City Council Regular Meeting

Monday, September 18, 2017

7:00 PM · 3h 5m · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA

Topics tracked across meetings:

Comprehensive Plan Amendments AB 9202 ››››››››››››››››››› 2/20

Planning Policy Commission · Sep 14, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 18, 2017 → Planning Policy Commission · Oct 25, 2018 → Planning Policy Commission · Jan 24, 2019 → Park Board · Apr 22, 2019 → Planning Policy Commission · May 28, 2019 → Planning Policy Commission · Jul 11, 2019 → Planning Policy Commission · Jul 25, 2019 → Planning Policy Commission · Nov 14, 2019 → Planning Policy Commission · Sep 10, 2020 → Planning Policy Commission · Oct 8, 2020 → City Council Regular Meeting · Feb 16, 2021 → Planning Policy Commission · Jun 10, 2021 → Planning Policy Commission · Oct 14, 2021 → Transportation Advisory Board · May 28, 2025 → Planning Policy Commission · Sep 11, 2025 → Planning Policy Commission · Jan 8, 2026 → Planning Policy Commission · Jan 22, 2026 → Planning, Development & Environment Committee · Oct 6, 2026 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 2, 2026

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Recovery Month Proclamation ID 1262 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 18, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 19, 2022

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 19, 2022 ▶

Proposed Amendments to Utilities and Public Services Element, Capital Facilities Element, (I) AB 7683 ››››››››› 2/10

Planning Policy Commission · Jul 13, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 18, 2017 → Planning Policy Commission · Jan 24, 2018 → Planning Policy Commission · Feb 1, 2018 → City Council Regular Meeting · Nov 15, 2018 → Planning Policy Commission · Feb 19, 2019 → City Council Regular Meeting · Feb 19, 2019 → City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 18, 2019 → City Council Regular Meeting · Apr 15, 2019 → Planning Policy Commission · Sep 26, 2019

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PSRC Transportation Alternatives Program Grant (Newport Way Improvements: SR 900 to SE 54th St) AB 7477 ›› 2/3

City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 5, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 18, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Apr 16, 2018

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Architectural Fit & Urban Design AB 7342 ›››› 3/5

City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 31, 2017 → Planning Policy Commission · Aug 31, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 18, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 4, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 18, 2017

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Establishing a Multi-Family Housing Property Tax Exemption (MFTE) Program for Proposed Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Parcel AB 7488 ››› 2/4

City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 1, 2016 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 18, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 4, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Dec 18, 2017

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WSDOT Right-of-Way Easement Request for Maintenance Purposes (Portion NE Gilman Blvd.) AB 7463 › 1/2

City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 18, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 2, 2017

View full lifecycle → Next: City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 2, 2017 ▶

Housing Strategy, including Strategies addressing Affordable Housing AB 7340 › 2/2

Planning Policy Commission · May 11, 2017 → City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 18, 2017

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3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Recovery Month Proclamation Hear Presentation AB 7466

packet pp.5–6

▶ Watch from 1:09 Open packet at p.5 ↗

Staff report:

Administration / Office of Sustainability:

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Architectural Fit & Urban Design AB 7342

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Land & Shore Committee · packet pp.121–238

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Aug 31, 2017

▶ Watch from 47:45 Open packet at p.121 ↗

Staff report:

Administration / Development Services Department:

Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Recreation Registration & Scheduling Software Professional Services Agreement AB 7443

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Services & Safety · packet pp.239–302

Topics: Public Safety

▶ Watch from 50:29 Open packet at p.239 ↗

Staff report:

Since 1996, the Parks and Recreation Department has used CLASS (Computerized Leisure Activity Software System) software from ACTIVE Network Inc. to administer City-managed programs, memberships, contracted classes, park and facility reservations, and all Recreation Division customer based transactions. CLASS was originally developed in the 1980’s to assist community organizations to manage recreation activities more efficiently. While the software has proved to be useful over the past 21 years, it is not current with the demands of today’s recreation administrators and customers. Recently ACTIVE Network, released a new cloud based system called The ACTIVE Network (TAN), and announced it would be phasing out support of the CLASS system by December of 2017. Transition to a new software system is necessary to continue operations of the Parks and Recreation Department.

Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

WSDOT Right-of-Way Easement Request for Maintenance Purposes (Portion NE Gilman Blvd.) AB 7463

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Infrastructure Committee · packet pp.303–312

Topics: Transportation

▶ Watch from 53:13 Open packet at p.303 ↗

Staff report:

Administration / Public Works Engineering Department:

Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Providence Point Signalization AB 7472

Carried 7-0

Refer to Council Services & Safety · packet pp.313–317

Topics: Land UsePublic Safety

▶ Watch from 55:57 Open packet at p.313 ↗

Staff report:

The project was originally funded for design in 2007 following a corridor study performed by the City after the Providence Point Annexation occurred. An update of the design was completed in 2010.

Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Interagency Agreement with Department of Ecology for Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) Services AB 7474

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.319–328

Topics: Critical Areas

▶ Watch from 58:41 Open packet at p.319 ↗

Staff report:

The Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) was created in 1983 as a program within the Washington State Department of Ecology. The WCC is modeled after the great Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930's and 40's. The program provides professional experience and skills for projects that support conservation, rehabilitation, and enhancement of the state's natural, historic, environmental and recreational resources. The purpose of the Washington Conservation Corps (RCW 43.220) is to provide individuals, ages 18-25, with learning and experience while addressing resource conservation needs. Members of the Washington Conservation Corps are offered a series of formal and informal learning experiences. While participating in the program, Corps members gain an appreciation for Washington's natural resources and begin to understand the value of resource conservation activities.

Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

8. REGULAR BUSINESS

Housing Strategy, including Strategies addressing Affordable Housing AB 7340

Carried 7-0

Approve Resolution · packet pp.393–449

Topics: Housing

▶ Watch from 1:09:41 Open packet at p.393 ↗

Staff report:

As part of the City Council’s 2014 Affordable/Workforce Housing goal, a Council work session on Affordable Housing occurred on July 31, 2015. At the work session an “Affordable Housing Report Card” was presented identifying how many affordable housing units had been built, how Issaquah was doing relative to its target share, and the location of the units.

Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

PSRC Transportation Alternatives Program Grant (Newport Way Improvements: SR 900 to SE 54th St) AB 7477

Carried 7-0

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.497–499

Topics: Transportation

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Sep 5, 2017

▶ Watch from 1:14:41 Open packet at p.497 ↗

Staff report:

The Newport Way corridor from SR 900 to SE 54th St. was examined in the 2015 Pedestrian Crossing Study and discussed in the Central Issaquah Plan. The Central Issaquah Plan identifies this corridor as a Parkway. The Pedestrian Crossing Study and the Central Issaquah Plan proposed the following configuration of Newport Way NW:

Roll call:

Moved by RAMOS · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

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0:11 ↗ you

0:28 ↗ I'll call to order the September 18th

0:31 ↗ 2017 regular Council meeting to order

0:34 ↗ and ask those who would like to join the

0:36 ↗ council and myself and the pledge of

0:38 ↗ allegiance to please stand hoarse first

1:05 ↗ order of business is agenda bill 74-66

1:09 ↗ recovery month and proclamation and I

1:11 ↗ would ask where did he go

1:27 ↗ got a proclamation that I'd like to

1:30 ↗ present the Jerry Blackburn of the

1:32 ↗ Friends of youth and it goes as follows

1:37 ↗ there are a lot of we're asses so the

1:40 ↗ first one is where as behavior health is

1:43 ↗ an essential part of health and one's

1:46 ↗ overall wellness and whereas prevention

1:50 ↗ of mental and/or substance use disorders

1:53 ↗ work treatment is effective and people

1:56 ↗ recover in our area and around the

1:58 ↗ nation where I is providing an

2:01 ↗ overcoming mental and/or substance use

2:03 ↗ disorders is essential to achieving

2:06 ↗ healthy lifestyles physically and

2:09 ↗ emotionally and whereas we must

2:15 ↗ encourage your relatives and friends of

2:17 ↗ people with mental and/or substance use

2:20 ↗ disorders to implement preventive

2:23 ↗ management measures recognize the signs

2:26 ↗ of a problem and guide those in need to

2:29 ↗ appropriate treatment and recovery

2:31 ↗ support services and whereas during the

2:35 ↗ 28th annual national alcohol and drug

2:38 ↗ addiction recovery month we celebrate

2:41 ↗ those who are seeking treatment and

2:43 ↗ those who have found pathways to healthy

2:47 ↗ rewarding lives and we stand with them

2:53 ↗ new glasses with them with the families

3:00 ↗ friends and professionals who support

3:02 ↗ them given the serious nature of this

3:05 ↗ public health problem we must continue

3:08 ↗ to reach the millions more who will need

3:11 ↗ help and the final where as to help more

3:15 ↗ people achieve and sustain long-term

3:17 ↗ recovery there now for I Fred Butler

3:20 ↗ mayor the city of Issaquah do hereby

3:22 ↗ proclaim the month of September 2017 as

3:26 ↗ recovery month in the city of Issaquah

3:29 ↗ and call upon citizens to join me

3:32 ↗ in observing this month with appropriate

3:35 ↗ programs activities and ceremony

3:38 ↗ supporting the year's recovery month and

3:41 ↗ witness thereof I here and to set my

3:44 ↗ hand in seal of the city of Ithaca this

3:47 ↗ 18th day of September and so Jerry I'm

3:53 ↗ delighted to prevent present this to you

3:55 ↗ but more importantly your role in

3:59 ↗ helping our community because you live

4:01 ↗ and breathe all of those square eyes is

4:04 ↗ that I just said I'm going to give you

4:06 ↗ an opportunity to say a few short words

4:09 ↗ I've heard you talk Thank You mayor by

4:16 ↗ letter thank you to the council very

4:17 ↗ very short because I keep showing up at

4:19 ↗ these

4:20 ↗ I want to thank Friends of youth and

4:22 ↗ also lakeside Milam recovery centers

4:24 ↗ those are our two local organizations

4:26 ↗ that help people with substance use

4:27 ↗ disorders influence the choice trying to

4:29 ↗ work in terms of prevention but as

4:31 ↗ somebody in long-term personal recovery

4:34 ↗ I want to thank all of the tens of

4:37 ↗ millions of individuals who have come

4:39 ↗ before me and have shown me that active

4:41 ↗ recovery allows you to do this right

4:46 ↗ because this wouldn't have been my

4:47 ↗ journey or anywhere close to what I was

4:50 ↗ capable of doing 25 years ago and so yes

4:55 ↗ to all of those individuals who have

4:57 ↗ come before me and hopefully will come

5:00 ↗ in the future to access services and

5:03 ↗ find this as well you know that is our

5:06 ↗ dream so I appreciate it again mayor

5:08 ↗ butler thank you very much

5:11 ↗ [Applause]

5:26 ↗ our next daughter order of business is

5:29 ↗ audience comments a few words about

5:31 ↗ audience comments this evening audience

5:35 ↗ comments an important part of the public

5:38 ↗ process we take them seriously and

5:40 ↗ factor them into the decisions that we

5:43 ↗ make anyone from the public who wishes

5:45 ↗ to comment on tonight's agenda items or

5:50 ↗ other topics should do so at this time

5:53 ↗ please direct your comments to the whole

5:55 ↗ council and not individuals well this is

5:58 ↗ not a question and answer session we

6:00 ↗ will contact you to follow up if needed

6:02 ↗ if you did not have an opportunity to

6:05 ↗ include your name and your email address

6:07 ↗ once you conclude your comments if you

6:10 ↗ would just fill in the form on the table

6:12 ↗ in front of me move to the lectern to

6:15 ↗ speak state your name address and

6:18 ↗ relationship to the city and limit your

6:20 ↗ comments to 5-minutes if you have

6:23 ↗ written comments please submit them to

6:25 ↗ the clerk visual timer has been placed

6:27 ↗ on the lectern when it turns yellow

6:29 ↗ you're within the last minute of your

6:32 ↗ comment period if you use the full five

6:35 ↗ minutes the timer will sound to indicate

6:36 ↗ the end of your allotted comment time

6:39 ↗ again citizen comments written and

6:41 ↗ verbal are an important part of the

6:43 ↗ public process we take them seriously

6:45 ↗ and thank members of the public for

6:48 ↗ taking the time to address us during our

6:51 ↗ meetings and with that I would ask if

6:54 ↗ anyone has signed up to speak this

6:56 ↗ evening yes Larry Franks and Robin Kelly

7:07 ↗ good evening my name is larry franks i

7:10 ↗ reside at two four zero zero one

7:12 ↗ southeast one hundred and third street

7:14 ↗ forty five year resident of Issaquah but

7:18 ↗ I'm really here to introduce a couple of

7:21 ↗ folks this is Robin Kelly who is the

7:24 ↗ executive director of the Friends of

7:26 ↗ Issaquah Salmon Hatchery so you're

7:28 ↗ thinking about that that comes out fish

7:30 ↗ we think it's pretty cute the rail

7:34 ↗ speaker tonight I'd like to introduce as

7:36 ↗ Theo who has a fantastic project that he

7:40 ↗ has been working with and has presented

7:42 ↗ to a number of organizations and the the

7:45 ↗ success has been very impressive so far

7:48 ↗ so Theo I'm going to give it to you

7:49 ↗ thank you sorry hello everyone I'm

7:54 ↗ Theodore Kochhar I'm currently a

7:57 ↗ freshman at Gibbs neck high school here

7:59 ↗ in downtown Issaquah I'm a boy scout in

8:02 ↗ case you haven't noticed I'm working on

8:05 ↗ my Eagle Scout project for the exaust

8:07 ↗ Salmon Hatchery my project is I'm

8:10 ↗ selling pavers that can be engraved with

8:13 ↗ your family name a loved one pets your

8:16 ↗ company anything that'll be engraved and

8:19 ↗ then permanently installed into the

8:20 ↗ Salmon Hatchery the profits all of them

8:25 ↗ will go directly to the is gloss salmon

8:27 ↗ hatcheries fishes educational programs

8:30 ↗ and to make the park a nicer place for

8:36 ↗ people to visit the project so far is

8:39 ↗ going very very well our goal was to

8:42 ↗ sell around 100 bricks and we've sold

8:45 ↗ over 170

8:52 ↗ and that has raised over six thousand

8:54 ↗ dollars today I'm here with Robin Kelly

9:03 ↗ Larry Franks and my parents Lauren and

9:08 ↗ Jonathan coach are Mary Lou polloi put

9:11 ↗ Paulie sorry Eileen barber sorry we we

9:22 ↗ plan to install the pavers by September

9:24 ↗ 30th but they are engraved in Miami

9:26 ↗ Florida so there will be a slight delay

9:33 ↗ when we do engrave them I'll be

9:34 ↗ accompanied by my troupe sometime in the

9:40 ↗ future the bricks range from $40 to 100

9:43 ↗ and if you would love to make your mark

9:48 ↗ at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery you can

9:50 ↗ meet me in the back afterwards you know

9:59 ↗ thank you very much Robin and Larry

10:05 ↗ Randy Banneker

10:19 ↗ Thank You mr. mayor members of the

10:21 ↗ council

10:22 ↗ I'm Randy Banneker and here on behalf

10:24 ↗ the Seattle King County Realtors and I

10:26 ↗ wanted to offer some comments on your

10:29 ↗ housing strategy first I wanted to thank

10:32 ↗ you for taking this on it's a it's an

10:34 ↗ outstanding body of work you're gonna be

10:37 ↗ debating a number of strategies to

10:39 ↗ pursue in the next several months I

10:42 ↗ think and on into the future and I

10:44 ↗ wanted to just strongly encourage well

10:49 ↗ let me back up

10:50 ↗ I think you've identified the right

10:51 ↗ issues you're looking at growth and the

10:54 ↗ need to offer more higher density

10:56 ↗ multi-family housing in Issaquah you're

10:59 ↗ looking at affordability throughout the

11:01 ↗ income spectrum and you're looking at

11:03 ↗ creating housing options for aging

11:05 ↗ homeowners who want to stay in the

11:06 ↗ community in which they were in which

11:08 ↗ they raise their families and the

11:10 ↗ community that they help build those are

11:12 ↗ absolutely the right things I would like

11:14 ↗ to just make a special cheer for some of

11:19 ↗ the strategies that increase the market

11:21 ↗ rates supply and I'm just gonna tick

11:24 ↗ those off I won't use my full time cuz I

11:27 ↗ know you've got a busy meeting tonight

11:28 ↗ but strategy one you're exploring

11:32 ↗ removing barriers to facilitate the

11:34 ↗ construction of accessory dwelling units

11:36 ↗ that is an outstanding tool to offer

11:39 ↗ some increase housing choices into the

11:42 ↗ community ad use can be a highly

11:45 ↗ affordable rental unit for someone who

11:48 ↗ is working is upon maybe beginning their

11:50 ↗ careers it also a to use also enable

11:53 ↗ that homeowner to have a little bit of a

11:55 ↗ revenue stream that can help offset

11:57 ↗ their mortgage or it can help some empty

12:00 ↗ nesters stay in their community in their

12:02 ↗ home a little bit longer I'm gonna jump

12:06 ↗ to strategy 7 which is mitigating or

12:08 ↗ offsetting the deterrence to condominium

12:11 ↗ construction we would like to work with

12:14 ↗ you on that this is a this is an issue

12:16 ↗ that needs a fix in Olympia it's the

12:20 ↗ state condominium act and the

12:22 ↗ Association of Realtors are very

12:23 ↗ interested in turning this around right

12:25 ↗ now just the way the law works pretty

12:29 ↗ much any condominium that's constructed

12:32 ↗ and look forward to a lawsuit

12:35 ↗ construction defect lawsuit doesn't need

12:38 ↗ to be that way we can protect we can

12:42 ↗ protect the consumer the buyer the the

12:45 ↗ soon-to-be homeowner but also create a

12:47 ↗ level playing field so wet the market

12:51 ↗ chooses to build condominiums invest in

12:53 ↗ the community they can do that if they

12:55 ↗ want to build apartment buildings that's

12:56 ↗ fine too but right now the tilt is

12:58 ↗ towards apartments condos are so

13:02 ↗ important because they offer many for

13:05 ↗ many new buyers they offer that first

13:07 ↗ rung on the housing level on the housing

13:10 ↗ ladder just because they're affordable

13:12 ↗ and they give folks an opportunity to

13:14 ↗ start building equity which is a really

13:16 ↗ key strategy in this market of ours that

13:18 ↗ is challenging for particularly for

13:21 ↗ first-time buyers strategy 8 also

13:25 ↗ incorporates code provisions to increase

13:27 ↗ the potential diversity of housing types

13:29 ↗ and again like condos small housing or

13:33 ↗ innovative ownership housing types can

13:37 ↗ give folks that first rung on the

13:39 ↗ housing ladder

13:40 ↗ it also gives empty nesters a place to

13:44 ↗ go that isn't the big house they they

13:47 ↗ raise their family and it allows them to

13:50 ↗ stay in Issaquah and I think that's

13:52 ↗ something that is important to promote

13:54 ↗ I'm gonna leave it there I've got some

13:56 ↗ greater depth in my notes I'd love to

13:58 ↗ chat with you moving forward if you have

14:00 ↗ any questions and I thank you for your

14:01 ↗ time Randy thank you very very much

14:05 ↗ [Applause]

