Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 AM Severe-weather homeless shelter to temporarily use City Hall room By Nick Martin Seattle Times staff reporter As many as 100 of Seattle's homeless will take refuge in City Hall during the most miserable nights this coming winter. The Seattle City Council voted unanimously yesterday to make a large first-floor room that currently has no lighting, bathrooms or entrance — it is closed off by drywall — suitable as a shelter. The city's largest emergency, severe-weather shelter, which will be open only on extremely cold or wet winter nights, will be welcomed in City Hall only temporarily as the city continues to look for paying renters for the space. During the past three years, the emergency shelter has lost its home in three other buildings — the lobby of the old City Hall, the gym of the old

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