good evening we're on the air
all five of us waiting for the public to
come streaming in and fill the chairs
tonight's the uh April 20 April
24th meeting
of planned policy Commission
since we don't have enough members
present for a quorum we're not going to
be able to approve the lab minutes from
the last meeting
so we'll hold that off till the next
meeting
so tonight we have presentation of the
proposed 2015-2020 Transportation
Improvement plan program
and Gary the floor is yours alrighty
thank you thank you very much on the
program Carl uh thank you members of the
planning policy commission uh Gary Costa
Transportation manager for Public Works
engineering I'm pleased to present with
to use the 2015-2020 uh Transportation
Improvement program for the next 20
years also we include the the 20-year
program
but as required by the state state law
we're required to in order to be able to
use state and federal funding and half
half cent gas X funding we need to have
the projects listed in the the tip
this relates to construction projects
that are using uh what's called the
moving ahead for progress in the 21st
century act and and also the projects
funding from the Transportation
Improvement board funding
map 21 was established enacted back in
July 6 of 2012. it stands for moving
ahead for progress in the 21st century
and it authorized the federal service
and transportation programs for highways
and Highway Safety and Transit
as part of the process in beginning the
uh getting the tip through to adoption
we're here tonight at the planning
policy Commission
on May May 19th will be council meeting
to set the public hearing for the June
16th public hearing date
on May 29th we'll be taking this forward
to the Chamber of Commerce government
Affairs committee
and then on June 12th the council
infrastructure committee will be
reviewing it
will hold a public hearing again on June
16th and then we'll submit this to psrc
on June 20th and washed out on June 21st
so in the past years we've made several
enhancements to the tip that have come
about from PPC group here and the
committee or Commission
that is incorporating the safety
capacity and concurrency charts well
actually concurrency don't have those
anymore I should take that out
includes a 20-year future year
project listing
the transit and trans support of
programs are no longer in the tip but
they're they are showing up in our
operating budget
because they're not a capital
Improvement it's uh it's more of an
operating to operate the transit and
um
anything related to the so those are
ongoing costs yeah not the initiality
right if you were building a bus shelter
that would be Capital that would be
account but if you're funding the 200
that's right so these are things like
the transit now with route 269
paying the fare box fee for Route 200
right those things
so we continue to budget for Route 200
and also for the transit now Route 26
Route 269 and
and not the transit now for Route 200
but the
um the fare box route 200
. we also included the non-motorized
improvements
um that have come up from our complete
streets program that include
improvements to bike lanes and sidewalks
also crosswalks and also audible
pedestrians signal indications
and then the projects that came about
from the bike ped plan we've included
the projects from
that plan
and this is the listing of the input
that we've received or will be receiving
and have in the past during the year
requests from the public
also through the city council goals that
have established for 2014.
Central Issaquah plan that adopt that
adopted that was adopted and approved
various projects
city-wide bike and pet plan that has
12 13 projects in that plan
coming forward to the planning policy
Commission
comments that we received from the
Transportation Task Force at the chamber
going forward with the council
Transportation committee
and then we have projects that are
carried forward from previous years and
then whatever comes about from the
public hearing on June 16th
this is a listing of our first 18
projects I want to highlight the
projects that came about from the bike
ped plan and that's the ones that are
highlighted in in green
though however those first two in blue
though the black nugget black Nugget
Road retaining wall repair and a
Mountainside Drive slide repair
are improvements that we feel we need to
make next year
those are brand new ones right those are
new
um the black nugget retaining wall has
been in there as a future year project
but we have some improvements that we
need to make that came about from a
study that was done a couple years ago
and so we need to make those
improvements otherwise we want to make
sure that that wall has safe integrity
and stays in place
and the Mountainside Drive side repair
that's where a study determine what we
