all right
welcome everybody
this is awkward using a mic but since
it's televised
suppose i don't have to i think it is on
is it on tim because i think it's just
for for video purposes not necessarily
yeah projection so if i break into song
no
so hi welcome i'm jeff watling parks and
recreation director with the city of
issaquah thank you so much for coming
thank you
planning policy commission for your
flexibility so letting us
invade if you will and and
i think
take a a slightly different approach to
a meeting we're really really excited
tonight i'm going to give a really quick
introduction and then hand it over to
our partners
with burger partnership to talk a little
bit more about
the process tonight but i hope what you
find is
our goal tonight is a really engaging
interactive
opportunity to
put a lot of intellect in this room and
a lot of people that have
thought through centralistic law visions
have thought through our park system and
see if we can put and create a unified
unified vision
around the green necklace i've had the
pleasure of being here just over a year
august of 2016 i came on board
we've been hard at work with the park
board
working on a park strategic plan
in my time here i've heard
this great term the green necklace it's
great vision for a green necklace in
issaquah
in my time i've probably heard
10 12 different definitions
of what that is
all are good
but as we are
honing in on
the park strategic plan
and really on the
at a point that we've
identified some strategic projects we've
really identified
how do we begin to unify our existing
public system
we really have a need to better
understand what the green necklace is as
that's been created as part of the
centralistic visions plan
and i and i think
as central squad visions
continues to get reshaped
i think there's also an opportunity to
need from that standpoint to put some
definition around
what uh the necklace is so
our goals tonight
and i think the reason we're trying to
do this what we're seeking to do is uh
to create this um
begin to frame up a more specific vision
uh for the necklace
that product that we're going to work on
creating
tonight and then coming back
berger is going to take your work your
great work tonight and
put their professional minds to it and
come back on the 22nd
do some further refinement and we hope
to produce an outcome a product
that then becomes and informs and
becomes part of the central school
visions work
and also becomes the same product
becomes a component and element of the
park's strategic plan
so
in the end we
have a bridge we have
cohesiveness between two really really
important strategic planning documents
so
i'm excited
looking forward to it
i'm going to hand it over to greg brauer
with burger partnership burger has been
our consultant with the park strategic
plan
a little bit about burger without making
them too
they've done a lot they do terrific
landscape architect park planning
park project work throughout
really the nation primarily puget sound
area
they are experts in corridor work
they've done a lot of corridor work with
redmond
with bellevue with other neighboring
cities
so i think leaning on their expertise
and utilizing their expertise and this
effort is going to be uh very very
beneficial for us so great
no pressure
i'm gonna good i'm gonna let this this
whole and stephanie will also help with
the presentation here so
um
yeah the
add to the unique um perspective that we
bring is actually in issaquah having
worked both for the city in the public
sector and things like that but we've
also worked
in the city on the private side and part
of some of the developments and things
like that so we kind of have the ability
to come at things both ways and so you
know about this green necklace and how
does it become real has been kind of an
intriguing conversation for us so
um
first thing is we're not we're not here
tonight to change anything ours isn't
gonna we we're here to kind of try to
pick up where you've been working um
we'll walk you through a few slides uh i
think most everything that you're going
to see up here on the screen is in a is
in a an abbreviated packet there at your
table so you'll have that to reference
to as we get to the to the exercise but
definitely wanted to make a make sure
that you understood that we're just here
to follow up with with where the efforts
have been and kind of advance it from
there so um we're going to just go
through a few of the exhibits that we
brought
and talk a little bit about uh the the
elements that we see so we see this sort
of as a tonight's effort will be about
uh mapping
obviously we brought some maps and
things like that to work from but parks
trails open space the roadway system are
kind of the components that we see as as
key to to this effort and then with that
defining tonight the location the well
tonight's about location um um with the
with some of the parks and trails and in
open space and then of course we'll get
into a character a little bit more later
on we're going to touch on it just a bit
tonight because we think
the
that it's important to have you know
this vision uh what does the green
necklace look like and what is what is
everybody so really the ultimate goal is
so everybody has kind of the same
explanation
if you happen to be in a meeting or you
meet somebody or greet somebody and they
ask about the green necklace everyone
starts to say the same thing because
we've heard kind of various definitions
so we'd like to kind of see that be a
resulting piece of what comes out of
this um hierarchy that'll be a little
bit of what you're going to be looking
in looking at some of the
elements today so
uh we just thought we'd start off with
just
an aerial view because this would
probably be the most current we have for
what what's happening in the city uh you
have a copy of that at the table just to