14:06 ↗ Robert Swanson

14:15 ↗ hello there so my name is Rob responds

14:25 ↗ and I live at a 26 fourth Avenue

14:27 ↗ Northeast is squat this is my sixth

14:30 ↗ meeting sorry about that this is my

14:33 ↗ sixth meeting I I don't think I've

14:35 ↗ missed a meeting since I first came to

14:37 ↗ Grand Ridge I think it was the

14:38 ↗ elementary school matter of fact I

14:40 ↗ created a meeting in this COIs Highlands

14:42 ↗ to go at and I've been to the Board of

14:45 ↗ Education meeting I've been to the PPC

14:47 ↗ policy Planning Commission I think I got

14:49 ↗ that one right

14:50 ↗ so I'm barely learning things but I'm

14:52 ↗ moving along and trying to figure things

14:53 ↗ out I just want to let everybody know so

14:55 ↗ just in case I am NOT not in my backyard

14:59 ↗ person okay so I had a little talk with

15:01 ↗ somebody it was kind of an inside joke a

15:02 ↗ little bit here but I believe the facts

15:05 ↗ point out that this is an unsafe

15:06 ↗ location for the elementary school and

15:08 ↗ there is better location and by the way

15:10 ↗ I just found out tonight when I got here

15:12 ↗ this really isn't what this is all about

15:13 ↗ tonight so I apologize but hey I got the

15:15 ↗ place so I'm myzel I did I spent about

15:18 ↗ eight hours on this thing so anyway

15:21 ↗ there's a better location I would love

15:23 ↗ to have a basketball court near my house

15:25 ↗ I play basketball all the time my

15:27 ↗ property value would go up I guess

15:28 ↗ that's a good thing but that would mean

15:29 ↗ I'd pay more property tax so maybe that

15:31 ↗ isn't a good thing who knows

15:33 ↗ I just want to everybody know I was

15:35 ↗ wrong on some things I thought before

15:37 ↗ 100 I thought it was a hundred million

15:38 ↗ dollars divided by four sites which is

15:40 ↗ 25 million each which is not in not

15:43 ↗ correct as a high school requires 30 to

15:45 ↗ 40 acres middle school which is Robert

15:47 ↗ yes a my honesty III was just reminded

15:51 ↗ by our city attorney that this is a

15:54 ↗ quasi-judicial item before the council

15:57 ↗ based on the closed record and yeah this

16:00 ↗ is not the appropriate time

16:02 ↗ I totally understand I I apologize for

16:04 ↗ that but I would do better I think it's

16:07 ↗ October 2nd I'm supposed to come is that

16:08 ↗ correct it's up to you but we'll be

16:11 ↗ talking about that issue on October this

16:13 ↗ okay and thank you much I apologize for

16:14 ↗ that tonight is this all you're going to

16:18 ↗ talk about I just have pictures hmm I

16:22 ↗ have pictures of the hill and the cars

16:24 ↗ driving not good a bike on are you guys

16:27 ↗ and thank you very much thanks for

16:29 ↗ coming everybody I appreciate it

16:32 ↗ there you go save your slide

16:34 ↗ presentation mayor just to clarify at

16:43 ↗ the next meeting when this is discussed

16:44 ↗ by the council there was not a public

16:46 ↗ hearing it's still quasi-judicial so you

16:50 ↗ would not be allowed to present your

16:51 ↗ slides at that time either the time for

16:54 ↗ making the record was at the PPC when

16:56 ↗ they held the public hearing presuming

16:58 ↗ you had the same information and that

17:00 ↗ would be before the council for their

17:02 ↗ consideration anyone else signed up to

17:11 ↗ speak yes Connie Marsh

17:19 ↗ hi Connie Marsh I live up on squawk

17:22 ↗ Mountain and I'm I actually signed up

17:26 ↗ because I have to go to the airport and

17:27 ↗ run I didn't know how long it would take

17:28 ↗ it's rare I know so I'm gonna speak a

17:31 ↗ little bit about the affordable housing

17:35 ↗ strategies but beginning with the

17:38 ↗ compact Schools ordinance changes or

17:42 ↗ proposals I sent you an email and I hope

17:46 ↗ it was understandable and I hope you all

17:48 ↗ got to try to muddle your way through it

17:50 ↗ so I am only going to talk about a

17:52 ↗ couple of bits of that email and one is

17:56 ↗ some ideas of what to do with a 90%

18:01 ↗ impervious surface that they're

18:04 ↗ proposing now in Highlands and

18:07 ↗ Central Issaquah plan have those higher

18:09 ↗ impervious surface ratios because they

18:11 ↗ did something we have the green necklace

18:14 ↗ and some expanded landscaping for the

18:16 ↗ central this COIs plan four to one

18:18 ↗ exchange for the talus and it's across

18:21 ↗ islands now in listening to what the

18:23 ↗ school district says it's like okay

18:25 ↗ we'll just buy more land and that will

18:27 ↗ give us more trees which does seem to

18:30 ↗ sort of be silly so I started trying to

18:33 ↗ figure out what other things could be

18:36 ↗ provided that would provide the same

18:38 ↗ sort of public benefit

18:40 ↗ in order to offset the increased

18:42 ↗ impervious surface though perhaps not in

18:44 ↗ quite such a physical way and one of the

18:47 ↗ things that I've heard in my many

18:49 ↗ meetings is our lack of meeting space in

18:52 ↗ the city of Issaquah and often there's a

18:54 ↗ conversation about trying to use the

18:56 ↗ school district facilities but they're

18:58 ↗ prohibitively expensive for most people

19:02 ↗ to be able to use so one of my out of

19:05 ↗ the box proposals is to create a sort of

19:08 ↗ a Memorandum of Understanding about the

19:11 ↗ city in some segments of the city being

19:14 ↗ able to use the school facilities free

19:18 ↗ of cost right and so that would be a

19:21 ↗ neighborly thing to do in a community

19:24 ↗ benefit now it's not a physical thing

19:26 ↗ but it is at least a benefit and you

19:29 ↗ might be able to get me to go there the

19:32 ↗ other thing that was apparent is it

19:35 ↗ would be far easier just to use the

19:37 ↗ Issaquah Municipal Code for the

19:39 ↗ landscaping section as compared to

19:43 ↗ trying to pull the SIDS in because the

19:47 ↗ SIDS has all this language saying it's

19:49 ↗ supposed to be appropriate to the

19:50 ↗ central Issaquah area that trees have to

19:52 ↗ be planted in the central is a quiet

19:54 ↗ area and if you're doing something up in

19:57 ↗ Providence Heights I don't think you

19:59 ↗ need to stand up and say well this is

20:01 ↗ pertinent it'll make the this is just

20:03 ↗ like we would be doing in the central

20:05 ↗ area so we're we're actually maintaining

20:07 ↗ what we want I just don't I don't think

20:10 ↗ it's pertinent so a few bits changes in

20:13 ↗ in the Municipal Code I think would make

20:16 ↗ that more clear and simplified now I'm

20:19 ↗ moving on to the affordable housing

20:22 ↗ strategies and I listen to the needs

20:26 ↗ assessment the other night and it seems

20:28 ↗ like there's this overlap in my brain of

20:31 ↗ the needs assessment and the affordable

20:33 ↗ housing strategies and I'm not really

20:34 ↗ sure how those two can cooperate an

20:37 ↗ interface what brought it to mind is I

20:41 ↗ tried looking for how to get affordable

20:43 ↗ housing on the website when I was

20:45 ↗ looking at affordable housing strategies

20:46 ↗ because the low-hanging fruit to me is

20:48 ↗ well yeah they might be available but

20:50 ↗ it's super hard to figure out how to get

20:52 ↗ them

20:53 ↗ and that came out in the needs

20:54 ↗ assessment so it's unclear to me how

20:58 ↗ those are going to combine to make the

21:02 ↗ process easier and better and I think

21:05 ↗ some effort needs to be put into

21:07 ↗ figuring that out Thanks

21:09 ↗ Thank You Connie and drive safely

21:12 ↗ to the airport it's raining out there

21:15 ↗ Ron Thea

21:25 ↗ he was gonna take my spot here hi Ron

21:29 ↗ Tilly superintendent of the s-cross

21:31 ↗ School District and I too wanted to

21:33 ↗ speak on the agenda bill on the compact

21:36 ↗ schools but before I did that I wanted

21:38 ↗ to just thank the council first and

21:40 ↗ foremost for this is complicated stuff

21:43 ↗ the last meeting I was here I think I

21:44 ↗ went home at about 12:30 a.m. and I know

21:47 ↗ you all stayed for a few more hours so a

21:49 ↗ lot of empathy for you there but did

21:53 ↗ want to you know we in the school

21:55 ↗ district are very interested in a new

21:57 ↗ design of school going forward which is

22:00 ↗ why in part were in support and

22:03 ↗ requesting some of these code changes to

22:06 ↗ help us build a more compact school and

22:08 ↗ again I get that this is complicated

22:11 ↗ stuff and I do appreciate the work that

22:14 ↗ you've all done to consider this and the

22:17 ↗ partnership with the school district as

22:19 ↗ well so thank you for that and I look

22:21 ↗ forward to the dialogue later thank you

22:24 ↗ thank you Ron besa Khalid

22:36 ↗ good evening I'm Lisa Kalin and the

22:39 ↗ person is Crosse School District School

22:40 ↗ Board and I just wanted to mention on

22:42 ↗ agenda bill 749 which is the uses and

22:46 ↗ standards related to compact schools

22:48 ↗ that the school board did pass and with

22:50 ↗ the unanimous support a resolution for

22:53 ↗ the recommendations coming forward to

22:55 ↗ you this evening so I did want you to

22:57 ↗ know that the electeds were also the

22:59 ↗ electives around the school board were

23:01 ↗ in support of this and we appreciated

23:04 ↗ the conversations that we were able to

23:05 ↗ have with the policy Planning Commission

23:07 ↗ as well as the land in short committee

23:09 ↗ and then looking forward to the

23:11 ↗ conversation tonight I'm sure in the

23:12 ↗ staff presentation a lot of information

23:14 ↗ will unfold and afterwards as we've gone

23:18 ↗ through a lot of discussion around this

23:21 ↗ and where we're going in the future I

23:22 ↗ look forward to extended conversation

23:26 ↗ and partnerships with what we're doing

23:27 ↗ with our planning going thank you thank

23:31 ↗ you Lisa

23:32 ↗ no one further has signed up to speak

23:37 ↗ David looks like you got a wrap things

23:40 ↗ up perhaps unless there's someone else

23:42 ↗ yes thank you

23:44 ↗ David Kapler 255 southeast Angeles

23:47 ↗ Street subject tree retention and

23:49 ↗ impervious surface trying to compare

23:52 ↗ site that are not in the central

23:55 ↗ Issaquah to central Issaquah I think is

23:58 ↗ a mistake given the requirements in

24:00 ↗ central is acquired directly tied to

24:02 ↗ their they're much less because of the

24:06 ↗ green necklace and the commitment that

24:07 ↗ developers in that area have to the

24:09 ↗ green necklace and trails urban village

24:14 ↗ how did the is how did those minimal

24:18 ↗ standards for retrieve retention

24:20 ↗ impervious service happen in the urban

24:23 ↗ village such as Issaquah Highlands well

24:25 ↗ the most recent case is the area that's

24:28 ↗ now Forest Ridge Pine Crest the W

24:31 ↗ College site in parcel D which have been

24:33 ↗ dealing with recently to get urban

24:37 ↗ village standards on that land 140 acres

24:39 ↗ of permanent open space had to be

24:41 ↗ dedicated to the city so that was four

24:45 ↗ to one so there was a big pay that those

24:50 ↗ people did to change that to get that

24:53 ↗ minimal standards and impervious and

24:56 ↗ tree retention one of the complications

24:59 ↗ in the site potentially up here is short

25:03 ↗ setbacks when you have just a few feet

25:06 ↗ literally setbacks in the ordinance

25:09 ↗ proposed up against hundred foot trees

25:12 ↗ how do you mitigate how do you deal with

25:15 ↗ the safety issues how do you deal with

25:17 ↗ the the the long-term health of that

25:19 ↗ forest in some cases the long-term

25:21 ↗ health of that forest is very important

25:23 ↗ for the view escape and the Woodard

25:25 ↗ hillsides we have in Issaquah so that is

25:28 ↗ a complication that needs to be

25:30 ↗ considered another subject just since

25:33 ↗ it's got so much on next door 2007 when

25:39 ↗ I was running for reelection i was in

25:40 ↗ spent a lot of time in greenwood point

25:42 ↗ area because everybody was in love with

25:44 ↗ the city there they craved about new

25:46 ↗ sidewalks road repair and they were

25:49 ↗ seeing police car

25:49 ↗ they had just been annexed they were

25:51 ↗ very happy I thought about running and

25:56 ↗ trying to draw bill in that community

25:57 ↗ right now hopefully the city is going to

25:59 ↗ figure out what happened to the water

26:01 ↗ rates there and get that firestorm dealt

26:04 ↗ with thank you thank you David

26:08 ↗ anyone Steven I Steve Pereira old town

26:17 ↗ about ten years now so the first thought

26:20 ↗ I had was I guess had to do with

26:23 ↗ communication and transparency issues

26:25 ↗ three examples that I think weren't

26:28 ↗ handled as well as it could be that I'd

26:30 ↗ like all of you to consider going

26:32 ↗ forward the first was the last City

26:34 ↗ Council meeting ran until 247 a.m. last

26:37 ↗ time not a good example for people

26:39 ↗ getting confidence and buy-in and

26:40 ↗ communication the next example was that

26:44 ↗ there with regular meeting agendas and

26:47 ↗ the moratorium we're having back-to-back

26:50 ↗ meetings on a whole bunch of different

26:51 ↗ topics people can't attend on a regular

26:54 ↗ basis there needs to be a better way to

26:55 ↗ maybe slow down that process to make

26:58 ↗ sure people are communicating the third

27:00 ↗ example is one of the things coming up

27:02 ↗ is the vertical mixed-use if people were

27:06 ↗ upset about a five-story apartment

27:08 ↗ complex I don't think they understand

27:10 ↗ that we're talking about with high

27:12 ↗ density bonuses a 10 foot or 10 story

27:15 ↗ building 125 135 feet without the roof

27:19 ↗ without the elevator shafts all that I

27:21 ↗ think we need to start better

27:22 ↗ communicating what we're talking about

27:23 ↗ in vertical mixed-use so people don't

27:26 ↗ get shocked afterwards that something

27:28 ↗ got passed and later it gets built just

27:30 ↗ needs to devote more buy-in with that

27:33 ↗ process second topic I shall pass on and

27:39 ↗ the second topic is I guess it's the

27:43 ↗ seven four three nine just the idea of I

27:49 ↗ can't envision what happens at the top

27:51 ↗ of the hill when you look at the the

27:52 ↗ trees I can't our terrorist I can't see

27:56 ↗ what happens to them being removed

27:57 ↗ without affecting the lower parcels

27:59 ↗ including the Tod

28:01 ↗ spots that still seems like a bad idea

28:03 ↗ to me

28:04 ↗ I'd like to comments earlier on the IMC

28:07 ↗ code and on the density on the four to

28:09 ↗ one exchange of the property to make

28:11 ↗ sure we have some value added to that

28:12 ↗ process Thanks thank you Steve Mary my

28:19 ↗ name is Mary Lynch and I recited to 69 o

28:22 ↗ North West Oak Crest Drive I've sent you

28:24 ↗ several or CCD on several emails I also

28:28 ↗ this weekend about the construction on

28:30 ↗ Newports way I really would ask and I've

28:33 ↗ still not seen is what are the city's

28:35 ↗ best practices when it comes to

28:37 ↗ construction zones along roadways and

28:40 ↗ along pedestrian pathways I have seen

28:43 ↗ none and it is very obvious there are

28:45 ↗ none that holds the contractor

28:48 ↗ accountable for and including Public

28:51 ↗ Works people on what is being done along

28:53 ↗ our roadways in the way of construction

28:55 ↗ zones both by setting up the boundaries

28:58 ↗ of those by marking them for speed

29:00 ↗ limits to my knowledge only because I've

29:03 ↗ worked with one of the public works

29:04 ↗ engineers and they put up a sign do we

29:06 ↗ even have a 25 mile an hour's sign today

29:09 ↗ we finally got double the sign up about

29:12 ↗ double fines there but I've seen none

29:15 ↗ and they had to purchase those because

29:16 ↗ apparently they weren't available in the

29:17 ↗ city I don't know if we're ticketing

29:19 ↗ double fine yet but that is Washington

29:22 ↗ state law if you look at that up and we

29:24 ↗ look at the regs

29:25 ↗ you're supposed to clearly identify your

29:27 ↗ your roadway construction zones you're

29:30 ↗ supposed to provide for no safe passage

29:34 ↗ through those zones and especially we

29:37 ↗ have been promised along Newports way we

29:39 ↗ have been promised safe walking pathways

29:41 ↗ and we do not have that and we don't

29:43 ↗ have the inspection Spector's going out

29:45 ↗ there and making sure that they're safe

29:47 ↗ and stay safe and I would ask where are

29:50 ↗ our best practices where our codes for

29:53 ↗ construction zones on roadways we don't

29:55 ↗ have them and we need them so part of

29:57 ↗ the central area plan part of the

29:59 ↗ moratorium we ought us put out on hold

30:01 ↗ until we have that the other thing I

30:04 ↗ want to talk about is the compact

30:06 ↗ schools I am not at all I'm one of the

30:07 ↗ proponents that saying we should have

30:09 ↗ when I was on the central area plan in

30:11 ↗ the central area work with the school

30:12 ↗ districts to get

30:14 ↗ you know some more standards and some

30:16 ↗ more designs in for the central area

30:18 ↗ plan for new schools my concern with

30:20 ↗ this bill is that go or agenda belt is

30:22 ↗ going forward it's done very quick when

30:24 ↗ people out of the the town are not aware

30:28 ↗ of it and for it to cover all areas of

30:31 ↗ Issaquah I think is wrong because this

30:34 ↗ will have impact schools sightings that

30:38 ↗ are in existing neighborhoods along

30:39 ↗ creeks and with the type of setbacks and

30:42 ↗ as it was commented you're not talking

30:45 ↗ just sixty five foot it can be up above

30:48 ↗ that with the other equipment that's on

30:50 ↗ on a roof and for this to be able to

30:53 ↗ allow to go into an existing

30:55 ↗ single-family area

30:58 ↗ this type of compact school I think

31:00 ↗ needs to have more public input before

31:04 ↗ it's passed if you want to do it for the

31:06 ↗ central area plan have no problem with

31:08 ↗ it but if you're talking in existing

31:10 ↗ single-family neighborhoods you need to

31:13 ↗ have more open transparent discussions

31:15 ↗ of the impact that it's going to have on

31:17 ↗ those people and also the impact it's

31:20 ↗ going to have on our streams and our

31:21 ↗ creeks things that we've tried to

31:23 ↗ preserve and if we allow for this type

31:26 ↗ of impervious surfaces and traffic I

31:28 ↗ think you're you're really asking for it

31:31 ↗ and you have not done your due diligence

31:33 ↗ in involving the city we don't have that

31:35 ↗ support press anymore the reporter

31:38 ↗ really doesn't do much coverage down

31:40 ↗ here and there's really not many reach

31:42 ↗ out to my knowledge to anybody in the

31:44 ↗ community where this could really have

31:46 ↗ impact in existing neighborhoods and

31:47 ↗ it's going to have severe impact so some

31:50 ↗ of your neighborhoods we also talked

31:52 ↗ about viewsheds if you put some of these

31:55 ↗ places where they're talking about

31:56 ↗ putting them you're going to completely

31:58 ↗ eliminate view for not even single

32:00 ↗ family but for the whole stream in the

32:02 ↗ whole corridor thank you thank you Mary

32:10 ↗ mr. mayor council I'm Andy Simons I live

32:14 ↗ at 735 Northwest State wood drive in

32:17 ↗ Issaquah and I'm a board member for the

32:20 ↗ east side baby corner and I'm here to

32:22 ↗ thank you for what I understand will be

32:25 ↗ a proclamation recognizing diaper needs

32:28 ↗ Awareness Week which I believe is next

32:31 ↗ week and just want to thank you on

32:33 ↗ behalf of the baby corner this is a nice

32:35 ↗ agency that's located right here in

32:37 ↗ Issaquah and it serves all the Eastside

32:39 ↗ Eastside baby corner works with about 50

32:43 ↗ other agencies partner providers provide

32:47 ↗ not just diapers but formula as well as

32:50 ↗ all kinds of needs for children up

32:52 ↗ through age 12 and we may not realize

32:56 ↗ this but for the average family diapers

32:59 ↗ cost about $80 a month and baby corner

33:03 ↗ has supplied over a million diapers

33:04 ↗ last year alone so it is a significant

33:08 ↗ need as we all may realize and again

33:10 ↗ want to thank you for for your forget

33:12 ↗ recognition of this Andy

33:15 ↗ thank you and in the mayor's report I

33:17 ↗ will mention the the proclamation on

33:22 ↗ hyper awareness we thank you very

33:32 ↗ good evening Cheryl Gilbert and I reside

33:34 ↗ at 40 21 77 thousand years southeast

33:38 ↗ first of all I want to thank those of

33:40 ↗ you that took the time to respond to my

33:42 ↗ emails this week I do appreciate your

33:43 ↗ time although my comments do relate

33:48 ↗ specifically to an agenda topic from

33:50 ↗ your September fifth meeting I do

33:53 ↗ believe that they're poignant especially

33:54 ↗ in light mr. mayor of your Proclamation

33:56 ↗ tonight of this being recovery month a

34:02 ↗ drug addicts do indeed have a disease

34:04 ↗ they need help resources and compassion

34:08 ↗ but a safe injection site provides none

34:11 ↗ of these these facilities are enabling

34:13 ↗ drug users not helping them find a way

34:16 ↗ out I know that two weeks ago at your

34:18 ↗ meeting you heard from heartbroken

34:20 ↗ parents who had lost children to heroin

34:22 ↗ overdoses and while I cannot relate

34:25 ↗ specifically to the pain of a parent

34:27 ↗ losing a child I am well acquainted with

34:30 ↗ the unique type of destruction and

34:31 ↗ heartbreak that heroin heroin addiction

34:34 ↗ and overdose in still my mother was an

34:37 ↗ addict all of my life I have vivid

34:39 ↗ memories of watching her snort lines of

34:42 ↗ cocaine in front of me at a very young

34:43 ↗ age I remember the needle marks and the

34:46 ↗ blown veins and the sling that she would

34:48 ↗ wear to hide them I remember her claims

34:51 ↗ of tennis elbow when asked what the

34:53 ↗ sling was for I remember the phone call

34:57 ↗ when I was 24 telling me that she had

34:59 ↗ died my lifelong dreams of her recovery

35:02 ↗ dashed with that one monstrous word

35:04 ↗ overdose I remember retrieving her

35:08 ↗ belongings from the coroner's office and

35:10 ↗ the sharp pain in my stomach when the

35:12 ↗ contents of the bag revealed only a bus

35:14 ↗ bus pass and drug paraphernalia I'm here

35:18 ↗ tonight because a safe injection site

35:21 ↗ would not have saved my mother yes she

35:24 ↗ may have received medical intervention

35:26 ↗ on that specific day had she chosen to

35:28 ↗ be supervised while shooting up but what

35:31 ↗ then she would have returned to the

35:33 ↗ streets returned to her demons and found

35:36 ↗ her next fix and I would still be

35:39 ↗ standing here before you saying that we

35:42 ↗ had done nothing to solve the real issue

35:45 ↗ making heroin use safer will only

35:48 ↗ encourage addicts to continue using safe

35:52 ↗ injection sites condone and promote drug

35:54 ↗ use by providing addicts a space in

35:56 ↗ which to perform an illegal and

35:58 ↗ dangerous activity where we the

36:01 ↗ taxpayers provide them with needles

36:03 ↗ tourniquets and in some facilities even

36:06 ↗ cooking supplies for their drugs heroin

36:09 ↗ heroin will be easily procured from the

36:12 ↗ dealer's that we've invited into our

36:15 ↗ community by protecting their illegal

36:18 ↗ industry and guaranteeing their business

36:20 ↗ in fact a safe injection site will

36:24 ↗ increase the drug trade not only by

36:25 ↗ securing demand but also by ensuring

36:28 ↗ that any overdose or reaction caused by

36:30 ↗ tainted drugs will be forted by free

36:33 ↗ medical intervention when so many of the

36:37 ↗ risks of illicit drug use are mitigated

36:39 ↗ so then are many of the reasons for

36:42 ↗ addicts to take steps toward recovery as

36:45 ↗ you know there are safe injection sites

36:47 ↗ in other countries but none of these

36:49 ↗ have provided either scientific nor

36:51 ↗ anecdotal evidence to show that their

36:53 ↗ services actually work to combat the

36:55 ↗ opioid epidemic as the Human Services

36:59 ↗ Commission and the council services and

37:01 ↗ Safety Committee continue to research

37:03 ↗ and analyze data regarding existing

37:06 ↗ facilities they will find as I have that

37:09 ↗ no data exists showing that such

37:11 ↗ facilities support the goal of reducing

37:13 ↗ opioid abuse data collected at the

37:17 ↗ Vancouver Insight shows that users

37:19 ↗ attend the facility for roughly one in

37:22 ↗ four of their heroin injections

37:25 ↗ this means the insite is not getting the

37:27 ↗ drugs or the needles off the streets as

37:30 ↗ they had hoped insite claims success in

37:33 ↗ behavioral risk reduction but using a

37:36 ↗ clean needle 25% of the time does not

37:38 ↗ equate to safe drug use practices insite

37:42 ↗ also proudly lists in its successes that

37:44 ↗ not one overdose death has occurred in

37:46 ↗ their facility in 13 years of operation

37:49 ↗ while this fact holds true the British

37:52 ↗ Columbia coroner's office released

37:54 ↗ mortality figures from two thousand

37:56 ↗ seven to two thousand seventeen

37:58 ↗ that show a steady increase in overdose

38:00 ↗ deaths in that region including a 30%

38:03 ↗ increase just in the past year the

38:06 ↗ bottom line is this

38:07 ↗ despite is claims to the contrary

38:10 ↗ insight simply doesn't work we do have a

38:14 ↗ drug problem facing our community we do

38:16 ↗ need to find realistic solutions to this

38:18 ↗ problem but a safe injection site is not

38:21 ↗ that solution it is counterproductive to

38:23 ↗ solving the opioid epidemic I am certain

38:27 ↗ that if I could have asked my mother in

38:28 ↗ a moment of clarity whether she would

38:30 ↗ have preferred a safe place to get high

38:32 ↗ or resources to help her get her life

38:34 ↗ back she would have without hesitation

38:36 ↗ chosen the ladder I hope that this

38:38 ↗ council can I finish my sentence ok

38:42 ↗ summarize I hope that this council the

38:45 ↗ Human Services Commission and the

38:47 ↗ council services and Safety Committee

38:48 ↗ will choose the same thank you so much

38:50 ↗ for your time thank you and would you

38:52 ↗ provide a copy of your notes to the

38:55 ↗ clerk please anyone else hello

39:07 ↗ Elizabeth no Penn 100 Big Bear place

39:11 ↗ northwest in Issaquah I wanted first to

39:16 ↗ express my thanks for the work that went

39:19 ↗ into the community needs assessment I

39:29 ↗ wish I had been able to be here the

39:32 ↗ night that you had the presentation on

39:35 ↗ that I'd like to bring to your attention

39:39 ↗ a way where you could make transparency

39:43 ↗ and communication better and that is we

39:47 ↗ do have channel 21 where you can watch

39:52 ↗ what's happened but there is no list on

39:57 ↗ there of when things are coming up and

40:00 ↗ so very often the thing that you wanted

40:03 ↗ to see you find part way through by just

40:08 ↗ keeping coming back to the site

40:11 ↗ randomly so we really nice if every half

40:17 ↗ hour or so you have a list of what's

40:19 ↗ coming up and when it's coming up that

40:22 ↗ would really help people on the the drug

40:29 ↗ site there is a Lancet article I believe

40:34 ↗ it's from 2011 that showed that there

40:39 ↗ was a 35 percent drop in overdose deaths

40:44 ↗ in the area around the the insight

40:52 ↗ injection site there there are some

40:59 ↗ studies out there it's worth looking at

