CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION __________________
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A RESOLUTION relating to the One Seattle Plan Comprehensive Plan update; calling for additional measures by City departments to further advance the goals of the One Seattle Plan; and requesting that the Office of Planning and Community Development and other City departments develop additional amendments to the Comprehensive Plan in 2026.
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WHEREAS, The City of Seattle adopted its Comprehensive Plan with Ordinance 117221 in 1994, pursuant to the provisions of the Growth Management Act, chapter 36.70A RCW; and
WHEREAS, the City has made amendments to its Comprehensive Plan most years through its annual update or major update process, as authorized by the Growth Management Act; and
WHEREAS, in April 2021 the Office of Planning and Community Development published a Market Rate Housing Needs and Supply Analysis that found that housing supply was not keeping pace with demand, housing costs were increasing faster than incomes, market development was producing few new homeownership units, the City lacked sufficient development capacity for middle housing, the supply of affordable rental units did not meet the needs of lower income households, and many lower income households commuted long distances from communities outside the City to reach their jobs; and
WHEREAS, in July 2021 the Office of Planning and Community Development published a Racial Equity Analysis of Seattle 2035 and Urban Village Strategy that identified ongoing racial disparities in housing and access to opportunity and made recommendations to advance racial equity in the next update of the Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Office of Planning and Community Development, in cooperation with other City agencies including the Seattle Planning Commission, began in 2022 a series of programs and events, under the title One Seattle Plan, to engage the public in discussions about potential changes to the Comprehensive Plan, consistent with the One Seattle ...
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