show this and the yellow boundary of
course is the the central issaquah area
so pretty pretty simple example or
exhibit of what we have today
um
and then kind of quick mapping of
of the the trails and the open space so
very simple it's this is this is
actually the larger map that you have on
your table just showing some of the the
elements that that we know that exist
today so to kind of help the exercise
along a little bit
so what we did is is to kind of educate
ourselves and thought it was important
to go back and and look at what had been
done what's been done previously
this is from the the 2010 task force
work and so this shows uh some some
mapping of the of some of the the
trails the pathways of the open spaces
the parks things like that so a pretty
complete map there's even photos that
started to indicate some of the the
character and the the
visual qualities of some of these
elements that would be
considered to be part of the
the
green necklace
so another exhibit then that
that shows a little bit more of the
advanced thinking a little bit it's a
little it's very washed out on my screen
it's clear a little clearer up there but
the idea of the different um
types of street designations and things
like this and so this is a little bit of
that hierarchy uh that we'll get into
with some of the pedestrian ways and
things like that but just an exhibit
that we thought was was valuable to
remind of where some of the work had
been
um so now fast forward 2012. so this is
out of the central issaquah plan so this
starts to show um
the the existing streets all in the in
the gray there and then some some of the
proposed new street grid um kind of
starting to give that that vision to you
know some of the changes that could be
seen in in central issaquah so we felt
like there's a pretty good mapping
exercise that had been done that was
that was good to share and and be part
of the thinking for for this evening
uh and then again from the the central
issaquah plan um this this now started
to overlay and we started to see the the
the different types of paths that we
might have i mean with the natural urban
on street things like that so we had a
lot of the corridors showing up
and then of course identifying uh the
spots where some of the open space
elements are in the open space uh again
are some of the uh
new parks uh proposed parks things like
that and then we'll break it down a
little bit further in a minute with some
of the the exercise that uh that we look
at doing so
and then all the way to uh central
isabella plans for 2015 so now we've got
a fairly you know recent example of some
of those uh those same trail elements
some of the same open space elements
brought forward to uh some of the the
current thinking about where we're going
starting to talk about some of the
proposed parks and and
some of the opportunities that uh that
were being identified kind of throughout
the the central issaquah area
and
then a mapping of the the street routes
so there's both off street
routes and on street
being able to map that and show that and
then of course with the the proposed uh
parks
showing some of those uh
i guess this one actually was doing a
little bit more with the parks and
plazas and that's another component that
we think is important we think about is
not just identifying the what we all see
is is the parks and the green spaces but
what about the urban spaces that might
be associated a bit more with the
development where do those start to
occur
and that brings us to
another layer that we wanted to bring in
and this is one of the things that we've
been working on with with the parks and
recreation is the is the park strategic
plan so stuff is gonna
run us through that
so this adds another few layers to the
thinking um there are three major
corridors that make up the backbone of
the park system and that will affect the
centralization planning so one is the
mountains to sound corridor that all of
you have heard of it's pretty well
defined for most of it's traversing
through issaquah as you can see by the
harder pink line there
but then as it reaches central issaquah
it kind of blurs out and it needs
greater definition and
there's potential for it to
traverse through central izakawa or
further south
but this could this route could
potentially become a major planning
point of the green necklace vision so
that could be something to think about
as you're mapping tonight
the second and third major corridors are
very interrelated and one is the rainier
trail which you all know transitions
into the east lakes and mamas trail
and then the site the third corridor is
the creek corridor which some of you
have heard referred to as the spine
um and then so these two corridors work
together to create a really unique green
and urban experience that cuts through
central issaquah
this proposed creek walk uses parcels
that are mostly already acquired as you
can see in the blue there
and some of these parcels are
undeveloped as yet but they will all
work together to create that creek walk
system
i'm sorry did you say that the dark blue
there are
areas yes okay yeah
so those are all parcels that the city
has to work with
and there you can see that there are
some portions that are unconnected as of
yet
um
yep um and then other strategic projects
proposed by the park plan um include
parks that are surrounding central
issaquah and again you can see those in
kind of the faded blue surrounding the
edges there
and um let's see sorry foster place
these blurred circles show some
strategic park project areas where um
specific parcels have not been chosen
for parks but these are recognized as
places parks are needed and you'll
notice that these coincide with some of
the major parks suggested in the 2012
and 2015 plans
other elements that will greatly affect
um the
central issaquah district that are
