WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en-US 00:00:06.005 --> 00:00:06.940 >>> WE ARE RECORDING. >> THANK YOU. 00:00:07.006 --> 00:00:12.946 GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 00:00:13.012 --> 00:00:14.948 THE DECEMBER 9, 2022 REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS, 00:00:15.014 --> 00:00:18.952 EDUCATION, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CULTURE COMMITTEE WILL COME 00:00:19.018 --> 00:00:21.921 TO ORDER. 00:00:21.988 --> 00:00:23.923 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 00:00:23.990 --> 00:00:25.692 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. 00:00:25.759 --> 00:00:28.294 >> PRESENT. >> COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS. 00:00:28.361 --> 00:00:30.930 >> PRESENT. 00:00:30.997 --> 00:00:33.933 >> COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.936 >> PRESENT. 00:00:37.003 --> 00:00:38.505 >> VICE CHAIR SAWANT. 00:00:38.571 --> 00:00:39.639 CHAIR MORALES. 00:00:39.706 --> 00:00:41.574 >> PRESENT. >> FOR PRESENT. 00:00:41.641 --> 00:00:45.945 >> IF THERE IS NO OBJECTION, TODAY'S 00:00:46.012 --> 00:00:48.948 AGENDA WILL BE ADOPTED. 00:00:49.015 --> 00:00:51.951 HEARING NO OBJECTION, TODAY'S AGENDA IS ADOPTED. 00:00:52.018 --> 00:00:54.954 GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY. WE HAVE SEVERAL 00:00:55.021 --> 00:00:57.924 THINGS ON THE AGENDA FOR TODAY. 00:00:57.991 --> 00:01:02.929 WE WILL BE HEARING TWO APPOINTMENTS FOR THE LGBTQ COMMISSION. 00:01:02.996 --> 00:01:05.932 WE HAVE TWO APPOINTMENTS FOR THE LANDMARK DISTRICT BOARD 00:01:05.999 --> 00:01:12.939 BALLARD AVENUE, LANDMARK DISTRICT BOARD. 00:01:13.006 --> 00:01:14.941 WE WILL BE HEARING COUNCIL BILL 130312 REGARDING THE 00:01:15.008 --> 00:01:18.945 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING AND WE WILL HAVE A HEARING 00:01:19.012 --> 00:01:24.951 AND BRIEFING ON COUNCIL BILL 120456, WHICH IS 00:01:25.018 --> 00:01:30.924 AMENDING CERTAIN PROCEDURES FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW. 00:01:30.990 --> 00:01:32.926 WE WILL NOT BE VOTING ON THAT TODAY, BUT WE DO HAVE 00:01:32.992 --> 00:01:35.929 A PUBLIC HEARING. SO WITH THAT I AM GOING TO GO AHEAD AND OPEN 00:01:35.995 --> 00:01:40.934 PUBLIC COMMENT. WE WILL OPEN THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.938 PERIOD. THIS WILL BE VIRTUAL AND HYBRID. JUST BECAUSE 00:01:45.004 --> 00:01:47.941 WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING TODAY, THIS PUBLIC COMMENT 00:01:48.007 --> 00:01:50.944 PERIOD IS FOR AGENDA ITEMS ONE THROUGH FIVE. 00:01:51.010 --> 00:01:55.949 THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING, 00:01:56.015 --> 00:02:01.921 COUNCIL BILL 120456, WILL BE HELD PRIOR TO THAT DISCUSSION 00:02:01.988 --> 00:02:04.991 FOR AGENDA ITEM SIX. 00:02:05.058 --> 00:02:07.427 IF YOU ARE HERE TO COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEM SIX, PLEASE WAIT UNTIL 00:02:07.494 --> 00:02:09.262 WE GET TO THAT POINT IN THE AGENDA. 00:02:09.329 --> 00:02:11.931 SO I AM ASKING EVERYONE TO PLEASE BE PATIENT AS WE OPERATE THIS HYBRID 00:02:11.998 --> 00:02:16.936 SYSTEM. IT DOES REMAIN OUR STRONG INTENT TO HAVE 00:02:17.003 --> 00:02:18.938 PUBLIC COMMENT DURING MEETINGS. HOWEVER, 00:02:19.005 --> 00:02:20.940 WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MODIFY THE PUBLIC 00:02:21.007 --> 00:02:23.943 COMMENT PERIODS AT ANY POINT IF WE DEEM THE SYSTEM IS BEING 00:02:24.010 --> 00:02:28.948 ABUSED OR IS UNSUITABLE TO ALLOW MEETINGS TO CONTINUE. SO, 00:02:29.015 --> 00:02:34.954 WE HAVE, LET ME SEE. I'M SORRY. I HAVE MY 00:02:35.021 --> 00:02:37.924 SHEET SOMEWHERE. 00:02:37.991 --> 00:02:43.930 A FEW PEOPLE WHO ARE SIGNED UP ELECTRONICALLY. VIRTUALLY. 00:02:43.997 --> 00:02:47.934 SO WE WILL BEGIN WITH THEM AND THEN WE WILL HAVE FOLKS 00:02:48.001 --> 00:02:52.939 WHO ARE HERE IN THE CHAMBERS. I'M GOING TO GIVE EVERYBODY TWO 00:02:53.006 --> 00:02:58.945 MINUTES AND I THOUGHT WE HAD A GROUP SIGNED UP, 00:02:59.012 --> 00:03:01.948 IS THAT NO LONGER THE CASE? EVERYBODY IS SIGNED UP INDIVIDUALLY. OKAY. 00:03:02.015 --> 00:03:05.018 SO WE ARE GOING TO START WITH THE PEOPLE SIGNED UP ONLINE. 00:03:05.084 --> 00:03:06.953 I WILL CALL EACH SPEAKER. 00:03:07.020 --> 00:03:08.922 YOU WILL HAVE TO MINUTES. WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME IF 00:03:08.988 --> 00:03:13.893 YOU ARE ONLINE, PLEASE UNMUTE AND HIT STAR 6, SO WE CAN 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:15.261 HEAR YOU. 00:03:15.328 --> 00:03:19.933 YOU WILL HEAR A TIME AT 10 SECONDS, WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE 10 00:03:19.999 --> 00:03:22.936 SECONDS LEFT TO WRAP UP YOUR COMMENTS AND THEN WE 00:03:23.002 --> 00:03:23.937 WILL MOVE TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. OKAY, SO 00:03:24.003 --> 00:03:28.942 WE ARE GOING TO BEGIN WITH THE FOLKS WHO ARE ONLINE, BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE 00:03:29.008 --> 00:03:31.945 A FEW OF THEM. 00:03:32.011 --> 00:03:34.113 WE WILL START WITH HOWARD GAIL. HOWARD, PLEASE GO AHEAD 00:03:34.180 --> 00:03:35.348 AND START BY PRESSING STAR SIX. 00:03:35.415 --> 00:03:38.952 >> GOOD MORNING, HOWARD GAIL --THIS 00:03:39.018 --> 00:03:42.922 MORNING YOU WILL BE MAKING APPOINTMENTS TO THE COMMISSION 00:03:42.989 --> 00:03:45.925 YOU OVERSEE. WHEN YOU DO THIS, IT IS 00:03:45.992 --> 00:03:49.929 IMPORTANT THAT YOU MAKE CLEAR TO THESE VOLUNTEERS WHETHER THEIR EXPECTED ROLE IS TO 00:03:49.996 --> 00:03:54.934 MAKE INDEPENDENT DECISIONS OR, INSTEAD, TO BEND TO THE WILL 00:03:55.001 --> 00:03:58.938 OF THE COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR. ON APRIL 7, THE SEATTLE HUMAN RIGHTS 00:03:59.005 --> 00:04:02.942 COMMISSION VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY TO TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE 00:04:03.009 --> 00:04:05.078 IN INFORMING THE FEDERAL COURT OF THE CONTINUING POLICE ABUSES AND FAILURES 00:04:05.144 --> 00:04:08.014 OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IN SEATTLE. LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER 00:04:08.081 --> 00:04:11.017 THIS VOTE, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SUCCESSFULLY 00:04:11.084 --> 00:04:13.019 THREATENED AND BULLIED THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION INTO INACTION AND 00:04:13.086 --> 00:04:19.993 SILENCE AS DOCUMENTED BY CAROLYN VICK ON APRIL 29 AND MAY 12. THE ARTICLES 00:04:20.059 --> 00:04:22.996 DETAIL BE INAPPROPRIATE AND ILLEGAL NATURE OF 00:04:23.062 --> 00:04:25.999 THE CITY'S ACTIONS AND COMPLETE SILENCE FROM THE COUNCIL 00:04:26.065 --> 00:04:31.004 AND THE MAYOR. THEN ON SEPTEMBER 29, COUNCILMEMBERS 00:04:31.070 --> 00:04:32.005 MORALES AND HERBOLD HELD A NONPUBLIC MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONERS 00:04:32.071 --> 00:04:37.010 ALONG WITH 00:04:37.076 --> 00:04:41.014 THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND THEIR COCHAIR, REVEREND WALDEN. THE HUMAN 00:04:41.080 --> 00:04:45.018 RIGHTS COMMISSION REPORTED THAT 00:04:45.084 --> 00:04:47.020 COUNCILMEMBERS AND REVEREND WALDEN, WHO MET THE NIGHT BEFORE TO DISCUSS 00:04:47.086 --> 00:04:48.988 THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, PROCEEDED TO CHASTISE, INSULT, AND 00:04:49.055 --> 00:04:49.989 BULLY THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONERS. 00:04:50.056 --> 00:04:55.995 ON OCTOBER 14, FOR HIGHLY ACTIVE 00:04:56.062 --> 00:04:57.997 COMMISSIONERS AND COCHAIRS RESIGNED AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE 00:04:58.064 --> 00:05:01.000 CITY'S HOSTILITY AND THREATS DIRECTED AT THEIR ATTEMPT 00:05:01.067 --> 00:05:03.002 TO TAKE ACTION ON A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE. 00:05:03.069 --> 00:05:05.071 ALONG WITH THREE OTHER COMMISSIONERS WHO RESIGNED EARLIER, THIS MARKS AROUND 00:05:05.138 --> 00:05:09.008 HALF OF THE COMMISSION RESIGNING OVER THE 00:05:09.075 --> 00:05:13.012 LAST EIGHT MONTHS. THE FAILURE OF COUNCILMEMBERS EARLY IN THE YEAR TO SUPPORT 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.014 THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IS SHAMEFUL, BUT THE 00:05:15.081 --> 00:05:20.019 LATTER PARTICIPATION OF COUNCILMEMBERS MORALES AND HERBOLD TO SUPPRESS THE 00:05:20.086 --> 00:05:22.989 COMMISSION TRULY SHOCK THE CONSCIENCE. THE HUMAN 00:05:23.056 --> 00:05:25.992 RIGHTS COMMISSION IS A CHARADE IF THEY'RE WELL CONSIDERED 00:05:26.059 --> 00:05:29.996 AND DEBATED DECISIONS MADE IN A PUBLIC AND 00:05:30.063 --> 00:05:35.001 DEMOCRATIC MATTER ARE SIMPLY OVERRULED BY POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS 00:05:35.068 --> 00:05:41.007 IN THE MOST NONTRANSPARENT, NONPUBLIC AND UNDEMOCRATIC MATTER. THANK YOU. 00:05:41.074 --> 00:05:44.010 >> THANK YOU. 00:05:44.077 --> 00:05:50.016 I HAVE EUGENE YES SIGNED 00:05:50.083 --> 00:05:55.988 UP NEXT. YOU ARE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK TO TWO BILLS. 00:05:56.055 --> 00:06:01.994 FOR COUNCIL BILL 00:06:02.061 --> 00:06:06.999 --PLEASE GO AHEAD BY PUSHING STAR SIX. 00:06:07.066 --> 00:06:08.000 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CHAIR MORALES. 00:06:08.067 --> 00:06:14.006 GOOD MORNING. 00:06:14.073 --> 00:06:20.012 THIS IS THE DIRECTOR OF PRESERVATION SERVICES AT HISTORIC SEATTLE. 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:21.013 I WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON COUNCIL BILL 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:23.816 120312 RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE 00:06:23.883 --> 00:06:26.085 SEATTLE-FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING. 00:06:26.152 --> 00:06:31.991 I SUBMITTED A LETTER ON BEHALF OF THE 00:06:32.058 --> 00:06:34.994 HISTORICAL SOCIETY ASKING YOU TO RECOMMEND ADOPTING CONTROLS AND 00:06:35.061 --> 00:06:39.999 INCENTIVES FOR THE NATIONAL BANK BUILDING IN UPTOWN 00:06:40.066 --> 00:06:44.003 AND MOVE IT TO THE FULL COUNCIL. WE GREATLY APPRECIATE CENTRAL 00:06:44.070 --> 00:06:48.007 STAFF'S THOROUGH MEMO ON THIS ISSUE. THE 00:06:48.074 --> 00:06:50.009 BANK BUILDING, NOW OWNED BY WALGREENS, WAS DESIGNATED BY THE LANDMARK BOARD 00:06:50.076 --> 00:06:53.012 IN 2006. 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.015 A STRONG STATEMENT ON ITS SIGNIFICANCE AND 00:06:56.082 --> 00:06:59.018 LANDMARK WORTHINESS. 00:06:59.085 --> 00:07:02.021 THE BOARD APPROVED IT IN 2021. THERE IS ACTUALLY NO CONTROVERSY 00:07:02.088 --> 00:07:05.057 HERE, WHICH IS GREAT. 00:07:05.124 --> 00:07:07.994 AS A LANDMARK IN THE UPTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD IT IS 00:07:08.060 --> 00:07:09.996 ALSO ELIGIBLE TO TRANSFER DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS. 00:07:10.062 --> 00:07:16.002 THIS MEANS THE OWNER WILL BE ABLE TO SELL THE 00:07:16.068 --> 00:07:17.003 RIGHTS AND USE THE MONEY TO MAINTAIN THE LANDMARK BUILDING AND THE DEVELOPER 00:07:17.069 --> 00:07:20.006 WHO OWNS THE PROPERTY IN UPTOWN THE QUALIFIES 00:07:20.072 --> 00:07:25.011 CAN PURCHASE TDR'S TO BENEFIT THE HOUSING PROJECT 00:07:25.077 --> 00:07:28.014 BY INCREASING ADDITIONAL UNITS. THIS IS A WIN-WIN 00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:35.021 FOR PRESERVATION AND HOUSING. IT IS BOTH AND, NOT EITHER/OR. 00:07:35.087 --> 00:07:40.993 THAT IS A SOUND DECISION THAT RESPECTS THE LANDMARK DESIGNATION 00:07:41.060 --> 00:07:41.994 PROCESS AND WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH OTHER 00:07:42.061 --> 00:07:46.999 RECENTLY APPROVED CONTROLS. AMENDING OR REJECTING 00:07:47.066 --> 00:07:50.002 CONTROLS COULD BE VIEWED AS ARBITRARY AND 00:07:50.069 --> 00:07:54.006 CAPRICIOUS, SINCE THE REASONING FOR SUCH A 00:07:54.073 --> 00:07:56.008 DECISION IS NOT DOCUMENTED AND JUSTIFIED. 00:07:56.075 --> 00:07:59.011 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THIS LANDMARK AND 00:07:59.078 --> 00:08:01.013 OTHERS IN SEATTLE. HISTORIC PRESERVATION IS A PUBLIC 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:07.019 BENEFIT, IN AND OF ITSELF. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:08:07.086 --> 00:08:09.989 >> THANK YOU. WE HAVE A FEW OTHER FOLKS SIGNED UP, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE 00:08:10.056 --> 00:08:13.993 EVERYBODY IS HERE FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING. 00:08:14.060 --> 00:08:16.996 EXCEPT FOR SUSAN WILLIAMS. 00:08:17.063 --> 00:08:19.999 SUSAN WILLIAMS, ARE YOU WITH US? I SHOW YOU 00:08:20.066 --> 00:08:26.005 AS NOT PRESENT. SUSAN WILLIAMS. OKAY. 00:08:26.072 --> 00:08:31.010 EVERYBODY THAT I HAVE SIGNED UP HERE -- 00:08:31.077 --> 00:08:37.016 THERE ARE ONLY FOUR PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR IN PERSON? 00:08:37.083 --> 00:08:38.050 OKAY, AND EVERYBODY HERE IS SIGNED UP FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING AS WELL, 00:08:38.117 --> 00:08:41.020 SO IN THAT CASE, IS THAT CORRECT? YES, 00:08:41.087 --> 00:08:46.993 OKAY, SO WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON THEN. 00:08:47.059 --> 00:08:49.996 I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AND WE WILL 00:08:50.062 --> 00:08:52.999 MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT ITEM. SO, WILL YOU PLEASE READ ITEM ONE AND 00:08:53.065 --> 00:08:56.002 TWO INTO THE RECORD. 00:08:56.068 --> 00:09:05.077 I DON'T HAVE YOU SIGNED UP. 00:09:05.144 --> 00:09:08.014 JUST A MOMENT, PLEASE. WE ARE TRYING TO CLARIFY 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:16.989 WHAT IS HAPPENING. 00:09:17.056 --> 00:09:38.010 >> I SIGNED IN, TOO. 00:09:38.077 --> 00:09:41.013 >> OKAY, PLEASE GO AHEAD AND PUT TWO MINUTES ON THE CLOCK. 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:52.992 THANK YOU. 00:09:53.059 --> 00:09:55.995 >> CRIMINAL, IT'S EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE 00:09:56.062 --> 00:10:03.002 AND I TALK ABOUT PEOPLE WHO YOU ARE POINT 00:10:03.069 --> 00:10:11.944 FOUR --WHO YOU APPOINT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. 00:10:12.011 --> 00:10:14.947 I COME TO THIS MEETING EVERY DAY AND EVERY DAY I 00:10:15.014 --> 00:10:15.948 ASK A SIMPLE QUESTION. 00:10:16.015 --> 00:10:20.953 WHY DON'T YOU SHOW PEOPLE'S FACES LIKE YOU DID BEFORE, 00:10:21.020 --> 00:10:24.924 FOR 25 YEARS? THIS EXACTLY IS A UNIQUE SITUATION. YOU 00:10:24.991 --> 00:10:29.929 ARE ONLY ONE IN AMERICA WHO DON'T DO THIS. 00:10:29.996 --> 00:10:32.932 HUNDRED PEOPLE COME AND EVERYBODY QUIET. 00:10:32.999 --> 00:10:36.936 WHY ARE YOU SO QUIET, YOU 00:10:37.003 --> 00:10:40.940 IDIOT? YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THEY ARE CRIMINAL. THEY HAVE BROKEN LAW. 00:10:41.007 --> 00:10:44.944 THEY DO THIS FOR SEVEN MONTHS, WHY? 00:10:45.011 --> 00:10:50.950 SO WHEN THEY DON'T SEE PEOPLE HERE -- 00:10:51.017 --> 00:10:56.922 YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? SO YOU CAN ELECT THEM AGAIN, BECAUSE 00:10:56.989 --> 00:11:02.928 THEY DON'T KNOW. THEY ARE CRIMINAL. 00:11:02.995 --> 00:11:11.937 BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT. 00:11:12.004 --> 00:11:14.940 IDIOT AND THEY ARE VERY QUIET. 00:11:15.007 --> 00:11:17.943 WHAT ARE THEY DOING? 00:11:18.010 --> 00:11:23.949 SO, I SPEAK RIGHT NOW WITH THESE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM. 00:11:24.016 --> 00:11:30.923 30, 40. YOU HAVE ONE HERE WHO WILL EXPLAIN TO THEM. 00:11:30.990 --> 00:11:39.932 NOBODY, EVERYBODY QUIET, WHY? BECAUSE YOU ARE BORN LIKE 00:11:39.999 --> 00:11:41.934 A SLAVE AND YOU WILL DIE LIKE A SLAVE. 00:11:42.001 --> 00:11:43.936 SORRY. SO STAND UP, AMERICA. 00:11:44.003 --> 00:11:47.940 STAND UP, FREAKING IDIOTS OF 100,000 PEOPLE. BRING THIS 00:11:48.007 --> 00:11:53.946 COUNTRY OUT. 00:11:54.013 --> 00:11:56.949 >> OKAY, DEVON, WILL YOU READ ITEMS ONE AND TWO TO THE 00:11:57.016 --> 00:12:04.990 RECORD, PLEASE? 00:12:05.057 --> 00:12:11.931 >> AGENDA ITEMS ONE AND TWO, APPOINTMENT 02425 AND 00:12:11.997 --> 00:12:21.941 APPOINTMENT 02426 --REAPPOINTMENT OF 00:12:22.007 --> 00:12:23.943 NATHANIEL HIGBY AND APPOINTMENT OF BRETT PEPOWSKI AS MEMBERS OF SEATTLE'S 00:12:24.009 --> 00:12:28.948 LGBTQ COMMISSION FOR TERMS 00:12:29.014 --> 00:12:31.951 TO APRIL 30, 2024, FOR BRIEFING, DISCUSSION, AND POSSIBLE VOTE. 00:12:32.017 --> 00:12:38.924 >> THANK YOU, WE HAVE JANET STAFFORD HERE FROM THE OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. 00:12:38.991 --> 00:12:41.927 JANET, IF YOU WILL COME ON AND JOIN US TO 00:12:41.994 --> 00:12:42.928 TELL US ABOUT THESE APPOINTMENTS. 00:12:42.995 --> 00:12:44.930 >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:12:44.997 --> 00:12:47.933 GOOD MORNING TO YOU ALL, COUNCILMEMBERS. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.936 TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE A BIT ON OUR REAPPOINTMENTS 00:12:51.003 --> 00:12:55.941 FOR THE LGBTQ COMMISSION. I WOULD LIKE TO START OUT 00:12:56.008 --> 00:13:00.946 BY SHARING SOME OF THE WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE THIS YEAR. 00:13:01.013 --> 00:13:02.948 SOME OF THEIR EVENT COLLABORATIONS WITH CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR'S 00:13:03.015 --> 00:13:05.951 OFFICE HAS INCLUDED THE ANNUAL PRIDE FLAG 00:13:06.018 --> 00:13:11.924 RAISING EVENT AT CITY HALL AND OTHER INVOLVEMENTS 00:13:11.991 --> 00:13:13.926 IN PRIDE EVENTS THIS YEAR. 00:13:13.993 --> 00:13:21.934 THEY HAVE CONNECTED AND HAVE GOTTEN TO KNOW THE NEW 00:13:22.001 --> 00:13:26.939 MAYOR HARRELL STAFF ADMINISTRATION AS WELL AS MEETING MEMBERS OF OUR 00:13:27.006 --> 00:13:29.942 COUNCIL AND SHARING THEIR WORK PLAN AND PRIORITIES FOR 00:13:30.009 --> 00:13:32.945 THIS YEAR. TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND AND 00:13:33.012 --> 00:13:38.951 SHARE BACKGROUND ON NATE HIGBEE AND BRETT PEPOWSKI. 00:13:39.018 --> 00:13:42.922 I WILL SHARE A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON NATE. 00:13:42.988 --> 00:13:47.927 SINCE 2019, NATE HAS BEEN SERVING AS A COMMISSIONER FOR 00:13:47.993 --> 00:13:50.930 THE SEATTLE LGBTQ COMMISSION. 00:13:50.996 --> 00:13:53.933 NATE STARTED WITH THE COMMISSION AS AN ENGAGED COMMISSIONER AND AFTER 00:13:53.999 --> 00:13:56.936 THAT, CONTINUED TO SERVE TWO-YEAR TERMS 00:13:57.002 --> 00:13:59.939 AS A REGULAR COMMISSIONER. HE GRADUATED 00:14:00.005 --> 00:14:05.077 WITH A BACHELORS DEGREE IN SOCIOLOGY 00:14:05.144 --> 00:14:12.017 AND WORKS AT VIRGINIA MASON, WHERE HE CONTINUES 00:14:12.084 --> 00:14:13.018 TO SUPPORT AND BE AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF 00:14:13.085 --> 00:14:19.992 THE LGBTQ STAFF COMMITTEE. HE HAS SPENT TIME ADVOCATING 00:14:20.059 --> 00:14:23.996 FOR BOTH LGBTQ RIGHTS AND DISABILITY RIGHTS. 00:14:24.063 --> 00:14:26.999 HE IS CURRENTLY THE COCHAIR OF THE SOCIAL 00:14:27.066 --> 00:14:31.003 MEDIA AND ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE, AS WELL 00:14:31.070 --> 00:14:33.005 AS THE COCHAIR OF THE LGBTQ COMMISSION. 00:14:33.072 --> 00:14:36.008 THE COMMISSION DOES SUPPORT HIS REAPPOINTMENT AND 00:14:36.075 --> 00:14:39.011 LOOKS FORWARD TO HAVING HIS CONTINUED LEADERSHIP 00:14:39.078 --> 00:14:42.014 THIS NEXT YEAR. 00:14:42.081 --> 00:14:45.017 SHALL I CONTINUE WITH BRETT 00:14:45.084 --> 00:14:46.318 PEPOWSKI? 00:14:46.385 --> 00:14:53.993 >> YES, PLEASE. >> GREAT. 00:14:54.059 --> 00:14:55.995 JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON BRETT PEPOWSKI. 00:14:56.061 --> 00:14:58.998 HE WORKS AS A DATA ANALYST FOR HOUSING AND CLINICAL SERVICES NONPROFIT. 00:14:59.064 --> 00:15:04.003 VOLUNTEERS FOR OVERNIGHT CAMPS FOR YOUTH 00:15:04.069 --> 00:15:12.011 OF NONTRADITIONAL FAMILIES AND VOLUNTEERS BACKSTAGE FOR THE LOCAL 00:15:12.077 --> 00:15:15.014 GAY SYMPHONIC BAND. HE JOINED THE COMMISSION IN 2021 AND 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.017 COCHAIRS THE SOCIAL MEDIA AND ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE 00:15:18.083 --> 00:15:20.019 WITH NATE. 00:15:20.085 --> 00:15:23.989 BRETT HAS DONE MUCH OF THE WORK THIS YEAR IN THE PRESENCE THE 00:15:24.056 --> 00:15:26.992 COMMISSION HAS HAD. 00:15:27.059 --> 00:15:29.995 BRETT HAS ALSO LED MUCH OF THE EFFORTS IN PROVIDING RECENT BUDGET 00:15:30.062 --> 00:15:35.000 RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL. AS A COMMISSIONER, 00:15:35.067 --> 00:15:39.004 BRETT DOES HOPE TO CONTINUE TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF ISSUES 00:15:39.071 --> 00:15:45.010 AND GOVERNMENT ACTION AFFECTING THE QUEER COMMUNITY AND TO INCREASE LOCAL 00:15:45.077 --> 00:15:51.016 ACCESS TO QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND HEALTHCARE. 00:15:51.083 --> 00:15:56.989 THE COMMISSION WELCOMES THIS REAPPOINTMENT 00:15:57.056 --> 00:15:59.992 AND BRETT'S CONTINUED WORK. THANK YOU. 00:16:00.059 --> 00:16:09.001 >> THANK YOU. AND BRETT IS NOT HERE, RIGHT? OKAY, I 00:16:09.068 --> 00:16:12.004 JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. 00:16:12.071 --> 00:16:15.007 I THINK IT IS LISTED ON THE AGENDA AND IN THE PAPERWORK 00:16:15.074 --> 00:16:16.008 THAT THIS IS AN APPOINTMENT AND NOT A 00:16:16.075 --> 00:16:21.013 REAPPOINTMENT FOR BRETT, CAN YOU CLARIFY, PLEASE? 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:23.182 >> BRETT IS A REAPPOINTMENT. THEY ARE 00:16:23.248 --> 00:16:24.350 BOTH REAPPOINTMENTS. 00:16:24.416 --> 00:16:29.021 >> TERRIFIC. 00:16:29.088 --> 00:16:31.990 OKAY, WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GLAD TO KNOW THEY ARE BOTH INTERESTED 00:16:32.057 --> 00:16:32.991 IN CONTINUING TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE. 00:16:33.058 --> 00:16:35.527 I DID MEET WITH SOME OF THE LGBTQ COMMISSIONERS, 00:16:35.594 --> 00:16:37.429 I THINK IT WAS RIGHT AFTER BUDGET. 00:16:37.496 --> 00:16:42.000 IT IS ALL SORT OF A BLUR, BUT I KNOW THEY 00:16:42.067 --> 00:16:45.003 WILL BE COMING BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE AND THE 00:16:45.070 --> 00:16:48.006 NEW YEAR TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE WORK PLAN 00:16:48.073 --> 00:16:51.009 AND TALK TO US ABOUT THINGS THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE. COLLEAGUES, ANY 00:16:51.076 --> 00:16:54.012 QUESTIONS FOR JANET ABOUT THE REAPPOINTMENTS? GREAT. OKAY, IN 00:16:54.079 --> 00:17:00.018 THAT CASE I AM GOING TO MOVE THAT THE COMMITTEE APPROVE APPOINTMENTS 00:17:00.085 --> 00:17:06.992 --RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF APPOINTMENTS -- 2425 AND 2426. IS THERE 00:17:07.059 --> 00:17:08.260 A SECOND? 