SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: Res 31809

• Record No: Res 31809
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution (Res)
• Status: Adopted
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 5/21/2018
• Title: A RESOLUTION adopting revised Street Vacation Policies for the City of Seattle and repealing previous versions of the policies adopted by Resolutions 27527, 28605, 30297, 30702, and 31142.
• Sponsors: Mike O'Brien
• Supporting documents: 1. Proposed Substitute, 2. Summary and Fiscal Note, 3. Summary Att 1 - Comparison of Current and Proposed Street Vacation Policies, 4. Central Staff Memo (4/3/18), 5. Presentation (4/3/18), 6. Signed Resolution 31809, 7. Affidavit of Publication
• Related files: Inf 569

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/21/2018	1	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
5/21/2018	1	City Council	adopted as amended	Pass
5/14/2018	1	City Council	postponed
5/7/2018	1	City Council	postponed
5/1/2018	1	Sustainability and Transportation Committee	adopt	Pass
4/16/2018	1	City Council	referred
4/11/2018	1	Council President's Office	sent for review
4/10/2018	1	City Clerk	sent for review

CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION __________________
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A RESOLUTION adopting revised Street Vacation Policies for the City of Seattle and repealing previous versions of the policies adopted by Resolutions 27527, 28605, 30297, 30702, and 31142.
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WHEREAS, on October 13, 1986, the City Council adopted Resolution 27527, adopting Street Vacation Policies for The City of Seattle; and
WHEREAS, those 1986 rules were revised by Resolution 28605 in 1993, Resolution 30297 in 2001, Resolution 30702 in 2004, and Resolution 31142 in 2009; and
WHEREAS, in 2015, the City Council adopted Resolution 31577, affirming that The City of Seattle's core value of race and social equity is one of the foundations on which the Comprehensive Plan is built and stating that "race and social equity planning includes not only shared benefits and burdens of growth and investment, but also partnership in the process resulting in shared decision-making and more equitable outcomes"; and
WHEREAS, in 2015, as part of the 2016 budget process, the City Council adopted a Statement of Legislative Intent 101-1-A-1 requesting the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) develop a report and analysis of the public benefits received from street and alley vacations; and
WHEREAS, as part of their report in response to SLI 101-1-A-1, SDOT recommended that if the City Council wished to revise the street vacation policies, the Policies should be considered and revised as a whole; and
WHEREAS, in November 2016, the City Council adopted the Seattle 2035 Comprehensive Plan Update, which reiterated race and social equity as a core value for the City's growth, and recognized that "the goals and policies of this Plan can also influence the actions of other government agencies and private businesses to promote social justice and racial equity"; and
WHEREAS, in 2017, Councilmember O'Brien convened a Street Vacation Stakeholder Workgroup to make recommendations for legislation to: (1) help identify areas of consensu...