A RESOLUTION identifying proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments to be considered for possible adoption in 2022 and requesting that the Office of Planning and Community Development and the Seattle Planning Commission review and make recommendations about proposed amendments.
Agenda item for resolution 32010. Identify and propose comprehensive plan amendments to be considered for possible adoption in 2022 and requesting the Office of Planning and Community Development and the Seattle Planning Commission Review and make recommendations about proposed amendments. The Committee recommends that the resolution be adopted. Thank you so much, Madam Clerk, because my address when I handed back over to you as this is an item related to your committee. I think it comes President. This is the annual comprehensive plan docket setting resolution, which sets the docket of comprehensive plan amendments that will be considered next year in 2022. This resolution provides predict predictability and transparency to the public and requests that OK'd in the Seattle Planning Commission review and make recommendations on the comprehensive plan amendments that Council intends to consider next year. I hope this year amendments can be submitted for by for council consideration by members of the public or by council members. The Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee and central staff consider amendments based on criteria the Council has set has previously set by resolution, and this year Council's central staff, the Office of Planning and Community Development and Seattle Planning Commission. We're all in agreement on the recommendations for docket ing of within this resolution. Two amendments are added to the docket by this resolution. An amendment from Council Member Lewis to remove an arterial street designation from West Florencia Street between Third Avenue North been in for background and reference. We cannot put traffic calming measures on arterial streets. And if anyone's driven on West Orange here, we know that this street needs. Traffic calming and it's a very narrow street. We also have an amendment from myself that would add language to the comprehensive plan to encourage the living. Putting a lid on freeways to reconnect communities and create new open space and buildable land. There are six other amendments proposed and were deemed as not meeting the criteria for docking. One of these is James Gracey. You did call in and spoke up about your project, a project that I think has great merit. Unfortunately, the comprehensive plan is not the correct vehicle for your reasons, since it is a single property. The proper reasoning process for a one piece of property is the contract rezoning process. This resolution that we are considering today is separate from the annual comprehensive plan amendment process, which we will be taking up in in September. So for reference, we set this resolution for what we will consider in September of 2022. What we are taking up in September of this year, in 2021 was taken up a year ago by resolution in August, July of 2020. So instead, these docketed proposals will be studied in the months to come and again considered in the 2022 round of amendments. Council President Checking with you. Do I need to move to adopt or we are good to go. Those are my that is the committee report on this bill. Great. Thank you so much. Colleagues, any other excuse me, any other comments on this resolution? I have not seen any hands raised. Oh, there we go. Councilmember Hubble, please. All right. I tried to do it electronically, and it's not going as an option. My apologies. I wanted to mention a couple items that are included in this. Moving forward is a longstanding request from some members of the South Park community about the the South Park status as an urban village and the request for a report to council as described in some resolutions associated with that may take years ago. So I really appreciate that this amendment was included. Also want to speak to the fact that I'm pleased that the the amendment related to impact fees is is included. And then lastly, well, there's actually two more. Two more points as it relates to a transportation element that hasn't moved forward, because I think it's considered it wasn't considered because it was a repeat I repeat amendment. And that is specifically the event, the amendment in the transportation element of the comp plan to minimize damage from heavy vehicles . Just want to note that this is really an ongoing issue as it relates to the condition of the streets, specifically around areas where we have increased the use of transit and and also in areas where other types of long, large vehicle street vehicles are using the streets are just calling out the streets around Westwood Village as well as many in South Park. And so just want to flag my my interest in finding some way to work on this issue moving forward. And then lastly, member Strauss, thank you for staying request not move forward regarding an amendment for a proposed housing project in District one. I think we all agree that the vision for this property aligns with many other city goals related to neighborhood access, building, community wealth and combating displacement. I know OPC has stated that they are interested in working collaboratively with the property owner to identify other potential options for the site. And as Councilmember Strauss mentioned, a contract rezoning is one approach, another another approach that OPC has identified. Is the recent legislation passed that allows for affordable housing on religious property? The proponents of this of this compliant amendment have expressed an interest in building housing that is affordable to under 50% AMI and object states that under the religious property zoning legislation, the current zoning potentially would allow for 30 affordable housing units. And conceivably, this is a more expedient path forward since this Council Bill 12 0081 has already been passed. Conceivably, this might be a more expedient approach to meeting these goals rather than a commitment amendment. So looking forward to discussing the efforts and how to move forward with the project components. Thank you. Also. Thank you so much, Councilmember Herbold, Councilman Lewis. Thank you, Madam President. I just want to speak briefly to uplift the the hard work of all of the neighbors in the Florencia corridor who have been organizing for years to get some kind of action in this stretch to provide the necessary safety, security and placemaking that that neighborhood would like to do in this war on Shia in the Florencia area, but are currently unable to because of the designation as an arterial. I just wanted to say to everyone, if you're if you folks are listening up there in Florencia who've been organizing around this, we have heard, yeah, this is one more hurdle that that has passed to get some necessary changes in this corridor and have really appreciated working with you. I just wish that this could be happening faster. I definitely want to thank Councilmember Strauss for his leadership and making the time and carving out the space for consideration of this important change and look forward to moving it another step. Thank you so much, Councilor Lewis. Okay. Any other hands? If not, I'm going to let Strauss have the last word. Thank you. Council President, Council member Lewis. In terms of her role, that had great remarks. Well said. And colleagues, this process here is one example of why I have such strict parameters around the Land Use Committee about knowledge of intent, amendments and legislation. Because, as Councilmember Lewis pointed out, for us to make simple changes on the street requires your advance notice before we can even take it to the plant, before we can actually make changes. So thank you, colleagues, for indulging me in my early request for early notice. Thank you. Council President. Thank you so much. All right. Well, the clerk, please call the roll on the adoption of the resolution. Harris I. Lewis Yes. Morales Yes. Macheda. I. Peterson. I so want. Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbals. Yes. In Council President Gonzalez, I, I'm in favor and and opposed. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please to fix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Moving now to the report of the Public Safety and Human Services Committee. Will the clerk please read item five into the record? The report is the Public Safety and Human Services Committee Agenda Item five Resolution 32011 approving the 2021 to 2026 revision to the Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan. The Committee recommends that the resolution be adopted as amended.