00:17:08.327 --> 00:17:15.000 >> SECOND. 00:17:15.067 --> 00:17:16.802 >> THANK YOU. IT HAS BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. WILL 00:17:16.869 --> 00:17:17.870 THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 00:17:17.936 --> 00:17:20.005 >> COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS. 00:17:20.072 --> 00:17:21.006 >> YES. >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. 00:17:21.073 --> 00:17:26.011 >> YES. >> COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. 00:17:26.078 --> 00:17:32.017 >> AYE. >> CHAIR MORALES. >> YES. 00:17:32.084 --> 00:17:36.021 >> FOUR IN FAVOR. >> THE MOTION CARRIES AND THE APPOINTMENTS WILL BE SENT 00:17:36.088 --> 00:17:38.991 TO THE JANUARY 3, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THANK YOU 00:17:39.057 --> 00:17:44.997 VERY MUCH, JANET. GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. 00:17:45.063 --> 00:17:48.000 >> THANK YOU. >> WILL YOU PLEASE READ ITEMS THREE AND FOUR INTO THE RECORD. 00:17:48.066 --> 00:17:56.008 >> AGENDA ITEMS THREE AND FOUR, APPOINTMENT 2420 AND APPOINTMENT 2421, APPOINTMENT OF 00:17:56.074 --> 00:18:00.012 MIRIAM HINDEN AS MEMBER, BALLARD AVENUE DISTRICT BOARD FOR 00:18:00.078 --> 00:18:03.015 A TERM TO JUNE 30, 2024, AND APPOINTMENT OF ANTHONY R. SALAZAR 00:18:03.081 --> 00:18:09.021 AS MEMBER, 00:18:09.087 --> 00:18:12.991 BALLARD AVENUE LANDMARK DISTRICT BOARD, FOR A TERM 00:18:13.058 --> 00:18:15.994 TO JUNE 30, 2023, FOR DISCUSSION AND A POSSIBLE VOTE. 00:18:16.061 --> 00:18:18.997 >> THANK YOU AND I'M GOING TO WELCOME MINH CHAU LE FROM THE DEPARTMENT 00:18:19.064 --> 00:18:21.066 OF NEIGHBORHOODS TO JOIN US TO TALK ABOUT THESE 00:18:21.133 --> 00:18:22.334 APPOINTMENTS. PLEASE GO AHEAD. 00:18:22.401 --> 00:18:25.003 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHAIRPERSON MORALES 00:18:25.070 --> 00:18:31.009 AND ALL COUNCIL 00:18:31.076 --> 00:18:33.011 COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS 00:18:33.078 --> 00:18:38.016 IS GRATEFUL FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BRING BEFORE YOU 00:18:38.083 --> 00:18:43.021 TWO CURRENT APPOINTEES TO THE BALLARD AVENUE LANDMARK BOARD 00:18:43.088 --> 00:18:45.991 FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. IF IT IS OKAY 00:18:46.058 --> 00:18:49.995 WITH YOU, CHAIR, MAY I PROVIDE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE 00:18:50.062 --> 00:18:51.997 BALLARD AVENUE LANDMARK DISTRICT AND ITS WORK AND THEN INDIVIDUALLY DESCRIBE 00:18:52.064 --> 00:18:55.000 THE TWO APPOINTEES IN THE ORDER PRESENTED? 00:18:55.067 --> 00:19:01.006 >> THAT SOUNDS GREAT, THANK YOU. 00:19:01.073 --> 00:19:04.009 >> THANK YOU. THE BALLARD AVENUE LANDMARK DISTRICT BOARD WAS ESTABLISHED 00:19:04.076 --> 00:19:07.012 IN 1976. ITS WORK IS TO PROVIDE HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE BALLARD 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:11.016 AVENUE LANDMARK DISTRICT, WHICH IS PROTECTED BY LOCAL 00:19:11.083 --> 00:19:16.021 CITY ORDINANCE AND ALSO HAS RECOGNITION AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL. 00:19:16.088 --> 00:19:20.993 THE NATIONAL HISTORIC -- EXCUSE ME, 00:19:21.059 --> 00:19:24.997 THE NATIONAL REGISTER FOR HISTORIC PLACES. THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF 00:19:25.063 --> 00:19:28.000 THE BOARD IS TO REVIEW AND APPROVE PROPOSALS 00:19:28.066 --> 00:19:31.003 FOR PHYSICAL ALTERATIONS VISIBLE TO THE PUBLIC 00:19:31.069 --> 00:19:33.005 WITHIN THE DISTRICT, WITHIN THE DISTRICT THAT AMOUNTS TO WORK 00:19:33.071 --> 00:19:40.012 IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY. THE ONE PARK SPACE AND BUILDING EXTERIORS. 00:19:40.078 --> 00:19:43.015 THE BOARD AS A WHOLE IS SEVEN MEMBERS, FIVE OF WHOM ARE ELECTED 00:19:43.081 --> 00:19:46.018 VIA AN ANNUAL COMMUNITY ELECTION PROCESS AND TWO 00:19:46.084 --> 00:19:49.988 OF WHOM ARE APPOINTED BY 00:19:50.055 --> 00:19:54.993 THE MAYOR AND CONFIRMED BY COUNCIL, AS WE ARE DOING TODAY. EACH MEMBER 00:19:55.060 --> 00:20:00.999 SERVES TWO-YEAR TERMS AND COLLECTIVELY THE MAKEUP OF 00:20:01.066 --> 00:20:04.002 THE BOARD IS QUITE DYNAMIC. 00:20:04.069 --> 00:20:05.003 IT IS TO PROPERTY OWNERS. TO PROPERTY OWNERS 00:20:05.070 --> 00:20:11.944 OR BUSINESS PERSONS. ONE RESIDENT AND FINALLY, 00:20:12.010 --> 00:20:13.946 THOSE WE ARE PRESENTING TODAY. ONE HISTORIAN AND ONE 00:20:14.012 --> 00:20:18.951 ARCHITECT. THE LAST THING I WILL SAY ABOUT THE BOARD, THE SECOND TO LAST 00:20:19.017 --> 00:20:22.921 THING, IS IT IS ADVISORY TO 00:20:22.988 --> 00:20:26.925 THE DIRECTOR. MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS SUBJECT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS DIRECTORATE 00:20:26.992 --> 00:20:28.927 OF APPROVAL AND THE LAST THING IS THIS 00:20:28.994 --> 00:20:33.932 YEAR THE BOARD ENTHUSIASTICALLY EMBRACES SOME CURRENT, VERY INTERESTING WORK 00:20:33.999 --> 00:20:36.935 RELATED TO PROVIDING ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK 00:20:37.002 --> 00:20:40.939 AND GUIDANCE, AS THE 00:20:41.006 --> 00:20:45.944 CITY MOVES FORWARD OUT OF THE PANDEMIC INTO A POST PANDEMIC PHASE, WITH 00:20:46.011 --> 00:20:48.947 THE VARIOUS SUCCESSFUL CAFE PROGRAMMING THAT HAS 00:20:49.014 --> 00:20:51.950 APPEARED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS ON HISTORIC 00:20:52.017 --> 00:20:53.952 BALLARD AVENUE. 00:20:54.019 --> 00:20:56.922 AND THAT CONCLUDES MY BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE BOARD AND 00:20:56.989 --> 00:21:00.926 NOW I WILL PROCEED WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH OF THE CANDIDATES IN THE ORDER 00:21:00.993 --> 00:21:03.929 THEY WERE PROVIDED. SO FIRST WE HAVE MIRIAM HINDEN FOR POSITION 00:21:03.996 --> 00:21:10.936 NUMBER FIVE, WHICH IS THE ARCHITECT. 00:21:11.003 --> 00:21:14.940 MIRIAM BRINGS TWO DECADES, A BACKGROUND AS A PRACTICING LICENSED ARCHITECT. 00:21:15.007 --> 00:21:19.945 HAS SERVED IN A DESIGN CAPACITY IN MAJOR PROJECTS 00:21:20.012 --> 00:21:26.952 IN ALL OF SEATTLE'S HISTORIC DISTRICTS, FOR WHICH THERE IS SIGNIFICANT BUILDING 00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:29.921 AND DENSITY, SUCH AS COLUMBIA CITY, INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL REVIEW DISTRICT, 00:21:29.988 --> 00:21:33.925 PIONEER SQUARE PRESERVATION DISTRICT, AND THE BALLARD AVENUE 00:21:33.992 --> 00:21:39.931 LANDMARK DISTRICT. MIRIAM HAS ALSO SERVED 00:21:39.998 --> 00:21:41.933 AS A BOARD MEMBER IN THE PAST ON THE PRESERVATION BOARD, 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.937 WHICH LIKE THE BALLARD AVENUE BOARD IS 00:21:46.004 --> 00:21:48.940 A DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS ADMINISTERED PRESERVATION 00:21:49.007 --> 00:21:51.943 BOARD, WHICH IS ADVISORY TO THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR. MIRIAM HAS EXPERIENCE 00:21:52.010 --> 00:21:55.947 IN ADAPTIVE REUSE, 00:21:56.014 --> 00:22:00.952 AS WELL AS REHABILITATION AND THESE ARE THE PARTICULAR PRESERVATION PRACTICES 00:22:01.019 --> 00:22:03.922 THAT ARE FAVORED WITHIN SEATTLE, UNDER THE 00:22:03.989 --> 00:22:06.925 ORDINANCE. 00:22:06.992 --> 00:22:10.929 FINALLY, MIRIAM IS A RESIDENT 00:22:10.996 --> 00:22:12.931 OF THE GREATER BALLARD COMMUNITY. 00:22:12.998 --> 00:22:15.934 WITH THAT I WILL PROCEED TO THE SECOND CANDIDATE, ANTHONY SALAZAR, 00:22:16.001 --> 00:22:18.937 FOR POSITION NUMBER ONE, THE COMMUNITY HISTORIAN POSITION. 00:22:19.004 --> 00:22:25.944 ANTHONY COMES FROM AN EXTENSIVE CAREER AT 00:22:26.011 --> 00:22:27.946 THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON IN ACADEMIA, WHERE HE FOCUSED ON HISTORY, PARTICULARLY 00:22:28.013 --> 00:22:35.954 SOCIAL AND URBAN HISTORY. HE IS A LONG TERM 00:22:36.021 --> 00:22:39.925 MEMBER AND OFFICER OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL AND IS A BALLARD 00:22:39.991 --> 00:22:42.928 RESIDENT, AS WELL. 00:22:42.994 --> 00:22:48.934 AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION REGARDING THE 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:50.936 TWO CANDIDATES TO THE LANDMARK DISTRICT BOARD. 00:22:51.002 --> 00:22:54.940 >> TERRIFIC, THANK YOU 00:22:55.006 --> 00:22:57.943 VERY MUCH. I DO SEE MIRIAM AND ANTHONY HERE. IF EITHER 00:22:58.009 --> 00:23:00.946 OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT, I AM HAPPY TO GIVE 00:23:01.012 --> 00:23:04.549 YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT. 00:23:04.616 --> 00:23:08.086 I DON'T SEE --OH, MIRIAM, THERE YOU ARE. 00:23:08.153 --> 00:23:12.924 >> GOOD MORNING, I AM MIRIAM HINDEN. 00:23:12.991 --> 00:23:15.927 >> PLEASE GO AHEAD. 00:23:15.994 --> 00:23:20.932 >> SO I AM AN ARCHITECT. 00:23:20.999 --> 00:23:23.935 AND PRINCIPAL. WE ARE LOCATED IN GREEN ARE SQUARE AND I 00:23:24.002 --> 00:23:27.939 HAVE A BROAD RANGE OF EXPERIENCE IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION, REHABILITATION AND CONSTRUCTION 00:23:28.006 --> 00:23:33.945 PROJECTS INCLUDING IN THE BALLARD PRESERVATION DISTRICT 00:23:34.012 --> 00:23:39.951 AND ALSO IN PIONEER SQUARE. 00:23:40.018 --> 00:23:42.954 I AM EXCITED TO BE ON THIS BOARD AND HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY. I THINK 00:23:43.021 --> 00:23:45.924 IT WILL BE A REALLY GOOD EXPERIENCE AND A GREAT 00:23:45.991 --> 00:23:48.160 WAY TO WORK WITH THE RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS. 00:23:48.226 --> 00:23:49.127 THANK YOU. 00:23:49.194 --> 00:23:53.932 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. ANTHONY, 00:23:53.999 --> 00:23:57.936 DID YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING? HI, GOOD MORNING. 00:23:58.003 --> 00:24:01.940 I DID NOTICE THAT YOU HAVE HISTORY 00:24:02.007 --> 00:24:06.545 OF BASEBALL KNOWLEDGE, SO I AM VERY EXCITED TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US, 00:24:06.611 --> 00:24:07.379 THANK YOU. 00:24:07.445 --> 00:24:10.015 >> I AM A MEMBER OF THE SID FIRM 00:24:10.081 --> 00:24:13.018 DAY >> 00:24:13.084 --> 00:24:15.554 ANTHONY, I'M SORRY, IT IS REALLY HARD TO HEAR YOU. 00:24:15.620 --> 00:24:20.992 >> I'M SORRY, CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? THERE WE GO. YES MA'AM, 00:24:21.059 --> 00:24:24.996 I AM A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN BASEBALL RESEARCH 00:24:25.063 --> 00:24:30.001 AND I CHAIR ITS LATINO BASEBALL COMMITTEE AS WELL AND I HAVE DONE EXTENSIVE RESEARCH 00:24:30.068 --> 00:24:33.004 IN BASEBALL AS WELL AND I AM ALSO A BEER HISTORIAN. SO I 00:24:33.071 --> 00:24:37.008 HAVE BEEN DOING WORK WITH THE BALLARD BREWERY DISTRICT AND 00:24:37.075 --> 00:24:40.011 COALITION AS WELL. 00:24:40.078 --> 00:24:46.017 IT IS JUST AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THIS SERVICE 00:24:46.084 --> 00:24:49.020 WITH THE BALLARD LANDMARK DISTRICT. I'VE GOT 00:24:49.087 --> 00:24:51.990 A BACKGROUND IN URBAN HISTORY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF 00:24:52.057 --> 00:24:54.993 CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, WHERE 00:24:55.060 --> 00:24:57.996 I WAS ABLE TO STUDY THE EVOLUTION OF 00:24:58.063 --> 00:25:00.999 OUR GREAT AMERICAN CITIES. 00:25:01.066 --> 00:25:03.001 GROWING UP IN SAN FRANCISCO PROVIDED ME THAT 00:25:03.068 --> 00:25:04.002 CURIOSITY AND WONDER OF HOW CITIES WORK AND HOW SAN FRANCISCANS CONTRIBUTED 00:25:04.069 --> 00:25:12.010 TO THE SUCCESS OF THE CITY. I SEE A LOT OF THESE SIMILARITIES 00:25:12.077 --> 00:25:13.011 WITH SEATTLE AND BALLARD IN PARTICULAR. 00:25:13.078 --> 00:25:19.017 BALLARD AVENUE, AS YOU KNOW, IS A VERY CHARMING AREA. I WOULD LIKE 00:25:19.084 --> 00:25:22.020 TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH HER DISTRICT AND WORK 00:25:22.087 --> 00:25:24.990 WITH OTHERS IN MAINTAINING THAT CHARM AND 00:25:25.056 --> 00:25:27.993 TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE EDUCATIONAL AND ADVOCATING FOR 00:25:28.059 --> 00:25:29.861 HISTORY IN THAT AREA. 00:25:29.928 --> 00:25:32.964 THERE IS A LOT TO BE OFFERED HERE. 00:25:33.031 --> 00:25:40.005 AS A CHICANO, STUDYING 00:25:40.071 --> 00:25:43.008 IN DDI SPACES, THERE IS A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE THERE AS WELL 00:25:43.074 --> 00:25:48.013 AND I APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE THIS 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:52.017 PLATFORM AND WORKING WITH THE DISTRICT AND THE CITY, AS WELL AS, 00:25:52.083 --> 00:25:54.019 LATER ON, IF WE CAN FIND WAYS TO COLLABORATE WITH 00:25:54.085 --> 00:25:57.989 THE BALLARD HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE BALLARD ALLIANCE. 00:25:58.056 --> 00:26:01.993 I THINK IT IS A WIN-WIN FOR ALL OF US IN BALLARD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:26:02.060 --> 00:26:05.063 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE. COLLEAGUES, ARE THERE 00:26:05.130 --> 00:26:07.999 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR THE APPOINTEES? YES, COUNCILMEMBER 00:26:08.066 --> 00:26:11.002 STRAUSS. 00:26:11.069 --> 00:26:18.009 >> THANK YOU, CHAIR. AND THANK YOU, MINH CHAU LE, IT 00:26:18.076 --> 00:26:20.011 IS ALWAYS WONDERFUL TO SEE COLLEAGUES. 00:26:20.078 --> 00:26:22.013 YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE BALLARD DISTRICT, 00:26:22.080 --> 00:26:26.017 BALLARD LANDMARK DISTRICT, REGARDING STREET 00:26:26.084 --> 00:26:30.989 CAFES AND OUTDOOR DINING TO BRING THIS UP TO BE ABLE 00:26:31.056 --> 00:26:37.996 TO MEET HISTORIC DISTRICT GUIDELINES. SO, MIRIAM, READING WHAT YOU WORKED ON, 00:26:38.063 --> 00:26:40.999 I THINK THIS WILL BE AN AMAZING CONNECTION. AND ANTHONY, I 00:26:41.066 --> 00:26:46.004 HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SO IMPRESSED WITH YOUR LEVEL OF HISTORY OF AIRSPACE, 00:26:46.071 --> 00:26:47.005 OF OUR CITY, OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. 00:26:47.072 --> 00:26:53.011 AND YOUR WORK 00:26:53.078 --> 00:26:56.014 IN THE DISTRICT ALREADY. I GUESS I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR 00:26:56.081 --> 00:26:59.017 YOU, SINCE YOUR RESUMES ARE ALWAYS BLOWING ME AWAY. JUST TO 00:26:59.084 --> 00:27:02.020 SAY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE REALLY IMPORTANT WORK COMING 00:27:02.087 --> 00:27:05.056 UP IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS, TO REALLY FIGURE OUT HOW 00:27:05.123 --> 00:27:07.993 WE MAKE OUR OUTDOOR DINING SPACES MEET HISTORIC 00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:11.997 DISTRICT GUIDELINES AND 00:27:12.063 --> 00:27:16.001 THAT WE ARE, YOU KNOW, AT THE LAST HISTORIC DISTRICT MEETING, IT BECAME 00:27:16.067 --> 00:27:21.006 VERY CLEAR. WE HAVE THREE BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN HALF A 00:27:21.072 --> 00:27:29.014 BLOCK OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICT THAT WILL BE ABOUT 200 NEW UNITS. ON TOP 00:27:29.080 --> 00:27:33.018 OF THE DENSITY WE ALREADY HAVE. THIS 00:27:33.084 --> 00:27:35.020 IS CHANGING HOW THE HISTORIC DISTRICT OPERATES AND WHAT OUR NEEDS ARE AND 00:27:35.086 --> 00:27:37.989 IT IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM 1976, NEARLY 50 00:27:38.056 --> 00:27:42.994 YEARS AGO WHEN THE BOEING 747 WAS FIRST ROLLED OUT 00:27:43.061 --> 00:27:47.799 ON THE PRODUCTION LINES. SO HERE WE ARE IN THIS NEW WORLD AND I AM JUST SO 00:27:47.866 --> 00:27:49.234 VERY EXCITED FOR YOU. 00:27:49.300 --> 00:27:53.004 >> THANK YOU. 00:27:53.071 --> 00:27:56.007 >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 00:27:56.074 --> 00:27:59.010 STRAUSS. COUNCILMEMBER NELSON, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 00:27:59.077 --> 00:28:03.014 >> THESE ARE EXCELLENT CANDIDATES. THE 00:28:03.081 --> 00:28:08.019 ONE THING, NOT THE ONE THING, BUT I NOTICED THAT IN MANY OF 00:28:08.086 --> 00:28:10.989 YOUR JOBS YOU WERE PROJECT MANAGER AND THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT, 00:28:11.056 --> 00:28:17.996 BECAUSE YOU UNDERSTAND 00:28:18.063 --> 00:28:19.998 EVERY STEP OF A PROJECT FROM, YOU KNOW, PERMITTING THROUGH CONSTRUCTION, 00:28:20.065 --> 00:28:23.001 ET CETERA. 00:28:23.068 --> 00:28:26.004 AND DESIGN, OF COURSE. SO I THINK THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO HAVE AN 00:28:26.071 --> 00:28:32.010 UNDERSTANDING OF ON THE GROUND COMPLEXITIES AND CHALLENGES 00:28:32.077 --> 00:28:36.014 OF BUILDING IN SEATTLE, AS WELL AS PRESERVING IN SEATTLE, 00:28:36.081 --> 00:28:40.018 SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. AND FOR EVERYBODY'S INFORMATION, ONE OF 00:28:40.085 --> 00:28:43.988 THE PROJECTS THAT SHE LEAD ON DID GET 00:28:44.055 --> 00:28:44.989 AN AWARD. 00:28:45.056 --> 00:28:49.994 GOT THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING HISTORIC BUILDING REHABILITATION, 00:28:50.061 --> 00:28:54.999 WHICH WAS THE WAREHOUSE. CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT. 00:28:55.066 --> 00:28:57.001 I THINK YOU ARE A FABULOUS PICK AND THANK 00:28:57.068 --> 00:29:01.005 YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. ANTHONY, YOU AND I GRADUATED FROM UCSB THE 00:29:01.072 --> 00:29:06.010 SAME YEAR. ANYWAY, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE 00:29:06.077 --> 00:29:08.012 NEXUS BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND HISTORY. 00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:16.020 THE FACT THAT YOU ARE FOCUSED ON THE BALLARD 00:29:16.087 --> 00:29:19.991 BEER DISTRICT IS, OF COURSE, SOMETHING THAT I AM 00:29:20.058 --> 00:29:25.997 ESPECIALLY ATTRACTED TO. IT REALLY IS IMPORTANT. THAT WE KEEP 00:29:26.064 --> 00:29:32.003 IN MIND WHAT THE 00:29:32.070 --> 00:29:35.006 INDUSTRIES ARE IN HISTORIC DISTRICTS AND HOW THOSE 00:29:35.073 --> 00:29:44.015 INDUSTRIES MIGHT CHANGE AND EVOLVE. AND I LIKE 00:29:44.082 --> 00:29:45.483 THAT NEXUS THAT YOU BRING, SO THANK YOU VERY 00:29:45.550 --> 00:29:46.518 MUCH FOR BEING WILLING TO SERVE. 00:29:46.584 --> 00:29:49.020 >> ABSOLUTELY 00:29:49.087 --> 00:29:50.989 AND I HOPE YOU PICKED UP ON THE WORD NEXUS. IF YOU RECALL IT IS 00:29:51.055 --> 00:29:55.994 THE DAILY NEXUS. ALWAYS A FAVORITE WORD OF MINE. 00:29:56.060 --> 00:30:04.002 >> WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COLLEAGUES, IF THERE ARE NO --OH, COUNCILMEMBER 00:30:04.068 --> 00:30:07.939 STRAUSS, DID YOU HAVE A FOLLOW-UP? 00:30:08.006 --> 00:30:10.942 >> YEAH, THE 747 FIRST TOOK FLIGHT IN 1969. 00:30:11.009 --> 00:30:18.950 THE HISTORIC LANDMARK DISTRICT STARTED IN 1976. I WAS JUST MAKING THE COMPARISON 00:30:19.017 --> 00:30:22.954 EARLIER THIS WEEK OR LAST WEEK, SO THINGS HAVE CHANGED 00:30:23.021 --> 00:30:28.927 IN OUR WORLD. JUST CLARIFYING -- 00:30:28.993 --> 00:30:29.928 >> THANKS VERY MUCH. 00:30:29.994 --> 00:30:36.935 HISTORICAL ACCURACY IS APPRECIATED. OKAY, COLLEAGUES, IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER 00:30:37.001 --> 00:30:37.936 COMMENTS THAN I AM GOING TO MOVE THAT THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS APPROVAL 00:30:38.002 --> 00:30:43.942 OF APPOINTMENTS 2420 AND 2421. 00:30:44.008 --> 00:30:45.944 IS THERE A SECOND? 00:30:46.010 --> 00:30:46.945 >> SECOND. >> THANK YOU. 00:30:47.011 --> 00:30:52.951 IT HAS BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE APPOINTMENTS. 00:30:53.017 --> 00:30:54.953 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 00:30:55.019 --> 00:30:55.954 >> COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS. 00:30:56.020 --> 00:30:58.923 >> YES. >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. 00:30:58.990 --> 00:31:01.926 >> YES. 00:31:01.993 --> 00:31:05.930 >> COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. 00:31:05.997 --> 00:31:11.936 >> AYE. >> CHAIR MORALES. 00:31:12.003 --> 00:31:12.937 >> YES. >> FOUR IN FAVOR. 00:31:13.004 --> 00:31:14.939 >> THE MOTION CARRIES AND THE RECOMMENDATION THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED THE APPOINTMENTS 00:31:15.006 --> 00:31:16.941 WILL BE SENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING. 00:31:17.008 --> 00:31:20.945 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, EVERYBODY. 00:31:21.012 --> 00:31:23.948 THANK YOU SO MUCH, AND WE WILL SEE YOU ALL SOON. LET'S GO AHEAD TO 00:31:24.015 --> 00:31:29.954 AGENDA ITEM FIVE. PLEASE READ THAT INTO THE RECORD. 00:31:30.021 --> 00:31:33.925 >> AGENDA ITEM FIVE, COUNCIL BILL 120312, AND 00:31:33.992 --> 00:31:38.930 ORDINANCE RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION, IMPOSING CONTROLS UPON 00:31:38.997 --> 00:31:40.932 THE SEATTLE-FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, 00:31:40.999 --> 00:31:45.937 A LANDMARK DESIGNATED BY THE BOARD UNDER CHAPTER 25.12 00:31:46.004 --> 00:31:47.939 OF THE SEATTLE MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING IT TO THE TABLE OF 00:31:48.006 --> 00:31:53.945 HISTORICAL LANDMARKS CONTAINED IN CHAPTER 25.32 00:31:54.012 --> 00:31:56.447 OF THE SEATTLE MUNICIPAL CODE. FOR BRIEFING, 00:31:56.514 --> 00:31:58.082 DISCUSSION, AND POSSIBLE VOTE. 00:31:58.149 --> 00:32:01.953 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO, 00:32:02.020 --> 00:32:05.923 WE HAVE LISH WHITSON FROM COUNCIL CENTRAL 00:32:05.990 --> 00:32:14.932 STAFF HERE. AND, I'M SORRY, CAN YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF? 00:32:14.999 --> 00:32:18.936 >> GOOD MORNING. 00:32:19.003 --> 00:32:20.938 JESSICA ROWE HERE ON BEHALF OF THE OWNER. 00:32:21.005 --> 00:32:25.943 >> PERFECT, THANK YOU. 00:32:26.010 --> 00:32:29.947 SO, COLLEAGUES, THIS IS AS YOU WILL RECALL A BILL THAT WE 00:32:30.014 --> 00:32:32.950 BEGAN DISCUSSING LAST SPRING. I DELAYED A VOTE AT THAT TIME BECAUSE 00:32:33.017 --> 00:32:37.922 I WAS STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND CANDIDLY THE BENEFIT THAT OCCURS 00:32:37.989 --> 00:32:41.926 TO THE CITY FOR PROTECTING THIS BUILDING. 00:32:41.993 --> 00:32:44.929 SO I AM GOING TO START BY ASKING LISH TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW 00:32:44.996 --> 00:32:50.935 AND THEN I WILL OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION. 00:32:51.002 --> 00:32:59.944 SORRY, I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR MY SCRIPT. 00:33:00.011 --> 00:33:05.016 DO I NEED TO MOVE THIS FIRST FOR DISCUSSION? 00:33:05.083 --> 00:33:09.354 IT IS ALREADY OPEN. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY, LISH, I WILL HAND IT OFF TO YOU. PLEASE 00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:10.021 GO AHEAD. 