Speaker 2: Bill Pass in show assignment, please read agenda item number three.
Speaker 1: The Report of the City Council Agenda and three Resolution 318 41 requesting reports from the Seattle Department of Transportation and the Department of Construction Inspections and the Seattle Center identifying transportation projects in the vicinity of the Seattle Center Arena area, excuse me, and describing the process for administering the Seattle Center Arena Transportation Management Plan.
Speaker 2: Councilmember Johnson.
Speaker 9: Thanks. So we have had several conversations about the transactional documents, and this resolution has something to do with the transactional documents, but is really more off to the side about the city process as we contemplate the construction of a renewed key arena. I think it's really important that we think about how people get to and from that arena and the ways that we would build a transportation infrastructure to get people in, particularly people who are not driving alone to the arena. So this resolution responds to concerns that we've heard from community about the various different transportation projects that are planned for the neighborhood, which funding stream is going to be used to pay for those projects, and how the Department of Construction and Inspections, Department of Transportation, Seattle Center and other various departments are coordinating the completion of those projects . It asks for some reporting back on the status of the construction of those projects and the funding associated with them, and ask those reports to be given back to the council twice a year starting in June of 2019. Two other points that I'd like to say before. I know we've got an amendment on this topic. You know, the city does have a set of goals and objectives we want the arena to achieve in terms of how many folks are driving to the arena versus carpooling, walking, biking, taking transit. And we've got those same objectives for folks that are working at the arena as well and the folks who are working in the construction. So this is a complicated way of saying we've got a set of goals and objectives. We want to have the city work with the arena, focus on meeting those goals and objectives. And we want to hold ourselves accountable to make sure we build those projects on a on a correct timeline. So with that, when I stop there, we'll talk about amendments and then we'll we'll get the thing in front of us.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Councilman Johnson. We'll walk through them. Councilmember O'Brien, did you want to reserve your comments to the amendment part or would you like to say anything now? We'll wait for the amendments. Okay. So, Councilor and Justin, I have you scheduled for a first day, probably a substituted version.
Speaker 9: So I think what I'm supposed to do here is move to pass resolution 31841. Stephanie and I and I don't think we have a substitute. I think.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good.
Speaker 9: I think we now just have done.
Speaker 2: So is been moved in second of the pass a resolution is stated so.
Speaker 9: And and now we're down.
Speaker 2: To a substitute.
Speaker 9: And I don't have that language in front of me. And there is is a substitute version for.
Speaker 2: Seven, eight, four, three, eight, I believe. Okay. So would you like to move seven, eight, four, three, eight. I love that. Okay. And I'll second that.
Speaker 9: A second that.
Speaker 2: This is a version change. Any other comments? All those in favor of substituting version 74, version three eight. Please say I opposed the ayes have it. And I believe Councilmember O'Brien has an amendment he'd like to speak on.
Speaker 4: I do. I would like to move amendment number two to Resolution 31841, which adds some clarity to future actions about the bike master plan in the area of citizen arena and some report backs. And I'll speak to those in a second if I get a second. Second, thank you. So, first of all, I want to say thanks, Councilmember Johnson, for your work on this resolution and and your attention to transportation issues around this project. I also want to take a minute to say thanks to the the staff team that are working on this. Mr. Dellums and his whole team at Seattle Center did an amazing work and worked particularly closely on the transportation issues with Marshall Foster and Kevin O'Neill and your team. So thank you for helping us get through the back and forth. I want to thank community advocate someone. We're here today speaking. I really appreciate the excitement about the project and the excitement that we can become the arena with the lowest single occupancy vehicle mode split and the future going forward. I think that's a great goal. It's an ambitious goal and I think we're committed to do what we can to make that happen. What this specific amendment does is well, let me back up for a second. The timing of this was obviously I've been working on this for quite a while, but it's also quite compressed with an environmental impact statement being done on the master use permit being issued. And so just in the last few weeks, we've been able to get clarity on what transportation projects are going to be required as part of the Environmental Impact Statement and part of the master use permit. And there's a lot of great projects that are included in there, and I'm really appreciative of the work and look forward to seeing, you know, Ovg and their team deliver on those. And there are other projects that we were excited to have happen that are not part of that permit. And so one thing this amendment does is ask the Department of Transportation to come back and say there are other connections to the network as there would be anywhere that are still missing. And we would like to make sure we have clarity on what those pieces are, what streets we had planned to build those to make sure there's there's a safe pedestrian and bike access throughout the whole Seattle center area. And then we can go through the bike masterplan process to figure out where that falls, the priorities and where there might be future opportunities to fund those. This this amendment also adds in some specific language about an expectation and requirement for the department to make regular reports back to the council and to work with the community in that process in the next two years. So the the transportation plan, the AMP document will continue to evolve as this project evolves and as it evolves, I want to make sure there's opportunity for neighbors and advocates to be providing continuous input on what is going to be in that kind of traffic management plan. And the Council wants to have a role in that, too. And so this amendment includes language on how that will work out.
Speaker 2: Very good. Any comments on the amendment? It's already been moved to second. So basically the amendment adds the new section three is described by Councilmember Brian. All those in favor of the amendment. Please vote I. I oppose. The ayes have it. The resolution is amended. Any further comments on the resolution as amended? Councilwoman Johnson, I.
Speaker 9: Just want to say thank you to Calvin Joe of our central staff. He really stepped into the space here and helped facilitate a lot of the coordination between different departments to get this thing done in a very short order. And so that. Kudos to you, Calvin Joe, and thank you for all your good work.
Speaker 2: Very good. Any further comments? Those in favor of adopting the resolution as amended? Please vote I. I opposed the ayes have it. The motion. The resolution is not done. Cheryl Simon, please read the next agenda item.
A RESOLUTION requesting reports from the Seattle Department of Transportation, the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections, and Seattle Center identifying transportation projects in the vicinity of the Seattle Center Arena and describing the process for administering the Arena Access Management Plan.