proposed by the strategic park plan are
these key connections to surrounding
neighborhoods
these connections could influence the
green necklace and vice versa they could
form one another inform one another
and now greg we'll be talking a little
bit about the group exercises we'll be
doing and hopefully what we've done
since we do have two groups here that
maybe work a little bit separate um by
showing some of the planning work that
had been done and now showing some of
the park work that's being done kind of
showing that you know the layers and how
we want to see that kind of come
together so a little bit of of kind of
what we what we presented there so
so
what we're looking at um this evening is
is on that map in front of you we've
kind of gone through the exhibits that
talked about the the different elements
in there we talked a lot about trails
and a lot about some of the open spaces
and public spaces
and so these are just some of the topics
that that we have there this isn't this
doesn't limit it there could be some
other things if you guys have other
ideas that come up of spaces and things
you think would be appropriate in your
city but we we're talking about the
major public parks
minor public parks
these images are here just to start to
give a teaser of kind of the
conversation about character and vision
and that'll be what we'll talk about in
two weeks but tonight would be about
mapping but we thought at least kind of
give just a little bit of a a start on
what what we're thinking about what some
of this stuff might actually look like
um
then we've got you know major public
plazas again the more urban areas and
then minor public plazas and parklets so
down to the smaller scale so these are
all scales of things that you've seen in
some of the previous mapping uh nothing
new but some ideas and vision of you
know what does it start to look like and
kind of get your your uh mind thinking
about that too
um
this was the again the trail so we had
trails that are on the right-of-way and
what we meant by that so top slides have
shared
shared lanes or shared
travel places and then off right away of
course trails so some examples of
varying things there that we'd think
about mapping this evening
um
again addition to the street grid
you know just borrowing some of the
examples of some of the study that had
been done about how the the streets
actually can work and how they can be
shared between the various uses of
people trying to get places not just
about the car but what's happening on
the
more on the edges there between the
bikes the pedestrians everybody else
moving between uh various elements
within the city
so so it's a this again a kind of a
summary slide about spaces so all of the
things that we're thinking about um with
what with regard to spaces and what we
might be planning you know the
opportunities for where these things
might occur within within the central
esquire and of course the connections
between
the elements there that are shown on the
left but also between other things that
aren't shown here which could include
businesses and homes and shopping and
whatever you know it's kind of your your
vision and your idea so where where that
actually uh
brings everything together and how it
does it so we're curious to learn there
too
so
getting to the exercise and kind of get
the the sharpies going and everything
these were a series of questions that
that we just developed kind of thinking
okay there's a lot of conversation about
the green necklace and what it looks
like and what does it mean
and and the
the one that we're going to focus on
here to start the exercises right there
in the center is what does success of
the green necklace look like
everybody's going to have kind of their
own ideas and things like that so we
wanted to start there
but
as we kind of
work through this this evening as some
of the other you know questions that
were just
why the green necklace um
how would you describe the green
necklace to someone that doesn't live in
the area
it's my favorite because i got asked
this in a presentation one time if you
or the new york times wrote an article
about the green necklace what would the
headline say so kind of very succinctly
how would you describe it how would you
give that
i kind of mentioned the next one what
are we connecting
think about that home school transit
services businesses shops what are we
what are we connecting
um
where do you want to pause so you're
making you're making connections but
what's what's happening for where we
pause parks plazas intersections are
these natural are they built those
different types of things
what experiences and opportunities are
desired
and then
central esqua plan and the parks treaty
plan are refining and defining the green
necklace what other planning efforts if
you have some other things in mind
because we know there's a lot of
activity and just even working on the
park strategic plan i think we were
handed about eight or nine other
planning efforts in the city that are
happening that we wanted to be aware of
to see how how we might dovetail that
the park strategic plan
i thought we'd throw that up there as an
idea so
so i think that the what we're we're
doing with the the exercise then is just
to start in groups and i think what
we'll do
do we need to move people around
at all
good good expectation a good mix connie
do you want to join
danielle and jonathan
great that's great yeah okay
um
i think we're fine i think we're good
good okay so
everybody's where they need to be so we
don't have any shuffling so we thought
what we'd do is just start you know i
know maybe this is the first five ten
minutes here um is to just take a a
minute to think about that question the
post-it notes and sharpies write down
your your thoughts on what does the
success of the green necklace look like
