you
I'll call to order the September 18th
2017 regular Council meeting to order
and ask those who would like to join the
council and myself and the pledge of
allegiance to please stand hoarse first
order of business is agenda bill 74-66
recovery month and proclamation and I
would ask where did he go
got a proclamation that I'd like to
present the Jerry Blackburn of the
Friends of youth and it goes as follows
there are a lot of we're asses so the
first one is where as behavior health is
an essential part of health and one's
overall wellness and whereas prevention
of mental and/or substance use disorders
work treatment is effective and people
recover in our area and around the
nation where I is providing an
overcoming mental and/or substance use
disorders is essential to achieving
healthy lifestyles physically and
emotionally and whereas we must
encourage your relatives and friends of
people with mental and/or substance use
disorders to implement preventive
management measures recognize the signs
of a problem and guide those in need to
appropriate treatment and recovery
support services and whereas during the
28th annual national alcohol and drug
addiction recovery month we celebrate
those who are seeking treatment and
those who have found pathways to healthy
rewarding lives and we stand with them
new glasses with them with the families
friends and professionals who support
them given the serious nature of this
public health problem we must continue
to reach the millions more who will need
help and the final where as to help more
people achieve and sustain long-term
recovery there now for I Fred Butler
mayor the city of Issaquah do hereby
proclaim the month of September 2017 as
recovery month in the city of Issaquah
and call upon citizens to join me
in observing this month with appropriate
programs activities and ceremony
supporting the year's recovery month and
witness thereof I here and to set my
hand in seal of the city of Ithaca this
18th day of September and so Jerry I'm
delighted to prevent present this to you
but more importantly your role in
helping our community because you live
and breathe all of those square eyes is
that I just said I'm going to give you
an opportunity to say a few short words
I've heard you talk Thank You mayor by
letter thank you to the council very
very short because I keep showing up at
these
I want to thank Friends of youth and
also lakeside Milam recovery centers
those are our two local organizations
that help people with substance use
disorders influence the choice trying to
work in terms of prevention but as
somebody in long-term personal recovery
I want to thank all of the tens of
millions of individuals who have come
before me and have shown me that active
recovery allows you to do this right
because this wouldn't have been my
journey or anywhere close to what I was
capable of doing 25 years ago and so yes
to all of those individuals who have
come before me and hopefully will come
in the future to access services and
find this as well you know that is our
dream so I appreciate it again mayor
butler thank you very much
[Applause]
our next daughter order of business is
audience comments a few words about
audience comments this evening audience
comments an important part of the public
process we take them seriously and
factor them into the decisions that we
make anyone from the public who wishes
to comment on tonight's agenda items or
other topics should do so at this time
please direct your comments to the whole
council and not individuals well this is
not a question and answer session we
will contact you to follow up if needed
if you did not have an opportunity to
include your name and your email address
once you conclude your comments if you
would just fill in the form on the table
in front of me move to the lectern to
speak state your name address and
relationship to the city and limit your
comments to 5-minutes if you have
written comments please submit them to
the clerk visual timer has been placed
on the lectern when it turns yellow
you're within the last minute of your
comment period if you use the full five
minutes the timer will sound to indicate
the end of your allotted comment time
again citizen comments written and
verbal are an important part of the
public process we take them seriously
and thank members of the public for
taking the time to address us during our
meetings and with that I would ask if
anyone has signed up to speak this
evening yes Larry Franks and Robin Kelly
good evening my name is larry franks i
reside at two four zero zero one
southeast one hundred and third street
forty five year resident of Issaquah but
I'm really here to introduce a couple of
folks this is Robin Kelly who is the
executive director of the Friends of
Issaquah Salmon Hatchery so you're
thinking about that that comes out fish
we think it's pretty cute the rail
speaker tonight I'd like to introduce as
Theo who has a fantastic project that he
has been working with and has presented
to a number of organizations and the the
success has been very impressive so far
so Theo I'm going to give it to you
thank you sorry hello everyone I'm
Theodore Kochhar I'm currently a
freshman at Gibbs neck high school here
in downtown Issaquah I'm a boy scout in
case you haven't noticed I'm working on
my Eagle Scout project for the exaust
Salmon Hatchery my project is I'm
selling pavers that can be engraved with
your family name a loved one pets your
company anything that'll be engraved and
then permanently installed into the
Salmon Hatchery the profits all of them
will go directly to the is gloss salmon
hatcheries fishes educational programs
and to make the park a nicer place for
people to visit the project so far is
going very very well our goal was to
sell around 100 bricks and we've sold
over 170
and that has raised over six thousand
dollars today I'm here with Robin Kelly
Larry Franks and my parents Lauren and
Jonathan coach are Mary Lou polloi put
Paulie sorry Eileen barber sorry we we
plan to install the pavers by September
30th but they are engraved in Miami
Florida so there will be a slight delay
when we do engrave them I'll be
accompanied by my troupe sometime in the
future the bricks range from $40 to 100
and if you would love to make your mark
at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery you can
meet me in the back afterwards you know
thank you very much Robin and Larry
Randy Banneker
Thank You mr. mayor members of the
council
I'm Randy Banneker and here on behalf
the Seattle King County Realtors and I
wanted to offer some comments on your
housing strategy first I wanted to thank
you for taking this on it's a it's an
outstanding body of work you're gonna be
debating a number of strategies to
pursue in the next several months I
think and on into the future and I
wanted to just strongly encourage well
let me back up
I think you've identified the right
issues you're looking at growth and the
need to offer more higher density
multi-family housing in Issaquah you're
looking at affordability throughout the
income spectrum and you're looking at
creating housing options for aging
homeowners who want to stay in the
community in which they were in which
they raise their families and the
community that they help build those are
absolutely the right things I would like
to just make a special cheer for some of
the strategies that increase the market
rates supply and I'm just gonna tick
those off I won't use my full time cuz I
know you've got a busy meeting tonight
but strategy one you're exploring
removing barriers to facilitate the
construction of accessory dwelling units
that is an outstanding tool to offer
some increase housing choices into the
community ad use can be a highly
affordable rental unit for someone who
is working is upon maybe beginning their
careers it also a to use also enable
that homeowner to have a little bit of a
revenue stream that can help offset
their mortgage or it can help some empty
nesters stay in their community in their
home a little bit longer I'm gonna jump
to strategy 7 which is mitigating or
offsetting the deterrence to condominium
construction we would like to work with
you on that this is a this is an issue
that needs a fix in Olympia it's the
state condominium act and the
Association of Realtors are very
interested in turning this around right
now just the way the law works pretty
much any condominium that's constructed
and look forward to a lawsuit
construction defect lawsuit doesn't need
to be that way we can protect we can
protect the consumer the buyer the the
soon-to-be homeowner but also create a
level playing field so wet the market
chooses to build condominiums invest in
the community they can do that if they
want to build apartment buildings that's
fine too but right now the tilt is
towards apartments condos are so
important because they offer many for
many new buyers they offer that first
rung on the housing level on the housing
ladder just because they're affordable
and they give folks an opportunity to
start building equity which is a really
key strategy in this market of ours that
is challenging for particularly for
first-time buyers strategy 8 also
incorporates code provisions to increase
the potential diversity of housing types
and again like condos small housing or
innovative ownership housing types can
give folks that first rung on the
housing ladder
it also gives empty nesters a place to
go that isn't the big house they they
raise their family and it allows them to
stay in Issaquah and I think that's
something that is important to promote
I'm gonna leave it there I've got some
greater depth in my notes I'd love to
chat with you moving forward if you have
any questions and I thank you for your
time Randy thank you very very much
[Applause]
Robert Swanson
hello there so my name is Rob responds
and I live at a 26 fourth Avenue
Northeast is squat this is my sixth
meeting sorry about that this is my
sixth meeting I I don't think I've
missed a meeting since I first came to
Grand Ridge I think it was the
elementary school matter of fact I
created a meeting in this COIs Highlands
to go at and I've been to the Board of
Education meeting I've been to the PPC
policy Planning Commission I think I got
that one right
so I'm barely learning things but I'm
moving along and trying to figure things
out I just want to let everybody know so
just in case I am NOT not in my backyard
person okay so I had a little talk with
somebody it was kind of an inside joke a
little bit here but I believe the facts
point out that this is an unsafe
location for the elementary school and
there is better location and by the way
I just found out tonight when I got here
this really isn't what this is all about
tonight so I apologize but hey I got the
place so I'm myzel I did I spent about
eight hours on this thing so anyway
there's a better location I would love
to have a basketball court near my house
I play basketball all the time my
property value would go up I guess
that's a good thing but that would mean
I'd pay more property tax so maybe that
isn't a good thing who knows
I just want to everybody know I was
wrong on some things I thought before
100 I thought it was a hundred million
dollars divided by four sites which is
25 million each which is not in not
correct as a high school requires 30 to
40 acres middle school which is Robert
yes a my honesty III was just reminded
by our city attorney that this is a
quasi-judicial item before the council
based on the closed record and yeah this
is not the appropriate time
I totally understand I I apologize for
that but I would do better I think it's
October 2nd I'm supposed to come is that
correct it's up to you but we'll be
talking about that issue on October this
okay and thank you much I apologize for
that tonight is this all you're going to
talk about I just have pictures hmm I
have pictures of the hill and the cars
driving not good a bike on are you guys
and thank you very much thanks for
coming everybody I appreciate it
there you go save your slide
presentation mayor just to clarify at
the next meeting when this is discussed
by the council there was not a public
hearing it's still quasi-judicial so you
would not be allowed to present your
slides at that time either the time for
making the record was at the PPC when
they held the public hearing presuming
you had the same information and that
would be before the council for their
consideration anyone else signed up to
speak yes Connie Marsh
hi Connie Marsh I live up on squawk
Mountain and I'm I actually signed up
because I have to go to the airport and
run I didn't know how long it would take
it's rare I know so I'm gonna speak a
little bit about the affordable housing
strategies but beginning with the
compact Schools ordinance changes or
proposals I sent you an email and I hope
it was understandable and I hope you all
got to try to muddle your way through it
so I am only going to talk about a
couple of bits of that email and one is
some ideas of what to do with a 90%
impervious surface that they're
proposing now in Highlands and
Central Issaquah plan have those higher
impervious surface ratios because they
did something we have the green necklace
and some expanded landscaping for the
central this COIs plan four to one
exchange for the talus and it's across
islands now in listening to what the
school district says it's like okay
we'll just buy more land and that will
give us more trees which does seem to
sort of be silly so I started trying to
figure out what other things could be
provided that would provide the same
sort of public benefit
in order to offset the increased
impervious surface though perhaps not in
quite such a physical way and one of the
things that I've heard in my many
meetings is our lack of meeting space in
the city of Issaquah and often there's a
conversation about trying to use the
school district facilities but they're
prohibitively expensive for most people
to be able to use so one of my out of
the box proposals is to create a sort of
a Memorandum of Understanding about the
city in some segments of the city being
able to use the school facilities free
of cost right and so that would be a
neighborly thing to do in a community
benefit now it's not a physical thing
but it is at least a benefit and you
might be able to get me to go there the
other thing that was apparent is it
would be far easier just to use the
Issaquah Municipal Code for the
landscaping section as compared to
trying to pull the SIDS in because the
SIDS has all this language saying it's
supposed to be appropriate to the
central Issaquah area that trees have to
be planted in the central is a quiet
area and if you're doing something up in
Providence Heights I don't think you
need to stand up and say well this is
pertinent it'll make the this is just
like we would be doing in the central
area so we're we're actually maintaining
what we want I just don't I don't think
it's pertinent so a few bits changes in
in the Municipal Code I think would make
that more clear and simplified now I'm
moving on to the affordable housing
strategies and I listen to the needs
assessment the other night and it seems
like there's this overlap in my brain of
the needs assessment and the affordable
housing strategies and I'm not really
sure how those two can cooperate an
interface what brought it to mind is I
tried looking for how to get affordable
housing on the website when I was
looking at affordable housing strategies
because the low-hanging fruit to me is
well yeah they might be available but
it's super hard to figure out how to get
them
and that came out in the needs
assessment so it's unclear to me how
those are going to combine to make the
process easier and better and I think
some effort needs to be put into
figuring that out Thanks
Thank You Connie and drive safely
to the airport it's raining out there
Ron Thea
he was gonna take my spot here hi Ron
Tilly superintendent of the s-cross
School District and I too wanted to
speak on the agenda bill on the compact
schools but before I did that I wanted
to just thank the council first and
foremost for this is complicated stuff
the last meeting I was here I think I
went home at about 12:30 a.m. and I know
you all stayed for a few more hours so a
lot of empathy for you there but did
want to you know we in the school
district are very interested in a new
design of school going forward which is
why in part were in support and
requesting some of these code changes to
help us build a more compact school and
again I get that this is complicated
stuff and I do appreciate the work that
you've all done to consider this and the
partnership with the school district as
well so thank you for that and I look
forward to the dialogue later thank you
thank you Ron besa Khalid
good evening I'm Lisa Kalin and the
person is Crosse School District School
Board and I just wanted to mention on
agenda bill 749 which is the uses and
standards related to compact schools
that the school board did pass and with
the unanimous support a resolution for
the recommendations coming forward to
you this evening so I did want you to
know that the electeds were also the
electives around the school board were
in support of this and we appreciated
the conversations that we were able to
have with the policy Planning Commission
as well as the land in short committee
and then looking forward to the
conversation tonight I'm sure in the
staff presentation a lot of information
will unfold and afterwards as we've gone
through a lot of discussion around this
and where we're going in the future I
look forward to extended conversation
and partnerships with what we're doing
with our planning going thank you thank
you Lisa
no one further has signed up to speak
David looks like you got a wrap things
up perhaps unless there's someone else
yes thank you
David Kapler 255 southeast Angeles
Street subject tree retention and
impervious surface trying to compare
site that are not in the central
Issaquah to central Issaquah I think is
a mistake given the requirements in
central is acquired directly tied to
their they're much less because of the
green necklace and the commitment that
developers in that area have to the
green necklace and trails urban village
how did the is how did those minimal
standards for retrieve retention
impervious service happen in the urban
village such as Issaquah Highlands well
the most recent case is the area that's
now Forest Ridge Pine Crest the W
College site in parcel D which have been
dealing with recently to get urban
village standards on that land 140 acres
of permanent open space had to be
dedicated to the city so that was four
to one so there was a big pay that those
people did to change that to get that
minimal standards and impervious and
tree retention one of the complications
in the site potentially up here is short
setbacks when you have just a few feet
literally setbacks in the ordinance
proposed up against hundred foot trees
how do you mitigate how do you deal with
the safety issues how do you deal with
the the the long-term health of that
forest in some cases the long-term
health of that forest is very important
for the view escape and the Woodard
hillsides we have in Issaquah so that is
a complication that needs to be
considered another subject just since
it's got so much on next door 2007 when
I was running for reelection i was in
spent a lot of time in greenwood point
area because everybody was in love with
the city there they craved about new
sidewalks road repair and they were
seeing police car
they had just been annexed they were
very happy I thought about running and
trying to draw bill in that community
right now hopefully the city is going to
figure out what happened to the water
rates there and get that firestorm dealt
with thank you thank you David
anyone Steven I Steve Pereira old town
about ten years now so the first thought
I had was I guess had to do with
communication and transparency issues
three examples that I think weren't
handled as well as it could be that I'd
like all of you to consider going
forward the first was the last City
Council meeting ran until 247 a.m. last
time not a good example for people
getting confidence and buy-in and
communication the next example was that
there with regular meeting agendas and
the moratorium we're having back-to-back
meetings on a whole bunch of different
topics people can't attend on a regular
basis there needs to be a better way to
maybe slow down that process to make
sure people are communicating the third
example is one of the things coming up
is the vertical mixed-use if people were
upset about a five-story apartment
complex I don't think they understand
that we're talking about with high
density bonuses a 10 foot or 10 story
building 125 135 feet without the roof
without the elevator shafts all that I