need to do to that roadway to stabilize
it if anything
the project number five is listed as
complete streets they're they're about
three or four projects in the um
bike ped plan that would be able to be
funded through the complete streets
program these are projects that are
5250 000 improvements
number seven is the north Issaquah
roadway Improvement c610 Parkway project
that was part of the bike ped plan and
this project is moving forward through
design we're at 60 percent we'll have
design completed by June and we're
actually be applying for additional
federal funds uh this summer
we actually knows this spring I mean
sorry May
uh for 2.5 million dollars and we've
already received 3.4 million dollars
from tib
number eight or sorry number nine is the
uh 12th Avenue sr800 improvements that
included bike lanes and sidewalks
for the bike ped plan
11 is the Northwest Holly Street that
runs along the
um
along the the park
that will carry the non-motorized trail
all the way to Sunset I mean to Newport
Way excuse me
um
and then number 12 is three Trails
Crossing improvements and that's
providing a traffic signal at Gilman
Crossing at Juniper Street
number 15 we are identifying as a
tributary 170 Trail because it basically
runs along the 170 trib
and it provides
non-motorized trail from basically 12th
Avenue runs along I-90 and will connect
in to 4th Avenue Lake Drive where our
North Issaquah roadway Network
improvements will be extended to
and that would then connect to the
Pickering trail that you take over to
the Sammamish Trail
and number 18 is the Northeast Goma
Boulevard
improvements for bike lane from Front
Street to Triple X driveway
20 is the continuation of that
on Gilman Boulevard
and then extending onto Third Avenue
across Third Avenue Bridge and
connecting with sunset way and that
would be a non-motorized trail
an East Sunset way improvements that
includes a cycle track that was
recommended out of the bike plan
that goes from basically from Front
Street to the sunset interchange
and that's basically the rest of the
projects are projects that are in the
tip from last year and most of those you
see through 39 are from the centralized
Squad plan
the pair of sorted the products project
type so you can see how they're
coming out with depending on whether
it's traffic calming or roadway
improvements so these are two categories
in the traffic calming area and the
roadway improvements
and then we our break within our break
broke them down to roadway maintenance
Street overlay program
then the non-motorized facilities
alternative transportations from
three Trails Crossing trip 170.
some Spanish Trail grade separation
Northwest Sammamish road non-motorized
crossing
10th Avenue non-motorized Crossing and
the Northwest Mall Street pedestrian
corridor
then we have the Dogwood Bridge
replacement that's moving forward in
design
with construction to occur next year
and then we have the Front Street I-90
interchange reconfiguration
that's
set up in the future years
one of the things that the PPC ones who
know is how these projects relate to
multimodal comparisons relating to
okay comparing it with roadway capacity
to Transit supportive sidewalks and
non-motorize and this breaks those
projects out that that you can um see
how whether or not they're how they fit
in each one of those categories
and this is the rest of the 39 projects
we also break the projects up by matrix
whether it's a capacity Improvement
project non-motorized
with some maintenance Improvement
or Traffic Safety storm drain utility
operations planning or parking
so these shows how the projects are
broken out
and then this is the rest of them to
then we're showing here the project
phases and when we're planning on moving
forward with the improvements
we plan to
make some improvements for the black
nugget retaining wall repair in 2015
the Mountainside Drive will be a study
and possibly some construction
and then we have the street overlay
program where we pretty much every year
have overlays going on
and same with the complete streaks
program
we have the Dogwood Bridge we'll start
construction in 2015.
and that project will actually close the
bridge for a period of time
um so that we can get the bridge removed
across the creek and then get a get the
bridge rebuilt
most of that would be done during the
school when school is out
East Lake Sam Parkway Improvement
widening
will be starting right away acquisition
and
this says construction actually 2015 yes
and 2015 will be starting construction
and we should have Construction done in
2016 and right away should be actually
done in 2015.
the Southeast 62nd improvements are
still in design and construction is
expected till 2017.
and the 12th Avenue Northwest
improvements and 900 we expect to be at
Construction in 2018 2019.