i mean if it's a word um you know that
describes it or if you need to write a
sentence or something like that
just give us some indication of what you
think it is we'll collect those uh we'll
have somebody come and join each table
so
i'll join a table
stephanie um yes
before we go into the exercise
the question you're asking here is
what's the success of the green necklace
look like can i ask what success for
this meeting would look like
because we've got parks and we've got
planning and we've got
community members here so what is the
goal what are you trying to get out of
it and what will be the benefit for each
of those groups okay
so the i think what the goal that we're
after is is
resulting out of this mapping exercise
is an indication from all the collective
minds of
what what are some of the the connecting
routes so are they showing on these maps
are there some that you need to create
um
what are they
are they again
trails are they on right of way are they
off right of way um do we want to have
interconnecting pathways through
alleyways i don't you know it can be
whatever you think it is but this idea
of of having everybody kind of map out
what the priority or at least their
their their their strongest feelings
desires are there and then
also identify where it seems like spaces
that that people could gather
so
if we if we think about central issaquah
we know there's a lot of potential
and we're kind of waiting to see it
happen
and
uh you you get to a corner where you
could see it developing
you know something happening on all four
corners of that maybe part of it's
already developed but
would part of it be carved out for some
other purpose so that you know
community members could stop and gather
maybe it's partly for that business to
to spill out and engage but kind of
creating that you know a more social
atmosphere and some of those
maybe some of it's
mid block
uh doesn't
it what i'm hearing from you is this is
a lot of
mapping where we want roots where do we
think plazas can be things like that and
i think that's great for parks but i'm
not sure that's what ppc needs
at this point of the plan so i'm
wondering if there's anything here
that's going to
help give us what we need while we're
talking through the central plan to know
what where the green network necklace is
going to be so that we can include that
in our next facebook plan
and let me just jump in with that i'll
try to talk about
so we don't have the is key map that
we're trying to get a map that's sort of
more agreed upon with ppc and park board
so that it's sort of the framework for
them parks is going to launch out from
the strategic plan but we're going to
take that mapping exercise into our
visions and
have that more defined
it's only perfect it won't have all the
details but it will be more than we want
that we have now so this is this is the
refine the page or two
yes
does that work
what were you going to say
yeah well
so this isn't just a parks exercise i
guess what i would what i would how i
would respond to that and what i
understand within the central
visions there's this
definition of the necklace that is one
element of that visions
i think the goal tonight the focus
tonight is that is the necklace how do
we take
let's not start from scratch we're not
starting from scratch tonight let's take
the work that's been done by both groups
by the original task force and let's
see if we can
if we can identify
the corridors if we can identify
utilizing our existing parks how do we
start linking our existing parks
what are these particular corridors that
we really want to not just
hypothetically put dots to but let's
define it
stephanie spoke to the spine
just use that as an example within the
parks plan we
really want to set a vision this spine
is has a much bigger relationship with
all the city not just central issac law
so it's really this idea of how do we go
from squawk
park uh our southern border all the way
to lake samamish and not just
hypothetically hope it but let's take
the properties we have let's take our
existing parks let's take our existing
assets the rainier trail
these properties we have in the creek
block and let's
let's really shape and identify the
quarter and then start to identify
strategic projects where we can bite by
bite start to make that happen
if in an ideal world i don't know that
this all happens tonight i would love to
see that that feels to me like one edge
of a necklace that feels like one piece
of the necklace now as
as the parks director and i
the police helps planners as well in the
planning commission
or ppc is
how might we
define the rest of what this necklace is
in that
type of a way in a more succinct defined
way that now
informs the park plan it might also
inform
future planning work it might inform as
developers begin to come when the
moratorium's gone
here's an identified corridor it is
development is on that corridor in your
boat you're going to be part of the
public system or part of the necklace
okay let's
move on into it
okay okay can i ask here yeah two
clarifying questions uh you have some
assumptions one is the amount of sound
greenway is only one
and i've always pictured it on both
sides of the freeway because before it
was on the other side of the freeway so
we're free to redraw your assumptions
please absolutely and then the other
thing is you don't talk about public
private parks
or private public parks or even private
private parks as part of the parks
system but i think we're actually going
to have
a lot of that within the central asia
plan and
that one's a little more difficult to
connect but i think it needs to be
connected with the public system in some
way
any ideas on how to think about that
yes i
would agree um the exercise tonight is
not i think as we set up
this opportunity for an east west
corridor the mountain sound greenway
trail