think we need to start better
communicating what we're talking about
in vertical mixed-use so people don't
get shocked afterwards that something
got passed and later it gets built just
needs to devote more buy-in with that
process second topic I shall pass on and
the second topic is I guess it's the
seven four three nine just the idea of I
can't envision what happens at the top
of the hill when you look at the the
trees I can't our terrorist I can't see
what happens to them being removed
without affecting the lower parcels
including the Tod
spots that still seems like a bad idea
to me
I'd like to comments earlier on the IMC
code and on the density on the four to
one exchange of the property to make
sure we have some value added to that
process Thanks thank you Steve Mary my
name is Mary Lynch and I recited to 69 o
North West Oak Crest Drive I've sent you
several or CCD on several emails I also
this weekend about the construction on
Newports way I really would ask and I've
still not seen is what are the city's
best practices when it comes to
construction zones along roadways and
along pedestrian pathways I have seen
none and it is very obvious there are
none that holds the contractor
accountable for and including Public
Works people on what is being done along
our roadways in the way of construction
zones both by setting up the boundaries
of those by marking them for speed
limits to my knowledge only because I've
worked with one of the public works
engineers and they put up a sign do we
even have a 25 mile an hour's sign today
we finally got double the sign up about
double fines there but I've seen none
and they had to purchase those because
apparently they weren't available in the
city I don't know if we're ticketing
double fine yet but that is Washington
state law if you look at that up and we
look at the regs
you're supposed to clearly identify your
your roadway construction zones you're
supposed to provide for no safe passage
through those zones and especially we
have been promised along Newports way we
have been promised safe walking pathways
and we do not have that and we don't
have the inspection Spector's going out
there and making sure that they're safe
and stay safe and I would ask where are
our best practices where our codes for
construction zones on roadways we don't
have them and we need them so part of
the central area plan part of the
moratorium we ought us put out on hold
until we have that the other thing I
want to talk about is the compact
schools I am not at all I'm one of the
proponents that saying we should have
when I was on the central area plan in
the central area work with the school
districts to get
you know some more standards and some
more designs in for the central area
plan for new schools my concern with
this bill is that go or agenda belt is
going forward it's done very quick when
people out of the the town are not aware
of it and for it to cover all areas of
Issaquah I think is wrong because this
will have impact schools sightings that
are in existing neighborhoods along
creeks and with the type of setbacks and
as it was commented you're not talking
just sixty five foot it can be up above
that with the other equipment that's on
on a roof and for this to be able to
allow to go into an existing
single-family area
this type of compact school I think
needs to have more public input before
it's passed if you want to do it for the
central area plan have no problem with
it but if you're talking in existing
single-family neighborhoods you need to
have more open transparent discussions
of the impact that it's going to have on
those people and also the impact it's
going to have on our streams and our
creeks things that we've tried to
preserve and if we allow for this type
of impervious surfaces and traffic I
think you're you're really asking for it
and you have not done your due diligence
in involving the city we don't have that
support press anymore the reporter
really doesn't do much coverage down
here and there's really not many reach
out to my knowledge to anybody in the
community where this could really have
impact in existing neighborhoods and
it's going to have severe impact so some
of your neighborhoods we also talked
about viewsheds if you put some of these
places where they're talking about
putting them you're going to completely
eliminate view for not even single
family but for the whole stream in the
whole corridor thank you thank you Mary
mr. mayor council I'm Andy Simons I live
at 735 Northwest State wood drive in
Issaquah and I'm a board member for the
east side baby corner and I'm here to
thank you for what I understand will be
a proclamation recognizing diaper needs
Awareness Week which I believe is next
week and just want to thank you on
behalf of the baby corner this is a nice
agency that's located right here in
Issaquah and it serves all the Eastside
Eastside baby corner works with about 50
other agencies partner providers provide
not just diapers but formula as well as
all kinds of needs for children up
through age 12 and we may not realize
this but for the average family diapers
cost about $80 a month and baby corner
has supplied over a million diapers
last year alone so it is a significant
need as we all may realize and again
want to thank you for for your forget
recognition of this Andy
thank you and in the mayor's report I
will mention the the proclamation on
hyper awareness we thank you very
good evening Cheryl Gilbert and I reside
at 40 21 77 thousand years southeast
first of all I want to thank those of
you that took the time to respond to my
emails this week I do appreciate your
time although my comments do relate
specifically to an agenda topic from
your September fifth meeting I do
believe that they're poignant especially
in light mr. mayor of your Proclamation
tonight of this being recovery month a
drug addicts do indeed have a disease
they need help resources and compassion
but a safe injection site provides none
of these these facilities are enabling
drug users not helping them find a way
out I know that two weeks ago at your
meeting you heard from heartbroken
parents who had lost children to heroin
overdoses and while I cannot relate
specifically to the pain of a parent
losing a child I am well acquainted with
the unique type of destruction and
heartbreak that heroin heroin addiction
and overdose in still my mother was an
addict all of my life I have vivid
memories of watching her snort lines of
cocaine in front of me at a very young
age I remember the needle marks and the
blown veins and the sling that she would
wear to hide them I remember her claims
of tennis elbow when asked what the
sling was for I remember the phone call
when I was 24 telling me that she had
died my lifelong dreams of her recovery
dashed with that one monstrous word
overdose I remember retrieving her
belongings from the coroner's office and
the sharp pain in my stomach when the
contents of the bag revealed only a bus
bus pass and drug paraphernalia I'm here
tonight because a safe injection site
would not have saved my mother yes she
may have received medical intervention
on that specific day had she chosen to
be supervised while shooting up but what
then she would have returned to the
streets returned to her demons and found
her next fix and I would still be
standing here before you saying that we
had done nothing to solve the real issue
making heroin use safer will only
encourage addicts to continue using safe
injection sites condone and promote drug
use by providing addicts a space in
which to perform an illegal and
dangerous activity where we the
taxpayers provide them with needles
tourniquets and in some facilities even
cooking supplies for their drugs heroin
heroin will be easily procured from the
dealer's that we've invited into our
community by protecting their illegal
industry and guaranteeing their business
in fact a safe injection site will
increase the drug trade not only by
securing demand but also by ensuring
that any overdose or reaction caused by
tainted drugs will be forted by free
medical intervention when so many of the
risks of illicit drug use are mitigated
so then are many of the reasons for
addicts to take steps toward recovery as
you know there are safe injection sites
in other countries but none of these
have provided either scientific nor
anecdotal evidence to show that their
services actually work to combat the
opioid epidemic as the Human Services
Commission and the council services and
Safety Committee continue to research
and analyze data regarding existing
facilities they will find as I have that
no data exists showing that such
facilities support the goal of reducing
opioid abuse data collected at the
Vancouver Insight shows that users
attend the facility for roughly one in
four of their heroin injections
this means the insite is not getting the
drugs or the needles off the streets as
they had hoped insite claims success in
behavioral risk reduction but using a
clean needle 25% of the time does not
equate to safe drug use practices insite
also proudly lists in its successes that
not one overdose death has occurred in
their facility in 13 years of operation
while this fact holds true the British
Columbia coroner's office released
mortality figures from two thousand
seven to two thousand seventeen
that show a steady increase in overdose
deaths in that region including a 30%
increase just in the past year the
bottom line is this
despite is claims to the contrary
insight simply doesn't work we do have a
drug problem facing our community we do
need to find realistic solutions to this
problem but a safe injection site is not
that solution it is counterproductive to
solving the opioid epidemic I am certain
that if I could have asked my mother in
a moment of clarity whether she would
have preferred a safe place to get high
or resources to help her get her life
back she would have without hesitation
chosen the ladder I hope that this
council can I finish my sentence ok
summarize I hope that this council the
Human Services Commission and the
council services and Safety Committee
will choose the same thank you so much
for your time thank you and would you
provide a copy of your notes to the
clerk please anyone else hello
Elizabeth no Penn 100 Big Bear place
northwest in Issaquah I wanted first to
express my thanks for the work that went
into the community needs assessment I
wish I had been able to be here the
night that you had the presentation on
that I'd like to bring to your attention
a way where you could make transparency
and communication better and that is we
do have channel 21 where you can watch
what's happened but there is no list on
there of when things are coming up and
so very often the thing that you wanted
to see you find part way through by just
keeping coming back to the site
randomly so we really nice if every half
hour or so you have a list of what's
coming up and when it's coming up that
would really help people on the the drug
site there is a Lancet article I believe
it's from 2011 that showed that there
was a 35 percent drop in overdose deaths
in the area around the the insight
injection site there there are some
studies out there it's worth looking at
and a lot of the deaths now have to do
with the lasing of drugs with fentanyl
they do have tests that you that people
can take at the site so if they bring in
the drugs they can test the drugs to see
if they're contaminated we do need to
get not only get people off these
illegal substances that they use to kill
their pain but we also need to find ways
of stopping this contamination which is
so deadly to people so I think there
there are some reasons why these sites
do help people and help the overall
health of the community thank you
Thank You Elizabeth there anyone else
desire to speak this evening who has not
signed up hello first I apologize for
being late but um I've never been here
before
and I was waiting across the street it's
an executive session I thought I was
waiting for the doors to open anyway
thank you for allowing me to speak my
name is Jan Zimmer I live in North Asuka
and I'm a resident and a property owner
regarding the insight the most recent
article I saw regard about insight
indicated overdoses were up 88% they
attributed that to fentanyl but no
matter what they were up 88% they had
now have three facilities versus the
original one that they had there are two
I believe in Vancouver and another one
in us in a suburban area they didn't I
couldn't find any numbers like total
number of people they were treating but
I'm assuming there's a huge increase for
them to now have three centers and their
overdoses are up 88% so I don't see how
in any way that could be things
considered a success and a safe
injection site I'm sure they work with
them to try to talk them into treatment
but it's a safe injection site it proved
it's a place to get clean needles to not
have transmissible disease such as HIV
hepatitis and they treat the reason no
one dies is because they have medical
personnel there and they treat them with
narcan right there when if they're gonna
overdose but they don't what they don't
say is there's people overdosing outside
so I mean granted no one is overdosed
inside but people are overdosing outside
in the area and overdoses are up 88
percent so I don't call that a success
but anyway I'm here to ask that you ban
safe injection sites being located in
Issaquah this is not appropriate for
Issaquah please join Sammamish Bellevue
Redmen Auburn in Federal Way in banning
these sites these sites may decrease the
transmission of diseases through IV drug
use and prevent and/or treat overdoses
in their facilities but they do not
treat the addiction or they do not
cause of people to go into recovery or
treatment to achieve recovery and I was
just kind of responding to what I heard
but I was saying how Vancouver has the
three sites up from the original one and
they're still there overdoses are up 88%
but I like I said I have no idea what
the total numbers are but the fact that
they now have three centers versus one
to me that's proof also that they
attracted people there to do IV drug use
or they wouldn't have those need
threesome you know it would have more
centers and they wouldn't be having the
more more overdoses and I really um if
you don't pass a ban and a safe
injection site is ever located in
Issaquah I believe what will happen this
is what will happen in our city I think
that it will decrease our quality of
life it will decrease our property
values and it will bring crime and
increased number of drug dealers into
our community because these people will
be providing a service of a safe site to
inject drugs but where are the drugs
coming from they're not providing the
drugs so these people are getting the
drugs from somewhere and the drug
dealers are going to know they're gonna
it's gonna become known if we ever had
something like that in our city we'll
just be easy targets and I'm so sad that
I have to come and ask the City Council
to vote on and pass a ban on safe
injection sites that was on the agenda
for the nine five seventeen meeting but
was not passed I am asking you now on
behalf of myself my family the children
of Issaquah and all citizens of Issaquah
in terms of I don't want the current you
know them to be affected by crime and
everything else that goes along with the
people that come with this type of
activity please ban safe injection sites
in the city of Issaquah please thank you
thank you Jan is there anyone else
desiring to speak this evening anyone
else third and final call
seeing no one then audience comments are
closed and will now move to committee
and regional reports beginning with
Mariah Thank You mr. mayor I'll be
attending on Wednesday September 20th
the Eastside Human Services forum board
meeting
in Bellevue and later that afternoon the
Economic Development Commission board
board meeting in Kent at the same time
the king conservation district committee
is also meeting so I'll be attending
economic development since that happens
quarterly and be able to give an update
at the at our next meeting thank you
thank you bill
Thank You mr. mayor the Infrastructure
Committee will be meeting this Thursday
the 21st is 6:30 here in chambers
there's six items on the agenda three
are informational the Issaquah Hobart
study update that's just bringing
information forward and kind of midway
through that study that we authorized
earlier just update us there will be a
discussion with solid waste collection
contract review and also project updates
three items for action will be looking
at a be seventy four sixty nine
franchise agreement with clearer
Wireless also a be 74 68 interlocal
agreement with Sammamish plateau Water
and Sewer District for adjusted sewer
service area and assuming it passes the
consent agenda tonight and bab 7463 will
also be on there with a Washington State
Department transportation right away
even request for maintenance purposes
long Gilman and that will be it for the
Infrastructure Committee last week on
the project on the 8th of September I
attended the site transportation
partnership the main item there was
discussing changes to fees for Metro
update on that and then next next week
on the 27th I'll be attending the
regional transit committee I don't have
the agenda on that yet whose my report
thank you Bill Paul Thank You mr. mayor
on Thursday September 7th I attended the
Puget Sound Regional Council's growth
management policy board meeting number
of items were on the agenda one primary
one was the ongoing discussion about the
proposed updates to the regional centers
framework now the SCA has drafted a
some talking points in the form of a
position paper that is in draft and I
think that our next our meeting next
month I'll be interesting to see if Tola
has an update on how their conversation
went on that but I think that that'll be
something I'll be able to distribute for
consideration for all the council's
comments prior to our meeting next month
another key item for discussion was it's
out there to possibly add major military
instructions to the regional centers
framework and make them eligible for the
the federal transportation funding I can
tell you that the board is very split on
this and SCA is looks like we're taking
a position against it as well because
military installations don't do planning
under the GMA and that's one constant
thing for all centers currently so we'll
see how that ends up but I think again
the SCA will be taking a more strong
position on that and on next on the
September 14th I joined others from the
policy board in in the first meeting of
what's known as the 2018 project
selection task force the PSR C conveying
convenes this task force every two years
to review and possibly update the
policies and guidelines for
transportation project selection I had
mentioned this to some before and only
when I got there that I realize it was
just a policy and guideline update it's
this this task force does not do project
selection so next year the
Transportation Policy Board will use the
updated policies when making its project
funding selections for the years 2021
and 2022 so this meeting that I went to
consisted of a presentation and
discussion about the federal
transportation legislation and funding
programs and background on the existing
policies and procedures for conducting
the project selection process I will say
that PSR C staff mentioned that they
they really don't expect many policy
changes through this process and then
lastly also on September 14th I
attended the art trust fund workshop at
Bellevue City Hall the arts staff the
arts Executive Board and arch Coalition
member jurisdictions were all in
attendance this is the third meeting of
this group for the purpose of reviewing
and funding the trust and review the
funding for the trust fund the first
meeting was held in 2015 and the second
one was a year ago so not a really high
pace of meetings the Executive Board
recommended an update to the suggested
minimums and maximum contributions for
each coalition member to make yearly to
the trust fund that ranges today have
not been updated since they originally
adopted I think in 1999 so this was
overdue for an update so the task force
didn't is not a voting body but there
was general agreement with these
recommendations so the next step is arch
will come to us here in these chambers
and make a presentation to our council
as they're doing to all councils there
will be some follow-up legislation for
us to consider is the Quad City Council
on formally adopting or or or not these
range minimum and maximum trust fund
donation ranges for the city of Issaquah
I don't have a timing for that but I I
was expect it to be within the next two
to four months that concludes my report
thank you Paul of Tola Thank You mr.
