Copy of 46th Seattle Policies Draft Changes

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1	46th Seattle Policies Draft Changes		We support:
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3	1	Impact fees	Implementing developer fees with a priority to fund Seattle school construction with a priority to provide adequate capacity at a time of fast-growing enrolment	Siegfriedt
4	2a-f	Housing	The creation of more affordable housing in Seattle; therefore we support: a. Policies that encourage more housing near transit hubs b. Directing affordable housing funds to assist those who need it the most c. Defining workforce housing as assisting those earning between a minimum wage and a living wage, and building much more of it d. Requiring developers to replace on-site any affordable housing they displace with new affordable housing (i.e., 1-for-1 replacement) e. Requiring developers to build inclusionary affordable housing, rather than paying a fee instead, in exchange for granting an upzone f. Redefining low-income housing zones–ground-related housing suitable for families, graduated between mid-rise and single-family zone	Auerbach	Alspach
5	2f	Housing	Redefining low-income housing zones–ground-related housing suitable for families, graduated between mid-rise and single-family zone	Williams	Alspach
6	3	Homelessness	Safe harbor parking for those living in their vehicles, with trash and waste disposal services	Diell
7	5	Transportation	Locating Bus Rapid Transit on N 130th St as connector service between Lake City, the planned 130th St Light Rail station and Bitter Lake	Diehl
8	9	LC Comm Ctr	Building and adequately funding a new Lake City Community Center with programming for seniors and youth	Diehl
9	11	Policing	Increase police presence and response times in North Precinct–by subdividing it	Alspach
10	13	Housing	Increasing community accountability and oversight for the Department of Neighborhoods, ensuring that local communities and neighborhood groups are supported and have access to their government	Alspach
11	14	Broadband infrastructure	Connecting every home and business in Seattle to a pubicly-owned high-speed broadband network, utiizing existing broadband infrastructure	Diehl
12	16	Criminal justice	Continued efforts to reduce youth detention rats in favor of restorative justice	Diehl
13	17	Criminal justice	Increased focus from the city regarding youth-on-youth violence, with increased transparency and accountability	Diehl
14	19	Green Lake	Clean-up and preservation of Green Lake: a. Upgrades and maintenance to the Midvale Sewage Plant b. Increased cleaning and alum treatments to decrease toxic algae levels in the lake	Alspach
15	20	Parks	Redevelopment of the dismal "Lake City Mini Park" at the corner of Lake City Way and 125th, as well as increase open space and P-patches throughout North Seattle	Diehl
16	21	Parks	Cleanup and protection of Thornton Creek watershed in the face of increased development	Diehl
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18	1	Education/Taxation	Implementing developer impact fees with priority to fund Seattle school construction to provide adequate capacity at a time of fast-growing enrollment. capital improvement needs.	Williams
19	1	Education/Taxation	Implementing developer impact fees to contribute to funding additional public goods such as schools, parks, roadways, and sidewalks.	Shapiro
20	2d	Housing	Requiring developers to replace on-site any affordable housing they displace with new affordable housing (i.e., 1-for-1 or higher 2-for-1 replacement)	Diehl
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22	3	Homelessness	Sufficient shelters for those experiencing homelessness that also provide basic services around mental health, addiction recovery, job training, health care and nutritious food
23	3	Homelessness	Safe-harbor parking in off-street lots for those living in their vehicles, with trash and waste-disposal sanitation services	Siegfriedt
24	6 & 7	Sidewalks	Declaring that any Urban Village must include sidewalks on at least one side of every block to be deemed "walkable'	Siegfriedt
25	7	Sidewalks	Increasing pedestrian safety, including streetlights, permeable sidewalks and visible crosswalks for pedestrians and wheelchair users, with a sidewalk on at least one side of each arterial in Seattle north of 85th within 10 years, after conducting a study as to expected use.
