Speaker 0: Please read the next report. And by the way, we're getting there. We just have an agenda. We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there for you to read the next report. We've already admitted our agenda. So we got the report.
Speaker 10: The Planning Lenses and Zoning Committee Agenda Item three Cancel 118 736 relating to land use and zoning at a new chapter 23.58 See how the ceremonies have occurred to establish the framework for mandatory housing affordability for residential development and amending Section 23.30 4.00 for subsection 23.40 point zero. 20.8 23.70 6.00. Six point B and .03 to point B. Sections 23.90 .002 and 2.0 15 and subsections 0.18 points. C SNC Can we recommend Civil Pass as amended?
Speaker 0: I'm sorry, I didn't actually read the church version. My apologies. Councilmember Johnson.
Speaker 12: Thank you. Council President Harrell As you are aware, this piece of legislation will require all residential development in the city to either pay a fee to build more affordable housing or to build affordable housing on site. I'm very excited to bring this piece of legislation forward today, but before I speak to the bill, we have two small amendments. And may I suggest that now that Councilmember Bryan is back, we start with his amendment.
Speaker 0: Senator, in your timing, you have an amendment, I believe, to the section one one.
Speaker 13: Great. Thank you, Councilmember Johnson. I'll go ahead and move amendment number 1/2. But amendment number one does it corrects a typo that we caught in the process. If you look at the amendment, you can see where they changed the language specifically. We had always intended to refer to looking at the pin payment in lieu fees and how they affected projects inside of the downtown South Lake Union area. We actually had put outside in there and so this would correct that.
Speaker 0: So the bill has been moved. The amendment has been moved in second. And all those in favor of the amendment bill I, I opposed. The ayes have it. So it is a minute in that sense.
Speaker 12: So Council President Harrell I've got a Second Amendment that as you know, the establishment of the framework legislation is subject to our 36.7 a .50. Our legal team has requested that we amend the ordinance to include a findings of fact which demonstrates how our program meets the requirements of the our CW, including facts related to our affordable housing need, and outlining how the proposed program will operate in accordance with state code. The amendment is proposed to insert a new section into the ordinance to attach the findings of fact. And I'd like to move Amendment two to amend Council Bill 118736 by adding new Section one and titled The City Council hereby makes the findings of fact an attachment add to this ordinance.
Speaker 5: Second.
Speaker 0: Second. So a Second Amendment has been proposed by Councilman Johnson in the other questions on the amendment. All those in favor of the amendment vote i. I opposed. The ayes have it. So we have an amendment piece of legislation with two amendments. Councilmember Johnson, you.
Speaker 12: Wouldn't mind allowing me to speak just for a few minutes on the underlying bill? Council President Harrell I want to first start by saying thank you to the members of Washington. Can LGBT, LGBTQ allies ship as well as Puget Sound Stage for showing up today to testify in support of this program? This program is critical for the success of our city. As you're aware, rising housing costs in the city are having a real impact on our residents. Over 40,000 of our households are paying more than 50% of their income in rent. We know this burden is experienced even more acutely by communities of color. We hear from residents every day who are struggling to afford to stay in the city of Seattle, where they move away from their families, from their places of worship, from their schools, to get the services that they need, they need to be able to afford to live in the city. We must address the tools with all the available tools in front of us. And I think this is a critically important tool in order to build out 6000 affordable units towards our goal of 20,000 new units over the next ten years. We had a great discussion over several months around this legislation. We heard from many folks who in the community emailed, called or stopped by our hearings or our public meetings, and we made some significant changes to the legislation. And I want to thank in particular Councilmember Herbold and O'Brien, who spent a lot of time working with me on this legislation. One of the elements that we heard is that the community was interested in seeing a greater percentage of the units that will result from this program being built in the neighborhood. So we amended the legislation to include that. We heard that the community would like the term of affordability to last longer. So we amended the term from 50 years to 75 years. We heard from the community that they wanted us to do a better job of allowing folks who are renting in that building when it gets converted into homeownership, be offered the opportunity for first rate refusal to stay in their building and purchase those units. We, I think, really heard from the community about how they want more accountability and reporting. So we changed the timeline to advance how early reporting, to understand how the program is really working as it's intended to. This bill is a culmination of years of dedication from advocates in the community who have been fighting for more affordable housing in the city. I was proud to shepherd this through the city council. We've still got a lot of work in front of us. This bill doesn't actually change any zoning codes today, but what it does do is it provides an important framework to ensure that every new residential development the city will either pay a fee into the Office of Housing to build more affordable housing or build more affordable housing on site. I'm proud of this piece of legislation and encourage my colleagues to vote yes.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman Johnson. Any further comments on Council Bill 118736? Councilmember Herbold.
Speaker 6: Thank you. So this legislation is definitely historic in that we will, for the first time require developers to contribute to affordable housing whenever they build. That's that's a really big deal. I want to highlight the other sort of historic nature of this bill. For the past 30 years, housing advocates have been trying to get displacement mitigation recognized. The amendments that we worked on to this bill, I think, takes a really important step towards towards that effort. Councilmembers O'Brian and Laquita were the first to encourage the city in 2014 to discuss and study how development left unregulated, regulated without some level of mitigation can impact vulnerable communities. Before that, displacement was largely unrecognized as a result of development. We know that between 25 and 2015, the city permitted the demolition of almost 6000 units of housing. We don't know how many of them were affordable and we don't know how many of them were rental. But we do know that those were units that were contributing to our our housing. Dock. Since older buildings are more likely to be affordable than new construction, this inevitably has been an impact on our our affordable housing stock. The. The efforts of this amendment, I think, are small and incremental. They will not stop housing demolition in the city, but it is an important recognition that a racially inclusive and affordable city will mean taking steps to not lose what affordable housing that we already have. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Katherine Herbert. Any further comments from any of my colleagues? Council Member O'Brien.
Speaker 13: Now, I'll just briefly want to also thank council members Johnson and Herbold for your great work on this. This is an outstanding piece of legislation that I'm very excited to support today. For the reasons you've heard before, requiring that all development contributes to affordable housing in the city is a great step forward. Also, the work around addressing displacement. The language in this bill, I think is a great step forward. There's a lot of good language in this bill, but until we do further actions both around how we address displacement and the zoning changes needed to necessary to make this implemented, it'll just be language. And so I'm proud and excited to stand with my colleagues today and support this, recognizing that we have some ongoing work to do so we can actually get more affordable housing in our community.
Speaker 0: All right. Take her home. All those a call. Let me have a call. A roll call on the passage of the amended council. Bill 118736.
Speaker 1: BURGESS All right.
Speaker 2: Gonzalez I. Herbold. Johnson. Suarez. O'Brien. I beg your president. High eight in favor and unopposed.
Speaker 0: The bill passed and chair will gladly sign. The Port of the Human Services and Public Health Committee. Please read, read items four and five together.
AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; adding a new Chapter 23.58C of the Seattle Municipal Code (SMC) to establish the framework for mandatory housing affordability for residential development; and amending Section 23.34.004, subsections 23.40.020.A, 23.76.006.B, and 23.76.032.B, Sections 23.90.002 and 23.90.015, and subsection 23.90.018.C of the SMC.