as you begin working on that as a group
yes please if you have ideas or thoughts
on what where you think that corridor
makes the most sense
let's let's have that discussion tonight
i think to your point connie that yeah
the necklace is going to be a layer of
public parks
and private
privately owned private maintained
spaces parks places absolutely
we're not trying to differentiate those
tonight i think as as you think about
what those spaces are or or how you
might want those spaces to
to be or where you think they they seem
to naturally make sense um
certainly put those into the plan i i
think as we take this work
tonight and put some definition to it
i think
we
the necklace is both
but there's likely what's going to be
helpful for us in defining is
differentiating what we think is the
public system and what we think is the
private system because as we then
strategically take steps to
make it happen
the steps needed for the city to
create the public portion of the system
are different
different steps it's different work than
the city influencing encouraging
the private elements
then i did flip back to the slide just
to point that out that the idea was that
it's it's
any
space it wasn't supposed to be just um
publicly held and publicly maintained
and programmed it was just places that
the public can go to is kind of what
we're doing so this could be about
public or private opportunities so
yeah so i've got three questions
first one is
as far as the mountains of sound
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let
so questions specific to how is the
mountains the sound greenway trail going
to happen and get done we're not going
to be able to answer that tonight we're
trying we're trying to map and identify
where we want it
um what what is the vision what is the
location that seems that makes sense for
us to do it implementation of this work
is
is going to be bite by bite it's going
to be a combination of a lot of those
things
i think as we identify the corridor
though as we identify where we want this
to be and where
we think the opportunities are on right
away
and that's going to set
different strategies for how that
happens where we see their opportunity
or need for it to be off right away
that's going to allow us to set
different strategies
for how we make that happen who isn't
the aspiration
but it's gonna yes it's gonna have sent
an evening and
you might have said this already
with your question and i don't know if
this is
i think network was discussed by ppc so
hey network it is
but you go from central areas to all the
different
parts of the city and
what you're supposed to be doing which
is where you are is to connect the whole
cities yes unifying the whole thing now
how does that whole system relate to
uh
i love the idea of a network so um
we have our groups we're going to have
facilitators at each
table we want to talk through what you
want the first
task or exercise to be you need to
collect the
tabs from the
yeah i think i don't think everybody got
a chance to jump in on that so
it was good to do some questions i think
we forgot that part on the uh
was to allow questions so good to go but
i think quick if we can just kind of go
through that for five ten minutes and
write down that uh go back to the
questions you know what does the success
look like to you and then we'll collect
those as we get somebody assigned to
each table to kind of
help out so and away we go yep get a
facilitator at each
helper at each table
should i designate someone to go first
i love
it and i'm going to ask you guys to come
up here so
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the wondrous world of video can
i'll be your manager
okay
so
we talked about a few things the idea of
connections to these kind of
major arteries which are
the commuters
and so the idea that you can come down
to mount south greenway we feel like it
really needs to be connected into
confluence to be able to get to
this north south rainier trail we talked
about this being
more of a commuter
by way whereas this creek area is more
about the walking connection between
that
um
we talked about the idea down here where
you're going to have a lot of people
that
we want to look at things like green
roofs or a promenade with plazas as kind
of their connections there but then it's
important to get you down to tibbetts
um
wayfinding here for the trails to make
it easier for somebody who's coming
through
not only to get them to their farther
away destination but also wayfinding
within to say hey here's your nearest
park here's how you get down to the
plaza and you're
five miles away from poopoo point
um so that idea of connected
things anything else
oh we felt like this area um
fine for bikers who are doing commuting
but it really needs more of a scenic
walking path and something that connects
you to lake smash state park along with
this entrance to make that more
connected in on the north side
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um so
we so we define the green necklace as
you have a series of jewels and then you
have kind of green threads that can hold
things together into the necklace
and so
kind of your your existing jewels and
you've got like spanish park you've got
you've got the mountains it's one of the
things that we talked about are what are
new new jewels that we'd love to see
added one big one that we thought would
be great is
we put right here in the middle on on on
on i-90 as the prospective station for
the san francisco and then the vision
was that station itself would become
become a jewel in the sense that there
would be open space and that would be
the way that would allow
the two neighborhoods to transcend 990
so that would very much be an anchor
that things would pass through and we
talked about other jewels
a lot of you seen a lot of long-term a
lot of the plans there's a passing of