26	7	Sidewalks	Building Increasing pedestrian safety, including streetlights, permeable sidewalks and visible crosswalks for pedestrians and wheelchair users, with a sidewalk on at least one side of each arterial in Seattle north of 85th within 10 years	Siegfriedt
27	11	Policing	Increase police presence and response times in the North Precinct--by subdividing it and ensuring that funding is adequate for the needed level of police protection for our citizens	Diehl
28	12	Trees/Environment	Passing a robust urban tree ordinance, increasing tree protection by requiring permits and public notice before large trees are removed from public and private property which includes hefty fines backed up by property leins for violators	Diehl
29	13	Neighborhoods	Increasing accountability and oversight for the Department of Neighborhoods, ensuring that local groups and neighborhoods are supported and have access to their government, which in the past has not met the expectations of the community	Diehl
30	13`	Neighborhoods	Increasing responsiveness of the Department of Neighborhoods by restoring support of Neighborhood Councils according to the 2009 City audit	Siegfriedt
31	15	Sex trafficking	Increased programs to end human trafficking along Hwy 99 and other high-trafficking areas of the city
32	15a		Adequately funding outreach and shelter servics for sex workers
33	15b		Oversight and increased regulations of media outlets used by sex traffickers
34	15c		Increased penalties for those convicted of commercial sex trafficking of minors
35	2	Housing	The creation of more affordable housing in Seattle; therefore, we support:	Williams	Mormann
36	2c	Housing	Defining workforce housing as assisting those earning between a minimum wage and a living wage, and using public programs and/or funding to build much more of it	Williams
37	7	Sidewalks	Increasing pedestrian safety, including streetlights, permeable sidewalks, or Street Edge Alternative sidewalks, and visible crosswalks for pedestrians and wheelchair users, with a sidewalk on at least one side of each arterial in Seattle north of 85th within 10 years and on residential streets newly impacted by excess unhoused vehicles,	Williams	Mormann
38	5	Transportation	Restore missing bus routes and beef up schedules.	Williams
39	11	Policing	Increase police presence and decrease response times in North Precinct–by subdividing it	Williams	Mormann
40	20	Parks	[...as well as] increased open space and P-patches throughout North Seattle	Siegfriedt
41	20	Parks/for new Environment section	We support increased investment in street trees, parks, mini parks, green spaces, and P-patches throughout North Seattle to increase the number, quality, and accessibility of outdoor public spaces.	Shield
42	19 and 21	Environment	Effective clean-up and ongoing protection of the Thornton Creek watershed, Green Lake, Lake Washington, the Duwamish River, and other bodies of water throughout the city.	Shield
43	7	Transportation	We believe that safety should be the number one priority for the Seattle Department of Transportation and support stronger, more effective actions to meet our “Vision 0” goal to eliminate all traffic fatalities and serious injuries.	Shield
44	16	Policing	We support continued efforts to reduce youth detention rates in favor of restorative justice	Alspach	Auerbach
45	17	Policing?	We support increased focus from the city regarding youth-on-youth violence, with increased transparency and accountability a strong focus on evidence based practices.	Alspach
46	14	Universal Broadband	Modify to: We support establishing a publicly owned high-speed broadband network which can provide service to every home and business in Seattle.	Alspach	Auerbach
47	12	Trees	Passing a robust urban tree ordinance; increasing tree protection by requiring permits and public notice before large trees are removed from public and private property; track tree removals and planting in order to understand how we’re meeting the goals.	Williams
48	13	Neighborhoods	Increasing community accountability and oversight for on the part of the Department of Neighborhoods, ensuring that local communities and neighborhood groups are supported and have access to their government	Williams
49	16	Youth Detention	Continued efforts to reduce youth detention rates in favor of restorative justice and teen mentoring programs	Williams
50	17	Youth Violence	Increased focus from the city regarding youth-on-youth violence, with increased counseling, transparency and accountability	Williams
51	18	Youth Programs	Increased funding for Youth Arts Programming that focuses on work readiness, education, and career tracks for underserved youth	Williams
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53	8	Bicycles	Bicycle lanes and storage facilities for cyclists. convenient bus stops and shelters	Williams
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58	12a	Environment	Seattle, recognizing we are in a climate emergency, supports the building of high-speed trains and the inclusion of aircraft at SeaTac into the Washington State Climate Commitment Act.	W. Meyers
59	12b	Environment	Because of the high carbon dioxide production from travel by air, we support the rapid building of high-speed trains and including jet flights (emissions from aircraft) in the cap-and-trade law, the Washington State Climate Commitment Act.	Shield
60	12b	Environment	Building high-speed trains along the Portland to Vancouver B.C. corridor	Siegfriedt
61		Parks	As a goal, creating a dog park within a 15-minute walk of every Urban Center/ Village as a matter of equity	Siegfriedt
62		Parks	Repurposing Jackson Park golf course to eliminate grass and include P-patches, other sports and walking trails	Siegfriedt
63		Parks	Developing equitable, safe access and appeal for our parks and greenspaces.	Williams
