City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, April 2, 2018 · City Council Digest

3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

Sexual Assault Awareness Month Hear Presentation AB 7578

packet pp.5–6

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Staff report:

Administration / Executive Department:

Citywide Strategic Plan Hear Presentation AB 7574

packet pp.7–16

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Staff report:

Administration / Office of Sustainability:

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, March 19, 2018

Approve · packet pp.151

Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Nov 30, 2017

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Staff report:

The purpose of the special meeting was to allow the City Council to recess into Executive Session to discuss pending/potential litigation.

Central Issaquah District Visions AB 7344

Refer to Council Land & Shore Committee · packet pp.153–199

Topics: Land Use

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 20, 2017 Planning Policy Commission · Nov 30, 2017

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Staff report:

In 2012 — to protect Issaquah's existing neighborhoods and natural environment — the City adopted the Central Issaquah Plan (effective April, 2013) to guide the long-term evolution of our community's existing commercial core into an urban center. The Plan includes 10 Districts within Central Issaquah, each with a specific vision. During a July 2016 check-up on the Plan, the City assessed whether projects that have been built, approved or are currently under review, met the community's vision for Central Issaquah.

Department of Ecology Local Solid Waste Financial Assistance Grant AB 7382

Refer to Council Services & Safety · packet pp.201–203

Topics: Public SafetyCritical Areas

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Staff report:

Administration / Office of Sustainability:

Amending IMC Chapter 16.04, Construction Codes, Permit Fees AB 7494

Approve Resolution · packet pp.225–243

Topics: Land UseBudget

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Staff report:

UPDATED CITY COUNCIL AB 7494 - AGENDA BILL Consent City Council Regular Meeting - 02 Apr 2018 Calendar

Cascade Water Alliance Board Representation AB 7587

Approve Resolution · packet pp.313–315

Topics: Water

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Staff report:

Administration / Executive Department:

8. PUBLIC HEARING

Vacation of a Portion of NE Gilman Blvd AB 7485

Adopt Ordinance · packet pp.317–341

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

Council Infrastructure Committee / Bill Ramos, Chair:

10. GOOD OF THE ORDER

10a

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:25 ↗ welcome everyone I'd like to call the

