Drafter
Clerk 09/02/2004
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A MOTION pertaining to funding for the redevelopment of Park Lake Homes, a King County Housing Authority facility located in the urban unincorporated community of White Center.
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WHEREAS, the King County Housing Authority ("KCHA") is an important regional organization as it provides a broad range of federally and locally financed housing programs that serve a variety of housing needs in King County, and
WHEREAS, the Park Lake Homes Community was originally developed in the 1940s and during its useful life, served as affordable housing for King County residents at low to moderate income levels, and
WHEREAS, the King County Housing Authority has begun a major redevelopment and revitalization project of the existing Park Lake Homes public housing community to be known as "Greenbridge," and
WHEREAS, the Greenbridge development represents a complete redevelopment of the Park Lake Homes facility including new buildings, replacement of existing infrastructure including streets, water lines, sanitary sewers, storm drainage and other utilities, and
WHEREAS, upon completion, Greenbridge will provide for nine hundred to one thousand one hundred residential housing units in a mix of housing types that will serve existing residents as well as other area very low and low income households, and
WHEREAS, in addition to housing, Greenbridge will include community-oriented uses, which will likely include a branch library, community center, youth and family facilities, Head Start and child care facility, sheriff's office, food bank and neighborhood level retail uses, and
WHEREAS, Greenbridge was planned under King County's demonstration ordinance, Ordinance 14662, and serves as a pilot project to showcase innovative approaches to land development and incorporation low-impact design and affordable housing, and
WHEREAS, the KCHA was successful in securing a thirty-five million dollar federal Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"...
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