64		Financial Equity	Creating a more equitable distribution of wealth by prioritizing increased support and mentoring of BIPOC entrepreneurs, educational scholarships and opportunity, and support programs for first time home buyers	Williams
65	2h	Housing	Policies that limit state-level and above corporate ownership and control of housing stock.	Williams
66	2h	Housing	A vacancy tax on units vacant more than six months, excluding new construction and rehabs	Siegfriedt
67	2h	Housing	Increasing density in current single-family zones with preference to areas that have access to schools, shopping, parks, and/or transit connections	Shapiro
68	2h	Housing	Establishing a policy and funding to provide support for low-income persons who are displaced by property development	Shapiro
69	2h	Housing	Addressing displacement by requiring developers of multifamily housing to provide for low-income households they displace	Siegfriedt
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71	2	Housing	Eliminating the Multifamily Tax Exemption (MFTE) as a developer giveway that lasts only 12 years	Siegfriedt
72	2	Housing	Tripling the MHA fee so that half the projects include apartments affordable to people at 60% of Area Median Income (about $30/hr for one person.	Siegfriedt
73	2	Housing	Expanding Urban Centers/Villages in light of 30 years of growth, including Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transit routes	Siegfriedt
74	2	Housing	Amending Neighborhood Residential zones to include duplexes & triplexes, with quads or 3-story stacked flats on corner lots	Siegfriedt
75	2	Housing	Organizing land trusts and capacity-building to encourage low-income homeownership	Siegfriedt
76	2	Housing	Creating and maintaining an inventory of all Seattle rental units, maintained by landlords when rents change	Siegfriedt
77	2	Housing	Development and application of strong policies tolimit displacement and community disruption.	Williams
78	3	Homelessness	Providing and staffing off-street "safe harbor" parking lots for RVs, including waste disposal services	Siegfriedt
79	5a	Transportation	Moving ahead with more of the projects promised in the 2006 Northgate Coordinated Transit Investment Plan.	Williams
80		Public Safety	Full decriminalization of sex work and require that any governmental interaction include oversight by a body that includes sex workers.	Taylor
81		Taxation	Implement a land value tax	Taylor
82		Taxation	Implement increased taxes on parking and golf courses until/unless a land value tax is implemented.	Taylor	Auerbach
83		Taxation	Implement day fines to equalize the impact of consequences for non-violent infractions and reduce costs related to sentencing, warrants, collections and incarceration.	Taylor
84		Criminal Justice	Implement provision of free communications between family members and incarcerated individuals in jail	Taylor	Auerbach
85		Public Safety	Fund and build public restrooms throughout Seattle	Taylor	Shield
86		Public Safety	Fund and build safe consumption sites as a harm reduction strategy to prevent overdose deaths, connect people to support and medical services, including housing placement and drug treatment, and increase safe disposal of used syringes.	Taylor	Auerbach
87		Public Safety	Provide city and county-run vaccination clinics, mask mandates, vaccination requirements, building air quality requirements, contact tracing, wastewater monitoring and other measures to protect against COVID-19 and other infectious disease outbreaks.	Taylor	Shield
88		Public Safety	Provide city-funded 24 hour smoke, heat, and cold shelters to protect community members from the elements and the impacts of climate change.	Taylor	Shield
89		Human Services	Provide universal basic income for families living below the poverty line.	Taylor	Shield
90		Human Services	Provide resources to families reported for neglect rather than separating children from parents for reasons primarily created by poverty.	Taylor
91		Public Safety	Restore and fully fund CoLEAD/JustCARE crime prevention programs	Taylor	Auerbach
92		Zoning	Increasing zoning to allow for 50 story residential buildings within .25 miles of light rail.	Taylor
93		Zoning	Increasing zoning in all Urban Centers/ Villages to allow 20-story towers	Siegfriedt
94		Housing/Zoning	Requiring new construction single family homes to pay into the MHA fund.	Taylor	Auerbach
95	2	Housing/Zoning	Eliminating the MHA fee on all existing standalone single-family houses	Siegfriedt
96		Zoning	Requiring all new construction of 20+ units to include current air purifying technology sufficient to eiminate diesel and smoke particles	Siegfriedt
97		Worker's Rights	Increased investment to fairly enforce our city’s paid sick leave and minimum wage laws, with special attention to protecting the rights of immigrant and economically disadvantaged workers.	Taylor	Auerbach
98		Housing	We support immediate actions at the regional and local levels to address the crisis of housing costs in our region, caused by income inequality and a vast undersupply of housing to accommodate the growth of the past 30 years, which has resulted in many people losing their homes or being forced to move away from Seattle.	Auerbach	Shield
99		Housing	We believe the evidence that housing costs are the primary driver of homelessness and that a “housing first” policy is the most effective means of reducing homelessness.	Auerbach	Shield
100		Housing	We believe that single family zoning, also known as exclusionary zoning, has racist origins and has resulted in inequitable outcomes today because it keeps low income people out of the highest opportunity neighborhoods and forces new development into a limited number of neighborhoods, often low income and/or populated by people of color, which already contain multifamily housing.	Auerbach