0:27 ↗ April 2nd regular City Council meeting

0:29 ↗ to order

0:30 ↗ councilmembers Goodman and Ray are

0:32 ↗ excused this evening I'd like to ask any

0:35 ↗ of the you in the audience this evening

0:37 ↗ that would like to join the council

0:38 ↗ myself and the Pledge of Allegiance

1:02 ↗ first item under special business this

1:05 ↗ evening is a proclamation eb7 570 sexual

1:10 ↗ assault awareness month and I would like

1:13 ↗ to call King County sexual assault

1:15 ↗ Resource Center board member sandy do

1:17 ↗ pleats to please join me at the lectern

1:33 ↗ whereas sexual assault awareness month

1:36 ↗ calls attention to the fact that sexual

1:38 ↗ violence is widespread and impacts every

1:41 ↗ person in this community and whereas in

1:43 ↗ Washington State forty five percent of

1:46 ↗ women and twenty-two percent of men

1:47 ↗ report having experienced sexual

1:50 ↗ violence in their lifetime

1:51 ↗ and whereas nationally one in five

1:54 ↗ children under the age of 18 are

1:56 ↗ sexually abused and in King County last

1:58 ↗ year 2000 children and youth who have

2:01 ↗ been sexually abused received services

2:03 ↗ from the King County sexual assault

2:05 ↗ Resource Center and whereas working

2:08 ↗ together to educate our community about

2:10 ↗ sexual violence supporting survivors

2:12 ↗ when they come forward speaking out

2:15 ↗ against harmful attitudes and actions

2:17 ↗ and engaging in best practice sexual

2:20 ↗ violence prevention sexual violence

2:23 ↗ prevention work helps end sexual

2:25 ↗ violence

2:26 ↗ now therefore I marry you poly mayor of

2:29 ↗ the city of Issaquah do hereby proclaim

2:31 ↗ April

2:33 ↗ 2018 to be sexual assault awareness

2:35 ↗ month in the city of Issaquah and I

2:39 ↗ encourage all citizens to join me in

2:41 ↗ this special observance and join

2:42 ↗ advocates and communities across King

2:44 ↗ County and taking action to prevent

2:46 ↗ sexual violence if witnessed there of I

2:49 ↗ have Herrin to set my hand and seal to

2:51 ↗ city of Ithaca the second of April and

2:53 ↗ I'd like to give her a chance to speak

2:55 ↗ thank you so much good evening council

2:59 ↗ members and city residents my name is

3:01 ↗ sandy duplate and I'm a board member for

3:04 ↗ King County sexual assault Resource

3:05 ↗ Center I just wanted to say thank you

3:08 ↗ first of all for really giving the

3:10 ↗ importance that this Proclamation

3:13 ↗ deserves by proclaiming April as Sexual

3:17 ↗ Assault Awareness Month in the City of

3:20 ↗ Issaquah as a resident of the city for

3:23 ↗ 20 years over 20 years actually and

3:25 ↗ having raised three children here it is

3:28 ↗ just so important to me to know that as

3:31 ↗ a parent and as a board member of this

3:33 ↗ really important organization that our

3:36 ↗ city stands behind the survivors of

3:38 ↗ sexual assault so thank you so much for

3:40 ↗ supporting

3:41 ↗ Sark and Human Services with funding as

3:45 ↗ well as it's so important and we just we

3:48 ↗ can't be more grateful so thank you I

3:59 ↗ also have some buttons for the council

4:03 ↗ members if that's okay thank you for

4:11 ↗ coming today sandy next item under

4:14 ↗ special business is a B 757 for citywide

4:18 ↗ strategic plan will be hearing our

4:20 ↗ presentation this evening this is the

4:22 ↗ first presentation council I'd like to

4:25 ↗ invite sustainability director David

4:26 ↗ Fujimoto and consultant Bryan Scott of

4:29 ↗ BDS planning and urban design to present

4:31 ↗ an an overview of the our Issaquah

4:34 ↗ project thank you madam mayor and

4:38 ↗ council members I'm David Fujimoto

4:40 ↗ director of the office of sustainability

4:42 ↗ we're here tonight to talk a little bit

4:44 ↗ about the launch of our work on the

4:47 ↗ citywide strategic plan I just give you

4:49 ↗ a brief overview and share this

4:51 ↗ information with the public since we're

4:53 ↗ now getting underway as Mary Lou the

4:58 ↗ mayor mentioned I'm also joined by Brian

4:59 ↗ Scott principal of BDS planning and

5:02 ↗ consulting who we've brought on board to

5:04 ↗ support us in this effort real quickly

5:08 ↗ in terms of the overall purpose and

5:11 ↗ intent of this project it's been a goal

5:13 ↗ for the city and City Council for many

5:15 ↗ years to get this work underway so we're

5:17 ↗ extremely excited about getting this

5:19 ↗ process underway really we're here to

5:22 ↗ affirm the vision for Issaquah and

5:25 ↗ establish a framework for us to be able

5:27 ↗ to better understand and articulate the

5:30 ↗ community's priorities and then develop

5:32 ↗ a framework and a process and tools that

5:35 ↗ will help us to align our efforts

5:36 ↗ towards those those processes it's

5:39 ↗ something that we know needs to be

5:41 ↗ strategic in nature it needs to be

5:42 ↗ forward-looking in the process of doing

5:45 ↗ this work we have some goals to engage

5:48 ↗ diverse audiences in our community

5:50 ↗ through a variety of engagement efforts

5:52 ↗ carrying those engagement efforts

5:54 ↗ throughout the

5:56 ↗ we know that we want to as we're

5:58 ↗ identifying some of those priorities and

6:00 ↗ articulating goals that will be

6:02 ↗ developing strategies but also

6:03 ↗ developing performance measures to help

6:05 ↗ identify whether or not we're making

6:07 ↗ progress and then we also know it's

6:09 ↗ something that in the end needs to be

6:11 ↗ able to be clearly communicated to our

6:13 ↗ constituents out to our communities so

6:15 ↗ that they know what it is that we've

6:18 ↗ identified and how we're making progress

6:21 ↗ we see this as something that's a tool

6:23 ↗ that will also line to the city's

6:25 ↗ efforts internally in terms of how we

6:27 ↗ think about our staff how we work

6:30 ↗ jointly and cross departmental Eon

6:32 ↗ projects will also align with future

6:34 ↗ budget efforts so we can align our

6:36 ↗ community priorities with our budgeting

6:37 ↗ process as well as other plans and

6:40 ↗ strategies and tools like our capital

6:42 ↗ planning process as well I'm going to

6:47 ↗ turn it over to Brian to talk a little

6:49 ↗ bit more about BDS and Eko Northwest

6:52 ↗ who's the the consulting groups that are

6:54 ↗ working with us and a little bit more

6:55 ↗ about the process

6:59 ↗ good evening I'm Brian Scott with BDS

7:02 ↗ planning and I have the pleasure being

7:05 ↗ the project director on this project and

7:07 ↗ I've spoken with most of you on the

7:09 ↗ phone in the last week so nice to

7:11 ↗ connect with you face-to-face

7:16 ↗ BDS planning and echo Northwest are

7:19 ↗ working together on this project we

7:22 ↗ often work together and we do a lot of

7:25 ↗ public sector strategic planning

7:28 ↗ including municipal strategic planning

7:30 ↗ we recently did a strategic plan for

7:32 ↗ Salem Oregon we're currently engaged in

7:35 ↗ one in McMinnville Oregon BDS who

7:39 ↗ recently finished facilitating the King

