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2006 Amendments

2006 Amendments Summary

On Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, the City Council passed Council Bill 115792, adopting the 2006 Comprehensive Plan Amendments.

Uptown/Lower Queen Anne

1. Add triangle bounded by Aurora, Denny, and Broad to Uptown Urban Center and revise growth targets accordingly.

South Lake Union

2. South Lake Union neighborhood plan is replaced in its entirety to reflect new status as urban center, new growth targets and ongoing City investments.

DPD is directed to work with South Lake Union Friends and Neighbors, Community Councils, and others to identify strategies to prioritize and accomplish the new goals and policies. DPD is directed to develop and implement a workplan by 1st quarter 2007.

Proposed changes to the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) associated with the revised neighborhood plan goals and policies were withdrawn from this year’s amendments, and will be reconsidered as part of a more comprehensive industrial lands analysis. The proposed changes would have reclassified some industrial areas as mixed-use/commercial to enable a future rezone to Seattle Mixed (SM).

Central Waterfront

3. Amendments to Land Use goals and policies will allow a replacement for the SR 99 Viaduct and reconstruction of the seawall while limiting the SR 99 replacement options to a tunnel with a surface roadway or a surface roadway. A new shoreline transportation policy is added to the Land Use Element to allow flexibility in construction staging, utility relocation, and construction-related mitigation and uses, provided that the projects result in no net loss of ecological function. An additional new shoreline transportation policy prohibits aerial transportation structures over 35 feet high, such as bridges and viaducts, on the Central Waterfront in the Shoreline Environments between King Street and Union Street, except for aerial pedestrian walkways associated with Colman Dock.

Annexation

4. All of the North Highline area is now identified as a Planned Annexation Area, enabling further Seattle involvement in public participation efforts to determine local sentiment and the development of interlocal agreements concerning final annexation plans to meet regional growth management goals.

Station Area Planning

5. Roosevelt neighborhood plan goals and policies have been revised to reflect the outcome of station area planning.

As in South Lake Union, DPD is directed to work with the Roosevelt neighborhood to identify strategies to prioritize and accomplish the new goals and policies. DPD is directed to develop and implement a workplan by 1st quarter 2007.

6. First Hill neighborhood plan policies are amended to remove a reference to the proposed light rail station on First Hill.

Urban Centers Impact Fees

7. The open space and required yards policy (Land Use Policy 36) has been amended to narrow its application to development outside of urban centers, allowing for impact fees inside urban centers that enable investments in publicly owned parks, open spaces, or recreation facilities.

Industrial Land

8. The Future Land Use Map is amended to change the designation of the land bounded by S. Dearborn Street, Rainier Avenue S., S. Weller Street, and 12th Avenue S. (the Goodwill site) currently shown as Industrial to Commercial/Mixed-Use.

Housing Incentives and Public Benefits

9. The following new policy is added to the Land Use Element:

Seek opportunities to incorporate incentive programs for development of housing affordable to lower-income households into legislative rezones or changes in development regulations that increase development potential. Consider development regulations that condition higher-density development on the provision of public benefits when such public benefits will help mitigate impacts of development attributable to increased development potential.

Ferry Terminal

10. Transportation Policy T28 is amended to support exploration of “route, funding and governance options for waterborne transit service, especially those that serve pedestrians.”

The following new policy is added:

In order to limit the expansion of automobile traffic by ferry, encourage the Washington State Ferry System to expand its practice of giving loading and/or fare priority to certain vehicles, such as transit, carpools, vanpools, bicycles, and/or commercial vehicles, on particular routes, on certain days of the week, and/or at certain times of day. Encourage the Ferry System to integrate transit loading and unloading areas into ferry terminals, and to provide adequate bicycle capacity on ferries and adequate and secure bicycle parking at terminals.

Washington State ferries’ proposal regarding future commercial development associated with the ferry terminal upgrade on Colman Dock was withdrawn for 2006. We anticipate that the proposal will be resubmitted for 2007.

A resolution describing joint Mayoral and City Council guidelines is currently in committee. Resolution 30932 seeks to give comprehensive guidance to Washington State Ferries on views, public access and open space; land use and urban design; transportation impacts; over-water coverage; and Pier 48.

Transportation Policy

11. Transportation Policy 33 is amended to clarify prioritization of pedestrian improvements in areas with a history of pedestrian-vehicle crashes and in areas with high levels of growth. It now directs that the Pedestrian Master Plan should identify a method for assessing and implementing pedestrian safety and access improvements in high growth areas.

Download 2006 amended replacement pages for the Comp Plan: