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tonight's meeting will be discussing
three proposed 2021 comprehensive plan
and zoning
map amendments it's not a hearing so we
will not be
taking any voting and now we're going to
go
into attendance kristin will you please
call the role
yes i will note that commissioners lewis
and voice are have excused absences
tonight
so commissioner bader
mr milligan here
mr monahan here
commissioner zaragoza here
thank you mr fall president
okay and now we move into the approval
of the minutes uh are there any
corrections to the
may 27th 2021 minutes
yeah just one um i don't know don't need
to type this commented or can i just say
it um
that in the list of commissioners
there's no h
on my name oh that's a big typo
okay so including that change there
we'll go ahead and approve the meeting
minutes
now we're going to move into regular
business and part of that is the
discussion of the 2021 comprehensive
plan and zoning amendments
for the old town redesignation and
rezones
and public facilities map tonight
kristin is going to be
kristin leeson our senior planner will
be
will present three of the proposed
amendments from the 2021 docket
of proposed comprehensive planet zoning
map
amendments that's a
lot uh commissioners if you have any
questions or comments
please indicate so in the chat by typing
question or comment
we will address those uh after her
presentation
we will have uh after her presentation
we will have a
focused um questions for
from the commissioners for
clarifications then we will move into
public
comments and then after the public
comments we'll open it up to
regular questions
go ahead christian floor is yours all
right can you all see my screen
yes all right thank you um
so yes tonight we are kicking off our
first reviews
of the comprehensive plan and zoning map
amendments for 2021
and a lot of you are new so what we do
is that
we begin the amendments we start showing
them to you in june you see them
once and then unless there are big
issues which is why we present them to
you the first time
um you see them once and then they come
back for public hearing
you might see them once and there are
lots of issues and we'll bring them back
again
before taking it to public hearing so
that's why we do this process
tonight we're going to review discuss
and you all are going to ask any
questions um
old town plan amendments community
facilities designation rezones
and the public facilities map
before we start i would like to
apologize because
i don't know what happened but they were
there were some typos but um
with the old town i did not realize when
this converted to pdf
that the track changes went away so i
apologize for that i did send it out
this afternoon
and i will have them repost it on the
website as well but i've i've included
the track changes here
i didn't know that that happened so
starting with old town
there are a few proposed policy changes
our new senior
we got a new senior transportation
planner since
the old town plan was written and he
went through this and just wanted to
change a couple of things
one is facilitate mobility options such
as the
shopping shuttle to improve mobility
options for
old town
one he didn't want to be fights but so
specific and two the shopping shuttle
has been private so that's not something
that the city has
control over so he just wanted to change
it to facilitate mobility options to
improve
access for old town which is the goal we
want to improve access down there
the second one we said strive for the
mobility master plan
it's actually now implement since the
mobility master plan has been
implemented
any any comments so far
and commissioner fall i can't see when
i'm presenting i can't see the comments
section so if you could track those that
would be
great okay okay
so part of the old town submarine plan
we adopted an action program which is
not something we have done at other
plans
this was adopted in 2018. in 2019 the
city council asked us to include
a status just let us see how we're doing
so status was included last year's
appendix a
which now duplicates the action program
so we're proposing to just
make it all one and not have an appendix
a and this is what the action program
will look like
so the updates here just things that you
know i was thinking about it and despite
a pandemic and some reduction in staff
i think we were pretty productive so um
the architectural standards were
completed they were in progress last
year and were completed this year
we still need to do some code revisions
to impervious surface and
landscape standards the landscape
standards are going to be done with the
title 18
changes and in the impervious we're
going to have to revisit
how that's going to work once the storm
and surface water master plan
is done the rest were all completed in
2020.
these are just changes i'm not going to
go through all of them but we continue
to work with key county metro and sound
transit to get more transit downtown
we did complete in 2020 the improvements
to discourage some cut through traffic
we are working with dia to provide them
funding and marketing
um the inventory of missing pedestrian
bicycle facilities
uh the actual facilities uh the bike
lanes
those were inventoried but things like
bike racks
those were not inventoried and lighting
so that'll be done later
so we split those up and then
the phase one of the we have something
called the downtown
streetscape conceptual plan and it's
improvements to front street that was
adopted back in 2017 and so when we're
talking about the studs those are the
improvements that we're talking about
phase one phase two phase three and then
the remainder
uh those are going to take some of
that's taken place but that'll that's
all getting moved down a little bit
i'm going major challenges with reducing
parking requirements um council did not
approve this
um some of the incentives that was back
in 2019
uh you all had asked to review the
boundaries within 12 months of adoption
of the new architectural standards and
design guidelines but only part of
that's been adopted
we did the single-family duplex but the
cbd and mf still need to be done
multi-family still need to be done
so once those are done i think we start
up
then and that will be either in 2020
probably in 2022.
