A RESOLUTION identifying proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments to be considered for possible adoption in 2016; and requesting that the Department of Planning and Development and the Seattle Planning Commission review and make recommendations about the proposed amendments.
Please read item three. Agenda item three. Resolution 31599. Identifying proposed comprehensive plan amendments to be considered for possible adoption in 2016 and requesting that the Department of Planning and Development and the Seattle Planning Commission Review and make recommendations about the proposed amendments. The committee recommends a resolution be adopted. Thank you, Councilmember O'Brien. Thank you. So just a quick reminder of where this is in the process. We state law allows cities to amend their comprehensive plan once a year. The city's process for doing that begins a year before the amendment comes up, where we solicit ideas on amendments that should be made to the comprehensive plan. For 2015, we have not done our comprehensive plan amendments. Those will likely come closer to the end of this year. But we're also preparing for 2016 compliant amendments, and this is the docket darkening process we do in 2015 to identify which ideas we want to advance. There were a number of ideas for comp plan amendments that were submitted by departments or by the public. They were vetted by Department of Planning and Development. The Planning Commission independently reviews those submittals, as does our own central staff. There were a number that were recommended not for moving forward at this time for various reasons. The ones before us on this legislation were recommended by the Department of Planning Development, the Planning Commission and Central Staff, with the exception of one that the Planning Commission had recommended not moving forward. But in committee we discussed that and said we think it's appropriate to move forward because of work that's happening around Seattle 2035 in that easy process. None of the items on here is it's a foregone conclusion that we will actually do anything in the comp plan next year. It simply states that we would like to continue to do research between now and next year so that we are informed we can make a policy decision next year. Thank you. Questions or comments? Those in favor of adopting resolution 31599 vote I. I oppose vote no. The resolution is unanimously adopted in the chair will sign it. The report of the Energy Committee. Please read item four.