mayor the 9-1-1 elite group had an
information session that was held on
Monday September 11th in Kirkland and we
discussed both technical and governance
issues this was not a full meeting of
the leadership group it was sort of an
additional meeting that was offered to
talk specifically in particular around
there is an ongoing question related to
the architecture of what the 911 system
should look like whether it should
basically be an increment of the of the
current system or whether it should be
sort of a large federated database and
it has there's advantages to having a
larger federal
it's system but it's more expensive so
there's a conversation going on about
that it's within the context of finding
out that regardless of what system we
move forward with for nine-one-one the
system is expected to run out of money
somewhere between 20 22 and 20 24 so
additional funding mechanisms to assure
ongoing operation of email in one system
is going to be needed in the future
whether that gets addressed by the e-911
leadership leadership group now is a
subject of some discussion and it's also
influencing this conversation about the
different kinds of architectures as I
mentioned the sound the safety and
Services Committee met on Tuesday
September 12th at 6:30 p.m. here in
Council Chambers we voted 3-2 Oh to move
forward agenda bill 74 31 on Community
Fund grant recommendations we had some
proposed changes that we agree that we
all agreed to we also voted 3-2 o to
move forward a interagency agreement
with the Department of Ecology that was
agenda bill 74 74 we received a really
good report on the activities of the
senior center group they have really
come up with a number a really good set
of criteria for evaluating what a plan
should look like going forward and the
nice thing is it's agnostic to whether
that's a city led effort or an
independent nonprofit led effort the
fundamental concepts of what we want out
of a Senior Center are the same either
way even though the exact operating
model might be different so they've done
a really great job and we were we were
thoroughly impressed Sound city's
association public issues committee met
Wednesday September 13th at 7 p.m. at
Renton City Hall we talked about a
number of issues regional centers did in
fact come up a couple of areas that were
discussed it looks as if the
recommendation would be moving towards
both minimum job criteria and no longer
considering this
years tears of regional center that was
an idea that was being floated that a
number of cities had some serious
concerns with so both of these things
sort of reflect the direction that SCA
pick conversations that gone in pic
wasn't going to take a formal position
or well being picked members are
involved in the process but sorry SCA
members are involved in the process pic
it's not taking a formal position but
the the general tone of the conversation
was very positive and it was not
previous conversations on this topic had
gotten feisty this was not a
particularly feisty conversation we
discussed the veterans seniors and human
services levy that is gonna be on the
ballot this fall it was mentioned that
the county is happy to come out and
discuss what that levy is I would
suggest that we might want to see if we
could get that before Election Day it
isn't taking a position on it it's just
understanding what's in it and what the
implications would be both from a
taxation standpoint and a services
standpoint and we discussed the metro
flat fair proposal that's going that's
going to be going through that looks
like it's very good indeed for people in
Issaquah that commute into the city it's
you know every every time you look at
different financing you sort of create
winners and losers and this is one that
without oversimplifying is like I said
really good for folks who are coming in
from the outer parts of the county and
then it probably hits folks who are just
meeting with in Seattle at the other end
of the spectrum they're probably facing
higher fares so but it's good for us and
then we had a report on this state
legislative session this year the big
item of course was that there was no
capital budget passed due to a variety
of complicated reasons that you asked
three different legislators and will
give you different answers on why that
happened but that is unfortunate from
the point of view of municipalities this
was also discussed at the
at the networking dinner that was held
the previous week where a number of
state legislators both House members and
state Senate members I came and
discussed the legislative session with
us and the the lack of a capital budget
was absolutely considered the the single
biggest negative issue to come out of
that probably followed by trying to
understand the financial ramifications
of resolving the Clary decision and the
impacts that it will have on school
districts in in King County this
concludes my report Thank You Tola
Eileen no report this evening Thank You
mr. mayor my first report is on the
great aristocratic immerse where I sit
as a council liaison I attended with
City Administrator Bob Harrison on
September 15th Bob did most of the
updates which included discussing some
new developments potential school
building sites a new Costco office
building apartments at Gateway in Vail
and some construction of new roundabouts
in town we also provided an update on
the moratorium the chamber wanted to
make sure that the city was made aware
of its great appreciation for all of the
support and investment that goes into
salmon days in general question and
answer there was a discussion about the
safe injection sites
ban proposal that was put in front of
Council also interest in the transit
oriented development project and the
possible use of multifamily tax
exemptions for that there wasn't asked
on behalf of the chamber that as the
council reviews the new architectural
and urban design standard guidelines
that we look at projects that may be in
the works right now to make sure that
the outcomes we're hoping to achieve we
actually do achieve and I think that was
it for that meeting I attended the
Eastside Fire and Rescue Board of
Directors meeting on September 14th it
was a meeting where there was an
introduction of an additional five new
recruits this year the local reported
out a successful fundraiser for a mass
that raised almost $25,000 a few weeks
back fill the boot
fire chief gave some information in his
briefing on the an update on the P Foss
issue that has been discussed both in
Council and at efer discussion of the
wildland activity and where our our fire
staff is currently deployed an update on
the volunteer program which is currently
being revamped also there was a vote on
the capital facilities replacement fund
an item that I brought before Council
this policy was adopted with the aspire
representatives not voting in favor of
the all of the policy that was presented
if you can remember this goes back to
who would pay for maintenance of
non-standard items at fire stations
after a discussion with you both
councilmember barber and I voted against
leaving that item in for now
the board decided to leave it in and
there are ongoing conversations right
now I believe the first of several
meetings today between Eastside Fire &
Rescue and our facility staff occurred
where they will work on language that
may be used in a Memorandum of
Understanding that we will likely see a
future date to address the issue that
both councilmember barber and I were
concerned about a large presentation
there was the presentation part two of
the standards of cover this is a new way
of looking at it's a new service
delivery model I did send you a summary
that the fire chief issued the day after
the board meeting I thought it was very
well written if you have any questions
on what exactly the new standards that
cover may or may not look like or what
this exercise looks like we could do it
it for good of the order tonight or at a
future meeting and that was it
Thank You mr. mayor thank you Mary Lou
spaceman Thank You mr. mayor Landon
Shore met on September 7th and we first
talked about agenda bill 74 59
termination of Costco easement this is
an easement that was created
let me see how many years ago is that
about 30 years ago and Costco is asking
us to terminate a portion of an easement
on its property for various reasons one
is because they are in the process of
planning to build a building in the area
and it it may look like the city the
city may have an obligation to terminate
that easement but the we did not make a
decision we are going to talk about it
one more time it looks like at our next
meeting the first Thursday in October
and likely come back with a
recommendation to the full council then
we also discussed a vertical mixed-use
regarding the moratorium and that was a
last look before the next step which is
to draft code and bring it forward as an
agenda bill we also reviewed agenda bill
73 40 the Housing Strategy which is on
our agenda tonight we also again talked
about agenda bill 73 26 old town sub
area plan and that's continuing to be
worked on and we'll come back to Landon
Shore again also on the agenda tonight
agenda bill 74 39 which is the codes
regarding compact schools and that's
coming forward with recommendations from
Landon Shore and we were going to
discuss agenda bell 73 12 which is the
2017 regional agenda a couple of the
different elements in that plan but it
was getting late and it was a week where
we had already had a fairly late meeting
so we are going to discuss that at our
next meeting also as my fellow council
members are aware and the audience is
aware as well because you listen to some
comments about it tonight at our
September 5th meeting we had an agenda
bill before us 74 71 which was the safe
injection sites
and because naturally that is attracting
a lot of attention in the community and
I think there is some misunderstanding
about the what that agenda belt was all
about and a little bit of
misunderstanding and perhaps fear about
what the council decided to do I thought
it was appropriate to say a few words
these are the words I'm going to say are
the largely the responses that I have
been sending to folks who are emailing
the entire council which is my
responsibility to to respond on behalf
of the entire council although
individual council members can respond
as well so I wanted to I what I wanted
to say is that first by way of
background and clarity agenda bill
seventy four seventy one was an agenda
bill that proposed opposing safe
injection sites and that agenda bill
came forward from the mayor so rather
than take action when the bill came to
council which was the first time the
bill came to council and it was on
september 5th the council referred the
bill to the Human Services Commission
and then to the services and Safety
Committee before it returns to the full
council so now as I understand it King
County and the City of Seattle are
interested in implementing a task force
recommendation for two pilot sites one
in Seattle and one in the county however
it's also my understanding that the King
County Council earlier this summer I
believe late July voted to limit the use
of county funds for establishing the
sites only in cities whose elected
officials choose to locate a facility in
their community so to be clear the
Issaquah City Council is not considering
safe injection sites rather the council
is in effect gathering process to learn
more about such sites the mayor's
proposed bill opposes locating a safe
injection site in Issaquah and there has
been no discussion about locating one
here so the next step is that the
Issaquah is that this Human Services
Commission will take up this topic at an
upcoming meeting perhaps in October but
that meeting has not been finalized yet
and anyone may subscribe to receive an
email update
via the city's website there is a web
page where you can elect to receive news
flash information about upcoming
meetings and I'll try to give you the
website in just a minute then that bill
would go to the council services and
Safety Committee and then it would
return back to the full council so again
the issue is not about consideration
about locating site in Issaquah it's
about learning about those safe
injection sites and what just what they
are so if I can get this to work if you
would like to sign up for subscriptions
to get news information that would be
Issaquah wad of slash forward slash list
dot aspx thank you
Thank You Stacey briefly I proclaimed
September 16th October 14th as the East
nine month of concern for hunger and
strongly urged all citizens to join the
emergency feeding program Issaquah food
bank and other area food banks to share
what they can to nourish those who are
hungry and as you heard during audience
comments I have also proclaimed
September 25th to October the 1st as
cyber Awareness Week and again and
strongly encourage our citizens to
donate generously to diapered banks
duiker hyperdrives
and those organizations that distribute
diapers to families in need to help
alleviate diaper need in Issaquah and
nearby communities and with that that
concludes my report this evening we'll
now move to the consent calendar I would
ask if the accounts payable and payroll
of September 18th have been reviewed
they have you and then I would ask that
the consent calendar be read into
record the consent calendar was
distributed to council in advance for
study if authorized council action will
occur by single motion regarding the
following items item a seeks approval
approval of the accounts payables in
payroll of September 18th item B seeks
approval of the minutes of the regular
meeting of September 5th item C a b7 34
to architectural fit in urban design
seeks referral to council and in short
committee item D a B 7 4 4 3 Recreation
registration and scheduling software
professional services agreement seeks
referral to council services and safety
committee item EA B 7 4 6 3 washed-out
right-of-way easement request for
maintenance purposes seeks referral to
council infrastructure committee item F
a B 7 4 7 to Providence Point
signalization seeks referral to council
services and safety committee item G a B
seven four seven for interagency
agreement with Department of Ecology for
Washington Conservation Corps Services
seeks authorization this concludes the
reading thank you does any council
member desire to remove any item from
the consent calendar for separate
consideration AC I would move to adopt
that consent calendar as presented
second moved and seconded all those in
favor signify by saying aye those
opposed that carries unanimously moving
now to regular business there are four
items under regular business business
for the this evening the first is agenda
bill 74 39 amending IMC code 18 point
zero seven point four eight zero
community facilities standard and there
are a lot of other words that go with
that title and I've asked that
like she's getting things set up I
apologize
that's okay
Jennifer woods from development services
thank you for introducing me and thank
you for giving me a second pull up my
powerpoint I appreciate that so staff
has a really a brief presentation and
then after that we're here for your
questions and anything you have for us
during your discussion so we're gonna
jump right into it why why amend the
code the is Crosse School District is
looking for four new school sites in
Issaquah and reducing the requirements
will improve their property acquisition
opportunities the current code requires
that development standards for schools
meet the most restrictive contiguous
zoning so that could be a single-family
zone
additionally the current code allows
existing non-conformities to be expanded
when certain criteria are met for
example the two that we've seen with
current projects have been height and
impervious surface so this is a big
table but as background this slide is
intended to highlight where the
administration and PPC differed and it's
literal it's highlighted so the two
differences are impervious syrup and
pervious surface excuse me and the
applicable tree code the administration
recommended 90% impervious the PPC
recommended 75% impervious the PPC
recommended a different impervious
surface though no additional analysis
was provided at that meeting and it
appeared to be really the middle ground
between what the existing requirements
are and what the administration was
proposing the administration proposed
excuse me the administration recommended
90% impervious because one it was
requested by the ISD and to limiting the
impervious surface less than the
allowance that was approved for
Cinderella so call or the urban villages
seemed somewhat inappropriate so the
administration proposed to use syndra
low squat tree retention minimum tree
density and tree replacement and the PPC
recommended
who used the IMC tricot a reduce
requirement for tree retention would
allow schools to be sited with smaller
footprints and 0% tree preservation
would allow for the smallest footprint
possible
so how impervious and the tree retention
affect our land requirements is provided
on the next slide so so you didn't have
to do a lot of math tonight we did some
poor yeah the application of these
different code provisions affects the
total footprint of schools so the siting
acreage is both the traditional and
compact or real numbers that we
collaborated with we got from those from
the school district so I'll give you a
second to look over these numbers and
we're more than a second if you need
more than a second and let me know if
you have any questions about this table
it might be helpful if somebody kind of
explained what we're looking at alright
so the current I'll go column by column
how about that so current sighting
Anchorage is what your traditional
school sighting acreage would be for a
high school middle school in elementary
school that would be 40 20 and 13 acres
respectively for compact sighting
acreage for just say it's 75 percent and
pervious surface they would need 39
33.9%
for high school alum point - excuse me
acres for a high school 11 point 2 acres
for middle school and some point 2 acres
for an elementary school and what what
these difference columns are trying to
do is kind of give you a level of
comparison to kind of see how the
different code requirements could impact
the overall footprint so if you add the
imc tree code you can see the additional
acreage needed to to meet their siting
requirements there to be a little higher
if you use the central Issaquah tree
code those requirements are exactly what
