Speaker 3: Every part of the planning land use and zoning committee agenda item one Council 119 1388 relating to land use and zoning in many the title of chapter 23.52 Subchapter One The Sentences for code and in many sections 23.50 2.004 and .008 of the CMC and Repealing Section 23.50 2.002 of the CMC to implement the Comprehensive Plan Adopted Level of service standard. The committee recommends the bill passes amended.
Speaker 0: Being very much transparent.
Speaker 1: Johnson thinks we in 2016 adopted an update to our comprehensive plan and within that we adopted a level of service standard that relies on what the industry would call a multimodal level of service. It sets a series of targets for reducing the number of folks that are driving alone, living in our neighborhoods throughout the city, and set some goals for those targets. The action that we contemplate today would implement those level of service standards in neighborhoods throughout the city and do it in a way that would require residential uses with more than 30 unique 30 dwelling units, nonresidential uses with greater than 4000 square feet of gross floor area or nonresidential uses, and industrial zones that have more than more than 30,000 square feet of gross floor area. To start to propose ideas for folks to be able to get to and around those uses without needing to have a car. Those kinds of ideas will take effect in an associated joint director's role, but it could include things like subsidizing transit passes, providing sidewalk improvements, or limiting the amount of parking that's provided on site. It also specifies thresholds that some projects are required to go through impact studies related to transportation that are more projects will be going through this than current. We are required to do so under the State Environmental Policy Act. So a complicated technical piece of legislation, but one with an under arching objective of trying to ask developers to pay more to the city, to allow for folks that are living or working in their units to be able to get around without needing to have a car. Very good. But ask for your support.
Speaker 0: Any questions or comments? Councilmember Herbold.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I just want to speak to some of the concerns that we heard during public comment today. We also heard similar concerns during the committee process in Councilmember Johnson's plus committee. And what we learned through that process is that mitigation of transportation impact impacts for downtown development. As a matter of policy is limited currently to programmatic measures. So there is CPA review for downtown projects. And the the one that is the the mitigation that is most often used are transportation management plans. In addition, development regulations in themselves create disincentives for single occupancy vehicle use downtown. Specifically, there are parking maximums for commercial development. There are floor area ratio disincentives for the provision of above grade parking. And there is a development standard where the there's a limit of floors above grade parking and there is also a limit on the on on requirements regarding screening.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Catherine Herbold. Any further comments? Okay. And I want to thank those that came out to testify on the plan, at least for expressing concerns and having a record clear on your concerns. And hopefully this will still work to your benefit, even though it may not be exactly the kind of legislation you wanted. So thank you for coming out. Please call the roll on the passage of the bill.
Speaker 1: Make sure you're.
Speaker 3: Herbold by.
Speaker 1: Johnson.
Speaker 2: Suarez macheda i o'brien. Right. So on President Harrell high aide in favor and unopposed.
Speaker 0: Bill pass and share with Senate. Please read the report of the Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development and Arts Committee. Read Items two and three.
AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending the title of Chapter 23.52, Subchapter I, of the Seattle Municipal Code (SMC); amending Sections 23.52.004 and 23.52.008 of the SMC; and repealing Section 23.52.002 of the SMC, to implement the Comprehensive Plan adopted level of service standard.