41:02 ↗ and a lot of the deaths now have to do

41:08 ↗ with the lasing of drugs with fentanyl

41:14 ↗ they do have tests that you that people

41:19 ↗ can take at the site so if they bring in

41:23 ↗ the drugs they can test the drugs to see

41:26 ↗ if they're contaminated we do need to

41:29 ↗ get not only get people off these

41:35 ↗ illegal substances that they use to kill

41:38 ↗ their pain but we also need to find ways

41:43 ↗ of stopping this contamination which is

41:47 ↗ so deadly to people so I think there

41:52 ↗ there are some reasons why these sites

41:56 ↗ do help people and help the overall

42:00 ↗ health of the community thank you

42:07 ↗ Thank You Elizabeth there anyone else

42:10 ↗ desire to speak this evening who has not

42:12 ↗ signed up hello first I apologize for

42:20 ↗ being late but um I've never been here

42:22 ↗ before

42:23 ↗ and I was waiting across the street it's

42:26 ↗ an executive session I thought I was

42:27 ↗ waiting for the doors to open anyway

42:29 ↗ thank you for allowing me to speak my

42:31 ↗ name is Jan Zimmer I live in North Asuka

42:33 ↗ and I'm a resident and a property owner

42:36 ↗ regarding the insight the most recent

42:39 ↗ article I saw regard about insight

42:41 ↗ indicated overdoses were up 88% they

42:46 ↗ attributed that to fentanyl but no

42:47 ↗ matter what they were up 88% they had

42:51 ↗ now have three facilities versus the

42:52 ↗ original one that they had there are two

42:55 ↗ I believe in Vancouver and another one

42:56 ↗ in us in a suburban area they didn't I

42:59 ↗ couldn't find any numbers like total

43:03 ↗ number of people they were treating but

43:04 ↗ I'm assuming there's a huge increase for

43:07 ↗ them to now have three centers and their

43:10 ↗ overdoses are up 88% so I don't see how

43:14 ↗ in any way that could be things

43:15 ↗ considered a success and a safe

43:17 ↗ injection site I'm sure they work with

43:20 ↗ them to try to talk them into treatment

43:21 ↗ but it's a safe injection site it proved

43:24 ↗ it's a place to get clean needles to not

43:27 ↗ have transmissible disease such as HIV

43:30 ↗ hepatitis and they treat the reason no

43:33 ↗ one dies is because they have medical

43:34 ↗ personnel there and they treat them with

43:37 ↗ narcan right there when if they're gonna

43:39 ↗ overdose but they don't what they don't

43:41 ↗ say is there's people overdosing outside

43:44 ↗ so I mean granted no one is overdosed

43:46 ↗ inside but people are overdosing outside

43:49 ↗ in the area and overdoses are up 88

43:52 ↗ percent so I don't call that a success

43:53 ↗ but anyway I'm here to ask that you ban

43:57 ↗ safe injection sites being located in

43:59 ↗ Issaquah this is not appropriate for

44:01 ↗ Issaquah please join Sammamish Bellevue

44:04 ↗ Redmen Auburn in Federal Way in banning

44:08 ↗ these sites these sites may decrease the

44:11 ↗ transmission of diseases through IV drug

44:13 ↗ use and prevent and/or treat overdoses

44:16 ↗ in their facilities but they do not

44:18 ↗ treat the addiction or they do not

44:20 ↗ cause of people to go into recovery or

44:24 ↗ treatment to achieve recovery and I was

44:28 ↗ just kind of responding to what I heard

44:29 ↗ but I was saying how Vancouver has the

44:31 ↗ three sites up from the original one and

44:34 ↗ they're still there overdoses are up 88%

44:37 ↗ but I like I said I have no idea what

44:40 ↗ the total numbers are but the fact that

44:41 ↗ they now have three centers versus one

44:43 ↗ to me that's proof also that they

44:46 ↗ attracted people there to do IV drug use

44:48 ↗ or they wouldn't have those need

44:50 ↗ threesome you know it would have more

44:51 ↗ centers and they wouldn't be having the

44:53 ↗ more more overdoses and I really um if

44:59 ↗ you don't pass a ban and a safe

45:01 ↗ injection site is ever located in

45:03 ↗ Issaquah I believe what will happen this

45:05 ↗ is what will happen in our city I think

45:06 ↗ that it will decrease our quality of

45:08 ↗ life it will decrease our property

45:11 ↗ values and it will bring crime and

45:13 ↗ increased number of drug dealers into

45:15 ↗ our community because these people will

45:18 ↗ be providing a service of a safe site to

45:20 ↗ inject drugs but where are the drugs

45:22 ↗ coming from they're not providing the

45:23 ↗ drugs so these people are getting the

45:25 ↗ drugs from somewhere and the drug

45:27 ↗ dealers are going to know they're gonna

45:29 ↗ it's gonna become known if we ever had

45:31 ↗ something like that in our city we'll

45:33 ↗ just be easy targets and I'm so sad that

45:35 ↗ I have to come and ask the City Council

45:37 ↗ to vote on and pass a ban on safe

45:39 ↗ injection sites that was on the agenda

45:41 ↗ for the nine five seventeen meeting but

45:43 ↗ was not passed I am asking you now on

45:46 ↗ behalf of myself my family the children

45:49 ↗ of Issaquah and all citizens of Issaquah

45:51 ↗ in terms of I don't want the current you

45:54 ↗ know them to be affected by crime and

45:55 ↗ everything else that goes along with the

45:58 ↗ people that come with this type of

45:59 ↗ activity please ban safe injection sites

46:02 ↗ in the city of Issaquah please thank you

46:06 ↗ thank you Jan is there anyone else

46:09 ↗ desiring to speak this evening anyone

46:12 ↗ else third and final call

46:15 ↗ seeing no one then audience comments are

46:17 ↗ closed and will now move to committee

46:19 ↗ and regional reports beginning with

46:22 ↗ Mariah Thank You mr. mayor I'll be

46:25 ↗ attending on Wednesday September 20th

46:27 ↗ the Eastside Human Services forum board

46:30 ↗ meeting

46:32 ↗ in Bellevue and later that afternoon the

46:36 ↗ Economic Development Commission board

46:38 ↗ board meeting in Kent at the same time

46:43 ↗ the king conservation district committee

46:45 ↗ is also meeting so I'll be attending

46:48 ↗ economic development since that happens

46:50 ↗ quarterly and be able to give an update

46:53 ↗ at the at our next meeting thank you

46:55 ↗ thank you bill

46:57 ↗ Thank You mr. mayor the Infrastructure

47:01 ↗ Committee will be meeting this Thursday

47:02 ↗ the 21st is 6:30 here in chambers

47:04 ↗ there's six items on the agenda three

47:08 ↗ are informational the Issaquah Hobart

47:10 ↗ study update that's just bringing

47:12 ↗ information forward and kind of midway

47:13 ↗ through that study that we authorized

47:15 ↗ earlier just update us there will be a

47:18 ↗ discussion with solid waste collection

47:20 ↗ contract review and also project updates

47:25 ↗ three items for action will be looking

47:30 ↗ at a be seventy four sixty nine

47:31 ↗ franchise agreement with clearer

47:33 ↗ Wireless also a be 74 68 interlocal

47:38 ↗ agreement with Sammamish plateau Water

47:40 ↗ and Sewer District for adjusted sewer

47:42 ↗ service area and assuming it passes the

47:45 ↗ consent agenda tonight and bab 7463 will

47:50 ↗ also be on there with a Washington State

47:52 ↗ Department transportation right away

47:53 ↗ even request for maintenance purposes

47:55 ↗ long Gilman and that will be it for the

47:59 ↗ Infrastructure Committee last week on

48:01 ↗ the project on the 8th of September I

48:04 ↗ attended the site transportation

48:06 ↗ partnership the main item there was

48:08 ↗ discussing changes to fees for Metro

48:11 ↗ update on that and then next next week

48:15 ↗ on the 27th I'll be attending the

48:17 ↗ regional transit committee I don't have

48:18 ↗ the agenda on that yet whose my report

48:21 ↗ thank you Bill Paul Thank You mr. mayor

48:26 ↗ on Thursday September 7th I attended the

48:28 ↗ Puget Sound Regional Council's growth

48:30 ↗ management policy board meeting number

48:33 ↗ of items were on the agenda one primary

48:35 ↗ one was the ongoing discussion about the

48:37 ↗ proposed updates to the regional centers

48:38 ↗ framework now the SCA has drafted a

48:42 ↗ some talking points in the form of a

48:44 ↗ position paper that is in draft and I

48:47 ↗ think that our next our meeting next

48:51 ↗ month I'll be interesting to see if Tola

48:53 ↗ has an update on how their conversation

48:55 ↗ went on that but I think that that'll be

48:57 ↗ something I'll be able to distribute for

48:59 ↗ consideration for all the council's

49:01 ↗ comments prior to our meeting next month

49:04 ↗ another key item for discussion was it's

49:07 ↗ out there to possibly add major military

49:09 ↗ instructions to the regional centers

49:12 ↗ framework and make them eligible for the

49:16 ↗ the federal transportation funding I can

49:18 ↗ tell you that the board is very split on

49:21 ↗ this and SCA is looks like we're taking

49:24 ↗ a position against it as well because

49:27 ↗ military installations don't do planning

49:30 ↗ under the GMA and that's one constant

49:33 ↗ thing for all centers currently so we'll

49:38 ↗ see how that ends up but I think again

49:41 ↗ the SCA will be taking a more strong

49:43 ↗ position on that and on next on the

49:46 ↗ September 14th I joined others from the

49:50 ↗ policy board in in the first meeting of

49:53 ↗ what's known as the 2018 project

49:56 ↗ selection task force the PSR C conveying

50:00 ↗ convenes this task force every two years

50:02 ↗ to review and possibly update the

50:05 ↗ policies and guidelines for

50:07 ↗ transportation project selection I had

50:11 ↗ mentioned this to some before and only

50:13 ↗ when I got there that I realize it was

50:15 ↗ just a policy and guideline update it's

50:17 ↗ this this task force does not do project

50:19 ↗ selection so next year the

50:21 ↗ Transportation Policy Board will use the

50:23 ↗ updated policies when making its project

50:26 ↗ funding selections for the years 2021

50:28 ↗ and 2022 so this meeting that I went to

50:31 ↗ consisted of a presentation and

50:33 ↗ discussion about the federal

50:34 ↗ transportation legislation and funding

50:36 ↗ programs and background on the existing

50:39 ↗ policies and procedures for conducting

50:41 ↗ the project selection process I will say

50:43 ↗ that PSR C staff mentioned that they

50:45 ↗ they really don't expect many policy

50:48 ↗ changes through this process and then

50:51 ↗ lastly also on September 14th I

50:54 ↗ attended the art trust fund workshop at

50:57 ↗ Bellevue City Hall the arts staff the

50:59 ↗ arts Executive Board and arch Coalition

51:01 ↗ member jurisdictions were all in

51:03 ↗ attendance this is the third meeting of

51:06 ↗ this group for the purpose of reviewing

51:08 ↗ and funding the trust and review the

51:10 ↗ funding for the trust fund the first

51:12 ↗ meeting was held in 2015 and the second

51:14 ↗ one was a year ago so not a really high

51:17 ↗ pace of meetings the Executive Board

51:19 ↗ recommended an update to the suggested

51:21 ↗ minimums and maximum contributions for

51:25 ↗ each coalition member to make yearly to

51:28 ↗ the trust fund that ranges today have

51:31 ↗ not been updated since they originally

51:33 ↗ adopted I think in 1999 so this was

51:35 ↗ overdue for an update so the task force

51:39 ↗ didn't is not a voting body but there

51:41 ↗ was general agreement with these

51:42 ↗ recommendations so the next step is arch

51:46 ↗ will come to us here in these chambers

51:49 ↗ and make a presentation to our council

51:53 ↗ as they're doing to all councils there

51:55 ↗ will be some follow-up legislation for

51:58 ↗ us to consider is the Quad City Council

52:00 ↗ on formally adopting or or or not these

52:05 ↗ range minimum and maximum trust fund

52:08 ↗ donation ranges for the city of Issaquah

52:10 ↗ I don't have a timing for that but I I

52:13 ↗ was expect it to be within the next two

52:16 ↗ to four months that concludes my report

52:19 ↗ thank you Paul of Tola Thank You mr.

52:23 ↗ mayor the 9-1-1 elite group had an

52:27 ↗ information session that was held on

52:29 ↗ Monday September 11th in Kirkland and we

52:33 ↗ discussed both technical and governance

52:35 ↗ issues this was not a full meeting of

52:39 ↗ the leadership group it was sort of an

52:41 ↗ additional meeting that was offered to

52:43 ↗ talk specifically in particular around

52:46 ↗ there is an ongoing question related to

52:49 ↗ the architecture of what the 911 system

52:53 ↗ should look like whether it should

52:54 ↗ basically be an increment of the of the

52:58 ↗ current system or whether it should be

52:59 ↗ sort of a large federated database and

53:02 ↗ it has there's advantages to having a

53:06 ↗ larger federal

53:07 ↗ it's system but it's more expensive so

53:10 ↗ there's a conversation going on about

53:11 ↗ that it's within the context of finding

53:14 ↗ out that regardless of what system we

53:17 ↗ move forward with for nine-one-one the

53:20 ↗ system is expected to run out of money

53:22 ↗ somewhere between 20 22 and 20 24 so

53:26 ↗ additional funding mechanisms to assure

53:30 ↗ ongoing operation of email in one system

53:33 ↗ is going to be needed in the future

53:35 ↗ whether that gets addressed by the e-911

53:39 ↗ leadership leadership group now is a

53:42 ↗ subject of some discussion and it's also

53:45 ↗ influencing this conversation about the

53:46 ↗ different kinds of architectures as I

53:49 ↗ mentioned the sound the safety and

53:53 ↗ Services Committee met on Tuesday

53:54 ↗ September 12th at 6:30 p.m. here in

53:57 ↗ Council Chambers we voted 3-2 Oh to move

54:00 ↗ forward agenda bill 74 31 on Community

54:04 ↗ Fund grant recommendations we had some

54:06 ↗ proposed changes that we agree that we

54:08 ↗ all agreed to we also voted 3-2 o to

54:13 ↗ move forward a interagency agreement

54:16 ↗ with the Department of Ecology that was

54:18 ↗ agenda bill 74 74 we received a really

54:22 ↗ good report on the activities of the

54:25 ↗ senior center group they have really

54:28 ↗ come up with a number a really good set

54:32 ↗ of criteria for evaluating what a plan

54:35 ↗ should look like going forward and the

54:37 ↗ nice thing is it's agnostic to whether

54:39 ↗ that's a city led effort or an

54:42 ↗ independent nonprofit led effort the

54:45 ↗ fundamental concepts of what we want out

54:48 ↗ of a Senior Center are the same either

54:50 ↗ way even though the exact operating

54:53 ↗ model might be different so they've done

54:56 ↗ a really great job and we were we were

54:57 ↗ thoroughly impressed Sound city's

55:00 ↗ association public issues committee met

55:02 ↗ Wednesday September 13th at 7 p.m. at

55:04 ↗ Renton City Hall we talked about a

55:06 ↗ number of issues regional centers did in

55:08 ↗ fact come up a couple of areas that were

55:11 ↗ discussed it looks as if the

55:13 ↗ recommendation would be moving towards

55:14 ↗ both minimum job criteria and no longer

55:19 ↗ considering this

55:20 ↗ years tears of regional center that was

55:24 ↗ an idea that was being floated that a

55:26 ↗ number of cities had some serious

55:28 ↗ concerns with so both of these things

55:31 ↗ sort of reflect the direction that SCA

55:34 ↗ pick conversations that gone in pic

55:36 ↗ wasn't going to take a formal position

55:38 ↗ or well being picked members are

55:40 ↗ involved in the process but sorry SCA

55:42 ↗ members are involved in the process pic

55:44 ↗ it's not taking a formal position but

55:46 ↗ the the general tone of the conversation

55:49 ↗ was very positive and it was not

55:52 ↗ previous conversations on this topic had

55:55 ↗ gotten feisty this was not a

55:58 ↗ particularly feisty conversation we

56:00 ↗ discussed the veterans seniors and human

56:02 ↗ services levy that is gonna be on the

56:06 ↗ ballot this fall it was mentioned that

56:08 ↗ the county is happy to come out and

56:11 ↗ discuss what that levy is I would

56:14 ↗ suggest that we might want to see if we

56:16 ↗ could get that before Election Day it

56:19 ↗ isn't taking a position on it it's just

56:21 ↗ understanding what's in it and what the

56:23 ↗ implications would be both from a

56:26 ↗ taxation standpoint and a services

56:28 ↗ standpoint and we discussed the metro

56:32 ↗ flat fair proposal that's going that's

56:35 ↗ going to be going through that looks

56:37 ↗ like it's very good indeed for people in

56:40 ↗ Issaquah that commute into the city it's

56:43 ↗ you know every every time you look at

56:46 ↗ different financing you sort of create

56:47 ↗ winners and losers and this is one that

56:50 ↗ without oversimplifying is like I said

56:54 ↗ really good for folks who are coming in

56:55 ↗ from the outer parts of the county and

56:58 ↗ then it probably hits folks who are just

57:03 ↗ meeting with in Seattle at the other end

57:06 ↗ of the spectrum they're probably facing

57:07 ↗ higher fares so but it's good for us and

57:12 ↗ then we had a report on this state

57:14 ↗ legislative session this year the big

57:16 ↗ item of course was that there was no

57:18 ↗ capital budget passed due to a variety

57:20 ↗ of complicated reasons that you asked

57:22 ↗ three different legislators and will

57:24 ↗ give you different answers on why that

57:26 ↗ happened but that is unfortunate from

57:29 ↗ the point of view of municipalities this

57:30 ↗ was also discussed at the

57:32 ↗ at the networking dinner that was held

57:35 ↗ the previous week where a number of

57:37 ↗ state legislators both House members and

57:39 ↗ state Senate members I came and

57:41 ↗ discussed the legislative session with

57:43 ↗ us and the the lack of a capital budget

57:46 ↗ was absolutely considered the the single

57:48 ↗ biggest negative issue to come out of

57:51 ↗ that probably followed by trying to

57:54 ↗ understand the financial ramifications

57:56 ↗ of resolving the Clary decision and the

58:00 ↗ impacts that it will have on school

58:02 ↗ districts in in King County this

58:04 ↗ concludes my report Thank You Tola

58:07 ↗ Eileen no report this evening Thank You

58:12 ↗ mr. mayor my first report is on the

58:14 ↗ great aristocratic immerse where I sit

58:17 ↗ as a council liaison I attended with

58:20 ↗ City Administrator Bob Harrison on

58:22 ↗ September 15th Bob did most of the

58:25 ↗ updates which included discussing some

58:28 ↗ new developments potential school

58:30 ↗ building sites a new Costco office

58:33 ↗ building apartments at Gateway in Vail

58:35 ↗ and some construction of new roundabouts

58:37 ↗ in town we also provided an update on

58:40 ↗ the moratorium the chamber wanted to

58:42 ↗ make sure that the city was made aware

58:45 ↗ of its great appreciation for all of the

58:47 ↗ support and investment that goes into

58:49 ↗ salmon days in general question and

58:52 ↗ answer there was a discussion about the

58:54 ↗ safe injection sites

58:55 ↗ ban proposal that was put in front of

58:58 ↗ Council also interest in the transit

59:00 ↗ oriented development project and the

59:02 ↗ possible use of multifamily tax

59:04 ↗ exemptions for that there wasn't asked

59:07 ↗ on behalf of the chamber that as the

59:09 ↗ council reviews the new architectural

59:11 ↗ and urban design standard guidelines

59:13 ↗ that we look at projects that may be in

59:16 ↗ the works right now to make sure that

59:17 ↗ the outcomes we're hoping to achieve we

59:19 ↗ actually do achieve and I think that was

59:22 ↗ it for that meeting I attended the

59:24 ↗ Eastside Fire and Rescue Board of

59:26 ↗ Directors meeting on September 14th it

59:29 ↗ was a meeting where there was an

59:30 ↗ introduction of an additional five new

59:32 ↗ recruits this year the local reported

59:35 ↗ out a successful fundraiser for a mass

59:38 ↗ that raised almost $25,000 a few weeks

59:40 ↗ back fill the boot

59:43 ↗ fire chief gave some information in his

59:46 ↗ briefing on the an update on the P Foss

59:51 ↗ issue that has been discussed both in

59:54 ↗ Council and at efer discussion of the

59:57 ↗ wildland activity and where our our fire

1:00:03 ↗ staff is currently deployed an update on

1:00:06 ↗ the volunteer program which is currently

1:00:08 ↗ being revamped also there was a vote on

1:00:12 ↗ the capital facilities replacement fund

1:00:14 ↗ an item that I brought before Council

1:00:16 ↗ this policy was adopted with the aspire

1:00:20 ↗ representatives not voting in favor of

1:00:22 ↗ the all of the policy that was presented

1:00:24 ↗ if you can remember this goes back to

1:00:27 ↗ who would pay for maintenance of

1:00:29 ↗ non-standard items at fire stations

1:00:31 ↗ after a discussion with you both

1:00:34 ↗ councilmember barber and I voted against

1:00:36 ↗ leaving that item in for now

1:00:39 ↗ the board decided to leave it in and

1:00:41 ↗ there are ongoing conversations right

1:00:43 ↗ now I believe the first of several

1:00:44 ↗ meetings today between Eastside Fire &

1:00:47 ↗ Rescue and our facility staff occurred

1:00:48 ↗ where they will work on language that

1:00:51 ↗ may be used in a Memorandum of

1:00:53 ↗ Understanding that we will likely see a

1:00:55 ↗ future date to address the issue that

1:00:58 ↗ both councilmember barber and I were

1:01:00 ↗ concerned about a large presentation

1:01:02 ↗ there was the presentation part two of

1:01:05 ↗ the standards of cover this is a new way

1:01:08 ↗ of looking at it's a new service

1:01:10 ↗ delivery model I did send you a summary

1:01:13 ↗ that the fire chief issued the day after

1:01:15 ↗ the board meeting I thought it was very

1:01:18 ↗ well written if you have any questions

1:01:19 ↗ on what exactly the new standards that

1:01:21 ↗ cover may or may not look like or what

1:01:23 ↗ this exercise looks like we could do it

1:01:25 ↗ it for good of the order tonight or at a

1:01:27 ↗ future meeting and that was it

1:01:31 ↗ Thank You mr. mayor thank you Mary Lou

1:01:34 ↗ spaceman Thank You mr. mayor Landon

1:01:37 ↗ Shore met on September 7th and we first

1:01:41 ↗ talked about agenda bill 74 59

1:01:43 ↗ termination of Costco easement this is

1:01:47 ↗ an easement that was created

1:01:49 ↗ let me see how many years ago is that

1:01:51 ↗ about 30 years ago and Costco is asking

1:01:55 ↗ us to terminate a portion of an easement

1:01:59 ↗ on its property for various reasons one

1:02:02 ↗ is because they are in the process of

1:02:04 ↗ planning to build a building in the area

1:02:08 ↗ and it it may look like the city the

1:02:15 ↗ city may have an obligation to terminate

1:02:16 ↗ that easement but the we did not make a

1:02:20 ↗ decision we are going to talk about it

1:02:22 ↗ one more time it looks like at our next

1:02:24 ↗ meeting the first Thursday in October

1:02:27 ↗ and likely come back with a

1:02:29 ↗ recommendation to the full council then

1:02:30 ↗ we also discussed a vertical mixed-use

1:02:34 ↗ regarding the moratorium and that was a

1:02:36 ↗ last look before the next step which is

1:02:39 ↗ to draft code and bring it forward as an

1:02:41 ↗ agenda bill we also reviewed agenda bill

1:02:46 ↗ 73 40 the Housing Strategy which is on

1:02:49 ↗ our agenda tonight we also again talked

1:02:56 ↗ about agenda bill 73 26 old town sub

1:02:59 ↗ area plan and that's continuing to be

1:03:02 ↗ worked on and we'll come back to Landon

1:03:03 ↗ Shore again also on the agenda tonight

1:03:07 ↗ agenda bill 74 39 which is the codes

1:03:10 ↗ regarding compact schools and that's

1:03:13 ↗ coming forward with recommendations from

1:03:16 ↗ Landon Shore and we were going to

1:03:20 ↗ discuss agenda bell 73 12 which is the

1:03:22 ↗ 2017 regional agenda a couple of the

1:03:26 ↗ different elements in that plan but it

1:03:27 ↗ was getting late and it was a week where

1:03:30 ↗ we had already had a fairly late meeting

1:03:32 ↗ so we are going to discuss that at our

1:03:35 ↗ next meeting also as my fellow council

1:03:42 ↗ members are aware and the audience is

1:03:46 ↗ aware as well because you listen to some

1:03:47 ↗ comments about it tonight at our

1:03:49 ↗ September 5th meeting we had an agenda

1:03:52 ↗ bill before us 74 71 which was the safe

1:03:59 ↗ injection sites

1:04:00 ↗ and because naturally that is attracting

1:04:04 ↗ a lot of attention in the community and

1:04:05 ↗ I think there is some misunderstanding

1:04:08 ↗ about the what that agenda belt was all

1:04:10 ↗ about and a little bit of

1:04:12 ↗ misunderstanding and perhaps fear about

1:04:15 ↗ what the council decided to do I thought

1:04:17 ↗ it was appropriate to say a few words

1:04:21 ↗ these are the words I'm going to say are

1:04:24 ↗ the largely the responses that I have

1:04:30 ↗ been sending to folks who are emailing

1:04:32 ↗ the entire council which is my

1:04:34 ↗ responsibility to to respond on behalf

1:04:36 ↗ of the entire council although

1:04:37 ↗ individual council members can respond

1:04:39 ↗ as well so I wanted to I what I wanted

1:04:44 ↗ to say is that first by way of

1:04:46 ↗ background and clarity agenda bill

1:04:48 ↗ seventy four seventy one was an agenda

1:04:51 ↗ bill that proposed opposing safe

1:04:53 ↗ injection sites and that agenda bill

1:04:56 ↗ came forward from the mayor so rather

1:04:58 ↗ than take action when the bill came to

1:05:00 ↗ council which was the first time the

1:05:02 ↗ bill came to council and it was on

1:05:03 ↗ september 5th the council referred the

1:05:05 ↗ bill to the Human Services Commission

1:05:07 ↗ and then to the services and Safety

1:05:09 ↗ Committee before it returns to the full

1:05:11 ↗ council so now as I understand it King

1:05:14 ↗ County and the City of Seattle are

1:05:16 ↗ interested in implementing a task force

1:05:18 ↗ recommendation for two pilot sites one

1:05:21 ↗ in Seattle and one in the county however

1:05:23 ↗ it's also my understanding that the King

1:05:25 ↗ County Council earlier this summer I

1:05:27 ↗ believe late July voted to limit the use

1:05:30 ↗ of county funds for establishing the

1:05:32 ↗ sites only in cities whose elected

1:05:34 ↗ officials choose to locate a facility in

1:05:37 ↗ their community so to be clear the

1:05:40 ↗ Issaquah City Council is not considering

1:05:42 ↗ safe injection sites rather the council

1:05:45 ↗ is in effect gathering process to learn

1:05:47 ↗ more about such sites the mayor's

1:05:49 ↗ proposed bill opposes locating a safe

1:05:52 ↗ injection site in Issaquah and there has

1:05:54 ↗ been no discussion about locating one

1:05:56 ↗ here so the next step is that the

1:05:58 ↗ Issaquah is that this Human Services

1:06:00 ↗ Commission will take up this topic at an

1:06:02 ↗ upcoming meeting perhaps in October but

1:06:05 ↗ that meeting has not been finalized yet

1:06:06 ↗ and anyone may subscribe to receive an

1:06:09 ↗ email update

1:06:11 ↗ via the city's website there is a web

1:06:13 ↗ page where you can elect to receive news

1:06:19 ↗ flash information about upcoming

1:06:21 ↗ meetings and I'll try to give you the

1:06:25 ↗ website in just a minute then that bill

1:06:28 ↗ would go to the council services and

1:06:30 ↗ Safety Committee and then it would

1:06:31 ↗ return back to the full council so again

1:06:33 ↗ the issue is not about consideration

1:06:36 ↗ about locating site in Issaquah it's

1:06:38 ↗ about learning about those safe

1:06:40 ↗ injection sites and what just what they

1:06:42 ↗ are so if I can get this to work if you

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1:06:59 ↗ Thank You Stacey briefly I proclaimed