7:42 ↗ County 911 cluding councilmember Mart's

7:48 ↗ participating in in that effort Echo

7:53 ↗ Northwest is the Northwest oldest and

7:57 ↗ largest economics firm one of its

8:00 ↗ founding principals Terry Moore as their

8:02 ↗ lead on this project

8:05 ↗ along with some others BDS has been I

8:09 ↗ founded the firm about ten years ago

8:12 ↗ I've been doing community development

8:15 ↗ and strategic planning around the

8:17 ↗ Pacific Northwest for over 35 years had

8:20 ↗ the chance to work in communities all

8:22 ↗ across Oregon and Washington and so it's

8:25 ↗ a pleasure to be in a community that I

8:27 ↗ haven't worked before and and add add to

8:31 ↗ the portfolio of work on this particular

8:35 ↗ project

8:37 ↗ there are four key parts a situational

8:40 ↗ assessment community engagement the

8:42 ↗ strategic plan and implementation

8:44 ↗ strategy echo Northwest is the lead on

8:47 ↗ the facility on the on the situation

8:49 ↗ assessment they're underway on that now

8:52 ↗ Terry Moore as I mentioned Mike Gleason

8:55 ↗ who is a longtime public sector manager

9:00 ↗ he managed four different cities in

9:02 ↗ three counties so he's a very seasoned

9:04 ↗ professional he's mostly retired now but

9:06 ↗ he has a lot of useful advice as well as

9:10 ↗ Eric rondell who's done some recent work

9:12 ↗ in Issaquah so he's familiar with the

9:14 ↗ community help bill to give us that

9:16 ↗ anchor our Community Engagement Team

9:18 ↗ will be led by our project manager

9:20 ↗ gabriel silver blat who is here with me

9:22 ↗ tonight and we have a team of diverse

9:27 ↗ folks who we hand-picked to try and fit

9:30 ↗ the different communities in Issaquah

9:32 ↗ that we want to engage and then all of

9:35 ↗ us will be working together on the

9:36 ↗ strategic planning and implementation

9:38 ↗ parts of the project the process as I

9:43 ↗ described to some of you individually

9:45 ↗ but I haven't done it in public has

9:47 ↗ three big phases the first one is about

9:50 ↗ who we are now and who do we who do we

9:53 ↗ want to be who do we feel about it the

9:56 ↗ second phase is about where do we want

9:58 ↗ to go that's really the strategic

10:00 ↗ thinking phase and then the third phase

10:03 ↗ is about how we're going to get there

10:05 ↗ implementation planning for that just

10:08 ↗ underway for a few weeks now but there

10:10 ↗ are lots of parts to the community

10:12 ↗ engagement I think David's going to

10:14 ↗ mention a few more of those in a moment

10:16 ↗ we're about to

10:18 ↗ launched a community-wide online survey

10:20 ↗ so everybody can have a chance to

10:22 ↗ express their values about Issaquah and

10:25 ↗ their dreams and hopes we're engaging a

10:28 ↗ number of focus groups for people to

10:31 ↗ talk about what they hope for Issaquah

10:34 ↗ we're producing a thing we're calling

10:35 ↗ meeting in a box so we have all the

10:37 ↗ materials for folks that want to add to

10:39 ↗ those meetings and organize their own

10:41 ↗ meetings as well as some community

10:44 ↗ pop-up events at the same time that echo

10:47 ↗ Northwest is busy compiling a situation

10:50 ↗ assessment based on city's existing

10:52 ↗ documents and interviews with city

10:55 ↗ department heads to try and sort of

10:57 ↗ characterize that situation that the

11:00 ↗ existing situation that'll all come

11:02 ↗ together at a strategic planning

11:04 ↗ Charette later in the spring where we'll

11:06 ↗ meet with the council department heads

11:08 ↗ and key stakeholders in the community to

11:11 ↗ try and refine that into some key

11:13 ↗ strategic priority areas and then we'll

11:15 ↗ work through the couple of months after

11:17 ↗ that - in individual workgroups on each

11:20 ↗ of those priority areas to establish

11:22 ↗ goals and objectives and then through

11:25 ↗ the summer on specific action plans and

11:28 ↗ performance metrics and a first year

11:30 ↗ work plan so that's the plan for the

11:32 ↗ process today is just an introduction to

11:35 ↗ that Thank You Bryan so just a little

11:41 ↗ bit more information in terms of

11:42 ↗ timeline going forward we are still

11:45 ↗ working on some specific dates as we

11:47 ↗ think about the engagement effort really

11:50 ↗ as part of that first phase of

11:52 ↗ engagement that Brian spoke about

11:54 ↗ there's a pretty concerted effort and

11:56 ↗ the staff led effort to go out to the

11:59 ↗ community to reach the diverse audiences

12:02 ↗ that we have in our community we want to

12:04 ↗ make sure that we get that part right

12:05 ↗ and so that's going to take some time we

12:07 ↗ have a whole variety of different

12:08 ↗ strategies for doing that but that

12:11 ↗ really kind of drives our schedule going

12:12 ↗ forward it's the key and one of the most

12:15 ↗ important inputs into the community

12:19 ↗ strategic planning Charette that will be

12:21 ↗ happening that will be in May or June as

12:24 ↗ well as the situational assessment

12:27 ↗ that's coming forward as well in the

12:29 ↗ process of review

12:31 ↗ we can't proceed to reach through each

12:32 ↗ of these steps we'll be working with a

12:34 ↗ project leadership team with some

12:37 ↗ various checkpoints and then also

12:38 ↗ working with City Council's so we'll be

12:40 ↗ coming back to City Council three

12:42 ↗ different points in the process before

12:44 ↗ bringing it forward for adoption and

12:46 ↗ those will show up as council work

12:48 ↗ sessions so those are in the process of

12:50 ↗ being scheduled I think there's some

12:51 ↗ tentative dates on the planning calendar

12:53 ↗ but those will be relooked at as we

12:56 ↗ proceed with the engagement process

12:58 ↗ concurrent with that is also ongoing

13:00 ↗ communications that will have out about

13:03 ↗ the the project as a whole a couple of

13:06 ↗ pieces in kind of real time or it's

13:09 ↗ happening right now Brian mentioned the

13:11 ↗ vision and value survey that is now live

13:14 ↗ we just launched that today on the

13:17 ↗ city's website so our communications

13:19 ↗ team will actually be promoting that

13:21 ↗ through a variety of different channels

13:22 ↗ as both electronic as well as just in on

13:26 ↗ the ground in the different communities

13:28 ↗ there'll be a resource card that has

13:30 ↗ here somewhere that will be shared to

13:33 ↗ different audiences we're talking about

13:35 ↗ a-frame signs in neighborhoods so we can

13:37 ↗ get the word out trying to find a whole

13:39 ↗ variety of different avenues in addition

13:41 ↗ to direct outreach to different

13:43 ↗ community voices and leaders to be able

13:46 ↗ to share that information so vision and

13:48 ↗ value surveys on the streets there's a

13:51 ↗ link or a URL to the website if you go

13:54 ↗ there you can find a link to both the

13:57 ↗ survey as well as you can sign up to

13:59 ↗ alert a listserv so you can be informed