they would need for the compact sighting
acreage if we were to amend the code to
allow for 90% impervious 29.5 acres
would be what was needed for what would
be needed for a high school excuse me
9.7 acres is what they need for a middle
school and 6.3 would be needed for an
elementary school and as we can see if
we if we used the imc tree code those
numbers are higher versus if we were to
use Cinderella squad they'd obviously be
exactly what they needed for their
sighting requirements does that kind of
help explain the table a little better
maybe
okay I'll me I have one more slide so if
we have more questions we always have
opportunities for this so we do have the
administration believes that based on
additional comments received following
Council committee that the existing tree
code should stay the same as what it is
today
which would be the IMC tree code
additionally there are some pieces of
code language that could benefit from
clarification about because the ISD is
looking for property right now these
non-substantive clarifications can wait
possibly until 2018 so the update that
you see on your screen to the proposed
motion could be amended to reflect the
additions mentioned and I'm going to go
ahead and read those so the motion could
read move to adopt the ordinance subject
to the following editions so the first
one is what I I mentioned at the very
beginning of talking about this slide
which would be to revise the draft code
to remove all proposed revisions to tree
retention minimum density and
replacement in effect that would leave
the existing regulations to cover those
which would be the IMC tree code and the
second council member Ramos requested
that you all maybe consider number two
which would be to direct the
administration to explore the creation
of a separate zone for public schools in
2018 which would include a clean up to
code revisions adopted this evening
where conflicts exist for example
architectural compatibility so that
concludes my presentation and if you
have any questions we are here to answer
them for us if you if you do have it yes
thank you
so I have question when you're
referencing AIA the existing Municipal
Code and in your your additions they're
number one
remove all proposed provisions to
treatment attention
I just want to make it I want my make
sure my understanding is clear that is
would the code that applies wouldn't
necessarily be IMC but it would would
depend on where the property is located
so because we have different codes so if
the if the if the land purchased was
within the central Issaquah area and
that tree code would apply if it's
outside the central squat area then the
other code the underlying code would
apply unless it was within a development
agreement area and then perhaps if there
are if there are stay if there are terms
in that agreement that would apply yes
okay absolutely all of the above okay
and has the school just as its Crosse
school district asked the city to
consider a separate zone for schools no
that was not part of the request okay
and also the proposed code applies to
public schools so it would apply to all
public schools not just Issaquah school
district schools correct so what about
the Bellevue college site I mean I think
I know the answer but I want it talked
about publicly so currently as you know
the Bellevue college site is regulated
under the wash'd TDR development
agreement which is the fun thing that
we've been to be talked about one of the
last meetings - if that with the
dividend of develop excuse me with the
end of the development agreements you're
seeing the process unfold of how we
would basically terminate one of those
development agreements and create
replacement regulations so the same
thing would happen if the Bellevue
college site if we had to retire that
particular da we would be looking at the
process of replacement regulations the
same as as we're
terminating as highlands and several
other development agreements in Tallis
okay okay so okay that's what that's all
I have right now and thanks oh you know
for earlier slide you showed the table
we have side-by-side comparison of the
administration's proposal essence okay
do you now the first proposed change you
had on the I should have had you read
that first change again how does it
change this slide you're talking about
the very last slide with the possible
update to the motion hmm the basically
what would happen would be PPC's
recommendation the existing requirements
is what would be in effect if we adopted
the updated motion number one and that
just retains two pertains to tree
retention retention replacement and
minimum density the three are kind of
coupled together in the codes right okay
so that's quite so that's different than
what was presented to and we discussed
that was different than what the
administration presented to our
committee laying in short committee
could you could you give a little bit
how did you get to this place the update
to the motion number one was a
reflection of a lot of the public
comment that we've received between that
time that meeting and now could you tell
me more what what anymore
okay what comment tell me what tell me
what it drove this change signals for
your suggestion public comment that we
received really focused around sites
that are outside of say central Issaquah
may not it may not reflect the same kind
of tree retention character that other
areas outside of central Issaquah might
might need to retain and that was the
the gist of the the comments that we got
were maybe it's out of character for
other areas to have a tree code that's
really meant for central squad
okay I have some more questions but I'll
let you let others if they have any
I don't you Paul continue so the there
were heard some comments tonight about
the impervious services in the in the
central area code there being a tie to
the green necklace and trails I hadn't
heard that before I was wondering if he
could speak to that and that and I
haven't had the opportunity sitting up
here this evening try to look that up
but there was a claim so so I think the
what we the proposal in front of us
still has the pervious surface
recommendation from the administration
in it and the comments I heard this
night this evening had to do with that
the 90 percent which were per the
central is a cost standards were or
actually they're different they're
actually higher than that in some cases
or as a result of the commitment to the
green necklace and trails within the
central area Runner of the
administration could speak to that that
ty good evening mr. mayor City Council
Keith Niven director of development
services so my understanding is that
connection is made in central Issaquah
planned action is and you know if you
look through the city code I think you
would be hard-pressed to find any
connection between impervious limits and
trails so where we are is regardless of
what it says in the EIS I think what
impervious limits really relate to is
it's a stormwater
it's a stormwater criteria basically and
with the adoption of the new end PDS
phase 2 which now requires low-impact
development as your first choice which
means that every property needs to look
at the opportunities for infiltration
having pervious surfaces is a
character issue more than it is a
stormwater issue because from a
stormwater standpoint you can basically
build a bigger detention vault you can
relate you can release your stormwater
at whatever rate it is you want to
engineer it for and so the the rationale
for limiting impervious for stormwater
reasons is I think fairly non-existent
in the city at this point there's other
things that affect the amount of
impervious that you can get on every
piece of property critical areas tree
retention as we've talked about there's
other limitations that would affect the
ultimate amount of impervious surfaces
that you could build on your property I
think what we're saying is that should
not be a driving design criteria for the
compact schools and by putting it in
ninety percent it basically becomes now
not what's going to drive the
development of the property or the
acquisition of the amount of property
that they would need to buy I hope that
helps well the first part of your answer
did address that you're you're telling
me you think though there is a planned
action associated with the central area
and that the development of parks and
trails were part of that consideration
that I think you're saying there is you
don't believe that there's a direct tie
between this impervious requirements and
the central is a cost standards and that
plant and and and that type of trails
and in the park there so are you saying
then that there's nothing here in this
proposal there is no planned action here
there still would have to be you know
SEPA done and every one of them and a
and a storm retention and a storm
retention plan so every so unlike what's
required or available in the central
area we're if if if this was outside the
central area they still would have to do
SEPA absolutely okay thank you
very low super cute
we had chatted this afternoon about if
Jennifer could put back up the slide
with the alternative motions we had
talked about another alternative motion
this afternoon art direction not turned
admission and a question I had for you
was that in the code that we're looking
at tonight there's a cross reference to
central as the quad design standards for
all landscaping and my question to you
was that are more of a comment was I
didn't feel like that added a lot of
clarity for a developer or a builder to
have to go from one code to another and
especially where that code may have had
content that's applicable and content
that is central is quest specific and I
think the direction that I had proposed
and I just want to see if if you didn't
put it up there because you don't agree
with it or you think we should look at
it it was to direct the administration
in the in the following year in 2018 to
clean up the code that we're looking at
tonight where all references to
landscape code was in the one code for
schools rather than forcing people to go
to other codes that code in centralist
the SIDS was not included in our agenda
bill and while it's probably really
great code we approved it once it's odd
that we didn't actually look at it or
talk it as part of this agenda bill so
I'm assuming it's great code but I
wonder why you know with references to
green necklace maybe even the promenade
and other things that don't relate at
all to this if that is feasible to
direct the administration to do that
kind of cleanup next year so that we can
get on with this year and get going but
at least get it cleaned up so absolutely
and I actually didn't not put it here
because so I actually think - is that
and a little bit bigger so although we
talked about landscaping specifically
this afternoon I think there's some
other pieces like the architectural
compatibility which wants to have a
bigger conversation in our community
you know we're going through
architectural guidelines for central
Issaquah right now which says public
buildings should actually stand out and
be somewhat prominent and having that
conversation about schools I think we
need to have that but I think we've
already committed to going back to PPC
to have this not going to use the word
urban to have a compact schools
conversation with them from a policy
standpoint I think we can do some of
that clarification including talking
about the landscaping piece which I
agree there's some conflicting parts to
that so it's my intent was that that was
wrapped into two etc yes it's it's when
I read number two Keith's what it looks
like to me that sounds like a separate
zoning classification and what I'm
talking about is cleanup of the code not
as don't know I think it's to do both
because I think we need to have that
conversation about the merits I mean if
if the council adopts this as proposed I
think what we would do would be to have
a conversation about the merits of a
separate zone for schools and what that
would mean to the school district and
they would need to be part of that
conversation because there may be some
unintended consequences to doing that we
need to wrap that conversation into that
before we did anything with that one but
that was brought up I think at least
once or twice by councilmember Ramos and
maybe by a councilmember winter Stein
then in the four examples architectural
compatibility was one SIDS landscape
standards was another is there more on
that list of stuff just to be sure we're
all clear with that clean up like or is
it just those two there's probably a
little bit more so there was a so the
section of code with within cff that we
were proposing the edits to also
included some small housekeeping items
there was a section on Old Town
exclusions for Old Town I think we need
to talk about that we kind of struck
through most of that paragraph but it's
really not related to compact schools
it's really just a code cleanup that I
think we couldn't help ourselves that it
needed to
get cleaned up and so we did that so I
think going through it a little bit more
protracted next year when we have a
little bit more bandwidth is what I'm
proposing one last question if for some
reason the school district and the
administration have a conversation
offline and decide a separate zone isn't
required how do we then get the clean up
of the code that you're talking about I
think so so we're going back to planning
policy commission in the first half of
2018 we've already made that commitment
I think right now it looks like I think
there's at least two pronged
conversation along with the policy so
maybe it's three so it's separate code
it's clean up and then it's any policies
for the comp plan that might want to
come back for compact schools so you're
pretty comfortable - what we have is
good for the short term because we have
this plan for some additional cleanup
next year yes perfect thank you thank
you seeing no other questions this is
coming back from the land and you
actually do have a question Keith or
Jennifer could you explain can you go
all the way back to the beginning of the
genesis of this and this generated I
believe notifications to all the
property owners within a thousand feet I
believe of cff zoned properties and so
that's that was a proposal to change
code for not just schools but government
buildings right originally originally we
did include government facilities and
the amendments and they were removed as
a part of the recommendation that came
out of PPC so this would oh this would
not apply to all cff zones but this bill
it was part of that process that started
that process and it's that it's just now
school so I just wanted that public to
understand that it wouldn't apply to all
cff zoned properties
no um since my name isn't mentioned a
couple of times I uh speak up here so so
yeah the the problem I was having and I
talk to keep that desert and that's why
item two is up there is I was having a
very difficult time reading to this I
mean I seriously couldn't tell what I
was really voting on between the way it
was referring back and forth to things
and here to the IMC and there the CIP
and then it was Exhibit C but the
wording was bluntly if you ask me right
now without any explanation we've talked
about just my going over this thing
about six times I couldn't tell you
right now exactly what the details are
what I'm voting for
that's the problem I was having and so
that's what I'm saying
if I can't read it and I'm of normal
intelligence and I can't make sense of
it then how can anybody else who's
reading it and that's that's my big
concern I just can't I can't make sense
of it by itself with an explanation like
this it brings it all to light and it
puts it together but that's not what's
written in the code that we're voting on
and that's the problem I'm having and
that's why I understand we can't do that
in now because of timing and workload
and so forth
but that really concerns me because
literally you asked me to vote on
something that I can't I couldn't take
this and show it to somebody say see
this is what it says we're going to do I
can't do that
and so that's you know cleaning it up
next year is okay but I have to vote on
it tonight
that leaves me in a awkward situation
that I don't like to be in because I
understand the concept but I can't read
it that way and I can't I have a hard
time voting on something I can't truly
understand so that was what Keith came
up with and try to solve that force in
next year but that's as close as we
could get so that's kind of where I was
at trying to figure that out and and
just to go in a little bit more the some
of the comments that I'll come up with
in an audience as well was talk about
the the
the highlands and those agreements that
were four to one mitigation for open
space versus impervious areas that there
were they we did have mitigation for
those things where we went higher
impervious and so I'm not sure exactly
how those work as well because if you
have a twenty five percent tree
retention and you go 90 percent
impervious the math doesn't work for me
there either and so I'm not sure you
know the point of this is to use less
acreage and I understand that and also
to me the point is have the school
district have some clarity of what you
need but I'm not sure you know this gets
there either because what you're telling
me is up to 90 percent impervious which
is what we can do now with with
variances as well we could make that
variance but it doesn't guarantee 90% in
Pervis because you have to look at each
site specific and try to figure out how
to deal with the issues on that site
whatever that site is because we don't
know which site we're talking about here
right that's that's concern it's not
we're not looking at the site we're
looking at but at least four possible
sites and we don't know where those are
and so how can we really say what we're
gonna do on those sites before we know
what the site is so I'm an old
environmental analysis person and it's
like you have to look site-specific say
okay this site you can do this this will
work fine in this site maybe you can't
maybe you have to mitigate somehow and
I'm fine and working with the school
just in mitigation and and trying to
keep that site smaller and maybe agree
into off-site mitigation that would make
that smaller site work so we can still
get what what everybody needs and that's
the kind of thing that I would like to
somehow get addresses saying we can keep
it as small as possible with off-site