we have had to put on hold some of the
pedestrian lighting
and that's it short-term actions
2021-2022
things that got started this year we're
continuing to work with dia
we have done the inventory
um let's see
yeah so pretty good there
old town engagement program we need to
work on getting that going and the
neighborhood redevelopment and field
toolkit that's
those didn't get started this year
neither did the old town community
garden and that is also not in the
capital improvement plan right now
i don't know when that will come up and
then the streamline process to allow old
town street closures we've done that
we did that sort of uh with covid
and opening things up but we don't have
a formal process to do that so that
needs to start
longer term actions we've actually
gotten started on some of them
so the park strategic plan they're
planning right now to do master planning
for the crete corridor and the veterans
memorial field
and continuing work with dia and
we have actually completed work to
improve access and views of issaquah
creek in the east fork and a lot of
that's been done through the property
purchases that we've done
along front street where we've
demolished the buildings there are not
formal views but there are views of the
creek
and then you can see here we had to move
down some of the phase 2
work for the front street improvements
and the implementation of the bicycle
improvements
so any questions on those
okay redesignations and reasons
when things when the city acquires
property or when other public entities
such as the school district or the
county acquire properties
we like to rezone them to community
facilities
and give them a community facilities
designation
this identifies them as publicly owned
properties intended for public purpose
and there are three different community
facilities zones we have
many facilities facilities recreation
and open space and there's nothing
proposed for facilities right now but
things like our shop office any of our
city hall buildings would go there you
can put
streets there but
we are only proposing recreation which
is for things like parks and
community centers some smaller buildings
and then we're proposing open space
which really doesn't allow for any
development at all
so the first one is blackberry park we
acquired this from king county in 2016.
it was already being used as a park but
needs to have some updates done to it
it's about half an acre it's currently
has a landry's designation of london
city residential and the zoning
of single-family small lot we are
proposing to
give it a laney's designation of
community facilities and the zoning
would be community facilities recreation
any questions this is required as part
of the deed that we had
to remain as recreation
and open to the public it cannot be a
private park
christian sorry we have a question
from nina okay thank you this is
commissioner nina milligan thank you
planner leeson
my question is has there been a
discussion
with a neighborhood and what can you
tell us about that if there has
they have started conversations with the
neighborhood about what they'd like to
see there there has not been a finalized
plan
yeah but they've started talking with
them
good and i've got a question from matt
yeah hi matt monahan um maybe a question
recommendation to you kristen
um would it be possible to include
photographs
of these properties i mean not extensive
photographs but maybe like a quick
snapshot just so we can get a look at
what it looks like
sure i think that would be helpful thank
you
that's it for me
okay that's all crescent
okay so this is the newport area
this area was dedicated as part of the
gateway development and the gateway
development
was all in here it has revel and
anthology apartments right here
and the developer actually received
credit for their impact fees for
dedicating this land to the city so it's
hard to see two different parcels
uh this is one right here this is the
other
so right now they're both known village
residential
and both have a multi-family residential
designation
oh my mouth disappeared the proposal is
this parcel right here which is 2.37
acres
would be community facilities recreation
and that there would be a park here
and the other piece over here would be
open space it's about four and a quarter
acres would be permanent open space
any questions on this one
um we've got a question from nina
commissioner milligan here yeah can you
just briefly um
tell me about wetlands in the area and
is there something about that there so
this entire parcel right here
is pretty much a wetland it is adjacent
to tibbetts creek
it comes over here um and the parcel to
the north is a wetland
and down here is also wetland and part
of this parcel is wetlands so this
entire area
will not be developed that help okay
thank you very much um and
kristen i do have a point or
clarification here
who will be maintaining these parcels
will be
the apartments or will it be the city
the reason for asking that is because
these almost look like
exclusive um parks
they are not they again are to be open
to the public and this one won't
really be used i don't think they're
even planning trails in this area
i mean it's it's a wetland um this one
it would be the city who maintains it
okay is there going to be parking
and is it going to be welcoming for our
city for
the general public like i said it almost
feels like it's going to be exclusive
and the city is going to be on the hook
for maintaining it
to their benefit there is going to be
parking there's seven spaces
in here and with one of those being a
handicap space
um as far as sort of marketing for this
park and making sure that people know
that it's open
i'm not sure what they're planning for
it i do know that
i tried to get parks here tonight but
they turned out to have another meeting
so i can
find out from them what any plans that
they might have
okay for that thank you that's it
good questions you guys right
harvey manning park extension so you all
most of you all many of you all will
recall
for a while this was going to be
developed
into very dense single-family housing
and then the city council denied the
road to go through this area
and a group of residents pushed for the
city to buy it and they actually
so they did with help from king county
uh
they actually purchased all seven of
these parcels right here
this one is owned by the county and was
