Join us at Habitat Seattle in calling on the Seattle City Council to adopt six key amendments to improve the comprehensive plan so we can help make Seattle a place where everyone can call home! #SeaCompPlan #SeaGov
habitatforhumanityseattle.quorum.us/campaign/135...
Tomorrow we’ll see what the mayor/OPCD thinks Seattle’s long term future looks like.
I’m kinda dreading it, but hey maybe I’ll be surprised.
If you are media, and want to talk about what it all means, DM me.
#seacompplan #oneseattle
OPCD:
Amendment 1) Adding money to #SeaCompPlan update.
This could not be more important to future Seattle.
We need to get more people on board with a bold vision!
2) Comp Plan public education. See above!
3) Comp Plan strategic advisor: See above again!!!
Okay I’ve done it. I’m going to talk about land use on TikTok too.
Wondering about TOD GMA AMI FAR or ADUs? I got you.
Providing background and context for the 2024 #SeaCompPlan update.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8yskHbm/
@SeattlePlanCom update:
1) sending letter to Council asking for more money for #SeaCompPlan outreach (current ask is 150K over 3 years (for context, MHA was 750k)
2) @seattledot merging next mode plans into one (can it compete with cars?)
Curious about wtf is happening on the Seattle housing policy front? @TheUrbanAce and I will give you the low-down.
ADU & MHA status
Neighborhood Residential
#SeaCompPlan update
Design Review reform
Equity, displacement and homeownership
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Public comment from @lauraloeseattle and Ryan D. at the @SeattlePlanCom to discard the outdated Growth Strategy that dumps all new residents into 'urban villages'. Rather the #seacompplan update should focus on broader equitable growth where more people can share our great city.
#SeaCompPlan theme:
Reevaluate the entirety of the existing Growth Strategy, while developing and evaluating bold alternatives such as the 15-minute city framework that meet the challenges of the housing affordability and climate crises. At a minimum consider the following:
7. Expand transit & prioritize modes other than single-occupancy vehicles and set mode shift targets
8. Methods to repurpose the right-of-way
9. Embed climate actions
10. Invest in graphic design that increases the accessibility and utility of the Plan
#SeaCompPlan
4.Further increase accessibility in the built environment through consultation with the Disability Community
5. Study code changes to equitably improve public health
6. Explore alternative planning frameworks and practices
#SeaCompPlan
@SeattlePlanCom's 10 recommendations for the #SeaCompPlan update:
1. Use racial equity, resilience & quality of life as themes to guide the update of the Plan
2. Provide for reparations & racial equity outcomes
3. Fully reevaluate the Growth Strategy & revise land use policies
Add in the estimated 80,000 Affordable homes we should have built, and the total number #SeaCompPlan should target is closer to 232,000, or 11k new homes per year.
This is an mostly ivory tower critique of it. With latest racial equity analysis, we have a fuller picture of destructive impacts on vulnerable BIPOC communities. It is another powerful rationale for making the next #SeaCompPlan a new vision for SF zoned land across the city.
I'm excited to dig into the Racial Equity Analysis of the Urban Village Strategy. This is absolutely bedrock research that will form the next #SeaCompPlan
@MayorJenny running out the clock on releasing the Racial Equity Toolkit analysis on the Growth Strategy is actively bad for Seattle. It is already 18 months late.
The @SeattlePlanCom will center equity in the next #SeaCompPlan and @SeattleOPCD data will be key to better policy.
where will new 160k households find a place in this city?
Cynical view: yimby/nimby conflict splits the baby and we inadvertently end up w/jenga towerhouses, perpendicular to street-4 flrs/3 BRs.
either be #WeirdTownhouseCity or design city for growth!
#SeaCompPlan
Some of the most resistant to change n'hoods like Wallingford and Queen Anne, who've gerrymandered apartments out of existence, could be wholly considered Residential Urban Villages by #SeaCompPlan definition(12 units per acre) because of small lots, ADUs and historical 'plexes.
It is remarkable that the big picture #SeaCompPlan barely mentions (ignores?) SF zoned areas, as if 75% of Seattle has no stake in our communal future, whereas the N'hood Plans for each Urban Village repeatedly affirms SF's superior character (there is 0% SF zoned land in UVs).
Next @SeattlePlanCom
1. Industrial and Maritime Strategy – Staff Draft SPC Recommendations
2. Draft SPC Recommendations on Overarching Themes for the #SeaCompPlan
3pm Thursday! if you want to comment on either, submit before 3pm Wednesday.
If you think reformulating Single Family zoning to allow for more diverse housing types and a lot more households is radical, wait until you see the consequences of doing nothing.
#SeaCompPlan
#GreenZoning
-old #seacompplan 2035 targets: 70K new housing, 115K new jobs (UV element pg 1.22)
-prelim 2045 comp plan targets: 112K new housing, 170K new jobs
Huge jump in growth or backfilling deficit from job boom?
Still not enough housing to fix affordability crisis.
Racial Equity Toolkit (RET)-forward looking, iterative, outcome based, broad stakeholders/community engagement to discover/develop anti-racist policy. Will shape #SeaCompPlan to advance opportunity and minimize harm to BIPOC...
Okay, #SeaCompPlan terminology:
Racial Equity Analysis-a specific backward looking study of effects of systemic racism, commissioned by Council, to look at whether the Urban Village Strategy was leading to racist outcomes. Final report coming out in June.
I am really looking forward to the Racial Equity Toolkit report on the Urban Village growth strategy. Is that weird?
Anyway, it sounds like the City will start releasing its findings in a couple months.
And that it will affect how we view with the #SeaCompPlan update.
this @PugetSoundSage report is very powerful and clear eyed about outcomes. Basis for #SeaCompPlan? Tell me why not.
www.pugetsoundsage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/...
Results are in: ‘15 Minute Seattle’ is the most popular theme for the next #SeaCompPlan by a nose.
Seattle peeps: what would your overarching theme for the next 2045 Seattle comp plan? #SeaCompPlan
For all of Seattle’s proximity to water, access to it is limited. Most of the shoreline is either detached houses or industrial use. As we revisit urban villages in the next #seacompplan it would be nice to shorten the distances btw where people live and one of our best assets.