1:07:05 ↗ September 16th October 14th as the East

1:07:08 ↗ nine month of concern for hunger and

1:07:11 ↗ strongly urged all citizens to join the

1:07:14 ↗ emergency feeding program Issaquah food

1:07:17 ↗ bank and other area food banks to share

1:07:20 ↗ what they can to nourish those who are

1:07:23 ↗ hungry and as you heard during audience

1:07:26 ↗ comments I have also proclaimed

1:07:30 ↗ September 25th to October the 1st as

1:07:35 ↗ cyber Awareness Week and again and

1:07:38 ↗ strongly encourage our citizens to

1:07:40 ↗ donate generously to diapered banks

1:07:44 ↗ duiker hyperdrives

1:07:46 ↗ and those organizations that distribute

1:07:49 ↗ diapers to families in need to help

1:07:51 ↗ alleviate diaper need in Issaquah and

1:07:54 ↗ nearby communities and with that that

1:07:58 ↗ concludes my report this evening we'll

1:08:01 ↗ now move to the consent calendar I would

1:08:05 ↗ ask if the accounts payable and payroll

1:08:07 ↗ of September 18th have been reviewed

1:08:10 ↗ they have you and then I would ask that

1:08:15 ↗ the consent calendar be read into

1:08:18 ↗ record the consent calendar was

1:08:20 ↗ distributed to council in advance for

1:08:22 ↗ study if authorized council action will

1:08:24 ↗ occur by single motion regarding the

1:08:25 ↗ following items item a seeks approval

1:08:28 ↗ approval of the accounts payables in

1:08:30 ↗ payroll of September 18th item B seeks

1:08:33 ↗ approval of the minutes of the regular

1:08:34 ↗ meeting of September 5th item C a b7 34

1:08:38 ↗ to architectural fit in urban design

1:08:40 ↗ seeks referral to council and in short

1:08:42 ↗ committee item D a B 7 4 4 3 Recreation

1:08:45 ↗ registration and scheduling software

1:08:47 ↗ professional services agreement seeks

1:08:49 ↗ referral to council services and safety

1:08:51 ↗ committee item EA B 7 4 6 3 washed-out

1:08:55 ↗ right-of-way easement request for

1:08:57 ↗ maintenance purposes seeks referral to

1:08:59 ↗ council infrastructure committee item F

1:09:01 ↗ a B 7 4 7 to Providence Point

1:09:03 ↗ signalization seeks referral to council

1:09:06 ↗ services and safety committee item G a B

1:09:10 ↗ seven four seven for interagency

1:09:12 ↗ agreement with Department of Ecology for

1:09:14 ↗ Washington Conservation Corps Services

1:09:16 ↗ seeks authorization this concludes the

1:09:18 ↗ reading thank you does any council

1:09:21 ↗ member desire to remove any item from

1:09:23 ↗ the consent calendar for separate

1:09:25 ↗ consideration AC I would move to adopt

1:09:30 ↗ that consent calendar as presented

1:09:32 ↗ second moved and seconded all those in

1:09:35 ↗ favor signify by saying aye those

1:09:38 ↗ opposed that carries unanimously moving

1:09:41 ↗ now to regular business there are four

1:09:45 ↗ items under regular business business

1:09:48 ↗ for the this evening the first is agenda

1:09:51 ↗ bill 74 39 amending IMC code 18 point

1:09:56 ↗ zero seven point four eight zero

1:09:59 ↗ community facilities standard and there

1:10:03 ↗ are a lot of other words that go with

1:10:06 ↗ that title and I've asked that

1:10:14 ↗ like she's getting things set up I

1:10:19 ↗ apologize

1:10:20 ↗ that's okay

1:10:43 ↗ Jennifer woods from development services

1:10:46 ↗ thank you for introducing me and thank

1:10:49 ↗ you for giving me a second pull up my

1:10:50 ↗ powerpoint I appreciate that so staff

1:10:52 ↗ has a really a brief presentation and

1:10:55 ↗ then after that we're here for your

1:10:57 ↗ questions and anything you have for us

1:10:58 ↗ during your discussion so we're gonna

1:11:05 ↗ jump right into it why why amend the

1:11:08 ↗ code the is Crosse School District is

1:11:11 ↗ looking for four new school sites in

1:11:13 ↗ Issaquah and reducing the requirements

1:11:16 ↗ will improve their property acquisition

1:11:18 ↗ opportunities the current code requires

1:11:21 ↗ that development standards for schools

1:11:24 ↗ meet the most restrictive contiguous

1:11:27 ↗ zoning so that could be a single-family

1:11:28 ↗ zone

1:11:29 ↗ additionally the current code allows

1:11:31 ↗ existing non-conformities to be expanded

1:11:34 ↗ when certain criteria are met for

1:11:37 ↗ example the two that we've seen with

1:11:40 ↗ current projects have been height and

1:11:43 ↗ impervious surface so this is a big

1:11:49 ↗ table but as background this slide is

1:11:52 ↗ intended to highlight where the

1:11:54 ↗ administration and PPC differed and it's

1:11:57 ↗ literal it's highlighted so the two

1:12:01 ↗ differences are impervious syrup and

1:12:03 ↗ pervious surface excuse me and the

1:12:05 ↗ applicable tree code the administration

1:12:08 ↗ recommended 90% impervious the PPC

1:12:10 ↗ recommended 75% impervious the PPC

1:12:14 ↗ recommended a different impervious

1:12:16 ↗ surface though no additional analysis

1:12:18 ↗ was provided at that meeting and it

1:12:20 ↗ appeared to be really the middle ground

1:12:22 ↗ between what the existing requirements

1:12:25 ↗ are and what the administration was

1:12:26 ↗ proposing the administration proposed

1:12:30 ↗ excuse me the administration recommended

1:12:33 ↗ 90% impervious because one it was

1:12:35 ↗ requested by the ISD and to limiting the

1:12:38 ↗ impervious surface less than the

1:12:39 ↗ allowance that was approved for

1:12:41 ↗ Cinderella so call or the urban villages

1:12:43 ↗ seemed somewhat inappropriate so the

1:12:47 ↗ administration proposed to use syndra

1:12:48 ↗ low squat tree retention minimum tree

1:12:51 ↗ density and tree replacement and the PPC

1:12:53 ↗ recommended

1:12:54 ↗ who used the IMC tricot a reduce

1:12:59 ↗ requirement for tree retention would

1:13:01 ↗ allow schools to be sited with smaller

1:13:03 ↗ footprints and 0% tree preservation

1:13:06 ↗ would allow for the smallest footprint

1:13:08 ↗ possible

1:13:10 ↗ so how impervious and the tree retention

1:13:13 ↗ affect our land requirements is provided

1:13:16 ↗ on the next slide so so you didn't have

1:13:23 ↗ to do a lot of math tonight we did some

1:13:25 ↗ poor yeah the application of these

1:13:27 ↗ different code provisions affects the

1:13:29 ↗ total footprint of schools so the siting

1:13:31 ↗ acreage is both the traditional and

1:13:33 ↗ compact or real numbers that we

1:13:36 ↗ collaborated with we got from those from

1:13:37 ↗ the school district so I'll give you a

1:13:40 ↗ second to look over these numbers and

1:13:42 ↗ we're more than a second if you need

1:13:43 ↗ more than a second and let me know if

1:13:47 ↗ you have any questions about this table

1:13:55 ↗ it might be helpful if somebody kind of

1:13:58 ↗ explained what we're looking at alright

1:14:00 ↗ so the current I'll go column by column

1:14:04 ↗ how about that so current sighting

1:14:07 ↗ Anchorage is what your traditional

1:14:09 ↗ school sighting acreage would be for a

1:14:11 ↗ high school middle school in elementary

1:14:13 ↗ school that would be 40 20 and 13 acres

1:14:16 ↗ respectively for compact sighting

1:14:19 ↗ acreage for just say it's 75 percent and

1:14:22 ↗ pervious surface they would need 39

1:14:27 ↗ 33.9%

1:14:28 ↗ for high school alum point - excuse me

1:14:30 ↗ acres for a high school 11 point 2 acres

1:14:34 ↗ for middle school and some point 2 acres

1:14:36 ↗ for an elementary school and what what

1:14:40 ↗ these difference columns are trying to

1:14:41 ↗ do is kind of give you a level of

1:14:43 ↗ comparison to kind of see how the

1:14:44 ↗ different code requirements could impact

1:14:47 ↗ the overall footprint so if you add the

1:14:50 ↗ imc tree code you can see the additional

1:14:52 ↗ acreage needed to to meet their siting

1:14:55 ↗ requirements there to be a little higher

1:14:58 ↗ if you use the central Issaquah tree

1:15:02 ↗ code those requirements are exactly what

1:15:04 ↗ they would need for the compact sighting

1:15:06 ↗ acreage if we were to amend the code to

1:15:14 ↗ allow for 90% impervious 29.5 acres

1:15:19 ↗ would be what was needed for what would

1:15:20 ↗ be needed for a high school excuse me

1:15:23 ↗ 9.7 acres is what they need for a middle

1:15:25 ↗ school and 6.3 would be needed for an

1:15:28 ↗ elementary school and as we can see if

1:15:31 ↗ we if we used the imc tree code those

1:15:34 ↗ numbers are higher versus if we were to

1:15:39 ↗ use Cinderella squad they'd obviously be

1:15:40 ↗ exactly what they needed for their

1:15:42 ↗ sighting requirements does that kind of

1:15:45 ↗ help explain the table a little better

1:15:48 ↗ maybe

1:15:56 ↗ okay I'll me I have one more slide so if

1:15:59 ↗ we have more questions we always have

1:16:01 ↗ opportunities for this so we do have the

1:16:07 ↗ administration believes that based on

1:16:08 ↗ additional comments received following

1:16:10 ↗ Council committee that the existing tree

1:16:14 ↗ code should stay the same as what it is

1:16:16 ↗ today

1:16:18 ↗ which would be the IMC tree code

1:16:21 ↗ additionally there are some pieces of

1:16:24 ↗ code language that could benefit from

1:16:25 ↗ clarification about because the ISD is

1:16:28 ↗ looking for property right now these

1:16:30 ↗ non-substantive clarifications can wait

1:16:33 ↗ possibly until 2018 so the update that

1:16:37 ↗ you see on your screen to the proposed

1:16:40 ↗ motion could be amended to reflect the

1:16:43 ↗ additions mentioned and I'm going to go

1:16:45 ↗ ahead and read those so the motion could

1:16:47 ↗ read move to adopt the ordinance subject

1:16:50 ↗ to the following editions so the first

1:16:52 ↗ one is what I I mentioned at the very

1:16:55 ↗ beginning of talking about this slide

1:16:57 ↗ which would be to revise the draft code

1:16:59 ↗ to remove all proposed revisions to tree

1:17:02 ↗ retention minimum density and

1:17:04 ↗ replacement in effect that would leave

1:17:06 ↗ the existing regulations to cover those

1:17:08 ↗ which would be the IMC tree code and the

1:17:13 ↗ second council member Ramos requested

1:17:15 ↗ that you all maybe consider number two

1:17:18 ↗ which would be to direct the

1:17:20 ↗ administration to explore the creation

1:17:22 ↗ of a separate zone for public schools in

1:17:24 ↗ 2018 which would include a clean up to

1:17:27 ↗ code revisions adopted this evening

1:17:29 ↗ where conflicts exist for example

1:17:31 ↗ architectural compatibility so that

1:17:35 ↗ concludes my presentation and if you

1:17:38 ↗ have any questions we are here to answer

1:17:40 ↗ them for us if you if you do have it yes

1:17:44 ↗ thank you

1:17:45 ↗ so I have question when you're

1:17:50 ↗ referencing AIA the existing Municipal

1:17:55 ↗ Code and in your your additions they're

1:17:59 ↗ number one

1:17:59 ↗ remove all proposed provisions to

1:18:01 ↗ treatment attention

1:18:03 ↗ I just want to make it I want my make

1:18:06 ↗ sure my understanding is clear that is

1:18:09 ↗ would the code that applies wouldn't

1:18:11 ↗ necessarily be IMC but it would would

1:18:14 ↗ depend on where the property is located

1:18:16 ↗ so because we have different codes so if

1:18:19 ↗ the if the if the land purchased was

1:18:23 ↗ within the central Issaquah area and

1:18:26 ↗ that tree code would apply if it's

1:18:28 ↗ outside the central squat area then the

1:18:32 ↗ other code the underlying code would

1:18:35 ↗ apply unless it was within a development

1:18:38 ↗ agreement area and then perhaps if there

1:18:40 ↗ are if there are stay if there are terms

1:18:45 ↗ in that agreement that would apply yes

1:18:47 ↗ okay absolutely all of the above okay

1:18:50 ↗ and has the school just as its Crosse

1:18:56 ↗ school district asked the city to

1:19:02 ↗ consider a separate zone for schools no

1:19:05 ↗ that was not part of the request okay

1:19:11 ↗ and also the proposed code applies to

1:19:18 ↗ public schools so it would apply to all

1:19:20 ↗ public schools not just Issaquah school

1:19:24 ↗ district schools correct so what about

1:19:28 ↗ the Bellevue college site I mean I think

1:19:31 ↗ I know the answer but I want it talked

1:19:35 ↗ about publicly so currently as you know

1:19:38 ↗ the Bellevue college site is regulated

1:19:42 ↗ under the wash'd TDR development

1:19:44 ↗ agreement which is the fun thing that

1:19:47 ↗ we've been to be talked about one of the

1:19:48 ↗ last meetings - if that with the

1:19:53 ↗ dividend of develop excuse me with the

1:19:55 ↗ end of the development agreements you're

1:19:57 ↗ seeing the process unfold of how we

1:19:59 ↗ would basically terminate one of those

1:20:02 ↗ development agreements and create

1:20:03 ↗ replacement regulations so the same

1:20:06 ↗ thing would happen if the Bellevue

1:20:08 ↗ college site if we had to retire that

1:20:10 ↗ particular da we would be looking at the

1:20:13 ↗ process of replacement regulations the

1:20:15 ↗ same as as we're

1:20:16 ↗ terminating as highlands and several

1:20:19 ↗ other development agreements in Tallis

1:20:20 ↗ okay okay so okay that's what that's all

1:20:24 ↗ I have right now and thanks oh you know

1:20:28 ↗ for earlier slide you showed the table

1:20:30 ↗ we have side-by-side comparison of the

1:20:32 ↗ administration's proposal essence okay

1:20:38 ↗ do you now the first proposed change you

1:20:42 ↗ had on the I should have had you read

1:20:44 ↗ that first change again how does it

1:20:46 ↗ change this slide you're talking about

1:20:50 ↗ the very last slide with the possible

1:20:52 ↗ update to the motion hmm the basically

1:20:57 ↗ what would happen would be PPC's

1:21:00 ↗ recommendation the existing requirements

1:21:02 ↗ is what would be in effect if we adopted

1:21:06 ↗ the updated motion number one and that

1:21:10 ↗ just retains two pertains to tree

1:21:13 ↗ retention retention replacement and

1:21:16 ↗ minimum density the three are kind of

1:21:17 ↗ coupled together in the codes right okay

1:21:24 ↗ so that's quite so that's different than

1:21:27 ↗ what was presented to and we discussed

1:21:30 ↗ that was different than what the

1:21:32 ↗ administration presented to our

1:21:34 ↗ committee laying in short committee

1:21:37 ↗ could you could you give a little bit

1:21:38 ↗ how did you get to this place the update

1:21:43 ↗ to the motion number one was a

1:21:45 ↗ reflection of a lot of the public

1:21:47 ↗ comment that we've received between that

1:21:49 ↗ time that meeting and now could you tell

1:21:53 ↗ me more what what anymore

1:22:01 ↗ okay what comment tell me what tell me

1:22:04 ↗ what it drove this change signals for

1:22:07 ↗ your suggestion public comment that we

1:22:09 ↗ received really focused around sites

1:22:14 ↗ that are outside of say central Issaquah

1:22:19 ↗ may not it may not reflect the same kind

1:22:23 ↗ of tree retention character that other

1:22:28 ↗ areas outside of central Issaquah might

1:22:31 ↗ might need to retain and that was the

1:22:34 ↗ the gist of the the comments that we got

1:22:36 ↗ were maybe it's out of character for

1:22:39 ↗ other areas to have a tree code that's

1:22:42 ↗ really meant for central squad

1:22:50 ↗ okay I have some more questions but I'll

1:22:53 ↗ let you let others if they have any

1:22:55 ↗ I don't you Paul continue so the there

1:23:00 ↗ were heard some comments tonight about

1:23:02 ↗ the impervious services in the in the

1:23:05 ↗ central area code there being a tie to

1:23:12 ↗ the green necklace and trails I hadn't

1:23:17 ↗ heard that before I was wondering if he

1:23:20 ↗ could speak to that and that and I

1:23:21 ↗ haven't had the opportunity sitting up

1:23:23 ↗ here this evening try to look that up

1:23:25 ↗ but there was a claim so so I think the

1:23:31 ↗ what we the proposal in front of us

1:23:34 ↗ still has the pervious surface

1:23:38 ↗ recommendation from the administration

1:23:41 ↗ in it and the comments I heard this

1:23:44 ↗ night this evening had to do with that

1:23:47 ↗ the 90 percent which were per the

1:23:49 ↗ central is a cost standards were or

1:23:52 ↗ actually they're different they're

1:23:53 ↗ actually higher than that in some cases

1:23:55 ↗ or as a result of the commitment to the

1:23:59 ↗ green necklace and trails within the

1:24:02 ↗ central area Runner of the

1:24:03 ↗ administration could speak to that that

1:24:05 ↗ ty good evening mr. mayor City Council

1:24:11 ↗ Keith Niven director of development

1:24:13 ↗ services so my understanding is that

1:24:18 ↗ connection is made in central Issaquah

1:24:21 ↗ planned action is and you know if you

1:24:26 ↗ look through the city code I think you

1:24:28 ↗ would be hard-pressed to find any

1:24:29 ↗ connection between impervious limits and

1:24:32 ↗ trails so where we are is regardless of

1:24:37 ↗ what it says in the EIS I think what

1:24:40 ↗ impervious limits really relate to is

1:24:43 ↗ it's a stormwater

1:24:44 ↗ it's a stormwater criteria basically and

1:24:48 ↗ with the adoption of the new end PDS

1:24:50 ↗ phase 2 which now requires low-impact

1:24:54 ↗ development as your first choice which

1:24:55 ↗ means that every property needs to look

1:24:58 ↗ at the opportunities for infiltration

1:25:01 ↗ having pervious surfaces is a

1:25:03 ↗ character issue more than it is a

1:25:05 ↗ stormwater issue because from a

1:25:08 ↗ stormwater standpoint you can basically

1:25:10 ↗ build a bigger detention vault you can

1:25:12 ↗ relate you can release your stormwater

1:25:15 ↗ at whatever rate it is you want to

1:25:17 ↗ engineer it for and so the the rationale

1:25:22 ↗ for limiting impervious for stormwater

1:25:26 ↗ reasons is I think fairly non-existent

1:25:29 ↗ in the city at this point there's other

1:25:30 ↗ things that affect the amount of

1:25:32 ↗ impervious that you can get on every

1:25:34 ↗ piece of property critical areas tree

1:25:37 ↗ retention as we've talked about there's

1:25:41 ↗ other limitations that would affect the

1:25:44 ↗ ultimate amount of impervious surfaces

1:25:47 ↗ that you could build on your property I

1:25:48 ↗ think what we're saying is that should

1:25:50 ↗ not be a driving design criteria for the

1:25:53 ↗ compact schools and by putting it in

1:25:55 ↗ ninety percent it basically becomes now

1:25:58 ↗ not what's going to drive the

1:26:01 ↗ development of the property or the

1:26:02 ↗ acquisition of the amount of property

1:26:05 ↗ that they would need to buy I hope that

1:26:09 ↗ helps well the first part of your answer

1:26:12 ↗ did address that you're you're telling

1:26:14 ↗ me you think though there is a planned

1:26:16 ↗ action associated with the central area

1:26:19 ↗ and that the development of parks and

1:26:24 ↗ trails were part of that consideration

1:26:26 ↗ that I think you're saying there is you

1:26:31 ↗ don't believe that there's a direct tie

1:26:32 ↗ between this impervious requirements and

1:26:36 ↗ the central is a cost standards and that

1:26:39 ↗ plant and and and that type of trails

1:26:42 ↗ and in the park there so are you saying

1:26:45 ↗ then that there's nothing here in this

1:26:48 ↗ proposal there is no planned action here

1:26:50 ↗ there still would have to be you know

1:26:53 ↗ SEPA done and every one of them and a

1:26:56 ↗ and a storm retention and a storm

1:26:58 ↗ retention plan so every so unlike what's

1:27:02 ↗ required or available in the central

1:27:05 ↗ area we're if if if this was outside the

1:27:09 ↗ central area they still would have to do

1:27:10 ↗ SEPA absolutely okay thank you

1:27:15 ↗ very low super cute

1:27:21 ↗ we had chatted this afternoon about if

1:27:24 ↗ Jennifer could put back up the slide

1:27:25 ↗ with the alternative motions we had

1:27:29 ↗ talked about another alternative motion

1:27:31 ↗ this afternoon art direction not turned

1:27:33 ↗ admission and a question I had for you

1:27:36 ↗ was that in the code that we're looking

1:27:39 ↗ at tonight there's a cross reference to

1:27:42 ↗ central as the quad design standards for

1:27:44 ↗ all landscaping and my question to you

1:27:47 ↗ was that are more of a comment was I

1:27:49 ↗ didn't feel like that added a lot of

