CITY OF SEATTLE

ORDINANCE __________________

COUNCIL BILL __________________

AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; extending for six months a moratorium established by Ordinance 125764 on the filing, acceptance, processing, and/or approval of any application to establish a new principal or accessory use, or change a principal or accessory use, for any site currently used as a mobile home park, as defined in Section 23.84A.032 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The City Council makes the following legislative findings of fact and declarations:

A. The Council incorporates by reference the findings of fact contained in Ordinance 125764.

B. In January 2019, the City Council passed Ordinance 125764, establishing a moratorium on the filing, acceptance, processing, and/or approval of any application to establish a new principal or accessory use, or change a principal or accessory use, for any site currently used as a mobile home park, as defined in Section 23.84A.032 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

C. Although the City has worked to develop permanent regulations, the work has not been completed and the City Council is unlikely to act upon any proposed permanent regulations or for those regulations to be effective until after the expiration of the moratorium on February 6, 2020.

D. If the City Council does not adopt permanent regulations that are effective before the expiration of the temporary moratorium, the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections must accept permit applications to develop sites currently used as mobile home parks. If this were to occur, low-income and elderly residents of current mobile home parks could be displaced, which is contrary to the public interest as described in the findings of fact contained in Ordinance 125764.

E. Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 36.70A.390 authorizes the City to extend the duration of a moratorium by ordinance for one or more six-month periods.

Section 2. The moratorium set forth in Ordinance 125764 shall be extended and in effect for a period of six months from the date the ordinance introduced as Council Bill 119696 is effective, and shall automatically expire after the six-month period unless the same is extended as provided by statute, or unless terminated sooner by the City Council.

Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section 1.04.020.

Passed by the City Council the ________ day of _________________________, 2019, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this _____ day of _________________________, 2019.

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President ____________ of the City Council

Approved by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2019.

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Jenny A. Durkan, Mayor

Filed by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2019.

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Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk

(Seal)