Land Use & Sustainability
Committee regular meeting days and time:
1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.
Committee Members:
- Chair: Eddie Lin
- Vice Chair: Dan Strauss
- Member: Joy Hollingsworth
- Member: Dionne Foster
- Member: Alexis Mercedes Rinck
Committee Scope:
To provide policy direction and oversight and to deliberate and make recommendations on legislative matters relating to:
- Planning and land use, including comprehensive planning, community development, zoning, design, and land use regulations, including the Office of Planning and Community Development, and the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections, except for issues related to landlord tenant regulations;
- Major Institution Master Plans and quasi-judicial land use decisions;
- The Equitable Development Initiative (EDI) and its projects;
- And the Office of Sustainability and Environment, including strategies to achieve the City’s environmental goals.
The Seattle City Council’s Land Use and Sustainability Committee will hold a public hearing on Thursday, July 30, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. on a council bill to reenact temporary design review regulations. The council bill would reenact temporary design review regulations initially enacted through Ordinance 127309, which have lapsed. Those regulations:
- Exempt low-income housing and development that provides on-site units through the Mandatory Housing Affordability program from design review;
- Suspend mandatory design review; and
- Allow development to voluntarily choose to participate in design review.
The interim regulations in the legislation would be effective for six months and may be renewed for one or more additional six-month periods. The council bill, bill summary, and hearing notice are linked below: