Drafter
Clerk 04/05/2022
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute a purchase and sale agreement to convey surplus property located at 10821 8th Ave SW, Seattle, Washington, in council district eight.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The White Center Community Development Association ("WCCDA") is a nonprofit corporation that serves as a consortium of local service providers. Through a competitive process, it was an early recipient of a Communities of Opportunity grant. The project for which WCCDA received its grant was the planning of what ultimately has evolved into the White Center Community "HUB" (Hope, Unity, and Belonging) project, consisting of affordable housing units for those earning sixty percent or less of the area median income, together with commercial grade building reserved for nonprofit, service provider and community facility uses.
2. To assist in making this plan a reality, the executive negotiated with WCCDA for the transfer of property located at 10821 8th Ave SW, Seattle, Washington ("the property"), located within council district eight, and within the unincorporated area of White Center, on which the White Center Community HUB can be built.
3. Before the county entered into a purchase and sale agreement with WCCDA in September 2020 ("the PSA"), the facilities management division completed the surplus property, affordable housing and public notice requirements.
4. On July 13, 2021, the executive transmitted to the council the PSA and the proposed ordinance authorizing the conveyance of the property. Subsequently, the county reached agreement with WCCDA on a Declaration of Covenant for Affordable Housing and a Declaration of Covenant for Community Use, setting forth requirements for construction of affordable housing and a community facility. These covenants will run with the land. The county also negotiated a Reserved Right of Entry and Power of Termination Agreement.
5. The Declaration of Covenant for Affordable ...
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