The rezones are meant to assure existing industrial business owners and would-be investors that Seattle’s industrial lands will remain viable. The plan is spelled out in more detail in the “Industrial and Maritime Strategy.”
“There are other pressures on the Port … But this is making sure that if you’re going to make millions of dollars of investment in an system, that the system is going to be allowed to operate and not be infringed upon by residential and other uses,” said Jordan Royer, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association vice president (and former chair of Crosscut’s Board of Directors).
In addition to the new zones, the package of legislation would redraw
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