mitigation as needed to take care of
those things that that environmental
wise we need to look at because whether
you're building a school a classical
warehouse or my house or anything else
development is development and its
environmental consequences to that and
it doesn't matter what the development
is to the environment it's a development
whether it's what you think it's a good
one or a bad one that you still have to
deal with the mitigation and
environmental analysis of each of those
things and we're
got a way to do that so that's where I
get a little Lawson and saying what 90
percent with what you're saying me that
may not be so and so if you use those
numbers you had on one chart where yeah
the different acreage is so so they're
between seven point one and six point
three acres in for an elementary school
why you want the surety of that will
work and and what we're saying is we're
not sure
ninety percent will always be the option
until you look at the site specific
issues so that doesn't necessarily save
you that acreage in the you know when
you're looking at possibilities and may
in the long run so and I think that's
what you're trying to do to be able to
buy something that'll fit there again
I'm not sure that we're getting where we
want to get to here and those are my
last oh I want a plus one to Bill's
concerns around what does it look like I
mean we have we have pretty aggressive
standards right now in the valley and
out going in our urban centers about
allowing for fairly high density
development and so to go to allow beyond
that to go to ninety percent or a
hundred percent I personally want to
understand does that mean that there
will be mitigation elsewhere I mean I
there are certainly sites
it may mean there are certainly sites
out there that cry out for a very
high-density school and I want to help
try to make that happen but I also feel
like if we're gonna go beyond the
standards that we already have in these
locations I'd really like to see
mitigation so the I guess the question I
have is with the language that we have
proposed or I should say the language
the administration suggests s-- for this
evening would that mean that going to
ninety or a hundred percent would have
integration and then who would decide
whether those mitigations are sufficient
for for moving beyond the standards that
we already had any
in these parts of the city so I guess my
question is what mitigation are you
talking about mitigating what what
impact are we mitigating trees so tree
is tree retention right and so what
we're talking about is there's still a
tree retention code and the debate
between the administration and PPC was
whether it was central Issaquah
standards which could allow you to
reduce trees down to zero which is why
if you look at if the smallest footprint
up there is 90 percent impervious and
central Issaquah tree standards that's
the smallest column up on that chart
what you're hearing from us tonight is
the administration has pivoted its
recommendation to say we believe that
trees should be wherever they are so if
the school is located in central
Issaquah so there's an incentive for the
school district to potentially purchase
a site in central Issaquah if they want
to build say an elementary school on six
point three acres however if they build
it outside and we approve the 90%
impervious now they're up to seven point
one acres because the extra land is
basically trees because within the IMC
you can only reduce trees down with
certain percentage not all the way down
to zero so that's the Delta in land on
this chart all right okay okay so that's
why this charts I think really important
because it shows you plugging the
different variables together results in
a different footprint in land that they
have to go out and buy they will know
based on what we do tonight what column
they're gonna be in right so they'll
know whether it's it's potentially
column four or column three as an
example so did that help I think so so a
hypothetical let's say somebody was
going to build a school in Dallas yes
which I don't think anybody's currently
thinking about building a school in
Dallas but who knows
the future is unwritten so that would
mean that right now an elementary school
in Dallas if we move forward with the
administration's recommendation
would need to be on a seven point one
acre parcel because it would have to
follow the tree code from the IMC so
following so that one's a little
complicated because we're in a we're in
a development agreement that's gonna
sunset right now so that's a
conversation actually and that's
happening concurrently to this tomorrow
night PPC and you VDC are meeting in
here to talk about just that so right
now the recommendation coming out of end
of days is for the tree code to be
central Issaquah so right now if that
gets adopted and you guys get to do that
action and the public school went into
talus they would get to use central
Issaquah standards which would allow the
trees to go down to zero but what we're
recommending is to have a more
protracted conversation about this
because I think we see the concern with
some of that so I will have that
conversation with the end of the
development agreements but I think we'll
also be planning to have that
conversation with PPC in terms of the
school policies and the clarification of
the standards which will be coming up in
the first half of next year so in fact
this wouldn't necessarily tonight give
the school district surety on how big of
a parcel or how big of a school that we
need to build on any given parcel
because there's a conversation tomorrow
that would so and then down the road a
further conversation with council right
so I would say that so you picked
probably the one option that was the
ones still moving yeah so yeah so let's
take a different site okay let's let's
say they want to build a school in South
Cove so we want to build something so
they want to they want to build a school
in South Cove right so South Cove is IMC
and depending on where you land on
impervious if it's 90 then they'd be in
the second to last column so they could
be thirty three ten point nine and seven
point one likewise if if they were to
acquire providence Heights
then same column if it's 90% if you guys
side with PPC and stay with 75% those
numbers change but they know what they'd
have to go by there's surety for them
the only one that's a little variable as
if they were to pick a village one of
our one of our ending development
agreement villages that's not likely
would that be you know I don't know I
[Laughter]
wasn't actually asking you to estimate
how likely that would be to have just to
clarify that wasn't actually a question
is rhetorical questions Stacy thank you
by the way Keith that was extremely
helpful
I was going to make emotional as there
are other questions so this is a little
unusual and so we don't typically have a
different administration's
recommendation come forward after we've
already had the committee review this
and so with sort of head nods of my
fellow committee members Mary Lou and
Paul what I was thinking about doing is
making the motion that is in the packet
and then will disclosure I was going to
go ahead and then amend that motion
reflect number one and we can deal with
both of those things separately but I
don't think it would be right for me to
assume and and make one of these I agree
with that
well okay there we understand that okay
I would move to adopt ordinance number
two eight oh six amending Issaquah
Municipal Code section 18.0 7.48 o
community facilities standards and
central Issaquah development and design
standards chapter 4.0 zoning districts
uses and standards to include standards
for the siting of public schools and the
community facilities facilities owning
districts second moved and seconded
discussion
Stasi there's I'm gonna be commotion I'm
gonna go ahead and make a motion to
amend the motion with number one motion
to amend to revise the draft code to
remove all proposed revisions to tree
retention minimum density and
replacement okay
moved and seconded all so to the
amendments up to this point we've had a
lot of exchange with the school district
representative during our meetings and
everything so I haven't I'd like to know
what the school district has said about
the this tree change Keith or Jennifer
there's been no objection to from the
ISD front for about changing the tree
requirements so this one this proposal
to use imc if it's outside the central
area the central area if it's inside for
a tree retention you've had that
conversation with the school district
yes and they're okay with this yes
Stacy I the reason I my understanding
based on the may letter that we receive
from the school district that they
didn't one of the they never had they
never asked for any changes in the tree
code was not among the list of requests
that's in our packet
well for everybody off-camera I mean
their school district representatives
here and they're doing a conversation
right now
sure to comment sure so I I support this
motion this was one of the ones that
also came up at Landon Shore and talking
about the amend the amendment
yes making Fred to use the IMC and I
think because it is really important for
us to work with the school district to
get this over the end line now so that
stuff can start happening I think this
was a this was a good change and when
there's more information next year maybe
there'll be some compelling reason or a
request from the district to do it but
for now I'm much happier using the IMC
code for the tree retention I'm going to
support the amendment Araya so I just
wanted to +12 what councilmember Polly
just talked about it didn't make sense
to me to have the tree code for the
central is a qua plan in this regard so
having that change and and the
administration bringing forward to
change I appreciate that and would
support that Stacey and I support this
as well I wrestled with this at Landon
Shore and maybe I'm a little bit thick
but it took me a few days to figure out
why and that's because it's there the
land wouldn't necessarily be in the
central Issaquah area the land could be
elsewhere and so it didn't make sense to
go with central Issaquah area standards
for land that could be outside that area
all good good staff point out for us so
we have in the packet an updated version
of IMC 1807 including 1807 480 and in
the table that I think is included there
is no mention of tree retention and and
so for everybody who's got the packet
and who's flipping madly this is all
part of a pen exhibit see where it shows
the actual track changes additions and
deletions on the on the code the page
well in the PDF its page 369 a 499 so
there were some comments earlier about
what are we actually considering and
there and the motion we're considering
is actually referring it does include
this exhibit by inclusion so this thing
here you can all see so I want to know
from this staff how this conversation
about two things I want to know how this
conversation about treated retention
shows itself if it does at all or if it
even needs to in this section or change
and also I'd like to know that in the
upshot of your conversation with the
school district just moments ago I can
answer the first part of that question
thank you so in the legislative edits
for the code I think you would had
wanted the reference for how we were
requiring centralist quadtree code is
that is that the first part of your
question
we're considering amendment to use to
strike you're consider your reference to
apply the central Issaquah where is that
here so in the Legislative edits it's
actually on page 371 of the PDF of
packet page 38 of the code amendments of
exhibit
I think it's exhibiting see there are
two page numbers on there so I'm giving
both references it's number under number
14 it says projects must comply with
centralist across standards including
landscape for structure Park I'm
paraphrasing landscape for structured
parking areas minimum tree density tree
retention tree replacement those last
three pieces are I believe what you're
referring to how we are in the code
basically directing the school
development to to meet the centralist
quadtree standards okay so this
amendment we're considering actually
strikes the last three phrases it
strikes minimum tree density tree
retention and tree replacement yes okay
thank you yeah there it is right there
where the cursor is thank you so any
other Keith's you have any other
information you can share with us so you
know I want to want to speak for the
school district I mean so the proposal
is is about you know it for them as the
chart showed it requires them to buy
more land because there's a requirement
for more trees and so it's really about
trees and cost and so it's an issue it's
a very much a character issue for our
community we talk about trees an awful
lot and so if if I were to tell you that
they would rather have central Issaquah
everywhere I don't think you'd be
surprised because ultimately that would
mean they'd have to buy less land and so
I think you know they're there they
understand where this proposal has
gotten to and they're okay with it they
would like to include that conversation
as part of the conversation we have next
year in terms of
relooking at this compact school code to
see if even under central Issaquah they
might be able to reduce the required
trees down maybe lower than what the
code currently allows I mean that's a
that's something we can add to the
conversation you know I think it's just
it's just part of the public
conversation that we'll have next year
but they're okay with what's being
proposed
I think for everybody's benefit it might
be helpful we're talking about tree
retention we're talking about the of a
parcel of the developer land so there is
there's there may be some sensitive
areas
steep slope or what have you that's not
developable so the tree retention number
is of the existing trees on the
developer land it's a percentage of the
existing trees on the developer land so
if if a parcel is 100 percent tree then
then IMC says 25% with potentially a
change down to 12 and a half if so
that's that would be the exact
percentage on that on a lot that was
fully treated if a tree a personal had
no trees on it right now well I mean it
doesn't come into play because there's
nothing to retain if a parcel has 50%
covered by trees so of the entire parcel
your are now you're looking at 12 and a
half percent potentially reduced down to
six and a quarter because we're talking
about you know half of half yeah I'm
just trying to this is this is about the
retention of tree a percentage retention
of trees on the developer land on a
parcel so I I know I don't know that
helps it did help me when I when I when
I knocked you through or heard it
through the first time so so that if
there's a parcel of land that doesn't
head has non developer or has you know
sensitive areas on it you know if
there's trees on there or that's gonna
stay that's not part of this calculation
thank you
never mind
be right I act on the amendment all
those in favor of the amendment which is
item number one up there signify by
saying aye aye those opposed that
carries unanimously
Ola Thank You mr. mayor I'd like to
speak to the main motion
I am excited I'm excited I think this is
a this is this will are in sort of a new
era of schools in our community I think
that it is a great response to the
growing densification that we've seen in
our targeted areas of the city of the
areas where we wanted to see development
grow I think that the Issaquah school
district has shown itself to be an
innovative and responsible builder of
schools my kids my oldest graduated last
year from a beautiful high school that
was I believe at the time I'll say this
again because it's so important it was
the lowest cost per square foot of any
recently built high school and that
makes it even more beautiful if you're a
taxpayer and so I'm excited about this
as a tool to allow the school district
to respond to the the ongoing
crush of enthusiasm from parents who
want to attend the Issaquah school
district to get to give them the tools
to cite schools that reflect what we
want to be doing in these higher density
areas of the city so I'm very excited
today to be supporting this motion
Stacey
so by bill so I had anticipated
potentially making additional amendments
because there was a second one up there
but well totally was talking I wondered
if maybe the better procedure would be
to vote on a main motion and then make
additional motions since the ideas and
number two don't necessarily need to be
add-ons to the main motion we could I
was going to add that but we could vote
on the main motion and then
as amended as amended any additional
question on the main motion as amended
I'm just holding up on that a little bit
because like I say I think my problem is
really clarity and what we're voting on
and I think that second part of it is a
critical piece you follow up I may be
long to do that later if we're gonna
look at that but I'm afraid of going too
far without without including this as
well Stacy followed by Mary Lou I'd
assumed that there would be somebody
would make additional motions tonight
not that that would be not that the
number two up there with more than one
item that there would be additional
motions made tonight as part of this
agenda bill not necessarily continue to
make amendments to the main motion but
does that make sense and I think that I
think the comments that I wanted to make
about the main motion are and as amended
is I think this creates much more
certainty for this classical district
and I think what we've heard is the
reason they asked for the code changes
is because we were in a perpetual cycle
a problem of asking for adjustments to
standards for school sites and my
understanding is that these are the main
problem areas and codifying these allows
the school district to know what they
can and can't do
and so they don't have to rely on
adjustments of standards and so
hopefully if the motion passes
it will signal our interest and
happiness in helping you build schools a
little more certain fashion
first it's a comment for bill I actually
am really interested in the part two as
well I think that it is just as powerful
if we do one motion that deals with a
standard and the second one after that
deals with the Future action and I would
support you in that if you proposed it
that way I sort of in looking at this
code and thinking about what all this
means kind of broke it down into this
