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, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw, Councilmember Burgess, Councilmember Godden, Councilmember Harrell, Councilmember Licata, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Rasmussen, News Releases
Levy proposal addresses ongoing fiscal challenges and supports critical services
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After a two-year process involving the thoughtful contributions of tens of thousands of residents and collaboration between The Seattle Public Library, Mayor’s Office and City Council, a proposal to stabilize Library funding and improve Library services is complete.
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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 5, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Harrell, News Releases
Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell and the Seattle Human Rights Commission to host “Human Rights 101” forum
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What are human rights? Why do they matter in Seattle? How do human rights protect me? What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? How can I support human rights?
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April 3, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Harrell, News Releases
Seattle City Council Committee to discuss new breastfeeding legislation to protect women’s rights
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Councilmember Bruce Harrell, chair of the Seattle City Council’s Public Safety, Civil Rights and Technology Committee, will introduce legislation from the Seattle Women’s Commission to protect a mother’s right to breastfeed her child in places of public accommodation free from discrimination.
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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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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Burgess, News Releases
Seattle City Council moves to strengthen Seattle’s life sciences industry
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The City Council today will introduce legislation (Council Bill 117438) to waive the City’s business and occupation tax on government research and development funding of Seattle companies and nonprofit organizations in the growing life sciences sector.
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Godden, Councilmember Harrell, News Releases
Seattle City Councilmembers Clark, Godden and Harrell to appear on April’s City Inside/Out: Council Edition
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What is the latest with the Department of Justice’s investigation of the Seattle Police Department? How will policing change in the City? What role will the Council play in Seattle Center’s Next Fifty anniversary celebration? Can residents be involved in this year’s budget process? Whatever your questions, submit them now.
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March 29, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw, Councilmember Burgess, Councilmember Godden, Councilmember Harrell, Councilmember Licata, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Rasmussen, News Releases
Feedback sought on proposed Seattle Public Library Levy
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Providing funding stability for the Seattle Public Library is a priority for the City of Seattle. Seattle City Councilmembers invite members of the public to provide their feedback on the proposed Library Levy legislation before the Council.
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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 [...]