Speaker 5: Agenda Item 20 Council Bill 120206 An Ordinance relating to Land Use and Zoning. Adding a new Chapter 23.70 to the Seattle Municipal Code. Amending Chapter 23.32 of the Seattle Code at page 14 of the official land use map to establish a mobile home park overlay district, the committee recommends the bill passed as amended.
Speaker 0: Thank you so much. This is also under councilmember stresses committee responsibilities. I'm going to call on Councilmember Strauss to address the item.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Council President. This is a moment that I've been long waiting for in part, in large part, most part due to Councilmember Juarez's leadership. This legislation would implement long awaited long term protections for mobile home parks or many furniture, also known as manufactured home parks in Seattle. These protections are a result of a conversation that began over three years ago. Over those three years, we have adopted a moratorium on the redevelopment of mobile home parks and renewed that moratorium repeatedly to provide time for this long term protection that we are going to vote on to be crafted, negotiated. And thanks to Councilmember Warren's avoided court. Three different land use chairs have dealt with this issue since it was since it first arose. And Councilmember Suarez has provided steady leadership on behalf of her district, District five, throughout this entire process. A previous version of this legislation was appealed to a through Examiner over the summer, and we were able to reach a settlement agreement with the appellant to allow us to move forward today because we avoided court. And so this legislation would end the temporary moratoriums by establishing a mobile home park overlay district in the land use code . The way overlay district would apply to the two remaining mobile home parks in the city, the Halcyon and Bellabeat, which are located next to each other in the Bitter Lake Urban Village. The overlay would impose more restrictive development standards to incentivize preservation of the mobile home parks. Specifically, the overlay would limit residential uses to mobile home parks no homes unless the property was sold for the development of affordable housing limit the size of any commercial uses, and establish a height and setback one that match the current mobile home park use of the site. This legislation, the legislation does allow for the possibility of future affordable housing development in the overlay. If that were to occur, there would be strong protections for existing residents. Residents would have the right of first offer, would be entitled to location assistance, and would be able to live in the new affordable housing for rent that is no more than a third of their monthly income. Finally, the overlay would expire after 30 years on January 1st, 2051. This timeframe creates predictability and stability for residents, while still allowing for the site to accommodate more dense housing for future generations. When I was growing up, my grandparents lived in a manufactured home park. I first saw that not how manufactured home parks can be naturally occurring, affordable housing options for many seniors to age in place. And they can also be a source of instability because residents, typically residents, while they own their manufactured home, do not own the land , meet them. And for most manufactured homes out there, if they were ever to be moved, they would be destroyed in that process. And because they don't own the land underneath them, they have the stability and the manufactured home instability without owning that land. And so this legislation ensures that there will be an affordable place to call home for the residents of our last two home parks. Again, thank you to Councilman Juarez and thank you to councilmembers who want to bring this issue up initially in 2019. Thank you, council president. That is the committee report.
Speaker 0: It is so much.
Speaker 5: Councilmember Strauss.
Speaker 0: Casimir was. Are there any comments you'd like to make briefly?
Speaker 6: Yes, thank you. Council president, since we're saying thank you, we owe a huge thank you to Kittle, who's been working on this since December of 2008. And a huge thank you to our District five director, Dean Alsip, who has been working diligently and visiting and going out to Halcion and Bellerby. And of course, you all have heard from Lynda McCoy. I hope our friends at Bellerby and Halcyon are listening because this really means a lot to them. So thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you so much, Councilmember Strauss and Councilmember Wars. Are there any additional comments on Agenda Item 20 Council Bill 120206. Hearing nine. Will the clerk please for the roll on the passage of Council Bill 120206. Agenda Item 20.
Speaker 2: Lewis Yes.
Speaker 1: Morales as Rosetta I. Petersen. Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Yes. Whereas I council. President Gonzalez. I aid in favor and oppose.
Speaker 0: The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Please read the short title of item 21 into the record.
AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; adding a new Chapter 23.70 to the Seattle Municipal Code (SMC); amending Chapter 23.32 of the SMC at page 14 of the Official Land Use Map to establish a Mobile Home Park Overlay District; amending Section 23.84A.032 of the SMC; and requesting that the Office of Housing add the census tract in which the Mobile Home Park Overlay District is located to those eligible for the affirmative marketing and community preference policy adopted in the Housing Funding Policies.