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Durkan will advance $90 mil plan for low-income housing

In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, photo, Colleen Echohawk, right, executive director of Chief Seattle Club, is applauded by Mayor Jenny Durkan as Echohawk speaks during a news conference announcing that Seattle will invest more than $75 million on affordable-housing units in the next year. On Tuesday Durkan said she will soon will advance the city’s long-delayed plan to convert unused land next to Discovery Park into more than 200 affordable homes. (Elaine Thompson / AP)
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SEATTLE – Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan soon will advance the city’s long-delayed plan to convert unused land next to Discovery Park into more than 200 affordable homes.

The Seattle Times reports that for a decade, legal challenges and economic forces stymied the effort to redevelop Fort Lawton in Magnolia. But a ruling last year cleared the way for Seattle to move ahead with a plan that the city now estimates could cost about $90 million and that Durkan says she supports.

The mayor released an updated version Monday and said she would send it to the City Council soon.

The Durkan administration has scheduled a public meeting for Feb. 11 to take comments. The updated plan says building about 240 housing units would cost about $87 million, while two recreation fields would add up to another $7 million.