AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending the Official Land Use Map (Chapter 23.32) to rezone land within the Lake City Urban Village and along Lake City Way; amending subsection 23.47A.005.C of the Seattle Municipal Code to remove certain restrictions on street-level street-facing residential uses; and amending Section 23.47A.009 to adopt development standards for certain properties along Lake City Way.
Agenda item five Constable 118 675 relating to planning and zoning amending the official land use map to rezone land within the Lake City Urban Village and along Lake City Way and many subsection 23.40 78.005. C of the code to remove certain restrictions on street level, street facing residential uses and amending section 23.47 8.009 to adopt development standards for certain property along Lake City, where the committee recommends the bill passed as amended. Councilmember Johnson. Thank you. Council President So this council bill in front of us reflects several years of outreach by the Office of Planning and Community Development in the Lake City community. It doesn't change any building heights in Lake City, but what it does is it promotes some opportunities for us to create a more pedestrian friendly street along Lake City and in the Lake City Neighborhood Business District, Civic Core. The zoning change, as we described, is as capacity neutral, and we had some really good discussions about this in committee. The bill effectively expands the pedestrian designation within the urban village, which allows for us to change some of the way that the building meets the street. Does things like prohibit commercial development from having parking lots in front of the building and requires them to be built behind the building, for example. The bill would also effectively change some design standards for large lots, so it would ask us to do some setbacks on large lots over 40,000 feet. We had a request from the community to reduce some of the setbacks in those large lots from 45 feet down to 35 feet. And that amendment was passed out of committee. And these, along with other design standards that we're adopting today, we think are going to really result in a community that continues to, as they build in building new buildings, be a more pedestrian, friendly, walkable neighborhood that they aspire to be. And that concludes my remarks. I believe Councilmember Wise has some things you would like to achieve. Councilmember Johnson comes from a worse. Well, I know that you're not all excited about zoning changes, but some of us really are. I know, Robin. I'm excited. I'm excited to vote for the zoning changes today. Lake City is a vibrant, growing community and certainly benefit from the mandatory housing affordability framework that will be coming from this council as well. The changes in this legislation will create development guidelines and pedestrian designations to ensure new development meets the needs of the community that's becoming dense and needs to increase walkability and access. I want to thank Councilmember Johnson for his leadership on this legislation. I also want to thank Katie Sheehy from the Office of Planning and Community Development, who has spent years working with the neighbors in Lake City to bring these recommendations forward. And most importantly, I want to thank all the community members who dedicate their time and their energy and told their stories and came downtown to provide public comment . Without their hard work and concern for their neighborhood. A lot of these changes would not be happening today. So with that, I'm happy to vote in support of this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Worse. Any further comments? Please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Bagshaw. Burgess. Gonzalez. I Herbold II. Johnson, Suarez, I. O'Brien, President Harrell high eight in favor and unopposed. Bill passed and the chair will sign it. Please read the next agenda item.