AN ORDINANCE relating to the Terminal 5 Quiet Zone Improvements project under the Freight Spot Improvement Program; authorizing the Director of the Department of Transportation to acquire, accept, and record both temporary and permanent property rights from abutting property owners located along West Marginal Way Southwest between 17th Avenue Southwest and Delridge Way Southwest, necessary or convenient for the Terminal 5 Quiet Zone Improvements project through negotiation or condemnation; placing the acquired real property rights under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation and designating for transportation, utility, and general municipal purposes; authorizing payment of all other costs associated with acquisition; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Every part of the Transportation and Utilities Committee, eight counts about 120 138 link to the terminal, five flights on improvements project under the Freight Spot Improvement Program. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you so much, Councilman Peterson. I'm going to hand it over to you to walk us through this committee report. Thank you. Council president, colleagues, as I mentioned in council briefing this morning. All 11 items on today's council agenda from our Transportation Utilities Committee were recommended unanimously by committee members. This first item, Council Bill 120138 is co-sponsored by Councilor Herbold and will provide limited condemnation and acquisition authority in cases needed to secure portions of property necessary to implement a quiet zone that will support freight operations at the Port of Seattle's Terminal five facility and will benefit surrounding neighbors concerned about the noise of the freight trains. Thank you. Thank you so much. Are there any additional comments on this bill? Councilmember Herbold, please. Thank you so much. I just want to reference that this is a really high priority issue for folks. And one many constituents have written about the noise that emanates from trains entering and leaving T5 at the Shell and Cafe intersection. And this is this goes back to to predates the redevelopment of of terminal five. And many have suggested that we should make this area a quiet zone. This led to the development of a statement of legislative intent sponsored by myself in 2016, and that that statement of legislative intent from nearly five years ago requested that a start work with the port, the Federal Railway Administration and the railway companies doing business at Terminal five to extend the existing quiet zone from Terminal five to the Dulwich Way West Marginal Way intersection. As we all know, Terminal five has been undergoing a modernization project was just nearly complete and the port expects full rail operations beginning in 2022 . The timeline originally slated for the quiet zone to be completed was was originally in December 2020 in advance of the completion of the Terminal five project. But the project has been plagued with delays associated with the topic of the of the legislation today related to the business tenant's appeal of the design of the quiet zone, resulting in the city and port conducting extensive outreach to ameliorate the outstanding concerns of that tenant. And I really appreciate the joint efforts of the city and the port in doing so, but also recognize that given the fact that those efforts have not thus far been successful, this legislation is absolutely necessary to move the quiet zone forward. So thank you. Thank you so much. Councilmember honorable any additional comments on the bill? Okay. And Councilmember Peterson is already letting me know that he is done with his comments. So we won't. We will consider his first word to be the last word on the on this bill. Having said, will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill? Peterson Yes. So what? Yes. STROUSE Yes. HERBOLD Yes. Suarez I. Lewis Yes. Morales Plus, get a i. President Gonzalez. I. Nine in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affect my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read the short title of item nine into the record? Agenda Item nine Council Bill 120 159 Building to grant funds from the United States Department, Transportation and other non city sources. The committee recommends the bill pass.