and basically the rest of those are kind
of getting further out so I'm going to
skip over those
and then these are all out in future
years
this gives a comparison of the
comprehensive plan and compared to
what's in the 2015-2020 tip
um
I'll just leave that um
go through this and if you have any
questions you can let me know
and on this the non-motorized portion of
them the projects that were completed
and that are in the comp plan
yeah this is the map of the improvements
and that concludes my presentation
hey thank you
so I couldn't figure
from reading the description several
projects talked about bicycle and
pedestrian safety and talk about
sidewalks but is there any new can you
can you elaborate on where sidewalks are
being created or widens and where bike
Lanes if any bike lanes are being
created did you say a particular project
well the ones that seem to be this the
seven eight and nine I think are the
ones that mentioned safety Improvement
for pedestrians and bicycles
well a number project number seven East
Lake Sam Parkway
um we will be installing a bike lane
on the southbound direction from 56 all
the way down to almost Issaquah Falls
City Road okay
um a sidewalk will be constructed
basically starting
just south of or about right at about
where black Nugget Road is and there'll
also be two connections to the King
County Trail one at black Nugget Road
another connection about 350 feet south
of black Nugget Road
and where we have sidewalks will be
we'll also be including a seven foot
landscape buffer in between the curb and
the sidewalk okay what about the the
bike lane separated from the the traffic
the car traffic no the bike lane bike
lanes are part of the roadway
because we have the trail because the
the King County Trail is so close right
that we don't need to do a non-motorized
trail trade was closed for quite a while
and I had to ride my bike on the yeah on
the road there and it was pretty
dangerous
the bike Lanes five feet where it's like
where we have a race curb thank you
and then in your 809 anything there uh
well number eight that's the extension
of Southeast 62nd Street
from East Lake Sam Parkway
we will actually have a cycle track on
the north side of the road from
East Lake Sam Parkway to the roundabout
the proposed roundabout at 4th Avenue
will we also have
a great separation for the King County
Trail
and so when the cycle track will come
down and tie into the King County Trail
as you continue further west
there will be a sidewalk
on the north side of the bridge that
goes across izqua Creek and that will
continue to Lake Drive
what we're doing to we're not doing a
sidewalk on the south side and we're not
doing bike Lanes on that section of road
because we're going to widen the
Pickering Trail to take the place of
that
and on 12th Avenue 907 12th Avenue
that's our 917th Avenue Northwest
we're adding widening the sidewalk
on both sides of 12 as it approaches 900
and we're adding bike Lanes
anything so separated from the traffic
no no
okay cool
hey
thank you
um
some projects never seem to get any
higher on the list
one I looked at we've talked about it
many many times that Providence point
intersection
it's it's sitting down there at
28 for out years
you know
down the road has been there for a long
time and all of a sudden we've got the
Northwest Holly Street as a new one
uh the tributary
oh
170 Trail
Northwest Northeast Gilman Boulevard
between front and the triple x
and Gilman Boulevard Third Avenue
Northeast according to your cover letter
those are new ones
and I know that the apparently the
Mountain Drive slide repairs something
has to be done so that gets kicked up I
can understand that
but how do these guys get on the list
and all of a sudden I
I guess in the past we've talked about
it in some availability money and when
they can get done and right
but I just think all those people
Providence Point been waiting a long
time to get that intersection fixed well
it's a lot you're right it's a lot of
money and part of the reason is because
it's serving private property but
private drives
and because of that it makes it really
difficult to acquire grants from like
the federal agencies or the state
and so because it's a lot of money there
are projects that have higher priorities
at least for
you know
because we can we we have other projects
where we can have a higher competition
for outside sources of funding and it
just makes it really hard to fund that I
I mean it's just a matter of
um
priorities and where it gets place
but it doesn't it does not going to stop
if there is ever a grant that that comes
up that would make sense to apply for we
could still apply for the grant because
it is on the tip right and that's I
guess the important thing is these
projects are on here right so that we
can look at that
okay
other than that I think it's a you know
they're all well described and we know
what's going on in a matter of money and
availability and time and all that kind
of good stuff so I don't have any other
questions thank you
I'm not same as you do in the past that
would be great
okay
no I don't think so