rezoned to open space in 2019
these six parcels are owned by the city
and what we're talking this is harvey
manning park
right here so this is going to be called
the harvey manning park expansion
so right now these are zones
single-family estates these are zones
single-family suburban
it will all be um community facilities
open space just like this one
they are planning on trails through here
that will connect
up to this is king county uh property
and there are trails all through here
trails will come through here and hook
up
here and they will also connect to
harvey manning park
there may be some benches and some
overlooks but that's about all that's
going to go in there
any questions
again this one because it was purchased
by king county
i knew i'd forget the name of the funds
but it's a levy fund
and through a land trust and it is
required to remain
open space in perpetuity
any questions okay
all right public facilities map
oh that's the last one click facilities
map
when we were doing the map last year our
parks director
looked at this and said there are so
many pieces of city property that aren't
on here which
have been that way for years we hadn't
even noticed i don't know why so
we went back and we added them so we
added pickering barn
the julius bone pool the senior center
and the community
center which are all right down in this
area
and then council member t michelle is
very familiar with the school district
and caught us
in a few places there too apparently
the tiger mountain community high school
had been closed for six years
and we weren't aware of it and the
gibson eck high school moved in there so
that is why we were making that change
right there
and then we also separated they asked us
to separate this into two different
schools this is the providence
area providence sites area and this
is going to be the elementary school and
this will be the high school
they don't have names for those yet uh
but we
have to show where future future
facilities are going to be
so those are the changes to that map any
questions
do you have a question from commissioner
bader
yeah hi sorry i actually had a question
on the last one but i sent it to the
host instead of all panelists
um it's more of a curiosity than
anything and this doesn't reflect my
like personal views but is there any
like looking long
term um and i know that the king county
loan says open space in perpetuity but
of losing um you know a sizable chunk of
residential zone land
no i mean we have so the concern is
potentially losing
place for room for development for new
housing right is that yeah yeah and
it's just a curiosity so no i mean it
really really was very very difficult to
get
housing up here it is so steep and
that's where the photographs would come
in handy um it's very
it's very very steep and it it's hard to
get a road up there so there
it doesn't make sense to have a lot of
housing in there but the other thing is
is that we have central issaquah and i
just recently did the uh
growth capacity report for issaquah i
keep looking over here because that's my
screen
sorry um the growth capacity report or
issaquah and we have
capacity on vacant and redevelopable
land for over
11 000 units and most of that is to be
in central issaquah
where we want our growth to go because
then it's next to transportation and
it's next to daily facilities so
it's so and we want to protect our
hillsides so this is okay
yeah yeah all right
um okay so that's it for the present
for the amendments tonight so as i
mentioned we're going to keep working on
these
um we'll bring these to you between now
and september
we'll hold a public hearing and
recommendation in september and october
and in on november november 9th it goes
to
a council study session and then on
december 6 they will make
they will take action on the proposed
amendments
our next meeting on july 9th we're going
to talk about land use tables i finally
got our numbers from the office of
financial management
which means that we can do population
estimates and look at
housing and where we are compared to
targets and then we'll also talk about a
private
reason request that we have which is the
milano redesignation and reason request
that's the end of my presentation
anytime
uh quick question before we jump to
public comment or clarification
questions you said july 9th is our next
meeting
i have down july 20 or june 24th does
that cancel
no you're right um so i'm trying to make
you you're right i'm
sorry the next time we talk about
comprehensive plan amendments that will
be it but you're right we have another
meeting on
june 20. i don't have my calendar from
me but in june yes
sure okay no worries uh okay so i'm
going to go ahead and open this up to
the commissioners for
clarification questions and then we will
close it to
uh public comments and then we'll open
it up to
uh general debate are there any other
clarification questions from the
commissioners tonight
seeing none
actually there's a question here from
commissioner zargoza right thanks
uh commissioner sargoza um so i don't
have any questions on what we just went
through but
when we first talked about these changes
there was a house
nearby anthology that was looking to be
redesignated whatever happened to that
that's the milano reza
that one's coming on july 9th
okay thank you you're welcome
okay so that is it for uh
commissioner questions at the moment uh
let's go ahead and open up to
public comment christian do we have any
um members of the public
waiting this won't open up for me we did
i can't get this to open up for me
um hello
here we go
well let me all attendees so i won't be
able to i'm struggling um
we do have one member of the public uh
julian
midlil yeah kristin uh this is minnie uh
julian is in the attendees list i can
see her
okay i can't unfortunately my attendees
list won't
open let me try when i say when i say
view all attendees it won't it won't
open
yeah she is in attendance so if you want
to give her
um you know what
julian if you would just like to unmute
yourself for a minute and let me know
or you could type in the chat if you
would like to speak
well there we go it went to my other
screen
there we go william would you like to
speak tonight no comment today
no comment thank you sorry that took so
long
okay so there is no one else there is no
one else um in attendance
all right so we're gonna go ahead and
close public comment at 6 56.
