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Home My WebLink About051225 Audience Comment Submittal - A. Laulainen u 1 , ff� Looking through the City's Comprehensive Plan, I was surprised to find a whole section entitled "Addressing Racially Disparate Impacts and Displacement"(p.46)which focused a lot about"long-standing racial disparities in Renton". It is stated that historically marginalized households experience potential displacement risk. And then the document goes through remedies to address housing needs and racial disparities in order to help protect community members vulnerable to displacement or housing insecurity. This relates directly to the residents whose homes are being taken by Renton School District near Renton High School. As you know, these are immigrants, low income, disabled and people of color living in this location. At a meeting with the school district last October, when these neighbors, from this marginalized community, inquired why their homes are being targeted instead of nearby Boeing properties, they were told that RSD could not afford to fight the wealthy Boeing's lawyers. Basically, admitting that they know these neighbors cannot afford to fight, they were vulnerable, and their property would be easy prey. Here's some things from the City Comprehensive Plan: Goal HHS-E: Implement policies and practices to address and undo racial disparities and exclusion in housing and promote equitable housing ownership and rental housing opportunities. Goal HHS-G: Mitigate displacement pressure caused by market forces by fostering homeownership opportunities and encouraging investments in existing housing. (p.52) Policy ED-2: Support and develop measures to reduce displacement of existing businesses in Renton. (p.55) Policy HHS-12: Expand anti-displacement strategies in collaboration with residents and community organizations. Renton City Council has a Housing Action Plan which was funded by a grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce, which was written to address six questions, the last being "How do we prevent our current residents from being displaced by future development?" The City met with RSD way back in May 2023, and approved the plan to bulldoze homes. You have taken an active role in supporting that plan, by giving approval to a plan that the voters did not approve. The City gave advice about vacationing a street where neighbors currently resided, condemning homes currently owned by neighbors, and including plans of baseball fields over existing homes. • Even now, the School District has been submitting SEPA reviews before the public sees any Land Use application. There are no Land Use Applications on the City website, but I've just learned that several SEPA reviews have already gone through. I hadn't seen any signs posted at the sight until just this week, and that sign is confusing. It is posted right next to a sign notifying about the Dreamliner project, a project which shows on the City Website as an active project and approved. Yet there is NO information about the RSD Land Use for their High School expansion, and apparently they are already going through the process without public involvement. So not only have you enabled them from the beginning, targeting a vulnerable neighborhood admittedly cheaper than other options such as approaching the neighboring Boeing tots, and now the Public is being kept out of the loop on the Land Use process. You are taking an active role to support the destruction of this neighborhood when you could have been the ones to save the homes. City actions: Approval of the plan in the Pre-application meeting in May 2023, potentially vacationing two city streets, approving changing the zoning to remove residential housing, giving all the permits to destroy useable homes, not supporting residents to help avoid displacement of businesses and residents as suggested in the Housing Action Plan, not involving Renton Citizens in the Land use process by ommission on the City Website and confusingly keeping old projects posted as active as well as leaving up signage of inactive projects in the location. Please see attached photo of confusing signage. I would request that the RHS Expansion project be put on hold '"'fs . . -t tit A 4 - , ' i F.Y 4 st a - "T.F +�- - a T --.. �: `= , 0 PROPOSED LAND USE ACTION } Plan Approval NOTICE OF SEPA = TYPEOFACTION: Site _- A PROJECT NAME: Dreamiiner ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW t' SITE ADDRESS: 511 Airport Way, Renton WASs0wilding , PROJECT DESCRIPTION: New( -story 3 q '� ;� includes 3218 sgft commercial rent space on main floor with ~� Renton School District#403 gra ./v ' (:toy 1&2 bedroom apartments with :;t+ parking spaces. � o - - .,,,.,,,� 7812 South 124ih Street enton Seattle,WA 98178 °°`°"""' • I i tt, t ,.n,r. a..t....i,.w,.. • ---- , ` _ T4 submit comments or obtain information contact City staff: n! k '?, Planning Division Scan with smartPhone for me Information: " t + Type of Action:SEPA Environmental Review 1 I ! • 4f 1055 South Grady Way Proposal:Renton High School Replacement '` � i,.. rRenton,Wa.98057 Phase I and II Demolition 4 ''" - (425)430-7200 . # air. .r., .. .,,,_.. 7,, -_ , S' -_ fit ate;. 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