I agree my only concern is that there's
only two of us here so I don't know how
we can really do anything
as a commission because we don't have a
quorum so I don't know how we can
approve or recommend anything
so I don't know what you you know
we we
support but we cannot
you know recommend approval because we
don't have a quorum okay does that seem
to fit the bill right thank you okay
thank you very much
the good of the orders we can't vote
because we don't have a quorum so we'll
have to figure out who's going to be to
Chairman the next time
do that do you have an idea when the
next meeting is going to be
yeah that would be the
yeah because the first is May the first
of is next Thursday so then the next so
two weeks from tonight
and what are we talking about two weeks
from tonight
we've done it twice before
um
a big supposedly big update but since we
updated every year it's not as big for
us plus we just finished the central
plan which we have our growth targets
and the central plans
sorry so
it's going to be an update but it's not
going to be
a huge update like a lot of the like
Kirkland has spent all sorts of money
and they're doing all this work because
they haven't done theirs every year and
so um there's a couple communities that
are going all out this is like their
huge review ours I mean it'll be big in
that we're going to have to update all
the elements but it's not going to be I
don't think it's going to be a lot of
life-changing transformative kind of
things
what about the fact that we're going to
have all new members are we going to
have to vote before the meeting to get
that organized since
or no we might just have to vote
and have them
we usually try to do it in April when
the existing their terms starts next
Thursday that starts on the 8th yeah so
they're going to be they're going to be
here coming in and and
guys at all
dollars or so I I just always feel bad
that some commissions have to vote their
first meeting so
I I'm not sure how you'd want to handle
that I guess
they can abstain if they feel terribly
uncomfortable from boating
death I mean they've been on many boards
where that's that's how it's being done
first meeting I mean you you may not
have a strong opinion that you
yeah but I will but you do have you know
you you have something one thing that
would probably help and I would suggest
is that I know that copying stuff is not
easy now
you know I had to pick up my own copy
because you can't do that I would
strongly recommend it at least for the
next meeting all the new member
everything get mailed for them if
possible ahead of time okay you know
just so that they can have it in hand
and not have to rely on looking online
or something they'll
at least get the feeling that
we're looking at their something again
to read right or even that that they
have the option because I know when I
used to email them to you I would always
say right in the if if you need a copy
let me know whereas the new group that's
taken it over they just assume that
everybody's very computer literate I
would I kind of have to remind them yeah
they don't get scented because I know
that I I can't look at this stuff on the
computer right some especially the
numbers
I don't right and we're going to do a
couple of old dinosaurs like books and
turning paper and all that kind of stuff
and we're going to do a couple of
icebreakers to kind of make them work
you know because there's going to be
eight if they all show up there'll be
eight new folks so we're going to do you
know introductions and kind of
um we won't do the quiz like I usually
do every time that the GMA quiz but
we're trying to think of things that'll
make people feel more comfortable and
just speaking up and talking to each
other and that kind of thing okay we'll
probably have to do that maybe in the
beginning of every meeting for a while
until people get their feet wet
but yeah should be exciting maybe do you
have email addresses for all the members
maybe you can send them to me and I can
write them a note welcome them ahead of
time
let's do that
who they are and
I can solicit their votes ahead of time
oh wait a minute
that would be something I'll send it to
Joan yeah
I'm going to tell them tell them we're
going to vote and here's the person
you're voting for right but they'll
remember Chantal and Joan from the
interviews though so you might have to
you know whether they remember or not as
another thing but
yeah they did they did and I wish not
because
oh really oh yeah so she was on the
interview panel for both both of them
yeah I wish I didn't do that for
development commission I wish we would
have gotten pictures for everybody as
they walked in because now I look at the
eight names and it's like okay I know
okay I'm of them and it's like okay is
this the one
because they kind of got blurry so I
have to go back through my notes and
make sure I can have a picture in my
head because okay
right
I'll look I'll ask
you but uh so our friend upstairs can go
home we can
adjourn it 706 and say the meeting's
completed okay thank you let's do that
thanks Wes
no this is good thank you