just to make a note we opened public
comment at 6 54.
okay uh and now we'll go ahead and open
up for general questions
of the commissioners any general
questions
not seen any questions
once twice should i call in names
okay so we'll go ahead and close
questions out
thank you very much christian for the
presentation tonight
uh and let's move on to reports uh let's
go ahead and go through city council
updates
so the only one that i have right now is
that the on monday night the city
council approved
the 2022 to 2027 capital improvement
plan
that you all looked at um i think you
all that was one of the first things you
all did as new members was look at that
so
they approved that on monday night many
do you have any other
council reports um yeah well um i can
give you a report and you'd um
got the pbrts thing approved by council
so kristin did a fabulous job of
presenting to council about another
piece of property
that uh is going through a king county
program for
getting break on their taxes for
preserving it as open space
so uh you know there was a public
hearing on that um
that got approved by our council uh king
county council has to take an action on
that it was very minimal tax
um issue for the city like 800
you know eight dollars or something um
but it was a long-term preservation of a
homeowner association that owned this
green space
for doing some restoration work and and
other things that they would get a
credit for
so that was that and then um i have a
report for title 18 ad hoc committee so
we met
uh this afternoon so that's the the
three council members that
um we work with for getting guidance and
an approval for title 18 update uh so
one of the things um
after your uh planning and policy
commission meeting on the title 18
update
the kickoff meeting that we had there
were a few questions
um that came up that we wanted their
direction from one was should we
have a discussion at the at your group
at ppc for goals and outcomes chart
because there was some um desire
expressed by
some of you at the last meeting to uh
take a
take a little bit larger view of what
those goals and outcomes are and see if
there were any gaps in there
and we advocated that that may be a good
use of your time as long as we
kind of keep moving forward and get this
done by next year
so um we propose that we spend the next
meeting half of the next meeting kind of
taking a look at the golden outcomes
chart
so we'll do that i will include that in
your agenda
um the other uh piece at the next
meeting for you guys
um we will launch for the educational
piece i think
there are some good key takeaways from
you to to keep it topic specific do it
when
when that comes dedicate one meeting
when you're actually going to be
debating on those topics
so we've relooked at our schedule to
accommodate some of those things
and not have two more than two board
meetings so we'll share that
and and then we'll get into some of the
substantive things
for one topic just a very small piece to
kind of see here's how we
um look at diving into it so that's just
what's to come at your next meeting
that's all i have i did as you guys were
all talking about it i was trying to
pull
some of these properties on google maps
so i can
share if that's of any use uh of some of
the properties if you want to take a
street view look at some of the
properties
now okay let me go ahead yes
yes okay so let me see if i can share my
screen
do i have the permission kristen it's
grayed out for me
oh that's right you need to be a
presenter let me do that
there you go
the first property that everyone was
looking at oops why is this in the way
was this one so that's the
in that neighborhood one perk
um the second one was in the anthology
it's it's kind of hard to get the the
i need to get this out of the way so you
can actually see
um so this is that piece that
uh one of the parcels the other one kind
of follows through here but it's
hard to the google uh didn't show
some of the properties up here but do
you have a sense um
kristin is this am i showing the right
property here right this kind of stream
was one
right where he has yeah
and this is the other one with the the
stream but if i do a street view here
it really doesn't let me go in
to some of these places but might get a
little bit of a
view this was i think when google was
here they were
constructing you can't really see that
from
from that the third one the harvey
manning
uh park is
around
somewhere around here so you can kind of
see it's really trading
very steep but i can pull up the newport
street here so this is what it looks
like from
from the street view
oh yeah we can include the pictures and
stuff in the next packet but that kind
of gives you a little bit of
where things are on this
and if i go here so this is the tibbetts
creek i think that flows through
here
that goes all all everything flows
through here to the lake
but i think that's all i had
in terms of pictures now i can
i need to give you the screen back
we all know your community much better
than that you probably
driven past these places and know it
thank you manny uh okay so
we have yes kristen did you want to add
anything