i-90 that's kind of around here uh west
of uh the interchange and then using
that bridge is very much like a gateway
so the bridge itself is an individual
people can go to have viewports from the
bridge that's something that people want
to go to as a destination and we also
talked about reorienting lakes member
state park the park has a lot of great
resources in the park really taking
advantage of particularly this space
right here
and what you guys talk about having a
better walking path there that's great
but then even more than that using all
this open space here making that that
more active and then also ensuring that
there's pedestrian access here where
there's your car access and improving
pedestrian access here for people of
east lake which they can get directly
into the park on the bike and sometimes
um
we
kind of talked about how do you have
this bridge here i think you're gonna
have good flow
coming from kind of a gateway
neighborhood in into gilman and the last
thing we've talked about in making sure
you have kind of a poor green thread
that connects from uh you've got the
creek path and you've got confluence
park lakes family park make sure that's
one long continuous trail that people
can access and then it's a destination
path by itself in addition to you know
the nice trails that we have
on the long range
oh and then one thing that was learning
about was really cool when we suggested
was having access straight up the side
of the mountain
so you can get from from the island down
here not simply because right now you
have to wrap around quite lengthy but
here having some sort of either whether
it be stairs or some sort of switchback
so that people can go straight up and
down and get from the highlands to the
north to what's north of 90 directly a
really good addition
very nice thank you
[Applause]
you guys
all right so um we talked about a couple
of different things uh we kind of went
off the grid a little bit
we were
thinking talus over here doesn't have
any connection so
um
there is a
sort of connection that goes through a
caroline trail on spock mountain so it's
already there's no development there so
it might be a good way to just follow
through
downtown
and then we're talking about using the
rounds of sound
trail already and connected
uh coming down this side here we're not
really sure this is a really great way
to do it as far as an experience goes
because it's kind of a
it's happening
just doesn't make sense
but if you
truncate it here it's more of a
comfortable experience coming through
here
and while we're in this area here
actually have a
people closet that's lengthwise you have
to have a view corridor coming down into
this area here and all this would become
open space
and then
moving through here
down to this point here which is now
newport is we're already going to put in
a new road here so let's kind of take
advantage of the fact that we have a
shared
pathway
where people and pedestrians and
bicyclists will feel safe connected to
sunset so you have a bike path coming
down through sunset
to the trail hub here and actually make
it a major connection for our trail
because now you can go up
to um
islands you can go up to grand ridge and
you can actually take tiger mountain via
there's a service road that's
a double track trail
and you can actually take that down to
the back side of the high school so now
you're connecting old town
and hyman's via trail to
the high school and if you actually went
further you can probably connect it to a
dirt road that goes up to the top of
tigers now you have
cyclists wanting to come through
issaquah making it as a destination
via the mountain sound corridor
and they have the option of being able
to go up to tiger and then go to
mountain bike park or two
take this trail up here either to grand
ridge or to fall city and continue on so
now you literally go from seattle to
almost north bend
via right through here and as people
come through here
they stop at like standard barbecue or
sandwich shop and they spend money in
our downtown and then they continue on
and then up here we also talked about
some connectivities because
we feel
if this gets redeveloped home depot fred
meyer area to share boost and how are
people going to get comfortably from
here to here unless there's an overpass
right here this is not a very
comfortable experience going across
like spanish
same with here this is a really
dangerous section of the road and so
there's no way
for this trail to connect to here it was
just
i think it's a street right now
and then
as this area develops
more offices and so on putting trails in
here so that people can actually
have a lunchtime destination to the
state park put in a few
connector reels or connectors here
bridges so that people can actually
maybe do a blue
and
lunchtime loop
um and right here
and
overpass so we can connect these lakes
and manage trail across uh west lake
city
or
sorry across here because it's such a
dangerous intersection um and
like with aj was saying
with st3 going in we're not exactly sure
where it's going to go but maybe having
you know putting in some sort of
connections let me just put a across
here to kind of show
witty connectivity but we're not sure
exactly where or how to put that in
there yet
and here's a suggestion with view
corridors so
the state park has a view of
of mountaineer
and
see what else do we have here
wetlands so right here there's a
wetlands area um kind of useless to
actually build anything close to it
because the buildings are going to have
to sink unless you have really big
highlands so make this part of a people
plaza too with maybe the parks in where
trader joe's is today so you can utilize
a wetlands area
if you want to develop it as a wetlands
with a fountain or just a wetlands with
a park adjacent to it so people have
something to look at that's enjoyable
