and I thought she was talking about
something else but it may have been
about that night and I just didn't
understand she was saying that she
planned to be there and one gonna make
it yeah
all right good evening ladies and
gentlemen I like to call our call to
order the development Commission meeting
of October 3rd we're going to be
discussing we have to well a number of
agenda items but the specifics are a
Costco campus expansion building for
community conference for information and
a public hearing Costco campus expansion
building five for a decision before we
do that we are going to we have a couple
of business issues to take care of the
first is approval of minutes of
September 5th and then we have to elect
some officers for this coming year so
let's look at the minutes first
everybody had a chance to read the
minutes and if you have would like to
accept a motion move to approve the
minutes second any discussion all those
agreed say aye
aye opposed motion carries
so now the election of officers and I
will call for nominations for the chair
and the commissioners can make
nominations
I'll close the nominations and then
we'll discuss that if needed and I'll
call for a vote mr. chair I nominee are
current here Richard so as chair at
second there are other other nominations
for your speech do you want to know what
I did in high school no sir
so all those in favor say aye aye those
opposed and I guess I'm the chair how
bad I would like to accept nominations
for the vice chair miss Chairman I
nominate Commissioner Melvin Morgan as
vice chair at second
other nominations all those in favor say
aye aye aye all those opposed
so we've concluded our nominations so
thank you gentlemen
congratulation why does it take the
federal government months and months you
don't really want an answer for that
rhetorical question okay so let us start
our community conference for the Costco
campus expansion building number four
we'll be starting with our Senior
Planner Jean Lynne and she'll give a
presentation we'll have a applicant
presentation we'll open the floor for
public comments if there are members of
the public and then we'll have some
discussion over it so this Lynne I just
get to do the fun part first oh I'm
sorry no that's all right it's not on
the agenda so it's a quasi-judicial
hearing I think I'm gonna skip this
slide because you know this but if you
could read through the questions
how many commissioners answer no to all
the questions any commissioners answer
yes and then the other piece of it is ex
parte communications have you had any
conversations about this permit outside
of the public hearing no no no no great
any challenges from the applicant
thank you
good evening Development Commissioners
I'm gene Linn senior planner with the
city of is a quad development services
department and I'm also the project
planner for the proposed development so
here tonight there's also the applicant
seem we have Steve Bullock here to my
left from MJ to architects and we also
have Jackie Frank
from Costco I think later on we'll also
be joined by other members of Mg to
Shannon Susan so tonight's meeting is a
continuation of the meeting on September
5th that's where we received comments
from the development Commission and the
public on the proposed Costco campus
expansion project and the presentation
tonight is going to be really focused on
the questions and comments from the last
meeting so as a reminder the project
consists of two discrete applications
with two distinct review processes and
it's we're looking at a site development
permit and a administrative site
development permit and while they're
listed as two separate projects in the
agenda tonight we're going to be
presenting them in one presentation and
the meeting materials have also been
combined as well
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so the following meeting sequence is the
proposed is proposed to help organize
the presentations and discussions for
tonight we'll start with a combined
presentation by staff and the applicant
that'll be followed by any public
comments and then we'll have the
continuation of the public hearing with
the development Commission's discussion
and decision for the site development
permit for building five that's the
parking garage and then we'll follow
that up with the continuation of the
community conference for the
administrative site development permit
for building four and that's the office
building so if there's any members of
the public who want to speak they could
sign in at the clipboard at the front of
the room so just to provide a very quick
recap of the proposed development it's
two new buildings on the left there it's
building five that is on the northwest
corner of Lake Drive and southeast 62nd
Street it's a ten story parking garage
and there's approximately 30,000 square
feet of active uses on the ground floor
to the right of that is building four
that's at the northeast corner of Lake
Drive in South East 62nd Street it's a
nine story office building with one
level of underground parking and the
building consists of approximately
600,000 square feet there's also a sky
bridge that goes across Lake Drive that
connects the two buildings on the upper
floors
as I touched upon earlier we're looking
at two discrete applications tonight so
for the site development permit that's
for building five the development
Commission's role is the decision-making
body and that would be to take action on
the project for the administrative site
development permit that's for building
for the development Commission's role is
to provide staff with input so that we
can write our administrative decision so
we received a number of comments from
the last meeting and what we've done is
organize the comments into 13 topics the
first 8 topics you see pertain to
building 5 as well as the overall site
and the last 5 topics pertain to
building for the city and the applicant
have worked together on responding to
these comments and our consolidated
responses are provided in the briefing
response memo the topic numbers that are
listed here do correspond with the topic
numbers as presented in the briefing
response memo so we'll start with the
first topic and that is an
administrative adjustment of standards
to provide some greater design clarity
for the through block connection at
building 5 this was something that we
had told the Commission we'd come back
to present we had provided a preliminary
condition that would require us to go
through an ASN we are here tonight doing
so so there's a couple of refinements to
the design of the through block passage
at this building the applicant is
proposing differently patterned concrete
at the walkways and at the vehicular
drive there's going to be bollards along
the pedestrian walkways artwork on
the northern walkway there's a couple of
elements that would try to help soften
the environment through that walkway
area under the building that includes
Rick horsing would like ceilings and
inset lighting into the ceiling so one
thing to note is that the artwork that's
shown here is really only intended to
provide a flavor of what could be
proposed it's not representative of
actual artwork that's proposed at that
location in fact staff would prefer art
that would be designed to be distributed
along the route rather than concentrated
on one segment
so the design of the through block
passage includes two walkways where it
goes through the building you'll see
that on the northern route the walkway
is eight feet wide and on the southern
route the walkway would be five feet
wide these widths include placement of
bollards and when you have bollards
within that walkway with its reduces the
clear width of the walkway by about 6
inches to up to a foot for the north
walkway that's not so much of an issue
it's wide enough to accommodate
pedestrians comfortably going through as
well as the bollards but on the southern
walkway when you reduce the five-foot
walkway to about four and a half four
feet to four and a half feet that gets a
little tight and uncomfortable for two
people passing so staff is recommending
modifying the southern route to require
a minimum of five foot clear with for
that walkway so you'll see our proposed
revision to condition for condition
floor as I mentioned was a preliminary
condition in the staff report and that's
to require us to come back with an AAS
we're modifying that language since we
are bringing the a the AES back now and
so the condition has been modified to
provide a minimum clear with of seven
feet and five feet for these walkways
Thank You Jeanne the one thing that that
I just wanted to bring up is clarity for
you guys what we're proposing to put
through here or what we're required to
put through here is what's called a
secondary through block connection and
per said the the configuration of a
through block a secondary through block
c'n connection is a five foot wide
pathway with four feet of landscaping on
either side of it