14:01 ↗ about future events and updates on the

14:05 ↗ website and then we're also working to

14:08 ↗ schedule the pop-up events the meetings

14:10 ↗ in a box and then focus groups later

14:13 ↗ this month and into next month thank you

14:17 ↗ David and Brian and Gabriel you weren't

14:19 ↗ there so can you wave it everybody

14:21 ↗ that's Gabriel or other round team

14:23 ↗ partner there during special

14:25 ↗ presentations we usually do not have

14:27 ↗ questions but if you have a quick

14:28 ↗ question or two we can probably fit it

14:30 ↗ in tonight okay thank you thank you very

14:35 ↗ much

14:36 ↗ very exciting start next on our agenda

14:39 ↗ this evening is audience comments this

14:41 ↗ is your time to address your council

14:44 ↗ there are guidelines on this on the

14:46 ↗ bottom of the meeting agenda anyone who

14:48 ↗ signed up on our speakers list tonight

14:50 ↗ will be called forward first and if you

14:52 ↗ did not sign up I will then ask for

14:54 ↗ other speakers before I close this

14:56 ↗ portion of the meeting when you're

14:58 ↗ recognized please come up to the lectern

15:01 ↗ use the micro and speak into the

15:03 ↗ microphone state your name address and

15:05 ↗ relationship to the city just a wave of

15:08 ↗ hands how many people do we think we're

15:10 ↗ having speak tonight about ten okay so

15:14 ↗ we will limit comments to 5-minutes

15:16 ↗ tonight and if you have anything in

15:18 ↗ writing please come up after and submit

15:20 ↗ it to the city clerk there is also a

15:22 ↗ public hearing tonight regarding a

15:24 ↗ Street vacation of a portion of

15:26 ↗ Northeast Gilman Boulevard if you'd like

15:28 ↗ to make comments on this topic you'll

15:30 ↗ have an opportunity to do so later in

15:32 ↗ the meeting thank you for taking the

15:34 ↗ time to come in and talk to your council

15:36 ↗ tonight and has anyone signed up to

15:38 ↗ speak this evening yes Elizabeth my pen

15:45 ↗ hello I'm Elizabeth mapa I live at 100

15:49 ↗ Big Bear place Northwest and I've been a

15:56 ↗ resident most of the time since 1982 and

16:01 ↗ have served on the Human Services

16:03 ↗ Commission recently there was another

16:09 ↗ mitigated determination of non

16:11 ↗ significance related to the providence

16:14 ↗ Heights property it seems to me that

16:19 ↗ there's been considerable public comment

16:23 ↗ about the significance of that site both

16:26 ↗ the first time we went through this and

16:28 ↗ the second time and it doesn't seem to

16:31 ↗ be making any impact so I'm wondering I

16:35 ↗ know you can't answer questions now but

16:37 ↗ I wonder what part that public input

16:43 ↗ really has in that public comment period

16:48 ↗ on the final outcome of determining the

16:52 ↗ significance of destroying properties

16:57 ↗ in this city that's my concern Thank You

17:00 ↗ Q Lizabeth Susan Haas

17:15 ↗ hey good evening staff and city council

17:19 ↗ and mayor Polly thank you my name is

17:23 ↗ Susan Haas and I live in Sammamish at

17:25 ↗ 195 to 4 southeast 24th place and I'm a

17:30 ↗ Thursday morning volunteer at the quad

17:32 ↗ food and clothing bank so that's my main

17:35 ↗ connection to Issaquah and also just

17:39 ↗ being one of the many people interested

17:42 ↗ in preservation of Providence Heights

17:44 ↗ campus a very special but very secluded

17:47 ↗ place I just want to say something great

17:53 ↗ happened there was a woman named Martha

17:55 ↗ from the Office of Sustainability that

17:57 ↗ responded to a question that I had about

17:59 ↗ the single-family small lot zoning I was

18:02 ↗ wondering whether social services and

18:05 ↗ nonprofit organizations whether that

18:07 ↗ permitted use cannot be overnight

18:11 ↗ services and she Keith Nibin graciously

18:16 ↗ asked her and she said yes absolutely it

18:20 ↗ can be for a shelter it can be for

18:22 ↗ transitional housing so it was really

18:25 ↗ good news just to that citywide that

18:28 ↗ zoning allows that I just was so

18:30 ↗ heartened by that and also that's the

18:33 ↗ zoning that's at Providence Heights

18:35 ↗ campus right now and it would be just

18:39 ↗ great too if that place can be preserved

18:42 ↗ to work with the city on what the city's

18:44 ↗ vision already is for that you know site

18:47 ↗ through the zoning and all of that so

18:48 ↗ we're just really thrilled with a lot of

18:51 ↗ the contact was various staff here Keith

18:54 ↗ Niven and other people and also I just

18:58 ↗ wanted to say I really applaud that this

18:59 ↗ partnership with the his across school

19:02 ↗ district and working together I think

19:04 ↗ that is so great the this cooperation

19:08 ↗ and coordination that you started this

19:11 ↗ afternoon or I'm sure it was started

19:13 ↗ before then but it's really wonderful

19:15 ↗ and I just really encourage that that

19:18 ↗ process that you really empower

19:21 ↗ yourselves and the school board to be

19:23 ↗ and this

19:24 ↗ staff the city staff the school board

19:26 ↗ stab to be really equitable in that

19:28 ↗ process and very just and very

19:30 ↗ transparent that you know everything you

19:33 ↗ need to know to be able to make your

19:35 ↗ decisions em and I guess one small

19:38 ↗ example is that the testing for the

19:41 ↗ soils on that site near the Swedish

19:43 ↗ hospital and the assessment of the trees

19:47 ↗ it sounds like it has not been completed

19:51 ↗ potentially because it's expensive to do

19:55 ↗ but as I understand how people's time is

19:58 ↗ very precious also that I guess I just

20:02 ↗ encourage you to ask the school board to

20:05 ↗ just find out what needs to be found out

20:08 ↗ before going through all the questions

20:12 ↗ from City Council and all the you know

20:15 ↗ the process and the calendars and all

20:17 ↗ that because I just know how valuable

20:19 ↗ your time is to you and your loved ones

20:22 ↗ and I just want to see it I'll work out

20:24 ↗ well and in terms of other school sites

20:27 ↗ I just

20:28 ↗ I've heard of various school sites and

20:33 ↗ the one that they condemned near

20:35 ↗ Connie's as far as I understand today I

20:38 ↗ just really think it's important to look

20:41 ↗ at the whole picture and the whole

20:44 ↗ school district and what you're doing

20:47 ↗ today bringing a map and all your

20:49 ↗ information and I think that will really

20:53 ↗ help make some really good decisions and

20:59 ↗ then see how can you best maximize all

21:02 ↗ your goals and still you know this is

21:06 ↗ the city and the special district that

21:08 ↗ the school district is so thanks a lot

21:13 ↗ Thank You Susan even know that yes Karen

21:18 ↗ Lee

21:28 ↗ hello my name is Karen Lee Elizabeth

21:32 ↗ Suzanne and I would say I moved to its

21:35 ↗ the club in 1991 and now it is part of

21:41 ↗ Sammamish so technically I live in some

21:43 ↗ amis now Susan Elizabeth and I are on

