CITY OF SEATTLE
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A RESOLUTION identifying proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments to be considered for possible adoption in 2016; and requesting that the Department of Planning and Development and the Seattle Planning Commission review and make recommendations about the proposed amendments.
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WHEREAS, under the Washington State Growth Management Act, RCW 36.70A, 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 11722 in 1994; and
WHEREAS, the City last amended the Comprehensive Plan through Ordinance 124750 in April 2015; and
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted procedures for amending the Comprehensive Plan in Resolution 31117 in March 2009, consistent with the requirements for amendment prescribed by the Growth Management Act; and
WHEREAS, in Resolution 31402 in August 2012, the City Council amended the criteria by which proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan are selected for analysis and possible adoption, a process known as setting the Comprehensive Plan docket, and repealed other criteria used in prior years; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE, THAT:
Section 1. Comprehensive Plan Docket of amendments to be considered in 2016. In addition to any amendments that may be identified through the Seattle 2035 process including consideration of the way the City monitors urban village growth, the following proposed amendments should be further developed for review and consideration by the Mayor and Council as possible amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. The full texts of the proposals are contained in Clerk File 319369.
1. N.E. 68th Street. Amend the Future Land Use Map for property at the southwest corner of N.E. 68th Street and 12th Avenue N.E. to change the designation from multi-family to Commercial/Mixed Use.
2. N.E. 94nd Street Amend the Future Land Use Map for property on the south side of NE 94th Street east of N.E. 1st Avenue to include the property in the Northgate Urban Center and to change the designation from single-family to multi-family.
3. 40th Avenue N.E. Amend the Future Land Use Map for property on the west side of 40th Avenue N.E., south of Sand Point Way N.E. from multi-family to commercial/mixed-use.
4. 35th Avenue N.E. Amend the Future Land Use Map for three properties, one of which is located along 35th Avenue N.E. and south of N.E. 68th Street, the second of which is located along 35th Avenue N.E. and south of N.E. 73rd Street and the third of which is located along 35th Avenue N.E. and south of N.E. 82nd Street; each of which would be redesignated from multi-family to commercial/mixed-use.
Section 2. Request for review and recommendations. The Council requests that the Department of Planning and Development review the amendments listed in Section 1 in addition to amendments to the Comprehensive Plan identified in the Seattle 2035 process, conduct public and environmental reviews as appropriate, and present its analyses and the Mayor's recommendations to the Planning Commission, and to the City Council in 2016.
Adopted by the City Council the ____ day of ____________________, 2015, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its adoption this________ day
of ______________________, 2015.
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President ___________of the City Council
Filed by me this ____ day of ________________________, 2015.
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Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk
(Seal)