Speaker 6: The Report of the Planning and Zoning Committee Agenda Item eight Council 119 248 Amending the 2015 Seattle Building Code as adopted by Ordinance 125 161. Allowing the height limitation increase for occupancy group are two of type three construction to be increased to six stories and 75 feet where all specified provisions are met. The committee recommends the bill passed as amended.
Speaker 0: Councilwoman Johnson, who.
Speaker 8: Wants to talk about construction code, this is a book. And so we we had one of the 6765 hall recommendations was to allow for us to build slightly taller buildings using wood frame construction. And the value of the wood frame construction is that buildings can then be built a little less expensive than the steel and concrete. And by a little less, I mean a lot less. And after a couple of years of charades and working with the fire department and working with a whole lot of other folks, including our Construction Codes Advisory Board, what we have in front of us today is a bill that would authorize a change the Seattle building code to allow for an extra story of wood frame construction in places where we allow for buildings that are six feet, six stories tall or larger. What this really means is that for some of our buildings that are under construction right now because of the current code, they're being built ten or 20 feet shorter than what we're currently zoned for. The zoning change would allow for that additional height, and with that additional height comes additional units. We've got a project just off the street at 10th and Jackson, that's a story below what it could be if it was built under this construction code, that extra story would bring the unit count from 320 to 375. So, you know, it sounds like a small thing, but every little project that adds another 15, 20 or in this case 50 units would make a really big difference to addressing housing affordability in the city. And with that, I urge your support very much.
Speaker 0: Any further comments? Councilmember Beck Shop, Click Win.
Speaker 1: Councilmember Johnson Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm certainly supporting you in this work. Can you talk a little bit about compressed laminated timber CLT? Is that going to be a separate rule so we.
Speaker 1: Can go even higher using that product?
Speaker 8: Yes, that that is governed by a different section of the state code. So we need more work at the city level in order to allow for us to build taller buildings than what is proposed here with compressed laminate timber. More to come on that, but we need to do some more work with the state before we can go there.
Speaker 0: Good. No further comments. Please call the rule on the passage of the bill.
Speaker 1: Salon Bakeshop. Gonzalez Herbold. Johnson Suarez. Mosquera O'Brien. President Harrell. Hi. Nine In favor and unopposed.
Speaker 0: Feel best in show assignment. Please read the report of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee and please read the short titles items nine through 11.
AN ORDINANCE amending the 2015 Seattle Building Code as adopted by Ordinance 125161; allowing the height limitation increase for Occupancy Group R-2 of Type IIIA construction be increased to six stories and 75 feet where all specified provisions are met.