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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 6039CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON ORDINANCE NO. 6039 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON, EXTENDING THE INTERIM ZONING CONTROLS ESTABLISHED BY ORDINANCE NO. 5974, EXTENDED AND AMENDED BY ORDINANCE 5997, AND EXTENDED BY ORDINANCE 6018; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY; AND ESTABLISHING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, on July 13, 2020, in response to business -related impacts due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the City Council adopted interim zoning controls via Ordinance No. 5974, valid through December 31, 2020 or the date that the City enters Phase 4 of the Governor's Safe Start plan, whichever occurred first; and WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 5974 established a new type of temporary right-of-way permit known as an "Economic Recovery Revocable Right -of -Way Permit" which is similar to existing right-of-way permits but does not carry a permit fee to assist businesses that are able to use public right-of-way and/or their private parking lot areas in order to expand the area within which customers could be served — in keeping with appropriate social distancing standards and other public health guidelines — in order to help struggling businesses including restaurants survive and help keep the employees who depend on the jobs that have been impacted and jeopardized by the coronavirus shut -downs employed; and WHEREAS, parklets and prefabricated outdoor spaces meet the intended purpose of "expanding the area within which a business may provide goods or services to customers while keeping with public health guidelines" that served as the basis for establishing Economic Recovery Revocable Right -of -Way Permits, and, thus, the City Council wishes to allow for them as an element of encouraging economic recovery in the City; and 1 ORDINANCE NO. 6039 WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 5974 also established and temporarily allowed businesses to place signs known as "Economic Recovery Signs" in the form of A -Frame Signs and Event Signs, through December 31, 2020; and WHEREAS, on December 7, 2020, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 5997 extending and amending Ordinance No. 5974, which was valid until June 7, 2021, in response to the continued impacts the COVID-19 public health emergency has had on businesses; and WHEREAS, in order to assist the struggling downtown business community, Ordinance No. 5997 approved the designation of a limited number of existing public parking stalls within the area zoned Center Downtown (CD) as short-term parking for curbside pick-up or to go orders; and WHEREAS, in addition to extending and amending the interim zoning controls established in Ordinance No. 5974, Ordinance No. 5997 waived the requirement to obtain a Temporary Use Permit for the temporary expansion of a business into an adjacent vacant space in a multi -tenant building in compliance with the Governor's Safe Start plan and public heath guidelines for COVID- 19; and WHEREAS, in order to accommodate the anticipated increases in short-term parking in the area zoned Center Downtown (CD) and to assist the struggling downtown business community, Ordinance No. 5997 temporarily waived hourly parking fees in the City's City Center Parking Garage located at 655 S 2nd St. for parking periods of up to 10 hours; and WHEREAS, on June 7, 2021, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 6018 extending Ordinance No. 5997 in response to the ongoing impacts the COVID-19 public health emergency, has had on businesses through December 7, 2021; and N ORDINANCE NO. 6039 WHEREAS, since the adoption of Ordinance No. 6018 the "Safe Start Washington" and "Healthy Washington- Roadmap to Recovery" plans are no longer in effect and on June 30, 2021 Washington state reopened under the "Washington Ready' plan; and WHEREAS, the most recent Proclamation issued by the Governor, 20-25.17, states that Proclamation 20-25, et seq., will continue to be in effect until the state of emergency, issued on February 29, 2020 pursuant to Proclamation 20-05, is rescinded; and WHEREAS, due to the continued state of emergency the City Council has determined that there is a need to extend beyond December 7, 2021 the interim zoning controls establishing the Economic Recovery Revocable Right -of Way Permit, establishing and allowing Economic Recovery Signs, waiving the requirement to obtain a temporary use permit for temporary expansion of business into an adjacent vacant space in a multi -tenant building, permitting the temporary designation of short term parking stalls within the Center Downtown (CD) zoning district for curbside pick-up or to go orders, and waving parking fees for the City Center Parking garage; and WHEREAS, the City Council held a public hearing on December 6, 2021, to consider a six- month extension of the interim zoning controls established by Ordinance No. 5974, extended and amended by Ordinance No. 5997, and extended by Ordinance No. 6018; and NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: 3 ORDINANCE NO. 6039 SECTION I. The above recitals are adopted as findings of fact in support of the interim controls extended herein pursuant to RCW 35A.63.220 and RCW 36.70A.390, and are found to be true and correct in all respects. SECTION II. The interim zoning controls established by Ordinance No. 5974, extended and amended by Ordinance No. 5997, and extended again by Ordinance No. 6018 are hereby extended and shall remain in effect until June 6, 2022, unless ended earlier by subsequent City Council action, or unless subsequently extended by the City Council pursuant to state law. SECTION III. The Mayor or his designee is authorized to implement any and all administrative procedures necessary to carry out the directives of this legislation. SECTION IV. A public hearing was held on December 6, 2021. SECTION V. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or work of this ordinance should be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court or competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality thereof shall not affect the constitutionality of any other section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this ordinance. SECTION VI. The City Council declares an emergency for the protection of the public welfare and to enable the purpose and intent of this ordinance to be accomplished. This ordinance shall take effect immediately when passed by the City Council. The City Clerk shall cause to be published a summary of this ordinance in the City's official newspaper. The summary shall consist of this ordinance's title. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 6th day of December, 2021. Jasod A. Seth.ltity Clerk 4 ORDINANCE NO. 6039 APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this 6th day of December, 2021. Approved as to form: '40��O� -;Z� Shane Moloney, City Attorney Date of Publication: 12/9/2021 (Summary) ORD:2198:11/8/21 5