21:48 ↗ the board of preserved Providence

21:52 ↗ Heights we are a 501 C 3 non-profit we

21:57 ↗ organized in December to help save

22:00 ↗ Providence Heights for historical

22:03 ↗ landmark which as the Quad City Issaquah

22:05 ↗ designated last year and we have been

22:11 ↗ trying very hard to find another use for

22:16 ↗ Providence Heights so that the city of

22:21 ↗ Ithaca could have social services and

22:26 ↗ housing for the poor and preserve the

22:29 ↗ buildings that are there now it which

22:30 ↗ could be reused and including the fact

22:33 ↗ that is the only bomb shelter on the

22:36 ↗ east side and we may need it someday we

22:42 ↗ heard about a couple other sites for

22:44 ↗ high schools that I don't know if

22:47 ↗ they're possible but they're both in the

22:50 ↗ Highlands which would be a great because

22:52 ↗ most of those students who need us high

22:56 ↗ school are in the Highlands it would be

22:59 ↗ great for them to have a local high

23:00 ↗ school so they don't wouldn't have to be

23:02 ↗ bused to Providence Heights which is

23:05 ↗ pretty far away from them and one of

23:09 ↗ them is lakeside development of five

23:16 ↗ acres and the other one is shelter

23:19 ↗ Holdings which has 21.5 acres I know

23:23 ↗ that they're getting ready to develop it

23:25 ↗ but maybe something else could be put

23:27 ↗ there like a high school and our

23:31 ↗ nonprofit is working very hard to

23:33 ↗ partner with other nonprofits and we

23:36 ↗ found another nonprofit who is very

23:38 ↗ interested in buying the property

23:41 ↗ - she was here at the last council

23:44 ↗ meeting to talk about it her vision of

23:47 ↗ housing women and rehabilitating them to

23:52 ↗ be functional members of society and

23:54 ↗ then their families and then finally

23:57 ↗ later on men and we have other

24:01 ↗ nonprofits that are very interested in

24:03 ↗ joining with us so that they also have

24:06 ↗ some money but together we could

24:09 ↗ probably come up with enough money -

24:13 ↗ that would satisfy a church home that

24:15 ↗ they would be willing to sell it to us I

24:17 ↗ mean not to us but to her

24:19 ↗ we're just facilitating this we're not

24:21 ↗ we're not actually good involved the

24:28 ↗ other thing is about where was that

24:31 ↗ going

24:36 ↗ the in order for this to happen we need

24:40 ↗ to have the historical and marking stay

24:44 ↗ in place because Christine could really

24:48 ↗ she said Oh probably cost about maybe

24:51 ↗ three to five million dollars to remodel

24:53 ↗ the buildings as they are so that

24:56 ↗ they're fully functional to her purposes

24:58 ↗ and we would have to have the school

25:03 ↗ district remove the eminent domain which

25:05 ↗ is why I mentioned the other sites for a

25:08 ↗ possible high school in the Highlands

25:10 ↗ instead of Providence Heights and so

25:12 ↗ with your help we could help fulfill

25:15 ↗ this provision and it's time for

25:17 ↗ something really wonderful at Providence

25:19 ↗ Heights Thank You Aaron before you leave

25:22 ↗ can I get an address for their preserved

25:24 ↗ Providence Heights as well or your

25:28 ↗ address my address is 582 to 40th Avenue

25:31 ↗ southeast Sammamish and I put it on the

25:35 ↗ form to fill out to speak thank you

25:38 ↗ Karen you know one further has signed up

25:41 ↗ to speak is there anyone else I would

25:44 ↗ like to speak this evening mr. Kapler

25:45 ↗ standing up

25:50 ↗ thank you David Kepler 255 southeast

25:53 ↗ Andrews traffic-calming in old town

25:56 ↗ seems to be working including even with

25:58 ↗ garbage bags on the signs so thank you

26:01 ↗ we'll see if it keeps working given the

26:06 ↗ lights issue at the middle school I

26:09 ↗ think we just demonstrated that the belt

26:12 ↗ the inquest School District is not

26:13 ↗ capable of doing their own SEPA and SEPA

26:16 ↗ for a school site in the highlands needs

26:18 ↗ to be done by this city we also need a

26:21 ↗ park on the western part of the

26:23 ↗ highlands and we got a limited amount of

26:26 ↗ property where that part could be but

26:28 ↗ that is a priority for the city and for

26:30 ↗ the citizens up there the site across

26:34 ↗ the east of the school of the city's

26:37 ↗ property up there is an L a parking lot

26:39 ↗ but that's not the long-term used for

26:41 ↗ that area I don't know how tall that

26:42 ↗ buildings gonna be but I think the

26:44 ↗ school building could be brought to them

26:47 ↗ they eased as much as possible because

26:49 ↗ it's going to be completely visible from

26:52 ↗ whether it's a hundred feet in or ten

26:56 ↗ feet in it's going to be completely

26:57 ↗ visible from looking west from the

27:00 ↗ Highlands the green strip that they show

27:04 ↗ on their city on their account on the

27:06 ↗ school district website on the eastern

27:08 ↗ boundary of that site where those homes

27:11 ↗ is not going to work gonna those trees

27:14 ↗ are all in trouble that the land has

27:16 ↗ been so worked over there drainage has

27:19 ↗ been changed over time and all the rest

27:21 ↗ the impacts this that little strip of

27:24 ↗ green is gonna have to be read redone

27:28 ↗ restarted from scratch and there's

27:34 ↗ forest health issues on the more western

27:36 ↗ part and the slope we've been dealing

27:39 ↗ with lemonade rut rod up a tradition

27:40 ↗ plateau for years there's now 20 and 30

27:44 ↗ foot cedar trees in the middle where

27:46 ↗ that started and that's how that happens

27:49 ↗ when the county is likes the idea of a

27:52 ↗ state forest so they got County Forest

27:53 ↗ now they're doing two big clearcuts

27:57 ↗ they're out practically clerical it's

27:58 ↗ down by Black Diamond because of the

28:00 ↗ laminated root rot is so bad down there

28:02 ↗ and they're going back and planning with

28:04 ↗ cedar and pine and the State Park had

28:07 ↗ that problem in the parking lot off May

28:09 ↗ Valley Road it's pine trees now in cedar

28:11 ↗ are with the replacements thank you

28:14 ↗ thank you David

28:24 ↗ my name is Mary Lynch and I recited to

28:27 ↗ 6:9 Oh North West Oak Crest Drive

28:28 ↗ Issaquah Washington I do what I say I

28:31 ↗ was glad that there was a meeting with a

28:33 ↗ school district I would hope that the

28:35 ↗ school district would do a couple more

28:38 ↗ steps in getting all the cities and

28:40 ↗ county representatives together in one

28:42 ↗ big meeting and down and start

28:44 ↗ discussing the overall school district

28:46 ↗ and the impacts because I don't I see

28:49 ↗ their parcel Mealing it out one of the

28:52 ↗ things that's very obvious if you look

28:54 ↗ at the CEPA as dave said that they did

28:57 ↗ for the Issaquah middle nothing was

28:59 ↗ really said about traffic and the amount

29:00 ↗ of busing and Parrott traffic that's

29:02 ↗ coming into the city due to Issaquah

29:04 ↗ middle but i know if you're aware of but

