File #: 2005-0413    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/10/2005 In control: Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 11/14/2005
Enactment date: 11/14/2005 Enactment #: 15324
Title: AN ORDINANCE related to the Waterfront Streetcar; authorizing the sale of certain surplus county personal property, authorizing the King County executive to execute an agreement with the Seattle Art Museum for removal of the Waterfront Streetcar maintenance facility and the associated passenger station and track, and for the subsequent construction of a new passenger station and track to serve the Olympic Sculpture Park, and authorizing the temporary suspension of streetcar service until such time as a replacement maintenance facility is available.
Sponsors: Larry Phillips, Dwight Pelz, Dow Constantine, Carolyn Edmonds
Indexes: Executive, Parks and Recreation, Property
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 15324.pdf, 2. A. Waterfront Streetcar Maintenance Facility and Passenger Station Agreement Between King County and the Seattle Art Museum, 3. 2005-0413 transmittal letter.doc, 4. 2005-0413 fiscal note 105.xls, 5. 2005-0413 SDOT letter.pdf, 6. 2005-0413 Memo.pdf, 7. 2005-0413 Staff Report Waterfront Streetcar 10-19-05.doc, 8. A. Waterfront Streetcar Maintenance Facility and Passenger Station Agreement Between King County and the Seattle Art Museum
Staff: Carlson, Paul
Drafter
Clerk 10/06/2005
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AN ORDINANCE related to the Waterfront Streetcar; authorizing the sale of certain surplus county personal property, authorizing the King County executive to execute an agreement with the Seattle Art Museum for removal of the Waterfront Streetcar maintenance facility and the associated passenger station and track, and for the subsequent construction of a new passenger station and track to serve the Olympic Sculpture Park, and authorizing the temporary suspension of streetcar service until such time as a replacement maintenance facility is available.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
The council hereby finds:
A. King County currently operates the Waterfront Streetcar maintenance facility and associated Broad Street passenger station and track on city of Seattle right-of-way just north of Broad Street near the entrance of Myrtle Edwards park;
B. The Seattle Art Museum plans to construct the Olympic Sculpture Park on the site occupied by the Waterfront Streetcar maintenance facility and associated Broad Street passenger station and track, and upon completion to include a new passenger station and track that are integrated into the Olympic Sculpture Park and designed to allow extension of the track north of its current terminus;
C. The integration of a new passenger station and track into the Olympic Sculpture Park offers a number of significant transit benefits, including that the Waterfront Streetcar line will be linked to a significant waterfront amenity that will increase ridership, the new passenger station will be more accessible because it will be connected to a pedestrian skybridge that will cross over the railroad tracks to the east, and the new passenger station and track will be designed to allow the Waterfront Streetcar line to be extended to the north of its current terminus;
D. King County plans to relocate the Waterfront Streetcar maintenance facility within a...

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