AN ORDINANCE relating to real property located at Mercer Street and Second Avenue North; authorizing the Director of Housing to grant a lease of the real property to Plymouth Housing Group or its affiliate or designee; and authorizing related agreements and actions to support the development of affordable housing and ground floor cultural uses at the Mercer Street and Second Avenue North property.
Agenda item 20 cancel bill 119 643 Relating to real property located at Mercer Street and Second Avenue North, the committee recommends the bill pass customer back. I think this one, if it's at Mercer Street, it's Councilmember Bryant. Oh. I'm sorry, Keysight. Okay. My mistake. Thank you, Keysight. Nice try, Councilmember Bagshaw. Just trying to pass it back to you. Keysight is one of my favorites. It is right next door to the north side of the Seattle center. And it it is a wonderful opportunity for us to be partnering with Plymouth Housing for a 99 year lease. It is again city owned property. Thank you, Councilmember Mosquito, for pointing this out yet again. Want to say thank you to Plymouth Housing, to our Office of Housing, to the Arts Commission, and to the various stakeholders at the Uptown Alliance who have done terrific work for us to make this happen. It's also going to be a great art and culture overlay, just providing 91 units of housing for low income households and formerly homeless households. But to have an. Art. Place and emphasis on the ground for so many thanks. And we urge passage. Very good. Any other questions or comments? I just have one customer. I'm a. Skater. Okay. I'm really excited about this. I'll keep it very short. But Councilmember Bagshaw knows that I spoke in her committee about how this is a great opportunity for us to highlight what we know works. And that's when you pay workers a good living wage, when you ensure that they have access to things like prevailing wage and the union, it helps to improve the quality of life and livability of our city and to improve access to good living wage jobs for workers across the board. So I'm really excited about this project moving forward. The initial conversation that we had last year on this piece of legislation was directly involved or directly included folks from the Seattle Building and Construction Trades and community workforce, folks who have wanted to see US pilot efforts to include strong labor protections in building affordable housing. And the case site has continued to be the area where we look forward to working with partners like Plymouth Office of Housing and Building Trades for this joint effort to show that strong public benefits equal a greater social good and greater equity for not just those who are going to be able to live in those buildings, but also for those who are building the building. So we're excited about this key site effort and will continue to look towards it to be a model for other areas. If you can get up to no further comments, please call the role on the passage of the bill. Herbold I was Macheda High. O'Brien High. Pacheco High. So on Bagshaw High. Gonzalez President. Harrell High. Seven in favor and unopposed. Passes and the chair will sign it. Please read agenda item number 22. Agenda item 22 Resolution 31902 Declaring the City Council and the Mayor's intent to consider strategies to protect trees and increase Seattle's tree canopy cover. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted as amended.