and so what we're proposing here what
this is all about is eliminating the
four feet of landscaping required on
either side of that walkway as we're
going through the passageway that goes
under the building and to compensate for
that we're proposing the two sock
sidewalks were in agreement with city
staff in regards as we as it pertains to
the revision of the conditions we're
fine with that
so moving on to the second topic this
pertains to the northeast corner of
building five the comment is that this
corner appears utilitarian and
monolithic and that there's no gateway
element or other feature at this corner
and the applicant has come back with a
modified design as you can see on the
left is the original proposal and on the
upper floors of the parking garage
the original proposal had slats and that
was consistent with the rest of the
facade on the right is the revised
proposal and that incorporates accent
paneling at the building corner the
paneling treatment is pretty consistent
with the treatment of other building
corners along the South East 62nd Street
side for both buildings and helps book
and the building so that it kind of
provides a nice nice edge to the to the
buildings into the site
here's a perspective of that same corner
but with some context of views of
building for and the skybridge this is a
view coming down Lake Drive and if I
could we just want to say thank you for
suggesting this look at this again
because we really do agree with you that
this was a very positive change to our
design it's something that reflects
other places that we the way we treated
the building in other parts of it and
and it's really appropriate here and
gives us a much richer final product
Thanks but their third topic pertains to
tree retention and density the comment
we received basically asked for more
trees to be planted on site that the
tree removals adjacent to the net to the
natural areas impact the experience
along those natural areas and to plant
native species on the site
so as part of the conditions of approval
condition 5 does require the applicant
to meet the minimum tree density on site
to the extent that it's would be
practical and feasible if it's not
feasible to plant all the trees on site
to meet the minimum tree density there's
the option to find opportunities to
plant trees off-site and if both on and
off site options have been exhausted
there's the option to contribute to the
city's tree fund in addition to
condition 5 staff is recommending a new
condition that encourages the applicant
to plant slightly larger larger trees
and also to plant trees that are
adjacent to the natural areas that is a
long as a col Creek and Pickering
Pickering pond thanks Jean what we're
showing here is is the properties that
we're going to be developing and we've
overlaid the footprints of our building
and utility corridors on top of our tree
survey and and it's not even showing
everything - you know there's there's
the plaza area on the east side of
building 4 - that in the end what we're
talking about to build these buildings
excavation that's going to be required
for the basement garage on building 4
and all the circulation that's happening
for building 5 and including the utility
corridors is that we're impacting the
entire site and it's and it's not a
decision that we took lightly we
considered you know what does what does
the urban core zone allow and you know
it allows a 95 percent block coverage
and
the end we're going to be providing 81
and 88% lot coverage so less than then
the maximum allowed and and we we had a
lot of thought and conversation go into
the trees that are out there you know
some of them are our parking lot trees
built to provide our installed to
provide shade and and break up the area
of a parking lot and then some on the
perimeter and we have photos that that
document this that we're all planted by
a Costco over the years to provide
screening of the parking lot and
obviously that's not going to be the
condition in the future and so in the
end we ended up applying for an an
administrative adjustment of standards
to ask for approval to remove all the
trees and that that's not because we
don't want to plant trees as some of the
letters that were received said we we
absolutely want to plant trees and and
what we're showing here is our site plan
with all the trees that were proposing
at this point in time and as we continue
to develop the site plan and and some of
the the street wall conditions and
things like that I think we're even
going to be able to supplement this some
more but currently what we're proposing
with our administrative adjustment of
standards is a elimination of a hundred
and eighty four trees on the site of
those only 116 are considered
significant trees because the other
tree's are either too small or they're
in poor condition as determined by the
arborist and those 116 trees represent
1268 caliper inches of trees and when
when we read says section ten point four
states that there's one replacement tree
required for every six inches of tree
caliper removed so for the for the two
hundred and eleven trees that represent
that that 1268 caliper inches divided by
six means that the replacement amount of
trees is a two hundred eleven trees this
plan right here is showing a hundred and
sixty-one trees
and and the minimum insulation size per
says - is is 2 inch diameter for
deciduous trees and seven feet tall for
for conifers and it would absolutely be
our intent to plant things at greater
size probably a three to four inch
caliper - to get us some instant effect
especially in some of the plaza area to
get those canopies up high enough that
people can walk under them and things
like that and the same thing for for
some of the the conifers to put them in
it at Heights greater than the minimum
to address exactly the conditions that
that staffs talked about as being
proposed conditions so again this is
something just to kind of give you a
flavor of what our thought process has
been we absolutely want to to have the
final product for for our campus
continue to be one that demonstrates
high quality and and and dedication to
have in a natural environment trees
shrubs and and the like to be lush and
beautiful and and full so that it
matches up with the existing canopy
screaming dizzying campus that is out
there and the adjacent natural features
that we're hoping to take advantage of
from a view perspective so we are and
can we concur with with staffs
recommending conditions on this
thanks T so the next topic is about
trail experience and in the sense that
the proposed removal trees potential
tall retaining walls and views of the
buildings are going to ruin the the
trail experience so we're gonna respond
firstly about the Pickering pond the
Pickering pond trail experience and then
we'll talk about the Pickering trail
experience so Pickering pond trail
experience is long building five
generally the applicant is has
redesigned this trail so that is raised
approximately by three feet so it's
gonna be at the top of a retain a
retaining wall instead of at the bottom
of the retaining wall the applicant is
proposing to revegetate the area where
the pond where the trail is adjacent to
the pond overlook the pond overlook
would be supported by either columns or
a retaining wall and staff is requesting
proposing to revise condition 11
pertaining to building 5 to require
treatment if retaining walls over 4 feet
are proposed anywhere along the
Pickering pond trail in addition staff
is proposing a new condition with the
redesign of the trail and raising it to
be above the retaining wall the trail
alignment has changed such that portions
of the trail would now be on Costco's
private property and so the new
condition would help ensure that the
public trail access would be ensured
through
granting of an easement to the city
we'd like to just talk real quickly I
don't know how many of you have been on
the the Pickering Pond Trail this is the
existing path that's on the west side of
where we're going to be putting building
five and doesn't mass show yeah good the
these first two images in the top left
in the center kind of show you you know
that that path has been in place now
since since the early 90s and the
vegetation is has really filled in and
and as you can see there the path is
overgrown there's branches and you know
overtaking it and it's it's not a very
inviting place to walk right now
as you continue on and look at the one
here in the upper right you see is kind
of this long it's almost turned into a
cavern is so overhung with with
vegetation and plants and then you can
see too that there's a lot of invasive
species that have taken over there's
that's a bunch of Himalayan blackberry
there's Morning Glory there there's a
bunch of stuff out there that that needs
to be cleaned up and sand back and in
these these bottom two images on the
Left show you the the path as it gets
down kind of at the low point where it
