United Way of King County has boldly announced a goal of making King County a hunger free community. The City Council applauds this goal, and on March 15, I was a plenary speaker at a Hunger Action Forum convened by United Way, the Seattle Food Council, and the Meals Partnership Coalition to look at strategies [...]
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April 10, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Cities to Protect Rural Land Under TDR Program
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) has approved a resolution that will engage cities in a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program to protect rural lands in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties. Under this program, counties would buy the right to develop from landowners, thus ensuring that those lands will remain as farmland or other [...]
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April 9, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Libraries for the 21st Century on August Ballot
On Monday, April 9, the Council will vote on placing a seven-year, $122.6 million property tax levy on the August 7, 2012, ballot to support the Seattle Public Library (SPL). The Council is likely to approve the ordinance. This levy will restore the services that have been cut from the City budget since the recession [...]
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April 3, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
North Beacon Hill and Othello Rezones
On Monday, April 2, the Council unanimously approved rezones in the North Beacon Hill and Othello Residential Urban Villages. These rezones are designed to take the next stage in implementing the neighborhood and station area plans for those neighborhoods, by creating the zoning needed to promote additional development around the station. The North Beacon Hill [...]
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March 28, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Earthquakes and Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
When the Nisqually Earthquake hit, I was in the Pioneer Building in Pioneer Square, an older brick building. While skyscrapers swayed, the Pioneer Building was bouncing up and down, and a window shattered a few feet from me. That building has been retrofitted since then, but it is a great example of the kind of [...]
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March 27, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Safe Housing for Domestic Violence Survivors
In 2010, the City Council identified safe housing for the survivors/victims of domestic violence as a priority issue to work on. Seattle has a long track record of working to reduce domestic violence, and the Council had identified working on domestic violence issues as one of our priorities for 2010. In looking at the area [...]
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March 22, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
More City Funds Can Be Deposited in Credit Unions
Senate Bill 5913, sponsored by Senators Prentice, Hobbs, and Benton, was approved by the Legislature and will go into law on June 8. The bill, which passed the Senate 43 to 2 and the House 80 to16, increases the amount of funds that governments can deposit in credit unions. I suggested adding this legislation to [...]
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March 20, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Seattle can do process right. If we decide to.
Maligning ‘Seattle Process’ is somewhat of a cottage industry in our town, although it may not generate much economic development. We have some processes that drag on way past their sell-by date. And sometimes people deride process because it didn’t go their way. Seattle has a history of effective engagement, but often we don’t design [...]
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March 15, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Seattle Food Action Plan for 2012
While the City will be putting together a long-range plan for local food through a series of three workshops that began on March 13, my office will continue to work with City Departments and regional partners on actions to implement the Local Food Action Initiative in 2012. Here is our list of planned activities: Support [...]
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March 13, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Changing Sound Transit Policies on Transit Oriented Development
The Sound Transit Board will engage in a policy discussion about integrating and valuing transit oriented development (TOD) at a Board retreat scheduled for early April. Sound Transit (ST) has focused on building and operating transit systems, and has been especially cautious to maintain this focus with strong financial oversight since the financial problems that [...]