APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 05-07-24 City Council Planning, Development & Page (1) Environment Committee Minutes CITY OF ISSAQUAH City Council Planning, Development & Environment Committee 6:30 PM Council Chambers, 135 E. May 7, 2024 MINUTES Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
In September 2005, the Issaquah City Council adopted the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program (Land Use Code Chapter 18.806). The voluntary program provides financial incentives for landowners (sending site property) of property adjacent to public open space, property the City desires to acquire as open space, or property with extensive critical areas on their property the option to sell their “development rights” instead of developing their property, in exchange for recording a permanent conservation easement on the property to a purchaser. Once sold, the development rights can be used by the purchaser to increase the density of a project planned in an area more suitable for development; a “receiving site”.
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Annual Amendments to Title 18 and Title 3
COM 0061
30 min
· Stephen Padua, Long Range Planning Manager
· packet pp.83–225
In 2023, the city adopted a major update to Title 18, Land Use Code, with the intent of modernizing the regulations, simplifying the language and unifying a complex set of codes. Similar to any major project, the city is committed to quality control best practices and conducting an annual review of issues found by staff through implementation of the new code. The city started implementing the updated Title 18 code in June 2023. A number of projects under review for the last year were vested to the old code. For those that were subject to the new code the general feedback we have received is positive. The true
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Housing and Parking Analysis Scope of Work
COM 0067
20 min
· Stephen Padua, Long Range Planning Manager
· packet pp.227–239
The goal of the Central Issaquah Plan was to guide the evolution of Central Issaquah from a collection of strip malls and office buildings into a more livable, sustainable, and balanced mixed use urban regional growth area by incenting future residential development onto the valley floor. Since the plan’s adoption in 2013, no housing units have been constructed in the Urban Core zone and only one residential development has occurred inside the Mixed Use zone.
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