has some issues with flooding in the
wintertime and groundwater seepage that
comes over it and it leaves kind of a
slimy mess on on the path and it's not a
very inviting place to walk or have
people go there and so part of what
we're looking to do is is make that a
better experience when you look at this
site plan I hope you can see the kind of
yellow stripe here to on the left side
of that image and that's where the
existing path is now and it's got a
retaining wall on the east side of it
that's I'll say roughly three feet high
our idea is to take it and and get rid
of that path and put the new one on top
of that retaining wall which gets it to
a point where it's no longer looking
the retaining wall it gets it a little
bit hired so you can look over and see
the pond better and in all these areas
that are shown in green are areas that
are just going to slope back to the new
building number five or the adjacent
driveways there will be no retaining
walls in those areas or if so just very
low a couple feet at most and and so
that area is going to be planted we have
a requirement with the Public Works
Department for bringing our our water
main around the outside of the building
there and the path and and and the
landscaping are going to allow us to do
that and it's going to be at the at the
narrowest point here we're talking about
25 feet wide
getting widening out to approximately 40
feet at the south end so we're going to
be able to put some substantial
landscaping in there to soften the
effect of that new building building
five and in the end the other thing that
we think that's really neat about this
whole thing is that the the new trail
and the through block connection that we
talked about on our previous discussion
are going to meet at this this node here
that we're calling the pond overlook
feature and and and we think that that's
going to be a great way to connect those
two trails up and allow for people to
move through the area and just be a very
beautiful experience and besides that
we're in agreement with the staffs
proposed conditions at this time
continuing on this topic
so we're looking at the other side at
building for Pickering trail near is a
koala Creek so we looked more closely at
the trail experience along the Pickering
trail and one element one significant
element that we noticed is that there's
an existing offset stand off site stand
of trees it's about a hundred and sixty
five linear feet that's along the trail
and that's that vegetation is going to
stay
and in the slide here you can see on the
left is the proposed development and
that stand of trees is circled in the
red and on the right is the aerial photo
of the existing conditions with the
stand of tree that trees circled in
yellow and you could also see the
location of the trees and proximity to
the trail and the site so the stand of
trees is going to soften the appearance
of the building when viewed from the
trail and so these the section on top
helps illustrate the relationship
between the building vegetation and
trail if you start on the very left the
far left
that's where building four would be as
you come to the right you see the so
here's the building and then as you move
right this is the Creekside Terrace deck
area and then and then you'll see the
stand of trees and then to the right of
the sand trees is the Pickering trail so
there's quite a bit of distance between
the trail and the building and the plan
view on the bottom illustrates what this
area looks like so again building
Creekside Terrace area and the trees and
the trail the one thing that we want to
bring to your attention as well is that
there used to be an easement on Costco's
property it was called the easement r
and it was supposed to be for the city
to put a ran along the very east edge of
our property and it was supposed to be
there for the trail to be constructed in
well ultimately the trail didn't get
constructed there it got constructed
entr'acte where it is now and it's about
a year year-and-a-half ago
Costco worked together the City Council
to get that easement relinquished and
and as part of that Costco agreed to to
pay the city twenty five thousand
dollars to assist in mitigating any
difficulties or visual obstructions
whatever you want to call it that might
occur with this building being built in
close close proximity to the trail and
and ultimately we're going to want to
connect our system up with the trail as
well and so I after we're through with
this project we're going to start
working together with Parks and Rec
working out their direction and their
their leadership to put together a plan
for how things happen in track day how
some of our trails and and Plaza spaces
ultimately connect up to Pickering trail
and then what kinds of plantings get
done there if and when the trail maybe
gets adjusted in its location and all
that stuff is is partially paid for by a
contribution that Costco has already
made to the city
so the next topic relates to excavation
and fill the concerns expressed were
that the number of truck trips that
would be required and associated with
the proposed excavation and fill the
site there's also concerns about trying
to keep trucks off of sr 900 in May
Valley Road trying to minimize the truck
trips by keeping soil in Issaquah rather
than trucking it out and also the amount
of soil that would be needed to address
the local faction issues on the site so
information that was presented in the
previous packet noted that there would
be about 55,000 cubic yards of material
that would be hauled from the site and
due to some refinements of the project
namely a reduction in the underground
garage at building four that number has
been updated to about forty thousand
cubic yards of material condition 15
would also address the local faction and
weak soils at the site yeah and we're
we're in agreement with this city on
this once we have our general contractor
on board for the project and one of the
things that they're going to need to do
is put together a construction
management plan a best practices type of
thing that includes haul routes and
traffic control and all of that and
they're going to have to come up with
things that make the city that that meet
the city's requirements for hauling what
roads get used all of that stuff and
we're going to comply with whatever the
city requires us to do at that time it's
hard to make commitments to that right
now
so the next topic pertains to traffic
and road improvements and the concern
was that given the amount of development
in this area that additional road
improvements would be necessary to serve
this area specifically what was
suggested is to provide an additional
right turn lane at 17th Avenue SR nine
hundred and twelfth Street and also to
provide a crossing over through i-90 so
both of these improvements are actually
have actually are actually contemplated
and the with respect to the 17th Avenue
SR 900 and 12th Street
improvements at that intersection that's
already been committed to as part of the
Costco development agreement in the
master transportation funding agreement
and timing for that has actually been
delayed do you do the need to coordinate
with Lake Sammamish State Park this is
one of three transportation improvement
projects that were identified in the
Costco development agreement with
respect to the i-90 crossing that's that
has been identified as a long-term
improvement in the city's transportation
improvement plan the target is to start
work on that in 2020 and by start work
it means to start applying for grant
funding to allow for preliminary design
work to begin however construction of
that project may be many years after
2020
topic number seven pertained to
sustainability and the comment was to
incorporate the city's sustainable
building action strategy green building
measures into the project the applicant
has provided a response the development
agreement exhibit K which talks about
sustainability already requires certain
measures to be incorporated into the
project I've got listed here
several the key measures from the
applicants response to exhibit K with
and these are the measures that the
applicant has committed to implementing
as part of the project I think I might
just just say real quickly we've we've
had a number of conversations with many
different people from city staff about
how we comply with exhibit K and and and
the city's desire for this to be a you
know a model project as it relates to
sustainability and and I think we've had
some really good conversations with is
it David Kawamoto or puja moto thank you
I'm sorry and and then the rest of the
staff talking about these things
so the next topic pertains to site
amenities the comment
listen number of amenities that the site
I guess requesting that the site the
development should provide these
amenities
these include creating spaces for social
opportunities providing convenient
access to Lake Sammamish State Park
providing amenities for all ages
