A RESOLUTION recognizing the efforts of the Crown Hill community to prepare an action plan for their community; and identifying strategies and actions to implement the Crown Hill Urban Village Action Plan.
Agenda item 40 Resolution 32035. A resolution recognizing the efforts of the Crown Hill community to prepare an action plan for their community and identifying strategies and actions to implement the Crown Hill Urban Village Action Plan. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move to adopt Resolution 32035. Is there a second second? It's been moved and seconded to adopt the resolution. I'm going to hand this over to Councilmember Strauss was the sponsor of the resolution. Thank you, Council President. And I do need to note that it is a bittersweet and a humble honor to be the last to respond to your request as presiding officer for Council of the City Council in the City of Seattle. I'm glad that this is a three hour meeting, lest you forget the long meetings, and I hope that Cameron is in the background with a way to celebrate once we're done. Conduct business. To the resolution 3 to 0 three five, the Crown Hill Community Action Plan. This resolution recognizes the tremendous effort, a tremendous community effort that went into producing the Crown Hill Community Action Plan, which was finalized this last Friday. The community planning process that resulted in the Crown Hill Community Action Plan began in 2018. The Office of Planning Community Development launched a process to engage with neighborhood, ultimately connecting with around 300 community members through workshops, focus groups, door to door, canvasing, tabling at community events and much more. Those community conversations informed the Community Action Plan, which sets the vision for Crown Hill's future as a walkable, vibrant neighborhood as one of the fastest growing, changing neighborhoods in Seattle. It is one that lacks a light rail station. This Community Action Plan contains steps that the city and community members can take to make the neighborhoods vision a vision for a community light rail station into a reality, something that I support. The plan is broadly oriented around these three priorities a distinct neighborhood with great destinations and a vibrant public realm streets that encourage walking and making it easy to get around in connected, engaged, thriving communities. This Community Action Plan was delayed and put on pause because of COVID. I'm glad that this is another opportunity where the city of Seattle can build back better and bring this forward. Community members contacted me earlier this year with concerns that the plan would be forgotten in the mayoral transition. And so I worked to push the mayor's office to have OK'd complete this work on this plan before the end of the year. OPD took one final round of community feedback and made final changes to the plan last week to add more emphasis on affordable housing and encouraging new indoor meeting and gathering spaces. The next steps for this plan will require us to adopt new design guidelines for Crown Hill next year. And again, if Councilmember Juarez can get 130th Street Station, I'm going to get a Crown Hill station. I hope everyone heard that loud and clear. I would also like to thank Katie Hyman at OPIC for her fantastic work on this. And I would like to thank Karen LaBelle, president of the Crown Hill Village Association, and Selznick and Patty Arroyo for joining us at the Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee recently, as well as everyone else who shared their feedback to help shape this plan. With that Council President, you are nearly released and I that is my report. Thank you, councilmember strauss. Are there any additional comments on resolution 32035? NEARY None will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of Resolution 32035. Agenda item 40. Lewis. Yes. Morales. I must get to Paterson. Hi, Strauss. Yes. You're bold. That's. Whereas I council President Gonzales. I didn't favor none of. Thanks so much. The motion carries, the resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it for the very last time. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? There is one other item of business. If there is no objection that Council members will be excused from today's meeting. Hearing no objection, Councilmember Solon is excused from today's meeting. Colleagues, is there any further business to come before the Council? Ellesmere Mosquito Police. I am so excited, council president, that we were able to surprise you. I do hope that you and your team really heard how much we appreciate you and look forward to continuing to work with you on the future. Thank you for having this marathon meeting and I just want to take a second to say thanks to VanMeter as well. I didn't get a chance to shout them out. Congratulations on their next chapter as well. With all of the work they've done on council for the last 13 years, it's been a really great honor to work with VanMeter as well, but wanted to just get that last thank you. And as council members, I just can't help myself. Council Member. Council. Members I again, thanks for the opportunity to surprise the council. President and president, congratulations again. Well, thank you so much. I did want to also, you know, it was publicly announced today that Dan Itr, our deputy director, is going to join mayors, the mayor's office as mayor elect Harrell's policy director. And we do want to wish him much luck and of course, express our deep and profound gratitude to him for his 13 years of service to the city council in particular, and to council central staff. And so we again wish him much luck and we are deeply appreciative for everything that he is given to us. So colleagues, of course, I cannot adjourn a meeting of the city council that you guys been subjected to, my beautiful daughter. So I'm going to I'm going to. Have. Her come over here maybe for the last your last public appearance, except for now, she's being shy. Well, look, who wouldn't it say by here? Virtually adjourned. Thank you, colleagues. Your next meeting will be sometime in January. I want to thank you all for your your friendship and for all of your amazing work and look forward to seeing you all in New York. So thank you. Share with many by Reserve Bank.