00:33:10.088 --> 00:33:14.926 >> GOOD MORNING, LISH WHITSON, COUNCIL CENTRAL 00:33:14.992 --> 00:33:17.929 STAFF AND I WILL SHARE THE PRESENTATION THAT 00:33:17.995 --> 00:33:26.938 YOU SAW LAST APRIL. 00:33:27.004 --> 00:33:32.944 THERE WE GO. 00:33:33.010 --> 00:33:38.950 SO THIS IS THE DESIGNATION --SORRY. 00:33:39.016 --> 00:33:47.925 THIS BILL WOULD APPROVE 00:33:47.992 --> 00:33:53.931 THE SEATTLE-FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 00:33:53.998 --> 00:33:55.933 IN THE UPTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD. IT IS A MODERNIST 00:33:56.000 --> 00:34:06.010 BUILDING BUILT IN 1950. IT IS LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER 00:34:06.077 --> 00:34:08.012 OF DENNY WAY AND SIXTH AVENUE NORTH. THE LANDMARK 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:12.016 PRESERVATION BOARD DESIGNATED THE BUILDING IN 00:34:12.083 --> 00:34:16.020 2006 AND APPROVED THE AGREEMENT NEGOTIATED 00:34:16.087 --> 00:34:17.989 WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER LAST YEAR. 00:34:18.055 --> 00:34:23.995 THE LANDMARKS BOARD DESIGNATION WAS BASED ON FOUR DIFFERENT CRITERIA. THEY ARE 00:34:24.061 --> 00:34:26.998 INCLUDED IN THE SEATTLE MUNICIPAL CODE. 00:34:27.064 --> 00:34:30.001 THE FIRST IS THE DESIGNATION CRITERIA C, WHICH IS THAT 00:34:30.067 --> 00:34:36.007 THE BUILDING EMBODIES 00:34:36.073 --> 00:34:39.010 IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THE CITY, REGIONAL, NATIONAL HISTORY. IN THIS 00:34:39.076 --> 00:34:47.018 CASE, THERE ARE THREE INTERWEAVING HISTORIES 00:34:47.084 --> 00:34:50.988 WHICH THE BOARD IDENTIFIED AS IMPORTANT. 00:34:51.055 --> 00:34:53.991 AS PART OF THIS BUILDING. 00:34:54.058 --> 00:34:56.994 FIRST IS THE HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE-FIRST NATIONAL BANK, WHICH 00:34:57.061 --> 00:35:03.000 HAD ITS ROOTS IN SEATTLE'S 00:35:03.067 --> 00:35:06.003 FIRST BANK. 00:35:06.070 --> 00:35:12.009 AND AT ONE POINT WAS THE LARGEST BANK IN WASHINGTON STATE. 00:35:12.076 --> 00:35:18.015 THE SECOND IS THE HISTORY OF BANKING PRACTICES. THIS WAS 00:35:18.082 --> 00:35:21.018 REPRESENTATIVE OF LOCAL BRANCH BANKS, WHERE BANKING 00:35:21.085 --> 00:35:24.021 WAS MOVING AWAY FROM LARGE, IMPOSING EDIFICES IN THE 00:35:24.088 --> 00:35:29.994 HEARTS OF DOWNTOWNS AND MOVING TOWARDS BRANCHES 00:35:30.061 --> 00:35:36.000 THAT WERE BETTER DESIGNED TO SERVE THE PUBLIC IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS 00:35:36.067 --> 00:35:41.005 AND, IN PARTICULAR, MORE WELCOMING 00:35:41.072 --> 00:35:44.008 TO WOMEN. FINALLY THE HISTORY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 00:35:44.075 --> 00:35:48.012 THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST BUILDINGS BUILT IN THE AREA 00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:54.018 AFTER THE REGRADE. SO, IT IS 00:35:54.085 --> 00:35:57.021 INVOLVED IN THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH LAKE 00:35:57.088 --> 00:35:59.991 UNION UPTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD. 00:36:00.057 --> 00:36:02.994 THE SECOND CRITERIA THAT THE LANDMARKS BOARD IDENTIFIED 00:36:03.060 --> 00:36:09.000 WAS THAT THIS BUILDING EMBODIES 00:36:09.066 --> 00:36:12.003 MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE. 00:36:12.069 --> 00:36:20.011 CRITERIUM E THAT THE LANDMARKS BOARD IDENTIFIED 00:36:20.077 --> 00:36:24.015 WERE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARCHITECTS OF THE BUILDING. 00:36:24.081 --> 00:36:28.019 HOLMES AND MALONEY WERE IMPORTANT MODERNIST ARCHITECTS IN SEATTLE. 00:36:28.085 --> 00:36:33.991 FINALLY THEY LOOKED 00:36:34.058 --> 00:36:39.997 AT THE LOCATION, VISIBILITY, AND SURROUNDING DEVELOPMENT IN ORDER TO DESIGNATE 00:36:40.064 --> 00:36:43.000 BASED ON CRITERIA F. 00:36:43.067 --> 00:36:49.006 AS YOU KNOW, DENNY WAY HAS A NUMBER OF DIAGONAL STREETS 00:36:49.073 --> 00:36:52.009 THAT INTERSECT IT AND THIS BANK IS SORT OF AT THE CORNER 00:36:52.076 --> 00:36:58.015 WHERE TWO OF THOSE DIAGONAL STREETS MEET 00:36:58.082 --> 00:36:59.016 DENNY WAY. 00:36:59.083 --> 00:37:03.020 IT IS A PROMINENT LOCATION. ONCE THE LANDMARKS BOARD DECIDES TO DESIGNATE 00:37:03.087 --> 00:37:05.990 A BUILDING, THE STAFF AT THE DEPARTMENT OF 00:37:06.057 --> 00:37:09.994 NEIGHBORHOODS NEGOTIATE AGREEMENTS WITH THE BUILDING'S OWNER. IN THIS 00:37:10.061 --> 00:37:12.997 CASE, CONTROLS ARE PLACED ON THE BUILDING 00:37:13.064 --> 00:37:19.003 AND THE SITE AND STANDARD INCENTIVES 00:37:19.070 --> 00:37:20.004 ARE PROVIDED. 00:37:20.071 --> 00:37:25.009 FLEXIBILITY UNDER THE LAND-USE BUILDING AND ENERGY CODES, SPECIAL 00:37:25.076 --> 00:37:28.012 PROPERTY TAX IF THE BUILDING IS REHABILITATED, 00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:31.015 AND THE ABILITY TO TRANSFER DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS AND 00:37:31.082 --> 00:37:35.019 DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL ARE 00:37:35.086 --> 00:37:37.989 ALL INCENTIVES THE LEGISLATION WOULD PROVIDE TO THE PROPERTY OWNER. 00:37:38.055 --> 00:37:41.993 THE ABILITY TO TRANSFER DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL WILL 00:37:42.059 --> 00:37:45.997 ALLOW PLANNED GROWTH IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, EVEN AS THE 00:37:46.063 --> 00:37:49.000 BUILDING REMAINS. 00:37:49.066 --> 00:37:52.003 AND THE SEATTLE NEXT UPTOWN ZONING, ADOPTED IN 2017, CONSIDERED 00:37:52.069 --> 00:37:58.009 PRESERVATION OF THIS BUILDING 00:37:58.075 --> 00:38:01.012 IN THE TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL PROGRAM THAT 00:38:01.078 --> 00:38:04.015 APPLIES IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. 00:38:04.081 --> 00:38:06.017 THE COUNCIL HAS AUTHORITY UNDER THE CODE 00:38:06.083 --> 00:38:10.021 TO ADOPT, AMEND, OR REJECT CONTROL INCENTIVE AGREEMENTS, BUT 00:38:10.087 --> 00:38:12.990 HAS NEVER REJECTED A CONTROL INCENTIVES AGREEMENT AND HAS ONLY 00:38:13.057 --> 00:38:18.996 ONCE AMENDED AN AGREEMENT. AND I AM 00:38:19.063 --> 00:38:21.999 HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD 00:38:22.066 --> 00:38:29.006 STAFF IS ALSO ON THE LINE 00:38:29.073 --> 00:38:30.007 FOR MORE TECHNICAL QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. 00:38:30.074 --> 00:38:37.014 >> GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LISH. COLLEAGUES, ARE THERE QUESTIONS 00:38:37.081 --> 00:38:45.990 FOR LISH OR STAFF? I'M SORRY, CAN YOU RESTATE 00:38:46.057 --> 00:38:46.991 YOUR NAME FOR ME PLEASE. 00:38:47.058 --> 00:38:49.994 >> OF COURSE, THANK YOU. I AM JESSICA ROWE, HERE ON BEHALF OF 00:38:50.061 --> 00:38:54.999 THE OWNER AND I AM ALSO JOINED BY HEIDI MARTINEZ FROM WALGREENS. 00:38:55.066 --> 00:38:57.001 SHE IS ON THE SAME -- >> 00:38:57.068 --> 00:39:01.005 THANK YOU. COLLEAGUES, ARE THERE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT 00:39:01.072 --> 00:39:04.008 THIS PARTICULAR BILL? 00:39:04.075 --> 00:39:10.014 I WILL SAY THAT, AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE, 00:39:10.081 --> 00:39:13.017 YOU KNOW, I WAS STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT 00:39:13.084 --> 00:39:18.989 BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR ACCRUES TO THE CITY 00:39:19.056 --> 00:39:21.992 FOR PROTECTING WHAT IS A ONE-STORY BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE OF A VERY DENSE 00:39:22.059 --> 00:39:25.996 NEIGHBORHOOD. AND YOU KNOW, I REALIZE 00:39:26.063 --> 00:39:31.001 AS LISH SAID THAT OUR OPTIONS ARE LIMITED HERE. 00:39:31.068 --> 00:39:34.004 WE CAN MODIFY THE CONTROLS IN THE AGREEMENT, BUT WE CAN'T CHANGE 00:39:34.071 --> 00:39:39.009 THE DESIGNATION THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN GRANTED BY THE LANDMARKS BOARD. 00:39:39.076 --> 00:39:43.013 THIS PROJECT RECEIVED ITS LANDMARK STATUS 00:39:43.080 --> 00:39:49.019 IN 2006. THE AGREEMENT IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM RECENT AGREEMENTS. 00:39:49.086 --> 00:39:50.988 THAT, IN THE CHAIR'S OPINION, ALIGNED MORE CLOSELY TO OUR 00:39:51.055 --> 00:39:54.992 CITY'S PRIORITIES RIGHT NOW AROUND HOUSING AND TRUE 00:39:55.059 --> 00:39:57.995 COMMUNITY BENEFITS. 00:39:58.062 --> 00:40:00.998 I WILL ALSO SAY IT IS THE OPINION OF THE CHAIR THAT THE 00:40:01.065 --> 00:40:04.001 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE STRAINS TO EXPLAIN WHY THIS BUILDING 00:40:04.068 --> 00:40:08.939 WARRANTS PROTECTION. 00:40:09.006 --> 00:40:11.942 I UNDERSTAND WHAT BENEFITS WOULD ACCRUE IN THE TRANSACTION OF 00:40:12.009 --> 00:40:13.944 SELLING DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS. WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS WHAT 00:40:14.011 --> 00:40:18.949 BENEFIT ACCRUES TO THE CITY FOR PROTECTING A BUILDING THAT IS 00:40:19.016 --> 00:40:21.952 NOT UNIQUE. 00:40:22.019 --> 00:40:23.954 THERE ARE FOUR OTHER BUILDINGS THAT ARE SIMILAR. THAT DOES 00:40:24.021 --> 00:40:27.925 NOT RETAIN ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE. IT IS NO LONGER 00:40:27.992 --> 00:40:32.930 A BANK. NOR HAS IT RETAINED THE ORIGINAL INTERIOR. 00:40:32.997 --> 00:40:34.932 AND AS I SAID IN OUR DISCUSSIONS LAST SPRING, PRESERVING 00:40:34.999 --> 00:40:39.937 THIS PARTICULAR ONE-STORY BUILDING DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, GIVEN 00:40:40.004 --> 00:40:45.943 THE HOUSING CRISIS WE ARE IN AND THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY 00:40:46.010 --> 00:40:48.946 SINCE 2006. YOU KNOW, SOUTH LAKE UNION AND THE 00:40:49.013 --> 00:40:57.922 AREAS AROUND THEIR -- SO, YOU KNOW, I HAVE BEEN GIVING THIS 00:40:57.988 --> 00:41:03.928 A LOT OF CONSIDERATION. IT IS MY BELIEF THAT THIS BUILDING WOULD BE BETTER 00:41:03.994 --> 00:41:06.931 SERVED AS A CITY IF WE WERE ABLE TO USE THIS SITE, 00:41:06.997 --> 00:41:09.934 SO I CAN'T SUPPORT THIS PROJECT AND WILL BE VOTING NO. I AM GOING 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.136 TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO COMMENT 00:41:12.203 --> 00:41:15.806 AND THEN WE WILL MOVE FORWARD. COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS. 00:41:15.873 --> 00:41:21.946 >> THANK YOU, CHAIR MORALES. SIMILARLY 00:41:22.012 --> 00:41:24.949 AS THE COUNCILMEMBER WHO REPRESENTS DISTRICT 00:41:25.015 --> 00:41:30.921 7, WHERE THIS PROJECT WERE WHERE THIS BUILDING IS LOCATED, 00:41:30.988 --> 00:41:35.926 I DON'T BELIEVE, BASED ON SIMILAR CRITERIA, 00:41:35.993 --> 00:41:39.930 THAT THE CHAIR JUST ADDRESSED, THAT THIS IS 00:41:39.997 --> 00:41:45.936 AN APPROPRIATE DESIGNATION AND APPROPRIATE CONTROLS FOR THE GIVEN PROPERTY. 00:41:46.003 --> 00:41:49.807 YOU KNOW, SOUTH LAKE UNION IS ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING, 00:41:49.874 --> 00:41:52.343 DENSEST NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY. 00:41:52.409 --> 00:41:57.948 WE ARE GOING TO HAVE 00:41:58.015 --> 00:41:59.950 SOUND TRANSIT GOING THROUGH THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WITH LIGHT RAIL 00:42:00.017 --> 00:42:05.923 SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE AND WE ARE GOING TO WANT TO REALIZE 00:42:05.990 --> 00:42:09.927 THE HIGHEST USE OF PARCELS FOR TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT AND, FRANKLY, 00:42:09.994 --> 00:42:14.932 THOSE KINDS OF CONSIDERATIONS WEIGH ON ME MAKING 00:42:14.999 --> 00:42:21.939 DECISIONS AROUND HISTORIC PROTECTIONS AND DESIGNATIONS. 00:42:22.006 --> 00:42:24.942 THE ONE SIDE OF THE SCALE, VERSUS THE 00:42:25.009 --> 00:42:27.945 OTHER SIDE OF THE SCALE TO PROTECT THE BUILDING. I DON'T KNOW THAT THE 00:42:28.012 --> 00:42:33.951 CHARACTERISTICS -- I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE CHARACTERISTICS 00:42:34.018 --> 00:42:36.954 OF THIS BUILDING OUTWEIGH THE ALTERNATIVE POTENTIALS OF THIS SITE 00:42:37.021 --> 00:42:42.927 IN THE FUTURE OF HOW WE GROW 00:42:42.993 --> 00:42:45.930 AND EXPAND AS A CITY, SO FOR THOSE REASONS I SIMILARLY WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING 00:42:45.996 --> 00:42:53.938 THIS LEGISLATION THIS MORNING. 00:42:54.004 --> 00:42:55.639 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS. 00:42:55.706 --> 00:42:56.674 COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. 00:42:56.740 --> 00:42:57.942 >> THANK YOU VERY 00:42:58.008 --> 00:42:59.944 MUCH. 00:43:00.010 --> 00:43:03.948 I THINK IT WAS APRIL 22 WHEN WE DISCUSSED THIS LAST TIME AND I 00:43:04.014 --> 00:43:07.952 DID MENTION THAT MY CONCERN WAS THIS IS 00:43:08.018 --> 00:43:12.923 IN A GROWING NEIGHBORHOOD, ECHOING WHAT HAS BEEN SAID TODAY, BUT THAT 00:43:12.990 --> 00:43:15.926 HOUSING IS A CORE PRIORITY RIGHT NOW AND 00:43:15.993 --> 00:43:20.931 I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE USE OF THIS SPACE AND ALSO 00:43:20.998 --> 00:43:24.935 THE TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS AND HOW THAT WOULD 00:43:25.002 --> 00:43:27.938 ALL WORK. BUT IT IS BETTER TO BUILD HOUSING 00:43:28.005 --> 00:43:32.943 ON SITE THEN EVEN TRANSFER 00:43:33.010 --> 00:43:36.947 THOSE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS, SO I WILL BE VOTING NO, AS WELL. BUT I DO HAVE 00:43:37.014 --> 00:43:42.953 A QUESTION FIRST, WHICH IS, ARE THERE ANY HOUSING SPECIALISTS -- 00:43:43.020 --> 00:43:46.924 I DID READ THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE LANDMARKS BOARD 00:43:46.991 --> 00:43:51.929 AND I THINK APPROVED A COUPLE OF THEM, 00:43:51.996 --> 00:43:58.936 BUT IS THERE ANY HOUSING SPECIALIST OR HOUSING POLICY PERSON 00:43:59.003 --> 00:44:03.941 ON THE LANDMARKS BOARD? 00:44:04.008 --> 00:44:08.012 I GUESS THAT WOULD BE FOR SARA BELZ OR SOMEBODY -- 00:44:08.078 --> 00:44:14.018 >> THIS IS SARAH SODT. WE DON'T 00:44:14.084 --> 00:44:19.990 CURRENTLY HAVE SOMEONE WHO IS SPECIFIC TO HOUSING 00:44:20.057 --> 00:44:25.996 ON THE LANDMARKS BOARD, BUT WE DO HAVE A DEVELOPER POSITION. 00:44:26.063 --> 00:44:28.999 >> OH, SORRY. 00:44:29.066 --> 00:44:34.004 >> NO, THAT IS ALL. 00:44:34.071 --> 00:44:38.008 >> THESE DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF OVERARCHING POLICY 00:44:38.075 --> 00:44:41.011 LEADS. 00:44:41.078 --> 00:44:44.014 THAT IS ALL I AM TRYING TO GET AT, SO THANK YOU 00:44:44.081 --> 00:44:45.783 VERY MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS 00:44:45.849 --> 00:44:47.684 TO THE BOARD. I APPRECIATE IT. 00:44:47.751 --> 00:44:52.990 >> OKAY, SO 00:44:53.057 --> 00:44:55.993 I DO WANT TO, YOU KNOW, GIVE LISH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD 00:44:56.060 --> 00:45:00.998 OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT 00:45:01.065 --> 00:45:08.005 IF THERE ARE ISSUES OR REMARKS THAT YOU HAVE. ABOUT THIS 00:45:08.072 --> 00:45:13.010 PARTICULAR PROJECT OR THE PROCESS HERE. 00:45:13.077 --> 00:45:17.014 >> I WOULD JUST REMIND THE COUNCIL THAT 00:45:17.081 --> 00:45:21.018 YOUR DECISION IS ON THE INCENTIVES AND 00:45:21.085 --> 00:45:25.956 NOT THE DESIGNATION OF THE STRUCTURE, WHICH IS THE PURVIEW OF THE LANDMARKS 00:45:26.023 --> 00:45:27.324 PRESERVATION BOARD. 00:45:27.391 --> 00:45:30.227 >> THANK YOU, LISH. COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS, I'M SORRY, 00:45:30.294 --> 00:45:31.695 I DIDN'T SEE HER HAND BEFORE. 00:45:31.762 --> 00:45:35.999 >> THIS MIGHT BE FOR STAFF. 00:45:36.066 --> 00:45:43.006 THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THESE BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT THE CITY 00:45:43.073 --> 00:45:45.008 THAT LOOK LIKE THIS. I FIND THEM TO ACTUALLY BE QUITE BEAUTIFUL. I 00:45:45.075 --> 00:45:50.013 LIKE THEM A LOT. WE HAVE ONE IN BALLARD, I BELIEVE THERE IS 00:45:50.080 --> 00:45:55.018 ONE ON 1st AVENUE. 00:45:55.085 --> 00:45:57.020 I BELIEVE THE ONE ON 1st AVENUE IS ALREADY A 00:45:57.087 --> 00:46:05.062 LANDMARK AND HAS CONTROLS. CAN YOU CONFIRM THAT? 00:46:05.129 --> 00:46:07.998 >> I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT DOES, BUT I WOULD HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON 00:46:08.065 --> 00:46:13.203 THAT. I THINK THIS MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE. I WILL HAVE TO LOOK 00:46:13.270 --> 00:46:14.138 INTO IT. 00:46:14.204 --> 00:46:22.012 >> I DID LOOK INTO THAT AND IT IS NOT LANDMARKED. 00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:26.016 >> OKAY. I AM JUST TORN, BECAUSE I LOVE 00:46:26.083 --> 00:46:30.020 THESE BUILDINGS, BUT THIS IS JUST A PLACE OF INCREDIBLE 00:46:30.087 --> 00:46:33.991 OPPORTUNITY FOR DENSITY AND HOUSING AND ECONOMIC VITALITY 00:46:34.057 --> 00:46:35.993 AND I DON'T WANT OUR DECISIONS TO BE HAMPERING THAT. 00:46:36.059 --> 00:46:40.998 SO A LITTLE TORN THIS MORNING. I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S WORK. 00:46:41.064 --> 00:46:47.004 >> OKAY, ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON 00:46:47.070 --> 00:46:50.007 THIS BILL? 00:46:50.073 --> 00:46:53.010 OKAY, COLLEAGUES. 00:46:53.076 --> 00:46:59.016 I AM GOING TO ASK IF SOMEBODY WOULD LIKE 00:46:59.082 --> 00:47:07.991 TO MOVE THAT WE RECOMMEND THIS BILL. 00:47:08.058 --> 00:47:13.997 >> MADAM CHAIR, A POINT OF ORDER 00:47:14.064 --> 00:47:19.002 FOR THIS. 00:47:19.069 --> 00:47:23.006 MY UNDERSTANDING IS --WELL, MAYBE THIS IS A QUESTION FOR 00:47:23.073 --> 00:47:26.009 THE CLERK. DOES THE COUNCIL HAVE TO TAKE ACTION ON THIS AND DO A RECOMMENDATION 00:47:26.076 --> 00:47:32.015 OR IF IT IS CLEAR FROM OUR STATEMENTS THAT THE COMMITTEE 00:47:32.082 --> 00:47:38.021 IS NOT INCLINED TO RECOMMEND THIS, CAN WE JUST DECLINE 00:47:38.088 --> 00:47:42.993 TO TAKE ACTION ON IT? I GUESS, WHAT WOULD BE THE CHAIR'S PREFERENCE? 00:47:43.060 --> 00:47:45.996 I AM HAPPY TO MOVE THE LEGISLATION SO IT SOUNDS LIKE WE CAN ALL 00:47:46.063 --> 00:47:50.000 VOTE NO ON IT, IF THAT IS THE PREFERENCE. 00:47:50.067 --> 00:47:56.006 >> EXCUSE ME. I DO SUGGEST YOU MOVE IT AND VOTE ON IT, EVEN IF 00:47:56.073 --> 00:47:59.009 IT IS TO VOTE IT DOWN, THAT WAY WE CAN BRING 00:47:59.076 --> 00:48:00.644 IT FORWARD FOR CONSIDERATION UNDER FULL 00:48:00.711 --> 00:48:01.645 COUNCIL AT A LATER DATE. 00:48:01.712 --> 00:48:05.082 >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. SO I MOVE 00:48:05.148 --> 00:48:08.018 THE UNDERLYING ORDINANCE LISTED UNDER AGENDA 00:48:08.085 --> 00:48:11.021 ITEM FIVE. 00:48:11.088 --> 00:48:13.991 >> OKAY, I WILL SECOND IT. SO IT HAS BEEN MOVED 00:48:14.057 --> 00:48:18.996 AND SECONDED. 00:48:19.062 --> 00:48:19.997 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? 00:48:20.063 --> 00:48:23.000 >> COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS. 00:48:23.066 --> 00:48:26.003 >> NO. >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. >> NO. 00:48:26.069 --> 00:48:32.009 >> COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. >> NO. >> CHAIR MORALES. 00:48:32.075 --> 00:48:35.012 >> NO. >> FOUR OPPOSED. 00:48:35.078 --> 00:48:41.018 >> OKAY, SO WE WILL NOT BE MOVING THIS FORWARD TO FULL COUNCIL. 00:48:41.084 --> 00:48:44.021 YES? 00:48:44.087 --> 00:48:54.998 WE WILL BE MOVING --I'M SORRY, THIS IS A NEW SITUATION FOR ME. 00:48:55.065 --> 00:48:59.002 WE WILL MOVE THAT THE COMMITTEE NOT RECOMMEND PASSAGE OF THIS BILL 00:48:59.069 --> 00:49:03.006 TO FULL COUNCIL AND THAT WILL BE AT 00:49:03.073 --> 00:49:05.075 THE JANUARY 3, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MEETING. 00:49:05.142 --> 00:49:08.011 CAN YOU CONFIRM THAT IS THE CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION? 00:49:08.078 --> 00:49:08.712 >> THAT IS 00:49:08.779 --> 00:49:09.846 CORRECT, THANK YOU. 00:49:09.913 --> 00:49:14.017 >> OKAY, THANK YOU VERY 00:49:14.084 --> 00:49:19.990 MUCH, COLLEAGUES. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP AGAIN AT THE 00:49:20.057 --> 00:49:22.993 JANUARY 3 FULL COUNCIL MEETING. 00:49:23.060 --> 00:49:28.999 >> DO YOU MIND? 00:49:29.066 --> 00:49:32.002 I THOUGHT YOU MAY CALL ON ME AND I SHOULD HAVE INTERVENED. 00:49:32.069 --> 00:49:35.005 I WANT TO SAY ON BEHALF OF THE OWNER, WE PREFER THIS ALSO NOT 00:49:35.072 --> 00:49:38.008 BE LANDMARKED. I WANT TO CLARIFY THAT, SO WE SUPPORT THE COMMENTS 00:49:38.075 --> 00:49:41.011 THAT YOU MADE. 00:49:41.078 --> 00:49:43.013 THE BUILDING WAS DESIGNATED BEFORE THE OWNER ACQUIRED 00:49:43.080 --> 00:49:47.017 THIS BUILDING AND WE WERE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS TO DO TDR, 00:49:47.084 --> 00:49:51.988 BUT AT THIS POINT WE ARE ALSO SUPPORTIVE OF THE 00:49:52.055 --> 00:49:55.992 VOTE YOU JUST MADE. WE APPRECIATE IT. 00:49:56.059 --> 00:49:58.095 WE ARE HERE FOR OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING. 00:49:58.161 --> 00:49:58.762 THANK YOU. 00:49:58.829 --> 00:50:01.231 >> THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER NELSON. 00:50:01.298 --> 00:50:03.967 >> I JUST HAVE A POINT OF CLARIFICATION. 00:50:04.034 --> 00:50:07.938 SO, YOU JUST SAID THAT YOU PREFER 00:50:08.004 --> 00:50:09.940 IT NOT TO BE LANDMARKED. 00:50:10.006 --> 00:50:13.944 LISH MADE A POINT OF SAYING WE ARE DECIDING UPON THE CONTROLS, NOT THE 00:50:14.010 --> 00:50:16.947 LANDMARK STATUS. 00:50:17.013 --> 00:50:21.952 SO, I KNOW THAT TACOMA, THE CITY COUNCIL IN TACOMA CAN UNDO A LANDMARK DECISION 00:50:22.018 --> 00:50:25.922 OR THE LAND MARKING OF A BUILDING, SO WHAT 00:50:25.989 --> 00:50:28.925 IS IT EXACTLY? 00:50:28.992 --> 00:50:33.930 >> COUNCILMEMBER, I AM SO SORRY. 00:50:33.997 --> 00:50:39.035 DEVON CAME TO TALK TO ME AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR QUESTION. DO YOU MIND 00:50:39.102 --> 00:50:40.103 RESTATING IT? 00:50:40.170 --> 00:50:45.942 >> WELL I THINK IT IS -- 00:50:46.009 --> 00:50:49.946 WE ARE SIMPLY NOT APPROVING THE CONTROLS, IS THAT CORRECT? 00:50:50.013 --> 00:50:52.949 >> YES. >> I THINK THAT CAN BE A QUESTION FOR 00:50:53.016 --> 00:50:55.952 YOUR CITY ATTORNEY. 00:50:56.019 --> 00:50:58.922 IN OUR OPINION YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO 00:50:58.989 --> 00:51:00.924 REPEAL THE DESIGNATION. 00:51:00.991 --> 00:51:04.995 SO THIS IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DISCUSS WITH YOUR CITY ATTORNEY. 00:51:05.061 --> 00:51:07.931 WE ARE HAPPY TO FOLLOW UP ON IT. 00:51:07.998 --> 00:51:10.934 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:51:11.001 --> 00:51:13.937 OKAY. 00:51:14.004 --> 00:51:19.943 LISH, DID YOU WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT? 00:51:20.010 --> 00:51:25.949 >> NO, WE CAN DIVE INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE BETWEEN NOW AND 00:51:26.016 --> 00:51:28.952 -- >> 00:51:29.019 --> 00:51:34.925 TERRIFIC. OKAY, THANK YOU, EVERYONE. 