Speaker 0: Strauss. Yes. And Council President Gonzalez. Yes. Seven in favor. Nine opposed. The motion carries and the appointments are confirmed. Well, the clerk please read item 26 into the record. Report of the Transportation and Utilities Committee Agenda Item 26 Council Bill 120115 relating to the traffic code amended sections 11.14 .277, 11.16 .121 and 11.7 6.015 of and adding a new section 11.1 4.276 to the seven municipalities to establish on.
Speaker 4: Street parking.
Speaker 0: Rates for large events that are expected to draw at least 10,000 attendees. The committee recommends the bill pass as amended. Thank you so much, Casper Peterson. You are the chair of this committee. Somebody handed over to you to provide the report.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Council president, colleagues, as I mentioned at the council briefing this morning, our Transportation Utilities Committee amended and then unanimously recommended Council Bill 120115. This bill will enable our Seattle Department of Transportation to better manage on street parking availability in the uptown neighborhood by increasing parking rates as needed during large events at Seattle Center. Large events are likely to include professional sports at the newly renovated climate pledge arena, formerly known as Key Arena. While our committee unanimously adopted the bill on July seven, we decided to have the legislation arrive at today's council meeting a full three council meetings later, just in case the public wanted more time to comment. Thank you to Councilmember Morales for her important amendment in committee, which clarified that the scope is limited just to large events at Seattle Center. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you so much, Councilmember Peterson. Any additional comments on the bill? Councilmember Lewis, please.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Madam President. Well, as I am not a member of the Transportation Committee, today has been my first opportunity to engage in a council process on this bill. I do want to thank Councilmember Peterson for providing space to meet and discuss potential concerns with him in the run up to his process in his committee , and do appreciate that that that process was inclusive of my positions as the councilmember representing uptown. I do feel like I should make a statement on the legislation now that is facing final passage, and I have the first opportunity to weigh in with an official vote on it. I do support the legislation and I do think it's important that we have a strategy around the finite on street parking supply in the uptown neighborhood and how the coming significantly large events. At the climate pledge arena are going to impact that parking supply. I do just want to put on the record for folks watching and this will probably be redundant to the discourse in the Transportation Committee. But for the first hour of parking, for the first rather 2 hours of parking, the rate will be assessed at $3 an hour for the second two hour period of parking that will be assessed at $8 an hour, with the director discretion to increase to $12 an hour for a four hour period. Folks could end up paying as much as $22 for on street parking or up to 30 if the full discretion afforded to the director is permitted. I think it is important to acknowledge that the Uptown neighborhood has considerable additional demands as a neighborhood with a number of small businesses, with additional arts and entertainment facilities in the region, all of which are going to be competing for limited parking supply with these significant events. I do want to just come on the record and state that I think it is important that when we are planning moving several thousand people into a discrete area, that we do provide incentives to take advantage of the multitude of direct bus routes that go to the Seattle Center campus from all over the city of Seattle, that we take advantage of the souped up monorail transfer that is going to be available to visitors on game days to transfer from the light rail at Westlake to the monorail in order to get to the Seattle Center campus. And we can't forget the upcoming Thomas Street improvements that this council has supported for a number of years to increase bike and pedestrian options and indeed to facilitate potential parking from further afield and provide a good pedestrian promenade to the Seattle Center campus. All improvements in anticipating moving significant numbers of people to the Seattle center. There are considerable alternatives to driving, and if folks do drive, we need to make sure that we are doing our due diligence to make sure that the parking is being rationed in a way that can be. That can coexist with some of the other demands the uptown neighborhood faces for street parking, and also make sure that we are incentivizing those other methods of folks to get to the center campus without depending on single occupancy vehicles. So at that, I will be voting for this. I do think that considering again that it's only limited to situations when there are large events, these are not new default, 24 hour a day parking rates for the uptown neighborhood. That this is a a reasonable course of action by the department and I will be voting for it.
Speaker 0: Thank you so much, Councilmember Lewis. Any additional comments on the bill? All right. Hearing none while the court chief called the roll on the passage of the bill. HERBOLD. Yes. Suarez, I.
Speaker 1: LEWIS Yes. Peterson Yes.
Speaker 0: So, Sergeant. Yes. Strauss Yes. And Council President Gonzalez. Yes. Seven a favor and unopposed bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the caucuses affect my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read items 27 through 31 into the.
AN ORDINANCE relating to the Traffic Code; amending Sections 11.14.277, 11.16.121, and 11.76.015 of, and adding a new Section 11.14.276 to, the Seattle Municipal Code to establish on-street paid parking rates for large events that are expected to draw at least 10,000 attendees.