year next year and after that and for
this year I'm so excited that with him
what I consider to be a relatively short
period of time there was a lot of
conversation between the school and the
city and time with the community to talk
about what these new compact schools
will look like that happened in a short
amount of time and now we have the
opportunity tonight to approve that and
allow the school to move forward with
some certainty when they have been faced
with an an increasingly rapidly growing
city so over the last five to ten years
we've grown at a great rate and now we
need to build some schools so this is a
great first step in that way second is
that this is there's there's some more
work to do next year so it's kind of the
beginning of a much more what I would
say in-depth face-to-face school and
city meetings and we used to have and I
think that's great I think that was what
everybody is hoping that we'll do and so
that's that's where we are we're going
to be in in more contact and talking
through the year because regardless if
you have the idea where your first
school may or may not go you have three
more to build really really quickly so
and and beyond that I think there's a
not a piece of the story that pushes out
a few more years and it's that we're
still sort of playing catch-up we're
still trying to figure out what a
compact school would look like and it's
2017 but we're gonna get there we're
still trying to figure out how and where
the school will build their next four
disks for schools in five years we're
going to get there but we're still
growing beyond that and so there's this
last piece that I would say is two years
out and beyond which is we still have
the capacity to add 11,000 more housing
units in town we haven't quite shown a
figure as to where all that will be but
that is the last piece and maybe the
most important piece and step three of
what we have to do next
which is to get in front of this by
working with you to talk about what the
city of 2030 looks like what the city of
2040 looks like because that's a lot
more housing units that could possibly
be at it so I think this is super
exciting and I'm really glad it got done
in the time frame it didn't I'm gonna
support the main motion this evening
Araya thank you building schools in this
growing community is is so incredibly
important and being able to define
compact schools is just makes me it
makes me feel good and and I want to I
want to continue to partner with the
school district whether it be right now
or in the future and I would like to see
the City Council having more more time
with the school district as well I I was
concerned number two that council member
Ramos had proposed is is a really
important piece of this to me
and I and I I will support that and I'm
okay with moving forward with the motion
but but that is a critical piece as well
for me I do think that we should be
talking more in depth about creating a
separate separate coding separate zoning
for schools and I would like to see the
landscape piece of things that
councilmember Polly spoke about included
in the language I'll talk about that in
a minute I guess but thank you oh yeah
thank you so we've come a long way since
the middle of July the whole tone and
tenor has changed dramatically so I'm
that's good for the city that's good for
for families and it's good for students
I want to point out to another benefit
that hasn't been mentioned
keep did yeah a little bit
when we had the chart up there we look
at land that land for schools whether it
be elementary middle or high school
those those cost real dollars and those
real dollars are coming from the
property tax dollars of from the school
district you can't and you know we we've
had a number of conversations about land
values and potential you know costs and
we're going to talk about that a little
bit more but just for an elementary
school based upon other conversations of
an out in public I mean these type of
changes could save the school district
state taxpayers just ten million dollars
in land acquisition for an elementary
school that's pretty significant and and
that's so it goes and and I'll add to
that that's that the school district can
continue to provide the kind of
programming that they're committed to
the families and their kids the kids
education experience the family
experience what it means to those
neighborhoods is still uncompromised
even than the smaller footprint so the
certainty is there that that point has
been is excellently made that that for
the school district to have more
certainty it's good for all of us
taxpayers as well and I'm really glad
that we were able to converge on this
type of point so quickly thank you it's
just one also I could that giving the
school district some certainty is is
very difficult because certainty never
really comes in the future right so
we're trying to get some some hands
around it to look at that you know at
the same time we have to look at the the
environmental impacts and looking at
that and making sure as you mentioned
here that those things are protected the
critical areas you know and and looking
at the site specific items so for the
public here that looked at that chart
that said the school district can now go
by 6.2 acres and build an elementary
school is not necessarily exact because
those sites will vary you may have areas
of that you can't use and so you may
need to buy bigger sites to make that
work
right but we're gonna have all those the
sepal analysis done all that all those
protections built in there and still be
able to use the most compact school site
you can use which is a benefit from
building massive schools in general
right so so that's what what I'm looking
forward to is giving you a little bit
it's not going to get no guarantees
there in the future but it'll wrap your
hands around it a little bit and and at
the same time we're going to do we're
going to take care of environmental
mitigations and so forth that we need to
do and look at that and we'll look at
the item to later yes as we look through
all of this this evening this is a
changing community and more changes have
to happen and will be happening with an
old ditional 11,000 possible housing
units schools are going to be number one
issue and thankfully we are addressing
some of that this evening and it's going
to be probably the first of many
difficult issues in the educational
future for our community as we grow but
I think we're starting and I think this
is a big addition to where we need to be
and we'll be supporting this this
evening
I think everyone's had an opportunity to
speak are you ready to vote all those in
favor of adopting ordinance number two
8:06 amending the Issaquah Municipal
Code section 18 point o 7.48 old
community facility standards and
centralist quad development and design
standards chapter 4.0 zoning districts
uses and standards to include standards
for the siting of public schools in the
community facilities facilities zoning
district as amended and revising the
draft code to remove all proposed
revisions to tree retention minimum
density and replacement signify by
saying aye hi
those opposed it carries unanimously
I propose a motion to and I might change
your word here a little bit a little bit
explore I don't like the word explore so
much but direct the administration to
create for the creation of a separate
zone for public schools in 2018 which
would include the cleanup of the code
revisions adopted this evening where
conflict exists and for clarinet for
example architectural compatibility and
the other one was true tension scaping
standards in landscape for examining
lands to Canadian standards and in
clarity second first well it was close
Thank You Stacy I have a question and a
concern that so I'm concerned about
create and the reason I'm concerned
about create and find with explore but
the reason I'm concerned about create is
I asked the question earlier whether the
school district had asked for a separate
zone and I think the answer was no and
the reason I like explore is because I
would like the school district to be
able to come to us and tell us if they
would like something my concern about
creating is so when one of the issues
that I see with creating a new zone for
schools is that that creates the
requirement of rezoning which adds
process our word
rezone so I don't know how that would
work so the reason that I like the word
explore is because that way we're having
an opportunity to explore whether the
school district whether that creates any
potential unintended consequences for
them so you're offering that as a
friendly amendment I'm suggesting I'm
just suggesting that maybe if it was a
friendly amendment bill wanted to amend
a zone well I'll say one of the main
reasons here you cited is whether the
school district wants it and I'm not
looking at whether the school district
wants it I think we needed to have
something that's readable for us and for
the people working with this to have a
readable code and you've mentioned that
earlier it is very difficult to read and
understand and so I'm not looking at it
should make no difference
for new standpoint it's from the city
standpoint we need to write legislation
that is easily reasonable readable and
understood by anybody who reads it into
this point to me it's not so that's why
I want to clear it up other questions
Mary Lou the bill I'm kind of I support
the original motion but I actually
supported it with the word explore and I
know maybe was replacing explore would
create is your suggestion and Stacy
saying leave explore but is it direct
the administration to work with the
school district to explore the creation
or you just it has to be like your
motion is that we have to create it even
if they came back and told us that there
are reasons for them that they did not
want us to have that process you're
you're still thinking we have to have
that process as a city I am a little
concerned about if they currently own
community facilities facilities zoned
land with schools on it and what their
proposal for future school savings is to
incorporate some of those on existing
campuses they do need to come and ask
for a rezoning time if we create a
separate zone whereas now they would not
they could proceed with the development
application
on one of their school sites now and
take a parking lot and convert it into
schools so I actually do kind of agree
with Stacy that I agree with you that we
need a clearer code but I also agree
with Stacy that there may be a reason
why we want the school board to weigh in
on this and so I'm not ready to go right
to create and if you have a third option
maybe I'll look at a third option
front worried Araya so I I can see both
sides in terms of build IB I think I
understand your your intention and and
agree with that I think Explorer is a
more general word that would allow us to
go forward and answer a lot of the
questions that we need to answer so I
would I would think the word Explorer
might be a good way to go and and still
get us where we need to be in terms of
looking at everything that we would need
to do in and answering some of these
these questions that we'd like to get
answered all ask the clerk to read the
motion in front of us or can you tell us
what the motion is
direct the administration to create a
separate zone for public schools in 2018
which would include clean up to code
revisions adopted this evening where
conflicts exist for example
architectural compatibility landscape
requirements etc okay thank you oh I'd
like to propose an amendment and strike
creation and replace it with explore the
creation of Odin seconded to go back to
what is written under a paragraph 2
discussion are you ready to act on the
amendment on the amendment all those in
favor of the amendment signify by saying
aye
those opposed the amendment original
amendment fails we're back to the
amendment passed oh we are back to
what's written on the slide under
subparagraph 2 with the addition of yeah
discussion well no I think I was the
first one to propose a separate zoning
but the designation for clarity for
different reasons not spoken here but I
think there's been some good points made
in both directions for and for not doing
that and so this is hopefully this won't
be that big of a task I think it feels
somewhat administrative in terms of
clarify you know maybe in a document
clarifying the code but I think you're
gonna take some other actions to you as
you mentioned earlier this Keith so I
think that Matt had what we already
concluded this evening or the
what we've accomplished the action we've
taken this evening this in no way
impedes you know moving forward with the
action done earlier and this is an
opportunity to clean it up let's do it
Marilu just wanted to thank
councilmember ramos for bringing this up
because this sort of got discussed in
recent days and and put on paper today
and i know you're probably not happy
with the final language but i think most
of the intent is there and just thank
you for your hard work and making sure
that conversation happened hey all those
in favor of directing the administration
to explore the creation of a separate
zone for public schools and 2018 which
would include clean up to code revisions
adopted this evening where conflicts
exist a architectural capacity
compatibility landscaping etc signify by
saying aye aye I was opposed that
carries unanimously
[Applause]
our next item under regular business is
agenda bill 734 zero housing strategy
Jewish hangman of development services
or the staff presentation thank you
um don't try it again I just have a real
brief presentation tonight and what
we're hoping to accomplish is to address
the couple of questions that came up and
Landon Shore on the 7th of September and
hopefully then you all will be able to
recommend approval of the housing
strategy work plan and agree to the
initial implementations that would be
done or at least almost done before
December 31st and that would be the
inclusionary code amendment for central
Issaquah and the multifamily tax
exemption that you're going to have a
work session on I believe in November
and then we're going to talk about the
next steps from Landon Shore one of the
first questions they had was how does
this address the affordability piece of
the moratorium and it does that in a few
ways through all the public outreach
that we had the majority of the
strategies would affect affordable
housing and they would all be begun in
the first two years so we feel that
that's a real strong reaction and
addressing the affordability also two of
the strategies that would be done before
the end of this year our directory
directly related to getting more
affordable housing and then again that
would be the inclusionary zoning code
amendment and the multifamily tax
exemption so those are the two those are
the ways that this Housing Strategy work
plan addresses the moratorium item of
the affordability the other question
that Landon short had is what is the
priority of the nine strategies and they
wanted the priorities to be the most
bang for the buck and we thought that
all the strategies all nine of them
would be started in two years so to us
that was sort of how we were showing
that they all have a degree of priority
because they were chosen but we don't
know yet
we haven't done the analysis to know
exactly how much do all of them cost how
many units would all of them get
individually and so we would rather come
back to you all with a little bit more
information on that because we've been
so busy working on
9 creating the 9 with the public groups
that we're working on that we haven't
done the analysis of each individual
strategy at this time and we would have
all that information by April of next
year so you could all discuss your
priority of those with a lot more
information than we would have been able
to get in a week and a half the third
question is will there be another
affordable housing report card and yes
the good news is it's written right in
the strategy work plan that every year
starting next year we would start up the
report cards again so you'd be able to
see how the strategies are working or
not working hopefully they'll all be
working so with that the next steps
would be could be to adopt the housing
strategy work plan tonight and then
start the implementation through
planning policy Commission with
inclusionary zoning and through your
review and work session the multifamily
tax exemption and then continue the
implementation of the nine starting
immediately after that you'd be able to
do some prioritizing in April or up
until April when we start getting that
information to you and then the
remaining strategies would begin it's
two quick notes I wanted to explain that
was in your packet you all landed Shore
made two changes to the plan the
strategy work planning that one of them
was the title it is now the housing
strategy work plan the other one is
there was a little bit of rewording on
strategy nine instead of saying that the
housing was insecure
it was the X it sounded a little funny
when we did the track changes but that
was fixed those are the only two changes
to the document in your packet questions
of Trish
coming back from land and Shore Stacy I
would move to approve resolution number
2017 14 adopting the housing strategy
work plan and refer prioritization
implementation and evaluation of the
housing strategy work plan to council
land and shore committee for review
second moved and seconded questions or
discussion
Paul just for the benefit of our other
council members who weren't on the on
the committee the first few times we
talked about this something was just
didn't seem right to me and when we
realized in committee when we were
actually taught we were actually talking
about a work plan that would this is
really a plan to get certain things done
it's a plan to develop out those
strategies put policies and actions and
planned actions in place to implement
those strategies so and and hopefully
that's just clearer more clear now for
everybody else I've made a real
difference for me and helped me because
a because just because we isn't a
complete strategy it really is the
development of a strategy I hope that's
everybody understands that
I think inclusionary zoning is we're
talking about it's the only the central
area because there's been a recent
episode is the only part of town where
we can require affordable housing from
from the development so that's what
that's I think when we first started
this actually when the moratorium
