Friday brings a day of public comment and debate over a roster of 100 proposed amendments as Seattle finalizes a new growth plan hoped to more equitably distribute housing development across the city.
CHS reported here on the proposed plan and Seattle City Council amendments.
Friday’s council proceedings led by District 3 representative and comprehensive plan committee chair Joy Hollingsworth will include two sessions of public comment broken into remote and in-person periods:
Remote speaker comments will be accepted during Session I, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Registration for remote speakers will begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 10:00 a.m. Register at https://www.seattle.gov/council/committees/public-comment
In-person speakers at Council Chambers will be accepted during Session II, beginning at 3:00 p.m., at City Hall, Council Chambers. Registration for in-person speakers will begin at 2:30 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m.
The plan process has played out over two years as Seattle’s twin crises of housing affordability and homelessness have continued to grow. In the meantime, core areas of the city have continued to rise as some of the wealthiest areas in the county, state, and nation.
For all the debate, not much will change. Nearly 70% of new construction expected under the plan would be constrained to “Regional Centers,” the plan’s designation for the city’s most densely populated, high transit areas — Downtown, Lower Queen Anne, South Lake Union, University District, Northgate, Ballard, and First Hill and Capitol Hill —- or less dense but still highly developed areas like 23rd Ave from Union to Jackson.
Pressured by opposition from some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city, many areas lined up for increased density have already been downsized. CHS reported this summer on the city’s revisions that reduced nine of the city’s 30 proposed Neighborhood Centers including Montlake, Madison Park, and Madrona.
You can learn more about the proposals and the city council’s legislative process at seattle.gov.
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Just like CCTV…Nothing will change this plan as it sits. The 100 amendments is a watered down version and preserves gentrification for another 40 years.
Seattle is turning to shit.
How does this dovetail into the fifty million dollar reparations plan, and where in that plan is the schedule for repatriating the land The City and its citizens claim to have stolen?