providing weather protection and seating
for pedestrian paths and transit stops
providing outdoor lighting to facilitate
evening public activity activities
providing a location for the i-90
crossing and transit pedestrian and
bicycle connections to the Pickering to
Gilman connection so many of these
amenities are already proposed
incorporated as part of the proposed
project some of these elements however
aren't relevant to this site or
development so for example the request
to provide a connection to Lake
Sammamish State Park is going to be not
relevant to this site because it's the
site isn't adjacent to the State Park or
or in very close proximity with respect
to the i-90 crossing location that
location is actually anticipated and
lower Pickering and not at this site so
I think that Steve might elaborate on
some of the other amenities yeah I just
we we took this opportunity to kind of
highlight some of the things that we
have going on here there's there's a
number of different gathering or
community spaces provided throughout
these two buildings and they go from
spots that are quieter more
contemplative of nature
you know you have the pond overlook
you've got the the Creekside Terrace
that's looking towards Issaquah Creek
those those are going to be a little bit
more quiet and and allow people to kind
of view and experience nature and be
immersed in nature to a certain degree
and then the other the other public
spaces are you know more urban in nature
you know they're close to the buildings
they're there where the building and the
street is being activated there's
there's lots of activity going on in the
buildings there they're connected to two
cafeterias in some spaces close to
assembly spaces in others and benches
and and tree canopy and and interesting
things for for the people that use those
spaces are going to be there and we
believe that we comply with the things
that that letter brought up so that
concludes the topics pertaining to
building five in the overall site at
this time we're going to transition into
topics that pertain only to building
four which is the administrative site
development permit so for building four
blank walls was brought up at the last
meeting and discussed to some extent so
there's two locations of blank walls
that were identified and the comment is
how how are these blank walls going to
be addressed these two locations are at
the southeast corner of the building and
at the northwest corner of the building
the applicants provided some refinements
to the design of these blank wall areas
and as a reminder condition 10 also
requires blank wall treatments at both
these locations
so starting with the southeast corner of
the building this is the corner that's
adjacent to South East 62nd Street on
the on the top you'll see the original
proposal with the blank wall and
initially just landscaping was proposed
to treat that blank wall on the bottom
is the revised design and in the and the
revisions the applicants added some
punched windows along the majority of
the length of that wall they've raised
the planter beds they have raised
planter beds to help obscure the
remainder of that blank wall and there
would be additional brick detail that
would be added to the wall design yeah
we this is nothing new you know we I
think it shows a little bit better here
than it does on the on the perspective
and that's partially because the the
grades aren't very well developed on the
perspective but the road sixty second is
actually coming from the bridge abutment
as a high point and slowly ramping down
towards the the traffic circle at the
intersection of lake and 62nd and so we
see and you can kind of see here in in
this corner the the landscape bed that's
adjacent to the the sidewalk between the
sidewalk in the building is actually
going to kind of terrace this way down
as the sidewalk is is dropping along
62nd and then there's going to be a
backdrop of windows behind that to allow
some of the views into the building
there that's an actual foyer area for an
assembly area for Costco and there there
may be pre function type activities
going on in there and so having windows
here is not a bad thing for us
so the other area with blank walls is at
the northwest corner of the building and
this is a long lake drive it's actually
a section that's set back from a lake
drive it's adjacent to the ramp to the
underground garage it's still it's set
back quite significantly from Lake Drive
but still visible what's what's proposed
here are raised landscape planters as
well as providing some additional detail
to the brick to break up to make it a
little more interesting yeah I think
looking at the elevation you can see the
area where staff had the concern which
is is this brick wall here what's going
on behind that is it's the service and
kitchen area of the building that serves
the cafeteria and and the loading docks
which is why we don't have windows and
things in there and what we've tried to
do and you can see it in the perspective
below we have we have the ramp going
down to the basement garage plus
landscaping on either side of that ramp
for a total distance of probably close
to 40 feet that removes pedestrians from
that wall and so in that 40 feet there
be a 24 foot wide drive aisle and then
another 15 feet of landscaping on either
side of that that has trees and shrubs
berm area all kind of filtering and
screening views of that wall will do
some things architectural II to make it
interesting so it's not just a plain
flat wall but but it it's already going
to be very fairly much removed from
where pedestrians are going to be there
they're set back quite a significant
distance from it
topic number 10 deals with sense of
arrival and the comment was raised about
how to achieve a sense of arrival for
those coming from the east so there's a
couple of elements that could signal the
sense of arrival there transitions that
would have an implied sense of arrival
there's also physical markers or design
elements that could mark the arrival
point so in terms of the transitions
there's some pretty significant
transitions as you come from East Lake
Sammamish Parkway and as you move
towards the Costco corporate campus
what's the experiences as as you come
from East Lake Sammamish Parkway you're
gonna hit a roundabout and then that
that would be so East Lake Sammamish
parkways over here you come through that
a roundabout and then and then you're
gonna negotiate through a fairly long
bridge along South East 62nd Street that
bridge has a span of about eight to nine
hundred feet and it spans the natural
Creek and wetland habitat area so the
photo on the right shows a good view of
that habitat area as you as you're on
the bridge
so in addition to that there's as you as
you near the western end of the bridge
and get closer to the Costco campus
you're going to transition from the
natural habitat to the urban street
environment and the transition also
takes place in terms of what you see so
the views are going to be transitioning
from the wetland views to the trees and
the proposed building in this case
building four you're also going to be
transitioning from the bridge onto an
at-grade Road and so all of these
transitions really help signal to the
user that you're you're entering a
different place and it really instills a
strong sense of arrival into the Costco
campus and into Pickering in addition to
these transitions and implied sense of
arrival there's also physical markers
that could be implemented to mark the
arrival points Costco is already in the
process of developing wayfinding signage
for Pickering and because of that
staffed Enfield's need to add a new
condition to require physical markers
but if the Development Commission feels
that a new condition is warranted
we've included some suggested language
in the briefing response memo thank you
thank you gene excuse me we've had a lot
of internal discussion about this since
it was brought up at the last
development Commission meeting and
section chapter 12 point-to-point II
where it talks about sense of arrival
says sites should promote unique design
features and a sense of arrival in each
district and development to establish
distinct boundaries that are
recognizable to the community and that's
that's all it says about it and and even
some of the discussion that we had at
our last meeting was
I'm not sure we totally knew what you
guys were looking for or what you were
hoping that we would do what what we
thought and you know we're coming at it
from an architecture perspective and we
believe that there are site design and
our building design is really centered
on this area that we have highlighted
with the dashed lines here which which
is focused on the the entry canopy of
the building for and there are there are
three lantern features one right here in
this northwest corner of building four
one in the southwest corner building
four and one at the southeast corner
building five and and that coupled with