00:51:34.991 --> 00:51:42.933 WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM, WHICH IS COUNCIL BILL 120456. 00:51:42.999 --> 00:51:46.937 OUR FINAL ITEM IS THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS BILL. 00:51:47.003 --> 00:51:48.939 THIS IS DEPARTMENT GENERATED LEGISLATION THAT 00:51:49.005 --> 00:51:56.947 WOULD EXTEND HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW PROCESSES 00:51:57.013 --> 00:51:57.948 FOR SOME OF OUR BOARDS. 00:51:58.014 --> 00:51:59.950 WE PLEASE READ THE ITEM INTO THE RECORD? 00:52:00.016 --> 00:52:03.954 >> AGENDA ITEM SIX, COUNCIL BILL 120456, 00:52:04.020 --> 00:52:07.924 AND ORDINANCE RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW PROCEDURES, 00:52:07.991 --> 00:52:14.931 AMENDING AND MAKING PERMANENT CERTAIN TEMPORARY PROCEDURES, AMENDING SECTIONS 00:52:14.998 --> 00:52:23.940 23.6 6.030, 25.12.320, 00:52:24.007 --> 00:52:29.946 25.12.720, 25.1 6.100, 00:52:30.013 --> 00:52:35.952 25.2 0.090, 25.2 1.110, 00:52:36.019 --> 00:52:41.925 25.2 2.110, 25.2 4.070, 00:52:41.992 --> 00:52:47.931 AND 2.5 -- 00:52:47.998 --> 00:52:50.934 25.3 0.090 OF THE SEATTLE MUNICIPAL CODE FOR PUBLIC HEARING, 00:52:51.001 --> 00:52:56.940 BRIEFING, AND DISCUSSION. 00:52:57.007 --> 00:53:01.945 >> OKAY, SO PRIOR TO DISCUSSION I WILL OPEN 00:53:02.012 --> 00:53:03.947 THE PUBLIC HEARING AND WE DO HAVE LOTS 00:53:04.014 --> 00:53:10.954 OF FOLKS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK TO THIS, SO EACH 00:53:11.021 --> 00:53:12.923 SPEAKER WILL BE GIVEN, I AM GOING TO SAY 00:53:12.989 --> 00:53:17.928 A MINUTE AND A HALF. WE HAVE SEVERAL PAGES OF FOLKS HERE. THERE WILL 00:53:17.994 --> 00:53:20.931 BE -- WE DO HAVE A FEW FOLKS SIGNED UP VIRTUALLY, 00:53:20.997 --> 00:53:24.935 SO I AM GOING TO START WITH THEM. 00:53:25.001 --> 00:53:27.938 THERE ARE ONLY TWO FOLKS PRESENT AT THIS POINT ANYWAY, SO WE WILL START 00:53:28.004 --> 00:53:32.943 WITH THEM AND THEN MOVE ON TO THE FOLKS HERE IN PERSON. I WILL 00:53:33.009 --> 00:53:35.946 CALL ON EACH SPEAKER BY NAME AND IN THE ORDER YOU SIGNED UP. YOU 00:53:36.012 --> 00:53:39.950 WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. 00:53:40.016 --> 00:53:42.953 IF YOU ARE CALLING IN, PLEASE DIAL STAR SIX TO BEGIN SPEAKING. AS A 00:53:43.019 --> 00:53:49.926 REMINDER, PUBLIC TESTIMONY SHOULD RELATE ONLY TO 00:53:49.993 --> 00:53:52.929 COUNCIL BILL 120456. YOU WILL HEAR A 00:53:52.996 --> 00:53:56.933 TIME WHEN YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS LAST LEFT. 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:59.936 IF YOU ARE LISTENING ONLINE AND WANT TO CONTINUE LISTENING, 00:54:00.003 --> 00:54:02.939 PLEASE DO SO ON SEATTLE CHANNEL AND HANG UP YOUR 00:54:03.006 --> 00:54:09.012 LINE. OKAY, THE PUBLIC HEARING ON COUNCIL BILL 120456 00:54:09.079 --> 00:54:15.018 IS NOW OPEN. 00:54:15.085 --> 00:54:18.021 YEAH, THANK YOU. 00:54:18.088 --> 00:54:23.994 SO, THE FIRST SPEAKER IS ROBERT MESSINA. IF YOU WILL PLEASE PUSH 00:54:24.060 --> 00:54:30.000 STAR SIX, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS. 00:54:30.066 --> 00:54:35.005 >> THANK YOU. 00:54:35.071 --> 00:54:37.007 MY NAME IS BOB MESSINA. FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS I HAVE BEEN ATTENDING 00:54:37.073 --> 00:54:39.009 MEETINGS OF THE PARK PLACE MARKET TDA AND ITS COMMITTEES, INCLUDING 00:54:39.075 --> 00:54:42.012 THOSE OF THE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION. 00:54:42.078 --> 00:54:51.021 I AM SPEAKING TODAY IN SUPPORT OF THE PARK PLACE 00:54:51.087 --> 00:54:52.989 MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION AND THE EFFORTS TO KEEP 00:54:53.056 --> 00:54:54.991 THEIR ROLE AND AUTHORITY OVER CERTIFICATES OF APPROVAL IN 00:54:55.058 --> 00:54:58.995 THE MARKET. TO BE SPECIFIC I URGE YOU TO AMEND 00:54:59.062 --> 00:55:01.998 COUNCIL BILL 120456 BY REMOVING SECTION 8 FROM THE TEXT OF THIS 00:55:02.065 --> 00:55:05.068 BILL. SECTION 8 REMOVES POWERS FROM THE COMMISSION AND 00:55:05.135 --> 00:55:09.005 TRANSFERS THEM TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, WHERE THEY WILL BE DECIDED BY A CITY 00:55:09.072 --> 00:55:12.008 STAFF MEMBER WITHOUT THE DELIBERATION OF 00:55:12.075 --> 00:55:17.013 THE 12 PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS 00:55:17.080 --> 00:55:21.017 AND WITHOUT PUBLIC COMMENT AND THIS MEANS WITHOUT AN OPEN 00:55:21.084 --> 00:55:24.020 PUBLIC MEETING. THE PIKE PLACE MARKET YOU SEE TODAY IS NOT A RANDOM 00:55:24.087 --> 00:55:25.989 FREE-FOR-ALL COLLECTION OF SHOPS. 00:55:26.056 --> 00:55:29.993 THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION RECOGNIZES THE SMALLER SCALE OF 00:55:30.060 --> 00:55:32.996 AVAILABLE SPACE IN THE MARKET AS WELL AS THE OPPORTUNITIES 00:55:33.063 --> 00:55:38.001 FOR SMALL START UP BUSINESSES TO THRIVE. 00:55:38.068 --> 00:55:40.003 THESE DECISIONS OVER DESIGN AND USE IN THE MARKET 00:55:40.070 --> 00:55:43.006 HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN PRESERVING HISTORICAL CHARACTER, AS WELL AS ENSURING 00:55:43.073 --> 00:55:45.008 A SUCCESSFUL AND SUSTAINABLE MARKET. 00:55:45.075 --> 00:55:48.011 THESE 12 COMMISSIONERS HAVE BEEN DOING THEIR 00:55:48.078 --> 00:55:53.016 JOBS WELL AND THERE MUST BE NO ENCROACHMENT 00:55:53.083 --> 00:55:57.020 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS INTO THEIR LONG-ESTABLISHED 00:55:57.087 --> 00:56:01.991 ROLES. THANK YOU. 00:56:02.058 --> 00:56:05.995 >> THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS IRENE WALL. PLEASE PRESS 00:56:06.062 --> 00:56:08.998 STAR SIX. 00:56:09.065 --> 00:56:12.001 IRENE WALL. 00:56:12.068 --> 00:56:14.804 I SHOW YOU PRESENT. YOU MIGHT BE MUTED. 00:56:14.871 --> 00:56:16.473 PRESS STAR SIX TO BEGIN. 00:56:16.539 --> 00:56:23.012 >> HELLO, THIS 00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:30.019 IS IRENE WALL. THE ROLE OF CITIZEN VOLUNTEER MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION SHOULD 00:56:30.086 --> 00:56:31.988 NOT BE DILUTED AS THIS BILL WOULD DO. REGARDLESS OF ANY POSSIBLE GOOD 00:56:32.055 --> 00:56:34.991 INTENTIONS BEHIND THIS PROPOSED CHANGE, THE RESULTS WOULD BE 00:56:35.058 --> 00:56:39.996 WRONG. THE PANDEMIC OF URGENCY IS OVER AND TEMPORARY 00:56:40.063 --> 00:56:41.998 ADJUSTMENTS MADE IN THAT EXTRAORDINARY TIME SHOULD ALSO BE OVER AND NOT BE 00:56:42.065 --> 00:56:44.000 MADE PERMANENT. 00:56:44.067 --> 00:56:46.002 THE MATTERS IDENTIFIED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVALS ARE NOT TRIVIAL 00:56:46.069 --> 00:56:52.008 OR WITHOUT POTENTIAL NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON THE MARKET. 00:56:52.075 --> 00:56:54.010 THE FULL COMMISSION HAS THE BACKGROUND AND EXPERTISE TO ENSURE THESE PHYSICAL 00:56:54.077 --> 00:56:57.013 CHANGES ARE MADE SENSITIVELY AND THIS REQUIRES 00:56:57.080 --> 00:57:01.017 A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE GUIDELINES AND 00:57:01.084 --> 00:57:07.991 PHYSICAL CONTACTS IN THE DIVERSE AREAS THAT MAKE UP THE MARKET. 00:57:08.057 --> 00:57:09.993 STAFF DOES PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN SUPPORTING THE 00:57:10.059 --> 00:57:13.997 MARKET BY HELPING BUSINESSES PREPARE COMPLETE APPLICATIONS, 00:57:14.063 --> 00:57:14.998 SO THE COMMISSION CAN MAKE TIMELY DECISIONS, BUT THE APPROVAL SHOULD 00:57:15.064 --> 00:57:20.003 BE MADE BY THE DELIBERATIVE BODY, 00:57:20.069 --> 00:57:24.007 NOT THE STAFF. THE CITY'S OFFICIAL MESSAGING, PARTICULARLY FOR THE DEPARTMENT 00:57:24.073 --> 00:57:30.013 OF NEIGHBORHOODS, IS TO ENCOURAGE CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT 00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:31.014 IN ALL ASPECTS OF OUR SHARED CITY LIFE. 00:57:31.080 --> 00:57:33.016 THIS IS EVIDENCED BY YOUR APPOINTMENT OF TWO HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONS TO 00:57:33.082 --> 00:57:35.018 SERVE ON THE BOARD. DON'T DISCOURAGE THE 00:57:35.084 --> 00:57:38.988 CITIZEN RESPONSIBILITY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION. NO HISTORIC 00:57:39.055 --> 00:57:47.997 DISTRICT -- 00:57:48.064 --> 00:57:51.000 >> THANK YOU. 00:57:51.067 --> 00:57:59.008 WE HAVE ONE LAST SPEAKER SIGNED UP VIRTUALLY. PLEASE GO AHEAD. 00:57:59.075 --> 00:58:03.012 >> THANK YOU. HELLO AGAIN, THIS IS EUGENIA 00:58:03.079 --> 00:58:05.081 WU. 00:58:05.148 --> 00:58:09.018 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT ON THIS ISSUE. 00:58:09.085 --> 00:58:11.020 AS SOMEONE WHO WORKS FOR AN ORGANIZATION THAT 00:58:11.087 --> 00:58:17.994 OWNS MULTIPLE LANDMARK PROPERTIES AND WHEN I WORKED AT THE CITY I 00:58:18.061 --> 00:58:26.002 SEE THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS FROM BOTH PERSPECTIVES. 00:58:26.069 --> 00:58:27.003 STREAMLINING THE PROCESS IS HELPFUL TO PROPERTY OWNERS AND BUSINESS OWNERS. 00:58:27.070 --> 00:58:30.006 AS A PRESERVATION ADVOCATE I AM ALSO 00:58:30.073 --> 00:58:33.009 AWARE OF CONCERNS ABOUT THE LEGISLATION EXPRESSED BY 00:58:33.076 --> 00:58:36.012 COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:39.015 TRANSPARENCY AND AN OPEN PUBLIC PROCESS ARE IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE, 00:58:39.082 --> 00:58:40.016 PARTICULARLY COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS AND 00:58:40.083 --> 00:58:47.991 THOSE INTERESTED IN THE STEWARDSHIP OF LANDMARKS. 00:58:48.057 --> 00:58:48.992 PROPOSED CHANGES TO LANDMARKS AND BUILDINGS IN 00:58:49.058 --> 00:58:53.997 HISTORIC DISTRICTS. HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW 00:58:54.063 --> 00:58:57.000 AND COMMENT IN PUBLIC MEETING IS IMPORTANT. IF THIS 00:58:57.066 --> 00:59:00.003 LEGISLATION PASSES, I HOPE THE CITY CONTINUES TO ENGAGE 00:59:00.069 --> 00:59:03.006 WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND WITH APPLICANTS TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES 00:59:03.072 --> 00:59:06.009 THAT ARE MORE TRANSPARENT AND PROVIDE CLARITY 00:59:06.075 --> 00:59:08.011 ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW PROCESS. 00:59:08.077 --> 00:59:12.015 IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE LEGISLATION DOES NOT DO AWAY WITH COMMISSIONER 00:59:12.081 --> 00:59:19.989 REVIEW --THE ADMINISTRATIVE REAPPROVAL IS NOT THE SAME FOR EVERY DISTRICT 00:59:20.056 --> 00:59:22.992 AND LANDMARKS. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT. 00:59:23.059 --> 00:59:25.929 I KNOW THIS IS NOT EASY LEGISLATION TO REVIEW, BUT 00:59:25.995 --> 00:59:26.663 THANK YOU. 00:59:26.729 --> 00:59:31.000 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EUGENIA. OKAY, WE WILL MOVE TO IN-PERSON 00:59:31.067 --> 00:59:34.003 SPEAKERS. 00:59:34.070 --> 00:59:40.009 THE FIRST PERSON I HAVE IS DESTINY SON. 00:59:40.076 --> 00:59:48.017 IS NOT HERE. 00:59:48.084 --> 00:59:50.019 I DON'T HAVE YOU FIRST ON MY LIST, BUT I 00:59:50.086 --> 00:59:54.991 WILL GET TO YOU. THE NEXT PERSON I HAVE IS GINA, FOLLOWED 00:59:55.058 --> 01:00:00.997 BY MIRANDA. 01:00:01.064 --> 01:00:05.001 >> I THINK WE GOT THE LIST MIXED UP, BECAUSE 01:00:05.068 --> 01:00:06.936 I WAS VERY FAR BEHIND OTHER PEOPLE. 01:00:07.003 --> 01:00:09.939 >> EXACTLY. 01:00:10.006 --> 01:00:14.944 >> ANYWAY, I DIDN'T REALLY 01:00:15.011 --> 01:00:17.947 HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY, BUT MY COMMENTS BASICALLY, I HAVE 01:00:18.014 --> 01:00:24.954 BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE HISTORIC COMMISSION DURING THE WATERFRONT RESERVATION 01:00:25.021 --> 01:00:28.925 OF THE MARKET AND WE DID 01:00:28.992 --> 01:00:33.930 WORK WITH CITY COUNCIL QUITE A BIT AND 01:00:33.997 --> 01:00:36.933 WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE SURE WITH THE COMMISSION THAT WE KEPT THE FLAVOR 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:38.935 OF THE MARKET. 01:00:39.002 --> 01:00:45.942 KEPT THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CONSISTENT AND ALSO 01:00:46.009 --> 01:00:48.945 MADE SURE THAT WE REACHED OUT TO THE CONSTITUENCY 01:00:49.012 --> 01:00:51.948 AND THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEIR LIVING AT THE MARKET TO 01:00:52.015 --> 01:01:00.923 MAKE SURE THAT IT WORKED FOR EVERYBODY AND I THINK THAT IF 01:01:00.990 --> 01:01:03.926 CITY COUNCIL HAD AN UNDUE INFLUENCE, WE WOULD NOT HAVE THE AMAZING STRUCTURE 01:01:03.993 --> 01:01:06.929 THAT WE HAVE NOW. A BUNCH OF CONDOS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. I JUST THINK 01:01:06.996 --> 01:01:12.935 IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THE HISTORIC COMMISSION STILL 01:01:13.002 --> 01:01:18.941 HAS OVERSIGHT ON ANY KIND OF 01:01:19.008 --> 01:01:21.811 NEW CONSTRUCTION OR REMEDIATION'S AT THE MARKET. 01:01:21.878 --> 01:01:22.545 THANK YOU. 01:01:22.612 --> 01:01:26.949 >> THANK YOU. IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE 01:01:27.016 --> 01:01:29.952 THAT ALL OF THESE SHEETS GET MIXED UP. 01:01:30.019 --> 01:01:34.924 I WILL GO WITH MIRANDA, SINCE I DID CALL YOU AND THEN 01:01:34.991 --> 01:01:36.926 WE WILL START WITH ALEX TSIMERMAN NEXT. 01:01:36.993 --> 01:01:42.932 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION TODAY. 01:01:42.999 --> 01:01:44.934 I AM A COMMUNITY MEMBER AND ADVOCATE FOR THE MARKET FOR OVER 01:01:45.001 --> 01:01:47.937 20 YEARS. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU AMEND 01:01:48.004 --> 01:01:55.945 COUNCIL BILL TO REMOVE SECTION 8 CONCERNING THE PIKE PLACE MARKET COMMISSION. DECISIONS 01:01:56.012 --> 01:01:57.947 MUST CONTINUE TO BE MADE BY THE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION WITH PUBLIC 01:01:58.014 --> 01:02:00.950 OVERSIGHT IN ORDER FOR THE MARKET TO CONTINUE TO 01:02:01.017 --> 01:02:05.922 MAINTAIN ITS UNIQUE FLAVOR. 01:02:05.988 --> 01:02:07.924 EVERY SEEMINGLY SMALL DECISION ABOUT THE MARKET CAN AFFECT 01:02:07.990 --> 01:02:09.926 SO MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVE, WORK, AND STOP THERE. WHICH IS WHY FOR OVER 01:02:09.992 --> 01:02:12.929 50 YEARS THE MARKET HAS TRUSTED THE STEWARDSHIP 01:02:12.995 --> 01:02:16.933 OF THE COMMISSION TO CAREFULLY MAKE THESE DECISIONS, 01:02:16.999 --> 01:02:21.938 WHILE INVITING INPUT FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS ABOUT THE DECISIONS THAT AFFECT 01:02:22.004 --> 01:02:23.940 THEM DIRECTLY. 01:02:24.006 --> 01:02:25.942 THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON TO TURN ANY OF THESE DECISIONS 01:02:26.008 --> 01:02:29.946 OVER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, SIMPLY BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN THAT WAY 01:02:30.012 --> 01:02:33.950 FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS. WE ARE NO LONGER IN COVID 01:02:34.016 --> 01:02:36.953 EMERGENCY AND WOULD LIKE THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS TO RETURN 01:02:37.019 --> 01:02:39.922 FULLY TO THE COMMISSION. PLEASE REMOVE SECTION 01:02:39.989 --> 01:02:46.929 8 FROM COUNCIL BILL 12456 AND ALLOW THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION TO 01:02:46.996 --> 01:02:51.934 FULLY ENGAGE WITH ANY PROPOSED CHANGES AT PIKE PLACE MARKET, 01:02:52.001 --> 01:02:56.372 SO IT CAN REMAIN THE PIKE PLACE MARKET WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE FOR YEARS TO 01:02:56.439 --> 01:02:57.473 COME. THANK YOU. 01:02:57.540 --> 01:02:59.876 >> THANK YOU. ALEX TSIMERMAN, FOLLOWED 01:02:59.942 --> 01:03:00.843 BY HALEY LIND. 01:03:00.910 --> 01:03:03.946 >> THANK YOU. 01:03:04.013 --> 01:03:09.952 >> AND A REMINDER, THIS IS ABOUT A 01:03:10.019 --> 01:03:15.925 PARTICULAR BILL. 01:03:15.992 --> 01:03:21.931 >> --USE STOP DEMOCRACY 01:03:21.998 --> 01:03:27.937 FASCISTS, MAFIA CARTEL. MY NAME IS ALEX TSIMERMAN. I LOVE 01:03:28.004 --> 01:03:33.943 THE 750,000 CRETAN, DEGENERATE --IT IS VERY NICE. I LOVE YOU, FOR 01:03:34.010 --> 01:03:36.946 35 YEARS. YEAH, YOU ARE DOING GOOD SERVICE. I LIVED 01:03:37.013 --> 01:03:42.952 BEFORE IN MANY CITIES AND I NEVER SEE 01:03:43.019 --> 01:03:45.922 ONE SMALL CITY, CIVILIZED CITY, WHO WILL DESTROY 01:03:45.988 --> 01:03:51.928 DOWNTOWN. YOU DID THIS. YOU FREAKING 01:03:51.994 --> 01:03:54.931 DEGENERATE IDIOTS. 01:03:54.997 --> 01:04:01.938 DOWNTOWN, NOT TOUCHABLE. THIS HISTORY. YOU DON'T HAVE HISTORY. 01:04:02.004 --> 01:04:06.008 YOU HAVE IDIOT, 750,000 IDIOTS WHO ELECT YOU. 01:04:06.075 --> 01:04:13.015 YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS, NEVER 01:04:13.082 --> 01:04:16.018 ONE VOTE STOPPING AMAZON. NOT ONE VOTE. 01:04:16.085 --> 01:04:19.021 TAXES, TAXES, TAXES. 01:04:19.088 --> 01:04:21.991 WHO FREAKING CARES? WHEN THEY HAVE BILLIONS. 01:04:22.058 --> 01:04:23.092 YOU IDIOT. 01:04:23.159 --> 01:04:26.796 DOWNTOWN IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TOUCHABLE. 01:04:26.862 --> 01:04:34.003 THAT'S IT. YOU DESTROY HISTORY. 01:04:34.070 --> 01:04:37.006 NOT ONLY CRIMINAL, YOUR PSYCHOPATH. STAND UP AMERICA. 01:04:37.073 --> 01:04:43.012 CLEAR THIS IDIOTIC CHAMBER. 01:04:43.079 --> 01:04:45.081 >> THE NEXT SPEAKER IS HALEY LIND, FOLLOWED BY 01:04:45.147 --> 01:04:45.781 LESLIE BUCHER. 01:04:45.848 --> 01:04:49.018 >> HELLO. 01:04:49.085 --> 01:04:57.994 I HAVE WORKED AT THE MARKET FOR 37 YEARS AND I HAVE BEEN ACTIVE 01:04:58.060 --> 01:04:59.996 IN MARKET POLITICS. MOREOVER, IT IS NOT UNKNOWN FOR ME TO 01:05:00.062 --> 01:05:04.000 SPEAK UP CRITICAL OF MARKET DECISIONS, BUT HAVING SAID THAT I WANT TO EXPLAIN 01:05:04.066 --> 01:05:08.004 WHY 120456 IS A BAD IDEA FOR THE MARKET. ONE OF 01:05:08.070 --> 01:05:10.006 THE REASONS THE MARKET IS BEAUTIFULLY GOVERNED IS BECAUSE WHEN MISTAKES 01:05:10.072 --> 01:05:15.011 ARE MADE, WHEN 01:05:15.077 --> 01:05:18.014 PASSION SPILLS, WE KNOW HOW AND WHERE TO DIRECT OUR ENERGY BECAUSE THE PEOPLE 01:05:18.080 --> 01:05:22.018 WHO MAKE GOOD AND BAD DECISIONS ARE RIGHT THERE AND WE KNOW WHERE TO 01:05:22.084 --> 01:05:25.021 FIND EACH OTHER AND THE ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICERS 01:05:25.087 --> 01:05:27.990 ARE NOT SITTING ON A THRONE EATING HOMBURG BIRD WINGS OR BEHIND 01:05:28.057 --> 01:05:30.993 A LOCKED DOOR. WE CAN ATTEND MEETINGS AND SEE 01:05:31.060 --> 01:05:33.996 THEM ON THE STREET AND THEY RECOGNIZE US AND WE STOPPED TO 01:05:34.063 --> 01:05:36.999 TALK ABOUT WHAT IS ON OUR MINDS. SOMETIMES SPEAKING 01:05:37.066 --> 01:05:42.004 TO OUR OFFICERS CREATES SHIFTS OF UNDERSTANDING. 01:05:42.071 --> 01:05:48.010 YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS? SMALL D DEMOCRACY AND SMALL G GOVERNMENT. 01:05:48.077 --> 01:05:51.013 IT CAN ONLY HAPPEN WHEN GOVERNANCE IS ON THE SCALE AND 01:05:51.080 --> 01:05:55.017 IT SHOULD BE THE ENVY OF SEATTLE AND PRIDE OF CITY HALL FOR PLACING THEIR 01:05:55.084 --> 01:05:57.019 FAITH IN THE PUBLIC. AS I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT 01:05:57.086 --> 01:05:59.021 IS WHY THE TDA'S WERE FORMED. TAKING THIS UNNECESSARY ACTION WILL LEAVE 01:05:59.088 --> 01:06:02.992 A SOUR AND CYNICAL TASTE IN 01:06:03.059 --> 01:06:05.061 OUR MOUTHS. FRANKLY I DON'T BELIEVE THIS BILL WAS THE COUNCIL'S IDEA. 01:06:05.127 --> 01:06:07.997 I THINK IT WAS BROUGHT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS. 01:06:08.064 --> 01:06:09.999 SO RIGHT NOW THE COUNCIL CAN BE OUR HEROES AND STRIP THE MARKET HISTORICAL 01:06:10.066 --> 01:06:13.002 COMMISSION FOR THE REASONS I HAVE STATED FROM 01:06:13.069 --> 01:06:15.004 THIS BILL. IT IS NOT JUST A POPULAR ACTION, IT 01:06:15.071 --> 01:06:20.009 IS THE RESPONSIBLE ACTION. THANK YOU. 01:06:20.076 --> 01:06:23.012 >> THANK YOU. WE HAVE LESLIE BUCHER FOLLOWED 01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:29.018 BY JOAN PAULSON. 01:06:29.085 --> 01:06:32.021 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS LESLIE BUCHER AND I AM A MEMBER 01:06:32.088 --> 01:06:34.990 OF THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION. I ENCOURAGE 01:06:35.057 --> 01:06:39.995 YOU TO EXCLUDE THE MARKET FROM CB 120456 IN ORDER TO PROTECT FULL PUBLIC OVERSIGHT. 01:06:40.062 --> 01:06:46.001 PRESERVATION OF THE MARKETS AUTHENTIC CHARACTER. 01:06:46.068 --> 01:06:47.002 A ROLE DELEGATED TO THE VOLUNTEER PIKE PLACE 01:06:47.069 --> 01:06:52.007 MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION. THE COMMISSION IS MADE UP 01:06:52.074 --> 01:06:53.008 OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AND IT IS IN 01:06:53.075 --> 01:06:57.012 COMMISSION MEETINGS WHERE DECISIONS ARE MADE ON DESIGN CHANGES. 01:06:57.079 --> 01:06:59.014 THESE MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND ALWAYS PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY 01:06:59.081 --> 01:07:02.017 FOR ANYONE TO SHARE A PUBLIC COMMENT WITH 01:07:02.084 --> 01:07:05.087 THE GROUP OF UP TO 12 COMMISSIONERS. THEY PUBLICLY DISCUSS 01:07:05.154 --> 01:07:07.990 AS A GROUP TO DETERMINE IF CHANGES ALIGN 01:07:08.057 --> 01:07:10.993 WITH ESTABLISHED GUIDELINES. 01:07:11.060 --> 01:07:12.995 IT IS A PROCESS NOT UNLIKE THAT OF THE SEATTLE 01:07:13.062 --> 01:07:16.999 CITY COUNCIL. HOWEVER, CB 120456 TRANSFERS JURISDICTION OVER 01:07:17.066 --> 01:07:25.007 SOME DESIGN CHANGES TO SEATTLE STAFF, WHICH WOULD NOT REQUIRE 01:07:25.074 --> 01:07:27.009 PUBLIC MEETINGS OR INVOLVE THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION 01:07:27.076 --> 01:07:32.014 IN ANY WAY. THIS EXCLUDES PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT AND LOSES THE BENEFIT OF DEBATE 01:07:32.081 --> 01:07:34.016 AND DISCUSSION AMONG COMMISSIONS AND INDIVIDUALS. 01:07:34.083 --> 01:07:37.019 AS THE CITY COUNCIL, IMAGINE IF SUDDENLY SOME COUNCIL BILL'S WERE HANDLED BY 01:07:37.086 --> 01:07:39.021 A SINGLE PERSON FROM AN OFFICE IN OLYMPIA WITHOUT 01:07:39.088 --> 01:07:44.994 YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR INPUT WHATSOEVER FROM THE PUBLIC. THAT IS ALARMING 01:07:45.060 --> 01:07:47.997 AND TERRIFYING. IT IS CONFUSING. IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, WHY WOULD THAT 01:07:48.063 --> 01:07:49.999 HAPPEN? WHY WOULD THIS HAPPEN? I DON'T KNOW. FOR THESE REASONS I ENCOURAGE 01:07:50.065 --> 01:07:53.002 YOU TO EXCLUDE THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORIC 01:07:53.068 --> 01:07:59.008 DISTRICT FROM CB 120456. 