A RESOLUTION calling for additional measures by the City and its partners that complement mandatory housing affordability (MHA) implementation to promote livability and equitable development, mitigate displacement, and address challenges and opportunities raised by community members during the MHA public engagement process.
The report of the City Council. Agenda Item six, Resolution 318 17 calling for additional measures by the city and its partners that complement mandatory housing affordability implementation to promote the livability and equitable development and mitigated displacement and address challenges and opportunities raised by community members during the major public engagement process. Councilmember Johnson, Thank you. Throughout all of our zoning processes of the last couple of years to implement the mandatory housing affordability program, we've traditionally adopted a companion resolution that identifies additional work that the Council would like to have city staff, city departments work on. This is the companion resolution for the Citywide Image Program. There was one amendment to incorporate minor additions requested by council members after the resolution was introduced as summarized in the central staff memo and shown an attachment to that memo. They add a reference to child care requests, further analysis of zoning anomalies and zoning artifacts, including example parcels and requests, further analysis of the proposed density increases within the new district. This is also the place where many of my colleagues who have unfortunately not been allowed to include proposed amendments for individual parcels inside the base legislation. This is the resolution where those suggestions live, I think about affordable housing opportunities. For example, in Councilmember O'Brien's district, which we've talked about at length, where our Boys and Girls Club is interested in redeveloping to allow for more affordable housing on top. But because they're outside of an urban village, they were not studied in this environmental impact statement for our previous legislation. This resolution calls on that property, as well as dozens of other properties around the city, to continue to be analyzed by the planning department so that they can be included in future legislation. So without further ado, I'd move to amend Resolution 31870 by substituting version six for version five point A and by substituting version two for version one of attachment 1/2. Okay, this is just for the amendment. It's been moved in second. And to amend the resolution as described by Councilwoman Johnson, all those in favor of the amendment. Please vote I. I oppose vote no. The amendment is passed. Katherine Johnson, anything to add? I have nothing here. Any comments on this resolution before we take vote comes from Mesquita. Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to say thanks to the chair again for his work with our office to make some of the amendments. We're really excited about some of the language that we were able to include in the companion resolution to not only recognize but prioritize and include communities most at risk of displacement and thinking through how we do implementation and how we do next steps. Again, echoing what we said earlier, recognizing that MHR is one element of how we will make sure that we're creating more affordable housing. There's a few pieces. There's actually three that I'd just like to highlight, and again, thank him for his work with our office to get these included. One is we're calling for an increase enrollment in the property tax relief program for seniors and individuals with disabilities so that those homeowners can have additional relief. Currently, we only have about one third of those who are qualified for household are qualified for the program, actually enrolled in King County. We know we can do better. Interested in working with the city and the county assessor's office to help increase enrollment in that program? The second thing we worked on is to include language specifically to enhance our community priorities and ensure that new development includes elements such as childcare, art and cultural space. This is one of the issues, and I'm looking at our friends in Biggin Hill where we heard repeatedly how challenging it was to include, for example, art on their outside on the facade of the Roberto Massa Plaza as we create new buildings that are intended to be for not just houses but for community space and plazas and green areas. We want to make sure that we're listening to the community and how we incorporate some of the ideas for how to truly create, place and create a sense of neighborhood. And then the last thing is excited about some of the work that we're going to be doing that's mentioned in the resolution around community preference and affirmative marketing to ensure that longtime community members in areas in high risk of displacement are prioritized for building more homes. I think we've all said it and I'll repeat again. Creating additional housing is a key element to helping to address displacement. We also want to make sure that as new housing is created, as those affordable units go online, those who've been in the neighborhood have the first chance to get back in and through the community preference policies that our friends at the Office of Housing have been working on for a while with community partners. We're really excited about amping that up, so thank you to the chair for his work with our office and getting some of those pieces in. Thank you. Councilman Mesquita, could we have in a minute resolution or anything you'd like to speak on, Castro Herbold. I would as well. Thank you. Some items that this resolution commits the city to work on, which I really appreciate again. Commitment to carry out a variety of initiatives identified to address displacement, especially focused in neighborhoods of having a high risk of displacement in the growth and equity analysis. Prioritizing investment in neighborhoods with high displacement risk and neighborhoods where fees were generated, and also to create more family sized housing. We also, in this resolution signal our intent to evaluate the enforcement of ordinance 12 4861 passed with former Council member Burgess's leadership. This is an ordinance that requires owners of certain low income housing to notify the city of the proposed sale of building. This is an ordinance that has been it's been on the books for a while and eager to work with the Office of Housing to look at how we can actually enforce it so we can get some of these properties into into community ownership so that we can have community driven development. We're also interested in looking at expanding this ordinance beyond the scope of multifamily housing. Folks in the Morgan Junction in particular are interested in using this this ordinance or successor ordinance to create a pilot, to incentivize owners of property to make that property available to groups like Homestead Community Land Trust to encourage entry level homeownership opportunities. In addition, this resolution highlights our intent to develop and implement strategies to support and incubates small independent businesses. And as it relates specifically to some of the district wide issues, I just want to highlight a couple. For Admiral, we're asking the Office of Planned Community Development to update neighborhood design guidelines to address transitions between zones along California AV in the Morgan Junction. In addition to the affordable housing pilot that I mentioned earlier, OPIC has requested to collaborate with community stakeholders to determine the conditions for a pedestrian zone and in regards to the West Seattle Junction. We're highlighting the community's interest to begin working with OPD on community planning in conjunction with a future light rail station. OK'd has committed to begin background work in 2019 and planning in earnest in 2020, and the community is eager to get started. And then for Westwood, there is similarly. A. Request of OPC to bring South Delbridge into the planning for the rest of Dale Ridge. Self-Storage has been a neglected part of Dale Ridge, and we really need to make sure that we're integrating the planning for that part of. The corridor with the rest of Dale Ridge. And then finally at four four South Park, we're really interested in working on examining the question of whether or not South Park meets the criteria for Urban Village designation, as well as asking the Department of Neighborhoods to support community efforts to protect historic resources in the neighborhood, and then finally working with CCI to see if there are specific public, not private public views of the Duwamish River that should be protected within the bounds of the urban village. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Herbold. Okay. Any further questions before we vote on the resolution? Okay. This is going to have to be moved. So I will move to adopt resolution 31870 as amended. Okay. All those in favor of adopting the resolution. Please vote i i those oppose vote no. The motion carries and resolution is adopted in the chair will sign it. Please read the report. Of the Civil Rights, Utility's Economic Development and Arts Committee.