instead of being sort of in the middle
of an urban
um
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[Applause]
all right
all right
uh so
adding on to a lot of things that have
already been said
we spent a good amount of time talking
about
continuity of the mountains to sound
greenway
and the purple route is kind of what
we were thinking so coming in and if
there's a way to come down
kind of the backside of gateway and that
advantage of that crossing that kind of
connects to
the state park
and then there's kind of a couple ways
that bikes could go right so kind of
meander through
through what's the existing business
park
um we thought this kind of solid route
that we had there would be
taking advantage of the nice stream and
that would be the nice way to go and
then maybe
the trail is the fast way to go
and then a big point would be to
maximize the use of this potential
gateway which is right now kind of a
stopping point to get from that trail
into old town this is the intersection
of gilman yeah and we're in your trail
and it's like trail yeah so that making
that kind of a place and a
a gateway that's
safe for
all modes to come through and then
we talked a lot about newport
didn't really
know what to do with it but there's
something that's got to happen
through here that we talked about and
with the new school development
happening if there's a way to connect
newport to confluence that's
pretty obvious and take advantage of
that
i thought that would be great
and then like everyone else has said
whoever sound transit ends up we even
talked about having that be like a
mercer island type of lid
that's a nice green space on top or or
around um that's really nice so
anything
else take advantage of that opportunity
what's up another 28 year part there
it's a big
[Applause]
okay um
let's see some similarities we had um
a
potential
pedestrian plot like a plaza um
on this side of tibbetts i guess that's
northeast
upside down
with a connection um connecting and that
is a great view corridor so
some sort of wide connection from the
park to the plaza
we talked about um
a bridge that would then connect um
there's a there's a not a light there
right now but if you came from this
plaza onto
the boardwalk then you can get to
thanksgiving state park um we also
talked about having newport is so busy
and filming is right next to the freeway
so really having the main kind of nice
pleasant pedestrian way to get through
town
being an extension of mall street and
going
um through this current development
which would change with redevelopment
and having um and that there would be a
park something's missing in this area if
you were to redevelop and so we're going
to work there
okay and then um closer to like some
amish um
we just thought you need many
connections there's no easy way to get
um
you could cross the street and into
lakes of america
we also
have a lid park
right
from the same place that others would
put it
or at least a bridge so a way to connect
um
and then what else do we have um over
here where like where there's um
like fred meyer and i guess what the
other party store is has a great view of
the rainier and so um when this area is
redeveloped that would be a great place
to have a park
or like something you use like the top
of a building
for green space
we also talked about
doing connecting um well it's a missing
link that we all want to do but the lake
samantha state park the south cove and
then to the um that lake to lake trail
which is just a natural movie natural
connection somehow and then also
connecting going over the freeway
connecting
um with this area that's being rebuilt
you know and then what else do this um
remember your group was you guys were
talking about the center greenway trail
you were thinking
north side of i-90 as well yeah
yeah
and
oh this area here um
which it goes from like like cement
state park to kind of where um anymore
is just having something
some sort of safe pleasant connection
that's intuitive to cross that area
yep and i think that's
that's most of it
[Applause]
what do you think of all this
i think
bridging i-90 which is i-90 was one of
the trouble things
we've always seen is
two halves of central issaquah with i90
going through it and then you know just
this idea
his location and this idea of becoming
kind of this
bridge to
connect to the two sides of that cell
and then
a lot of a lot of great input about kind
of these connections around
um
i didn't see a lot of
ideas about
places within some of the neighborhoods
that might get redeveloped we've got a
little bit of that broke i mean i saw
the grid broken down on some of the
wrongs but just started to see some of
those coming in there into those spaces
too
so we'll kind of have to look at all
one the maps
jobs take them all back with us and we
kind of
meld it kind of collectively bring it
back
to look at uh think about the structure
of the next meeting because we're gonna
want to report back on this a lot of
hard work here so we want to show
everybody kind of what what we learned
from that and and then kind of evolve it
into
the character of some of these elements
that have been knocked out on here and
that would be
at least right now we have changes
the commonalities some of the
differences
we might have to map some alternates on
some of these things just to say and
then get your feedback next time
a couple things i heard if i can
connectivity connectivity connectivity
and even
how how you all are defining success of
this network it's really about linking
and that was certainly reinforced in the
conversations we heard
i think that's going to help
i think a firm as we think about
character and hierarchy
what's this hierarchy and i know as we
were talking earlier about this
differentiation of public scale
space and and these important private
plazas
