AN ORDINANCE relating to Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program (CHHIP), a public corporation chartered by The City of Seattle; authorizing the Director of the Department of Transportation to enter into an agreement with CHHIP to fund the Capitol Hill Housing Low Income Transportation Demand Management Pilot Project; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Please the report of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee Agenda Item 18 Council Bill 118681 Relating to Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program, a public corporation chartered by the City of Seattle authorizing the director of the Department of Transportation to enter into an agreement with AHIP to fund the Capitol Hill housing, low income transportation demand management pilot project and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts. The committee recommends the bill passed. Councilmember O'Brien. Thank you. So this is a small step we take to work with Capitol Hill Housing on a really great program. As I mentioned earlier today, they are working on a new orca pass that would be distributed to all residents of one of their units. It's a new tool that Metro and Auction is working on, similar to what we do for businesses who want to buy houses for all their employees as we go by residential building and capital housing, working with a few of their affordable housing properties. We'll be distributing these passes to everyone within those units. So this would allow the agreement to be signed so that the city could help fund that pilot program. It also relates to transportation demand management pilot project about shared parking that is going to be funded through the county, but it's pass through money that comes through the city to try to figure out if there are creative ways we can better utilize some of the off street parking that's provided in some of these buildings, specifically when residents aren't there during the day because they use their car to commute to work. Can those spots be used for local businesses? Thank you very much, Councilman Brian. There any further comments on this particular bill? Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Johnson or is O'Brien by Bagshaw Burgess i. Gonzales I Herbold I President Harrell. I present serve it in favor and unopposed. Excuse me. The bill passed and Cheryl sign it. Adoption of other resolutions. Please read the Jan item number 19 into the record. Adoption of other resolutions. Agenda Item 19 Resolution 31668. A resolution relating to sound transit providing recommendations to the Sound Transit Board as to the content of the proposed Sound Transit three ballot measure to be submitted to the voters in November 2016, introduced on May 23rd, 2016. Councilmember O'Brien. Thank you. So I want to thank everyone, everyone on the dais who's helped so much in shaping this resolution. This is our formal statement to the Sound Transit Board stating what the city of Seattle would like to see in a Sound Transit three package. I also want to thank folks that start in the mayor's office and also at Sound Transit for working collaboratively to getting where we are. There's still plenty of work to be done as the Sound Transit Board moves towards what will hopefully be final approval of a package to go to voters this fall. But great strides have been made. I'm just going to highlight some of the items that we call out under Section one. There's their letter to A through H in no particular order, but it is it calls for infill, a light rail station at South Graham Street, an infill light rail station at Northeast 130th Street. It talks about the alignment from downtown to Ballard, in alignment from downtown to West Seattle, stating that those should be in grade separated alignment for the ballot alignment and asked to consider alignments including the alignment west of 15th Avenue and also asks if cost savings can be or additional resources can be found on either of those routes . That potential tunneling could be considered in Ballard, specifically a tunnel underneath the ship canal and in West Seattle, possibly as it gets closer to the junction and talks about funding equitable, transit oriented development. We want we ask it to fund a robust bike and pedestrian access program. We also ask for to include funding for as an early win for the Madison Street BRT and other enhancements to the Rapid Ride C and D lines. And finally, we ask that the plan include planning money to study the West Seattle Junction to Burian and from Ballard to the University District to help facilitate those phases when they come before voters in the near future. Thank you very much, Councilman Brian, for this very important work for our city and region. Are there any further comments regarding this resolution? Councilmember Johnson I say how much I appreciate your leadership on this. Councilmember O'Brien. For members of the public who are tracking along with this, the Sound Transit Board plans to take up the 83 plan at a draft meeting this Thursday. And then following up on that, two meetings in June, one the first week in June, June 2nd. And then following on that, our general board meeting in June, June 24th. So this resolution comes at a very timely fashion and allows me the directive from the City Council to go forth and do everything I can to implement all the items outlined in the resolution today. So thank you for working on this and looking forward to helping deliver on all these things. Thank you. Councilmember Johnson, you are our only hope. And a positive note. That. You are. Seeing no further comments or hearing no further comments. I will move to adopt resolution 316687 is a moving section of the resolution to be adopted. Those in favor of adopting the resolution vote i. I oppose vote no. The motion carries the resolution that is adopted. Then the chair will sign it. Is there any further business to come before the council? Actually, I need to move for an absence for June 6th and June 13th. It's been moved in second that I'd be excused from 606 and 613. All those in favor say I. I feel any opposed. Thank you. I to write that note how quickly I did a thank you. With that we will stand adjourned. And everyone, have a great afternoon. Thank you for once meeting.