1:27:51 ↗ clarity for a developer or a builder to

1:27:54 ↗ have to go from one code to another and

1:27:56 ↗ especially where that code may have had

1:27:58 ↗ content that's applicable and content

1:28:01 ↗ that is central is quest specific and I

1:28:04 ↗ think the direction that I had proposed

1:28:05 ↗ and I just want to see if if you didn't

1:28:07 ↗ put it up there because you don't agree

1:28:09 ↗ with it or you think we should look at

1:28:10 ↗ it it was to direct the administration

1:28:13 ↗ in the in the following year in 2018 to

1:28:18 ↗ clean up the code that we're looking at

1:28:20 ↗ tonight where all references to

1:28:21 ↗ landscape code was in the one code for

1:28:24 ↗ schools rather than forcing people to go

1:28:27 ↗ to other codes that code in centralist

1:28:30 ↗ the SIDS was not included in our agenda

1:28:32 ↗ bill and while it's probably really

1:28:34 ↗ great code we approved it once it's odd

1:28:37 ↗ that we didn't actually look at it or

1:28:39 ↗ talk it as part of this agenda bill so

1:28:41 ↗ I'm assuming it's great code but I

1:28:43 ↗ wonder why you know with references to

1:28:45 ↗ green necklace maybe even the promenade

1:28:48 ↗ and other things that don't relate at

1:28:50 ↗ all to this if that is feasible to

1:28:54 ↗ direct the administration to do that

1:28:56 ↗ kind of cleanup next year so that we can

1:28:57 ↗ get on with this year and get going but

1:28:59 ↗ at least get it cleaned up so absolutely

1:29:03 ↗ and I actually didn't not put it here

1:29:07 ↗ because so I actually think - is that

1:29:11 ↗ and a little bit bigger so although we

1:29:14 ↗ talked about landscaping specifically

1:29:16 ↗ this afternoon I think there's some

1:29:19 ↗ other pieces like the architectural

1:29:21 ↗ compatibility which wants to have a

1:29:24 ↗ bigger conversation in our community

1:29:26 ↗ you know we're going through

1:29:27 ↗ architectural guidelines for central

1:29:29 ↗ Issaquah right now which says public

1:29:30 ↗ buildings should actually stand out and

1:29:32 ↗ be somewhat prominent and having that

1:29:35 ↗ conversation about schools I think we

1:29:37 ↗ need to have that but I think we've

1:29:39 ↗ already committed to going back to PPC

1:29:41 ↗ to have this not going to use the word

1:29:43 ↗ urban to have a compact schools

1:29:45 ↗ conversation with them from a policy

1:29:47 ↗ standpoint I think we can do some of

1:29:49 ↗ that clarification including talking

1:29:51 ↗ about the landscaping piece which I

1:29:54 ↗ agree there's some conflicting parts to

1:29:56 ↗ that so it's my intent was that that was

1:29:59 ↗ wrapped into two etc yes it's it's when

1:30:10 ↗ I read number two Keith's what it looks

1:30:11 ↗ like to me that sounds like a separate

1:30:13 ↗ zoning classification and what I'm

1:30:15 ↗ talking about is cleanup of the code not

1:30:17 ↗ as don't know I think it's to do both

1:30:20 ↗ because I think we need to have that

1:30:22 ↗ conversation about the merits I mean if

1:30:25 ↗ if the council adopts this as proposed I

1:30:29 ↗ think what we would do would be to have

1:30:30 ↗ a conversation about the merits of a

1:30:32 ↗ separate zone for schools and what that

1:30:35 ↗ would mean to the school district and

1:30:36 ↗ they would need to be part of that

1:30:37 ↗ conversation because there may be some

1:30:39 ↗ unintended consequences to doing that we

1:30:42 ↗ need to wrap that conversation into that

1:30:45 ↗ before we did anything with that one but

1:30:47 ↗ that was brought up I think at least

1:30:49 ↗ once or twice by councilmember Ramos and

1:30:51 ↗ maybe by a councilmember winter Stein

1:30:54 ↗ then in the four examples architectural

1:30:58 ↗ compatibility was one SIDS landscape

1:31:01 ↗ standards was another is there more on

1:31:02 ↗ that list of stuff just to be sure we're

1:31:04 ↗ all clear with that clean up like or is

1:31:08 ↗ it just those two there's probably a

1:31:12 ↗ little bit more so there was a so the

1:31:16 ↗ section of code with within cff that we

1:31:19 ↗ were proposing the edits to also

1:31:22 ↗ included some small housekeeping items

1:31:24 ↗ there was a section on Old Town

1:31:27 ↗ exclusions for Old Town I think we need

1:31:29 ↗ to talk about that we kind of struck

1:31:31 ↗ through most of that paragraph but it's

1:31:33 ↗ really not related to compact schools

1:31:35 ↗ it's really just a code cleanup that I

1:31:37 ↗ think we couldn't help ourselves that it

1:31:39 ↗ needed to

1:31:40 ↗ get cleaned up and so we did that so I

1:31:42 ↗ think going through it a little bit more

1:31:44 ↗ protracted next year when we have a

1:31:47 ↗ little bit more bandwidth is what I'm

1:31:48 ↗ proposing one last question if for some

1:31:51 ↗ reason the school district and the

1:31:54 ↗ administration have a conversation

1:31:57 ↗ offline and decide a separate zone isn't

1:31:59 ↗ required how do we then get the clean up

1:32:02 ↗ of the code that you're talking about I

1:32:04 ↗ think so so we're going back to planning

1:32:07 ↗ policy commission in the first half of

1:32:09 ↗ 2018 we've already made that commitment

1:32:11 ↗ I think right now it looks like I think

1:32:14 ↗ there's at least two pronged

1:32:17 ↗ conversation along with the policy so

1:32:21 ↗ maybe it's three so it's separate code

1:32:24 ↗ it's clean up and then it's any policies

1:32:26 ↗ for the comp plan that might want to

1:32:28 ↗ come back for compact schools so you're

1:32:31 ↗ pretty comfortable - what we have is

1:32:32 ↗ good for the short term because we have

1:32:34 ↗ this plan for some additional cleanup

1:32:36 ↗ next year yes perfect thank you thank

1:32:38 ↗ you seeing no other questions this is

1:32:43 ↗ coming back from the land and you

1:32:45 ↗ actually do have a question Keith or

1:32:49 ↗ Jennifer could you explain can you go

1:32:51 ↗ all the way back to the beginning of the

1:32:53 ↗ genesis of this and this generated I

1:32:56 ↗ believe notifications to all the

1:33:00 ↗ property owners within a thousand feet I

1:33:02 ↗ believe of cff zoned properties and so

1:33:05 ↗ that's that was a proposal to change

1:33:08 ↗ code for not just schools but government

1:33:14 ↗ buildings right originally originally we

1:33:16 ↗ did include government facilities and

1:33:18 ↗ the amendments and they were removed as

1:33:21 ↗ a part of the recommendation that came

1:33:23 ↗ out of PPC so this would oh this would

1:33:25 ↗ not apply to all cff zones but this bill

1:33:31 ↗ it was part of that process that started

1:33:34 ↗ that process and it's that it's just now

1:33:37 ↗ school so I just wanted that public to

1:33:39 ↗ understand that it wouldn't apply to all

1:33:42 ↗ cff zoned properties

1:33:47 ↗ no um since my name isn't mentioned a

1:33:51 ↗ couple of times I uh speak up here so so

1:33:54 ↗ yeah the the problem I was having and I

1:33:56 ↗ talk to keep that desert and that's why

1:33:58 ↗ item two is up there is I was having a

1:34:00 ↗ very difficult time reading to this I

1:34:02 ↗ mean I seriously couldn't tell what I

1:34:05 ↗ was really voting on between the way it

1:34:07 ↗ was referring back and forth to things

1:34:10 ↗ and here to the IMC and there the CIP

1:34:13 ↗ and then it was Exhibit C but the

1:34:15 ↗ wording was bluntly if you ask me right

1:34:18 ↗ now without any explanation we've talked

1:34:20 ↗ about just my going over this thing

1:34:23 ↗ about six times I couldn't tell you

1:34:25 ↗ right now exactly what the details are

1:34:29 ↗ what I'm voting for

1:34:30 ↗ that's the problem I was having and so

1:34:32 ↗ that's what I'm saying

1:34:33 ↗ if I can't read it and I'm of normal

1:34:36 ↗ intelligence and I can't make sense of

1:34:38 ↗ it then how can anybody else who's

1:34:40 ↗ reading it and that's that's my big

1:34:43 ↗ concern I just can't I can't make sense

1:34:45 ↗ of it by itself with an explanation like

1:34:47 ↗ this it brings it all to light and it

1:34:49 ↗ puts it together but that's not what's

1:34:51 ↗ written in the code that we're voting on

1:34:53 ↗ and that's the problem I'm having and

1:34:54 ↗ that's why I understand we can't do that

1:34:57 ↗ in now because of timing and workload

1:34:59 ↗ and so forth

1:35:00 ↗ but that really concerns me because

1:35:01 ↗ literally you asked me to vote on

1:35:04 ↗ something that I can't I couldn't take

1:35:06 ↗ this and show it to somebody say see

1:35:08 ↗ this is what it says we're going to do I

1:35:09 ↗ can't do that

1:35:11 ↗ and so that's you know cleaning it up

1:35:14 ↗ next year is okay but I have to vote on

1:35:15 ↗ it tonight

1:35:16 ↗ that leaves me in a awkward situation

1:35:19 ↗ that I don't like to be in because I

1:35:21 ↗ understand the concept but I can't read

1:35:23 ↗ it that way and I can't I have a hard

1:35:25 ↗ time voting on something I can't truly

1:35:27 ↗ understand so that was what Keith came

1:35:30 ↗ up with and try to solve that force in

1:35:33 ↗ next year but that's as close as we

1:35:35 ↗ could get so that's kind of where I was

1:35:39 ↗ at trying to figure that out and and

1:35:41 ↗ just to go in a little bit more the some

1:35:45 ↗ of the comments that I'll come up with

1:35:48 ↗ in an audience as well was talk about

1:35:50 ↗ the the

1:35:51 ↗ the highlands and those agreements that

1:35:53 ↗ were four to one mitigation for open

1:35:55 ↗ space versus impervious areas that there

1:35:57 ↗ were they we did have mitigation for

1:35:59 ↗ those things where we went higher

1:36:00 ↗ impervious and so I'm not sure exactly

1:36:05 ↗ how those work as well because if you

1:36:08 ↗ have a twenty five percent tree

1:36:10 ↗ retention and you go 90 percent

1:36:13 ↗ impervious the math doesn't work for me

1:36:15 ↗ there either and so I'm not sure you

1:36:19 ↗ know the point of this is to use less

1:36:20 ↗ acreage and I understand that and also

1:36:22 ↗ to me the point is have the school

1:36:24 ↗ district have some clarity of what you

1:36:27 ↗ need but I'm not sure you know this gets

1:36:30 ↗ there either because what you're telling

1:36:33 ↗ me is up to 90 percent impervious which

1:36:36 ↗ is what we can do now with with

1:36:38 ↗ variances as well we could make that

1:36:40 ↗ variance but it doesn't guarantee 90% in

1:36:43 ↗ Pervis because you have to look at each

1:36:44 ↗ site specific and try to figure out how

1:36:46 ↗ to deal with the issues on that site

1:36:48 ↗ whatever that site is because we don't

1:36:49 ↗ know which site we're talking about here

1:36:51 ↗ right that's that's concern it's not

1:36:52 ↗ we're not looking at the site we're

1:36:54 ↗ looking at but at least four possible

1:36:56 ↗ sites and we don't know where those are

1:36:58 ↗ and so how can we really say what we're

1:37:01 ↗ gonna do on those sites before we know

1:37:04 ↗ what the site is so I'm an old

1:37:06 ↗ environmental analysis person and it's

1:37:08 ↗ like you have to look site-specific say

1:37:10 ↗ okay this site you can do this this will

1:37:11 ↗ work fine in this site maybe you can't

1:37:14 ↗ maybe you have to mitigate somehow and

1:37:16 ↗ I'm fine and working with the school

1:37:18 ↗ just in mitigation and and trying to

1:37:20 ↗ keep that site smaller and maybe agree

1:37:22 ↗ into off-site mitigation that would make

1:37:24 ↗ that smaller site work so we can still

1:37:26 ↗ get what what everybody needs and that's

1:37:29 ↗ the kind of thing that I would like to

1:37:30 ↗ somehow get addresses saying we can keep

1:37:33 ↗ it as small as possible with off-site

1:37:35 ↗ mitigation as needed to take care of

1:37:37 ↗ those things that that environmental

1:37:39 ↗ wise we need to look at because whether

1:37:41 ↗ you're building a school a classical

1:37:42 ↗ warehouse or my house or anything else

1:37:45 ↗ development is development and its

1:37:47 ↗ environmental consequences to that and

1:37:48 ↗ it doesn't matter what the development

1:37:52 ↗ is to the environment it's a development

1:37:54 ↗ whether it's what you think it's a good

1:37:56 ↗ one or a bad one that you still have to

1:37:58 ↗ deal with the mitigation and

1:37:59 ↗ environmental analysis of each of those

1:38:00 ↗ things and we're

1:38:02 ↗ got a way to do that so that's where I

1:38:05 ↗ get a little Lawson and saying what 90

1:38:06 ↗ percent with what you're saying me that

1:38:08 ↗ may not be so and so if you use those

1:38:11 ↗ numbers you had on one chart where yeah

1:38:15 ↗ the different acreage is so so they're

1:38:20 ↗ between seven point one and six point

1:38:21 ↗ three acres in for an elementary school

1:38:23 ↗ why you want the surety of that will

1:38:27 ↗ work and and what we're saying is we're

1:38:30 ↗ not sure

1:38:30 ↗ ninety percent will always be the option

1:38:33 ↗ until you look at the site specific

1:38:36 ↗ issues so that doesn't necessarily save

1:38:38 ↗ you that acreage in the you know when

1:38:41 ↗ you're looking at possibilities and may

1:38:43 ↗ in the long run so and I think that's

1:38:45 ↗ what you're trying to do to be able to

1:38:46 ↗ buy something that'll fit there again

1:38:49 ↗ I'm not sure that we're getting where we

1:38:50 ↗ want to get to here and those are my

1:38:54 ↗ last oh I want a plus one to Bill's

1:38:59 ↗ concerns around what does it look like I

1:39:04 ↗ mean we have we have pretty aggressive

1:39:09 ↗ standards right now in the valley and

1:39:13 ↗ out going in our urban centers about

1:39:17 ↗ allowing for fairly high density

1:39:20 ↗ development and so to go to allow beyond

1:39:24 ↗ that to go to ninety percent or a

1:39:26 ↗ hundred percent I personally want to

1:39:29 ↗ understand does that mean that there

1:39:33 ↗ will be mitigation elsewhere I mean I

1:39:35 ↗ there are certainly sites

1:39:36 ↗ it may mean there are certainly sites

1:39:38 ↗ out there that cry out for a very

1:39:40 ↗ high-density school and I want to help

1:39:44 ↗ try to make that happen but I also feel

1:39:46 ↗ like if we're gonna go beyond the

1:39:48 ↗ standards that we already have in these

1:39:49 ↗ locations I'd really like to see

1:39:51 ↗ mitigation so the I guess the question I

1:39:54 ↗ have is with the language that we have

1:39:56 ↗ proposed or I should say the language

1:39:59 ↗ the administration suggests s-- for this

1:40:01 ↗ evening would that mean that going to

1:40:04 ↗ ninety or a hundred percent would have

1:40:06 ↗ integration and then who would decide

1:40:07 ↗ whether those mitigations are sufficient

1:40:10 ↗ for for moving beyond the standards that

1:40:13 ↗ we already had any

1:40:14 ↗ in these parts of the city so I guess my

1:40:17 ↗ question is what mitigation are you

1:40:19 ↗ talking about mitigating what what

1:40:22 ↗ impact are we mitigating trees so tree

1:40:25 ↗ is tree retention right and so what

1:40:27 ↗ we're talking about is there's still a

1:40:29 ↗ tree retention code and the debate

1:40:32 ↗ between the administration and PPC was

1:40:36 ↗ whether it was central Issaquah

1:40:38 ↗ standards which could allow you to

1:40:40 ↗ reduce trees down to zero which is why

1:40:42 ↗ if you look at if the smallest footprint

1:40:45 ↗ up there is 90 percent impervious and

1:40:49 ↗ central Issaquah tree standards that's

1:40:51 ↗ the smallest column up on that chart

1:40:54 ↗ what you're hearing from us tonight is

1:40:57 ↗ the administration has pivoted its

1:40:59 ↗ recommendation to say we believe that

1:41:01 ↗ trees should be wherever they are so if

1:41:04 ↗ the school is located in central

1:41:06 ↗ Issaquah so there's an incentive for the

1:41:08 ↗ school district to potentially purchase

1:41:10 ↗ a site in central Issaquah if they want

1:41:12 ↗ to build say an elementary school on six

1:41:15 ↗ point three acres however if they build

1:41:19 ↗ it outside and we approve the 90%

1:41:23 ↗ impervious now they're up to seven point

1:41:25 ↗ one acres because the extra land is

1:41:27 ↗ basically trees because within the IMC

1:41:31 ↗ you can only reduce trees down with

1:41:33 ↗ certain percentage not all the way down

1:41:35 ↗ to zero so that's the Delta in land on

1:41:37 ↗ this chart all right okay okay so that's

1:41:40 ↗ why this charts I think really important

1:41:42 ↗ because it shows you plugging the

1:41:43 ↗ different variables together results in

1:41:46 ↗ a different footprint in land that they

1:41:48 ↗ have to go out and buy they will know

1:41:51 ↗ based on what we do tonight what column

1:41:54 ↗ they're gonna be in right so they'll

1:41:56 ↗ know whether it's it's potentially

1:41:58 ↗ column four or column three as an

1:42:02 ↗ example so did that help I think so so a

1:42:05 ↗ hypothetical let's say somebody was

1:42:08 ↗ going to build a school in Dallas yes

1:42:11 ↗ which I don't think anybody's currently

1:42:13 ↗ thinking about building a school in

1:42:15 ↗ Dallas but who knows

1:42:17 ↗ the future is unwritten so that would

1:42:19 ↗ mean that right now an elementary school

1:42:22 ↗ in Dallas if we move forward with the

1:42:25 ↗ administration's recommendation

1:42:26 ↗ would need to be on a seven point one

1:42:28 ↗ acre parcel because it would have to

1:42:31 ↗ follow the tree code from the IMC so

1:42:35 ↗ following so that one's a little

1:42:38 ↗ complicated because we're in a we're in

1:42:40 ↗ a development agreement that's gonna

1:42:42 ↗ sunset right now so that's a

1:42:44 ↗ conversation actually and that's

1:42:47 ↗ happening concurrently to this tomorrow

1:42:50 ↗ night PPC and you VDC are meeting in

1:42:53 ↗ here to talk about just that so right

1:42:56 ↗ now the recommendation coming out of end

1:42:59 ↗ of days is for the tree code to be

1:43:02 ↗ central Issaquah so right now if that

1:43:05 ↗ gets adopted and you guys get to do that

1:43:07 ↗ action and the public school went into

1:43:11 ↗ talus they would get to use central

1:43:13 ↗ Issaquah standards which would allow the

1:43:14 ↗ trees to go down to zero but what we're

1:43:21 ↗ recommending is to have a more

1:43:24 ↗ protracted conversation about this

1:43:25 ↗ because I think we see the concern with

1:43:28 ↗ some of that so I will have that

1:43:31 ↗ conversation with the end of the

1:43:33 ↗ development agreements but I think we'll

1:43:34 ↗ also be planning to have that

1:43:36 ↗ conversation with PPC in terms of the

1:43:39 ↗ school policies and the clarification of

1:43:41 ↗ the standards which will be coming up in

1:43:44 ↗ the first half of next year so in fact

1:43:46 ↗ this wouldn't necessarily tonight give

1:43:49 ↗ the school district surety on how big of

1:43:51 ↗ a parcel or how big of a school that we

1:43:53 ↗ need to build on any given parcel

1:43:55 ↗ because there's a conversation tomorrow

1:43:57 ↗ that would so and then down the road a

1:44:00 ↗ further conversation with council right

1:44:05 ↗ so I would say that so you picked

1:44:06 ↗ probably the one option that was the

1:44:09 ↗ ones still moving yeah so yeah so let's

1:44:11 ↗ take a different site okay let's let's

1:44:13 ↗ say they want to build a school in South

1:44:15 ↗ Cove so we want to build something so

1:44:19 ↗ they want to they want to build a school

1:44:21 ↗ in South Cove right so South Cove is IMC

1:44:23 ↗ and depending on where you land on

1:44:26 ↗ impervious if it's 90 then they'd be in

1:44:29 ↗ the second to last column so they could

1:44:32 ↗ be thirty three ten point nine and seven

1:44:34 ↗ point one likewise if if they were to

1:44:37 ↗ acquire providence Heights

1:44:39 ↗ then same column if it's 90% if you guys

1:44:43 ↗ side with PPC and stay with 75% those

1:44:47 ↗ numbers change but they know what they'd

1:44:49 ↗ have to go by there's surety for them

1:44:52 ↗ the only one that's a little variable as

1:44:53 ↗ if they were to pick a village one of

1:44:56 ↗ our one of our ending development

1:44:58 ↗ agreement villages that's not likely

1:45:00 ↗ would that be you know I don't know I

1:45:03 ↗ [Laughter]

