Speaker 7: Agenda items 27 330 Constable 118 981 Ruling 26 only in many Chapter 23.32 Statements of Coda Pages 112 and 113 Official Land Use Map Theresa Land and 23 and cherry note of the 23 Union Jackson Residential Urban Village. The committee recommends the Bill Pass Council Bill one one 8982 relating to land use and zoning. Committee recommends the bill pass as amended. Council Bill 118 983 relating to land use zoning. The committee recommends that the bill pass agenda item 30 Resolution 317 52 recognizing the extensive efforts of the central area community to create a 23rd Avenue Action Plan Urban Design Framework, the committee recommends the resolution be adopted as amended.
Speaker 0: OC will vote on them separately, but you can address them all jointly if you like. Councilman Johnson.
Speaker 5: If that's the preference of the chair, I'm happy to do so. So there are three council bills and one resolution now in front of us this afternoon, Council Bill 118981 would implement our mandatory housing affordability framework at 23rd and cherry 118982 would implement the same program of 2013 Union and 118983 would implement the same program at 2013 . Jackson The companion resolution 31752 outlines several of the things that we heard during public comment on this proposed set of bills and really, as we've done with several of other land issues, allows for us to make some commitments to community that are outside the scope of the land use code. These three individual council bills implemented at Cherry Union and Jackson as a total are really important to me. They come upon the heels of several years of really incredible work by the ACT and our Planning Department to really allow for a place where all Seattleites can call home. In this neighborhood, there's access to good jobs and vibrant local businesses, great transportation choices so that folks don't need to invest in a car and really great access to parks and open space so that people can live healthier and happy lives close to our natural environment. I want to take a special moment just to say thank you to many of the community members who have now departed, but who showed up both today and at several of our committee meetings, as well as our public hearing. The priorities identified by the Action Team and the Urban Design Framework affirm long standing community priorities in a neighborhood plan that is really unprecedented and we hope is a model that we're going to be able to build off of. As we continue our work around implementation of our mandatory housing affordability program. The engagement of residents and business owners in the Central District was really unprecedented. The work the Capitol Hill housing that Africa town that the Lake Union Partners are demonstrating in this neighborhood to build out new models of creating affordable housing is also unprecedented. That that last project, the Midtown Center project that was referenced in our public comment will create over 100 units of affordable housing through a very innovative partnership, both of a 30% and below area median income and the 60% as well. And for all those folks who said the developers were never going to choose to build affordable housing on site, it's a great example where a developer's planning to do just that today. We really celebrate the pieces of the legislation that go beyond zoning, though, as well to create a more pedestrian oriented business district, opportunities for more affordable housing and community space. Opportunities for more affordable commercial space. We highlight in the companion resolution how critical it is to surplus city owned property, property directly to community through community land trusts and to the development of design guidelines and the proposed expansion of our design review boards to allow for a greater influence over the development just in the neighborhood itself, along with the new district and downtown South Lake Union observance. This is one of the early zoning changes we've made with the citywide zones to follow next year. And as we bring those forward, I hope that the city can continue to use the Central District as a really great example of the values that we can bring to the table as a city to implement our mandatory housing affordability program. There are several other things that I think are really important for us to continue to work on. Much of the city several years ago set up a partnership with the financial institutions in our city to allow for residents to get higher mortgage rates through what we call location efficient mortgages. Most lenders won't lend to you at above 3030 5% a loan to value ratio for your income. We are we allowed folks to borrow at a higher rate up to 40%. If you could show that you are buying a house or a condo in a transit rich environment, recognizing that you wouldn't need to spend as much on transportation costs and you could spend more on housing costs. We need to develop similar ownership models in the Central District that allow for longtime residents folks who've been there for 30, 40, 50, 60 years to be able to work with a set of preferred vendors here in the city. On financing that would allow them to work with preferred developers in the community who could then take their existing properties, redevelop them for them to be able to live in and own and to do affirmative marketing to bring back folks who've been displaced from the Central District. Those kinds of innovative partnerships are the kind of things that take us time, but I think are really going to be important for us to make sure that we follow on top of this legislation. Important steps that I think will results in not only a city that welcomes folks who are moving here, but a city who will ultimately welcome back those who have been displaced as well. So that concludes the sort of opening remarks. I'm happy to talk through any more details of the legislation that folks might like, but would defer to questions as they come in.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much, Councilman Johnson. Any further questions? I'll just make a closing comment. I want to thank you for your leadership in really going the extra mile for community outreach, community input, taking this level of urban planning to the level you have. So I want to thank you for your your outreach. I want to thank members of the community for protecting the communities that you are protecting and serving. So thank you very much for that as well, and it'll be my pleasure in supporting this legislation. Any further comments? Okay. We're going to vote on these individually, so please call the role on the passage of Council Bill 118981.