started and we talked about affordable
housing and we and that was really an
issue for the entire city I think many
on the council myself included thought
that it would be this was an op may be
an option for the entire city we learned
in the course of events that it's not
only this could only be applied when
there's been a recent up zone so this
only would apply to the central area
because that's the area and the
multifamily tax exemption that this
calls for is a I guess we could call it
a test because it's very limited to a
single parcel and and so it's a very
it's not a big step forward but we do
get to see how it may play out in a
potential the transit oriented
development
project that is on the drawing board
that has not been finalized but that's
the limited didn't scope of the end of
the multifamily tax exemption is just to
that project and so the rest of what
we're considering this evening is is
yeah the work plan to flush out and
develop those strategies and the
policies that implement them the
questions are discussion valeu um in the
seattle situation where they did their
haleh's study their housing
affordability living something study did
they only apply inclusionary zoning in
recently rezone areas of their city
through state law you have to there has
to have been a reason a recent rezone to
allow you to require it so it's through
state law that you have to do the two
together so seattle didn't seattle only
applied that in certain areas that had
recently had a rezone correct or else
they're proposing to theirs that's what
part of the controversy is is they're
trying to up zone some of the areas and
then require it and that's why some of
the neighborhoods have not been happy
okay and so if we are getting rid of the
development agreements or expiring the
development agreements and talus and in
highlands is there an opportunity there
because we're overlaying a new zoning
overlay that we could have inclusionary
zoning and tell us and the highlands my
understanding with the end of
development agreements is we're trying
to keep everything as similar to what it
is now as possible including what
entitlements they already have and so if
we were to increase the zoning in those
areas that increase i'm saying because
we are actually moving away from
entitlements and to new zoning isn't
that the trigger that allows you to do
inclusionary zoning you would have to
give them more value than they already
have
and then you can come in and ask for
public benefit with that so that would
be make some sort of changing them
thanks Trish oh and he says there's no
housing left
to allow that to happen yeah that's a
good detail I didn't realize that
oh look so I hesitate to to emphasize
haste with this has been a busy year and
the administration has responded
admirably to to all the work that
council has put upon it but this to me
is the most important element of the
moratorium and this is the most
important single thing that we are
working on that will impact the future
health of our city and so I sure hope I
see council action tentative December on
initial implementation I really hope we
get to that because you never know what
a new year brings there's going to be
new folks on council there's going to be
new opinions and I would love to get the
first aspect of this done before we have
to revisit this with a fresh set of eyes
that may have a fresh set of things they
want to focus on this route I think this
will wind up if we get this done in
December reflecting the priorities of
this council and I'm I'm very very year
to see it happen into summer so I'm
sorry to say please work harder and
faster because we've all been working so
hard and so fast this year but I would I
would really like to see us hit these
hit these dates thank you know I just
want to plus one of the importance of
this to to the community as a whole in
many many aspects because housing is
just so so critical to the rest of
everybody's life so I want to push on
this too and keep it up good job and I
love it when we got some letters from an
HDC housing development consortium in
support of this and particularly picking
out some of those things I work with HDC
and other aspects of my life so they're
they're very good folks and when they're
taking note of what we're doing here
that makes me feel like we've got some
backing is throughout the community
greater community as well
Araya
I just wanted to echo how important this
piece of the work that we're doing right
now is and and thank the administration
and everyone who's been working on this
as I was reading through it just has
really makes me happy all the progress
that's being made and I too would just
echo being able to complete it in this
timeline I think is critically important
other questions our discussion seeing
none at all that was quickly
oh I'm sorry just just I'm going to
point out as well last time we had a
real big robust conversation about this
the whole council I think it was a
committee of the whole really kind of
tore apart the the way the the vision
was was laid out in the earlier draft of
this housing strategy so I do appreciate
the forum that it is and now is a nice
update thank you any other questions or
discussion seeing none then all those in
favor of approving resolution number
2017 - 14 adopting a housing strategy
work plan and refer prioritization
implementation and evaluation of the
housing strategy work plan to the
council land and shore committee for
review all those in favor signify by
saying aye aye
as opposed that carries unanimously
moving now to agenda bill
seven-four-zero for neighborhood
engagement program update
I see Denise and Marshall at the roster
who's loading things up and who'll be
providing an update
you'll recall that during the city
council's 2015 goal-setting retreat
community leaders identified the need
for more engagement at the neighborhood
level and here
they said welcome Thank You mr. mayor
thanks Council for your time and the
invitation to share this program update
after one year officially underway
I first presented this pilot
neighborhood engagement program to
January 24th of this year and also
provided a six-month progress report in
June so as mr. mayor said a little bit
ago just to remind you the 2015 council
goal during the goal-setting retreat
this the leaders identified the need for
engagement at a neighborhood level and
from there the goal was created and the
program came to fruition so some of the
highlights of the goal are to facilitate
connectivity energy and engagement
provide information and collect feedback
and for this position to attend more
neighborhood meetings and the actual
goal actually has a metric in it that I
would participate in twelve neighborhood
meetings per year and as you saw in
January we dramatically expanded that so
from that some of the program goals were
to create a culture of effective public
participation build trust and
partnerships within the community
improve efficiency and effectiveness and
decision-making provide a variety of
ways for residents to engage with the
city strengthen neighborhoods meet the
City Council's goal offer exceptional
customer service I hate red ants on city
issues and community visions plans
including development and forum City and
decision makers on communities
priorities support each department with
engagement efforts and educate citizens
on how to stay engaged in informed
insidious services and processes so I
also wanted to circle back on some
background research that I did so not
only did I talk with fellow staff
members I talked with other municipal
partners and I also talked with you the
council some of your feedback to remind
you was to develop a dashboard proactive
development communication close the
communication loop create partnerships
outside of HOAs reach residents who are
not engaged and provide more
opportunities to collaborate some of the
communication tools that I presented in
January that we used and tested this
year so far have been summits
neighborhood meetings and community
events next door
online maps and the proactive
development outreach here's a photo from
our first neighborhood summit that was
held at the Senior Center in April of
this year it was well attended with a
variety of neighborhoods represented
some of the topics we discussed include
introduction of the neighborhood
engagement program and the community
police resources or Officer Ryan Smith
Smith was there as well building
long-term partnerships and relationships
identifying neighborhood identity and
uniqueness and discussing preferred
communication tools confluence Park
history and updates engaging interest in
future summits in addition a
neighborhood services mini was offered
that outlined different options for
engagements that many was in your six
month report it's also in your packet
tonight but basically that menu is
something that you can give to the
neighborhoods and we can provide to them
that they have the opportunity to look
through the different options that we
provide as far as police services
different community engagement events
that they may not otherwise think that
they would have the option to do so they
can return that back to us more
importantly the summit provided an
opportunity for neighborhoods to share
experiences with each other so the
networking part part of the summit was a
really big deal and being able to share
different districts what they were going
through was a positive theme so during
the summit participants were asked to
share about what about Issaquah and
their specific neighborhood was special
to them so when artists took a lot of
notes and created this image that you
see behind me which we had printed onto
a weatherproof banner and we have
displayed at community events and
neighborhood gatherings this map
provides a visual not only what makes
each sub area in Issaquah unique it also
provides a holistic overview of what
what makes it qua unique is a city
directly from the residents who live
here you can see the banner in person at
salmon days in a few weeks so some of
the key takeaways after the first summit
I connected with each attendee and asked
them for feedback if they thought summit
should continue and the answer was
unanimously yes and what agenda items
should be discussed and these are the
key takeaways and themes that I learned
from them number one to allow
neighborhood champions to former agendas
instead of us telling them what they
need to know they tell us what they want
to know ideal event time is about an
hour and a half they like the
opportunity to have time to network with
other neighborhoods
that's very important and to utilize and
leverage neighborhood champions to
spread city and neighborhood news which
we currently do
moving on to neighborhood meetings
another communication tool neighborhood
meetings and community events are a
great way for the city to form
relationships and create better lines of
communication that being said when
approaching each neighborhood meeting
this is what I ask myself what are you
interested in what city projects need
engagement currently and what
development projects are in this general
area to date I've participated in over
30 neighborhood meetings providing
support and handling logistics some of
the feedback I've heard at a personal
level or people are busy they don't
always have the time to take out of
their personal lives to come to City
Hall and come to a 6:30 meeting so part
of that is going out to them and going
out on their turf this is a picture from
blackberry Park the city acquired this
park and needed engagement based on what
what the residents wanted to see this
park to be and what they what their
vision is and kind of the history of the
park because we weren't really sure
exactly what that was so what better way
to get it from the residents so the idea
was to have it at the park make it easy
for those residents to engage with the
city for them to be able to walk down
even for five minutes 10 minutes 15
however long like they had but make it
easy for them to do so this is another
example of a neighborhood meeting in
Issaquah Valley where we talked about
different development projects happening
in that area there's a lot of lot of
things happening so we did more of an
open house style well it was very well
attended this is another example of a
neighborhood meeting different style so
something else I've learned through
these neighborhood meetings are some of
the organization behind them is
different so sometimes it's an open
house sometimes it's on property like I
mentioned and sometimes there's a need
for a Town Hall and the way that that's
structured this was from our corridor
project which was more of a workshop
style it was three three workshops where
we got to engage with the residents
based on what they wanted to see as far
as the corridor over on Newports way and
then also another neighborhood meeting
this was on-site at a spyglass
when we met with residents to talk about
some of the potential impacts to their
area so like I said some of the key
takeaways from these neighborhood
meetings our residents went informal
meeting
most of the time so they can drop in so
they don't feel like they're late so
they can come at their leisure they also
want to pick the agenda like I said they
want to tell us what they want to learn
instead of us telling them the meetings
one to two hours and they also think
it's important to hear from other
residents what their issues are
in addition something that I learned
that residents engage when there's
things available like childcare we have
provided childcare at some of our
meetings and that does allow some of
those residents that haven't normally
engaged or wouldn't normally engage
because you know maybe they're busy or
they have family they can't make it
because of the kids so we've been able
to provide childcare and that really
encourages that that attendance which is
also a goal of this program you know how
do we engage those people that don't
otherwise engage in addition food is
also a big deal feeding people tends to
be a plus so also in addition to
neighborhood meetings community events
tapping into events that are already
happening on a neighborhood level and a
city level so National Night Out
encouraging block parties we've used
that as a platform this year and last
year
salmon days coming up Highlands Day
fourth of July in South Cove is a big
one egg hunt and Talas that was a fun
one this year and again with those
community events just going back to that
those three questions that I presented
to you earlier and just asking what's
happening in this area and what do we
need engagement on so not only being
able to provide some information at
those events but also have fun of the
community so next door the city is
extremely active with social media
already as a form of engagement and a
lot of other cities in our area are
using next doors so we launched our next
door account on March 1st to date there
are six thousand nine hundred and five
residents using the platform so that's
31 percent of households cleaned here in
Issaquah residents have posted two
thousand eight hundred and thirty six
times in the last thirty days with a
hundred and eighty six posts being
linked to crime and safety and the city
uses this platform to send messages to
one or multiple neighborhoods service
areas or the entire community so the
great thing about next-door is you can
geo-target it based on what your message
is and to whom
this is just some information about the
top neighborhood users here in Issaquah
so talus with 53% of their households
claims of the highlands 47% squawk
Mountain 43% and Issaquah Valley 18% so
these numbers since the beginning of the
year when I first presented them to you
in January have actually doubled as of
today in addition we have one city
account with specific staff members that
have access so it's the communications
team and the police communications team
it's also important to note the
uniqueness of next-door is a social
media platform is that the city cannot
see the private conversations that are
happening within the neighborhoods and
can only see interactions that residents
directly interact with the city on so
online maps these are some goals that I
mentioned early in January regarding
online maps but first I'd like to speak
to the active projects map so I'm gonna
jump around for a second make sure I can
do this
so this year the city staff has worked
diligently on developing a more
user-friendly active projects map that
is now this is burnt this is new it's
prominently displayed on our homepage of
our website so I wanted to show you it's
under new development on the top and the
key features of this map are as it pulls
up it's been kind of modified so I don't
know if you've seen it yet but it's
quite a bit easier to read
the colors are a bit different first and
foremost this map is mobile friendly our
last active projects map was not so that
certainly helps in addition I'll kind of
zoom in a little bit here but for
example some of the other things that
we've got this is new so now it pops up
on the left hand side and it's
scrollable but you've got a rendering of
the project so now you can see what it
looks like it's a little bit cleaner
it's got your project number your name a
description of it the location the
status your contact for the city and
applicants instead of having all of the
links below it like we used to have
which is a little jumbled now we have a
a tab where you can click view related
documents and permits and it brings it
up in a tab format where you can look
through this at your leisure and you can
look whether you want attachments
descriptions details related permits
things like that so that's a brand new
active projects map
and then I want to talk to you about
proactive development outreach proactive
outreach on current and upcoming
development is an important focus for
this program and has been this year I
still spend one day a week sometimes
more these days embedded in DSD learning
about all the projects the permitting
process and I thought I I knew a lot of
acronyms in January and I can tell you
I've probably quadrupled the number of
acronyms I've learned since then so part
of to keep neighborhoods informed about
upcoming engagement opportunities or
development impacts the city has current
tools in place that we use email
notifications for example the new
neighborhood meetings regarding the next
door posts a more user friendly active
projects map that I just showed you
improve signage on site and additional
requirements of the developer so in
