2011-2012
Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendments

The proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, shown in the table below, were submitted for consideration during the 2011-2012 amendment cycle. In August 2011, the Council passed Resolution 31313, which established the docket of amendments the Council will consider 2012. In November 2011, the Mayor submitted a bill and Department of Planning and Development (DPD) Directors Report with the Mayor's proposed amendments. In January 2012, the Planning Commission provided recommendations to the Council on proposed amendments. In March 2012, the Council introduced Council Bill 117426, which includes the Mayor's proposed amendments and an additional amendment establishing preliminary sector-based greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.

All attachments are in a PDF format
DPD - Department of Planning and Development
FLUM - Future Land Use Map

Original amendment applications:

FLUM - Future Land Use Map

App. #	Applicant	Brief Description of Proposed Amendment Application
1	Department of Planning and Development (DPD) Application Attachment	DPD proposes new goals and policies for a state-required container port element. In 2009 the legislature amended the Growth Management Act to require jurisdictions with marine container ports that have operating revenue in excess of $60 million-the cities of Tacoma and Seattle-to develop a container port element for their Comprehensive Plans. Among other things, container port elements are intended to address freight mobility and incompatible land uses caused by the conversion of industrial land. The Growth Management Act establishes a deadline of June 30, 2015 for adoption of container port elements.
2	Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) Application	SDOT proposes to add the Lake to Bay Loop to the Comprehensive Plan's urban trails system map.
3	Urban Forestry Commission Application	The Urban Forestry Commission proposes to amend several existing policies to be consistent with the Urban Forestry Management Plan and current city-wide approach to managing the urban canopy.
4	Councilmember Clark for the City Council Application	Consistent with Council direction in Resolution 31291, Councilmember Clark proposes to amend the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) to remove an area generally known as South of Charles from the Greater Duwamish Manufacturing / Industrial Center (MIC) and to change the FLUM designation of the area from Industrial to Downtown.
5	Councilmember Mike O'Brien Application	Councilmember O'Brien proposes to amend the Environmental Goal 7 as follows: To control the impact of climate change globally and locally, reduce per capita emissions of ((carbon dioxide and other)) climate-changing greenhouse gases in Seattle by 30 percent from ((1990)) 2008 levels by ((2024)) 2020, ((and)) by ((80)) 60 percent from ((1990)) 2008 levels by ((2050)) 2030, and by 90 percent from 2008 levels by 2050. Additionally, Councilmember O'Brien proposes to add, as either policies or goals, 2020 and 2030 reduction targets for emissions associated with transportation, buildings, and solid waste.
6	Councilmember Nick Licata Application	Councilmember Licata proposes to add policy language that would authorize long-term homeless encampments as a residential use.
7	Chris Leman Application	Mr. Leman proposes the following new policy for the Transportation Element: Minimize damage from vehicles that are heavier than would normally be allowed on Seattle's roads and bridges, especially those vehicles that are owned by the City, counties, Sound Transit, Seattle School District, or their contractors.
8	Chris Leman Application	Mr. Leman proposes that the Comprehensive Plan include an open and participatory government element or appendix.
9	Chris Leman Application	Mr. Leman proposes the following new goal for the Transportation Element: To help realize goals and policies in the Environmental Element to reduce emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases, and realize transportation goals and policies in this Element, the annual per capita vehicle miles traveled within, to, or from Seattle will be reduced by at least eighteen percent by 2020, thirty percent by 2035, and fifty percent by 2050. As provided in the Environmental Element, the Climate Action Plan will establish specific vehicle miles traveled reduction goals by transportation mode or sector.
10	Chris Leman Application	Mr. Leman proposes to add a one-block walkway between the Blaine and Howe stairs to the urban trails system map.
11	Charles Redmond on Behalf of the City Neighborhood Council (CNC) Application	The CNC proposes to add the following new policy to the Urban Village Element: Total city wide jobs and housing targets and neighborhood-level allocations shall be adopted or adjusted as a part of each annual Comprehensive Plan Amendment cycle.
12	Jessie Clawson for Ballard II, LLC Application	Ballard II proposes to amend the FLUM for an area east of 15th Avenue West between NW 51st Street and NW 48th Street to remove the area from the Ballard North End MIC and to change the FLUM designation for the area from Industrial to Commercial / Mixed Use.
13	Jessie Clawson for Port 106, LLC Application	Port 106 proposes to amend the FLUM for property addressed as 1600 W. Armory Way in Interbay to remove the area from the Ballard North End MIC and to change the FLUM designation for the area from Industrial to Commercial / Mixed Use.
14	Jessie Clawson for AnMarCo Application	AnMarCo proposes to amend the FLUM for property addressed as 2130 Harbor Avenue SW to remove the area from the Greater Duwamish MIC and to change the FLUM designation for the area from Industrial to Commercial / Mixed Use.
15	Lindsay Diallo for Amir Moazzami Application Attachment Map	Mr. Moazzami proposes to amend the FLUM for two parcels addressed as 1009 – 1011 NE 73rd Street in the Roosevelt Residential Urban Village to change the FLUM designation from single Family to Commercial / Mixed Use.
16	Councilmember Clark for the City Council Application	Councilmember Clark proposes to amend the FLUM for an area in the Roosevelt Residential Urban Village that is generally bounded by Interstate 5 to the west, Ravenna Boulevard to the south, the alley between 8th and 9th Avenues NE to the east, and NE 64th Street to the north to change its FLUM designation from Single-Family to Multifamily.
17	Councilmember Licata Application	Councilmember Licata proposes to amend various goals and policies in the Comprehensive Plan to establish that, wherever feasible, when redevelopment occurs there should be no net loss of affordable housing.
18	Councilmember Clark	Amend Urban Village Figure 9 to add an area known as the "Sliver by the River," which is generally bounded the Duwamish River to the north, 12th Avenue S. to the west and Dallas Avenue S. to the south, to the Potential Annexation Areas.