01:07:59.074 --> 01:08:03.012 >> WE DO HAVE SEVERAL FOLKS SIGNED UP. 01:08:03.078 --> 01:08:08.017 WE HAVE TWO MICROPHONES, SO I WILL CALL THE NEXT PERSON AND THEN 01:08:08.083 --> 01:08:11.020 TWO MORE. THESE BE READY AND FEEL FREE TO COME AND WAIT AT THE 01:08:11.086 --> 01:08:14.023 MIC. WE HAVE JOAN PAULSON AND YOU WILL BE FOLLOWED BY -- 01:08:14.089 --> 01:08:14.990 PLEASE GO AHEAD. 01:08:15.057 --> 01:08:19.995 >> MY NAME IS JOAN PAULSON AND I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED 01:08:20.062 --> 01:08:25.000 WITH THE PIKE PLACE MARKET SINCE 1970. 01:08:25.067 --> 01:08:29.004 I WISH TO EXPRESS MY CONCERN ABOUT THE PROPOSED 01:08:29.071 --> 01:08:34.009 COUNCIL BILL 120456 WHICH WILL HAVE AN 01:08:34.076 --> 01:08:38.013 ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE PUBLIC MARKET AND ALL 01:08:38.080 --> 01:08:41.016 OTHER HISTORICAL SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOODS. 01:08:41.083 --> 01:08:44.019 I ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE POWERS THAT ARE BEING REQUESTED 01:08:44.086 --> 01:08:46.989 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS WILL UNDERMINE 01:08:47.056 --> 01:08:54.997 THE STATE OPEN PUBLIC MEETING ACT, 01:08:55.064 --> 01:08:56.999 GIVING THE OVERSIGHT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS. 01:08:57.066 --> 01:09:03.005 SINCE THE PIKE PLACE MARKET 1971 INITIATIVE, THIS PUBLIC MARKET HAS REMAINED STRONG 01:09:03.072 --> 01:09:07.009 IN CONTINUING THE MARKET CHARACTER FOR ALL VISITORS 01:09:07.076 --> 01:09:10.012 IN THE MARKET COMMUNITY AND ORGANIZATIONS. 01:09:10.079 --> 01:09:17.019 THE PROPOSED CHANGES AS BEING CONSIDERED BY COUNCIL BILL 120456 01:09:17.086 --> 01:09:25.995 OUR STEPS BACKWARD FOR PRESERVATION AND OPEN PUBLIC MEETING ACT, BOTTOM-UP DECISION-MAKING, 01:09:26.061 --> 01:09:31.000 DECISION MAKING PROGRESS. 01:09:31.066 --> 01:09:35.004 AND THE EFFORTS TO KEEP THE MARKET PUBLIC. THIS 01:09:35.070 --> 01:09:38.007 PROPOSED POWER TO BE GRANTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS 01:09:38.073 --> 01:09:44.013 SHOULD NOT OCCUR FOR THE PUBLIC MARKET IN OTHER SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOODS. 01:09:44.079 --> 01:09:47.016 THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME. 01:09:47.082 --> 01:09:52.988 >> NEXT WE HAVE -- I APOLOGIZE IF I AM 01:09:53.055 --> 01:09:58.994 MISPRONOUNCING THAT. OH, OKAY. 01:09:59.061 --> 01:10:06.936 YOU WILL BE FOLLOWED BY LAUREN --AND CHRISTINE. 01:10:07.002 --> 01:10:07.937 >> A MORNING, AND WITH THE ALLIED ARTS REPRESENTATIVE 01:10:08.003 --> 01:10:09.939 ON THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION. 01:10:10.005 --> 01:10:15.945 THE CITIZENS OF SEATTLE SAVED THE MARKET FROM 01:10:16.011 --> 01:10:18.948 CITY DECISION-MAKING 50 YEARS AGO AND HAS STEWARDED THE 01:10:19.014 --> 01:10:22.952 MARKET SUCCESSFULLY EVER SINCE. NOW THE CITY IS TRYING TO TAKE 01:10:23.018 --> 01:10:25.921 DECISION-MAKING BACK BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, OUT OF PUBLIC MEETINGS 01:10:25.988 --> 01:10:28.924 AND PUBLIC PROCESS WITHOUT BEING ASKED AND WITHOUT LISTENING. 01:10:28.991 --> 01:10:31.927 THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION IS REQUIRED 01:10:31.994 --> 01:10:34.930 BY THE FOUNDING ORDINANCE TO ADOPT RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ITS OWN 01:10:34.997 --> 01:10:40.936 GOVERNMENT AND IS REQUIRED 01:10:41.003 --> 01:10:43.939 TO PROVIDE STAFF ASSISTANCE AND OTHER SERVICES AS REQUESTED. TO 01:10:44.006 --> 01:10:47.943 BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR, THE PIKE PLACE MARKET 01:10:48.010 --> 01:10:55.951 HISTORICAL COMMISSION HAS NEVER SUGGESTED TO PURSUE ANY OF THESE AMENDMENTS 01:10:56.018 --> 01:10:57.953 TO ALLOW ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW. 01:10:58.020 --> 01:11:00.923 NOT DURING THE STATE OF EMERGENCY AND STILL NOT 01:11:00.990 --> 01:11:04.994 NOW THAT IT IS ENDING. IN FACT THE COMMISSION HAS 01:11:05.060 --> 01:11:05.928 REPEATEDLY ASKED NOT TO PURSUE THESE AMENDMENTS UNLESS 01:11:05.995 --> 01:11:10.933 AND UNTIL COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CAN BE ACHIEVED. WE RECEIVED MANY 01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:13.936 PUBLIC COMMENTS. NONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN 01:11:14.003 --> 01:11:17.940 IN SUPPORT OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW. ALL OF THEM 01:11:18.007 --> 01:11:19.942 HAVE BEEN PROPOSED CHANGES. SINCE THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS IS 01:11:20.009 --> 01:11:23.946 NOT DEMONSTRATING THEIR LISTENING AND THE LETTER TO 01:11:24.013 --> 01:11:25.948 THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS HAS GONE UNANSWERED, I AM HERE NOW TO 01:11:26.015 --> 01:11:28.951 ASK YOU DIRECTLY NOT TO ACCEPT THESE AMENDMENTS 01:11:29.018 --> 01:11:31.954 TO THE ORDINANCE AND HONOR THE AUTONOMY AND AUTHORITY CREATED BY THE CITIZENS. 01:11:32.021 --> 01:11:37.926 WE, AS A CITY, CAN AND SHOULD DO BETTER. THANK YOU. 01:11:37.993 --> 01:11:42.131 >> THANK YOU. LAUREN FOLLOWED BY CHRISTINE 01:11:42.197 --> 01:11:43.532 --AND GRACE. 01:11:43.599 --> 01:11:51.940 >> I AM AN ARCHITECT AND OWNER OF 01:11:52.007 --> 01:11:53.942 ROBOT VERSUS LOVE IN THE PIKE PLACE MARKET AND ALSO 01:11:54.009 --> 01:11:55.944 VICE CHAIR OF THE HISTORIC COMMISSION. 01:11:56.011 --> 01:12:00.949 I HAVE BEEN A COMMISSIONER FOR OVER SIX YEARS. I AM 01:12:01.016 --> 01:12:01.950 STANDING BEFORE YOU TO ASK YOU TO REMOVE THE PIKE PLACE MARKET FROM 01:12:02.017 --> 01:12:05.020 THIS LEGISLATION. 01:12:05.087 --> 01:12:08.924 THE MARKET HISTORIC COMMISSION, WHEN FULLY STAFFED, IS MADE OF 12 01:12:08.991 --> 01:12:10.926 DIVERSE PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, DIFFERENT EDUCATIONS, DIFFERENT CAREERS 01:12:10.993 --> 01:12:16.932 AND EXPERTISE THAT SERVE WITH TERM LIMITS. WHEN APPLICATIONS COME 01:12:16.999 --> 01:12:19.935 THE PROCESS IS TRANSPARENT, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND OFTEN CONSISTS OF 01:12:20.002 --> 01:12:23.939 HELPFUL CONVERSATIONS TO BETTER OUR PROJECT. 01:12:24.006 --> 01:12:25.941 UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL DECISIONS GO BEHIND DOORS WITH NO PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT 01:12:26.008 --> 01:12:29.945 AND INCREASED CHANCES OF BIAS AND ARE MADE BY ONE 01:12:30.012 --> 01:12:31.947 PERSON WITH NO TERM LIMITS. DURING THE PAST FEW YEARS, DECISIONS WERE 01:12:32.014 --> 01:12:34.416 MADE THE VIOLATE THE GUIDELINES. THERE 01:12:34.483 --> 01:12:36.852 WERE NO PUBLIC NOTICES FOR DECISIONS. 01:12:36.919 --> 01:12:40.923 THE PUBLIC COULD NOT 01:12:40.989 --> 01:12:42.925 APPEAL THEM. THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS 01:12:42.991 --> 01:12:46.929 HAS SAID THAT ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL WOULD HELP 01:12:46.995 --> 01:12:49.932 THE TIME BEFORE THE COMMISSION, BUT SINCE ADMINISTRATIVE 01:12:49.998 --> 01:12:52.935 APPROVAL HAS BEEN IN USE, THEY HAVE REPEATEDLY TOLD THAT SHE IS TOO 01:12:53.001 --> 01:12:57.940 BUSY TO ENFORCE ANY OF THE HISTORIC GUIDELINE VIOLATIONS. ADDING 01:12:58.006 --> 01:13:00.943 ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL MEANS THEY HAVE NEGLECTED ENFORCEMENT OF THE 01:13:01.009 --> 01:13:05.013 GUIDELINES. YOU CAN SEE THIS WITH THE 01:13:05.080 --> 01:13:07.950 A-FRAMES AND REMODELS IN THE MARKET WITHOUT REVIEW. I WOULD LIKE 01:13:08.016 --> 01:13:13.922 TO ASK YOU TO REMOVE 01:13:13.989 --> 01:13:16.925 PIKE PLACE MARKET FROM THIS LEGISLATION. THANK YOU. 01:13:16.992 --> 01:13:20.929 >> THANK YOU. 01:13:20.996 --> 01:13:22.931 >> CHRISTINE VAUGHN, GRACE LONG AND GILLIAN GERMAN. 01:13:22.998 --> 01:13:28.937 >> THIS IS CHRISTINE VAUGHN. 01:13:29.004 --> 01:13:31.940 I AM A 32 YEARS CRAFTSPERSON AT THE MARKET. 01:13:32.007 --> 01:13:33.942 I SERVED FOR EIGHT YEARS AND MOST RECENTLY I 01:13:34.009 --> 01:13:39.948 WAS 7 1/2 YEARS ON THE COMMISSION. 01:13:40.015 --> 01:13:40.949 THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE COMMISSION. 01:13:41.016 --> 01:13:42.951 THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS KEEPS 01:13:43.018 --> 01:13:45.954 MINUTES OF THE COMMISSION. THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS PRESENTED IN A 01:13:46.021 --> 01:13:47.923 TIMELY FASHION. THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT'S 01:13:47.990 --> 01:13:52.928 NOMINEES AND FORWARDS THEIR NAMES TO THE MAYOR. ALTHOUGH IN THE 01:13:52.995 --> 01:13:59.935 TIMES I SERVED ON THE COMMISSION, THE COMMISSION WAS RARELY AT FULL STRENGTH. 01:14:00.002 --> 01:14:02.938 THERE ARE NOW SEVEN MEMBERS ON WHAT SHOULD BE 01:14:03.005 --> 01:14:06.008 A 12 MEMBER BOARD. ONE SEAT IN PARTICULAR HAS BEEN VACANT FOR 01:14:06.074 --> 01:14:09.011 SIX YEARS. THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS 01:14:09.077 --> 01:14:12.014 FACILITATES FORMALIZING CHANGES TO THE GUIDELINES WHEN THE COMMISSION 01:14:12.080 --> 01:14:15.017 WANTS TO MAKE THOSE CHANGES. 01:14:15.083 --> 01:14:18.020 HOWEVER, THE CURRENT --THE CHANGES MOST CURRENTLY RECOMMENDED 01:14:18.086 --> 01:14:23.992 BY THE COMMISSION HAVE BEEN STUCK IN THE DEPARTMENT 01:14:24.059 --> 01:14:25.994 OF NEIGHBORHOODS FOR FOUR YEARS AND THE RECENT CHANGES, 01:14:26.061 --> 01:14:32.000 WHICH HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AND APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION, INCLUDE A STATEMENT 01:14:32.067 --> 01:14:34.002 OF COMMITMENT TO RACIAL EQUITY THE CITY COUNCIL REQUIRED 01:14:34.069 --> 01:14:39.007 THE COMMISSION ADD TO ITS GUIDELINES IN 2015. THERE IS NO DOUBT 01:14:39.074 --> 01:14:43.011 THAT COVID EXACERBATED THESE PROBLEMS, BUT THEY PREDATED COVID. MAY I 01:14:43.078 --> 01:14:48.016 RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST THAT A BETTER USE OF TIME IS THE 01:14:48.083 --> 01:14:52.020 IMPROVEMENT WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT IT ALREADY HAS, RATHER THAN INSERTING 01:14:52.087 --> 01:14:56.992 DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY THE VOTERS OF SEATTLE GRANTED TO 01:14:57.059 --> 01:14:59.995 THE COMMISSION WHEN THEY VOTED TO SAVE THE MARKET 01:15:00.062 --> 01:15:02.998 IN 1971. PLEASE AMEND THIS BILL TO REMOVE 01:15:03.065 --> 01:15:07.002 SECTION 8. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:15:07.069 --> 01:15:15.010 >> THANK YOU. GRACE LONG, FOLLOWED BY GILLIAN SHERMAN AND CYNTHIA MOUNCE. 01:15:15.077 --> 01:15:21.016 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS. I AM A COMMUNITY MEMBER, 01:15:21.083 --> 01:15:24.019 A MEMBER OF THE MARKET HISTORIC COMMISSION 01:15:24.086 --> 01:15:27.990 AND AN ARCHITECT. I DO NOT HAVE PREPARED COMMENTS, BUT I WANT TO NOTE 01:15:28.056 --> 01:15:29.992 THAT THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY AT THIS MEETING WHO HAVE 01:15:30.058 --> 01:15:32.995 TAKEN TIME OUT OF THEIR DAYS WHO ARE NOT WORKING 01:15:33.061 --> 01:15:35.998 RIGHT NOW AND REALLY FEEL THAT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT 01:15:36.064 --> 01:15:39.001 ISSUE. I URGE YOU TO CONSIDER THIS AMENDMENT AS DESCRIBED 01:15:39.067 --> 01:15:45.007 BY MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS THANK YOU. 01:15:45.073 --> 01:15:51.013 >> GILLIAN SHERMAN FOLLOWED BY 01:15:51.079 --> 01:15:52.614 CINDY MOUNCE AND THEN 01:15:52.681 --> 01:15:54.483 ELAINE, THEN JOHN CHANEY. 01:15:54.549 --> 01:16:01.990 >> GOOD MORNING, 01:16:02.057 --> 01:16:09.998 MY NAME IS LILLIAN SHERMAN, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION. 01:16:10.065 --> 01:16:12.000 40 YEARS AGO THE FOUNDATION WAS ESTABLISHED TO FULFILL THE MARKETS HISTORIC CHARTER 01:16:12.067 --> 01:16:17.005 TO PRESERVE AND ENHANCE THE TRADITIONS AND DIVERSITY 01:16:17.072 --> 01:16:18.006 OF THE PIKE PLACE MARKET COMMUNITY. 01:16:18.073 --> 01:16:23.011 WE TAKE OUR PURPOSE OF NURTURING THIS VIBRANT, ONE-OF-A-KIND COMMUNITY 01:16:23.078 --> 01:16:25.013 VERY SERIOUSLY. SUPPORTING NEIGHBORS WHO PARTICIPATE IN 01:16:25.080 --> 01:16:28.016 SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS, THE FARMERS, THE MERCHANTS, ARTISTS, 01:16:28.083 --> 01:16:35.991 RESIDENTS, AND FAMILIES WHO MAKE UP THE MARKET, THE SOUL OF SEATTLE. 01:16:36.058 --> 01:16:37.993 WORKING IN THIS COMMUNITY TAKES DILIGENT COMMITMENT 01:16:38.060 --> 01:16:40.996 TO COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION. 01:16:41.063 --> 01:16:45.000 A SILENT COMMUNITY IS NOT EVER WHAT THIS MARKET 01:16:45.067 --> 01:16:47.002 HAS BEEN. 01:16:47.069 --> 01:16:49.004 AND AS THE COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION, IT 01:16:49.071 --> 01:16:54.009 IS OUR JOB TO ELEVATE AND AMPLIFY THIS VERY ACTIVE COMMUNITY VOICE. 01:16:54.076 --> 01:16:56.011 THIS COUNCIL BILL DISCARDS THE DEEPLY HELD 01:16:56.078 --> 01:17:03.018 VALUE OF ACTIVE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND I STRONGLY 01:17:03.085 --> 01:17:05.087 URGE YOU, THE COUNCIL, TO LISTEN TO WHAT 01:17:05.153 --> 01:17:08.991 THE COMMUNITY IS TELLING YOU LOUD AND CLEAR AND ALLOW THEIR VOICE TO 01:17:09.057 --> 01:17:11.994 CONTINUE TO BE HEARD. 01:17:12.060 --> 01:17:16.999 THANK YOU. 01:17:17.065 --> 01:17:18.934 >> CINDY MOUNCE, FOLLOWED BY JOHN CHANEY 01:17:19.001 --> 01:17:20.102 AND THEN ELAINE SPENCER. 01:17:20.168 --> 01:17:24.006 >> HI, I AM CINDY MOUNCE AND I JUST 01:17:24.072 --> 01:17:27.009 WANT TO BACKUP ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES AND PEERS 01:17:27.075 --> 01:17:32.014 HERE AND LET YOU KNOW THAT 01:17:32.080 --> 01:17:35.017 WE HAVE THIS COVERED. AND I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS HAVE YOUR HANDS 01:17:35.083 --> 01:17:41.990 FULL, TOO. I AM FRIENDS WITH THE MARKET AND BEYOND THAT I AM FAMILY WITH THE MARKET. 01:17:42.057 --> 01:17:46.995 WE REALLY WOULD LIKE TO KEEP THIS 01:17:47.062 --> 01:17:53.001 IN OUR HANDS AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU. 01:17:53.068 --> 01:17:57.005 >> JOHN CHANEY, FOLLOWED BY ELAINE SPENCER AND 01:17:57.072 --> 01:18:00.008 MAGGIE HAYNES. 01:18:00.075 --> 01:18:03.011 >> 50 YEARS AGO THE PEOPLE OF SEATTLE GOT ORGANIZED UNDER THE LEADERSHIP 01:18:03.078 --> 01:18:09.017 TO SAVE THE PIKE PLACE MARKET FROM GENTRIFICATION. 01:18:09.084 --> 01:18:12.020 THE PIKE PLACE MARKET IS A SEATTLE TREASURE. 01:18:12.087 --> 01:18:14.990 IT IS FOR EVERYONE, THE SENIOR CITIZEN LIVING ON 01:18:15.057 --> 01:18:17.993 A PENSION, TO A THRIFT SHOP STORE. A MATRON LIVING 01:18:18.060 --> 01:18:23.999 IN THE HIGHLANDS MIGHT GO THERE 01:18:24.066 --> 01:18:25.000 TO BUY 20 ARTICHOKES FOR HER DINNER PARTY. 01:18:25.067 --> 01:18:27.002 THE GOOD THING ABOUT THE PIKE PLACE MARKET IS THAT IT IS FOR EVERYONE 01:18:27.069 --> 01:18:33.008 AND WE NEED TO KEEP IT THAT WAY. 01:18:33.075 --> 01:18:36.011 THE MARKET IS THE SOUL OF SEATTLE TO ENSURE THAT THE MARKET 01:18:36.078 --> 01:18:41.016 STAYS THAT WAY. WE NEED CAREFUL PLANNING AND LONG-TERM PLANNING. 01:18:41.083 --> 01:18:45.020 THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION MUST BE PART 01:18:45.087 --> 01:18:50.992 OF THIS AND MUST APPROVE A DECISION BEING CONSIDERED. WITHOUT THIS, 01:18:51.059 --> 01:18:55.997 I FEAR THE MARKET WILL BE LOST. 01:18:56.064 --> 01:18:56.998 WE NEED OUR CITY COUNCIL TO BE FAIR AND INCLUSIVE OF SEATTLE RESIDENTS. 01:18:57.065 --> 01:19:00.001 NO SECRET MEETINGS. THIS NEEDS TO BE 01:19:00.068 --> 01:19:06.007 OPEN TO ALL OF US. 01:19:06.074 --> 01:19:09.010 IT IS NOT A SECRET THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL THAT THREE QUARTERS 01:19:09.077 --> 01:19:12.013 OF THE CITY COUNCIL ARE NOT DOING A GOOD JOB. PROVE TO THEM 01:19:12.080 --> 01:19:20.989 THEY ARE WRONG. 01:19:21.056 --> 01:19:26.995 MAY HAVE THIS MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION APPROVAL? THANK YOU. 01:19:27.062 --> 01:19:37.005 >> MY NAME IS JOHN CHANEY AND I WILL PROBABLY 01:19:37.072 --> 01:19:40.008 SKIP DEFERENCE TO AGE, EVEN THOUGH I AM GETTING THERE. I WAS, FOR 10 01:19:40.075 --> 01:19:42.010 YEARS, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS IN THE SEATTLE OF SEATTLE 01:19:42.077 --> 01:19:45.013 AND ANOTHER 15 YEARS --I BELIEVE THAT LOOKING AT 01:19:45.080 --> 01:19:48.016 THIS LEGISLATION THAT IT HAS NOT ACHIEVED 01:19:48.083 --> 01:19:51.019 THE REQUIRED TRANSPARENCY THAT IS NEEDED FOR THE DECISION-MAKING 01:19:51.086 --> 01:19:53.989 THAT WOULD BE GIVEN TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS. 01:19:54.055 --> 01:19:59.995 THE EASIEST THING THAT YOU COULD DO IS TO DO NOTHING, 01:20:00.061 --> 01:20:05.000 BECAUSE THE CURRENT PROCESS WOULD JUST 01:20:05.066 --> 01:20:08.937 EXPIRE, BECAUSE IT WAS UNDER COVID, WHICH HOPEFULLY WE ARE MOVING OUT 01:20:09.004 --> 01:20:11.940 OF. HOWEVER, IF YOU CHOOSE TO MOVE FORWARD, I THINK 01:20:12.007 --> 01:20:16.945 THAT THE ISSUE OF TRANSPARENCY NEEDS TO BE 01:20:17.012 --> 01:20:20.949 THOROUGHLY ADDRESSED AND IS NOT IN THIS BILL. TWO AREAS ARE 01:20:21.016 --> 01:20:23.952 REALLY IMPORTANT. ONE IS THE CHANGES TO RIGHT AWAY. 01:20:24.019 --> 01:20:26.922 THE BIGGEST PROPERTY OWNER IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT IS 01:20:26.988 --> 01:20:30.926 THE SEA OF --THE CITY 01:20:30.992 --> 01:20:32.928 OF SEATTLE. LAND, STREETS, PARKS. 01:20:32.994 --> 01:20:34.930 ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAVE MOVED DECISION-MAKING AWAY 01:20:34.996 --> 01:20:40.936 FROM THE VOLUNTEER BOARD FOLKS WITHIN THE CITY FAMILY. I THINK THAT IS 01:20:41.002 --> 01:20:46.942 A MISTAKE. THE SECOND ONE IS THE ISSUE OF SEISMIC, 01:20:47.008 --> 01:20:49.945 WHICH IS NOT PART OF THE CURRENT COVID REGULATIONS. 01:20:50.011 --> 01:20:56.952 SEISMIC CAN MAKE HUGE IMPACTS ON HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND THEREFORE NEEDS TO BE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED 01:20:57.018 --> 01:20:59.921 AND HOW IT IS INCLUDED IN THE ORDINANCE TODAY 01:20:59.988 --> 01:21:08.930 MAKES NO ALLOWANCE FOR HISTORIC FABRIC. THANK YOU. 01:21:08.997 --> 01:21:14.936 >> THANK YOU. ELAINE SPENCER, MAGGIE HAYNES AND THEN JOHNNY -- 01:21:15.003 --> 01:21:16.938 >> MY NAME IS ELAINE SPENCER AND I AM 01:21:17.005 --> 01:21:20.942 HERE ON BEHALF OF THE FRIENDS OF THE MARKET. WE ASK YOU TO 01:21:21.009 --> 01:21:26.948 REMOVE PIKE PLACE MARKET FROM CB 120456 AND LEAVE THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION 01:21:27.015 --> 01:21:38.927 WITH THE AUTHORITY IT HAS HAD SINCE 1971. 01:21:38.994 --> 01:21:40.929 ASK YOURSELVES, WHY ARE WE EVEN THINKING ABOUT MESSING WITH 01:21:40.996 --> 01:21:42.931 SUCCESS? FOR 50 YEARS THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION HAS GUIDED 01:21:42.998 --> 01:21:45.934 THE MARKET THROUGH TWO MAJOR STRUCTURAL RENOVATIONS. 01:21:46.001 --> 01:21:49.938 THROUGH THE CREATION OF 336 UNITS 01:21:50.005 --> 01:21:51.940 OF MOSTLY SUBSIDIZED AND SENIOR HOUSING. 01:21:52.007 --> 01:21:55.944 THROUGH THE MARKET FRONT PROJECT AND THROUGH THE 01:21:56.011 --> 01:21:57.946 EVOLUTION OF DOZENS OF VENDORS IN THE MARKET, ALL WHILE MAINTAINING 01:21:58.013 --> 01:22:02.951 THE ORIGINAL CHARACTER 01:22:03.018 --> 01:22:06.921 OF THE MARKET AND ITS STATUS AS THE MOST VISITED ATTRACTION 01:22:06.988 --> 01:22:12.927 IN SEATTLE. ALONE IN DOWNTOWN IT EMERGED FROM THE PANDEMIC 01:22:12.994 --> 01:22:16.931 ESSENTIALLY UNSCATHED. 01:22:16.998 --> 01:22:21.936 IT IS TODAY THE MOST VIBRANT PART OF SEATTLE. YOU MAY ASK, 01:22:22.003 --> 01:22:30.945 OUR DECISION --ISSUES SPECIFICALLY SUITED TO STAFF. 01:22:31.012 --> 01:22:34.949 IN THE MARKET, THE ANSWER IS NO. 01:22:35.016 --> 01:22:36.951 THE MARKET HAS UNDERGONE A SIGNIFICANT SEISMIC RETROFIT AND WHAT WE HAVE 01:22:37.018 --> 01:22:39.921 LEARNED, THAT CAN BE EITHER ENORMOUSLY DISRUPTIVE 01:22:39.988 --> 01:22:42.924 OR SEAMLESS. 01:22:42.991 --> 01:22:45.927 RELEGATING THE COMMISSION TO SIGNAGE, WALL COLORS, APPROVAL OF 01:22:45.994 --> 01:22:50.932 NEW VENDORS, WOULD HAVE GUTTED THE HEART 01:22:50.999 --> 01:22:54.936 OF THE COMMISSION'S WORK AND PAST PROJECTS AND RISKS 01:22:55.003 --> 01:22:57.939 DOING SO AGAIN. 01:22:58.006 --> 01:23:03.945 >> MAGGIE HAYNES, FOLLOWED BY 01:23:04.012 --> 01:23:05.013 JOHNNY --AND THEN CHRISTOPHER MARTIN. 01:23:05.080 --> 01:23:08.950 >> I AM ON THE BOARD OF THE FRIENDS OF 01:23:09.017 --> 01:23:10.952 THE MARKET. I REQUEST THAT YOU REMOVE THE 01:23:11.019 --> 01:23:13.922 MARKET FROM THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION AS WELL AND I 01:23:13.988 --> 01:23:21.930 SUPPORT WHAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID. 01:23:21.996 --> 01:23:27.936 THE MARKET WAS SAVED IN 1971 AND THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION WAS CREATED 01:23:28.002 --> 01:23:31.940 AT THAT TIME BY INITIATIVE, BY A VOTE AND BY THE WILL OF THE 01:23:32.006 --> 01:23:35.944 PEOPLE OF SEATTLE. IT SEEMS IT WOULD BE EGREGIOUS 01:23:36.010 --> 01:23:38.947 TO REMOVE THIS FROM WHAT THE PEOPLE HAVE SAID 01:23:39.013 --> 01:23:45.954 AND WHAT THEY WISH TO CONTINUE. THANK YOU. 01:23:46.020 --> 01:23:48.923 >> THANK YOU. 01:23:48.990 --> 01:23:59.934 JOHNNY -- 01:24:00.001 --> 01:24:01.936 >> MY NAME IS JOHNNY HAWN AND I HAVE BEEN 01:24:02.003 --> 01:24:02.937 A MARKET STREET PERFORMER FOR 36 YEARS. 01:24:03.004 --> 01:24:07.008 CONCERNING COUNCIL BILL 120456, I HAVE TO ASK, 01:24:07.075 --> 01:24:13.014 WHY ARE WE EVEN HERE TODAY? 01:24:13.081 --> 01:24:15.016 WHAT IS THE CONSTITUENCY THAT WILL BENEFIT FROM 01:24:15.083 --> 01:24:17.018 THIS LEGISLATION THAT WILL STRIP THE COMMISSION OF ITS ROLE 01:24:17.085 --> 01:24:18.019 IN PRESERVING THE MARKETS CHARACTER? 01:24:18.086 --> 01:24:20.021 IT WOULD NOT INCLUDE ANY OF US WHO LIVE OR 01:24:20.088 --> 01:24:22.991 WORK IN THE MARKET OR HAVE GROWN TO LOVE THE MARKET OVER THE YEARS. 01:24:23.057 --> 01:24:30.999 WHAT COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PROMPTED SEATTLE CITY OFFICIALS TO EVEN CONSIDER SUCH 01:24:31.065 --> 01:24:34.002 A POWER PLAY? IS THERE AN EMERGENCY IN THE FUNCTION OF THE HISTORIC COMMISSION 01:24:34.068 --> 01:24:38.006 THAT NONE OF US KNOW ABOUT? I DON'T THINK SO. MORE TO 01:24:38.072 --> 01:24:40.008 THE POINT THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AND WILL ALWAYS BE INDIVIDUALS, MAYORS 01:24:40.074 --> 01:24:43.011 OR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DRIVEN BY THE NEED TO CARVE OUT FIEFDOMS 01:24:43.077 --> 01:24:49.017 FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN SATISFYING THE NEED TO CONTROL. 