the pedestrian bridge that's framing
this whole area and the fact that that
the traffic circle is all funneling
people if you're coming from the east or
west on the south once you hit that
traffic circle and you start turning up
Lake Drive this is your sense of arrival
you are here we're dealing with it
specifically in the architecture of the
building and and the features that are
built into the building and the site
design the same thing as you're coming
south on on Lake Drive you're coming
down and you see this community space
this the plaza the lantern feature the
the area where the auto court and this
is all culminating in what we believe
from an architect's perspective is the
sense of arrival for these buildings now
relating to a sense of arrival for a
district we we agree that Pickering
place is a development as a whole that
that deserves some monumentation it has
some right now but it's fairly dated it
doesn't have any on this southeast
corner of the site and and Costco along
with other owners of Pickering place are
already kind of in the midst of talking
about some different things to do to
refresh and and and put something
together that is a comprehensive way
finding and monumentation package
the entire Pickering place development
and we would like to continue moving
forward without without that being
something that is conditioned on this
project because we feel this is a very
different thing than that and we're
committed to moving forward on both of
those and that's kind of where we are at
as far as we hope that we can move this
approval forward without a condition
related to that and we will continue to
move that other effort forward on its
own track so building for the question
was raised about how this building
complies with the build to line
requirements in the centralized across
standards and also in the Costco
development agreements so the image on
the left is from the development
agreement land plan and this shows a
good that shows the relationship that
was contemplated between building four
and what was assumed to be the alignment
of South East 62nd Street at that time
to the right is the proposed site plan
that shows the relationship of the
proposed building for with the actual
alignment of South East 62nd Street that
is as it is currently being constructed
so for curvilinear streets the
development agreement allows some
flexibility to the build to line
compliance with the build to line
standard in that it understands that
buildings can be can meet the intent of
the bill to line standard without
meeting the letter that when you have
curved linear streets and especially if
you don't want to force all of the
buildings to be curved and along with
the street so with respect to the build
to line compliance the building along
lake drop the lake drive frontage is
actually largely compliant with the
standard as for the South East 62nd
Street frontage we looked at this a
little more closely and the alignment
has actually changed pretty
significantly since the alignment that
was assumed under the development
agreement so in the image here and the
green the green line actually shows the
alignment that was assumed under the
development agreement and you can see
under this alignment it is pretty it's
it's a fairly straight alignment there's
about 331 feet of straight frontage in
this alignment since then there's been
some modifications to that the current
alignment of South East 62nd Street
right-of-way is shown in the blue line
above that and in the blue line there's
some additional curved areas that have
been incorporated into that alignment
and so you end up only with 182 feet of
straight frontage so what we're working
with here is actually a street that was
assumed to be much straighter than it is
and has now become more curvilinear and
so because of that we feel that the
building along this frontage would be
eligible for the flexibility
that's allowed under the development
agreement we agree
this this was the subject of many many
talks internally with with our team and
and then also with with city staff or
over the months in the year about how we
we get a building that meets the intent
of this and there's a lot of things
we're trying to do to really meet the
intent we're in many cases we're pulling
the sidewalk right up to the face of our
buildings so the building feels like a
zero lot line building even even though
the sidewalk may the actual property I
excuse me may be more than 10 feet away
from the face of our building we've got
sidewalk running right up to the face er
of our building so it feels like you're
all still within the the public realm
and the public right-of-way and we're
providing community space and we're
committed to working really hard with
staff to come up with solutions for for
how we continue to reinforce the the
street wall within that build to line so
we're grateful for their direction on
this and and continue to look forward to
working together with them on it
the next topic pertain to the east-west
through blocked passage at building four
specifically how the design and
alignment of this passage would
prioritize pedestrians there was one
particularly challenging location that
was identified in the last meeting and
that's where the through blocked passage
traverses through the loading area for
the trading building that's shown in the
blue oval on in the diagram on the left
the picture on the right actually shows
that loading area at the trading
building so again some design
refinements have been made to make this
a safer and more pleasant pedestrian
experience the applicant is proposing an
8 foot wide path that would be patterned
concrete and that would contrast with
the paving design for the vehicular
areas a landscape planter area has also
been extended down to create a 10-foot
by 10-foot pedestrian refuge in that
through blocked passage area as well so
that makes it a little more comfortable
for pedestrians to negotiate through
that area if and when there are vehicles
going through that area at the same time
one consideration to keep in mind is
that the trading building is will be
redeveloped at some point in the future
and so the pedestrian experience would
likely change with the redevelopment of
that site Thank You Jeanne one other
thing I'd like to add that this picture
of the UPS truck park there is rather
unfortunate for a number of reasons the
the way this loading dock is supposed to
work is trucks actually pull inside and
all the loading and unloading
happens inside the building and in all
reality there's only one to four trips a
day that they come to this so it's it's
not a high use area we believe what
we're proposing here both from
differentiating the path and then
providing a place for people to to stop
and and and and have some protection
before they move on is an appropriate
response to staffs legitimate concern
here and I think we have a solution that
we both feel good about so we're at the
last topic here and that has to do with
the CEPA analysis for impacts of flood
plains so the comment that we received
indicated that actions of the floodplain
are not covered by the planned action
determination that was the basis of
previous environmental analysis so
floodplain impacts are quite heavily
regulated by federal state and city
regulations the the previously pnau
analysis also did identify compliance
with these regulations as part of the
mitigation measures for development
within floodplain areas and so we've
we've had condition 16 proposed which
would require the that the applicant
obtain a flood hazard permit and that
they comply with all city applicable
city codes and and just to give you a
little bit of detail on that as well
we've already hired some consultants the
same consultants that actually that
worked on the flood hazard permit for
the city's Road job here we've hired
them to do our work and and have that
pretty much completed and we're waiting
for us getting through this process if
we have this approval process in place
and we'll be applying for our flood
hazard permit with the city to to
demonstrate that we come
with all the the city federal and state
codes related to that thank you jackie
frank chairman mr. vice chairman
congratulation on your elections tonight
as you can see before you this evening
this presentation staff has been an
excellent partner we're pleased to have
collaborated on the response memo and
the presentation we really appreciate
your considering both the administrative
site development permit together with
the site development permit it's a
unique situation but we felt that it was
needed and that they both needed to be
viewed together one in fact provided
context for the other and we thank you
for allowing us to structure things this
way thanks again for the comments that
you've provided at the last meeting your
suggestions on building five facade
treatment were excellent and we we
definitely believe it improved the
quality of the design so thank you thank
