A RESOLUTION designating the Mount Baker McClellan Street Redevelopment Opportunity Zone pursuant to RCW 70.105D.150(1) and making findings in support of such designation.
Just once, if there are no further comments on that particular bill or clerk file, we're going to move on to our next agenda item. I don't see anyone in hands going up, so a lot of shredded exigent item into the record, please. Agenda item three Resolution 317 31 Designating Mt. Baker McClellan Street Redevelopment Opportunity Zone Pursuant to RTW 7.105. 150 and making findings in support of such designation, the committee recommends the resolution be adopted. You just. Thank you. This. This legislation. Councilmember. Please. As you exit. Please exit by way of midway. Where you. Council President Harrell. I just want to register my objection to council members who want staff disrupting our meeting. But anyway, this legislation designates five parcels owned by the Mount Baker Housing Association as a redevelopment opportunity zone. This designation allows Mount Baker Housing Association to be eligible for State Department of Energy grants for the cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater on these particular properties once the remediation is complete. Mount Baker Housing Association plans to build approximately 150 units of affordable housing in a mixed use retail and commercial building near the Mount Baker McClellan Light Rail Station. Redevelopment of this area supports the city's planning goals in Mount Baker, consistent with transit oriented development, more housing choices and equitable development. The committee recommends adoption of the resolution. Thank you very much. Are there any further comments about this resolution? I'd like to say a few words about, I think, Councilmember Burgess for his leadership and for the Committee for Pat, for drafting in passing this resolution. This is a great, great piece of collaboration between the city of Seattle, the Department of Ecology, and the Mount Baker Housing Association. As the chair said, it should be reduced when construction and redevelopment begins, which is still a couple of years away. 2 to 4 years away, 150 new affordable housing units will be three blocks from within the Mount Baker light rail station. And there should be no displacements of existing tenants in Mount Baker village. And that becomes a critical piece of what we're trying to do here. My parents actually lived within a couple of blocks of this area for over 30 years, and so I'm quite familiar with it and have walked this area several times and there are significant contamination issues. Eric Pettigrew, our representative in the 37th, has been a strong supporter of this project and helped the Mount Baker Housing Association secure funding from ecology. And for that we want to thank him. We also realize that all PCD, Michelle Chen and others have done an outstanding job in community outreach. They contacted the Mount Baker Community Club, the Mount Baker Hub Business Association, the Rainier Valley Chamber of Commerce across, and many other groups and individuals who are concerned about this area. So I look forward to this project. I think it can be a phenomenal project. We will deal with the issue of displacement to make sure there is none or we've minimized that and we're working to keep that that area a diverse and vibrant community. So for that, I thank you and look forward to supporting it. Any further comments about the resolution? All those in favor of the resolution vote i. I those opposed vote no. The motion carries a resolution is adopted in Charles Senate. Please read the next agenda items four through ten into the record.