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Council reviews legislative priorities and flags housing, building codes, and rights-of-way issues
Summary
City staff presented a draft list of legislative priorities for a Dec. 11 meeting of mayors that includes housing-related bills (rental-management residency and database), building-code bills (referenced in the packet as 'House Bill 812'), revenue and municipal tort concerns, and FCC/right-of-way issues for small-cell deployment; council asked staff to monitor developments and return updates.
Speaker 11 presented a compiled list of legislative priorities prepared at the mayor's request and noted mayors from across cities will meet on Dec. 11 to discuss shared priorities. The packet includes items on housing—such as database and in-state residency requirements for rental managers—building-code and design-standard bills (referred to in discussion as "House Bill 8 12"), and revenue-focused bills that could affect local revenues.
Council members discussed concerns about state action that could limit local ordinances—specifically on local control of design standards and restrictions on rental concentrations. Speaker 11 said the association (GMA) has been briefed on relevant bills and the city’s lobbyist was asked to flag any developments before the Dec. 11 meeting. "We will definitely keep an eye on 812 because that looks like a vehicle where if they decided to slip some of those things in, they might do that during the session," Speaker 11 said.
Members also raised FCC-related rights-of-way and small-cell deployment as a potential issue for the city to track. No formal action was taken beyond directing staff to monitor bills and provide a consolidated list for the mayor’s December meeting.
