CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION __________________
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A RESOLUTION relating to proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments proposed to be considered for possible adoption in 2023; requesting that the Office of Planning and Community Development and the Seattle Department of Transportation consider the proposed amendments as part of the development of the One Seattle update to the Comprehensive Plan and the Seattle Transportation Plan.
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WHEREAS, under the Washington State Growth Management Act, chapter 36.70A RCW, The City of Seattle ("City") is required to have a comprehensive land use plan ("Comprehensive Plan") and to review that plan on a regular schedule; and
WHEREAS, except in limited circumstances, the Growth Management Act allows the City to amend the Comprehensive Plan only once a year; and
WHEREAS, the City adopted a Comprehensive Plan through Ordinance 117221 in 1994, and most recently adopted amendments to its Comprehensive Plan in October 2021 through Ordinance 126457; and
WHEREAS, Resolution 31807 prescribes the procedures and criteria by which proposals for amendments to the Comprehensive Plan are solicited from the public and selected for analysis and possible adoption, a process known as setting the Comprehensive Plan docket; and
WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act requires the City to update the Comprehensive Plan by December 31, 2024 and every ten years thereafter; and
WHEREAS, the Office of Planning and Community Development is currently at work on its One Seattle Plan major update to the Comprehensive Plan in coordination with the Seattle Department of Transportation, which is developing a new Seattle Transportation Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the amendment proposals submitted as part of the 2022-2023 docketing process and has determined that the submitted amendment proposals are generally better addressed through the One Seattle Update to the Comprehensive Plan or through other ongoing planning processes; NOW, THEREFORE,
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