you for that looking back and I'm gonna
if we've really talked about this much
but as a part of the process I'm
especially pleased with the time we
spent with your consultant Crandall
arambula we went through the SIDS
compliance checklist even though we
didn't really have to
it helped us develop common language
with your consultant and with staff and
a vocabulary in considering projects and
evaluating design solutions we think it
was really productive and and time
well-spent
from Costco's perspective additionally
we're very pleased with the success of
the project relative to our own growth
and consolidation objectives and we hope
our responses tonight were sufficient
and we appreciate your guidance and your
input overall i'd like to say on behalf
of costco that we appreciate the
partnership we've we have between the
city of Issaquah and costco wholesale
thank you
so this concludes staff and applicants
presentation at this time we're
available to take any questions from the
Development Commission as well before we
move on to public comments and just as a
reminder here's the proposed meeting
sequence for tonight so we've just
completed the combined staff and
applicant presentation we could move on
to public comments after that and the
public hearing for the site development
permit and then finally the community
conference for the administrative site
development permit event any members of
the public wish to speak please sign in
at the clipboard at the front of the
room and if you can please consider
presenting your comments around each
building separately as the development
commissioners will have to have separate
conversations about each building as
well thank you so much we didn't know if
you might have questions before we
opened it so
no you can do questions after - we just
didn't know if you had any clarification
sorry for the confusion we are trying to
decide what the best approach would be
and at this point we think the best
approach would be for us to open the
discussion for public comment if members
of public wish to make comment we'd like
you to sign in introduce yourself and
then we'll hear your comments and then
the Commissioner will have some
discussion and questions
don't forget thank you
[Laughter]
invisible ink it's wood we know who you
are
hi my name is Connie Martian I live up
on squawk and I didn't want to come and
then I looked at the this website and I
said yeah okay I have to go down because
y'all know I'm generally dissatisfied
right and so I was pleased to see that
progress was made it's going to be hard
to divide being pleased with progress
between both between the buildings so
I'm not exactly sure how to go with that
but you guys talked about the trails and
the trees at the same time so I'm going
to do the same thing I think what Costco
agreed to do on the trail around the
ponds is going to be way better for
everybody and so I totally appreciate
that because we can make a better trail
and get Costco what they want on the
Pickering trail side I'm trying to be
positive on that it's basically saying
we're doing enough and it's going to be
great and trust us it's going to be
great and that stand of trees is not as
big or thick as you as you think
especially in the wintertime because a
lot of those trees are deciduous and so
in this new developing relationship with
Costco that's warm and fuzzy
I would like more evergreen trees to
give sort of a year-round sense of green
and now I'm following into the
landscaping shown for both of both of
the buildings
the pictures are showing evergreens and
they're talking about how this is going
to soften the building phases but it
won't in the winter and so we only have
leaves on trees for a certain period of
time so in this new warm and fuzzy
experience I think we need to be sure
that we are talking about year-round
vegetation that will that will give us
this sense of screening because I don't
I don't think what they're planning
there is actually gonna work around now
I want to talk a little bit about the
sense of arrival and again I think this
is both buildings in all of Costco when
you go into their area you don't even
know where you are if you aren't from
town and you don't know that you're in a
Costco place you're going wow this is
sort of wild I just went through the
green and now I'm in this new age over
Pasi thing who are these people yet you
can't get out you can't go to a
restaurant you don't really know what
it's about unless you're from here and
so I think you do need some clues that
it's sort of a maybe an avant-garde
business campus so that people who are
interacting with it because they will be
more now because we have that new road
have some concept of how to behave or
what to do and where the public places
are and where the not so public places
are and sort of what it's about and I
think signage might do it may be big
huge addresses on the buildings so that
people can understand these are these
are corporate buildings here and then
they'll think and that's probably a
corporate gym and that's probably a
corporate cafeteria as compared to well
can I get a bowl of chicken soup in
there and so that would be sort of my
comments on the sense of arrival I don't
think it needs a condition I think with
the new warm and fuzzy relationship with
Costco that we're expressing that we
should be able to get that now my last
comment is
should this relationship not be as warm
and fuzzy as as we're anticipating from
this meeting tonight what can be done to
make it better and not to be a non
trusting person but I'm not if I was to
see something that I think that you guys
wouldn't approve of going up what's the
mechanism for coming back and getting a
fix and maybe I just don't understand it
maybe it's in the development agreement
but it is totally unclear how these
decisions are going to be made and how
they're gonna be given to you so you
know it's happening and given to the
public so they understand what's
happening because that's all totally non
transparent but warm and fuzzy okay
that's it thank you thank you that's
okay
so I don't think we have other members
of the public thank you for your
comments and we'll close the public
comment period at this point and now the
commissioners will open it up for
questions I have a few questions please
and a couple of comments I'll start with
the questions I'll start with topic one
this is really just a practical question
and I'm sure there's some criteria that
I'm unaware of with respect to the width
of those two sidewalks
why wouldn't they either just be the
same or the the South sidewalk be the 8
foot
it seems more foot traffic would occur
on the south side versus the north side
or or again maybe I'm just not
understanding some alignments or some
other criteria but why are they why are
we pushing the minimum on one side and
the other side is much more right great
great question and and that's you know
there's been lots of discussion between
us and staff and disagreement and you
know ultimate where we're at right now
and we're anxious to hear what you say
but one of the reasons we're showing it
there's there's two big reasons why
we're showing it on the north side the
first is that we have this through block
connection on this side of trading that
hits this crosswalk and continues on
across and they line up and so somebody
that's that's coming across and wants to
use that wider sidewalk and continue on
to the east that's that's one of the
reasons why we did that the spur ongoing
excuse me I went all the way
the other reason is this parking garage
is going to have 1700 cars come in and
out of it in a day and there's two main
entrances to it one in the southwest
corner and and and the other one kind of
at this northeast point right here
right and and our thought is that the
amount of cars coming and you know you
take 1700 cars they come in and they go
that's 3400 trips if you split them
50/50 there's back at 1,700 trips coming
out of out of this driveway right here
and we thought it made more sense to try
to emphasize the the walkway on the
north side of the of that drive aisle to
get them away from all those trips going
in and out of the garage so those those
were our two thoughts we're anxious to
hear what you think we've had lots of
discussion with staff and and debate and
and we're open to your direction as well
yeah it was more of a question of why
and I think that answers it a lot I
think beyond that is is there some sort
of system that signals when cars are
exiting no question what we're going to
be doing and it doesn't show very
clearly here but we're going to be
pulling back the walls on either side of
that curb cut so that opening is
probably going to end up being if the if
the curb cut was 24 and I'm not sure
that that is what it's going to be but
assume it is we're probably going to
have upwards of 30 feet of opening there
with you know three to four feet on
either side of that so that as people
are coming walking up they'll be visible