1:45:06 ↗ wasn't actually asking you to estimate

1:45:08 ↗ how likely that would be to have just to

1:45:10 ↗ clarify that wasn't actually a question

1:45:12 ↗ is rhetorical questions Stacy thank you

1:45:15 ↗ by the way Keith that was extremely

1:45:16 ↗ helpful

1:45:17 ↗ I was going to make emotional as there

1:45:20 ↗ are other questions so this is a little

1:45:23 ↗ unusual and so we don't typically have a

1:45:30 ↗ different administration's

1:45:32 ↗ recommendation come forward after we've

1:45:35 ↗ already had the committee review this

1:45:37 ↗ and so with sort of head nods of my

1:45:41 ↗ fellow committee members Mary Lou and

1:45:42 ↗ Paul what I was thinking about doing is

1:45:45 ↗ making the motion that is in the packet

1:45:49 ↗ and then will disclosure I was going to

1:45:55 ↗ go ahead and then amend that motion

1:45:59 ↗ reflect number one and we can deal with

1:46:02 ↗ both of those things separately but I

1:46:04 ↗ don't think it would be right for me to

1:46:06 ↗ assume and and make one of these I agree

1:46:11 ↗ with that

1:46:12 ↗ well okay there we understand that okay

1:46:15 ↗ I would move to adopt ordinance number

1:46:18 ↗ two eight oh six amending Issaquah

1:46:22 ↗ Municipal Code section 18.0 7.48 o

1:46:26 ↗ community facilities standards and

1:46:28 ↗ central Issaquah development and design

1:46:30 ↗ standards chapter 4.0 zoning districts

1:46:33 ↗ uses and standards to include standards

1:46:35 ↗ for the siting of public schools and the

1:46:37 ↗ community facilities facilities owning

1:46:38 ↗ districts second moved and seconded

1:46:42 ↗ discussion

1:46:45 ↗ Stasi there's I'm gonna be commotion I'm

1:46:49 ↗ gonna go ahead and make a motion to

1:46:51 ↗ amend the motion with number one motion

1:46:56 ↗ to amend to revise the draft code to

1:47:00 ↗ remove all proposed revisions to tree

1:47:02 ↗ retention minimum density and

1:47:03 ↗ replacement okay

1:47:04 ↗ moved and seconded all so to the

1:47:09 ↗ amendments up to this point we've had a

1:47:12 ↗ lot of exchange with the school district

1:47:15 ↗ representative during our meetings and

1:47:16 ↗ everything so I haven't I'd like to know

1:47:19 ↗ what the school district has said about

1:47:21 ↗ the this tree change Keith or Jennifer

1:47:27 ↗ there's been no objection to from the

1:47:31 ↗ ISD front for about changing the tree

1:47:34 ↗ requirements so this one this proposal

1:47:36 ↗ to use imc if it's outside the central

1:47:40 ↗ area the central area if it's inside for

1:47:43 ↗ a tree retention you've had that

1:47:45 ↗ conversation with the school district

1:47:47 ↗ yes and they're okay with this yes

1:47:57 ↗ Stacy I the reason I my understanding

1:48:05 ↗ based on the may letter that we receive

1:48:07 ↗ from the school district that they

1:48:08 ↗ didn't one of the they never had they

1:48:10 ↗ never asked for any changes in the tree

1:48:12 ↗ code was not among the list of requests

1:48:23 ↗ that's in our packet

1:48:28 ↗ well for everybody off-camera I mean

1:48:30 ↗ their school district representatives

1:48:32 ↗ here and they're doing a conversation

1:48:34 ↗ right now

1:48:35 ↗ sure to comment sure so I I support this

1:48:41 ↗ motion this was one of the ones that

1:48:43 ↗ also came up at Landon Shore and talking

1:48:46 ↗ about the amend the amendment

1:48:48 ↗ yes making Fred to use the IMC and I

1:48:53 ↗ think because it is really important for

1:48:55 ↗ us to work with the school district to

1:48:57 ↗ get this over the end line now so that

1:49:00 ↗ stuff can start happening I think this

1:49:04 ↗ was a this was a good change and when

1:49:08 ↗ there's more information next year maybe

1:49:10 ↗ there'll be some compelling reason or a

1:49:11 ↗ request from the district to do it but

1:49:14 ↗ for now I'm much happier using the IMC

1:49:16 ↗ code for the tree retention I'm going to

1:49:18 ↗ support the amendment Araya so I just

1:49:25 ↗ wanted to +12 what councilmember Polly

1:49:30 ↗ just talked about it didn't make sense

1:49:32 ↗ to me to have the tree code for the

1:49:37 ↗ central is a qua plan in this regard so

1:49:40 ↗ having that change and and the

1:49:42 ↗ administration bringing forward to

1:49:44 ↗ change I appreciate that and would

1:49:46 ↗ support that Stacey and I support this

1:49:52 ↗ as well I wrestled with this at Landon

1:49:54 ↗ Shore and maybe I'm a little bit thick

1:49:59 ↗ but it took me a few days to figure out

1:50:01 ↗ why and that's because it's there the

1:50:07 ↗ land wouldn't necessarily be in the

1:50:08 ↗ central Issaquah area the land could be

1:50:10 ↗ elsewhere and so it didn't make sense to

1:50:12 ↗ go with central Issaquah area standards

1:50:15 ↗ for land that could be outside that area

1:50:24 ↗ all good good staff point out for us so

1:50:32 ↗ we have in the packet an updated version

1:50:36 ↗ of IMC 1807 including 1807 480 and in

1:50:43 ↗ the table that I think is included there

1:50:54 ↗ is no mention of tree retention and and

1:51:02 ↗ so for everybody who's got the packet

1:51:04 ↗ and who's flipping madly this is all

1:51:06 ↗ part of a pen exhibit see where it shows

1:51:09 ↗ the actual track changes additions and

1:51:14 ↗ deletions on the on the code the page

1:51:18 ↗ well in the PDF its page 369 a 499 so

1:51:29 ↗ there were some comments earlier about

1:51:30 ↗ what are we actually considering and

1:51:33 ↗ there and the motion we're considering

1:51:39 ↗ is actually referring it does include

1:51:41 ↗ this exhibit by inclusion so this thing

1:51:45 ↗ here you can all see so I want to know

1:51:47 ↗ from this staff how this conversation

1:51:53 ↗ about two things I want to know how this

1:51:54 ↗ conversation about treated retention

1:51:56 ↗ shows itself if it does at all or if it

1:51:58 ↗ even needs to in this section or change

1:52:00 ↗ and also I'd like to know that in the

1:52:04 ↗ upshot of your conversation with the

1:52:05 ↗ school district just moments ago I can

1:52:08 ↗ answer the first part of that question

1:52:09 ↗ thank you so in the legislative edits

1:52:14 ↗ for the code I think you would had

1:52:16 ↗ wanted the reference for how we were

1:52:19 ↗ requiring centralist quadtree code is

1:52:21 ↗ that is that the first part of your

1:52:24 ↗ question

1:52:27 ↗ we're considering amendment to use to

1:52:30 ↗ strike you're consider your reference to

1:52:35 ↗ apply the central Issaquah where is that

1:52:37 ↗ here so in the Legislative edits it's

1:52:41 ↗ actually on page 371 of the PDF of

1:52:45 ↗ packet page 38 of the code amendments of

1:52:47 ↗ exhibit

1:52:48 ↗ I think it's exhibiting see there are

1:52:52 ↗ two page numbers on there so I'm giving

1:52:54 ↗ both references it's number under number

1:52:56 ↗ 14 it says projects must comply with

1:52:59 ↗ centralist across standards including

1:53:01 ↗ landscape for structure Park I'm

1:53:03 ↗ paraphrasing landscape for structured

1:53:05 ↗ parking areas minimum tree density tree

1:53:07 ↗ retention tree replacement those last

1:53:09 ↗ three pieces are I believe what you're

1:53:11 ↗ referring to how we are in the code

1:53:13 ↗ basically directing the school

1:53:15 ↗ development to to meet the centralist

1:53:17 ↗ quadtree standards okay so this

1:53:19 ↗ amendment we're considering actually

1:53:21 ↗ strikes the last three phrases it

1:53:23 ↗ strikes minimum tree density tree

1:53:25 ↗ retention and tree replacement yes okay

1:53:30 ↗ thank you yeah there it is right there

1:53:35 ↗ where the cursor is thank you so any

1:53:40 ↗ other Keith's you have any other

1:53:42 ↗ information you can share with us so you

1:53:44 ↗ know I want to want to speak for the

1:53:48 ↗ school district I mean so the proposal

1:53:50 ↗ is is about you know it for them as the

1:53:57 ↗ chart showed it requires them to buy

1:53:59 ↗ more land because there's a requirement

1:54:03 ↗ for more trees and so it's really about

1:54:04 ↗ trees and cost and so it's an issue it's

1:54:08 ↗ a very much a character issue for our

1:54:10 ↗ community we talk about trees an awful

1:54:12 ↗ lot and so if if I were to tell you that

1:54:15 ↗ they would rather have central Issaquah

1:54:17 ↗ everywhere I don't think you'd be

1:54:19 ↗ surprised because ultimately that would

1:54:21 ↗ mean they'd have to buy less land and so

1:54:23 ↗ I think you know they're there they

1:54:26 ↗ understand where this proposal has

1:54:29 ↗ gotten to and they're okay with it they

1:54:31 ↗ would like to include that conversation

1:54:34 ↗ as part of the conversation we have next

1:54:37 ↗ year in terms of

1:54:39 ↗ relooking at this compact school code to

1:54:41 ↗ see if even under central Issaquah they

1:54:44 ↗ might be able to reduce the required

1:54:47 ↗ trees down maybe lower than what the

1:54:49 ↗ code currently allows I mean that's a

1:54:52 ↗ that's something we can add to the

1:54:53 ↗ conversation you know I think it's just

1:54:57 ↗ it's just part of the public

1:54:59 ↗ conversation that we'll have next year

1:55:02 ↗ but they're okay with what's being

1:55:04 ↗ proposed

1:55:10 ↗ I think for everybody's benefit it might

1:55:12 ↗ be helpful we're talking about tree

1:55:13 ↗ retention we're talking about the of a

1:55:15 ↗ parcel of the developer land so there is

1:55:20 ↗ there's there may be some sensitive

1:55:23 ↗ areas

1:55:24 ↗ steep slope or what have you that's not

1:55:25 ↗ developable so the tree retention number

1:55:28 ↗ is of the existing trees on the

1:55:32 ↗ developer land it's a percentage of the

1:55:35 ↗ existing trees on the developer land so

1:55:38 ↗ if if a parcel is 100 percent tree then

1:55:42 ↗ then IMC says 25% with potentially a

1:55:47 ↗ change down to 12 and a half if so

1:55:51 ↗ that's that would be the exact

1:55:53 ↗ percentage on that on a lot that was

1:55:54 ↗ fully treated if a tree a personal had

1:55:57 ↗ no trees on it right now well I mean it

1:56:00 ↗ doesn't come into play because there's

1:56:01 ↗ nothing to retain if a parcel has 50%

1:56:05 ↗ covered by trees so of the entire parcel

1:56:10 ↗ your are now you're looking at 12 and a

1:56:13 ↗ half percent potentially reduced down to

1:56:15 ↗ six and a quarter because we're talking

1:56:17 ↗ about you know half of half yeah I'm

1:56:19 ↗ just trying to this is this is about the

1:56:21 ↗ retention of tree a percentage retention

1:56:25 ↗ of trees on the developer land on a

1:56:28 ↗ parcel so I I know I don't know that

1:56:31 ↗ helps it did help me when I when I when

1:56:33 ↗ I knocked you through or heard it

1:56:35 ↗ through the first time so so that if

1:56:39 ↗ there's a parcel of land that doesn't

1:56:40 ↗ head has non developer or has you know

1:56:44 ↗ sensitive areas on it you know if

1:56:46 ↗ there's trees on there or that's gonna

1:56:48 ↗ stay that's not part of this calculation

1:56:50 ↗ thank you

1:56:53 ↗ never mind

1:56:58 ↗ be right I act on the amendment all

1:57:02 ↗ those in favor of the amendment which is

1:57:09 ↗ item number one up there signify by

1:57:11 ↗ saying aye aye those opposed that

1:57:14 ↗ carries unanimously

1:57:15 ↗ Ola Thank You mr. mayor I'd like to

1:57:18 ↗ speak to the main motion

1:57:19 ↗ I am excited I'm excited I think this is

1:57:23 ↗ a this is this will are in sort of a new

1:57:29 ↗ era of schools in our community I think

1:57:33 ↗ that it is a great response to the

1:57:37 ↗ growing densification that we've seen in

1:57:41 ↗ our targeted areas of the city of the

1:57:44 ↗ areas where we wanted to see development

1:57:46 ↗ grow I think that the Issaquah school

1:57:48 ↗ district has shown itself to be an

1:57:50 ↗ innovative and responsible builder of

1:57:54 ↗ schools my kids my oldest graduated last

1:57:58 ↗ year from a beautiful high school that

1:58:00 ↗ was I believe at the time I'll say this

1:58:02 ↗ again because it's so important it was

1:58:04 ↗ the lowest cost per square foot of any

1:58:05 ↗ recently built high school and that

1:58:07 ↗ makes it even more beautiful if you're a

1:58:09 ↗ taxpayer and so I'm excited about this

1:58:13 ↗ as a tool to allow the school district

1:58:16 ↗ to respond to the the ongoing

1:58:21 ↗ crush of enthusiasm from parents who

1:58:24 ↗ want to attend the Issaquah school

1:58:25 ↗ district to get to give them the tools

1:58:28 ↗ to cite schools that reflect what we

1:58:31 ↗ want to be doing in these higher density

1:58:33 ↗ areas of the city so I'm very excited

1:58:35 ↗ today to be supporting this motion

1:58:38 ↗ Stacey

1:58:39 ↗ so by bill so I had anticipated

1:58:44 ↗ potentially making additional amendments

1:58:47 ↗ because there was a second one up there

1:58:48 ↗ but well totally was talking I wondered

1:58:50 ↗ if maybe the better procedure would be

1:58:52 ↗ to vote on a main motion and then make

1:58:54 ↗ additional motions since the ideas and

1:58:57 ↗ number two don't necessarily need to be

1:59:00 ↗ add-ons to the main motion we could I

1:59:04 ↗ was going to add that but we could vote

1:59:06 ↗ on the main motion and then

1:59:08 ↗ as amended as amended any additional

1:59:13 ↗ question on the main motion as amended

1:59:16 ↗ I'm just holding up on that a little bit

1:59:19 ↗ because like I say I think my problem is

1:59:21 ↗ really clarity and what we're voting on

1:59:24 ↗ and I think that second part of it is a

1:59:26 ↗ critical piece you follow up I may be

1:59:29 ↗ long to do that later if we're gonna

1:59:31 ↗ look at that but I'm afraid of going too

1:59:35 ↗ far without without including this as

1:59:37 ↗ well Stacy followed by Mary Lou I'd

1:59:41 ↗ assumed that there would be somebody

1:59:43 ↗ would make additional motions tonight

1:59:45 ↗ not that that would be not that the

1:59:48 ↗ number two up there with more than one

1:59:50 ↗ item that there would be additional

1:59:52 ↗ motions made tonight as part of this

1:59:55 ↗ agenda bill not necessarily continue to

1:59:58 ↗ make amendments to the main motion but

2:00:01 ↗ does that make sense and I think that I

2:00:08 ↗ think the comments that I wanted to make

2:00:10 ↗ about the main motion are and as amended

2:00:13 ↗ is I think this creates much more

2:00:19 ↗ certainty for this classical district

2:00:21 ↗ and I think what we've heard is the

2:00:25 ↗ reason they asked for the code changes

2:00:27 ↗ is because we were in a perpetual cycle

2:00:31 ↗ a problem of asking for adjustments to

2:00:34 ↗ standards for school sites and my

2:00:38 ↗ understanding is that these are the main

2:00:41 ↗ problem areas and codifying these allows

2:00:44 ↗ the school district to know what they

2:00:47 ↗ can and can't do

2:00:49 ↗ and so they don't have to rely on

2:00:50 ↗ adjustments of standards and so

2:00:52 ↗ hopefully if the motion passes

2:00:57 ↗ it will signal our interest and

2:01:02 ↗ happiness in helping you build schools a

2:01:04 ↗ little more certain fashion

2:01:10 ↗ first it's a comment for bill I actually

2:01:13 ↗ am really interested in the part two as

2:01:16 ↗ well I think that it is just as powerful

2:01:18 ↗ if we do one motion that deals with a

2:01:21 ↗ standard and the second one after that

2:01:23 ↗ deals with the Future action and I would

2:01:25 ↗ support you in that if you proposed it

2:01:27 ↗ that way I sort of in looking at this

2:01:30 ↗ code and thinking about what all this

2:01:32 ↗ means kind of broke it down into this

2:01:34 ↗ year next year and after that and for

2:01:37 ↗ this year I'm so excited that with him

2:01:40 ↗ what I consider to be a relatively short

2:01:42 ↗ period of time there was a lot of

2:01:43 ↗ conversation between the school and the

2:01:45 ↗ city and time with the community to talk

2:01:48 ↗ about what these new compact schools

2:01:49 ↗ will look like that happened in a short

2:01:51 ↗ amount of time and now we have the

2:01:53 ↗ opportunity tonight to approve that and

2:01:55 ↗ allow the school to move forward with

2:01:56 ↗ some certainty when they have been faced

2:01:59 ↗ with an an increasingly rapidly growing

2:02:02 ↗ city so over the last five to ten years

2:02:05 ↗ we've grown at a great rate and now we

2:02:07 ↗ need to build some schools so this is a

2:02:10 ↗ great first step in that way second is

2:02:13 ↗ that this is there's there's some more

2:02:15 ↗ work to do next year so it's kind of the

2:02:17 ↗ beginning of a much more what I would

2:02:19 ↗ say in-depth face-to-face school and

2:02:23 ↗ city meetings and we used to have and I

2:02:24 ↗ think that's great I think that was what

2:02:26 ↗ everybody is hoping that we'll do and so

2:02:29 ↗ that's that's where we are we're going

2:02:30 ↗ to be in in more contact and talking

2:02:33 ↗ through the year because regardless if

2:02:34 ↗ you have the idea where your first

2:02:36 ↗ school may or may not go you have three

2:02:38 ↗ more to build really really quickly so

2:02:40 ↗ and and beyond that I think there's a

2:02:44 ↗ not a piece of the story that pushes out

2:02:47 ↗ a few more years and it's that we're

2:02:48 ↗ still sort of playing catch-up we're

2:02:50 ↗ still trying to figure out what a

2:02:51 ↗ compact school would look like and it's

2:02:53 ↗ 2017 but we're gonna get there we're

2:02:56 ↗ still trying to figure out how and where

2:02:57 ↗ the school will build their next four

2:02:59 ↗ disks for schools in five years we're

2:03:01 ↗ going to get there but we're still

2:03:02 ↗ growing beyond that and so there's this

2:03:04 ↗ last piece that I would say is two years

2:03:07 ↗ out and beyond which is we still have

2:03:09 ↗ the capacity to add 11,000 more housing

2:03:11 ↗ units in town we haven't quite shown a

2:03:14 ↗ figure as to where all that will be but

2:03:16 ↗ that is the last piece and maybe the

2:03:18 ↗ most important piece and step three of

2:03:20 ↗ what we have to do next

2:03:21 ↗ which is to get in front of this by

2:03:23 ↗ working with you to talk about what the

2:03:25 ↗ city of 2030 looks like what the city of

2:03:27 ↗ 2040 looks like because that's a lot

2:03:29 ↗ more housing units that could possibly

2:03:30 ↗ be at it so I think this is super

2:03:32 ↗ exciting and I'm really glad it got done

2:03:35 ↗ in the time frame it didn't I'm gonna

2:03:37 ↗ support the main motion this evening

2:03:39 ↗ Araya thank you building schools in this

2:03:45 ↗ growing community is is so incredibly

2:03:48 ↗ important and being able to define

2:03:50 ↗ compact schools is just makes me it

2:03:54 ↗ makes me feel good and and I want to I

2:03:57 ↗ want to continue to partner with the

2:04:00 ↗ school district whether it be right now

2:04:04 ↗ or in the future and I would like to see

2:04:06 ↗ the City Council having more more time

2:04:10 ↗ with the school district as well I I was

2:04:14 ↗ concerned number two that council member

2:04:18 ↗ Ramos had proposed is is a really

2:04:21 ↗ important piece of this to me

2:04:23 ↗ and I and I I will support that and I'm

2:04:27 ↗ okay with moving forward with the motion

2:04:29 ↗ but but that is a critical piece as well

2:04:32 ↗ for me I do think that we should be

2:04:35 ↗ talking more in depth about creating a

2:04:39 ↗ separate separate coding separate zoning

2:04:42 ↗ for schools and I would like to see the

2:04:45 ↗ landscape piece of things that

2:04:47 ↗ councilmember Polly spoke about included

2:04:50 ↗ in the language I'll talk about that in

2:04:53 ↗ a minute I guess but thank you oh yeah

2:04:58 ↗ thank you so we've come a long way since

2:04:59 ↗ the middle of July the whole tone and

2:05:01 ↗ tenor has changed dramatically so I'm

2:05:03 ↗ that's good for the city that's good for

2:05:07 ↗ for families and it's good for students

2:05:10 ↗ I want to point out to another benefit

2:05:13 ↗ that hasn't been mentioned

2:05:16 ↗ keep did yeah a little bit

2:05:19 ↗ when we had the chart up there we look

2:05:20 ↗ at land that land for schools whether it

2:05:23 ↗ be elementary middle or high school

2:05:25 ↗ those those cost real dollars and those

2:05:28 ↗ real dollars are coming from the

2:05:30 ↗ property tax dollars of from the school

2:05:32 ↗ district you can't and you know we we've

2:05:37 ↗ had a number of conversations about land

2:05:40 ↗ values and potential you know costs and

2:05:43 ↗ we're going to talk about that a little

2:05:44 ↗ bit more but just for an elementary

2:05:46 ↗ school based upon other conversations of

2:05:49 ↗ an out in public I mean these type of

2:05:51 ↗ changes could save the school district

2:05:53 ↗ state taxpayers just ten million dollars

2:05:55 ↗ in land acquisition for an elementary

2:05:57 ↗ school that's pretty significant and and

2:06:01 ↗ that's so it goes and and I'll add to

2:06:06 ↗ that that's that the school district can

2:06:08 ↗ continue to provide the kind of

2:06:10 ↗ programming that they're committed to

2:06:12 ↗ the families and their kids the kids

2:06:14 ↗ education experience the family

2:06:16 ↗ experience what it means to those

2:06:18 ↗ neighborhoods is still uncompromised

2:06:20 ↗ even than the smaller footprint so the

2:06:23 ↗ certainty is there that that point has

2:06:25 ↗ been is excellently made that that for

2:06:30 ↗ the school district to have more

2:06:31 ↗ certainty it's good for all of us

2:06:33 ↗ taxpayers as well and I'm really glad

2:06:35 ↗ that we were able to converge on this

2:06:37 ↗ type of point so quickly thank you it's

2:06:43 ↗ just one also I could that giving the

2:06:45 ↗ school district some certainty is is

2:06:48 ↗ very difficult because certainty never

2:06:50 ↗ really comes in the future right so

2:06:52 ↗ we're trying to get some some hands

2:06:54 ↗ around it to look at that you know at

2:06:57 ↗ the same time we have to look at the the

2:06:59 ↗ environmental impacts and looking at

2:07:01 ↗ that and making sure as you mentioned

2:07:03 ↗ here that those things are protected the

2:07:05 ↗ critical areas you know and and looking

2:07:09 ↗ at the site specific items so for the

2:07:11 ↗ public here that looked at that chart

2:07:13 ↗ that said the school district can now go

2:07:15 ↗ by 6.2 acres and build an elementary

2:07:17 ↗ school is not necessarily exact because

2:07:19 ↗ those sites will vary you may have areas

2:07:22 ↗ of that you can't use and so you may

2:07:25 ↗ need to buy bigger sites to make that

2:07:27 ↗ work

2:07:27 ↗ right but we're gonna have all those the

2:07:30 ↗ sepal analysis done all that all those

2:07:33 ↗ protections built in there and still be

2:07:35 ↗ able to use the most compact school site

2:07:38 ↗ you can use which is a benefit from

2:07:41 ↗ building massive schools in general

2:07:43 ↗ right so so that's what what I'm looking

2:07:46 ↗ forward to is giving you a little bit

2:07:48 ↗ it's not going to get no guarantees

2:07:50 ↗ there in the future but it'll wrap your

2:07:52 ↗ hands around it a little bit and and at

2:07:54 ↗ the same time we're going to do we're

2:07:57 ↗ going to take care of environmental

2:07:58 ↗ mitigations and so forth that we need to

2:08:00 ↗ do and look at that and we'll look at

2:08:03 ↗ the item to later yes as we look through

2:08:12 ↗ all of this this evening this is a

2:08:14 ↗ changing community and more changes have

2:08:17 ↗ to happen and will be happening with an

2:08:19 ↗ old ditional 11,000 possible housing

2:08:23 ↗ units schools are going to be number one

2:08:26 ↗ issue and thankfully we are addressing

2:08:29 ↗ some of that this evening and it's going

2:08:32 ↗ to be probably the first of many

2:08:33 ↗ difficult issues in the educational

2:08:35 ↗ future for our community as we grow but

2:08:38 ↗ I think we're starting and I think this

2:08:41 ↗ is a big addition to where we need to be

2:08:44 ↗ and we'll be supporting this this

2:08:46 ↗ evening

2:08:46 ↗ I think everyone's had an opportunity to

2:08:50 ↗ speak are you ready to vote all those in

2:08:52 ↗ favor of adopting ordinance number two

2:08:55 ↗ 8:06 amending the Issaquah Municipal

2:08:59 ↗ Code section 18 point o 7.48 old

2:09:03 ↗ community facility standards and

2:09:05 ↗ centralist quad development and design

2:09:08 ↗ standards chapter 4.0 zoning districts

2:09:12 ↗ uses and standards to include standards

2:09:16 ↗ for the siting of public schools in the

2:09:18 ↗ community facilities facilities zoning

2:09:21 ↗ district as amended and revising the

2:09:25 ↗ draft code to remove all proposed

2:09:27 ↗ revisions to tree retention minimum

2:09:30 ↗ density and replacement signify by

2:09:33 ↗ saying aye hi

2:09:35 ↗ those opposed it carries unanimously

2:09:43 ↗ I propose a motion to and I might change

2:09:47 ↗ your word here a little bit a little bit

2:09:49 ↗ explore I don't like the word explore so

2:09:52 ↗ much but direct the administration to

2:09:56 ↗ create for the creation of a separate

2:09:59 ↗ zone for public schools in 2018 which

2:10:02 ↗ would include the cleanup of the code

2:10:03 ↗ revisions adopted this evening where

2:10:05 ↗ conflict exists and for clarinet for

2:10:10 ↗ example architectural compatibility and

2:10:12 ↗ the other one was true tension scaping

2:10:17 ↗ standards in landscape for examining

2:10:20 ↗ lands to Canadian standards and in

2:10:22 ↗ clarity second first well it was close

2:10:31 ↗ Thank You Stacy I have a question and a

2:10:37 ↗ concern that so I'm concerned about

2:10:41 ↗ create and the reason I'm concerned

2:10:44 ↗ about create and find with explore but

2:10:46 ↗ the reason I'm concerned about create is

2:10:47 ↗ I asked the question earlier whether the

2:10:49 ↗ school district had asked for a separate

2:10:51 ↗ zone and I think the answer was no and

2:10:55 ↗ the reason I like explore is because I

2:10:58 ↗ would like the school district to be

2:11:00 ↗ able to come to us and tell us if they

2:11:03 ↗ would like something my concern about

2:11:05 ↗ creating is so when one of the issues

2:11:07 ↗ that I see with creating a new zone for

2:11:09 ↗ schools is that that creates the

2:11:13 ↗ requirement of rezoning which adds

2:11:16 ↗ process our word

2:11:22 ↗ rezone so I don't know how that would

2:11:25 ↗ work so the reason that I like the word

2:11:27 ↗ explore is because that way we're having

2:11:30 ↗ an opportunity to explore whether the

2:11:32 ↗ school district whether that creates any

2:11:35 ↗ potential unintended consequences for

2:11:38 ↗ them so you're offering that as a

2:11:42 ↗ friendly amendment I'm suggesting I'm

2:11:45 ↗ just suggesting that maybe if it was a

2:11:47 ↗ friendly amendment bill wanted to amend

2:11:51 ↗ a zone well I'll say one of the main

2:11:55 ↗ reasons here you cited is whether the

2:11:58 ↗ school district wants it and I'm not

2:12:00 ↗ looking at whether the school district

2:12:02 ↗ wants it I think we needed to have

2:12:03 ↗ something that's readable for us and for

2:12:06 ↗ the people working with this to have a

2:12:08 ↗ readable code and you've mentioned that

2:12:10 ↗ earlier it is very difficult to read and

2:12:12 ↗ understand and so I'm not looking at it

2:12:15 ↗ should make no difference

2:12:17 ↗ for new standpoint it's from the city

2:12:19 ↗ standpoint we need to write legislation

2:12:21 ↗ that is easily reasonable readable and

2:12:23 ↗ understood by anybody who reads it into

2:12:25 ↗ this point to me it's not so that's why

2:12:27 ↗ I want to clear it up other questions

2:12:35 ↗ Mary Lou the bill I'm kind of I support

2:12:39 ↗ the original motion but I actually

2:12:41 ↗ supported it with the word explore and I

2:12:44 ↗ know maybe was replacing explore would

2:12:47 ↗ create is your suggestion and Stacy

2:12:50 ↗ saying leave explore but is it direct

2:12:53 ↗ the administration to work with the

2:12:55 ↗ school district to explore the creation

2:12:57 ↗ or you just it has to be like your

2:13:00 ↗ motion is that we have to create it even

2:13:02 ↗ if they came back and told us that there

2:13:04 ↗ are reasons for them that they did not

2:13:06 ↗ want us to have that process you're

2:13:08 ↗ you're still thinking we have to have

2:13:10 ↗ that process as a city I am a little

2:13:12 ↗ concerned about if they currently own

2:13:14 ↗ community facilities facilities zoned

2:13:17 ↗ land with schools on it and what their

2:13:19 ↗ proposal for future school savings is to

2:13:21 ↗ incorporate some of those on existing

2:13:23 ↗ campuses they do need to come and ask

2:13:25 ↗ for a rezoning time if we create a

2:13:27 ↗ separate zone whereas now they would not

2:13:30 ↗ they could proceed with the development

2:13:31 ↗ application

2:13:33 ↗ on one of their school sites now and

2:13:36 ↗ take a parking lot and convert it into

2:13:37 ↗ schools so I actually do kind of agree

2:13:39 ↗ with Stacy that I agree with you that we

2:13:42 ↗ need a clearer code but I also agree

2:13:44 ↗ with Stacy that there may be a reason

2:13:46 ↗ why we want the school board to weigh in

2:13:47 ↗ on this and so I'm not ready to go right

2:13:49 ↗ to create and if you have a third option

2:13:51 ↗ maybe I'll look at a third option

2:13:53 ↗ front worried Araya so I I can see both

2:14:00 ↗ sides in terms of build IB I think I

2:14:04 ↗ understand your your intention and and

2:14:07 ↗ agree with that I think Explorer is a

2:14:10 ↗ more general word that would allow us to

2:14:13 ↗ go forward and answer a lot of the

2:14:16 ↗ questions that we need to answer so I

2:14:18 ↗ would I would think the word Explorer

2:14:21 ↗ might be a good way to go and and still

2:14:24 ↗ get us where we need to be in terms of

2:14:27 ↗ looking at everything that we would need

2:14:29 ↗ to do in and answering some of these

2:14:31 ↗ these questions that we'd like to get

2:14:34 ↗ answered all ask the clerk to read the

2:14:40 ↗ motion in front of us or can you tell us

2:14:42 ↗ what the motion is

2:14:46 ↗ direct the administration to create a

2:14:48 ↗ separate zone for public schools in 2018

2:14:51 ↗ which would include clean up to code

2:14:52 ↗ revisions adopted this evening where

2:14:54 ↗ conflicts exist for example

2:14:56 ↗ architectural compatibility landscape

2:14:59 ↗ requirements etc okay thank you oh I'd

2:15:05 ↗ like to propose an amendment and strike

2:15:10 ↗ creation and replace it with explore the

2:15:15 ↗ creation of Odin seconded to go back to

2:15:24 ↗ what is written under a paragraph 2

2:15:28 ↗ discussion are you ready to act on the

2:15:35 ↗ amendment on the amendment all those in

2:15:40 ↗ favor of the amendment signify by saying

2:15:42 ↗ aye

2:15:43 ↗ those opposed the amendment original

2:15:50 ↗ amendment fails we're back to the

2:15:53 ↗ amendment passed oh we are back to

2:16:02 ↗ what's written on the slide under

2:16:04 ↗ subparagraph 2 with the addition of yeah

2:16:10 ↗ discussion well no I think I was the

2:16:16 ↗ first one to propose a separate zoning

2:16:18 ↗ but the designation for clarity for

2:16:21 ↗ different reasons not spoken here but I

2:16:23 ↗ think there's been some good points made

2:16:25 ↗ in both directions for and for not doing

2:16:28 ↗ that and so this is hopefully this won't

2:16:33 ↗ be that big of a task I think it feels

2:16:37 ↗ somewhat administrative in terms of

2:16:39 ↗ clarify you know maybe in a document

2:16:43 ↗ clarifying the code but I think you're

2:16:44 ↗ gonna take some other actions to you as

2:16:48 ↗ you mentioned earlier this Keith so I

2:16:49 ↗ think that Matt had what we already

2:16:53 ↗ concluded this evening or the

2:16:55 ↗ what we've accomplished the action we've

2:16:57 ↗ taken this evening this in no way

2:16:59 ↗ impedes you know moving forward with the

2:17:02 ↗ action done earlier and this is an

2:17:03 ↗ opportunity to clean it up let's do it

2:17:06 ↗ Marilu just wanted to thank

2:17:09 ↗ councilmember ramos for bringing this up

2:17:11 ↗ because this sort of got discussed in

2:17:15 ↗ recent days and and put on paper today

2:17:17 ↗ and i know you're probably not happy

2:17:19 ↗ with the final language but i think most

2:17:21 ↗ of the intent is there and just thank

2:17:23 ↗ you for your hard work and making sure

2:17:25 ↗ that conversation happened hey all those

2:17:31 ↗ in favor of directing the administration

2:17:35 ↗ to explore the creation of a separate

2:17:38 ↗ zone for public schools and 2018 which

2:17:40 ↗ would include clean up to code revisions

2:17:43 ↗ adopted this evening where conflicts

2:17:45 ↗ exist a architectural capacity

2:17:48 ↗ compatibility landscaping etc signify by

2:17:52 ↗ saying aye aye I was opposed that

2:17:56 ↗ carries unanimously

2:17:59 ↗ [Applause]

