Speaker 7: The Report of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee Agenda Item 15 Council Bill 118 786 Granting Swedish Health Services permission to construct maintain operated pedestrian skybridge over and across a minor avenue. The committee recommends the bill pass.
Speaker 0: Councilmember O'Brien.
Speaker 9: Thank you. This is related to the projects going on on First Hill with Swedish Hospital. As you may recall, we granted an early vacation back in August. This is the same project but different aspect of it. This ordinance would allow them to move forward with construction of a pedestrian skybridge. They worked closely with the community to make a number of investments public benefit on that behalf, and the communities responded very supportive of the project. I'll just mention that there's another agenda. Item number 20 is a resolution. That's the beginning of a similar project, but it's an underground pedestrian tunnel. I'll talk about that in a second.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Are there any further comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill.
Speaker 1: HERBOLD Hi. Johnson Suarez. O'Brien So on. BAGSHAW Burgess. Gonzales President Harrow high nine in favor and unopposed.
Speaker 0: Bill pass and share with Senate. Agenda item number 16.
Speaker 7: Agenda item 16. Constable 118813. Relating to utility permits and regulations, the committee recommends the bill pass.
Speaker 0: House Member O'Brien Thank you.
Speaker 9: So this this ordinance, the description is a little brief. What this is about is the how this starts. The Department of Transportation regulates when third parties, utility companies or telecom companies typically can cut into the right away, cut into the roadway, usually for locating and relocating utilities. There's a set of regulations that folks follow. This update would put more strict restrictions on when and how folks do that. So specifically after a new road has been paved, it would say that instead of having to wait three years as the current rule before you can make cuts in a new road, you now have to wait five years. The goal there is to maintain the the new condition of that roadway as long as possible and still allow some flexibility to do the work in the roadway. Of course, with that comes an obligation on the city to coordinate with utilities and for them to coordinate with us on all the projects they are anticipating, so that when we are in repaving the road, that's the optimal time to be in to the ground and and do the replacement work. This also sets forward and excuse me, a process for an ongoing update to this process that the Department of Transportation can do through director's rules.
Speaker 0: Thank you, councilmember brian. Any further comments? Please call the roll on the passage of the Bill.
Speaker 1: Herbold II Johnson. Suarez O'Brien. Sergeant Bagshaw. Burgess. Gonzales. President Harrell I nine in favor nine opposed.
Speaker 0: The bill passed in with Senate next session item please.
AN ORDINANCE granting Swedish Health Services permission to construct, maintain, and operate a pedestrian skybridge over and across Minor Avenue, between Columbia Street and Cherry Street, for a ten-year term, renewable for two successive ten-year terms; specifying the conditions under which this permit is granted; and providing for the acceptance of the permit and conditions.