the drivers that are trying to exit okay
sue come Kevin can I just add one thing
about because we're removing the
landscape we felt strongly that at least
one of them had to be wider to kind of
compensate and make it a little more
gracious because it doesn't have the
landscape on either side
you may remember that last time it we
staff's condition was to have it wider
on the south side we went back and forth
I think some of the commissioners
comments last time where why wasn't it
on the north side I know I'm still a
proponent for the south side so you and
me guys but I think Costco felt strongly
it's going to be their campus I mean I
think if it was on the south side I'm
not sure that you're gonna get most of
the pedestrian traffic at the same time
as the cars I think you can make a case
for which side has the wider one I think
we're fine
deferring to their preference because I
think there is a case for for either
side
I appreciate the explanation I think
it's reasonable so I wouldn't have any
further comment on changing it my second
question was topic number two so there's
the two renderings there and maybe it's
just a matter of perspective the one on
the left on the on the plaza level
appears to have a much higher first
floor plate is that accurate or is it
just that it's farther away no what we
were doing we were actually
incorporating glass into the first level
of parking so it looks like it's taller
and we changed how that that all worked
worked together on the on the second
well we're not pulling the glass quite
up as high but we're bringing that that
bookend feature down a little further
and okay well generally I think it's a
good solution and and I appreciate the
response
and I'll just reserve some comments till
we're even further comments boys for I'm
sorry or the questions I have a question
this may be for the city on the revised
condition 5 I think that's on page 24 65
is that wording the additional wording
and addition to condition 5 it's not a
replacement for condition 5 correct
condition 5 age 24 65 I'm talking about
the wording of the slightly larger
caliper trees and track day and so on
sorry could you repeat your question
about that condition yeah so so on page
24 of 65 the area marked new condition
okay yes yes and it has to do with
planning slightly larger caliper trees
and so on
it's is that an addition to the existing
condition 5 above it it has not replaced
the language of the condition 5 above
it's that right yes that is correct it
would be in addition to condition 5
brain stops oh thank you that's new
condition 27 that is correct
the applicant I had a question about on
page 21 of 65m curious about the
increase of the floor floor thickness I
guess in building five it's going to
increase by a few inches no therefore
the building's going to be five feet
higher is that because you anticipate
the total width of that opening to be
wider because of the walkability factor
we've been talking about what would
happen there is that we were originally
showing 37 feet to provide this amount
of walkability columns on either side of
it supporting it after having some
discussions with our structural engineer
we found out that we're going to have to
have a seismic break on one side or the
other and so our first thought was to
put a second row of columns in on one
side and it was going to narrow that
that corridor up to thirty three and a
half feet well that didn't go over very
well and so we then ate into the other
side of our building but with with when
we were only at thirty three and a half
feet of span we were able to have the
floor thicknesses be a certain thickness
I think we're at ten inches but when we
bump up to thirty seven feet of span and
that needs to get thicker by five inches
to span that much further and so what
will happen we're not going to bump have
a bump in each floor we'll put that
thickness on the bottom but every floor
is going to have to go up a little bit
to accommodate that understand but we
were talking about thirty seven feet
last meeting correct yes that was known
then that the floors would have to be
thicker as if our line no we I didn't
know about the fact that we had lost
three three and a half feet for that
seismic joint and columns okay
one more I guess let's see
page 22 of 65 that has to do with the
corner added on building five the kind
of bookend effect they're the renditions
are really nice but I'm trying to get a
sense of how this would appear from the
street level as we're going by in the
street then and we're looking up into
that wood we see the lighting on the
ceiling of the garage there there's no
vertical screening left behind those
windows correct that's correct yeah that
would look kind of like prison bars
almost I guess there's no there's no
screening behind them there's on the
other floors or we just have the slats
you can see thickened horizontal members
which are blocking car headlights we
don't need those on this section where
we have the bookend because the actual
horizontal beams of the bookend are our
blocking headlights but looking up here
at night times you would you would see
lights from the parking garage the
actual lights in the building on the
current Costco garage those things get
operated on a timer now and they they
come on when people come in at nighttime
they come on they have motion sensors
and they come on and once people leave
they they turn off okay all my questions
I have a couple questions the revised
condition for doesn't have the language
about processing an Aes for the through
black passage is that because they've
already applied for one did you say that
is correct yes so we are presenting
their application for the AAS at this
meeting so that's why we deleted the
language in revise condition 11 talking
about blank walls on building 5 I'm not
sure in here there's the only addition
to this the third bullet point the trail
users be exposed to routine walls over
four feet yes I believe that is the only
addition and that is to address that
unique condition with the revised design
of the trail to make sure that anything
that any walls taller than four feet
would be treated along the trail now I
understand that they're not well I guess
one question B was exposed being there's
a retaining wall you could be on top of
it or you could be facing it so does it
mean that you would be looking into a
retaining wall that's over four feet yes
okay yes then but I thought with the new
design we wouldn't have people looking
into any retaining walls is that right
with the new design can you go back to
that other slide yep there's there's a
section at the pond overlook so that's
the section on top it's a fairly short
section because the pond overlook is
maybe 20 feet long but the applicants
shown that it would be either retaining
walls or columns so what columns you
know there there wouldn't be a need to
to treat the columns but if they did
opted to go with retaining walls there
then they would need to treat that
retaining wall okay great thank you and
then
the other question I guess was we have a
retaining wall now we're moving the
trail up above the retaining wall where
there would be points where the height
the rotating wall would require railings
or fencing along the path I think the
assumption should be that there needs to
be handrails along the entire length of
it okay
and that would just be something in a
building permit I assume okay
the condition 12 about the minimum 25%
of the bicycle stalls would be in
building four we discussed that I didn't
see any change that and I don't know if
I guess because my question is is it
hamstringing the project too much we
sort of discussed it wasn't a science
behind it but a feeling of maybe 25
percent should be in building four but I
didn't see anything from Costco either
so I don't know if you have a feeling
about does that create any problems or
we talked about having it just as
appropriate or so I think I think for
predictability we would like to have a
number but I also take your point that
as this evolves it if it was 20 percent
or if it went to 40 percent because that
worked better that would not be a
problem so I'm wondering if we did
something where we were proposing or as
approved by the directors so that we had
that where you're meeting the same
intent but as you said there isn't a
specific societies and okay yeah
will will write something up okay great
the gifts that I'm good I think I'm good
with questions thank you so now we can
have comments it's the enemy questioner
I'm fine want me to start yes please
topic 10 sense of arrival from the east
just just my commentary and feedback I'm
inclined to agree with the applicant and
now understanding that processional a
little better I think once you hit that
roundabout as you're coming down 62nd
you're gonna have the beacon that that's
gonna signal something then then there's
gonna be this this amazing processional
of this new bridge over the wetland that
