WHEREAS the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) received HOPE VI Revitalization Demonstration Project funds from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to plan for mixed-income redevelopment of the 102-acre Holly Park distressed public housing site in Southeast Seattle; and

WHEREAS the SHA subsequently developed a Plan in conjunction with the residents of Holly Park; and

WHEREAS the Mayor supported SHA's application to HUD for the HOPE VI Implementation Grant; and

WHEREAS the SHA obtained a $47.1 Million Implementation Grant; and

WHEREAS the SHA, with the participation of the residents of Holly Park and the City, is now prepared to develop a Final Redevelopment Site Plan and Finance Plan, and then to commence Plan implementation; and

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE, THE MAYOR CONCURRING:

Section I. The City of Seattle sets forth its Framework Principles to Guide City Decisions which are related to the Seattle Housing Authority Redevelopment of Holly Park as described in Exhibit A.

ADOPTED by a majority of all members of the City Council of the City of Seattle the ____ day of ___________, 1996, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its adoption this ____ day of ___________, 1996.

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President of the City Council

The Mayor Concurring

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Norman B. Rice, Mayor

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EXHIBIT A

City of Seattle Framework Principles for Holly Park HOPE VI Revitalization Demonstration Project

1. Realizing a Comprehensive Community Revitalization Vision

The City of Seattle recognizes the $47.1 million HOPE VI grant received by SHA as the cornerstone of a unique opportunity to revitalize the Holly Park area. The City further recognizes that to maximize the value of that investment to the wider Southeast Seattle community, a coordinated set of revitalization and leveraged funding strategies must be pursued. To the extent that those revitalization strategies may involve City resources, the City of Seattle will continue to work actively with SHA to minimize the costs necessary to implement the vision, and to identify appropriate resources that may be available.

2. Social Diversity

All redevelopment efforts at and around Holly Park should strive to enrich and expand the variety of experiences shared in a healthy Seattle neighborhood, including our youth, new immigrants, working families, older residents, business owners and operators. Revitalization should be guided by the following objectives:

a. mixed use, including services and activities for a broadlydefined, diverse community;

b. mixed income that includes home ownership opportunities and approximates 1/3 very low, 1/3 low to moderate, and 1/3 marketrate residential split;

c. convenient location of community facilities and human services for a broadly-defined, diverse community; and

d. a variety of off-site housing replacement options that reduce the geographic concentration -and assure no net loss of -very low income housing opportunities within the city of Seattle.

3. Physical Integration

To increase marketability to potential residents and businesses, to reduce feelings of isolation, and to improve the conditions for public safety and personal security, the redevelopment should strive to eliminate perceived boundaries as well as real barriers between South Beacon Hill, the Holly Park site, the Martin Luther King Way corridor, and Rainier Valley neighborhoods. The successful revitalization should include:

a. an enhanced mix and redistribution of activities and destinations that encourage a greater interaction across the site, and with the neighborhood vicinity;

b. a diversity of housing options that provides a good contextual fit with the adjoining neighborhoods, incorporates innovative and marketable design, and addresses large-family needs as well as those of the disabled;

c. residential designs that do not reflect tenure or rentassistance status of residents;

d. a redistribution and enhancement of parks, public library, community gardens, and other community facilities as necessary to create settings for shared experience and community-building, and assures no net loss of acreage and timely, full replacement of recreational facilities serving the wider community; and

e. access improvements that reduce barriers and improve opportunities for transit use and safe walking and bicycling.

4. Economic Opportunity

The HOPE VI revitalization project provides a wide variety of training, employment, and business development opportunities. Every effort should be made to capitalize on these opportunities, and to use the redevelopment of SHA's site as a catalyst for improving the economic health and diversity of Southeast Seattle. This should include:

a. encouraging and employing, to the greatest extent possible, local contractors, building trades, suppliers, architects, Holly Park residents and local labor;

b. providing job opportunities to local residents in new mixed use development;

c. training SHA tenants for participation in relocation enterprises, demolition, construction and related activities, and property management;

d. using apprenticeship, Seattle Conservation Corps, and other workforce training programs to the maximum extent feasible throughout revitalization activities;

e. actively soliciting and providing all available incentives to private investment that serve the revitalization vision of a mixed income market;

f. actively soliciting and providing incentives for businesses to reinvest in the area;

g. assisting businesses or specific operations whose relocation from the area would benefit the larger revitalization effort; and

h. where City funds are involved, respect relevant City of Seattle W/MBE set-asides.

5. Minimize Interim Impacts

The revitalization of the Holly Park area, through careful planning, coordination, and phased redevelopment, should take all feasible measures to minimize the interim impacts on Holly Park residents, neighbors, users of City facilities in the area, and the environment. This should include at least the following:

a. to the greatest extent possible, provide equitable relocation choices to current Holly Park residents during redevelopment;

b. establishing an inclusive, well-coordinated and efficient public information and notification process;

c. maintaining current level of community services and recreational facilities without interruption, through careful planning and preparation of interim facilities; and

d. preserving significant trees on site, recycling/salvaging materials from demolition, using recycled-content and resourceconserving technologies in new construction.

6. Community Partnerships and Leveraging Resources

The revitalization vision conceived in the HOPE VI Plan will require creative partnerships and compromises among many interests to become a reality. Toward that end, the project's success will depend, in part, on:

a. honoring agreements with Holly Park residents pertaining to partnership, involvement, governance, and management;

b. developing and implementing a final redevelopment plan in active coordination with the City's capital and neighborhood planning processes;

c. leveraging public resources with private investments; and

d. pursuing community policing as an active partnership.

7. Long-term Commitments

The redevelopment of the Holly park site represents a major, long-term investment opportunity in the vitality of Southeast Seattle. Although much change is anticipated, wise investment decision should consider saving that which is viable, as well as:

a. maintaining 400 units for very low income families on the redeveloped site;

b. assuring no net loss of park acreage, with full replacement of specific facilities at suitable locations serving local and citywide users; and

c. construction, management and maintenance of high-quality, resourceand cost-effective residential units and other improvements.

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