to that before we move on to other
business
oh and we have a question from
commissioner milligan
well thank you this commissioner
milligan and uh
to follow up on um
director diwali's comment about us
knowing the neighborhood better
i will say that i don't live in
anthology and i love that bridge and the
connection to
formula brewing but also
the anticipated development in the rally
development agreement which is on the
other side of that property
is significant and will provide really
great
connectivity between the two
neighborhoods in the very long run
so the um i didn't have any concern
about
uh this being an
enclave or a you know private
amenity i think a great deal if it's
gonna be used by the public
okay thank you very much commissioner
milligan
any other additional questions
okay see none uh let's move on to
other business and announcements kristen
do you have any comments on the upcoming
schedule
i do first of all your schedule has
spilled out
so i've been working with the consultant
and many and we've been
talking through title 18 and everything
that comes up everything that comes with
that
we're going to add at least probably one
meeting in december
and then in 2022 uh we will add a couple
more there as well because title 18
takes it up and we still need to do
storm water
and a few other things comprehensive
plan some other things that are in there
so
it's filled up you'll see it in the next
packet
um the other thing is in november we
talked about this that november 11th is
a holiday
so there will be no meeting and the
other one is thanksgiving so there's no
meeting
but we do need to have a meeting in
there and i had asked you all to sort of
consider what might work
and i i'm gonna let our two dates our
two thursdays that might be available
would be november 4th
and november 18th so do you all have any
preferences there
no okay my thought is to potentially do
the fourth because it's further away
from thanksgiving
and i think that since october is a
longer month we'll have an extra week in
there
yes okay so november 4th
and and that is it and you may be
blown away when you see the schedule
next time minnie
so uh kristen on this uh i will
i may not be here on the 24th to 24th
and july 8th
don't have any dates when you may not be
there uh it would be
july 20 or june 24th and july 8th that's
somewhat questionable
um i've got plans but they're right now
they're tentative
and my decision is probably going to be
monday if anyone else
has any dates that you know of right now
if you could let me know
either email me or let me know now that
would be great thank you
okay that is it for
other business and announcements minnie
has a comment
uh i just wanted um thank you um
just wanted to run by you a a
strategy we were thinking of for
training
uh which was to go out in the site and
maybe do a tour
of some of the the bigger projects and
really look at how the code was applied
because i think one one of the things we
learned we heard last time was
uh training is important but you know it
could be a lot of words a lot of
reading you'll have to do but at the end
of the day it's like what what does it
mean on the ground
so i think in the past some um kristen
said that they it
has been useful for um doing a little
tour for three or four projects we can
hand pick which ones
would be good candidates we would give
you a one-page handout in on
all of those and then go out and
and um do a little tour um but wanted to
see you know one with covid
uh how you felt uh being outside and um
and going on on a tour and two if you
were fi if you
thought that was going to be a useful
exercise then
what date or what additional day uh
from availability and scheduling
standpoint that would be
a conversation we wanted to get some
feedback on
and director mini do you want us to
provide feedback now or
in private either way you can email us
or if you want to discuss as a group you
can
talk about it now
any additional questions from the
commissioners
i'm in favor of that i'll come out there
and say it um
evenings are you know during the day
it's hard to get away for a weekday
but you know early evenings on
weeknights or
i'd hate to ask you guys to come in on a
weekend but those are usually pretty
open too except for
soccer practice and like so i'm more
than happy to be flexible but i think
that's a fantastic idea thank you
and to that note i'm also vaccinated so
i'm good
same here sounds great yeah i'll just
chime in then if we can wear masks
kiddos are not eligible yet um to be
vaccinated so that would be my only
preference is that i'm happy to do it
for this request we still learn
yeah yeah i think the city policy is
still
for staff at least we we have we are
masking up so
regardless of the vaccination status we
will be with masks
excellent i think that's a great idea so
thank you director mini i'm sorry
well you could just call me minnie i
think it's a lot easier
all right i'm getting used to this chair
thing here uh okay so we're gonna move
on to the next thing which is
adjournment
wow i think this is the fastest meeting
ppc has
ever had this is
we've 40 minutes that's that's a record
okay so we're going to adjourn the
meeting at 7 10.
you