01:24:49.083 --> 01:24:51.019 I HAVE NO DOUBT, WERE HE STILL ALIVE, WHERE 01:24:51.085 --> 01:24:57.992 VICTOR STEINBERG WOULD STAND ON THIS ISSUE. 01:24:58.059 --> 01:25:00.995 IT IS ALL ABOUT PRESERVING THE MARKET FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF 01:25:01.062 --> 01:25:01.996 THE REGION, FOR THE LIVING AND FUTURE SITUATIONS 01:25:02.063 --> 01:25:05.066 AND IT IS CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND OVERSIGHT. HE WAS AN EXEMPLAR 01:25:05.133 --> 01:25:09.003 OF SMALL D DEMOCRACY AND WE CAN DO NO LESS THAN TO FOLLOW IN 01:25:09.070 --> 01:25:13.007 HIS FOOTSTEPS AND CONTINUE TO STAND UP FOR PRESERVING THE MARKET 01:25:13.074 --> 01:25:16.010 CHARACTER AND WE DO SO IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. I CALL ON THE CITY 01:25:16.077 --> 01:25:23.017 COUNCIL TO REJECT THIS ATTEMPT AT CODIFYING 01:25:23.084 --> 01:25:25.019 THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS FOR THE MARKETS FUTURE. LET THE HISTORIC COMMISSION 01:25:25.086 --> 01:25:27.021 WITH NO FANFARE CONTINUED TO EFFECTIVELY, 01:25:27.088 --> 01:25:30.992 COHERENTLY, AND SENSIBLY CARRY ON ITS MISSION. 01:25:31.059 --> 01:25:36.998 >> CHRISTOPHER MARTIN. >> MY NAME IS CHRISTOPHER MARTIN 01:25:37.065 --> 01:25:40.001 AND I LIVE AT THE LA SALLE APARTMENTS IN THE 01:25:40.068 --> 01:25:42.003 PIKE PLACE MARKET. I AM HERE TO ADD MY VOICE IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING DISABLED 01:25:42.070 --> 01:25:46.007 RESIDENTS AND THE VISITORS OF THE MARKET TO 01:25:46.074 --> 01:25:50.011 PROVIDE INPUT TO THE 88 UPGRADES AT THE 01:25:50.078 --> 01:25:55.016 PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION TO HELP MAKE THE AREA MORE INCLUSIVE 01:25:55.083 --> 01:26:02.991 AND EQUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 01:26:03.057 --> 01:26:05.994 >> OKAY, SORRY, I AM LOSING TRACK OF WHERE 01:26:06.060 --> 01:26:09.998 WE ARE. DUNCAN, FOLLOWED BY SARAH PATTON. 01:26:10.064 --> 01:26:13.001 AND EV -- 01:26:13.067 --> 01:26:16.004 >> THANK YOU FOR THE TIME TO SPEAK TODAY. 01:26:16.070 --> 01:26:19.007 I SERVE ON THE BOARD OF THE FRIENDS 01:26:19.073 --> 01:26:25.013 OF THE MARKET. WITH MY FIRM, SRT PARTNERSHIP, I WAS HONORED 01:26:25.079 --> 01:26:28.016 TO BE THE ARCHITECT IN CHARGE OF THE RENOVATIONS OF THE MARKET THAT WERE 01:26:28.082 --> 01:26:31.019 APPROVED BY THE VOTERS IN 2008. WITH THAT BILL, 01:26:31.085 --> 01:26:33.988 THAT PROPOSITION, THE CITY OF SEATTLE ENTRUSTED HER TEAM 01:26:34.055 --> 01:26:39.994 AT $73 MILLION TO IMPROVE AND MODERNIZE THE INFRASTRUCTURE 01:26:40.061 --> 01:26:43.998 OF THE MARKET, DO SEISMIC UPGRADES TO THE CORE BUILDINGS, AND 01:26:44.065 --> 01:26:51.005 IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY. ALL OF THESE MATTERS ARE NOW OPPOSED ONLY 01:26:51.072 --> 01:26:54.008 FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW. I THINK EVERYONE WOULD AGREE THAT OUR PROJECT 01:26:54.075 --> 01:26:56.010 DESERVES TO BE IN THE FULL LIGHT OF DAY AND I BELIEVE THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION 01:26:56.077 --> 01:27:01.015 NEEDS TO RETAIN THAT POWER. THROUGH ALMOST FIVE YEARS 01:27:01.082 --> 01:27:07.021 -- AND THEIR INPUT LED TO THE SUCCESS 01:27:07.088 --> 01:27:08.990 OF OUR PROGRAM. 01:27:09.057 --> 01:27:12.994 THE BRIEFING FOR THE BILL SUGGESTS THAT ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL WILL 01:27:13.061 --> 01:27:22.003 ONLY BE FOR MINOR MANNERS. 01:27:22.070 --> 01:27:25.006 I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A MINOR SEISMIC IMPROVEMENT WHAT BUILDING 01:27:25.073 --> 01:27:29.010 WOULD BE. THAT SORT OF WORK ALWAYS INVOLVES TEARING UP THE STRUCTURE, DIGGING 01:27:29.077 --> 01:27:31.012 UP THE FOUNDATIONS. HEAVILY INVASIVE WORK. THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION HAS 01:27:31.079 --> 01:27:34.015 DONE A BRILLIANT JOB FOR 51 YEARS, ALMOST 01:27:34.082 --> 01:27:37.018 AS LONG AS I HAVE BEEN ALIVE. LET THEM KEEP DOING THE 01:27:37.085 --> 01:27:37.919 JOB. 01:27:37.986 --> 01:27:40.488 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:27:40.555 --> 01:27:48.997 >> SARAH PATTON FOLLOWED BY -- 01:27:49.063 --> 01:27:52.000 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MY NAME IS SARAH 01:27:52.066 --> 01:27:54.002 PATTON. I STARTED AS A VOLUNTEER FOR FRIENDS 01:27:54.068 --> 01:27:57.005 OF THE MARKET WHEN I WAS 15 YEARS OLD, IN 1964. 01:27:57.071 --> 01:28:00.008 MANY YEARS LATER I SERVED ON THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION FOR MOST OF 01:28:00.074 --> 01:28:07.015 A DECADE AND CHAIRED THE COMMISSION DURING THE SEISMIC RETROFITS 01:28:07.081 --> 01:28:10.018 IN 2013. 01:28:10.084 --> 01:28:13.021 I AM HERE TODAY TO URGE YOU TO TAKE THE MARKET 01:28:13.087 --> 01:28:15.990 OUT OF COUNCIL BILL 12456. THE COUNCIL BILL WOULD 01:28:16.057 --> 01:28:18.993 ALLOW CITY STAFF TO MAKE DECISIONS ON APPLICATIONS IN NUMEROUS CATEGORIES 01:28:19.060 --> 01:28:24.999 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. THESE CATEGORIES 01:28:25.066 --> 01:28:28.002 MAY APPEAR ON THE SURFACE TO BE MINOR, BUT YOU HAVE HEARD HOW SUCH APPARENTLY 01:28:28.069 --> 01:28:31.005 MINOR CHANGES CAN BE CRUCIAL TO THE PRESERVATION OF 01:28:31.072 --> 01:28:37.011 THE MARKET. 01:28:37.078 --> 01:28:38.379 IF THESE DECISIONS ARE MADE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, 01:28:38.446 --> 01:28:39.480 NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO CHALLENGE THEM. 01:28:39.547 --> 01:28:43.017 THE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION GUIDELINES PROHIBIT 01:28:43.084 --> 01:28:47.989 FRANCHISES AND CHAINS IN THE MARKET, UNLESS OF COURSE THE CHAIN ORIGINATED 01:28:48.056 --> 01:28:48.990 WITH THE MARKET, HENCE STARBUCKS. 01:28:49.057 --> 01:28:54.996 BUT THE COMMISSION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING OUT CHAINS, SO NO BURGER 01:28:55.063 --> 01:29:00.001 KING IN THE MARKET. SAYING NO TO A BIG BUSINESS 01:29:00.068 --> 01:29:01.002 IS A SERIOUS RESPONSIBILITY. THE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION HAS HANDLED 01:29:01.069 --> 01:29:04.005 THAT RESPONSIBILITY EFFICIENTLY, EFFECTIVELY, 01:29:04.072 --> 01:29:07.008 AND PUBLICLY FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS. 01:29:07.075 --> 01:29:13.014 PLEASE TAKE THE MARKET OUT OF THIS COUNCIL BILL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:29:13.081 --> 01:29:19.020 >> PLEASE GO AHEAD. 01:29:19.087 --> 01:29:20.988 >> HI, I AM PRESIDENT OF FRANCE OF THE 01:29:21.055 --> 01:29:24.992 MARKET. I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF THE FRIENDS VIEW ON COUNCIL BILL 01:29:25.059 --> 01:29:30.998 120456. THIS BILL AFFECTS THE AUTHORITY OF 01:29:31.065 --> 01:29:33.000 PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION 01:29:33.067 --> 01:29:36.003 AND TRANSFERS THE AUTHORITY ON CERTAIN MATTERS TO THE DEPARTMENT 01:29:36.070 --> 01:29:40.007 OF NEIGHBORHOODS. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE COMMISSION, 01:29:40.074 --> 01:29:42.009 WHERE IT CAME FROM, WHY IT WORKS WELL AND WHY 01:29:42.076 --> 01:29:43.010 IT SHOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE REGULATORY AUTHORITY IN THE MARKET. THE MARKET 01:29:43.077 --> 01:29:46.013 HISTORICAL COMMISSION WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE CITIZENS INITIATIVE 01:29:46.080 --> 01:29:49.016 THAT ESTABLISHED THE DISTRICT IN 1971. 01:29:49.083 --> 01:29:52.019 IT WAS DESIGNED AS A WAY TO ESTABLISH DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY 01:29:52.086 --> 01:29:54.989 CONTROL AT THE MARKET. 01:29:55.056 --> 01:29:59.994 THE MARKET REGULATES, MAKES BINDING REGULATIONS 01:30:00.061 --> 01:30:02.997 ON CHANGES IN DESIGN AND USE IN THE MARKET. IT DOES ITS WORK IN PUBLIC. 01:30:03.064 --> 01:30:06.934 MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE 01:30:07.001 --> 01:30:09.937 A DEMONSTRATED SYMPATHY WITH THE PURPOSES 01:30:10.004 --> 01:30:12.940 OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICT. THE VARIOUS INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE OF 01:30:13.007 --> 01:30:15.943 COMMISSION VOLUNTEERS HAVE ENABLED THE COMMISSION TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN 01:30:16.010 --> 01:30:19.947 REGULATING CHANGES DURING TWO LARGE-SCALE INNOVATIONS 01:30:20.014 --> 01:30:22.950 IN THE MARKET. FIRST IN THE 1970S AND 01:30:23.017 --> 01:30:25.953 80s AND LATER IN 2008 TO 2010. THE COMMISSION'S 01:30:26.020 --> 01:30:29.924 WORK HAS KEPT THE MARKET MAINTAINING 01:30:29.991 --> 01:30:35.930 ITS CHARACTER AS A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN STILL MEET THE PRODUCER. 01:30:35.997 --> 01:30:37.932 WITH THE NECESSARY ROBUST STAFF SUPPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS 01:30:37.999 --> 01:30:40.935 HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM, THE COMMISSION CAN CONTINUE 01:30:41.002 --> 01:30:45.940 TO BE A SUCCESS AT DOING ITS JOB. PLEASE AMEND 01:30:46.007 --> 01:30:49.944 COUNCIL BILL 120456 TO REMOVE SECTION 8 01:30:50.011 --> 01:30:55.950 WHICH REDUCES THE AUTHORITY OF THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL 01:30:56.017 --> 01:30:56.951 COMMISSION. THANK YOU. 01:30:57.018 --> 01:30:59.954 >> SAM VERRAZZANO. YOU ARE DONE? OKAY. 01:31:00.021 --> 01:31:04.992 SO, THAT IS ONE SHEET DOWN. OKAY, THE NEXT THREE SPEAKERS ARE 01:31:05.059 --> 01:31:12.934 LARRY EATON --IT MIGHT BE CARLTON. 01:31:13.000 --> 01:31:19.941 ARE ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE HERE? OKAY. 01:31:20.007 --> 01:31:22.944 >> THAT WOULD BE LARRY BARTON. 01:31:23.010 --> 01:31:25.947 >> ORTON, I APOLOGIZE. 01:31:26.013 --> 01:31:36.924 >> THE MISSION OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 01:31:36.991 --> 01:31:38.926 IS ADVISING THE MAYOR, THE CITY COUNCIL, THE 01:31:38.993 --> 01:31:40.928 DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS ON EQUITABLE AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH STRATEGIES 01:31:40.995 --> 01:31:43.931 FOCUSED ON UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES. 01:31:43.998 --> 01:31:51.939 THE VISION OF THE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COMMISSION 01:31:52.006 --> 01:31:52.940 IS TO GIVE SEATTLE COMMUNITIES, ESPECIALLY HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES, 01:31:53.007 --> 01:31:57.945 A TRUSTED VOICE IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE. 01:31:58.012 --> 01:32:03.951 CLEARLY THE MARKET DOES NOT FIT THESE PARAMETERS. 01:32:04.018 --> 01:32:10.925 THE PROPOSAL TO INCLUDE THE MARKET HISTORICAL DISTRICT 01:32:10.992 --> 01:32:16.931 IN COUNCIL BILL 120456 ADDS ANOTHER LEVEL OF REVIEW INVOLVING CITY STAFF 01:32:16.998 --> 01:32:18.933 INJECTED IN THE PROCESS. CURRENTLY THE HISTORICAL 01:32:19.000 --> 01:32:22.937 COMMISSION WORKS IN TANDEM TO REVIEW PROPOSALS AND REQUEST ADDITIONS AND CHANGES 01:32:23.004 --> 01:32:31.946 AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON CITY DEVELOPMENTS. 01:32:32.013 --> 01:32:33.948 CREATING A REDUNDANT SAN INFRASTRUCTURE WITH 01:32:34.015 --> 01:32:37.952 ADDED CITY INVOLVEMENT WOULD DILUTE THE 01:32:38.019 --> 01:32:40.922 STREAMLINED PROCESS FOR THE CURRENT MANAGEMENT OF THE 01:32:40.988 --> 01:32:43.925 STRUCTURE WITH ADDITIONAL COST AND DELAYS WITHOUT 01:32:43.991 --> 01:32:49.931 BENEFIT. BASICALLY IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT, APPLIES. 01:32:49.997 --> 01:32:55.937 IMPORTANTLY IT HAS STEERED CLEAR OF POTENTIAL POLITICAL INTERFERENCE. 01:32:56.003 --> 01:32:59.941 AS IT IS CURRENTLY ORGANIZED. 01:33:00.007 --> 01:33:01.943 SAVE THE MARKET INITIATIVES. THANK YOU. 01:33:02.009 --> 01:33:07.949 >> THANK YOU. 01:33:08.015 --> 01:33:13.921 -- 01:33:13.988 --> 01:33:16.924 >> HI, MY NAME IS NICK SATIN, I AM AN ADVOCATE, STORYTELLER 01:33:16.991 --> 01:33:19.927 AND RESIDENT IN THE PIKE PLACE MARKET. I WORK FOR THE PIKE PLACE 01:33:19.994 --> 01:33:21.929 MARKET FOUNDATION AND I SERVE ON THE COUNCIL. THESE 01:33:21.996 --> 01:33:24.932 OPINIONS ARE MY OWN. FOR OVER 50 YEARS CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS HAVE 01:33:24.999 --> 01:33:26.934 MITIGATED CHANGES IN THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL 01:33:27.001 --> 01:33:31.939 DISTRICT. THE COUNCIL BILL FLIES IN THE FACE OF THIS 01:33:32.006 --> 01:33:37.945 TRADITION OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY WITH THE MARKET 01:33:38.012 --> 01:33:40.948 HISTORIC COMMISSION AND WOULD REMOVE A KEY LAYER OF CITIZEN OVERSIGHT AND 01:33:41.015 --> 01:33:49.924 GOVERNANCE FROM A NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERIZED, BY AMONG OTHER THINGS, AS YOU HAVE 01:33:49.991 --> 01:33:50.925 SEEN TODAY, A UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT AND SELF-DETERMINATION ON 01:33:50.992 --> 01:33:52.927 CITIZEN GOVERNMENTS AND SMALL D DEMOCRACY. 01:33:52.994 --> 01:33:55.930 DO NOT REMOVE THIS UNDER THE AUSPICES OF 01:33:55.997 --> 01:33:58.933 SAVING TIME. I'VE GOT MORE. AND MULTIPLE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION 01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:02.937 MEETINGS THIS YEAR, MANY MEMBERS OF 01:34:03.004 --> 01:34:05.072 THE COMMISSION PAST AND PRESENT HAVE EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO CONTINUE TO 01:34:05.139 --> 01:34:08.009 PROVIDE CLEAR PUBLIC OVERSIGHT AND PRESERVING 01:34:08.075 --> 01:34:13.014 THE CHARACTER OF THE MARKET INCLUDING INFRASTRUCTURE 01:34:13.080 --> 01:34:17.018 AND ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS AND HAVE MADE IT VERY CLEAR THEY 01:34:17.084 --> 01:34:18.019 DO NOT WANT THEIR AUTHORITY ERODED BY 01:34:18.085 --> 01:34:20.021 A RUBBER STAMP BEHIND A CLOSED DOOR. 01:34:20.087 --> 01:34:22.990 MY MESSAGE IS SIMPLE. 01:34:23.057 --> 01:34:25.993 LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE OF THE MARKET. LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY 01:34:26.060 --> 01:34:28.996 AND MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION FOR THIS VIBRANT 01:34:29.063 --> 01:34:31.999 AND ENGAGED GROUP OF PEOPLE AND REMOVE SECTION 01:34:32.066 --> 01:34:36.437 8 INVOLVING THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION FROM COUNCIL 01:34:36.504 --> 01:34:37.972 BILL 120456. THANK YOU. 01:34:38.039 --> 01:34:44.011 >> BROOKS -- FOLLOWED BY SKIP KNOX. 01:34:44.078 --> 01:34:50.017 >> MY NAME IS BROOKS GOLD, I AM A MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE 01:34:50.084 --> 01:34:55.990 COMMITTEE OF THE ALLIED ARTS COALITION. I ALSO SIT ON THE DESIGN 01:34:56.057 --> 01:34:58.993 REVIEW COMMUNITY. OUR PARENT ORGANIZATION, 01:34:59.060 --> 01:35:01.996 ALLIED ARTS, WAS RIGHT THERE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT TO SAVE 01:35:02.063 --> 01:35:05.066 THE MARKET, SO I SUPPORT ALL OF THE COMMENTS I HAVE 01:35:05.132 --> 01:35:11.005 HEARD THIS MORNING AND WE VERY MUCH BELIEVE IN THOSE. 01:35:11.072 --> 01:35:14.008 I THINK THEY HAVE BEEN STATED VERY WELL. 01:35:14.075 --> 01:35:25.019 I WILL ALSO SAY THAT I REPRESENT THE OPINION OF 01:35:25.086 --> 01:35:27.988 FORMER CITY COUNCILMEMBER --I WANT TO FINISH BY SAYING THAT THE 01:35:28.055 --> 01:35:28.989 OTHER NAME FOR PIKE PLACE MARKET IS THE PUBLIC MARKET. I THINK THAT REALLY 01:35:29.056 --> 01:35:31.992 SAYS IT ALL. IT IS ALL ABOUT PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT 01:35:32.059 --> 01:35:37.998 TO ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THE MARKET. TO WORK THERE, TO BE 01:35:38.065 --> 01:35:44.004 A CITIZEN WHO IS INVOLVED IN THE MARKET ON A 01:35:44.071 --> 01:35:50.010 DAILY BASIS. AS SO MANY OF US ARE. 01:35:50.077 --> 01:35:56.016 I KNOW FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE HOW IMPORTANT SEISMIC UPGRADES CAN BE 01:35:56.083 --> 01:35:59.019 AS A DESIGN FEATURE. 01:35:59.086 --> 01:36:05.059 THEY CAN MAKE OR BREAK A HISTORIC BUILDING, AS I ONCE HAD 01:36:05.126 --> 01:36:09.997 AN OFFICE IN A HISTORIC BUILDING THAT HAD A SEISMIC UPGRADE. SO THANK 01:36:10.064 --> 01:36:17.004 YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY. 01:36:17.071 --> 01:36:20.007 >> SKIP KNOX FOLLOWED BY JOHN BRINK AND CARLA BECKER. SKIP. 01:36:20.074 --> 01:36:25.012 >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCILMEMBERS AND I HOPE 01:36:25.079 --> 01:36:26.013 THE MAYOR IS LISTENING TO OUR COMMENTARY THIS MORNING. I AM GOING TO CLAIM 01:36:26.080 --> 01:36:29.016 SENIORITY WITH THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO THE 01:36:29.083 --> 01:36:31.018 MARKET. MY MOTHER TOLD ME STORIES -- 01:36:31.085 --> 01:36:32.019 I SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT WORD. 01:36:32.086 --> 01:36:37.992 PARDON ME. 01:36:38.058 --> 01:36:40.995 I WAS RAISED AT THE END OF A DIRT ROAD IN OLYMPIA AND MY MOTHER TOLD 01:36:41.061 --> 01:36:43.998 ME STORIES ABOUT GOING TO THE MARKET WITH 01:36:44.064 --> 01:36:47.001 HER GRANDMOTHER TO BUY GROCERIES EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. SO WHEN I CAME TO 01:36:47.067 --> 01:36:52.006 SEATTLE HAD TO GO TO THE MARKET AND IT HAS BEEN 01:36:52.072 --> 01:36:55.009 ASSOCIATED EVER SINCE. OTHER SPEAKERS, ELOQUENT AS THEY HAVE BEEN, DON'T 01:36:55.075 --> 01:36:59.013 NEED ME TO AUGMENT WHAT THEY HAVE SAID ABOUT THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION. 01:36:59.079 --> 01:37:05.085 IT STINKS. I AM NOT SO CHARITABLE AS THEY HAVE BEEN 01:37:05.152 --> 01:37:07.988 IN REGARD TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS AND THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION. 01:37:08.055 --> 01:37:10.991 THEY HAVE OBSTRUCTED THE HISTORIC COMMISSION. 01:37:11.058 --> 01:37:15.996 THEY STALLED APPOINTMENTS TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE 01:37:16.063 --> 01:37:20.000 AND HAVE RUN AT HALF STAFF FOR TOO LONG. SO SIX MEMBERS ARE 01:37:20.067 --> 01:37:22.002 DOING THE WORK OF 12. 01:37:22.069 --> 01:37:25.005 THEY HAVE BEEN DISRESPECTFUL AND THAT IS THE BEST I CAN SAY ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT 01:37:25.072 --> 01:37:28.008 OF NEIGHBORHOODS. THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN DECEITFUL. WHEN ASKED 01:37:28.075 --> 01:37:34.014 IF THEY HAD LEGISLATION DRAFTED, THE ANSWER WAS NO. 01:37:34.081 --> 01:37:35.015 HAD IT GONE TO THE LAW DEPARTMENT? 01:37:35.082 --> 01:37:40.020 NO. HAD IT COME BACK FROM THE LAW DEPARTMENT. NO. 01:37:40.087 --> 01:37:41.021 HAD IT GONE TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE? 01:37:41.088 --> 01:37:43.991 NO. YET YOU ALL KNOW WHAT A PIPELINE MEMO IS AND IT SHOWS CLEARLY THAT 01:37:44.058 --> 01:37:51.999 THE LEGISLATION WAS EXISTING AND WAS NOT GIVEN 01:37:52.066 --> 01:37:53.000 TO ME AS A PUBLIC DISCLOSURE REQUEST. 01:37:53.067 --> 01:37:56.604 THIS DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE CUT OFF, GET A HAIRCUT, FRANKLY, FROM 01:37:56.670 --> 01:37:58.939 PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION. 01:37:59.006 --> 01:38:02.009 THANK YOU. 01:38:02.076 --> 01:38:04.011 >> JOHN BRINK'S FOLLOWED BY CARLA BECKER. 01:38:04.078 --> 01:38:07.014 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS JOHN BRINK. I OPERATE A 01:38:07.081 --> 01:38:11.018 TOUR OF BUSINESS IN THE MARKET. I HAVE BEEN IN THE MARKET 01:38:11.085 --> 01:38:14.021 SINCE 1989. 01:38:14.088 --> 01:38:16.991 I HAVE DONE A LOT OF THINGS IN THE MARKET, AS YOU 01:38:17.057 --> 01:38:18.993 CAN SEE. OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY IS HERE. 01:38:19.059 --> 01:38:21.996 I HOPE THE COUNCIL AND MAYOR CAN SEE THAT. EVERY CORNER OF THE MARKET IS 01:38:22.062 --> 01:38:23.998 HERE BECAUSE WE ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT CHANGES 01:38:24.064 --> 01:38:26.000 TO THIS DELICATE ECOSYSTEM. CERTAIN CHANGES CAN RUIN IT. IT IS LIKE A 01:38:26.066 --> 01:38:30.004 CORAL REEF. 01:38:30.070 --> 01:38:34.008 WE ARE REALLY CONCERNED AND WE DON'T 01:38:34.074 --> 01:38:37.011 NEED PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE MARKET TO COME IN AND MAKE 01:38:37.077 --> 01:38:39.013 CLOSED-DOOR DECISIONS ON OUR BEHALF. 01:38:39.079 --> 01:38:45.019 WE ARE GOOD GARDENERS OF THE MARKET. 01:38:45.085 --> 01:38:47.988 I THINK WE ARE DOING A GOOD JOB FOR THE PAST 50 YEARS AND THIS IS 01:38:48.055 --> 01:38:50.991 A TOTALLY UNNECESSARY STEP. A BIG OVERREACH. THE PANDEMIC IS OVER 01:38:51.058 --> 01:38:53.994 AND I THINK THE MARKET HAS BEEN HERE BEFORE US AND WILL HOPEFULLY EXIST 01:38:54.061 --> 01:38:56.997 AFTER US. 01:38:57.064 --> 01:38:58.999 IT IS ONE OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN MARKETS ON THE PLANET. WE WANT 01:38:59.066 --> 01:39:11.011 TO KEEP IT THIS WAY. THE PUBLIC MARKET IS UNIQUE TO SEATTLE 01:39:11.078 --> 01:39:12.012 AND WE WANT TO MAINTAIN ITS CHARACTER. 01:39:12.079 --> 01:39:14.014 I AGREE WITH EVERYONE ELSE. ONE AFTER THE OTHER SAID THE 01:39:14.081 --> 01:39:15.015 SAME THINGS, SO I AGREE. MAKE SURE THE 01:39:15.082 --> 01:39:16.750 HISTORIC COMMISSION MAINTAINS ITS OVERSIGHT, PLEASE. 01:39:16.817 --> 01:39:17.451 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:39:17.518 --> 01:39:21.021 >> CARLA BECKER FOLLOWED BY --SORRY. CARLA BECKER, CATHERINE HENNE 01:39:21.088 --> 01:39:29.997 AND KURT -- IS CARLA BECKER HERE? NO? OKAY, 01:39:30.064 --> 01:39:36.003 CATHERINE -- PLEASE GO 01:39:36.070 --> 01:39:38.005 AHEAD, CATHERINE. 01:39:38.072 --> 01:39:42.009 >> HI THERE, LET ME TALK AS FAST AS I CAN. 01:39:42.076 --> 01:39:44.011 MY NAME IS KATHY. 01:39:44.078 --> 01:39:51.018 I AM AN ARTIST AND AND COMMUNITY ADVOCATE AND A PIKE PLACE MARKET GROUPIE. ACCORDING 01:39:51.085 --> 01:39:54.988 TO A LOT OF THE FOUNDATION, 01:39:55.055 --> 01:39:58.992 PIKE PLACE MARKET HAS BEEN A DEFINING SEATTLE ICON FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. 01:39:59.059 --> 01:40:01.995 IT IS THE SOUL OF SEATTLE AND SPANS MORE THAN NINE 01:40:02.062 --> 01:40:04.998 BEAUTIFUL ACRES. IT IS A VIBRANT, STRONG, 01:40:05.065 --> 01:40:08.936 THRIVING NEIGHBORHOOD. COMPRISED OF SHOPS 01:40:09.002 --> 01:40:14.942 AND NEIGHBORHOODS. 70 FARMERS. 01:40:15.008 --> 01:40:17.945 450 RESIDENTS. 01:40:18.011 --> 01:40:26.954 PRESCHOOL, MEDICAL CLINIC, FOOD BANK. AND SO MUCH MORE. 01:40:27.020 --> 01:40:33.927 INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AS A TOP EXAMPLE OF HOW TO CONTRIBUTE. 