Speaker 1: Herbold Johnson. All right. So on. Make. Hi, Burgess. Hi, Gonzalez. President Arrow seven in favor.
Speaker 0: An unopposed bill passed in show us. Please read. Please call the roll on an item number 28.
Speaker 1: HERBOLD Hi. JOHNSON All right, Sergeant, I make sure Burgess. GONZALEZ President. Harrell All right. Seven in favor.
Speaker 0: Nine opposed the bill passed in the Senate. And please call the roll on council. Bill 118983.
Speaker 1: HERBOLD Hi. JOHNSON All right, so want. Bagshaw Burgess Gonzalez, President Harrell seven in favor and unopposed.
Speaker 0: Bill passed in the Senate. And then we have a resolution that Councilmember Johnson described. Did you have any further comments on a resolution?
Speaker 5: Councilmember Herbold has been working on a substitute that I'd like to ask her to speak, to.
Speaker 0: Cast her vote.
Speaker 7: I'll speak to the changes if you want to speak to the the broader elements in the resolution that are great. Okay. So I move to amend resolution 31752 by substituting substituting version five for version four and the changes included in the substitute rather than having to vote on each member singly. Councilmember Johnson singled signaled this morning that he would be fine to move them in a single amendment by using the substitute resolution and Amendment one basically make some changes to the recitals by acknowledging the history of redlining and segregation and the impact that this has had on the African-American community. Amendment two recognizes that the program is an affordable housing program, but not sufficient to fully address displacement and identifies that the city plans to develop additional strategies to address direct economic and cultural displacement. Amendment three as the city will work with businesses and community to establish micro-businesses as well as small, local and culturally relevant businesses that the word micro has been inserted. And then the amendment for s, p. S DCI and OPD to include guidelines in its in its design guideline guidelines to support specifically the creation of of spaces that are attractive and functional for minority and locally owned businesses and promotes public safety in the design of buildings in privately owned public open space . These four amendments are amendments that Andre Kessler in my office has worked closely with every town on, and I would welcome your support.
Speaker 5: I'm happy to second them.
Speaker 0: Okay, let's vote on the amendment first. It was moved and seconded all those in favor of basically substituting version five for version four, please vote I. I oppose the ayes have it. So we have a substitute, a version with council member Herbold amendments. Any further comments?
Speaker 5: Councilmember Johnson I would just add, you know, there are there is a lot of really good work that we do, but I'm particularly proud of the companion resolution here. Not only do we really call out the changes that have been happening in the Central District over the last several years, but we also double down on our commitment as a city to continue to work with the community to address not just the issues of displacement and gentrification around housing, but also around commercial affordability, around transfer of public land to a community land trust option on working around design guidelines. And as I mentioned before, the expansion of and potential creation of an eighth design review board just to focus on the Central District itself, to work with community organizations to support older adults aging in the central areas, as was discussed during public comment. As somebody who represents a lot of the 0 to 5 community as well. We spent a lot of time talking about how we can support kids who are growing up and living nearby the Central District. Continued support for community driven projects like the William GROSS Cultural Innovation Center through the Equitable Development Initiative, and then continue to are going to continue to do our work with African town and other stakeholders to identify new strategies, including the potential formation of an African town innovation district. So there's a lot of really good work in here that we commit ourselves as a city to do. And I really look forward to continued collaboration with members of the action team and members of the community who have been so engaged with us in this process today.
Speaker 0: Thank you for those comments and any further comments. Those in favor of adopting the resolution as amended, please vote i. I. Those opposed vote no. The motion carries the resolutions adopt and Cheryl, sign it. Please read the report of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee.
AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending Chapter 23.32 of the Seattle Municipal Code at pages 112 and 113 of the Official Land Use Map to rezone land in the 23rd and Cherry node of the 23rd & Union-Jackson Residential Urban Village; and amending Sections 23.45.510, 23.45.512, 23.45.514, and 23.45.517 of the Seattle Municipal Code to implement Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA).