Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 124694 C.B. 118299 AN ORDINANCE making technical corrections to the Election Campaign Contributions Code, amending Sections 2.04.010, 2.04.150, 2.04.155, 2.04.180, 2.04.265, 2.04.270, 2.04.290, and 2.04.340. Ord. 124695 C.B. 118305 AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the execution of a […]

Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Legislation passed by the Seattle City Council 1/20/15 Ord. 124689 C.B. 118270 AN ORDINANCE relating to the Traffic Code of the Seattle Municipal Code, amending sections 11.23.150 and 11.23.160 to expand the free-floating car sharing pilot program to allow a greater […]

Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 124684 C.B. 118295 AN ORDINANCE relating to the City’s criminal code; amending and adding to various sections and subsections in Chapters 3.33, 12A.06, 12A.08, 12A.10, 12A.14, 12A.16, 12A.20, 12A.24, 12A.28, 16.20 and 16.64 and repealing sections 2.20.010 and 2.20.020 of […]

Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 124680 C.B. 118123 AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning, amending Sections 23.41.012, 23.49.008, 23.49.009, 23.49.011, 23.49.014, 23.49.015, 23.49.019, 23.49.046, 23.49.056, 23.49.058, Downtown Maps 1A, 1F, 1G, 1H, and 1J, 23.54.035 and 23.66.170 of the Seattle Municipal Code, to […]

Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 124667 C.B. 118191 AN ORDINANCE granting Lambda Association of Gamma Phi Beta permission to maintain and operate a skybridge over and across the alley between 17th Avenue Northeast and 16th Avenue Northeast, north of Northeast 45th Street, for a ten-year […]

The City Council issued this news release in 1975: ‘”Alice Doesn’t Day” Gains Council Support City Councilwoman Jeanette Williams today received full Council support for a resolution supporting “Alice Doesn’t Have Equal Rights” day, set for October 29. The resolution was passed by the Council in recognition of the contribution made by female employees to […]

On January 20, 1917, the Grand Opera House’s janitor, George Matsu, discovered a fire burning in the middle of the theatre’s balcony and called in a fire alarm. The fire spread quickly and engulfed the entire building, collapsing the dome less than 45 minutes after the blaze was discovered. Battalion Chief Fred Gilham was killed […]

In 1906, three sanitary engineers gave a report to the mayor, city council, Washington State Board of Health, King County Medical Society, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad on “the advisability of permitting the construction and operation of a railroad in Cedar Valley.” Concerned about Seattle’s city water supply in the Cedar River […]

In September 1970, Mayor Wes Uhlman received the following letter from an anonymous writer. The original was written in all caps with copious underlining. ‘Seattle Mayor. Dear Sir: Seattle got so bad with hippies, I just had to get out of that city. I couldn’t take it. That Pike Place Market is a rat’s nest […]

Scanned copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 124662 C.B. 118269 AN ORDINANCE relating to 14th Avenue NW; transferring partial jurisdiction over a portion of 14th Avenue NW between NW 59th Street and NW 61st Street from the Seattle Department of Transportation to the Department of Parks and […]