AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; adopting a moratorium on the filing, acceptance, or processing of applications for the establishment, expansion, or change of use for certain uses on parcels with a Commercial 1, Commercial 2, or Neighborhood Commercial 3 zoning designation within the Aurora-Licton Urban Village; declaring an emergency and establishing an immediate effective date; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
And I opposed the resolution as adopted and the General Senate resolutions. Madam Clerk, item number three The short title, please. Agenda item three Council Bill 119093 relating to land use and zoning adopting excuse me, moratorium on the filing, acceptance and or processing of applications for establishing expansion or change of use for certain uses of parcels within commercial one. Excuse me. Introduce. I'm going to turn this one over to Councilmember Juarez. Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm very happy and proud to introduce Council Bill 119093. As you know, we shared this is regarding the urban village, the urban village strategy, in particular the Aurora Linton Springs, Aurora Village. As you heard some from public comment, this is 20 years in the works. And I want to thank those community members who have lived in those neighborhoods for well over two decades with their heart, with their commitment, the passion for their community. It's inspirational. It's been an honor working with you because I know we started this conversation well over a year ago. The purpose of this legislation is to encourage more housing and pedestrian friendly development in the C1, C2 and nc3 designations within the boundaries of Allof the goals of this legislation are consistent with the 2035 Comprehensive Plan, the Rural Act and Urban Village Neighborhood Plan, and the mandatory housing affordability citywide re zones, all of which have had community and council review over the last several years with more review to come in 2018. This legislation will disallow certain types of heavy commercial use being developed in the ALA boundaries. No businesses will be asked to leave or relocate as a result of this legislation. Any new businesses development, any new business development I'm sorry that has recently been permitted or is in the permitting process will still move forward when the new up zones go into effect. I believe that will be in 2018. These same heavy commercial uses, which I believe there are 17 of them, will no longer be in allowed in a live. So this is this is our effort to build a bridge into that next phase about how and what we do for the ALA of community development will still be allowed on those lots and we're hoping that this will encourage those owners if they plan to develop to do so by creating housing in pedestrian friendly commercial spaces. The ALA community has been welcoming to potential debt, to potential dense zoning changes and more pedestrian friendly development. The ALA of community has applied for and has been awarded a neighborhood street fund grant for art installations on Aurora and an only in Seattle grant from the Office of Economic Development to support the growth and stability of a stronger local business culture along Aurora. I know it may not seem like a lot to many people, but that one mile stretch on Aurora means a lot to the neighbors and the people that have lived in those communities for decades. I really want to thank the community members who brought this to my attention, who have continued to work with my office and to achieve the goals for their community, including Lee Anderson, Lee Burch, David Ozaki, Ryan de Raphael. I think I said that wrong. Just to name a few. Some of those people spoke up today. I did say wrong, didn't I? You're looking right at me. And that showed up today. You know, it's not often we get folks from the North End to come down. So I really appreciate that you came down to so we could hear you at public comment talk about these neighborhoods when we were doing all these plantings and the neighborhood plans and the urban village strategies. We also heard from folks in the last year and a half from Broadview, Bitter Lake, Holler, Lake, Lake City, way in North Cape. As you know, we have light rail coming in at Northgate. We're looking at a second stop at 130th and Bitter Lake. And so these neighborhoods are very dense now and they're growing very quickly. And we're working with the state legislator and my colleagues for more housing density in these neighborhoods. But I want to say that working with you guys has been a real pleasure. Sometimes this job is a bit difficult, but it's nice to work with a community that looks forward, that's realistic about what we can get done and truly cares about not only their community, but the city of Seattle. So I want to also say and thank my colleagues, particularly Councilmember Johnson, who's been great on all this wonky urban planning stuff. And I'm going to ask all my colleagues today for your support in voting yes to these changes. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmembers. So I would move to pass Councilmember 119093 and it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion or comments colleagues seeing and I would ask the clerk to please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Flores O'Brien. So what? Bagshaw Gonzalez. I Herbold Johnson. Hi. Seven in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it, please. Oh, yes. Well deserved. Please read the agenda. Item number four.