29:06 ↗ there are buses coming over Lake Mont

29:09 ↗ and s 900 from Newcastle to is a common

29:12 ↗ middle the new proposed element or

29:15 ↗ middle school that they have behind

29:17 ↗ Issaquah Valley probably also will be

29:20 ↗ busing from those areas because to my

29:22 ↗ knowledge they have not located any

29:24 ↗ property yet down in the Newcastle or in

29:27 ↗ the May Valley area to handle the growth

29:29 ↗ down there so that means all the traffic

29:31 ↗ buses and parent traffic's are all going

29:34 ↗ to be coming into Issaquah and that is

29:36 ↗ not part of the CEPA I went back and

29:38 ↗ pulled the sleeper for the middle school

29:40 ↗ because I did notice the lights going up

29:42 ↗ and I started questioning that and lo

29:44 ↗ and behold on March 23rd after the

29:47 ↗ lights were already installed over there

29:49 ↗ at this quad middle we find out that

29:52 ↗ there isn't a permit it wasn't done they

29:56 ↗ said they had a community process but if

29:58 ↗ you go back and look at the development

30:00 ↗ commission meetings you look at the cipa

30:01 ↗ it's not stated in there that there

30:04 ↗ would be nighttime lighting there nor

30:06 ↗ was it said in the traffic analysis that

30:08 ↗ there would be any nighttime lighting

30:10 ↗ nor in the sound control when you have

30:13 ↗ nighttime games you've got a lot of

30:15 ↗ noise generating from there nothing is

30:17 ↗ said about noise generating and when you

30:20 ↗ have there talking to the community

30:22 ↗ wants these lighted courses then that

30:24 ↗ means these are probably nonprofits

30:27 ↗ soccer teams other community

30:29 ↗ associations that are using those while

30:32 ↗ the Issaquah middle can be having their

30:33 ↗ own programs at the school so that means

30:35 ↗ more traffic at nighttime

30:37 ↗ more parking congestion nothing is said

30:40 ↗ about the student parking along Evans in

30:42 ↗ the traffic nothing is said it said

30:44 ↗ parents shall always use the main

30:46 ↗ entrance Issaquah Valley nothing as soon

30:49 ↗ as the seep of the fact that a lot of

30:51 ↗ parents are using Evans to go up into

30:53 ↗ the back side of the the middle school

30:58 ↗ in conflict with the buses that are

31:01 ↗ there and the little bus is picking up

31:03 ↗ and dropping and picking up their kids

31:05 ↗ or trying to shoot through the buses to

31:07 ↗ get out the back way because the light

31:10 ↗ is all backed up with the buses trying

31:13 ↗ to get out with all the parents from

31:14 ↗ both schools so that was not any

31:16 ↗ analysis done in the traffic plan so as

31:19 ↗ Dave said the city has to be sending

31:23 ↗ back the CEPA if the school district is

31:25 ↗ going to do it and make sure it is

31:26 ↗ complete and it addresses noise sound

31:31 ↗ emergency access screening of any lights

31:35 ↗ or noise that are happening and also

31:37 ↗ nighttime use this is a precedent that

31:39 ↗ we're setting here or the school

31:42 ↗ district for lighting the the fields

31:44 ↗ this hasn't been done before and has had

31:46 ↗ no real community input and they're in

31:49 ↗ Issaquah and I've not seen any meetings

31:51 ↗ where they've talked about it at their

31:54 ↗ meetings is the board meetings nor have

31:56 ↗ I seen anything when it was talked at

31:58 ↗ the development meeting so I got the

32:00 ↗ announcement that next this week will be

32:03 ↗ the first public hearing where they're

32:05 ↗ going to talk about the lighting

32:06 ↗ and where is the CEPA the city's

32:08 ↗ basically said there is no impact but

32:11 ↗ there were also if you remember a lot of

32:12 ↗ trees were cut down that weren't

32:14 ↗ supposed to be cut down along 2nd Street

32:16 ↗ when they put the new entrance to the

32:18 ↗ bus barn and when they tore down Clarke

32:20 ↗ so all those big trees that could have

32:22 ↗ been screening for the neighborhoods for

32:24 ↗ both noise and lights are gone and I

32:27 ↗ don't see yet that they're planning any

32:29 ↗ number of trees that are going to go up

32:31 ↗ I mean they're small so maybe in 30

32:33 ↗ years we might have some interim Spurs

32:36 ↗ trees that would block those noise and

32:38 ↗ sounds but it's gonna be 30 to 50 years

32:40 ↗ before you have any of that type of

32:42 ↗ screening and I think the city needs to

32:44 ↗ insist that the school district does a

32:47 ↗ better job with they're SEPA

32:48 ↗ and we don't approve things without

32:51 ↗ approves the

32:51 ↗ but thank you thank you Mary is there

32:56 ↗ anyone else that would like to speak

32:57 ↗ this evening miss Marsh

33:06 ↗ I'm Connie Marsh and I live up on squawk

33:09 ↗ so I had to laugh and following up on

33:14 ↗ Mary when I read the response about the

33:16 ↗ lights because it turns out what

33:18 ↗ happened is the the school district put

33:21 ↗ the lights in the CEPA checklist which

33:26 ↗ basically known in the community reads

33:30 ↗ the CEPA checklist because it's buried

33:36 ↗ way in the back and it's very detailed

33:37 ↗ and then if it's in the CEPA checklist

33:40 ↗ and it does not come forward as a

33:42 ↗ conversation within SEPA it is de facto

33:48 ↗ non studied right even if it's in the

33:51 ↗ checklist so I would say that was

33:53 ↗ erroneous and there's no way you should

33:56 ↗ be putting lights up or allowing lights

33:58 ↗ up with that sort of situation so that

34:01 ↗ brings me to my topic which is I've been

34:03 ↗ watching and reading the development

34:06 ↗ Commission in the urban village

34:08 ↗ development commission packages because

34:11 ↗ it's sort of exciting we have the first

34:13 ↗ time that we're gonna have the

34:16 ↗ architectural review and urban design

34:18 ↗ standards being used except I can't find

34:21 ↗ him so I had email for them it turns out

34:27 ↗ they're in a different section they

34:29 ↗ aren't where all the documents are

34:30 ↗ because they aren't complete yet and so

34:34 ↗ I asked if they were had been provided

34:36 ↗ to the development Commission and they

34:38 ↗ said no because their draft and I'm

34:41 ↗ going well this is the big tool this is

34:43 ↗ the exciting tool we're supposed to be

34:45 ↗ using to finally get will worship what

34:47 ↗ we expect so bad and then urban village

34:53 ↗ Development Commission so well what is

34:56 ↗ this we are supposedly getting a new

34:58 ↗ trail along the outside edge of the

35:02 ↗ Icicle Highlands you know where you peek

35:05 ↗ over the hill and lake sides on the

35:07 ↗ right but it's City right-of-way and so

35:12 ↗ how are we getting a trail that's public

35:16 ↗ on City right-of-way

35:18 ↗ through basically a preliminary plat

35:22 ↗ that is basically going to be decided by

35:25 ↗ the Issaquah Highlands architectural

35:28 ↗ review committee and staff so we have a

35:31 ↗ public thing going on public land

35:34 ↗ without a public process and so you can

