Committee advances zoning to increase housing
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The Land Use and Sustainability Committee recommended City Council pass CB 121196, a rezoning and code amendment package intended to increase housing supply, support multi-purpose redevelopment with community uses, and remove barriers to passive house, modular, and mass timber construction and conversions from commercial to housing. A public hearing was held for CB 121196. Two additional bills — CB 121214 (data center definition and moratorium) and CB 121215 (clarifying Council land use decision processes) — were discussed but no committee recommendation is recorded in these minutes. Meeting convened at 9:35 a.m. and adjourned at 11:44 a.m.
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- Committee recommends City Council pass CB 121196 (rezoning and code amendments to increase housing supply; public hearing held).
- Vote on CB 121196 in committee: In Favor 4 — Lin, Strauss, Foster, Rinck; Opposed 0; Abstain 1 — Hollingsworth.
- CB 121214 (data center definition and moratorium, work plan, emergency declaration) was discussed; no committee recommendation recorded in these minutes.
- CB 121215 (amendments to clarify Council land use decision processes) was discussed; no committee recommendation recorded in these minutes.
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- This meeting also constitutes a meeting of the City Council, provided that the meeting shall be conducted as a committee meeting under the Council Rules and Procedures, and Council action shall be limited to committee business.
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- Call To Order
- Approval of the Agenda
- Public Comment
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- An ordinance relating to Council land use decisions; amending Sections 23.76.050, 23.76.062, and 25.05.680 of the Seattle Municipal Code to clarify processes for Council land use decisions.
- An ordinance relating to land use and zoning; introducing a new definition for data centers; adopting a moratorium on the filing, acceptance, processing, or approval of applications for the establishment or expansion of, or change of use to, data centers; amending Section 23.84A.008 of the Seattle Municipal Code; approving a work plan; declaring an emergency; and establishing an immediate effective date; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
- Adjournment
- An ordinance relating to land use and zoning; rezoning certain land in the University District, the Fremont neighborhood, the Madison/Miller neighborhood, the Rainier Beach neighborhood, and the Downtown neighborhood; rezoning land and amending development standards to increase housing supply, support multi-purpose redevelopment on certain sites with community-based uses, remove code barriers to passive house, modular, and mass timber construction and to conversion from commercial space to housing in more zones, and incentivize community-serving uses along with the construction of more housing in certain areas; amending Sections 23.40.080, 23.47A.009, 23.49.008, 23.49.011, 23.49.036, 23.49.058, and 23.49.158 of the Seattle Municipal Code; adding a new Section 23.40.090 to the Seattle Municipal Code; adding a new Map 1L to Chapter 23.49 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and amending Chapter 23.32 of the Seattle Municipal Code at pages 60, 76, 109, 112, and 188 of the Official Land Use Map.
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