01:40:33.994 --> 01:40:41.935 FREE HEALTHY COMMUNITY THROUGH SUPPORT, ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, NUTRITIOUS FOOD, 01:40:42.002 --> 01:40:45.939 EDUCATION AND CONNECTION. 01:40:46.006 --> 01:40:50.944 IT IS CRITICAL TO OUR ABILITY AND WE RESPONDED VERY WELL. 01:40:51.011 --> 01:40:57.951 THRIVING BETTER THAN EVER NOW. 01:40:58.018 --> 01:41:02.923 OUR COUNTRY HAS SEEN POLITICIANS POWER GRABBING AND USING DISHONESTY. 01:41:02.990 --> 01:41:06.927 MANY, MANY DECENTLY HARD-WORKING 01:41:06.994 --> 01:41:11.932 PEOPLES. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO THIS COUNCIL IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE, I 01:41:11.999 --> 01:41:17.938 ASK YOU TO REJECT THIS. 01:41:18.005 --> 01:41:23.944 WE WILL HELP YOU 01:41:24.011 --> 01:41:26.947 IN ANY WAY WE CAN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:41:27.014 --> 01:41:32.953 >> THANK YOU. OKAY, TWO MORE SPEAKERS. WE HAVE KURT FOLLOWED 01:41:33.020 --> 01:41:35.923 BY SHARON AND THAT WILL BE IT. PLEASE GO AHEAD. 01:41:35.989 --> 01:41:38.926 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS KURT -- AND AS YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL BY MY 01:41:38.992 --> 01:41:43.931 NAME, I AM THE OWNER AND FOUNDER AND ALSO THE OWNER OF 01:41:43.997 --> 01:41:44.932 THE BUILDING THAT FEATURES OPERATES IN. 01:41:44.998 --> 01:41:47.935 I AM REALLY PROUD TO STAND HERE AND TELL 01:41:48.001 --> 01:41:50.938 YOU THAT BEECHER'S IS GOING TO BE CELEBRATING 01:41:51.004 --> 01:41:53.941 ITS 20th ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR AS A CENTERPIECE 01:41:54.007 --> 01:41:58.946 OF THE MARKET. 01:41:59.012 --> 01:42:00.948 AS A BUSINESS PERSON AND PROPERTY OWNER IN THE MARKET, I 01:42:01.014 --> 01:42:05.953 CAN TELL YOU THAT IN THE BEGINNING I FOUND THE MARKET 01:42:06.019 --> 01:42:08.922 COMMISSION STRUCTURE SOMEWHAT FRUSTRATING, BECAUSE IT KEPT 01:42:08.989 --> 01:42:13.927 ME FROM DOING WHAT I WANTED TO DO. 01:42:13.994 --> 01:42:16.930 HOWEVER, OVER THE 20 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN OPERATING, 01:42:16.997 --> 01:42:19.933 I HAVE COME TO SEE THE MARKET COMMISSION AND HISTORICAL 01:42:20.000 --> 01:42:26.940 COMMISSION AS REALLY GENIUS FOR KEEPING THIS ASSET UNIQUE 01:42:27.007 --> 01:42:29.943 ON A WORLDWIDE BASIS. SO I AM IN COMPLETE SUPPORT 01:42:30.010 --> 01:42:32.946 OF MAINTAINING THE EXISTING STRUCTURE FOR MANAGING 01:42:33.013 --> 01:42:38.952 THE COMMISSION. THE MARKET. 01:42:39.019 --> 01:42:47.928 AND I WANT TO SAY, PLEASE DON'T FIX WHAT IS WORKING VERY, VERY WELL. 01:42:47.995 --> 01:42:50.931 >> GOOD MORNING. 01:42:50.998 --> 01:42:52.933 I AM SHARON SHAW. 01:42:53.000 --> 01:42:56.937 I HAVE THE TITLE OF THE MOTHER OF THE MARKET. 01:42:57.004 --> 01:43:02.943 MOST OF WHAT YOU SEE HERE TODAY WAS ORGANIZED 01:43:03.010 --> 01:43:05.946 IN LESS THAN THREE DAYS, SO IT IS A VERY SMALL EXAMPLE OF WHAT THIS 01:43:06.013 --> 01:43:09.950 COMMUNITY CAN DO AND WILL 01:43:10.017 --> 01:43:11.952 DO SHOULD THIS RIGHT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE HISTORICAL COMMITTEE. NOT 01:43:12.019 --> 01:43:14.922 A THREAT, JUST SAYING THAT YOU WILL HEAR FROM US 01:43:14.988 --> 01:43:17.925 IF THIS DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY. 01:43:17.991 --> 01:43:22.930 THE MARKET HAS AN INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY THAT SUPPORTS 01:43:22.996 --> 01:43:27.935 EACH OTHER, THAT TAKES CARE OF EACH OTHER, AND HAS 01:43:28.001 --> 01:43:32.940 DONE AN AMAZING JOB OF TAKING CARE OF THIS ENTIRE COMMUNITY DURING 01:43:33.006 --> 01:43:37.945 THE PANDEMIC. 01:43:38.011 --> 01:43:40.948 IN THAT TIME YOU GAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE THE DECISIONS FOR THE PIKE PLACE 01:43:41.014 --> 01:43:42.950 MARKET TO SOMEBODY WHO KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE 01:43:43.016 --> 01:43:44.952 MARKET. KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY. 01:43:45.018 --> 01:43:50.924 KNEW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT WE DO. 01:43:50.991 --> 01:43:53.927 WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE ABILITY TO HAVE PUBLIC 01:43:53.994 --> 01:43:56.930 COMMENT. THAT IS HOW THE MARKET WORKS. THAT IS HOW WE TAKE 01:43:56.997 --> 01:43:59.933 CARE OF EACH OTHER AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE CARE OF EACH 01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:06.006 OTHER IN THAT SAME MANNER, SO PLEASE CONSIDER THIS 01:44:06.073 --> 01:44:07.007 AS A VERY BAD IDEA, BASICALLY. WE NEED 01:44:07.074 --> 01:44:12.012 OUR HISTORICAL COMMISSION TO HAVE -- 01:44:12.079 --> 01:44:15.015 THAT IS NECESSARY. 01:44:15.082 --> 01:44:20.020 THANK YOU. 01:44:20.087 --> 01:44:26.994 >> OKAY, SO THIS CONCLUDES THE PUBLIC HEARING PERIOD. WE WILL MOVE INTO DISCUSSION. 01:44:27.060 --> 01:44:30.998 I AM GOING TO ASK SARA BELZ AND SARAH SODT FROM 01:44:31.064 --> 01:44:33.000 THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS. I WANT TO THANK BOTH OF YOU FOR WALKING 01:44:33.066 --> 01:44:42.009 US THROUGH THIS 01:44:42.075 --> 01:44:43.010 AND I AM GOING TO ALLOW COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS 01:44:43.076 --> 01:44:45.012 AS THE COUNCIL MEMBER REPRESENTING THE MARKET TO MAKE A FEW COMMENTS, 01:44:45.078 --> 01:44:48.015 BUT I DO WANT TO FIRST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT 01:44:48.081 --> 01:44:54.021 WE CLEARLY HAVE PASSIONATE ADVOCATES FOR THE MARKET HERE. WE HAVE A LOT 01:44:54.087 --> 01:44:58.992 OF CONCERNS EXPRESSED. I DO WANT TO ASK YOU NOT TO IMPUGN THE MOTIVES 01:44:59.059 --> 01:44:59.993 OF OUR CITY STAFF. WE HAVE A LOT OF DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANTS WHO ARE 01:45:00.060 --> 01:45:05.999 HERE TO DO THEIR BEST 01:45:06.066 --> 01:45:07.000 FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS, FOR COMMISSIONS, FOR 01:45:07.067 --> 01:45:11.004 ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CITY AND CALLING THEM DECEITFUL 01:45:11.071 --> 01:45:15.008 IS REALLY INAPPROPRIATE AND NOT WELCOME IN THIS CHAMBER. SO 01:45:15.075 --> 01:45:24.017 I AM GOING TO HAND IT TO COUNCILMEMBER 01:45:24.084 --> 01:45:26.019 LEWIS AND THEN I WILL HAND IT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS. 01:45:26.086 --> 01:45:29.990 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER MORALES. 01:45:30.057 --> 01:45:32.993 I ACTUALLY HAD A COUPLE OF CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND IT IS GOOD 01:45:33.060 --> 01:45:35.996 WE HAVE THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS HERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT. AS THE COUNCILMEMBER 01:45:36.063 --> 01:45:44.004 WHO REPRESENTS THE MARKET, ANY POLICY THAT HAS A POTENTIAL IMPACT 01:45:44.071 --> 01:45:47.007 ON THE MARKET IS SOMETHING THAT MY OFFICE TAKES A GREAT INTEREST 01:45:47.074 --> 01:45:51.011 IN. SO THIS MIGHT BE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS OR FOR LISH, BUT 01:45:51.078 --> 01:45:54.014 I WANT TO START TALKING ABOUT THE SCOPE OF THE LEGISLATION IN FRONT 01:45:54.081 --> 01:45:58.018 OF US, BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN 01:45:58.085 --> 01:46:00.020 SOME CONFLICTING THINGS AND WHAT HAS BEEN REPORTED AND DISCUSSED. THERE 01:46:00.087 --> 01:46:02.989 WAS A NOVEMBER 22 EDITORIAL ALLUDING TO THE ROLE 01:46:03.056 --> 01:46:07.994 OF THE HISTORIC COMMISSION, PARTICULARLY IN KEEPING 01:46:08.061 --> 01:46:08.995 THE CHARACTER AND KEEPING OUT CHAINS. 01:46:09.062 --> 01:46:14.000 I THINK THE EXAMPLE GIVEN 01:46:14.067 --> 01:46:18.004 AND THAT WAS THAT BURGER KING CAN'T GO IN THE MARKET. THE HISTORIC COMMISSION 01:46:18.071 --> 01:46:21.007 HAS BEEN AN EFFECTIVE BARRIER ON THAT. THAT WAS 01:46:21.074 --> 01:46:23.009 ALLUDED TO A LITTLE BIT IN PUBLIC COMMENT. I 01:46:23.076 --> 01:46:26.012 WANT TO ESTABLISH BEFORE WE GET DEEPER INTO THE DISCUSSION WHAT THE 01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:32.018 SCOPE IS OF THE CURRENTLY PROPOSED CHANGES, SO THAT WE LIMIT THE 01:46:32.085 --> 01:46:35.989 DISCUSSION TO WHAT THE CHANGES ACTUALLY ARE. 01:46:36.056 --> 01:46:44.998 SO WHY DON'T WE START WITH THAT AND THEN I HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS. 01:46:45.065 --> 01:46:48.001 >> SO, THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS. YES, THAT 01:46:48.068 --> 01:46:51.004 WILL BE ADDRESSED IN OUR PRESENTATION. 01:46:51.071 --> 01:46:57.010 BUT USE IS NOT A PROPOSED REVIEW, 01:46:57.077 --> 01:47:00.013 PROPOSED IN OUR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW LEGISLATION 01:47:00.080 --> 01:47:06.019 LATER TODAY. SO IF THERE WAS AN APPLICATION FOR A CHAIN IN 01:47:06.086 --> 01:47:09.990 THE MARKET, THAT WOULD GO TO THE COMMISSION. 01:47:10.056 --> 01:47:13.260 THAT WOULD NOT BE REVIEWED BY STAFF. 01:47:13.326 --> 01:47:14.928 DOES THAT CLARIFY? 01:47:14.995 --> 01:47:23.003 >> GIVEN THAT ME HAVING THE FLOOR 01:47:23.069 --> 01:47:26.006 RIGHT NOW SEEMS TO BE HOLDING US BACK FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF 01:47:26.072 --> 01:47:28.008 NEIGHBORHOODS PRESENTATION, WHAT I MIGHT RECOMMEND, MADAM CHAIR, IF THIS 01:47:28.074 --> 01:47:33.013 MEETS YOUR APPROVAL, THAT WE HAVE 01:47:33.079 --> 01:47:35.015 THE PRESENTATION AND I WOULD LIKE TO 01:47:35.081 --> 01:47:37.017 ASK THE CHAIR IF I COULD MAYBE BE RECOGNIZED FIRST AFTER THE PRESENTATION, 01:47:37.083 --> 01:47:40.020 BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE MY QUESTIONS MIGHT GET 01:47:40.086 --> 01:47:42.989 ANSWERED IN THE PRESENTATION. 01:47:43.056 --> 01:47:46.993 >> YEAH, LET'S GO AHEAD AND HAVE THE DEPARTMENT PRESENT. I 01:47:47.060 --> 01:47:50.997 THINK WE PROBABLY HAVE SIMILAR QUESTIONS, ESPECIALLY GIVEN 01:47:51.064 --> 01:47:52.999 SOME OF THE COMMENTS MADE TODAY, SO LET'S 01:47:53.066 --> 01:47:58.004 HEAR FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS AND THEN WE WILL MOVE TO DISCUSSION. 01:47:58.071 --> 01:48:01.007 THANK YOU. 01:48:01.074 --> 01:48:07.013 >> AND JUST AS BACKGROUND, WE ARE DEALING WITH 01:48:07.080 --> 01:48:10.016 SOME I.T. CHALLENGES THIS MORNING, SO WE ARE GOING TO BE 01:48:10.083 --> 01:48:13.019 SHARING HER SCREEN WITH THE PRESENTATION AND THEN 01:48:13.086 --> 01:48:16.990 USING THE CAMERA ON MY 01:48:17.057 --> 01:48:27.000 COMPUTER TO DISCUSS THE PRESENTATION WITH YOU. 01:48:27.067 --> 01:48:28.001 SO, MY NAME IS SARA BELZ AND I AM THE DIRECTOR OF THE 01:48:28.068 --> 01:48:33.006 DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY ASSETS COMMISSION. 01:48:33.073 --> 01:48:36.009 >> AND I AM SARAH SODT, THE CITY HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER. 01:48:36.076 --> 01:48:37.010 IN THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS. 01:48:37.077 --> 01:48:42.015 >> AND I THINK WE WILL MOVE 01:48:42.082 --> 01:48:45.018 RIGHT INTO THE PRESENTATION, SO HERE TODAY TO DISCUSS COUNCIL 01:48:45.085 --> 01:48:50.991 BILL 120456. WHICH WOULD IMPLEMENT SOME ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW PROCEDURES 01:48:51.057 --> 01:48:57.998 FOR THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM. 01:48:58.064 --> 01:49:01.001 AS SOME QUICK CONTEXT, BASELINE STUDYING 01:49:01.067 --> 01:49:09.009 FOR COUNCILMEMBERS, IN 2022 PIECES OF LEGISLATION PASSED AS PART 01:49:09.075 --> 01:49:11.011 OF THE CITY'S RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 01:49:11.077 --> 01:49:14.014 THAT PROVIDED THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS WITH TEMPORARY AUTHORITY 01:49:14.080 --> 01:49:18.018 TO PROCESS CERTAIN TYPES OF MINOR CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL APPLICATIONS, 01:49:18.084 --> 01:49:21.988 ADMINISTRATIVELY. THESE TEMPORARY PROVISIONS 01:49:22.055 --> 01:49:27.994 WILL EXPIRE ON DECEMBER 30 OF THIS MONTH, SO WE ARE ADVANCING 01:49:28.061 --> 01:49:34.000 THIS LEGISLATION TO ALLOW SOME OF THOSE TEMPORARY PROCEDURES 01:49:34.067 --> 01:49:36.002 TO BECOME MORE PERMANENTLY ENSHRINED IN 01:49:36.069 --> 01:49:40.006 MUNICIPAL CODE GOING FORWARD. ALSO AS A BIT OF 01:49:40.073 --> 01:49:44.010 CONTEXT EVEN PRIOR TO 2020 AND THE PANDEMIC, 01:49:44.077 --> 01:49:49.015 THE MUNICIPAL CODE PROVIDED SOME ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AUTHORITY 01:49:49.082 --> 01:49:51.017 FOR CERTAIN MINOR APPLICATION TYPES THAT WOULD 01:49:51.084 --> 01:49:56.990 HAVE OTHERWISE GONE THROUGH THE LANDMARK PRESERVATION BOARD. APPLICATIONS 01:49:57.057 --> 01:50:01.995 APPLIED TO LANDMARK SITES, AS WELL AS PROPERTIES WITHIN THE FORT LAWTON 01:50:02.062 --> 01:50:06.933 AND SAND POINT DISTRICTS, SO THE CITY DOES HAVE SOME HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 01:50:07.000 --> 01:50:12.939 AND EXPERIENCE MANAGING CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL APPLICATIONS, ADMINISTRATIVELY, 01:50:13.006 --> 01:50:15.942 PRIOR TO 2020. 01:50:16.009 --> 01:50:21.948 >> SO I AM GOING TO QUICKLY GO OVER SOME EXAMPLES. SO, EXAMPLES OF MINOR 01:50:22.015 --> 01:50:24.951 ALTERATIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ELIGIBLE UNDER 01:50:25.018 --> 01:50:30.924 THE COVID LEGISLATION ARE SIGNAGE, AWNINGS, STOREFRONT 01:50:30.991 --> 01:50:37.931 RENOVATIONS AND BUILDING SYSTEMS UPGRADES. 01:50:37.998 --> 01:50:40.934 CURRENTLY THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW DOES NOT COVER NEW 01:50:41.001 --> 01:50:45.939 CONSTRUCTION, DEMOLITION, AND MAJOR REDEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS. 01:50:46.006 --> 01:50:50.944 AND I LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT REGARDLESS 01:50:51.011 --> 01:50:53.947 OF WHETHER A COA IS HANDLED ADMINISTRATIVELY OR 01:50:54.014 --> 01:50:59.953 REVIEWED BY A BOARD OR COMMISSION, ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS AND 01:51:00.020 --> 01:51:05.925 ADOPTED GUIDELINES ARE ADHERED TO. 01:51:05.992 --> 01:51:08.928 COA OR CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS AND 01:51:08.995 --> 01:51:12.932 REVIEW TIMELINES ARE THE SAME REGARDLESS OF WHETHER AN APPLICATION IS SUBJECT 01:51:12.999 --> 01:51:15.935 TO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OR BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW. SO I JUST 01:51:16.002 --> 01:51:21.941 ALSO WANTED TO POINT OUT 01:51:22.008 --> 01:51:23.943 THAT THIS ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW IS SOMETHING 01:51:24.010 --> 01:51:28.948 THAT IS PRETTY STANDARD ACROSS THE UNITED STATES IN 01:51:29.015 --> 01:51:37.924 MUNICIPALITIES THAT ARE SIMILARLY SIZED AND URBAN TO US IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE. 01:51:37.991 --> 01:51:41.928 SO, THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, SAN ANTONIO, SAN FRANCISCO, 01:51:41.995 --> 01:51:42.929 DENVER, AND NEW YORK CITY ALL HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW PROCESSES THAT 01:51:42.996 --> 01:51:54.941 ARE CONDUCTED BY STAFF. 01:51:55.008 --> 01:51:56.943 SO SOME OF THE BENEFITS THAT WE SEE OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW IS 01:51:57.010 --> 01:51:59.946 THAT MINOR CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL DECISIONS CAN BE MADE 01:52:00.013 --> 01:52:03.950 MORE QUICKLY BY STAFF, WITHOUT THE NEED TO SCHEDULE 01:52:04.017 --> 01:52:06.953 A PUBLIC MEETING. 01:52:07.020 --> 01:52:12.926 AND THEN IT REALLY SIMPLIFIES AND MAKES LESS 01:52:12.992 --> 01:52:20.934 EXPENSIVE THE PROCESS FOR APPLICANTS, BECAUSE OF TIME SAVINGS. 01:52:21.000 --> 01:52:24.938 THEN THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS CAN FOCUS ON THOSE MORE 01:52:25.004 --> 01:52:27.941 COMPLEX APPLICATIONS, LIKE THE DEMOLITION APPLICATIONS OR LARGE, 01:52:28.007 --> 01:52:36.950 NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WITHIN HISTORIC DISTRICTS. 01:52:37.016 --> 01:52:39.953 >> SO, IN LATE 2021 AFTER THE TEMPORARY COVID PROCEDURES HAD 01:52:40.019 --> 01:52:45.925 BEEN IN PLACE FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF, 01:52:45.992 --> 01:52:51.931 ENGAGED A CONSULTANT, BROADVIEW PLANNING, TO COLLECT FEEDBACK ON THE TEMPORARY 01:52:51.998 --> 01:52:59.939 ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW PROCEDURES AND ASKED THEM TO CONNECT WITH BOARD 01:53:00.006 --> 01:53:05.945 MEMBERS, APPLICANTS, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, TO GET A REAL SENSE OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING 01:53:06.012 --> 01:53:09.949 ON THE GROUND AND HOW PEOPLE WERE RESPONDING TO IT. 01:53:10.016 --> 01:53:15.922 SO, BROADVIEW DID A SERIES OF STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS, SOME CASE STUDY ANALYSIS AND ALSO CREATED 01:53:15.989 --> 01:53:24.931 AN ONLINE COMMUNITY SURVEY AS PART OF THE ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS TO 01:53:24.998 --> 01:53:27.934 COLLECT INPUT. WHEN THEY WRAPPED UP THEIR WORK, THERE WERE 01:53:28.001 --> 01:53:30.937 SORT OF TWO GENERAL TAKEAWAYS FROM THEIR EFFORTS. THE FIRST WAS THAT 01:53:31.004 --> 01:53:35.942 SUPPORT FOR MAKING THE TEMPORARY REVIEW PROCEDURES PERMANENT 01:53:36.009 --> 01:53:39.946 WAS GENERALLY STRONG ACROSS THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS AND BOARDS, WITH 01:53:40.013 --> 01:53:45.952 THE EXCEPTION OF THE PIKE PLACE MARKET, WHERE THERE 01:53:46.019 --> 01:53:47.954 WAS MORE OF A MUTED RESPONSE. 01:53:48.021 --> 01:53:48.922 THE OTHER TAKE AWAY WAS THAT MORE CLARITY AND TRANSPARENCY ARE NEEDED 01:53:48.988 --> 01:53:54.928 IN TERMS OF BUSINESS PRACTICES FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW. 01:53:54.994 --> 01:53:57.931 THE NEXT SLIDE IS A GRAPHIC CREATED BY 01:53:57.997 --> 01:54:06.005 OUR CONSULTANT, SO YOU CAN SORT OF SEE THE OVERALL LEVEL OF SATISFACTION 01:54:06.072 --> 01:54:10.009 EXPRESSED BY FOLKS WITH AFFILIATIONS WITH THE VARIOUS HISTORIC BOARDS. 01:54:10.076 --> 01:54:16.015 I WILL NOTE THAT AFFILIATION DOES NOT JUST MEAN A BOARD 01:54:16.082 --> 01:54:22.021 MEMBER. IT COULD BE AN INDIVIDUAL THAT HAD AN APPLICATION 01:54:22.088 --> 01:54:24.991 THAT CAME BEFORE THE BOARD OR A REPRESENTATIVE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION 01:54:25.058 --> 01:54:26.993 WITHIN A HISTORIC DISTRICT. RESPONDENTS WERE ASKED 01:54:27.060 --> 01:54:30.997 TO SELECT A BOARD THEY WERE SORT OF MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH. YOU WILL 01:54:31.064 --> 01:54:40.006 SEE IN THE GRAPHIC THAT THE AVERAGE 01:54:40.073 --> 01:54:43.009 RANGE IS FROM 1 TO 5. THOSE WERE THE WEIGHTED CATEGORIES 01:54:43.076 --> 01:54:44.010 THAT RESPONDENTS COULD SELECT IN TERMS OF 01:54:44.077 --> 01:54:46.012 OVERALL SATISFACTION WITH ONE BEING THE LOWEST AND FIVE BEING THE HIGHEST. 01:54:46.079 --> 01:54:51.017 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PIKE PLACE MARKET, 01:54:51.084 --> 01:54:52.018 THE AVERAGE RESPONSES ACROSS THE VARIOUS BOARDS AND DISTRICTS IS GENERALLY 01:54:52.085 --> 01:54:57.991 AROUND THE FOUR RANGE AND IT WAS PIKE PLACE THAT 01:54:58.057 --> 01:55:05.999 HAD THE LOWER AVERAGE RESPONSE AT 2.6. 01:55:06.065 --> 01:55:11.004 SO, TAKING ALL OF THIS INFORMATION INTO ACCOUNT, 01:55:11.070 --> 01:55:17.010 WE DRAFTED COUNCIL BILL 120456, WHICH IS BEFORE 01:55:17.076 --> 01:55:19.012 YOU TODAY. 01:55:19.078 --> 01:55:23.016 THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION WOULD PERMANENTLY CODIFY MANY, THOUGH 01:55:23.082 --> 01:55:26.019 NOT ALL OF THE TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW 01:55:26.085 --> 01:55:30.990 PROVISIONS CURRENTLY IN PLACE FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION. 01:55:31.057 --> 01:55:31.991 WE REALLY TRIED TO TAKE A TAILORED APPROACH 01:55:32.058 --> 01:55:34.994 TO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW ACROSS THE CITY'S HISTORIC DISTRICTS TO BETTER 01:55:35.061 --> 01:55:37.997 REFLECT THEIR UNIQUE CIRCUMSTANCES AND CHARACTER. 01:55:38.064 --> 01:55:42.001 ATTACHED TO THE CENTRAL STAFF MEMO, 01:55:42.068 --> 01:55:47.006 LISH CREATED A REALLY HELPFUL AND DETAILED GRAPHIC 01:55:47.073 --> 01:55:54.013 --IT IS A MATRIX -- THAT SHOWS HOW ADMINISTRATIVE 01:55:54.080 --> 01:55:56.015 REVIEW IS APPLIED ACROSS EACH OF THE HISTORIC BOARDS AND DISTRICTS. YOU 01:55:56.082 --> 01:56:02.021 WILL SEE, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH THE LANDMARK PRESERVATION BOARD, 01:56:02.088 --> 01:56:05.992 INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL REVIEW DISTRICT, THE BOARDS THAT HAVE 01:56:06.059 --> 01:56:10.997 MUCH HIGHER LEVEL OF COMFORT WITH ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW 01:56:11.064 --> 01:56:14.000 AND ALSO TEND TO SEE MORE APPLICATIONS AND LARGER SCALE 01:56:14.067 --> 01:56:20.006 APPLICATIONS FOR THINGS LIKE RE-DEVELOPMENT AND NEW CONSTRUCTION. 01:56:20.073 --> 01:56:25.011 WE ARE PROPOSING A BROADER RANGE OF ADMINISTRATIVE 01:56:25.078 --> 01:56:29.015 REVIEW THAT WOULD BE PERMITTED IN THOSE DISTRICTS, IN ORDER TO ALLOW 01:56:29.082 --> 01:56:35.021 THE BOARDS TO FOCUS ON THE LARGER AND MORE TIME-CONSUMING APPLICATIONS 01:56:35.088 --> 01:56:37.990 THAT COME TO THEIR PLATES. 01:56:38.057 --> 01:56:40.993 WHEREAS FOR THE SMALLER BOARDS, LIKE PIKE PLACE MARKET AND BALLARD, 01:56:41.060 --> 01:56:46.999 WHERE THEY ARE NOT 01:56:47.066 --> 01:56:49.001 SEEING AS MANY OF THOSE LARGER SCALE APPLICATIONS, WE 01:56:49.068 --> 01:56:51.003 ARE PROPOSING THAT ONLY A SMALL NUMBER OF APPLICATION TYPES 01:56:51.070 --> 01:56:59.011 STILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND WE WANTED TO DIG IN A LITTLE BIT 01:56:59.078 --> 01:57:02.014 ON PIKE PLACE, SINCE WE ANTICIPATED THAT IS WHERE THE MAJORITY 01:57:02.081 --> 01:57:05.084 OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT WAS GOING TO COME FROM TODAY. SO THE 01:57:05.151 --> 01:57:08.020 SLIDE THAT IS UP NOW REALLY JUST PULLS OUT THE SPECIFIC 01:57:08.087 --> 01:57:11.991 CODE LANGUAGE THAT WOULD APPLY TO PIKE PLACE 01:57:12.058 --> 01:57:17.997 MARKET, WITH REGARD TO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW. 01:57:18.064 --> 01:57:21.000 SO THERE ARE ONLY FOUR APPLICATION TYPES THAT WE ARE PROPOSING BE SUBJECT 01:57:21.067 --> 01:57:23.002 TO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW FOR THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORIC DISTRICT GOING 01:57:23.069 --> 01:57:29.008 FORWARD. THE FIRST IS APPLICATIONS RELATING TO BASICALLY 01:57:29.075 --> 01:57:33.012 BUILDING SYSTEMS. YOU KNOW, CHANGES AND ALTERATIONS OR INSTALLATIONS. SO, 01:57:33.079 --> 01:57:38.017 THINGS LIKE MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ELEMENTS, HVAC SYSTEMS, THINGS 01:57:38.084 --> 01:57:40.019 LIKE THAT. 01:57:40.086 --> 01:57:45.992 SECOND IS IMPROVEMENTS FOR ACCESSIBILITY COMPLIANCE. 