none of us have really experienced and I
think that in and of itself is pretty
gonna be pretty special and that that's
enough of a sense of arrival it's not
the main interest it's a pass-through
even to the retail beyond so and then
you do hit sort of an ode there you can
take a ride and head into the Costco
campus so I guess I'm inclined to agree
that it's fine as is and I wouldn't
place any additional conditions on a
physical feature in my opinion that
makes sense it does
sorry and then um topic 11 sort of
relates to that same edge and I think
it's it doesn't necessarily meet the
spirit of the code but I think it's a
better reaction frankly to how it treats
that street edge it creates sort of this
many subordinate Plaza lead you into
that through blocked passage and then
gives way to that bigger Plaza that's
it's internal so I think it's fine as is
I wouldn't base any further conditions
on staff to change that
is to pick up on that point to the
applicants discussing working with other
businesses in Pickering to enhance the
signage to give a sense of arrival to
all the Pickering place and I really
like that idea if it were more visible
guess I have one question for the
commissioners your opinion regarding the
new treatment of the corner of building
five the Northeast building corner how
the commissioners feel about the
lighting probably being visible in the
ceiling of that garage from the street
that an issue with you or not interested
in your opinion I do know that most I
think almost all probably new commercial
garages would be set up on timers that
will dim lights and come on as people or
cars and through them most of the Costco
employees seem to leave at five o'clock
therefore whatever there's kind of an
exodus out of there I think in most
evenings when people come through most
of those floors aren't going to be all
that lit up with the way the lighting
joiner it's encouraging we're not going
to have an in fluorescent up there
burning all night yeah so it will
probably be LED and it probably won't be
you know that different than the lights
in the office buildings I mean if you
think about it you you know on the upper
floors when you look up you're looking
at those ceiling lights as well and so
you know with the sophistication of the
lights either through the kinds of lens
design we do require that the lights not
throw light out of the garage and so
we've worked with their lighting
designers previously on Garage lighting
and it you know it's a pretty
sophisticated design even for garage
lighting these days okay great we're not
exactly the lady detail right now I
understand right that's that's
encouraging I think it's a good question
there is
last well I have well number one thank
you very much both the staff and the
applicant for all the work that you've
done in short order and especially the
changes like to building five and the
frontage along building four there at
the base I think they'll make great
improvements and the the question about
trees and the path I think everything
being done is appropriate in terms of
bringing more evergreen trees and I
think we're all for that in general and
I trust Costco is going to come up with
something that's going to look good
because of with a lot of employees
looking out towards the trail during a
lot of dark winter months I think
wanting to see more evergreens as most
most of us want to see that anyway so
the the sense of arrival question you
mentioned we were wondering what we
thought we wanted and I think we thought
the same thing this is I think the first
time we faced this issue of a sense
arrival into a district I would agree
with the idea of about the roundabout
creating the point but I think there
will be a big sense of arrival just
coming down the road and you go from a
trail through wetland to a 10-story
office building you'll know things have
changed the I don't feel that there's a
need to address signage wayfinding or
monument at signage but I would highly
encourage you to work with the other
owners I think it's a great opportunity
this is really becoming a major campus
not that it isn't already been with
10-story office buildings it's a major
campus and it's got a great history of
Pickering it's a great history of Costco
in Issaquah and I think especially where
the new building is there could be some
wonderful opportunity for signage there
that would be fun for everybody
in the built in line I agree with
Commissioner price about that I think
the bill to requirement in Cid's
is really driven tour
so a geometrically patterned downtown
like streets that where everything comes
up to the sidewalk and in this building
this location isn't really fit for it
anyway
and I agree with Commissioner price
about in terms of that opening plaza up
and then pulling into the rest of the
building works well too so
however the math works out and however
whenever we get to it I think it'll work
just fine so thank you yeah I guess my
count my comments are consistent of the
cooperation and the effort you've made
of working with the staff I think you've
both done a really admirable job of
accomplishing some some really
innovative neat things in it and I think
you mentioned that it was looking they
were looking forward to it being a model
or a you know a prototype of how to do
things at least in the sustainability
thing well I think it exceeds that so
congratulations it looks like a good
piece of work so I think we're ready to
move on
[Applause]
so two things I didn't provide Jeanne
with a very good model for how to write
the motion
so she's repeated the conditions that
are already in the memo so these are not
revisions that we're proposing that are
distinct from those in the memo
these are she repeated the conditions so
there's no reason to read through all
the text that's here except potentially
editing condition 12 to add or as
modified by the director consistent with
the conditions the intent described in
the staff report or or something to that
effect and I can write it up on the
screen if that would be helpful to you
okay would would you like us just to
read the front port and then and then
the very bottom on the back where those
are the two sort of standard yeah pieces
of the motion okay do you want me to
provide the edit for condition 12 or do
you have a sense of it if you can that'd
be great
was it August is what was the date on
the staff report reading then that would
come at the end of the first sentence of
that I believe I take you at your word
yeah
and it's yours to put where you want
okay
well mr. chair I move that the
Development Commission approved site
development permit number SDP 17-0 zero
zero zero 1 with a Costco campus
expansion building five project number
PR j17 - zero zero zero zero eight as
described and evaluated in the staff
report dated from August 29 2018 with
attachments one through twelve the
briefing response memo dated September
28 2018 with attachments one through
eight the project drawings and reports
received August 18 2018 and all
subsequent middles up to October 3rd
2018 and subject to the conditions
contained in the staff report in revised
and new conditions contained in the
brief in response memo parentheses
revised condition numbers 4 11 and 12
and new conditions number 27 and 28
could I make a friendly amendment that
just at condition 12 as revised this
evening because condition is condition
12 also revised in the memo no no
so I since condition 12 isn't in the
memo I think you need to specifically
state what the revision is or as shown
oh do you see what I'm saying because
the memo doesn't capture the revision
that you're interested in adding gotcha
you could probably dementia motion so
you don't have to read the whole thing
again you know if I'm in the emotional
he's a minute please do um so last
paragraph or it says so revised
conditions for and 11 and new conditions
number 27 and 28 and revised condition
number 12 as shown in the meeting
tonight okay
is there a second I would second emotion
discussion all those in favor say aye
aye opposed motion carries
I think we need the second hat the
second conditioner okay our second
motion sorry mr. chair I move that the
Development Commission directed
development services department to
prefer findings of fact and conclusions
for review and approval by the
Development Commission chair firming the
development Commission's decision to
approve the Costco campus expansion
building five project site development
permit SDP 17-0 zero zero zero one
subject to the conditions listed in the
staff report modified in the briefing
response memo and as amended tonight
second is there any discussion all those
in favor say aye aye all those opposed
motion carries
I think we've come to a fairly rapid
ending so I'd like to thank the
participants especially thank Costco
yeah I have done a really good job and I
we appreciate it thank you then and so I
will adjourn the meeting thank you thank
you
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