resolution is adopted in the chair will sign it. Please read items 11 and 12 into the record agenda.