Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of its existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually...
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. It could be on the
other hand side of the project, as I mentioned before. So we've got some information.
We'll just take some information for the project to actually find out that are inrealment
data.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. And that's the same information.
So we're going to see a lot of information so you can check out, or
if we check out the information and see what answers are.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. Thank you, Pamela. Just do
a second slide.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. Okay. So that's something that
we're doing here in the space.
Thank you all for being here. The first thing on our agenda is always the
approval of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do
I have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
All those in favor? Aye. Minutes approved.
So tonight we are looking forward to a public hearing on
several parts of the comp plan, I
guess. First of all, we're going to start out with a presentation from
Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the Urban Core Regional Growth Center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted. We went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1 ,100 acres of land, about 900
developable acres. The green area in there is the now Urban Core Regional Growth Center.
It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned by the
Rowley properties. And they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs the development
of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision. So the
goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center. And on June 25th of this
year, it had, it was given provisional status. So most people
when they go in, in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an
area we want to be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but
now you need to write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of
the stuff, marketing analysis that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But
we still had a few things that need to be tweaked before we could get
that provisional status taken away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on.
I started talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional
growth center is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding
through PSRC grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for
stormwater or transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the
requirements that we need to meet have to do with, we'd have to meet PSRC
requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040 and the King County county -wide
planning policies. Most of the
amendments that we had have to do with vision, environment,
land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation. Those are the
categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information and
existing conditions information. Things that we did in existing conditions report for Central Issaquah, but
that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information. and things that were specific
to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd pages that
are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing policies relating
to the urban core up into, what we did was we decided to establish a
separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan so that we could, so
that was clearly spelled out for PSRC. So most of the
information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies that listed that were
existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section and we created a
couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one for transportation as well.
So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to run
through these amendments.
I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments were.
I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said, most
of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions as
we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was a little confusing and we
had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things that we
just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just changed it
up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah report,
a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. We need to know. Thank
you very much.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on several parts of the
comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
with a presentation from Kristen.
And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
and the King County county -wide planning policies.
Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
run through these amendments.
Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
as we're going through, just let me know.
So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always approval of
the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I have
a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
hearing on