it's another way that at least i start
thinking of hierarchy not not a new
level of importance but hierarchy of
almost role what they're being asked to
do
but yeah lots of lots of great thought i
think another thing i heard in all of
the groups was all right
it's central issaquah and this is what i
think was so helpful hearing
the lens of of the ppc members and the
lens of the park board members is
as we think of issaquah in this
important work we can't think of it in
isolation it's it's part of this grander
it's part of the bigger city but as
we're thinking of a network that's going
to support
the
centralistic area how is it also
connected to and supporting
the bigger city so i appreciate it i
think everybody's lines went
within and also
outside
and i just i think that's a very
important takeaway that's
i think affirming if i could speak for
the park board members as we've been
thinking of that bigger lens and now we
want to take that bigger lens and really
focus it into how is this truly
supporting
centralistic law and
the redevelopment goals um the
development goals of centralistic laws
so
it's definitely this inside outside
connection
i just want to share that um i think
that there are already
like in my opinion we have a lot of
connections already we have to know them
and they're here to find them right and
so that's one of the things that our
group talked about that really it
resonated with me is that we want
anybody like a tourist or a visitor or a
resident to be able to walk outside
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i also heard a lot about the difference
between the higher speed
commuter bike ways and also having
spaces that were for
walking scenic something like that
and so looking at that on your north
south and also
your east west and inter city yeah trail
experience
right and there's a you know trails it's
a misnomer there's conflict of speed and
conflict of experience on trails too
that we have to be aware of yeah that's
a great point
yeah mary well one of the things that we
talked with the task force and i brought
up again here was you know with light
rail coming
but when we get visitors here is we
don't want all the visitors just driving
here
and so by having this conductivity or
connectivity they kept it by
it's this
connecting these that um
yeah great opportunity
well thank you
sorry i'm late to this neighborhood okay
so if this are being covered
this is overall concept that these great
tools in his life who's responsible for
maintaining that maybe outside of
specific parks
areas public spaces green national trees
river beds
to
that's a very broad question yeah i
think it
depends on what it is
maintaining the natural beauty that we
have not just
green spaces but also the gems and how
they'll get maintained outside of the
park area
no that's a great point again i guess i
would speak to hierarchy i think that
becomes that hierarchy piece is what is
public skill what is what is of a public
scale that
there's a public stewardship public
maintenance piece but then there's other
jewels exactly right that might be
private
or have a different purpose that
could be publicly accessible but they're
going to be privately maintained
and privately owned
so thank you any other closing thoughts
takeaways this was awesome i really
liked the map being able to come out and
collaborate on it and drawing
this was really
it was a successful way
thoughts on paper and as we were putting
them on paper
then we started
the conversation oh what about this
about that so i think this is a really
cool way to
but you're
is to also look at those as
opportunities not simply to put in new
roads but to use that right away it's a
very broad western boulevard as opposed
to simply just to get another street
cool
so
from here
greg and stephanie and team are going to
take this info and begin to
deduce it compile it uh
bake it a little bit put their
professional lens on it the intention is
to come back on the 22nd with some um
with
product with we'll see yeah
it's one of those things i said at the
end of the evening we'll kind of see
where we are if everyone had drawn the
same map it would
and maybe even show those and say here's
some things that's not bad um
maybe there are some things that are
considered depending on the direction
that other things go without
transmitting or whatever influences we
have and just have that that shown back
and then i think um
you know
i think i'll be
ample time to kind of do that
revisit back with you and
get your thoughts on that but then also
dive a little deeper into this character
pieces and that's probably going to be
more a visual exercise kind of what we
already started with the slides you see
up there and we'll just expand those out
into some of the
character and materiality and
experience and things like that and
make sure that as we define these
elements on a plan
we have a way to share the vision with
other people that aren't part of this
meeting aren't part of the plan any more
part of the park that they can actually
then see oh okay can i suggest something
yes update this because this has your
visuals for connections
and also the character ideas
all in one it communicates it very well
and there's it there is also a task
force matrix that was
done that started to get into the
various character elements and starting
to assign images and it
we could see a few more images added to
it but it was a great it was a great
basis for uh
thank you planning policy commission
thank you for letting us invade
i hope you felt it was constructive and
useful
i hope this is driving to where i know
we're all on timelines in terms of these
central school visions
and us adopting a park strategy plan so
our goal is for this to be very
efficient
and
again unified let's let's take these
planning documents and have them married
together so
thank you very much