01:57:46.058 --> 01:57:49.996 SO THESE ARE INCLUDING, BUT I GUESS NOT LIMITED, TO ADA 01:57:50.062 --> 01:57:51.998 TYPE ENHANCEMENTS. 01:57:52.064 --> 01:57:54.000 INSTALLATION AND ALTERATION OF FIRE AND LIFE 01:57:54.066 --> 01:57:59.005 SAFETY EQUIPMENT AND THE FOURTH IS ALTERATIONS OR CHANGES TO SEISMIC IMPROVEMENTS. 01:57:59.071 --> 01:58:04.010 OUR INTEREST IS TO TRY TO HAVE 01:58:04.076 --> 01:58:09.015 THIS CORE SET OF TECHNICAL APPLICATION TYPES HANDLED CONSISTENTLY 01:58:09.081 --> 01:58:11.017 ACROSS THE CITY, BY CITY EMPLOYEES. 01:58:11.083 --> 01:58:16.989 OUR THOUGHT BEING THAT THAT CAN PROVIDE 01:58:17.056 --> 01:58:22.995 A GREATER SENSE OF PREDICTABILITY AND CONSISTENCY FOR APPLICANTS, 01:58:23.062 --> 01:58:28.000 TO HAVE ALL OF THOSE APPLICATIONS HANDLED BY CITY STAFF. 01:58:28.067 --> 01:58:36.008 THAT INCLUDES THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION SPECIALISTS AND ALSO STAFF WITHIN SDOT, UTILITIES, 01:58:36.075 --> 01:58:41.013 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, SDCI, THAT THEY WORK WITH 01:58:41.080 --> 01:58:43.015 WHEN PROCESSING THESE TECHNICAL TYPES OF 01:58:43.082 --> 01:58:45.017 APPLICATIONS. ALL OTHER APPLICATION TYPES, SIGNAGE, 01:58:45.084 --> 01:58:49.989 AWNING INSTALLATIONS, USE REVIEW, NEW CONSTRUCTION, 01:58:50.056 --> 01:58:50.990 ALL OF THAT STUFF WOULD STILL BE REFERRED TO THE 01:58:51.057 --> 01:58:55.995 PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORICAL COMMISSION FOR FULL BOARD REVIEW. 01:58:56.062 --> 01:59:02.001 >> SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES 01:59:02.068 --> 01:59:07.006 OF ADMINISTRATIVE OR ITEMS THAT WOULD BE REVIEWED ADMINISTRATIVELY 01:59:07.073 --> 01:59:12.011 AND THEN WOULD NOT. SO THIS FIRST IS A 01:59:12.078 --> 01:59:17.016 SIGN APPLICATION THAT WAS REVIEWED ADMINISTRATIVELY AT THE STANDARD BUILDING ON FIRST 01:59:17.083 --> 01:59:22.021 AVENUE AND IT WAS FOR NEW BUSINESS SIGNAGE AND IT WAS 01:59:22.088 --> 01:59:25.992 A NEW BUSINESS TENANT COMING IN AND THEY APPLIED 01:59:26.058 --> 01:59:30.997 FOR SIGNAGE, BASICALLY IN THE SAME LOCATION WHERE THE PREVIOUS TENANT HAD 01:59:31.063 --> 01:59:38.004 HAD SIGNAGE. SO IT WAS SWITCHING OUT THE SIGNAGE FOR THE OLD, EXITING 01:59:38.070 --> 01:59:42.008 TENANT, WITH THE NEW TENANT. SO YOU WILL SEE 01:59:42.074 --> 01:59:50.016 SOME APPLIED VINYL SIGNAGE ON THE TRANSOM WINDOW AND THEN 01:59:50.082 --> 01:59:53.019 A BLADE SIGN THAT WAS INSTALLED IN THE SAME LOCATION AS 01:59:53.085 --> 01:59:55.988 THE PREVIOUS LINE. SO THEY WERE BASICALLY JUST 01:59:56.055 --> 01:59:57.990 SWITCHING OUT SIGN FACES. 01:59:58.057 --> 02:00:01.994 THAT WAS REVIEWED ADMINISTRATIVELY AND IS 02:00:02.061 --> 02:00:04.997 A PRETTY TYPICAL EXAMPLE. 02:00:05.064 --> 02:00:08.935 AND THEN HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A 02:00:09.001 --> 02:00:13.940 PROJECT THAT WENT TO THE LANDMARK PRESERVATION BOARD FOR REVIEW 02:00:14.006 --> 02:00:16.943 AND THIS IS THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH 02:00:17.009 --> 02:00:19.946 GARFIELD EXCHANGE. 02:00:20.012 --> 02:00:24.951 AND IT IS 02:00:25.017 --> 02:00:27.954 A BUILDING THAT WAS A TELEGRAPH EXCHANGE, BUT HAS 02:00:28.020 --> 02:00:31.924 BEEN CONVERTED TO HOUSING AND PART OF 02:00:31.991 --> 02:00:34.927 THAT CONVERSION WAS ADDING A PENTHOUSE, SO, SOME ADDITIONAL UNITS 02:00:34.994 --> 02:00:37.930 ON THE UPPER LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. AS 02:00:37.997 --> 02:00:43.936 WELL AS REPLACING SOME WINDOWS 02:00:44.003 --> 02:00:48.941 AND THE ENTRY. SO, THIS WAS REVIEWED AND 02:00:49.008 --> 02:00:52.945 APPROVED BY THE LANDMARKS PRESERVATION BOARD AT A PUBLIC MEETING. 02:00:53.012 --> 02:00:58.951 SO, ANOTHER THING THAT WE HAVE BEEN THINKING 02:00:59.018 --> 02:01:04.991 A LOT ABOUT HIS TRANSPARENCY AND SOME BUSINESS 02:01:05.057 --> 02:01:07.927 PRACTICE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE CAN MAKE, THOUGHTFULLY, AND 02:01:07.994 --> 02:01:10.930 NOT IN A RESPONSE TO AN EMERGENCY, LIKE 02:01:10.997 --> 02:01:13.933 DURING COVID. 02:01:14.000 --> 02:01:16.936 SO, BECAUSE TRANSPARENCY IS DEFINITELY A CONCERN OF OURS AND 02:01:17.003 --> 02:01:22.942 WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND THAT AND MAKE 02:01:23.009 --> 02:01:25.945 THE PROCESSES AS ACCESSIBLE TO FOLKS AS POSSIBLE. 02:01:26.012 --> 02:01:31.951 SO, ONE THOUGHT THAT WE HAD WAS PUBLISHING NOTICES OF DECISION 02:01:32.018 --> 02:01:35.921 BY EMAIL ON OUR 02:01:35.988 --> 02:01:37.923 WEBSITE AND I HAVE ALREADY STARTED TALKING TO I.T. ABOUT HOW WE MIGHT 02:01:37.990 --> 02:01:42.928 GO ABOUT DOING THAT. AND 02:01:42.995 --> 02:01:46.932 ALSO UPDATING OUR INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR APPLICANTS, 02:01:46.999 --> 02:01:49.935 WITH MORE CLARITY AROUND WHAT IT MEANS 02:01:50.002 --> 02:01:55.941 TO BE ADMINISTRATIVELY REVIEWED 02:01:56.008 --> 02:01:58.944 AND WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE FULL BOARD REVIEW. 02:01:59.011 --> 02:02:06.952 AND SOMETHING WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED IS HAVING A STANDING ITEM 02:02:07.019 --> 02:02:10.923 ON THE BOARD AND COMMISSION AGENDAS. 02:02:10.990 --> 02:02:13.926 ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS THAT HAVE NOT HAD 02:02:13.993 --> 02:02:19.932 A HISTORY OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW. 02:02:19.999 --> 02:02:25.938 SO THERE IS A STANDING ITEM WHERE THERE ARE REGULAR STAFF REPORTS, 02:02:26.005 --> 02:02:31.944 WHERE STAFF REPORTS BACK AS TO WHAT THEY HAVE REVIEWED ADMINISTRATIVELY. 02:02:32.011 --> 02:02:33.813 AND THAT IS IT. 02:02:33.879 --> 02:02:35.548 ANY QUESTIONS? 02:02:35.614 --> 02:02:45.925 >> THANK YOU --I APPRECIATE 02:02:45.991 --> 02:02:46.926 THAT LAST SLIDE, BECAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF MY QUESTIONS, WHAT KIND OF 02:02:46.992 --> 02:02:49.929 CHANGES ARE BEING CONTEMPLATED TO INCREASE 02:02:49.995 --> 02:02:52.932 TRANSPARENCY FOR THE PROCESS, SO PEOPLE ARE MORE AWARE OF 02:02:52.998 --> 02:02:57.937 WHAT IS HAPPENING? COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS, I WILL HAND IT BACK TO 02:02:58.003 --> 02:02:59.939 YOU. WE PROBABLY HAVE THE SAME QUESTIONS. 02:03:00.005 --> 02:03:01.941 PLEASE GO AHEAD. 02:03:02.007 --> 02:03:03.943 >> LET'S SEE. WE CAN COMPARE NOTES LATER IF MY 02:03:04.009 --> 02:03:09.949 QUESTIONS ARE THE SAME. SO, THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION. SO, 02:03:10.015 --> 02:03:13.953 I DO HAVE MY QUESTIONS SATISFIED AS TO THE SCOPE AND THAT 02:03:14.019 --> 02:03:17.923 WAS VERY CLEAR AND I APPRECIATE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS MAKING THAT 02:03:17.990 --> 02:03:20.926 CLEAR. DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE CURRENT 02:03:20.993 --> 02:03:23.929 CASELOAD OF THE PIKE PLACE MARKET HISTORIC COMMISSION 02:03:23.996 --> 02:03:28.934 THESE CHANGES REPRESENT? IT WOULD BE MAYBE MY FIRST QUESTION. 02:03:29.001 --> 02:03:31.937 HOW MUCH OF THEIR WORK IS TAKEN UP WITH THINGS THAT WOULD 02:03:32.004 --> 02:03:32.938 FALL WITHIN THESE AREAS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW? 02:03:33.005 --> 02:03:38.944 >> SO, I DON'T HAVE 02:03:39.011 --> 02:03:42.948 THE STATISTICS FOR WHAT THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION, 02:03:43.015 --> 02:03:45.951 HOW THAT WOULD IMPACT WHAT GOES TO THE BOARD 02:03:46.018 --> 02:03:53.926 OR WHAT IS REVIEWED BY STAFF, BUT I CAN GIVE YOU 2022. SO, 02:03:53.993 --> 02:03:56.929 THIS YEAR, UNDER THE COVID LEGISLATION, WENT 02:03:56.996 --> 02:04:00.933 TO THE COMMISSION, VERSUS WHAT WAS REVIEWED BY THE STAFF. 02:04:01.000 --> 02:04:02.935 FOR THE PIKE PLACE MARKET COMMISSION, I BELIEVE THERE WERE 31 APPLICATIONS 02:04:03.002 --> 02:04:09.008 REVIEWED BY THE COMMISSION AT A PUBLIC MEETING 02:04:09.074 --> 02:04:12.011 AND THEN FOR APPLICATIONS THAT WERE ADMINISTRATIVELY 02:04:12.077 --> 02:04:15.581 REVIEWED BY STAFF FOR THIS YEAR, UNDER THE 02:04:15.648 --> 02:04:16.782 COVID RULES. 02:04:16.849 --> 02:04:24.990 >> SO IT SOUNDS LIKE IT IS 02:04:25.057 --> 02:04:26.992 A FAIRLY --AMOUNT OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEWS RELATIVE TO THE TOTAL CASELOAD 02:04:27.059 --> 02:04:28.994 OF THE COMMISSION. 02:04:29.061 --> 02:04:36.001 >> YES. >> PARTICULARLY GIVEN THAT THE PROPOSED PROVISIONS ARE MORE 02:04:36.068 --> 02:04:39.004 LIMITED IN SCOPE THAN THE TEMPORARY PROVISIONS. 02:04:39.071 --> 02:04:44.009 >> ONE THING I FEEL LIKE 02:04:44.076 --> 02:04:47.012 I SHOULD POINT OUT, TOO, IS THAT IF THERE IS AN APPLICATION 02:04:47.079 --> 02:04:51.016 THAT STAFF FEELS DOES NOT MEET THE GUIDELINES OR THE RULES, 02:04:51.083 --> 02:04:55.020 THEY WILL FORWARD THAT TO THE COMMISSION. 02:04:55.087 --> 02:05:02.995 SO THERE IS THAT FLEXIBILITY, TOO. 02:05:03.062 --> 02:05:05.064 >> HAS THERE BEEN, MOVING TO AN ADDITIONAL QUESTION, HAS THERE 02:05:05.130 --> 02:05:09.001 BEEN A REQUEST FROM THE HISTORIC COMMISSION AS 02:05:09.068 --> 02:05:13.005 AN INSTITUTION TO 02:05:13.072 --> 02:05:15.007 HAVE THESE PARTICULAR AREAS CONTINUE TO BE REVIEWED ADMINISTRATIVELY? IS 02:05:15.074 --> 02:05:24.016 THIS SOMETHING THEY HAVE ASKED FOR? LIKE, DOES 02:05:24.083 --> 02:05:29.989 THIS POSE A BURDEN ON THEIR CURRENT OPERATIONS? IF IT IS FOR APPLICATIONS 02:05:30.055 --> 02:05:35.995 --IT DOESN'T REALLY SOUND LIKE AN ESSENTIAL REALLOCATION OF LABOR 02:05:36.061 --> 02:05:38.998 FOR THE VIABILITY OF THEIR CASELOAD. SO I JUST WANTED CLARIFICATION 02:05:39.064 --> 02:05:45.004 ON IF THEY HAVE WEIGHED IN. 02:05:45.070 --> 02:05:51.010 >> THEY HAVE WEIGHED IN AND 02:05:51.076 --> 02:05:59.018 I THINK IT IS SAFE TO SAY THEY DID NOT WANT ANY ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW. 02:05:59.084 --> 02:06:02.988 >> RIGHT, SO I GUESS WHERE IT SORT OF COMES DOWN THEN FOR 02:06:03.055 --> 02:06:08.994 ME IS IF IT IS A FAIRLY MINIMAL LEVEL OF THINGS THAT WOULD GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW 02:06:09.061 --> 02:06:15.000 AND THE INSTITUTION IS NOT REQUESTING IT AND THE COMMUNITY IS 02:06:15.067 --> 02:06:20.005 CLEARLY NOT REQUESTING IT, THEN THIS WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE 02:06:20.072 --> 02:06:23.008 AREA TO BE CARVED OUT OF THE UNDERLYING LEGISLATION. I THINK DURING 02:06:23.075 --> 02:06:27.012 THE PRESENTATION, THE PANEL INDICATED THAT 02:06:27.079 --> 02:06:30.015 THERE WAS A MORE MUTED RESPONSE FROM THE PIKE 02:06:30.082 --> 02:06:33.018 PLACE MARKET COMMUNITY AND CANVASSING THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS. 02:06:33.085 --> 02:06:36.021 I THINK THAT IS A COLOSSAL UNDERSTATEMENT 02:06:36.088 --> 02:06:41.994 OF THE CONCERN THAT FOLKS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE FEELING 02:06:42.061 --> 02:06:44.997 AND I AM NOT IMPUGNING ILL INTENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS 02:06:45.064 --> 02:06:48.000 ON THIS. 02:06:48.067 --> 02:06:51.003 I DO THINK THAT SEEKING AREAS FOR STREAMLINING 02:06:51.070 --> 02:06:55.007 ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW IS A GOOD POLICY AND IT SEEMS LIKE 02:06:55.074 --> 02:06:57.009 IN MOST OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS WHERE THIS IS BEEN CRAFTED, IT IS 02:06:57.076 --> 02:07:02.014 A VIABLE POLICY. BUT THE MARKET IS A VERY 02:07:02.081 --> 02:07:07.019 UNIQUE COMMUNITY, AS WE ALL HEARD TODAY AND IT 02:07:07.086 --> 02:07:09.021 IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE TO REPRESENT THAT COMMUNITY. WHILE I HAVE A LOT 02:07:09.088 --> 02:07:13.993 OF RESPECT FOR THE WORK 02:07:14.059 --> 02:07:14.994 THAT WENT INTO CRAFTING THIS, AS A COUNCILMEMBER I AM GUIDED BY WHAT 02:07:15.060 --> 02:07:19.999 IS BEING REQUESTED BY CONSTITUENTS 02:07:20.065 --> 02:07:21.000 AND NOT NECESSARILY WHAT IS BEING PROMULGATED FROM DEPARTMENTS AS WHERE 02:07:21.066 --> 02:07:24.003 I WEIGH IN ON MY PREFERENCES. GIVEN THE CONFIRMATION 02:07:24.069 --> 02:07:32.011 THAT THIS IS A SMALL PART OF THE OVERALL CASELOAD 02:07:32.077 --> 02:07:33.012 AND THE COMMISSION ITSELF IS NOT REQUESTING THIS CHANGE IN DOESN'T THINK THEY 02:07:33.078 --> 02:07:37.016 NEED IT TO OPERATE EFFECTIVELY, 02:07:37.082 --> 02:07:42.021 I AM JUST ANNOUNCING RIGHT NOW, TODAY, AND I WANT TO GIVE INSTRUCTION TO 02:07:42.087 --> 02:07:44.990 LISH THAT I WILL BE SEEKING AN AMENDMENT 02:07:45.057 --> 02:07:47.993 TO CARVE THE MARKET OUT AND I DO THINK THAT 02:07:48.060 --> 02:07:50.996 IS THE APPROPRIATE COURSE OF ACTION TO TAKE. IT IS NOT A COMMENT ON THE 02:07:51.063 --> 02:07:53.999 DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT I THINK IT IS SOMETHING AS WE SEE HOW 02:07:54.066 --> 02:07:57.002 THIS WORKS IN OTHER HISTORIC DISTRICTS WHERE THE PROPOSAL WILL GO THROUGH 02:07:57.069 --> 02:08:03.008 AND WHERE IT IS BEING GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED, THAT THE MARKET COMMUNITY 02:08:03.075 --> 02:08:06.011 CAN PERHAPS LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE OF HOW 02:08:06.078 --> 02:08:12.017 IT IS APPLIED IN OTHER PLACES AND AT A FUTURE DATE, CONSIDER 02:08:12.084 --> 02:08:15.020 EXTENDING THIS PRACTICE TO THEIR WORK. BUT IT DOES NOT SOUND 02:08:15.087 --> 02:08:17.990 LIKE THERE WILL BE AN UNDUE BURDEN IN CARVING 02:08:18.057 --> 02:08:21.994 THEM OUT AND IT IS NOTABLE THAT IN PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY, WE DID NOT 02:08:22.061 --> 02:08:26.999 HEAR FROM ANY OTHER DISTRICT CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACT. 02:08:27.066 --> 02:08:30.002 WE DID OVERWHELMINGLY HEAR FROM THE PIKE PLACE MARKET COMMUNITY THAT THIS 02:08:30.069 --> 02:08:37.009 IS SOMETHING OF GREAT CONCERN AND SOMETHING 02:08:37.076 --> 02:08:39.011 THAT THEY WOULD RATHER, AT THIS TIME, NOT HAVE APPLIED TO THE PIKE PLACE 02:08:39.078 --> 02:08:42.014 MARKET HISTORIC COMMISSION. SO I DO WANT 02:08:42.081 --> 02:08:45.017 TO FLAG THAT FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC AND 02:08:45.084 --> 02:08:49.021 FOR CENTRAL STAFF THAT WHEN THIS COMES UP AGAIN IN THE NEW YEAR, I AM, BASED 02:08:49.088 --> 02:08:51.623 ON ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS TODAY, GOING TO SEEK AN AMENDMENT 02:08:51.690 --> 02:08:53.425 TO REMOVE THE MARKET FROM THIS LEGISLATION. 02:08:53.492 --> 02:08:56.995 SO I DO THINK THE PANEL FOR THEIR ANSWERS 02:08:57.062 --> 02:08:59.998 AND ON THE WHOLE, THANK THEM FOR LEGISLATION 02:09:00.065 --> 02:09:03.001 THAT DOES SEEM WELL TAILORED TO THE NEEDS OF 02:09:03.068 --> 02:09:09.007 OTHER DISTRICTS WHERE IT IS ANTICIPATED TO APPLY. 02:09:09.074 --> 02:09:14.012 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS. 02:09:14.079 --> 02:09:18.016 MY QUESTIONS WERE ALONG A SIMILAR VEIN, BUT MAYBE THE FLIPSIDE 02:09:18.083 --> 02:09:21.019 OF THE COIN AND I CAN FOLLOW UP LATER, BUT I WOULD BE INTERESTED 02:09:21.086 --> 02:09:26.992 TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOUR 02:09:27.059 --> 02:09:29.995 ITEMS. STAFF REFERENCED A TABLE THAT LISH CREATED WHICH I WOULD ENCOURAGE 02:09:30.062 --> 02:09:31.997 EVERYBODY TO LOOK AT. 02:09:32.064 --> 02:09:39.004 IT LISTS THE 28 DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF POTENTIAL CHANGE, ALONG WITH THE 02:09:39.071 --> 02:09:42.007 EIGHT DIFFERENT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. 02:09:42.074 --> 02:09:54.019 DISTRICTS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO THIS LEGISLATION. SO, OF THE 28, 02:09:54.086 --> 02:09:56.989 FOUR WOULD APPLY TO THE MARKET. MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, 02:09:57.055 --> 02:10:02.995 TELECOM ELEMENTS, FIRE AND SAFETY, AS MENTIONED, ACCESSIBILITY, AND SEISMIC. 02:10:03.061 --> 02:10:08.934 WHICH, NOT BEING AN ENGINEER, I WILL SAY 02:10:09.001 --> 02:10:11.937 SEEM FAIRLY, YOU KNOW, SEEM LIKE THESE ARE TYPICAL THINGS THAT BUILDINGS 02:10:12.004 --> 02:10:17.943 MUST HAVE IN ORDER TO ADDRESS SAFETY IN A BUILDING 02:10:18.010 --> 02:10:20.946 AND SAFETY FOR PEOPLE INSIDE THE BUILDING. SO I WOULD JUST LIKE 02:10:21.013 --> 02:10:23.949 A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THOSE 02:10:24.016 --> 02:10:29.922 RELATE TO THE HISTORIC NATURE OF THE MARKET, 02:10:29.988 --> 02:10:32.925 RATHER THAN SIMPLY GETTING THE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS 02:10:32.991 --> 02:10:36.929 NECESSARY FOR THE BUILDING AND MORE QUICKLY, PRESUMABLY, THROUGH 02:10:36.995 --> 02:10:42.935 AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS. 02:10:43.001 --> 02:10:46.939 SO, MORE DISCUSSION. WE WILL NOT BE VOTING ON THIS BILL TODAY, 02:10:47.005 --> 02:10:52.945 SO THERE IS TIME, ESPECIALLY IF COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS WILL BE BRINGING AN AMENDMENT, 02:10:53.011 --> 02:10:53.946 FOR US TO CONTINUE DISCUSSING THIS. 02:10:54.012 --> 02:10:58.951 COUNCILMEMBER NELSON, THESE GO AHEAD. 02:10:59.017 --> 02:11:00.953 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. FIRST I WANT TO THANK DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS 02:11:01.019 --> 02:11:02.921 FOR STEPPING UP DURING THE PANDEMIC TO 02:11:02.988 --> 02:11:04.990 MOVE FORWARD THESE APPLICATIONS AT A TIME WHEN 02:11:05.057 --> 02:11:10.929 PUBLIC MEETINGS COULD NOT TAKE PLACE. 02:11:10.996 --> 02:11:15.934 SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU STEPPED UP DURING THE EMERGENCY. THAT WAS 02:11:16.001 --> 02:11:18.937 REALLY IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF THESE DISTRICTS. I REALLY 02:11:19.004 --> 02:11:21.940 APPRECIATE, CHAIR, THAT WE ARE NOT MAKING A DECISION 02:11:22.007 --> 02:11:24.943 RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER QUESTIONS I MIGHT HAVE. 02:11:25.010 --> 02:11:27.946 JUST BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE CAME OUT TODAY, 02:11:28.013 --> 02:11:30.949 I DO FEEL COMPELLED TO TELL YOU WHERE MY MIND IS AT AND WHAT WOULD 02:11:31.016 --> 02:11:33.952 BE INFLUENCING MY DECISION. 02:11:34.019 --> 02:11:39.925 BASICALLY, FIRST OF ALL, THE MAYOR ENDED THE STATE OF EMERGENCY. 02:11:39.992 --> 02:11:45.931 I AM, I THINK THAT IT IS GOOD GOVERNANCE TO GO BACK TO 02:11:45.998 --> 02:11:48.934 PRE-PANDEMIC POLICY MAKING BECAUSE OF THE END OF THE EMERGENCY. 02:11:49.001 --> 02:11:51.937 THAT IS SORT OF MY PERSPECTIVE ACROSS THE BOARD ON ALL OF 02:11:52.004 --> 02:11:55.941 THE PANDEMIC ERA 02:11:56.008 --> 02:12:06.952 LEGISLATION THAT CHANGED PROCESSES. SO, SECOND OF ALL, THIS IS ALWAYS MY FALLBACK. 02:12:07.019 --> 02:12:09.921 IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT. OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID THIS 02:12:09.988 --> 02:12:12.924 AND IT IS CLEAR THAT THE CAPABILITIES REPRESENTED 02:12:12.991 --> 02:12:18.930 IN THIS ROOM FOR MAKING SURE THE 02:12:18.997 --> 02:12:23.935 MARKET IS SEISMICALLY SOUND AND THE OTHER 02:12:24.002 --> 02:12:30.942 TECHNICAL CHANGES THAT THIS WOULD INFLUENCE HAVE BEEN HANDLED VERY 02:12:31.009 --> 02:12:33.945 ABLY BY THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM AND IN THE COMMUNITY. FINALLY, MOST 02:12:34.012 --> 02:12:36.948 IMPORTANT TO MY DECISION IS BASICALLY WHAT CONSTITUENTS WANT 02:12:37.015 --> 02:12:41.953 AND SOMETIMES THAT IS HARD TO GET AT. BECAUSE 02:12:42.020 --> 02:12:43.922 WHO CAN COME TO A MEETING AND WHO IS REALLY 02:12:43.989 --> 02:12:45.924 PAYING ATTENTION? IN THIS CASE IT IS CLEAR THAT THERE IS UNANIMOUS SUPPORT 02:12:45.991 --> 02:12:51.930 FOR MOVING THIS 02:12:51.997 --> 02:12:58.937 --SO THAT IS WHAT IS INFLUENCING MY DECISION AND I APPRECIATE THE 02:12:59.004 --> 02:13:00.939 COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS HAS SIGNALED HE IS PUTTING FORWARD AN AMENDMENT AND 02:13:01.006 --> 02:13:06.945 I AM LIKELY TO SUPPORT THAT. SO, THAT IS 02:13:07.012 --> 02:13:09.948 WHERE I AM COMING FROM AND I APPRECIATE THE SLIDE OF THE 02:13:10.015 --> 02:13:12.951 GRAPH SHOWING SATISFACTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF 02:13:13.018 --> 02:13:17.923 NEIGHBORHOODS WORK DURING THE PANDEMIC 02:13:17.989 --> 02:13:21.927 OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES THAT THE DEPARTMENT 02:13:21.993 --> 02:13:23.929 HAS PROVIDED. 02:13:23.995 --> 02:13:25.931 I AM WONDERING, AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS OFF-LINE, 02:13:25.997 --> 02:13:29.935 BUT IT IS STRIKING TO ME THAT ONLY ONE DISTRICT HAS REALLY VOICED OPPOSITION 02:13:30.001 --> 02:13:33.939 TO THIS AND I AM WONDERING IF THE QUESTION 02:13:34.005 --> 02:13:35.941 WAS PUT TO THE OTHERS. 02:13:36.007 --> 02:13:43.949 DO YOU WANT TO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW --DO YOU 02:13:44.015 --> 02:13:45.951 WANT THE EMERGENCY LEGISLATION TO CARRY FORWARD WHEN IT COMES TO ADMINISTRATIVE 02:13:46.017 --> 02:13:50.922 REVIEW? BECAUSE THAT IS DIFFERENT 02:13:50.989 --> 02:13:52.924 THAN SAYING YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH HOW WELL THE DEPARTMENT OF 02:13:52.991 --> 02:13:54.926 NEIGHBORHOODS HAS SERVED THESE DISTRICTS. 02:13:54.993 --> 02:13:57.929 SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:13:57.996 --> 02:14:00.932 >> THANK YOU. 02:14:00.999 --> 02:14:06.004 I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. 02:14:06.071 --> 02:14:13.011 DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, ANY FINAL COMMENTS? 02:14:13.078 --> 02:14:19.017 LISH, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANTED TO COMMENT ON? OKAY, 02:14:19.084 --> 02:14:22.020 AS I SAID WE WON'T BE VOTING ON THIS TODAY. THE NEXT MEETING OF THIS 02:14:22.087 --> 02:14:24.990 COMMITTEE WILL BE JANUARY 27. 02:14:25.056 --> 02:14:27.993 WE HAVE HAD TO CANCEL OUR JANUARY 13 MEETING, 02:14:28.059 --> 02:14:33.999 SO THAT WILL BE THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY FOR DISCUSSION 02:14:34.065 --> 02:14:37.002 AND AT THAT POINT I DO ANTICIPATE MOVING ON THIS. OKAY, IF THERE IS 02:14:37.068 --> 02:14:40.005 NO OTHER BUSINESS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE, THIS CONCLUDES 02:14:40.071 --> 02:14:45.010 THE NOVEMBER 9 MEETING AND AS I SAID 02:14:45.076 --> 02:14:49.014 THE NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING IS JANUARY 27 AND WE ARE ADJOURNED. 02:14:49.080 --> 02:14:54.085 THANK YOU, EVERYONE.