Speaker 0: The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item 12.
Speaker 1: Agenda item number 12. Council Bill 118333. Vacating a portion of Terry Avenue and an alley and block 32 is of Sara Abel second edition on the petition of King County and ratifying confirming certain prior acts, the committee recommends the bill pass.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Rasmussen. This council bill, if approved by the council, formally completes the vacation of a portion of Terry Avenue and a nearby alley. The petition for the vacation was in 1988 by King County. The county requested their vacation to construct the North Metro Tunnel terminal along Ninth Avenue and Pine Street. The public benefit that the council required at that time was for King County to construct and maintain a North-South pedestrian corridor on the site connecting Olive Way and Pine Street. King County paid the vacation fee, but a public benefit requirement relating to the pedestrian quarter was never provided because it was eventually determined that the pedestrian access through that site was infeasible. For that reason, the vacation was never completed, but it's been left open. Now the county plans to sell the entire site, including the rights of way for the expansion of the Washington State Convention Center. In order to complete the vacation. However, an alternative public benefit has to be provided by the county in addition to the fee that they've already paid. The county proposed and the Department of Transportation has recommended that King County pay the city $150,000 to be used to develop street concept plans in the area surrounding the Washington State Convention Center expansion. It is unusual. We don't know of any vacation that's been left open this long. However, the public benefit portion has been left unfulfilled. But looking forward, it may be in the best interests of the city to to grant this now with the new public benefits, because the pedestrian access and wayfinding and benefits between Capitol Hill and downtown and surrounding the convention center can be more appropriately designed with these funds to meet current public and and transit needs. Thank you. Questions or comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill.
Speaker 1: O'Brien. All right. Rasmussen. All right, so on. I beg your car. I got him. Harold McCarter, president purchased by nine in favor. None oppose.
Speaker 0: The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item 13.
Speaker 1: A Jeanette and 13 Council Bill 118336 relating to the first Hill Streetcar Project authorizing the director of the Department Transportation to acquire accepted record on behalf of the City of Seattle. Various easements granted to the City of Seattle for a portion of blocks five, six, 11, 12, and 14 of the town of Seattle, as laid out by DC Mariner excuse me, Maynard, commonly known as Diaz Mariners Plan of Seattle in Blocks 138 139 of a Denny's Broadway addition to the city of Seattle to install, construct, erect, alter, improve, repair, and maintain permanent streetcar cable eyeballs to various street to various buildings or structures, placing such easements under the jurisdiction of Seattle, different transportation and road funding. Confirming certain prior acts, the committee recommends the bill pass.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Rasmussen. Now, council members, I know this is what you've been waiting for today. The bill authorizes a number of easements relating to the first Hill streetcar, and these are necessary for the installation and maintenance of 11 eyeballed attachments to buildings and other structures along the speaker line. Those attachments will hold the cables necessary to power the streetcar line, and the easements will minimize the installation of additional steel poles along the existing route. And there is no cost for the easements. And while there was quite a bit of discussion, there was no controversy. And the committee recommends approval unanimously. Thank you. Questions or comments? What if I want an eyeball to my house? You'll have to come to the city council for that. Right. Thank you. Please call the role on the passage of the Bill.
Speaker 1: O'Brien. Rasmussen. So, Swan. I beg your pardon. I've got in.
Speaker 3: High.
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Speaker 0: High.
Speaker 1: Nine in favor nine.
Speaker 0: Opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Is there any other business to come before the council? Saying none. We will be adjourned. Thank you.
AN ORDINANCE vacating a portion of Terry Avenue and an alley in Block 32, Heirs of Sarah A. Bell’s 2nd Addition, on the petition of King County (Clerk File 295303); and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.