2:18:06 ↗ our next item under regular business is

2:18:09 ↗ agenda bill 734 zero housing strategy

2:18:14 ↗ Jewish hangman of development services

2:18:19 ↗ or the staff presentation thank you

2:18:31 ↗ um don't try it again I just have a real

2:18:38 ↗ brief presentation tonight and what

2:18:41 ↗ we're hoping to accomplish is to address

2:18:43 ↗ the couple of questions that came up and

2:18:45 ↗ Landon Shore on the 7th of September and

2:18:49 ↗ hopefully then you all will be able to

2:18:50 ↗ recommend approval of the housing

2:18:52 ↗ strategy work plan and agree to the

2:18:55 ↗ initial implementations that would be

2:18:57 ↗ done or at least almost done before

2:18:59 ↗ December 31st and that would be the

2:19:02 ↗ inclusionary code amendment for central

2:19:05 ↗ Issaquah and the multifamily tax

2:19:07 ↗ exemption that you're going to have a

2:19:09 ↗ work session on I believe in November

2:19:11 ↗ and then we're going to talk about the

2:19:12 ↗ next steps from Landon Shore one of the

2:19:16 ↗ first questions they had was how does

2:19:18 ↗ this address the affordability piece of

2:19:21 ↗ the moratorium and it does that in a few

2:19:23 ↗ ways through all the public outreach

2:19:25 ↗ that we had the majority of the

2:19:28 ↗ strategies would affect affordable

2:19:31 ↗ housing and they would all be begun in

2:19:33 ↗ the first two years so we feel that

2:19:35 ↗ that's a real strong reaction and

2:19:38 ↗ addressing the affordability also two of

2:19:42 ↗ the strategies that would be done before

2:19:44 ↗ the end of this year our directory

2:19:46 ↗ directly related to getting more

2:19:48 ↗ affordable housing and then again that

2:19:49 ↗ would be the inclusionary zoning code

2:19:51 ↗ amendment and the multifamily tax

2:19:54 ↗ exemption so those are the two those are

2:19:56 ↗ the ways that this Housing Strategy work

2:19:59 ↗ plan addresses the moratorium item of

2:20:02 ↗ the affordability the other question

2:20:06 ↗ that Landon short had is what is the

2:20:09 ↗ priority of the nine strategies and they

2:20:12 ↗ wanted the priorities to be the most

2:20:15 ↗ bang for the buck and we thought that

2:20:19 ↗ all the strategies all nine of them

2:20:20 ↗ would be started in two years so to us

2:20:23 ↗ that was sort of how we were showing

2:20:25 ↗ that they all have a degree of priority

2:20:27 ↗ because they were chosen but we don't

2:20:30 ↗ know yet

2:20:30 ↗ we haven't done the analysis to know

2:20:32 ↗ exactly how much do all of them cost how

2:20:35 ↗ many units would all of them get

2:20:37 ↗ individually and so we would rather come

2:20:39 ↗ back to you all with a little bit more

2:20:41 ↗ information on that because we've been

2:20:43 ↗ so busy working on

2:20:45 ↗ 9 creating the 9 with the public groups

2:20:48 ↗ that we're working on that we haven't

2:20:49 ↗ done the analysis of each individual

2:20:51 ↗ strategy at this time and we would have

2:20:53 ↗ all that information by April of next

2:20:57 ↗ year so you could all discuss your

2:20:59 ↗ priority of those with a lot more

2:21:02 ↗ information than we would have been able

2:21:04 ↗ to get in a week and a half the third

2:21:08 ↗ question is will there be another

2:21:10 ↗ affordable housing report card and yes

2:21:13 ↗ the good news is it's written right in

2:21:16 ↗ the strategy work plan that every year

2:21:18 ↗ starting next year we would start up the

2:21:20 ↗ report cards again so you'd be able to

2:21:22 ↗ see how the strategies are working or

2:21:25 ↗ not working hopefully they'll all be

2:21:26 ↗ working so with that the next steps

2:21:31 ↗ would be could be to adopt the housing

2:21:35 ↗ strategy work plan tonight and then

2:21:38 ↗ start the implementation through

2:21:40 ↗ planning policy Commission with

2:21:42 ↗ inclusionary zoning and through your

2:21:45 ↗ review and work session the multifamily

2:21:48 ↗ tax exemption and then continue the

2:21:50 ↗ implementation of the nine starting

2:21:54 ↗ immediately after that you'd be able to

2:21:57 ↗ do some prioritizing in April or up

2:22:00 ↗ until April when we start getting that

2:22:02 ↗ information to you and then the

2:22:04 ↗ remaining strategies would begin it's

2:22:06 ↗ two quick notes I wanted to explain that

2:22:09 ↗ was in your packet you all landed Shore

2:22:14 ↗ made two changes to the plan the

2:22:17 ↗ strategy work planning that one of them

2:22:19 ↗ was the title it is now the housing

2:22:21 ↗ strategy work plan the other one is

2:22:24 ↗ there was a little bit of rewording on

2:22:26 ↗ strategy nine instead of saying that the

2:22:29 ↗ housing was insecure

2:22:31 ↗ it was the X it sounded a little funny

2:22:36 ↗ when we did the track changes but that

2:22:37 ↗ was fixed those are the only two changes

2:22:39 ↗ to the document in your packet questions

2:22:44 ↗ of Trish

2:22:45 ↗ coming back from land and Shore Stacy I

2:22:50 ↗ would move to approve resolution number

2:22:53 ↗ 2017 14 adopting the housing strategy

2:22:57 ↗ work plan and refer prioritization

2:22:59 ↗ implementation and evaluation of the

2:23:02 ↗ housing strategy work plan to council

2:23:04 ↗ land and shore committee for review

2:23:05 ↗ second moved and seconded questions or

2:23:09 ↗ discussion

2:23:15 ↗ Paul just for the benefit of our other

2:23:19 ↗ council members who weren't on the on

2:23:21 ↗ the committee the first few times we

2:23:27 ↗ talked about this something was just

2:23:29 ↗ didn't seem right to me and when we

2:23:31 ↗ realized in committee when we were

2:23:34 ↗ actually taught we were actually talking

2:23:36 ↗ about a work plan that would this is

2:23:37 ↗ really a plan to get certain things done

2:23:40 ↗ it's a plan to develop out those

2:23:41 ↗ strategies put policies and actions and

2:23:45 ↗ planned actions in place to implement

2:23:47 ↗ those strategies so and and hopefully

2:23:51 ↗ that's just clearer more clear now for

2:23:56 ↗ everybody else I've made a real

2:23:57 ↗ difference for me and helped me because

2:23:59 ↗ a because just because we isn't a

2:24:04 ↗ complete strategy it really is the

2:24:05 ↗ development of a strategy I hope that's

2:24:07 ↗ everybody understands that

2:24:09 ↗ I think inclusionary zoning is we're

2:24:13 ↗ talking about it's the only the central

2:24:17 ↗ area because there's been a recent

2:24:18 ↗ episode is the only part of town where

2:24:21 ↗ we can require affordable housing from

2:24:26 ↗ from the development so that's what

2:24:29 ↗ that's I think when we first started

2:24:32 ↗ this actually when the moratorium

2:24:37 ↗ started and we talked about affordable

2:24:41 ↗ housing and we and that was really an

2:24:43 ↗ issue for the entire city I think many

2:24:45 ↗ on the council myself included thought

2:24:47 ↗ that it would be this was an op may be

2:24:49 ↗ an option for the entire city we learned

2:24:52 ↗ in the course of events that it's not

2:24:53 ↗ only this could only be applied when

2:24:56 ↗ there's been a recent up zone so this

2:24:58 ↗ only would apply to the central area

2:25:00 ↗ because that's the area and the

2:25:01 ↗ multifamily tax exemption that this

2:25:05 ↗ calls for is a I guess we could call it

2:25:08 ↗ a test because it's very limited to a

2:25:10 ↗ single parcel and and so it's a very

2:25:14 ↗ it's not a big step forward but we do

2:25:18 ↗ get to see how it may play out in a

2:25:22 ↗ potential the transit oriented

2:25:24 ↗ development

2:25:26 ↗ project that is on the drawing board

2:25:29 ↗ that has not been finalized but that's

2:25:31 ↗ the limited didn't scope of the end of

2:25:33 ↗ the multifamily tax exemption is just to

2:25:35 ↗ that project and so the rest of what

2:25:38 ↗ we're considering this evening is is

2:25:41 ↗ yeah the work plan to flush out and

2:25:44 ↗ develop those strategies and the

2:25:46 ↗ policies that implement them the

2:25:52 ↗ questions are discussion valeu um in the

2:25:56 ↗ seattle situation where they did their

2:25:58 ↗ haleh's study their housing

2:26:00 ↗ affordability living something study did

2:26:03 ↗ they only apply inclusionary zoning in

2:26:05 ↗ recently rezone areas of their city

2:26:07 ↗ through state law you have to there has

2:26:10 ↗ to have been a reason a recent rezone to

2:26:13 ↗ allow you to require it so it's through

2:26:15 ↗ state law that you have to do the two

2:26:17 ↗ together so seattle didn't seattle only

2:26:20 ↗ applied that in certain areas that had

2:26:22 ↗ recently had a rezone correct or else

2:26:24 ↗ they're proposing to theirs that's what

2:26:26 ↗ part of the controversy is is they're

2:26:28 ↗ trying to up zone some of the areas and

2:26:30 ↗ then require it and that's why some of

2:26:32 ↗ the neighborhoods have not been happy

2:26:34 ↗ okay and so if we are getting rid of the

2:26:37 ↗ development agreements or expiring the

2:26:40 ↗ development agreements and talus and in

2:26:42 ↗ highlands is there an opportunity there

2:26:45 ↗ because we're overlaying a new zoning

2:26:47 ↗ overlay that we could have inclusionary

2:26:51 ↗ zoning and tell us and the highlands my

2:26:52 ↗ understanding with the end of

2:26:54 ↗ development agreements is we're trying

2:26:55 ↗ to keep everything as similar to what it

2:26:58 ↗ is now as possible including what

2:27:00 ↗ entitlements they already have and so if

2:27:02 ↗ we were to increase the zoning in those

2:27:04 ↗ areas that increase i'm saying because

2:27:07 ↗ we are actually moving away from

2:27:09 ↗ entitlements and to new zoning isn't

2:27:12 ↗ that the trigger that allows you to do

2:27:13 ↗ inclusionary zoning you would have to

2:27:16 ↗ give them more value than they already

2:27:17 ↗ have

2:27:18 ↗ and then you can come in and ask for

2:27:20 ↗ public benefit with that so that would

2:27:22 ↗ be make some sort of changing them

2:27:24 ↗ thanks Trish oh and he says there's no

2:27:27 ↗ housing left

2:27:30 ↗ to allow that to happen yeah that's a

2:27:33 ↗ good detail I didn't realize that

2:27:34 ↗ oh look so I hesitate to to emphasize

2:27:43 ↗ haste with this has been a busy year and

2:27:46 ↗ the administration has responded

2:27:49 ↗ admirably to to all the work that

2:27:53 ↗ council has put upon it but this to me

2:27:55 ↗ is the most important element of the

2:27:58 ↗ moratorium and this is the most

2:28:00 ↗ important single thing that we are

2:28:03 ↗ working on that will impact the future

2:28:06 ↗ health of our city and so I sure hope I

2:28:10 ↗ see council action tentative December on

2:28:13 ↗ initial implementation I really hope we

2:28:16 ↗ get to that because you never know what

2:28:19 ↗ a new year brings there's going to be

2:28:21 ↗ new folks on council there's going to be

2:28:23 ↗ new opinions and I would love to get the

2:28:26 ↗ first aspect of this done before we have

2:28:30 ↗ to revisit this with a fresh set of eyes

2:28:33 ↗ that may have a fresh set of things they

2:28:35 ↗ want to focus on this route I think this

2:28:38 ↗ will wind up if we get this done in

2:28:39 ↗ December reflecting the priorities of

2:28:41 ↗ this council and I'm I'm very very year

2:28:44 ↗ to see it happen into summer so I'm

2:28:47 ↗ sorry to say please work harder and

2:28:50 ↗ faster because we've all been working so

2:28:52 ↗ hard and so fast this year but I would I

2:28:55 ↗ would really like to see us hit these

2:28:57 ↗ hit these dates thank you know I just

2:29:01 ↗ want to plus one of the importance of

2:29:03 ↗ this to to the community as a whole in

2:29:06 ↗ many many aspects because housing is

2:29:08 ↗ just so so critical to the rest of

2:29:11 ↗ everybody's life so I want to push on

2:29:13 ↗ this too and keep it up good job and I

2:29:16 ↗ love it when we got some letters from an

2:29:17 ↗ HDC housing development consortium in

2:29:20 ↗ support of this and particularly picking

2:29:22 ↗ out some of those things I work with HDC

2:29:23 ↗ and other aspects of my life so they're

2:29:27 ↗ they're very good folks and when they're

2:29:28 ↗ taking note of what we're doing here

2:29:30 ↗ that makes me feel like we've got some

2:29:32 ↗ backing is throughout the community

2:29:33 ↗ greater community as well

2:29:35 ↗ Araya

2:29:37 ↗ I just wanted to echo how important this

2:29:40 ↗ piece of the work that we're doing right

2:29:42 ↗ now is and and thank the administration

2:29:47 ↗ and everyone who's been working on this

2:29:49 ↗ as I was reading through it just has

2:29:51 ↗ really makes me happy all the progress

2:29:53 ↗ that's being made and I too would just

2:29:57 ↗ echo being able to complete it in this

2:29:59 ↗ timeline I think is critically important

2:30:02 ↗ other questions our discussion seeing

2:30:06 ↗ none at all that was quickly

2:30:08 ↗ oh I'm sorry just just I'm going to

2:30:10 ↗ point out as well last time we had a

2:30:12 ↗ real big robust conversation about this

2:30:14 ↗ the whole council I think it was a

2:30:15 ↗ committee of the whole really kind of

2:30:17 ↗ tore apart the the way the the vision

2:30:20 ↗ was was laid out in the earlier draft of

2:30:24 ↗ this housing strategy so I do appreciate

2:30:28 ↗ the forum that it is and now is a nice

2:30:31 ↗ update thank you any other questions or

2:30:37 ↗ discussion seeing none then all those in

2:30:40 ↗ favor of approving resolution number

2:30:41 ↗ 2017 - 14 adopting a housing strategy

2:30:46 ↗ work plan and refer prioritization

2:30:49 ↗ implementation and evaluation of the

2:30:51 ↗ housing strategy work plan to the

2:30:54 ↗ council land and shore committee for

2:30:56 ↗ review all those in favor signify by

2:31:00 ↗ saying aye aye

2:31:02 ↗ as opposed that carries unanimously

2:31:06 ↗ moving now to agenda bill

2:31:09 ↗ seven-four-zero for neighborhood

2:31:13 ↗ engagement program update

2:31:16 ↗ I see Denise and Marshall at the roster

2:31:21 ↗ who's loading things up and who'll be

2:31:24 ↗ providing an update

2:31:27 ↗ you'll recall that during the city

2:31:29 ↗ council's 2015 goal-setting retreat

2:31:32 ↗ community leaders identified the need

2:31:35 ↗ for more engagement at the neighborhood

2:31:38 ↗ level and here

2:31:40 ↗ they said welcome Thank You mr. mayor

2:31:43 ↗ thanks Council for your time and the

2:31:45 ↗ invitation to share this program update

2:31:49 ↗ after one year officially underway

2:31:52 ↗ I first presented this pilot

2:31:54 ↗ neighborhood engagement program to

2:31:55 ↗ January 24th of this year and also

2:31:58 ↗ provided a six-month progress report in

2:32:01 ↗ June so as mr. mayor said a little bit

2:32:05 ↗ ago just to remind you the 2015 council

2:32:09 ↗ goal during the goal-setting retreat

2:32:11 ↗ this the leaders identified the need for

2:32:14 ↗ engagement at a neighborhood level and

2:32:15 ↗ from there the goal was created and the

2:32:17 ↗ program came to fruition so some of the

2:32:20 ↗ highlights of the goal are to facilitate

2:32:22 ↗ connectivity energy and engagement

2:32:24 ↗ provide information and collect feedback

2:32:25 ↗ and for this position to attend more

2:32:28 ↗ neighborhood meetings and the actual

2:32:31 ↗ goal actually has a metric in it that I

2:32:32 ↗ would participate in twelve neighborhood

2:32:34 ↗ meetings per year and as you saw in

2:32:35 ↗ January we dramatically expanded that so

2:32:40 ↗ from that some of the program goals were

2:32:42 ↗ to create a culture of effective public

2:32:44 ↗ participation build trust and

2:32:45 ↗ partnerships within the community

2:32:47 ↗ improve efficiency and effectiveness and

2:32:49 ↗ decision-making provide a variety of

2:32:51 ↗ ways for residents to engage with the

2:32:52 ↗ city strengthen neighborhoods meet the

2:32:56 ↗ City Council's goal offer exceptional

2:32:58 ↗ customer service I hate red ants on city

2:33:01 ↗ issues and community visions plans

2:33:02 ↗ including development and forum City and

2:33:05 ↗ decision makers on communities

2:33:06 ↗ priorities support each department with

2:33:08 ↗ engagement efforts and educate citizens

2:33:09 ↗ on how to stay engaged in informed

2:33:11 ↗ insidious services and processes so I

2:33:15 ↗ also wanted to circle back on some

2:33:18 ↗ background research that I did so not

2:33:19 ↗ only did I talk with fellow staff

2:33:22 ↗ members I talked with other municipal

2:33:23 ↗ partners and I also talked with you the

2:33:25 ↗ council some of your feedback to remind

2:33:27 ↗ you was to develop a dashboard proactive

2:33:30 ↗ development communication close the

2:33:32 ↗ communication loop create partnerships

2:33:34 ↗ outside of HOAs reach residents who are

2:33:37 ↗ not engaged and provide more

2:33:38 ↗ opportunities to collaborate some of the

2:33:42 ↗ communication tools that I presented in

2:33:44 ↗ January that we used and tested this

2:33:46 ↗ year so far have been summits

2:33:47 ↗ neighborhood meetings and community

2:33:49 ↗ events next door

2:33:51 ↗ online maps and the proactive

2:33:53 ↗ development outreach here's a photo from

2:33:57 ↗ our first neighborhood summit that was

2:33:58 ↗ held at the Senior Center in April of

2:34:00 ↗ this year it was well attended with a

2:34:01 ↗ variety of neighborhoods represented

2:34:03 ↗ some of the topics we discussed include

2:34:06 ↗ introduction of the neighborhood

2:34:07 ↗ engagement program and the community

2:34:09 ↗ police resources or Officer Ryan Smith

2:34:11 ↗ Smith was there as well building

2:34:13 ↗ long-term partnerships and relationships

2:34:15 ↗ identifying neighborhood identity and

2:34:17 ↗ uniqueness and discussing preferred

2:34:19 ↗ communication tools confluence Park

2:34:21 ↗ history and updates engaging interest in

2:34:24 ↗ future summits in addition a

2:34:26 ↗ neighborhood services mini was offered

2:34:27 ↗ that outlined different options for

2:34:29 ↗ engagements that many was in your six

2:34:32 ↗ month report it's also in your packet

2:34:33 ↗ tonight but basically that menu is

2:34:35 ↗ something that you can give to the

2:34:37 ↗ neighborhoods and we can provide to them

2:34:39 ↗ that they have the opportunity to look

2:34:41 ↗ through the different options that we

2:34:42 ↗ provide as far as police services

2:34:44 ↗ different community engagement events

2:34:47 ↗ that they may not otherwise think that

2:34:48 ↗ they would have the option to do so they

2:34:50 ↗ can return that back to us more

2:34:52 ↗ importantly the summit provided an

2:34:54 ↗ opportunity for neighborhoods to share

2:34:55 ↗ experiences with each other so the

2:34:57 ↗ networking part part of the summit was a

2:34:59 ↗ really big deal and being able to share

2:35:01 ↗ different districts what they were going

2:35:03 ↗ through was a positive theme so during

2:35:06 ↗ the summit participants were asked to

2:35:09 ↗ share about what about Issaquah and

2:35:11 ↗ their specific neighborhood was special

2:35:12 ↗ to them so when artists took a lot of

2:35:14 ↗ notes and created this image that you

2:35:16 ↗ see behind me which we had printed onto

2:35:18 ↗ a weatherproof banner and we have

2:35:19 ↗ displayed at community events and

2:35:20 ↗ neighborhood gatherings this map

2:35:22 ↗ provides a visual not only what makes

2:35:24 ↗ each sub area in Issaquah unique it also

2:35:26 ↗ provides a holistic overview of what

2:35:28 ↗ what makes it qua unique is a city

2:35:30 ↗ directly from the residents who live

2:35:31 ↗ here you can see the banner in person at

2:35:34 ↗ salmon days in a few weeks so some of

2:35:38 ↗ the key takeaways after the first summit

2:35:39 ↗ I connected with each attendee and asked

2:35:41 ↗ them for feedback if they thought summit

2:35:43 ↗ should continue and the answer was

2:35:45 ↗ unanimously yes and what agenda items

2:35:48 ↗ should be discussed and these are the

2:35:49 ↗ key takeaways and themes that I learned

2:35:51 ↗ from them number one to allow

2:35:53 ↗ neighborhood champions to former agendas

2:35:55 ↗ instead of us telling them what they

2:35:56 ↗ need to know they tell us what they want

2:35:58 ↗ to know ideal event time is about an

2:36:00 ↗ hour and a half they like the

2:36:02 ↗ opportunity to have time to network with

2:36:04 ↗ other neighborhoods

2:36:04 ↗ that's very important and to utilize and

2:36:07 ↗ leverage neighborhood champions to

2:36:08 ↗ spread city and neighborhood news which

2:36:10 ↗ we currently do

2:36:12 ↗ moving on to neighborhood meetings

2:36:14 ↗ another communication tool neighborhood

2:36:16 ↗ meetings and community events are a

2:36:17 ↗ great way for the city to form

2:36:19 ↗ relationships and create better lines of

2:36:20 ↗ communication that being said when

2:36:22 ↗ approaching each neighborhood meeting

2:36:23 ↗ this is what I ask myself what are you

2:36:25 ↗ interested in what city projects need

2:36:27 ↗ engagement currently and what

2:36:29 ↗ development projects are in this general

2:36:30 ↗ area to date I've participated in over

2:36:33 ↗ 30 neighborhood meetings providing

2:36:35 ↗ support and handling logistics some of

2:36:40 ↗ the feedback I've heard at a personal

2:36:41 ↗ level or people are busy they don't

2:36:43 ↗ always have the time to take out of

2:36:44 ↗ their personal lives to come to City

2:36:45 ↗ Hall and come to a 6:30 meeting so part

2:36:49 ↗ of that is going out to them and going

2:36:50 ↗ out on their turf this is a picture from

2:36:51 ↗ blackberry Park the city acquired this

2:36:54 ↗ park and needed engagement based on what

2:36:57 ↗ what the residents wanted to see this

2:36:59 ↗ park to be and what they what their

2:37:00 ↗ vision is and kind of the history of the

2:37:02 ↗ park because we weren't really sure

2:37:03 ↗ exactly what that was so what better way

2:37:05 ↗ to get it from the residents so the idea

2:37:07 ↗ was to have it at the park make it easy

2:37:09 ↗ for those residents to engage with the

2:37:11 ↗ city for them to be able to walk down

2:37:13 ↗ even for five minutes 10 minutes 15

2:37:15 ↗ however long like they had but make it

2:37:17 ↗ easy for them to do so this is another

2:37:21 ↗ example of a neighborhood meeting in

2:37:23 ↗ Issaquah Valley where we talked about

2:37:24 ↗ different development projects happening

2:37:26 ↗ in that area there's a lot of lot of

2:37:28 ↗ things happening so we did more of an

2:37:29 ↗ open house style well it was very well

2:37:31 ↗ attended this is another example of a

2:37:34 ↗ neighborhood meeting different style so

2:37:36 ↗ something else I've learned through

2:37:37 ↗ these neighborhood meetings are some of

2:37:40 ↗ the organization behind them is

2:37:41 ↗ different so sometimes it's an open

2:37:43 ↗ house sometimes it's on property like I

2:37:45 ↗ mentioned and sometimes there's a need

2:37:47 ↗ for a Town Hall and the way that that's

2:37:49 ↗ structured this was from our corridor

2:37:52 ↗ project which was more of a workshop

2:37:53 ↗ style it was three three workshops where

2:37:56 ↗ we got to engage with the residents

2:37:57 ↗ based on what they wanted to see as far

2:37:58 ↗ as the corridor over on Newports way and

2:38:01 ↗ then also another neighborhood meeting

2:38:04 ↗ this was on-site at a spyglass

2:38:05 ↗ when we met with residents to talk about

2:38:08 ↗ some of the potential impacts to their

2:38:11 ↗ area so like I said some of the key

2:38:15 ↗ takeaways from these neighborhood

2:38:16 ↗ meetings our residents went informal

2:38:17 ↗ meeting

2:38:18 ↗ most of the time so they can drop in so

2:38:20 ↗ they don't feel like they're late so

2:38:21 ↗ they can come at their leisure they also

2:38:23 ↗ want to pick the agenda like I said they

2:38:25 ↗ want to tell us what they want to learn

2:38:27 ↗ instead of us telling them the meetings

2:38:29 ↗ one to two hours and they also think

2:38:31 ↗ it's important to hear from other

2:38:33 ↗ residents what their issues are

2:38:35 ↗ in addition something that I learned

2:38:37 ↗ that residents engage when there's

2:38:40 ↗ things available like childcare we have

2:38:43 ↗ provided childcare at some of our

2:38:44 ↗ meetings and that does allow some of

2:38:46 ↗ those residents that haven't normally

2:38:47 ↗ engaged or wouldn't normally engage

2:38:50 ↗ because you know maybe they're busy or

2:38:52 ↗ they have family they can't make it

2:38:53 ↗ because of the kids so we've been able

2:38:55 ↗ to provide childcare and that really

2:38:56 ↗ encourages that that attendance which is

2:38:58 ↗ also a goal of this program you know how

2:39:00 ↗ do we engage those people that don't

2:39:01 ↗ otherwise engage in addition food is

2:39:04 ↗ also a big deal feeding people tends to

2:39:08 ↗ be a plus so also in addition to

2:39:13 ↗ neighborhood meetings community events

2:39:16 ↗ tapping into events that are already

2:39:18 ↗ happening on a neighborhood level and a

2:39:20 ↗ city level so National Night Out

2:39:21 ↗ encouraging block parties we've used

2:39:23 ↗ that as a platform this year and last

2:39:24 ↗ year

2:39:25 ↗ salmon days coming up Highlands Day

2:39:28 ↗ fourth of July in South Cove is a big

2:39:30 ↗ one egg hunt and Talas that was a fun

2:39:31 ↗ one this year and again with those

2:39:36 ↗ community events just going back to that

2:39:37 ↗ those three questions that I presented

2:39:38 ↗ to you earlier and just asking what's

2:39:40 ↗ happening in this area and what do we

2:39:41 ↗ need engagement on so not only being

2:39:43 ↗ able to provide some information at

2:39:44 ↗ those events but also have fun of the

2:39:46 ↗ community so next door the city is

2:39:51 ↗ extremely active with social media

2:39:52 ↗ already as a form of engagement and a

2:39:54 ↗ lot of other cities in our area are

2:39:55 ↗ using next doors so we launched our next

2:39:59 ↗ door account on March 1st to date there

2:40:02 ↗ are six thousand nine hundred and five

2:40:03 ↗ residents using the platform so that's

2:40:04 ↗ 31 percent of households cleaned here in

2:40:06 ↗ Issaquah residents have posted two

2:40:09 ↗ thousand eight hundred and thirty six

2:40:10 ↗ times in the last thirty days with a

2:40:12 ↗ hundred and eighty six posts being

2:40:14 ↗ linked to crime and safety and the city

2:40:17 ↗ uses this platform to send messages to

2:40:20 ↗ one or multiple neighborhoods service

2:40:22 ↗ areas or the entire community so the

2:40:24 ↗ great thing about next-door is you can

2:40:25 ↗ geo-target it based on what your message

2:40:26 ↗ is and to whom

2:40:29 ↗ this is just some information about the

2:40:31 ↗ top neighborhood users here in Issaquah

2:40:34 ↗ so talus with 53% of their households

2:40:36 ↗ claims of the highlands 47% squawk

2:40:39 ↗ Mountain 43% and Issaquah Valley 18% so

2:40:42 ↗ these numbers since the beginning of the

2:40:43 ↗ year when I first presented them to you

2:40:45 ↗ in January have actually doubled as of

2:40:48 ↗ today in addition we have one city

2:40:52 ↗ account with specific staff members that

2:40:54 ↗ have access so it's the communications

2:40:55 ↗ team and the police communications team

2:40:57 ↗ it's also important to note the

2:40:59 ↗ uniqueness of next-door is a social

2:41:01 ↗ media platform is that the city cannot

2:41:03 ↗ see the private conversations that are

2:41:05 ↗ happening within the neighborhoods and

2:41:07 ↗ can only see interactions that residents

2:41:09 ↗ directly interact with the city on so

2:41:13 ↗ online maps these are some goals that I

2:41:15 ↗ mentioned early in January regarding

2:41:17 ↗ online maps but first I'd like to speak

2:41:19 ↗ to the active projects map so I'm gonna

2:41:23 ↗ jump around for a second make sure I can

2:41:26 ↗ do this

2:41:48 ↗ so this year the city staff has worked

2:41:51 ↗ diligently on developing a more

2:41:53 ↗ user-friendly active projects map that

2:41:56 ↗ is now this is burnt this is new it's

2:41:58 ↗ prominently displayed on our homepage of

2:42:00 ↗ our website so I wanted to show you it's

2:42:02 ↗ under new development on the top and the

2:42:05 ↗ key features of this map are as it pulls

2:42:09 ↗ up it's been kind of modified so I don't

2:42:12 ↗ know if you've seen it yet but it's

2:42:14 ↗ quite a bit easier to read

2:42:15 ↗ the colors are a bit different first and

2:42:18 ↗ foremost this map is mobile friendly our

2:42:21 ↗ last active projects map was not so that

2:42:24 ↗ certainly helps in addition I'll kind of

2:42:31 ↗ zoom in a little bit here but for

2:42:38 ↗ example some of the other things that

2:42:40 ↗ we've got this is new so now it pops up