35:37 ↗ see Corey's been you know getting the

35:40 ↗ the sharp side of me because I've been

35:42 ↗ frustrated this week I did like the

35:45 ↗ meeting that you just had with the

35:46 ↗ school district and I feel that that is

35:48 ↗ the first solid progress that I have

35:51 ↗ ever seen made with the school district

35:53 ↗ and my time of doing this which is about

35:55 ↗ twenty years so it's not all the

35:57 ↗ downside but there's so much work to do

36:00 ↗ and trying to figure out how we get all

36:02 ↗ of our new rules to create the city that

36:06 ↗ we want to have and that the community

36:08 ↗ expects so one last quick topic on the

36:12 ↗ strategic plan well we've been creating

36:16 ↗ the building blocks for the strategic

36:18 ↗ plan before the strategic plan so one

36:22 ↗ thing I didn't really understand from

36:25 ↗ what they were presenting is how they

36:28 ↗ were going to go and identify the chunks

36:31 ↗ that we have by force had to create the

36:34 ↗ bricks so to speak in building a

36:36 ↗ strategic plan already because we aren't

36:39 ↗ gonna have a strategic plan and then go

36:41 ↗ back and redo all of the work and I

36:44 ↗ don't see how they're getting there just

36:46 ↗ with interviewing department heads so

36:50 ↗ that is the missing piece I see in the

36:52 ↗ strategic plan Thanks Thank You Connie

36:55 ↗ would anyone else like to speak this

36:57 ↗ evening I see Steve heading over

37:08 ↗ ice-t Pereira old town about ten years

37:11 ↗ so so many topics the first I'd like

37:16 ↗ having the five minutes but I just want

37:18 ↗ to say again thank you to all of you for

37:20 ↗ service I know that taking the extra

37:21 ↗ minutes adds on to the total time that

37:23 ↗ you stand and here are another type of

37:24 ↗ folks in to spend here so thanks for

37:26 ↗ that public service first topic the the

37:32 ↗ wraps around the the utility devices

37:35 ↗ that are art work I'm not gonna be an

37:37 ↗ art critic I know I like the one on

37:39 ↗ front and sunset and the one piece like

37:43 ↗ Sammamish and Southeast Issaquah Road by

37:46 ↗ the Walgreens there are building of the

37:51 ↗ environment is kind of featured other

37:53 ↗ ones kind of be more modern an artwork

37:54 ↗ I'm not trying to be a critic but I just

37:56 ↗ think that senses of qual likes natural

37:59 ↗ environments so much there's a chance to

38:01 ↗ reflect what is wants and there's dance

38:03 ↗ to use the more scenic artwork and to

38:08 ↗ reflect who we are not just as an art

38:10 ↗ critic but who we are I think going

38:11 ↗ forward next topic people have already

38:15 ↗ talked about the combined City Council

38:18 ↗ and school board meeting echo all those

38:20 ↗ comments particularly the was there

38:23 ↗ Providence Heights topic so much has

38:27 ↗ been said and I don't want to reiterate

38:29 ↗ the issues

38:30 ↗ the one thing that curse to me though

38:31 ↗ going forward does that as we look

38:34 ↗ forward to lifting the moratorium and

38:35 ↗ there's really no limits to where or the

38:39 ↗ number of apartment complexes as it can

38:40 ↗ be I've gotten a city to school board

38:44 ↗ meetings and they've said city just

38:45 ↗ keeps improving development and there's

38:47 ↗ no way to reflect that or limit that I

38:50 ↗ think we're opening ourselves up to have

38:52 ↗ a much wider student body I'm not saying

38:55 ↗ that number of student body I'm not

38:57 ↗ saying that because people live in

38:58 ↗ apartments or less or deserve anything

39:00 ↗ less or better Bruce we're not prepared

39:02 ↗ for the infrastructure we're not

39:03 ↗ prepared for the number of students

39:04 ↗ these are the things we treasure about

39:06 ↗ Issaquah and I think we need to look at

39:08 ↗ the moratorium in building of not just

39:10 ↗ eliminating the number of storage units

39:15 ↗ and the number of hotels but also look

39:17 ↗ at where and the number of

39:19 ↗ apartment complexes because we've seen

39:21 ↗ where more and more people are at a

39:24 ↗ higher density or living in apartment

39:26 ↗ complexes with students where that

39:27 ↗ wouldn't used to be true that's

39:28 ↗ impacting the schools we need to feed

39:30 ↗ that into account next topic the

39:35 ↗ citywide strategic plan I'm glad to see

39:37 ↗ that I know my own feedback or

39:39 ↗ perspective was when this idea of the

39:42 ↗ Regional Growth Center was kind of first

39:44 ↗ brought forward I kind of thought okay

39:46 ↗ I'm really sure but as long as you leave

39:47 ↗ Old Town alone I'm okay with that

39:49 ↗ but the more and more I've been a

39:51 ↗ development city meetings when I see her

39:54 ↗ and hear people express concerns what

39:55 ↗ they say isn't in the terms of

39:57 ↗ development code or city code but it's

39:59 ↗ in the term of I like the environment I

40:01 ↗ like seeing my rabbits and squirrels and

40:04 ↗ all those things the natural environment

40:06 ↗ so I don't think people are really

40:08 ↗ understanding what a regional growth

40:10 ↗ center means to them and so I think we

40:11 ↗ need to take a pause maybe and

40:14 ↗ understand that better that's who we are

40:15 ↗ and what we want to be in a recent next

40:23 ↗ topic in a recent meeting it talked

40:26 ↗ about it develop in a two-year budget

40:27 ↗ plan which is fine I expect the city is

40:30 ↗ going to spend a certain amount of money

40:31 ↗ on finances and technology and insurance

40:37 ↗ all that but try to speak about it in

40:38 ↗ terms of this is what the people of the

40:40 ↗ citizens Issaquah bed I didn't hear that

40:42 ↗ in the discussion why that's a good

40:43 ↗ thing I'd get maybe it helps the City

40:44 ↗ Council and and planning bedding it how

40:47 ↗ it helps citizens citizens think in

40:49 ↗ terms of not reading the budget reports

40:51 ↗ but this is if I spend an extra two

40:53 ↗ hundred thousand dollars on this I have

40:54 ↗ two hundred thousand two thousand

40:55 ↗ thousand dollars less on that so just

40:57 ↗ kind of keep that as part of the

40:58 ↗ perspective next topic and I'll just

41:02 ↗ react or what the folks said about the

41:04 ↗ school board being responsible for SEPA

41:07 ↗ that seems I don't know the rabbit you

41:10 ↗ know the fox guarding the hen house

41:12 ↗ seems a little not consistent track

41:15 ↗ record so thank you thank you Steve is

41:18 ↗ there anyone else who would like to

41:19 ↗ speak this evening I'm sorry one other

41:20 ↗ thing real quick

41:22 ↗ sure it had to do with parks in the san

41:25 ↗ luis obispo jurisdiction had set aside

41:28 ↗ and has guidelines as far as just

41:30 ↗ preserving natural space

41:32 ↗ not necessarily for parks or design uses

41:35 ↗ I think the city parks need to look at

41:36 ↗ that concept not as parks but just for

41:39 ↗ preserving open space for the natural

41:42 ↗ environment and I don't think city code

41:44 ↗ allows for that needs to and I'll talk

