AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending Sections 25.05.675 and 25.05.800 of the Seattle Municipal Code to clarify and update references to the Comprehensive Plan and restore the categorical exemptions for State Environmental Policy Act review of proposed “infill” development.
Three prior the Planning and Zoning Committee Agenda Item for accountable 118 753 relating to license only amending sections 25.0 5.6 75 and point 800 synonymous for code to clarify an update references to the Comprehensive Plan and Restore the Categorical Exemptions for State Environmental Policy Act Review of proposed infill developments committee recommends the bill passed as amended. Councilmember Johnson. Thank you. Council President Herald This was a bill that we had in committee for longer than we had the comprehensive plan last year. Thanks for referencing it, Amelia. This bill restores something called our categorical exemption for our State Environmental Policy Act thresholds in urban centers back to the levels established by council in 2012. We had a lot of rigorous debate about this. The Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections has a set of protocols that they asked developers to go through that we felt were redundant with what a developer has to go through in order to fulfill the obligations outlined in the CBA documents that the state requires of us. For several years it was the Council adopted policy that developments under a certain number of units. We're not required to go through this CPA process because of those additional requirements that we put on development through our Department of Construction and an inspection process. And so the action that we'll take today would remove the CPA thresholds from just urban centers. So our six urban centers in the city and we've asked the Seattle Department of Construction inspections to come back around to us and talk to us about the implications of what removing those thresholds would mean inside our urban villages. To the committee, you adopted this unanimously after several, several months of rigorous debate at committee, and I would encourage my colleagues to vote yes. Thank you, Councilmember Justin. And then any further comments about this bill? Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Johnson, I. Suarez. O'Brian. Sergeant Bagshaw. Burgess. Gonzalez Herbold. President Harrell. All nine in favor and unopposed. Bill passed and chair of Senate. Please read the part of the planning land use and I'm sorry the affordable housing neighborhoods in Finance Committee three four. The Affordable Housing Neighborhoods and Finance Committee Agenda and five accountable 1189 37 million to the redevelopment. Yes. Retirees by the Housing Authority. The cities that authorized the mayor to execute an amendment to the Terrorist Cooperative Agreement with the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle that was authorized by Ordinance 123 961 authorizing the Director of Housing to