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Seattle staff outline growth-strategy choices, capacity and SEPA limits ahead of June 23 public hearing
Summary
City central staff told the Seattle City Council select committee that the proposed comprehensive plan increases citywide zoning capacity while growth targets remain lower, and warned that changes beyond what the environmental review studied could require further SEPA study.
Chair Joy Hollingsworth convened the Seattle City Council Select Committee on the Comprehensive Plan on June 13 to hear central staff briefings and to remind the public that the public hearing on the comprehensive plan and related permanent legislation will be on June 23.
Central staff presented the growth strategy element of the mayor’s proposed comprehensive plan, emphasizing that the plan separates planning targets from zoning capacity. "The comp plan has an adjusted target ... 80,000 new housing units and a 159,000 new jobs," said Lish Whitson, central staff. "The mayor's proposed comprehensive plan contemplates a citywide zone residential development capacity of approximately 300,000 new units." Whitson added that Seattle had added roughly 42,000 units since 2019 and that 2021 zone capacity stood at roughly 172,000 units.
The memo and presentation framed where that capacity could be directed: regional centers, urban centers, neighborhood centers, manufacturing/industrial centers and urban neighborhoods. HB Harper, central staff, described the taxonomy…
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