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Council committee reviews interim bill to increase flexibility for street-level uses downtown, South Lake Union and Uptown
Summary
SDCI and council staff briefed the Land Use Committee on interim legislation (CB 120771) that would temporarily expand allowable uses on class 1 and 2 pedestrian streets in downtown, South Lake Union and Uptown to encourage occupancy of vacant ground-floor spaces. The proposal would last three years; committee members
The Land Use Committee received a staff briefing Monday on Council Bill 120771, an interim ordinance proposed to expand allowable ground-floor and second-floor uses on select pedestrian streets in downtown, South Lake Union and Uptown.
Gordon Clowers of the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections and Council Central Staff summarized the proposal: the interim allowance would run for three years and apply to class 1 and class 2 pedestrian-designated streets in specified areas. The change aims to reduce long-term vacancies by allowing a broader range of activating uses'including certain non-household sales and services, creative studios, medical and community-services uses, commissary kitchens and some offices and R&D uses at…
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