addition of keeping neighbors informed
through these channels the city's
piloting a program with a few developers
this summer that includes on-site
construction signage installed like the
one you see behind me here for the Vale
apartments that just began construction
and like this one for Ennis what
apartments that will begin soon as you
can see important information like
anticipated completion date rendering
activity renderings activities typical
work hours project description and
contact information for questions is
provided and these signs are prominently
displayed at the construction site in
addition developers have been asked to
maintain a contact list of interested
parties and send the monthly email
updates using this standard template
that we've created developers have also
been asked to print these updates and
place them in a box attached to the
on-site Construction sign that I showed
you earlier the construction updates
have a project description and then
again what to expect this month so those
are things like well well the
neighborhood see what's the parking bike
lane sidewalk update haul routes road
closures we're staging is located
utility disruptions anticipated timeline
changes of the project high-impact work
or deliveries and loading expectations
or any other items that the developer
might think that will have a
neighborhood impact so in addition to
the signage in the monthly updates that
I've shown you the city has created
timelines like this 1 reflecting
projects in a general area and
can expect these were shared in
neighborhood meetings this summer and
some have their own website page as well
and they're actively updated so what we
heard from the community was they wanted
to be able to see kind of the
comprehensive look of what was happening
in their community so this is what we
created and it kind of shows them you
know when to act what to expect and
what's happening around them so this
proactive collaborative effort keeps
neighbors informed the timeline and
details of each project and it builds a
positive positive relationship with the
community in addition to the timelines
and working with the developers like
I've shown you I started my own YouTube
segment
that's called development update so far
it's just another communication channel
that I've used to be able to update
residents about what's going on out in
the community and these are projects and
maybe we're not doing you know like I
said the pilot program like valent and
us would with right now so like I just
did a development update with
anti-aircraft Creek went out there took
some film explained kind of what the
project was what was happening currently
and when it the completion date will be
also central pad park1 projects are
central park pad one project and in
addition the skate park was the current
development update that I just filmed so
in addition to kind of circle back
closing the loop that was something that
I've heard and I think there's only so
many times we can ask people to come out
and engage with us so one way to
continue to communicate with them is by
capturing their emails which we have
done in our neighborhood meetings we
send updates regularly via you know what
project they've signed up to get updates
with or what's going on in that general
neighborhood so it was something else
that happened so our news items are
categorized typically by topic
but recently kind of just naturally
they've started to be organized by
neighborhood so that like I said just a
kind of a natural progression to the
amount of engagement in specific areas
so I'm gonna whoops
jump around one more time and I want to
show you this map so I actually sent you
links to this map in my 6-month report
but I heard from you it was important to
provide a top-level recap of what's
going on or what's discussed in
neighborhood meetings so I created this
map that serves as a dashboard and what
this map does is it's got different
layers so down here one of the first
layers that you see the different colors
are the different districts the 13
districts that we've divided as a client
ooh on top of that I've got a layer of
2016 meetings which you can see and if
you click on them it'll pull up the date
the location the number of attendees and
exactly what we heard and I've done that
for every single neighborhood touch
point that I've had so far and so
there's a couple examples from 2017 just
what we heard this is for example the
woods HOA meeting on May 5th tells you
how many people were there and again
just gives you that snapshot dashboard
about kind of just the different closing
the loop basically
and in addition to closing the loop not
only do we have this map and engagement
comes back in a lot of different forms
so part of the way engagement comes back
is you'll hear from project managers
that come and present to you so a lot of
what they present in their presentations
has been some of that engagement that
we've had at a neighborhood level that's
been packaged up into you know some of
the suggestions or things that they put
in front of you so in addition and this
is new it's a pilot art grant program
Amy Dukes actually came up with the idea
she's our arts director for the city she
came up with the idea to pilot an art
grant program next year to partner with
the Arts Commission to create new
connections with neighborhoods in a
different way giving them another option
to engage on a neighborhood level with
each other and enrich their lives with
art I've met with the Arts Commission I
gave them an overview of the
neighborhood engagement program and
they're very interested and they've put
money aside I don't know how much yet
but being able to work with her to
create a program like that I think would
be something that the residents would
enjoy so some of the challenges this
program has a limited staff time since
my positions only 30 hours a week as you
heard tonight I'm extremely focused on
the neighborhood level and interacting
with residents so there is part of part
of it is to be cognizant of scope creep
and there's a neat often for engagement
that's not based on the neighborhood
level here in the city and in larger
citywide event so just keeping that in
mind and then one of the biggest
challenges is continually reaching
residents that may not want to engage
and you know hope to give them a variety
of opportunities through this program so
dividing success a number of resident
interaction estimates and these are on a
personal level with this position so
next door so far about 2,400 meetings
and events about 1,400 attendees and
email is about 1,100 and that's anything
from personal emails to group emails
HOAs kind of serving as a liaison with
with them and helping them with even
some topics with their annual meetings
or other meetings or being
with that also defining success here's
some data that I pulled from a National
Research Center survey that we took for
Issaquah so the numbers from the last
one we took was 2014 and then another
one was taken this summer 2017 so I
pulled some of these that were
significantly increased so the amount of
residents that attended a local meeting
from 2014 to 2017 has increased by 10%
talked to her visited with neighbors 4%
watched a local public meeting I have to
do the math eight percent contacted
elected officials three percent and
neighborly neighborliness four percent
so I found those numbers extremely
interesting also defining success we can
pull next-door data it tells how many
interactions that we've had through that
platform the data that I just provided
you types of positive feedback provided
to electeds and other staff the
development and launch of the active
projects map the dashboard data of all
the neighborhood interactions and the
proactive development meetings and
outreach so some of the ideas in the
next steps that I have for the program
would be a Welcome Wagon so if some of
the other cities have had success with
this and basically creating a document
that allows residents to get plugged in
with their local government quickly and
kind of gives them an overview of you
know what how is how is this across
structured what are the Commission's and
then just providing them some of the
pertinent information that they might
want to know whenever they move here and
then targeting them specifically
obviously pilot the arts program that I
mentioned earlier having that be a big
success a mini citizens Academy there's
quite a few cities that do this so I
could see doing a six-week citizens
Academy going on a deeper level with
those that want to learn a little bit
more about Issaquah and then obviously
just more summits and neighborhood
meetings so that's all I've got so at
this time just I want to say thank you
again for having me here tonight and
then if you have any questions for me
happy to answer
you know a pretty impressive update
there are there questions of Lisa
Marylou followed by Bill and Mariah
so Lisa that interactive figure that you
have is really really great I was just
wondering if it's also available to
council members somewhere on the website
or to other neighborhoods if they want
to go look it up I'm currently it is not
okay yes thank you you've jumped in this
full-fledged in the short year you've
been here and I'm really glad to hear
what's going on and getting people more
engaged in those numbers really
increasing the two questions I would ask
for you you mentioned one at the end
there was a Welcome Wagon or some way to
outreach new folks moving into town
particularly I would look at renters
okay because they seem to take a little
more to get them engaged sometimes and
then people that are buying and it's
also a little harder to maybe find them
sometimes I'm gonna have a new quite a
few new rental units coming up here so
some way to really outreach to to make
sure they're included very much so as
well and then the question I started
asking lately and I'll probably continue
to ask for it our school district shows
the diversity of our community really
changing dramatically but we're not
seeing that in the adult side and so
just how instead of what we can do to
make sure to reach out for the diversity
of folks that are in the community and
get them more engaged as well as they
fit into a community that you know from
you know a minority in the community to
really bring them out to look for people
of color and so forth Purvi those two
things okay thank you thank you thank
you very work Ryan my pleasure
so I just had a question about the the
neighborhood champions could you tell me
a little bit more about that so the
neighborhood champions in my definition
would be people that want to be more
engaged with the city and they're people
that can leverage the contacts within
the community so we don't have email
addresses for everybody however these
and
champions live there they speak with the
you know their their local their
neighbors every day for the most part or
on a regular basis and so leveraging
those contacts and people have reached
out and I have a long list of those
types of people that when I need to get
information out to that general area I
send them a personal email and ask them
to help me distribute the news that I
need it's great so you have people
volunteering I do okay yeah there's a
lot of people that want to be actively
engaged you know just on a different
level but there's like I said
neighborhood champions that have those
lists and contacts already so part of
this job is to leverage that weight well
thank you for the update and I
appreciate all the hard work and I
really like the active project map I
think that that's that's a great
improvement and also the ideas that you
listed for next step next steps the
welcome-wagon I think is really
important in this citizens Academy and
the arts the arts group so thanks for
all your hard work on all of this my
pleasure
other questions or comments
thank you very very much thank you our
next and last item under regular
business is agenda bill seven four seven
seven the SRC Transportation
Alternatives program grant for Newport
Way improvements as our 900 to South
East 54th Sheldon Lynn of the quirks
engineering for a short staff update and
presentation Thank You mayor council i'm
sheldon lin director of public works
engineering the agenda bill seven four
seven seven is actually in front of
council for consideration authorized the
administration to submit an application
to the Puget Sound Regional Council for
a transportation alternative program
grant tap grant as it's written up here
the purpose of the application is
specifically to try and get some design
money from the PSR C which is federal
funds
just a quick overview of the project
that this grant application is about is
the Newport Way corridor between South
East 54th right here and SR 900 right
here as you can see this map identifies
a lot of different activities
development and other things going on
along the corridor there's a lot of
improvements that need to be made to
this corridor for pedestrian bicyclists
and so forth
this little inset picture here gives you
perspective of what's the corridor look
like today the project is intended to
improve facilities and provide
facilities where they don't exist for
pedestrians bicycles and improve the
safety of the corridor throughout the
whole area for all users to date
pwe has been out with the help of Lisa
as she mentioned earlier and has
actually held two in-depth workshops
with the community for some community
engagement to find out what the
community feels the needs are along the
corridor and to help develop and further
develop the concept of the corridor the
application again for the grant money is
for design work which will help us
complete the design from the time in
which we essentially meet with the HOAs
this fall through the completion of the
development of construction documents
the amount of the grant application is
going for we're applying for two and a
half million dollars is the proposal
which requires about a thirteen and a
half percent match which is roughly
three hundred and ninety thousand
dollars this project is in the capital
improvement plan they're scheduled to
have the essentially first phase of
design begin next year it's about a two
year process for design and with that
the recommended motion is that the
council authorize the middle of the Parc
grant application for the design phase
of Newport Way improvements from 900 to
South East 54th what is the application
do
thank you for that question an
application is due the September 20th
two days from now I'm going to take a
little blame for this one here some
folks thought this should come under the
consent agenda and I I thought different
from talking about it from the
infrastructure chair this is new I want
to say a couple things about this first
of all this is a OneTouch thing and
since I hang on process a whole bunch I
don't like OneTouch things unless
there's a an impending date or crisis or
something and so that the due date for
this is coming up very quickly and this
I want a complement staff because we
weren't this was a way of them doing
some extra work getting during to get
that extra grant that we weren't quite
so where we could get earlier so it
wasn't like in the you know long
foreseen future when we're going for so
they've been hustling a little bit and I
want to compliment them on that and and
say that's why it's come up and now we
have to go for it and so I wanted to
bring that up why we're doing a one
touch on that and complement their
efforts and because this has been such a
large community involvement we've really
been pushing the community in this I
want to make I just wanted to highlight
this for sure that people realized that
and you know this is possibly a couple
of two and a half million dollars or
less whatever we can get out of that
that's a maximum amount that we can get
out of that with a thirteen percent
match that I would sure like to get to
and put to the design here versus
covering all out of City of Issaquah
funding which is what it's funded at
right now so this would be a big change
and we want to make sure we had like
that and complan staff on that and let
you know what's going on and that's why
brought it here to this thing so with
that I will make a motion
so go ahead move to authorize the middle
of the PSR see grant application for the
design phase of Newport Way improvements
from State Route 900 to South East 54th
Street second moved and seconded twice
their fight was perfect
okay questions or discussion on the
motion
Oh simple point I appreciate you
pointing out the match at 13 and a half
percent that was an example of some of
these policies and guidelines and that
this this task force that I'm part of
I guess that hasn't changed for a while
but that was that is one of those
standard ones I was referring to earlier
that committee meeting I went last week
PSR C always requires there's also some
project tracking requirements I know
that are probably going to remain as
there as well but I just want to point
that out as as an example of one of
those policies is the matching level 13
and a half percent other questions or
discussion are you ready to act all
those in favor of authorizing the that
thing back up there authorize this
middle of the ESRC grant application for
the design phase of Newport Way
improvements from SR 902 South East 54th
signify by saying aye those opposed
I'd carries unanimously now moving to
good of the order does anyone have
anything just evening for go to the
order I have okay I just wanted to
remind everyone to mark your calendars
for October 7th and 8th which of course
is salmon days here in Issaquah and we
get to celebrate the salmon returning
back home to the essica waters and we
celebrate it with lots of arts and
crafts and music great food and of
course always the field of fun so 7th
and 8th and we'll see everybody downtown
Thank You Eileen mellow you just wanted
to check and see I know I sent the fire
chief summary today but if anybody has
questions about standards of cover and
the new changes we might be looking at I
could take them tonight or you can just
email me them if there's going to be
discussing this with their board over
the next
months but it is very different than
what we've seen before we're going to be
way down into station location and
actually types of stations considering
even doing different types of stations
now so it should be an interesting
conversation thank you
anything else there is no requirement
for a follow-on Executive Committee
meeting we are adjourned
you