2:42:46 ↗ on the left hand side and it's

2:42:48 ↗ scrollable but you've got a rendering of

2:42:50 ↗ the project so now you can see what it

2:42:52 ↗ looks like it's a little bit cleaner

2:42:53 ↗ it's got your project number your name a

2:42:55 ↗ description of it the location the

2:42:58 ↗ status your contact for the city and

2:43:00 ↗ applicants instead of having all of the

2:43:03 ↗ links below it like we used to have

2:43:04 ↗ which is a little jumbled now we have a

2:43:06 ↗ a tab where you can click view related

2:43:09 ↗ documents and permits and it brings it

2:43:10 ↗ up in a tab format where you can look

2:43:12 ↗ through this at your leisure and you can

2:43:15 ↗ look whether you want attachments

2:43:16 ↗ descriptions details related permits

2:43:18 ↗ things like that so that's a brand new

2:43:21 ↗ active projects map

2:43:29 ↗ and then I want to talk to you about

2:43:31 ↗ proactive development outreach proactive

2:43:33 ↗ outreach on current and upcoming

2:43:34 ↗ development is an important focus for

2:43:37 ↗ this program and has been this year I

2:43:38 ↗ still spend one day a week sometimes

2:43:40 ↗ more these days embedded in DSD learning

2:43:44 ↗ about all the projects the permitting

2:43:45 ↗ process and I thought I I knew a lot of

2:43:48 ↗ acronyms in January and I can tell you

2:43:50 ↗ I've probably quadrupled the number of

2:43:52 ↗ acronyms I've learned since then so part

2:43:58 ↗ of to keep neighborhoods informed about

2:43:59 ↗ upcoming engagement opportunities or

2:44:02 ↗ development impacts the city has current

2:44:03 ↗ tools in place that we use email

2:44:05 ↗ notifications for example the new

2:44:07 ↗ neighborhood meetings regarding the next

2:44:09 ↗ door posts a more user friendly active

2:44:11 ↗ projects map that I just showed you

2:44:12 ↗ improve signage on site and additional

2:44:15 ↗ requirements of the developer so in

2:44:18 ↗ addition of keeping neighbors informed

2:44:20 ↗ through these channels the city's

2:44:22 ↗ piloting a program with a few developers

2:44:23 ↗ this summer that includes on-site

2:44:26 ↗ construction signage installed like the

2:44:28 ↗ one you see behind me here for the Vale

2:44:30 ↗ apartments that just began construction

2:44:32 ↗ and like this one for Ennis what

2:44:34 ↗ apartments that will begin soon as you

2:44:36 ↗ can see important information like

2:44:37 ↗ anticipated completion date rendering

2:44:40 ↗ activity renderings activities typical

2:44:42 ↗ work hours project description and

2:44:43 ↗ contact information for questions is

2:44:45 ↗ provided and these signs are prominently

2:44:47 ↗ displayed at the construction site in

2:44:49 ↗ addition developers have been asked to

2:44:52 ↗ maintain a contact list of interested

2:44:54 ↗ parties and send the monthly email

2:44:56 ↗ updates using this standard template

2:44:58 ↗ that we've created developers have also

2:45:00 ↗ been asked to print these updates and

2:45:02 ↗ place them in a box attached to the

2:45:04 ↗ on-site Construction sign that I showed

2:45:05 ↗ you earlier the construction updates

2:45:08 ↗ have a project description and then

2:45:10 ↗ again what to expect this month so those

2:45:11 ↗ are things like well well the

2:45:13 ↗ neighborhood see what's the parking bike

2:45:15 ↗ lane sidewalk update haul routes road

2:45:19 ↗ closures we're staging is located

2:45:21 ↗ utility disruptions anticipated timeline

2:45:23 ↗ changes of the project high-impact work

2:45:26 ↗ or deliveries and loading expectations

2:45:27 ↗ or any other items that the developer

2:45:31 ↗ might think that will have a

2:45:33 ↗ neighborhood impact so in addition to

2:45:36 ↗ the signage in the monthly updates that

2:45:38 ↗ I've shown you the city has created

2:45:39 ↗ timelines like this 1 reflecting

2:45:40 ↗ projects in a general area and

2:45:42 ↗ can expect these were shared in

2:45:44 ↗ neighborhood meetings this summer and

2:45:46 ↗ some have their own website page as well

2:45:49 ↗ and they're actively updated so what we

2:45:52 ↗ heard from the community was they wanted

2:45:53 ↗ to be able to see kind of the

2:45:54 ↗ comprehensive look of what was happening

2:45:55 ↗ in their community so this is what we

2:45:58 ↗ created and it kind of shows them you

2:46:00 ↗ know when to act what to expect and

2:46:02 ↗ what's happening around them so this

2:46:06 ↗ proactive collaborative effort keeps

2:46:07 ↗ neighbors informed the timeline and

2:46:09 ↗ details of each project and it builds a

2:46:11 ↗ positive positive relationship with the

2:46:13 ↗ community in addition to the timelines

2:46:15 ↗ and working with the developers like

2:46:17 ↗ I've shown you I started my own YouTube

2:46:19 ↗ segment

2:46:20 ↗ that's called development update so far

2:46:23 ↗ it's just another communication channel

2:46:25 ↗ that I've used to be able to update

2:46:28 ↗ residents about what's going on out in

2:46:30 ↗ the community and these are projects and

2:46:32 ↗ maybe we're not doing you know like I

2:46:34 ↗ said the pilot program like valent and

2:46:35 ↗ us would with right now so like I just

2:46:37 ↗ did a development update with

2:46:39 ↗ anti-aircraft Creek went out there took

2:46:41 ↗ some film explained kind of what the

2:46:43 ↗ project was what was happening currently

2:46:45 ↗ and when it the completion date will be

2:46:47 ↗ also central pad park1 projects are

2:46:50 ↗ central park pad one project and in

2:46:53 ↗ addition the skate park was the current

2:46:55 ↗ development update that I just filmed so

2:46:59 ↗ in addition to kind of circle back

2:47:02 ↗ closing the loop that was something that

2:47:04 ↗ I've heard and I think there's only so

2:47:07 ↗ many times we can ask people to come out

2:47:08 ↗ and engage with us so one way to

2:47:11 ↗ continue to communicate with them is by

2:47:13 ↗ capturing their emails which we have

2:47:15 ↗ done in our neighborhood meetings we

2:47:17 ↗ send updates regularly via you know what

2:47:20 ↗ project they've signed up to get updates

2:47:22 ↗ with or what's going on in that general

2:47:24 ↗ neighborhood so it was something else

2:47:26 ↗ that happened so our news items are

2:47:28 ↗ categorized typically by topic

2:47:30 ↗ but recently kind of just naturally

2:47:33 ↗ they've started to be organized by

2:47:35 ↗ neighborhood so that like I said just a

2:47:38 ↗ kind of a natural progression to the

2:47:39 ↗ amount of engagement in specific areas

2:47:41 ↗ so I'm gonna whoops

2:47:47 ↗ jump around one more time and I want to

2:47:53 ↗ show you this map so I actually sent you

2:47:55 ↗ links to this map in my 6-month report

2:47:57 ↗ but I heard from you it was important to

2:48:01 ↗ provide a top-level recap of what's

2:48:03 ↗ going on or what's discussed in

2:48:04 ↗ neighborhood meetings so I created this

2:48:06 ↗ map that serves as a dashboard and what

2:48:09 ↗ this map does is it's got different

2:48:10 ↗ layers so down here one of the first

2:48:13 ↗ layers that you see the different colors

2:48:14 ↗ are the different districts the 13

2:48:16 ↗ districts that we've divided as a client

2:48:17 ↗ ooh on top of that I've got a layer of

2:48:22 ↗ 2016 meetings which you can see and if

2:48:24 ↗ you click on them it'll pull up the date

2:48:27 ↗ the location the number of attendees and

2:48:29 ↗ exactly what we heard and I've done that

2:48:32 ↗ for every single neighborhood touch

2:48:34 ↗ point that I've had so far and so

2:48:40 ↗ there's a couple examples from 2017 just

2:48:42 ↗ what we heard this is for example the

2:48:45 ↗ woods HOA meeting on May 5th tells you

2:48:47 ↗ how many people were there and again

2:48:48 ↗ just gives you that snapshot dashboard

2:48:51 ↗ about kind of just the different closing

2:48:54 ↗ the loop basically

2:49:03 ↗ and in addition to closing the loop not

2:49:05 ↗ only do we have this map and engagement

2:49:07 ↗ comes back in a lot of different forms

2:49:08 ↗ so part of the way engagement comes back

2:49:10 ↗ is you'll hear from project managers

2:49:14 ↗ that come and present to you so a lot of

2:49:16 ↗ what they present in their presentations

2:49:18 ↗ has been some of that engagement that

2:49:20 ↗ we've had at a neighborhood level that's

2:49:22 ↗ been packaged up into you know some of

2:49:24 ↗ the suggestions or things that they put

2:49:26 ↗ in front of you so in addition and this

2:49:30 ↗ is new it's a pilot art grant program

2:49:32 ↗ Amy Dukes actually came up with the idea

2:49:34 ↗ she's our arts director for the city she

2:49:37 ↗ came up with the idea to pilot an art

2:49:38 ↗ grant program next year to partner with

2:49:41 ↗ the Arts Commission to create new

2:49:43 ↗ connections with neighborhoods in a

2:49:44 ↗ different way giving them another option

2:49:46 ↗ to engage on a neighborhood level with

2:49:48 ↗ each other and enrich their lives with

2:49:50 ↗ art I've met with the Arts Commission I

2:49:53 ↗ gave them an overview of the

2:49:54 ↗ neighborhood engagement program and

2:49:56 ↗ they're very interested and they've put

2:49:59 ↗ money aside I don't know how much yet

2:50:01 ↗ but being able to work with her to

2:50:04 ↗ create a program like that I think would

2:50:07 ↗ be something that the residents would

2:50:10 ↗ enjoy so some of the challenges this

2:50:13 ↗ program has a limited staff time since

2:50:15 ↗ my positions only 30 hours a week as you

2:50:18 ↗ heard tonight I'm extremely focused on

2:50:19 ↗ the neighborhood level and interacting

2:50:21 ↗ with residents so there is part of part

2:50:25 ↗ of it is to be cognizant of scope creep

2:50:26 ↗ and there's a neat often for engagement

2:50:28 ↗ that's not based on the neighborhood

2:50:29 ↗ level here in the city and in larger

2:50:32 ↗ citywide event so just keeping that in

2:50:34 ↗ mind and then one of the biggest

2:50:36 ↗ challenges is continually reaching

2:50:38 ↗ residents that may not want to engage

2:50:39 ↗ and you know hope to give them a variety

2:50:42 ↗ of opportunities through this program so

2:50:45 ↗ dividing success a number of resident

2:50:47 ↗ interaction estimates and these are on a

2:50:49 ↗ personal level with this position so

2:50:53 ↗ next door so far about 2,400 meetings

2:50:56 ↗ and events about 1,400 attendees and

2:50:58 ↗ email is about 1,100 and that's anything

2:51:01 ↗ from personal emails to group emails

2:51:03 ↗ HOAs kind of serving as a liaison with

2:51:06 ↗ with them and helping them with even

2:51:09 ↗ some topics with their annual meetings

2:51:11 ↗ or other meetings or being

2:51:12 ↗ with that also defining success here's

2:51:16 ↗ some data that I pulled from a National

2:51:18 ↗ Research Center survey that we took for

2:51:19 ↗ Issaquah so the numbers from the last

2:51:22 ↗ one we took was 2014 and then another

2:51:25 ↗ one was taken this summer 2017 so I

2:51:28 ↗ pulled some of these that were

2:51:30 ↗ significantly increased so the amount of

2:51:33 ↗ residents that attended a local meeting

2:51:34 ↗ from 2014 to 2017 has increased by 10%

2:51:39 ↗ talked to her visited with neighbors 4%

2:51:42 ↗ watched a local public meeting I have to

2:51:45 ↗ do the math eight percent contacted

2:51:47 ↗ elected officials three percent and

2:51:49 ↗ neighborly neighborliness four percent

2:51:51 ↗ so I found those numbers extremely

2:51:53 ↗ interesting also defining success we can

2:51:56 ↗ pull next-door data it tells how many

2:51:59 ↗ interactions that we've had through that

2:52:01 ↗ platform the data that I just provided

2:52:03 ↗ you types of positive feedback provided

2:52:06 ↗ to electeds and other staff the

2:52:09 ↗ development and launch of the active

2:52:10 ↗ projects map the dashboard data of all

2:52:13 ↗ the neighborhood interactions and the

2:52:14 ↗ proactive development meetings and

2:52:15 ↗ outreach so some of the ideas in the

2:52:18 ↗ next steps that I have for the program

2:52:19 ↗ would be a Welcome Wagon so if some of

2:52:21 ↗ the other cities have had success with

2:52:23 ↗ this and basically creating a document

2:52:26 ↗ that allows residents to get plugged in

2:52:29 ↗ with their local government quickly and

2:52:31 ↗ kind of gives them an overview of you

2:52:34 ↗ know what how is how is this across

2:52:36 ↗ structured what are the Commission's and

2:52:39 ↗ then just providing them some of the

2:52:40 ↗ pertinent information that they might

2:52:43 ↗ want to know whenever they move here and

2:52:44 ↗ then targeting them specifically

2:52:47 ↗ obviously pilot the arts program that I

2:52:49 ↗ mentioned earlier having that be a big

2:52:51 ↗ success a mini citizens Academy there's

2:52:55 ↗ quite a few cities that do this so I

2:52:56 ↗ could see doing a six-week citizens

2:52:58 ↗ Academy going on a deeper level with

2:53:00 ↗ those that want to learn a little bit

2:53:02 ↗ more about Issaquah and then obviously

2:53:04 ↗ just more summits and neighborhood

2:53:06 ↗ meetings so that's all I've got so at

2:53:11 ↗ this time just I want to say thank you

2:53:12 ↗ again for having me here tonight and

2:53:14 ↗ then if you have any questions for me

2:53:15 ↗ happy to answer

2:53:17 ↗ you know a pretty impressive update

2:53:21 ↗ there are there questions of Lisa

2:53:25 ↗ Marylou followed by Bill and Mariah

2:53:29 ↗ so Lisa that interactive figure that you

2:53:33 ↗ have is really really great I was just

2:53:35 ↗ wondering if it's also available to

2:53:37 ↗ council members somewhere on the website

2:53:39 ↗ or to other neighborhoods if they want

2:53:40 ↗ to go look it up I'm currently it is not

2:53:42 ↗ okay yes thank you you've jumped in this

2:53:51 ↗ full-fledged in the short year you've

2:53:53 ↗ been here and I'm really glad to hear

2:53:57 ↗ what's going on and getting people more

2:54:00 ↗ engaged in those numbers really

2:54:01 ↗ increasing the two questions I would ask

2:54:03 ↗ for you you mentioned one at the end

2:54:05 ↗ there was a Welcome Wagon or some way to

2:54:09 ↗ outreach new folks moving into town

2:54:11 ↗ particularly I would look at renters

2:54:15 ↗ okay because they seem to take a little

2:54:17 ↗ more to get them engaged sometimes and

2:54:20 ↗ then people that are buying and it's

2:54:21 ↗ also a little harder to maybe find them

2:54:23 ↗ sometimes I'm gonna have a new quite a

2:54:24 ↗ few new rental units coming up here so

2:54:27 ↗ some way to really outreach to to make

2:54:30 ↗ sure they're included very much so as

2:54:32 ↗ well and then the question I started

2:54:34 ↗ asking lately and I'll probably continue

2:54:35 ↗ to ask for it our school district shows

2:54:40 ↗ the diversity of our community really

2:54:42 ↗ changing dramatically but we're not

2:54:45 ↗ seeing that in the adult side and so

2:54:48 ↗ just how instead of what we can do to

2:54:52 ↗ make sure to reach out for the diversity

2:54:53 ↗ of folks that are in the community and

2:54:55 ↗ get them more engaged as well as they

2:54:57 ↗ fit into a community that you know from

2:55:00 ↗ you know a minority in the community to

2:55:02 ↗ really bring them out to look for people

2:55:04 ↗ of color and so forth Purvi those two

2:55:08 ↗ things okay thank you thank you thank

2:55:09 ↗ you very work Ryan my pleasure

2:55:13 ↗ so I just had a question about the the

2:55:15 ↗ neighborhood champions could you tell me

2:55:17 ↗ a little bit more about that so the

2:55:20 ↗ neighborhood champions in my definition

2:55:21 ↗ would be people that want to be more

2:55:23 ↗ engaged with the city and they're people

2:55:25 ↗ that can leverage the contacts within

2:55:27 ↗ the community so we don't have email

2:55:28 ↗ addresses for everybody however these

2:55:30 ↗ and

2:55:30 ↗ champions live there they speak with the

2:55:33 ↗ you know their their local their

2:55:34 ↗ neighbors every day for the most part or

2:55:36 ↗ on a regular basis and so leveraging

2:55:38 ↗ those contacts and people have reached

2:55:41 ↗ out and I have a long list of those

2:55:43 ↗ types of people that when I need to get

2:55:44 ↗ information out to that general area I

2:55:47 ↗ send them a personal email and ask them

2:55:49 ↗ to help me distribute the news that I

2:55:51 ↗ need it's great so you have people

2:55:53 ↗ volunteering I do okay yeah there's a

2:55:56 ↗ lot of people that want to be actively

2:55:58 ↗ engaged you know just on a different

2:56:00 ↗ level but there's like I said

2:56:01 ↗ neighborhood champions that have those

2:56:03 ↗ lists and contacts already so part of

2:56:05 ↗ this job is to leverage that weight well

2:56:08 ↗ thank you for the update and I

2:56:10 ↗ appreciate all the hard work and I

2:56:11 ↗ really like the active project map I

2:56:15 ↗ think that that's that's a great

2:56:16 ↗ improvement and also the ideas that you

2:56:19 ↗ listed for next step next steps the

2:56:22 ↗ welcome-wagon I think is really

2:56:23 ↗ important in this citizens Academy and

2:56:26 ↗ the arts the arts group so thanks for

2:56:30 ↗ all your hard work on all of this my

2:56:32 ↗ pleasure

2:56:33 ↗ other questions or comments

2:56:37 ↗ thank you very very much thank you our

2:56:40 ↗ next and last item under regular

2:56:42 ↗ business is agenda bill seven four seven

2:56:45 ↗ seven the SRC Transportation

2:56:49 ↗ Alternatives program grant for Newport

2:56:53 ↗ Way improvements as our 900 to South

2:56:56 ↗ East 54th Sheldon Lynn of the quirks

2:57:01 ↗ engineering for a short staff update and

2:57:06 ↗ presentation Thank You mayor council i'm

2:57:09 ↗ sheldon lin director of public works

2:57:11 ↗ engineering the agenda bill seven four

2:57:13 ↗ seven seven is actually in front of

2:57:15 ↗ council for consideration authorized the

2:57:18 ↗ administration to submit an application

2:57:19 ↗ to the Puget Sound Regional Council for

2:57:22 ↗ a transportation alternative program

2:57:25 ↗ grant tap grant as it's written up here

2:57:28 ↗ the purpose of the application is

2:57:31 ↗ specifically to try and get some design

2:57:34 ↗ money from the PSR C which is federal

2:57:39 ↗ funds

2:57:41 ↗ just a quick overview of the project

2:57:43 ↗ that this grant application is about is

2:57:47 ↗ the Newport Way corridor between South

2:57:50 ↗ East 54th right here and SR 900 right

2:57:56 ↗ here as you can see this map identifies

2:57:59 ↗ a lot of different activities

2:58:00 ↗ development and other things going on

2:58:02 ↗ along the corridor there's a lot of

2:58:06 ↗ improvements that need to be made to

2:58:09 ↗ this corridor for pedestrian bicyclists

2:58:11 ↗ and so forth

2:58:12 ↗ this little inset picture here gives you

2:58:14 ↗ perspective of what's the corridor look

2:58:16 ↗ like today the project is intended to

2:58:20 ↗ improve facilities and provide

2:58:22 ↗ facilities where they don't exist for

2:58:24 ↗ pedestrians bicycles and improve the

2:58:27 ↗ safety of the corridor throughout the

2:58:29 ↗ whole area for all users to date

2:58:35 ↗ pwe has been out with the help of Lisa

2:58:38 ↗ as she mentioned earlier and has

2:58:41 ↗ actually held two in-depth workshops

2:58:43 ↗ with the community for some community

2:58:45 ↗ engagement to find out what the

2:58:46 ↗ community feels the needs are along the

2:58:48 ↗ corridor and to help develop and further

2:58:51 ↗ develop the concept of the corridor the

2:58:54 ↗ application again for the grant money is

2:58:56 ↗ for design work which will help us

2:58:58 ↗ complete the design from the time in

2:59:01 ↗ which we essentially meet with the HOAs

2:59:04 ↗ this fall through the completion of the

2:59:07 ↗ development of construction documents

2:59:09 ↗ the amount of the grant application is

2:59:12 ↗ going for we're applying for two and a

2:59:14 ↗ half million dollars is the proposal

2:59:16 ↗ which requires about a thirteen and a

2:59:18 ↗ half percent match which is roughly

2:59:20 ↗ three hundred and ninety thousand

2:59:21 ↗ dollars this project is in the capital

2:59:25 ↗ improvement plan they're scheduled to

2:59:27 ↗ have the essentially first phase of

2:59:31 ↗ design begin next year it's about a two

2:59:33 ↗ year process for design and with that

2:59:37 ↗ the recommended motion is that the

2:59:40 ↗ council authorize the middle of the Parc

2:59:42 ↗ grant application for the design phase

2:59:44 ↗ of Newport Way improvements from 900 to

2:59:46 ↗ South East 54th what is the application

2:59:50 ↗ do

2:59:52 ↗ thank you for that question an

2:59:53 ↗ application is due the September 20th

2:59:58 ↗ two days from now I'm going to take a

3:00:04 ↗ little blame for this one here some

3:00:07 ↗ folks thought this should come under the

3:00:08 ↗ consent agenda and I I thought different

3:00:11 ↗ from talking about it from the

3:00:14 ↗ infrastructure chair this is new I want

3:00:16 ↗ to say a couple things about this first

3:00:18 ↗ of all this is a OneTouch thing and

3:00:20 ↗ since I hang on process a whole bunch I

3:00:22 ↗ don't like OneTouch things unless

3:00:23 ↗ there's a an impending date or crisis or

3:00:27 ↗ something and so that the due date for

3:00:30 ↗ this is coming up very quickly and this

3:00:34 ↗ I want a complement staff because we

3:00:36 ↗ weren't this was a way of them doing

3:00:38 ↗ some extra work getting during to get

3:00:41 ↗ that extra grant that we weren't quite

3:00:43 ↗ so where we could get earlier so it

3:00:45 ↗ wasn't like in the you know long

3:00:47 ↗ foreseen future when we're going for so

3:00:49 ↗ they've been hustling a little bit and I

3:00:50 ↗ want to compliment them on that and and

3:00:52 ↗ say that's why it's come up and now we

3:00:54 ↗ have to go for it and so I wanted to

3:00:55 ↗ bring that up why we're doing a one

3:00:57 ↗ touch on that and complement their

3:00:59 ↗ efforts and because this has been such a

3:01:02 ↗ large community involvement we've really

3:01:04 ↗ been pushing the community in this I

3:01:06 ↗ want to make I just wanted to highlight

3:01:08 ↗ this for sure that people realized that

3:01:10 ↗ and you know this is possibly a couple

3:01:12 ↗ of two and a half million dollars or

3:01:14 ↗ less whatever we can get out of that

3:01:16 ↗ that's a maximum amount that we can get

3:01:18 ↗ out of that with a thirteen percent

3:01:19 ↗ match that I would sure like to get to

3:01:21 ↗ and put to the design here versus

3:01:22 ↗ covering all out of City of Issaquah

3:01:24 ↗ funding which is what it's funded at

3:01:26 ↗ right now so this would be a big change

3:01:28 ↗ and we want to make sure we had like

3:01:30 ↗ that and complan staff on that and let

3:01:32 ↗ you know what's going on and that's why

3:01:34 ↗ brought it here to this thing so with

3:01:37 ↗ that I will make a motion

3:01:40 ↗ so go ahead move to authorize the middle

3:01:45 ↗ of the PSR see grant application for the

3:01:47 ↗ design phase of Newport Way improvements

3:01:49 ↗ from State Route 900 to South East 54th

3:01:51 ↗ Street second moved and seconded twice

3:01:58 ↗ their fight was perfect

3:02:00 ↗ okay questions or discussion on the

3:02:04 ↗ motion

3:02:04 ↗ Oh simple point I appreciate you

3:02:08 ↗ pointing out the match at 13 and a half

3:02:11 ↗ percent that was an example of some of

3:02:13 ↗ these policies and guidelines and that

3:02:15 ↗ this this task force that I'm part of

3:02:18 ↗ I guess that hasn't changed for a while

3:02:20 ↗ but that was that is one of those

3:02:22 ↗ standard ones I was referring to earlier

3:02:24 ↗ that committee meeting I went last week

3:02:25 ↗ PSR C always requires there's also some

3:02:29 ↗ project tracking requirements I know

3:02:31 ↗ that are probably going to remain as

3:02:33 ↗ there as well but I just want to point

3:02:34 ↗ that out as as an example of one of

3:02:36 ↗ those policies is the matching level 13

3:02:40 ↗ and a half percent other questions or

3:02:43 ↗ discussion are you ready to act all

3:02:47 ↗ those in favor of authorizing the that

3:02:51 ↗ thing back up there authorize this

3:03:00 ↗ middle of the ESRC grant application for

3:03:03 ↗ the design phase of Newport Way

3:03:05 ↗ improvements from SR 902 South East 54th

3:03:09 ↗ signify by saying aye those opposed

3:03:13 ↗ I'd carries unanimously now moving to

3:03:16 ↗ good of the order does anyone have

3:03:19 ↗ anything just evening for go to the

3:03:21 ↗ order I have okay I just wanted to

3:03:26 ↗ remind everyone to mark your calendars

3:03:28 ↗ for October 7th and 8th which of course

3:03:30 ↗ is salmon days here in Issaquah and we

3:03:32 ↗ get to celebrate the salmon returning

3:03:34 ↗ back home to the essica waters and we

3:03:37 ↗ celebrate it with lots of arts and

3:03:39 ↗ crafts and music great food and of

3:03:42 ↗ course always the field of fun so 7th

3:03:44 ↗ and 8th and we'll see everybody downtown

3:03:46 ↗ Thank You Eileen mellow you just wanted

3:03:50 ↗ to check and see I know I sent the fire

3:03:53 ↗ chief summary today but if anybody has

3:03:55 ↗ questions about standards of cover and

3:03:59 ↗ the new changes we might be looking at I

3:04:02 ↗ could take them tonight or you can just

3:04:03 ↗ email me them if there's going to be

3:04:06 ↗ discussing this with their board over

3:04:08 ↗ the next

3:04:08 ↗ months but it is very different than

3:04:11 ↗ what we've seen before we're going to be

3:04:13 ↗ way down into station location and

3:04:16 ↗ actually types of stations considering

3:04:18 ↗ even doing different types of stations

3:04:20 ↗ now so it should be an interesting

3:04:22 ↗ conversation thank you

3:04:24 ↗ anything else there is no requirement

3:04:27 ↗ for a follow-on Executive Committee

3:04:30 ↗ meeting we are adjourned

3:04:44 ↗ you

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Council / Members (7)

Eileen Barber

Mariah Bettise

Stacy Goodman

Tola Marts

Mary Lou Pauly

Bill Ramos

Paul Winterstein

Motions and votes (9)

Adopt Ordinance No. 2806, amending Issaquah Municipal Code Section 18.07.480, Community Facilities Standards, and Central Issaquah Development and Design Standards Chapter 4.0 Zoning Districts, Uses and Standards to include standards for the siting of public schools in the Community Facilities – Fac…

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Amend the ordinance to remove all proposed revisions to tree retention, minimum density and replacement. .

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Direct the Administration to create a separate zone for public schools in 2018, which would include clean-up to code revisions adopted this evening where conflicts exist, for example architectural compatibility, landscape requirements, etc.

Moved by RAMOS · seconded by PAULY

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Amend the motion as follows: Direct the Administration to create explore the creation of a separate zone for public schools in 2018, which would include clean-up to code revisions adopted this evening where conflicts exist, for example architectural compatibility, landscape requirements, etc. . (Opp…

Moved by WINTERSTEIN · seconded by GOODMAN

Carried 6-1

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Paul Winterstein

Opposed: Bill Ramos

Approve Resolution No. 2017-14, adopting the Housing Strategy Work Plan; and refer prioritization, implementation, and evaluation of the Housing Strategy Work Plan to the Council Land & Shore Committee for review.

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Authorize submittal of the PSRC grant application for the design phase of Newport Way Improvements from SR 900 to SE 54th St. .

Moved by RAMOS · seconded by WINTERSTEIN

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Main motion as amended: Adopt Ordinance No. 2806, amending Issaquah Municipal Code Section 18.07.480, Community Facilities Standards, and Central Issaquah Development and Design Standards Chapter 4.0 Zoning Districts, Uses and Standards to include standards for the siting of public schools in the Co…

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by PAULY

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein

Main motion as amended: Direct the Administration to create a separate zone for public schools in 2018, which would include clean-up to code revisions adopted this evening where conflicts exist, for example architectural compatibility, landscape requirements, etc.

Moved by RAMOS · seconded by PAULY

Carried 7-0

In favor: Eileen Barber, Mariah Bettise, Stacy Goodman, Tola Marts, Mary Lou Pauly, Bill Ramos, Paul Winterstein