41:46 ↗ more about that in the future Thanks

41:47 ↗ thank you Steve

41:48 ↗ is there anyone else who'd like to speak

41:50 ↗ this evening second call last call for

41:55 ↗ anyone who would like to speak to the

41:56 ↗ public comments hearing none I'll close

41:59 ↗ the public comments person and like to

42:01 ↗ thank you all for coming tonight

42:02 ↗ especially those who attended our

42:04 ↗ earlier is quest school district city of

42:06 ↗ a squad joint meeting it's good to hear

42:08 ↗ your comments about school siting the

42:10 ↗ Highlands SEPA also like to thank people

42:14 ↗ for talking about the Providence Heights

42:16 ↗ campus this evening our new introduction

42:19 ↗ to strategic plan and hearing your

42:21 ↗ thoughts on our development review

42:22 ↗ process we appreciate it when you come

42:24 ↗ and talk to your counsel we're moving on

42:28 ↗ to committee and regional reports and

42:30 ↗ first up is councilmember hunt thank you

42:33 ↗ madam mayor on March 28th I attended the

42:35 ↗ cascade water Alliance board meeting

42:37 ↗ with Mayor Polly and details would be

42:39 ↗ covered in mayor Polly's report this

42:41 ↗ evening and that concludes my report

42:43 ↗ thank you council member Ramos Thank You

42:46 ↗ mayor the council Infrastructure

42:48 ↗ Committee has one item it's on a public

42:51 ↗ hearing on tonight's agenda later on now

42:54 ↗ the other thing is just a reminder that

42:55 ↗ our next meeting is not the regular

42:57 ↗ scheduled time it is on Wednesday the

42:59 ↗ 11th of April 6:30 here normal place

43:02 ↗ regular place excuse me the Regional

43:05 ↗ Transit Committee met on the 18th of

43:07 ↗ March there were two items there of

43:09 ↗ interest one was the community

43:11 ↗ connectors which includes our new

43:13 ↗ possible route on talus and squawk as

43:16 ↗ it's moving forward and other

43:18 ↗ communities are trying to do some other

43:19 ↗ things so we're moving hit on those and

43:21 ↗ the other one was thing mentioned some

43:25 ↗ of you heard before I mentioned one

43:26 ↗ Center City a lot of debate on that that

43:29 ↗ is when the the bus tunnel in downtown

43:31 ↗ Seattle closes and they call maximum

43:34 ↗ constraint because buses can't turn

43:36 ↗ around they're out of the tunnel because

43:37 ↗ of redesign of the Convention Center

43:39 ↗ which is going to be a big change to bus

43:43 ↗ wraps particularly ones going over 5

43:46 ↗ for sure but ours as well and the

43:49 ↗ community was very concerned with most

43:51 ↗ of the proposed changes to deal with the

43:56 ↗ change of that would be affecting the

43:58 ↗ East Side bus riders with the most

44:00 ↗ effect and not others so we're pushing

44:03 ↗ very hard back to say getting buses off

44:06 ↗ the street of Seattle the ones coming

44:09 ↗ from the east side is not the solution

44:10 ↗ which is way there tend to be geared

44:12 ↗ towards looking at that as a solution

44:14 ↗ instead we want to keep our buses

44:16 ↗ running and all the way into Seattle is

44:18 ↗ so we get our rides in so I will

44:21 ↗ continue working on that and keep you

44:22 ↗ apprised as that's going the good news

44:24 ↗ is that started that has continued to be

44:26 ↗ pushed back so we keep pushing that back

44:28 ↗ as far as we can

44:31 ↗ next item as I will be attending an

44:34 ↗ emergency management advisor community

44:35 ↗ meeting on the 11th coming up here also

44:38 ↗ agenda to be set and then on the 13th

44:40 ↗ Friday of April I will be down in

44:42 ↗ Olympia at the public works board

44:44 ↗ meeting also generally set and that

44:46 ↗ concludes my report

44:47 ↗ councilmember Rommels councilmember

44:49 ↗ winter Stein thank you madam mayor the

44:51 ↗ lodging tax advisory commission met last

44:55 ↗ Friday on March 30th two items on the

44:58 ↗ agenda we did discuss the questions that

45:01 ↗ came out of the services and Safety

45:03 ↗ Committee meeting and I'm working staff

45:07 ↗ is going to be preparing and presenting

45:11 ↗ replies to that at the services and

45:14 ↗ Safety Committee meeting next Tuesday we

45:17 ↗ also entertained a kind of a first look

45:21 ↗ at a proposal the the AVP volleyball

45:25 ↗ tournament at the park in June that

45:27 ↗ organizing group had asked a local

45:30 ↗ events coordinator to make a proposal

45:33 ↗ for to run some parallel community

45:38 ↗ events to coincide with the AVP

45:39 ↗ tournament on all of them to take place

45:43 ↗ actually inside the city park ball

45:45 ↗ community-related well Thursday Friday

45:48 ↗ Saturday and Sunday including like a

45:51 ↗ volleyball camp for kids a movie night

45:55 ↗ yoga on the beach on Sunday morning or

45:58 ↗ something like that

45:59 ↗ and I think that was a it's a good so

46:02 ↗ they're actually gonna come forward with

46:04 ↗ a proposal because they're gonna make

46:06 ↗ some requests for funding i only reason

46:08 ↗ i bring that up is it is a good example

46:11 ↗ of how neither LTAC or i think our city

46:15 ↗ staff right now has really the ability

46:19 ↗ to kind of field and work with a

46:22 ↗ proposal like this that comes forward

46:24 ↗ and it be one of those kind of things

46:25 ↗ that a DMO can handle very well and just

46:28 ↗ mention that example so that concludes

46:31 ↗ LTAC the next meeting of the growth

46:35 ↗ management policy board is this Thursday

46:36 ↗ April 5th at PSR C headquarters in

46:39 ↗ Seattle on the agenda primarily is the

46:41 ↗ vision 2050 scoping I did also want to

46:44 ↗ note that last month the ESRC Executive

46:48 ↗ Board did approve the regional centers

46:50 ↗ framework update and lastly I want to

46:54 ↗ mention something about arch it's not a

46:56 ↗ committee but that I'm part of but I did

47:00 ↗ attend a meeting that they held last

47:02 ↗ Thursday March 29th in Kirkland I joined

47:06 ↗ councilmember hunt and in terms to the

47:08 ↗ administrator Emily moon joined me at

47:10 ↗ their presentation about half the time

47:12 ↗ was spent I'm covering general housing

47:14 ↗ issues facing East King County in the

47:16 ↗ role of arch plays in addressing that

47:17 ↗ need the other half at that time of the

47:19 ↗ meeting there were four presentations

47:21 ↗ about different about what different

47:24 ↗ Eastside cities are doing in certain

47:26 ↗ areas of housing affordability a arch

47:29 ↗ staff member actually presented our city

47:31 ↗ visit cause program on auxilary dwelling

47:34 ↗ units and I found that informative and I

47:37 ↗ learned something even though I guess

47:38 ↗ I've heard it before so hearing it again

47:41 ↗ was very very helpful Kirkland told a

47:44 ↗ story about how they worked with a

47:45 ↗ private landowner that had underutilized

47:48 ↗ land for the development of the first

47:51 ↗ permanent women and family shelter here

47:53 ↗ on the east side so that was it was

47:54 ↗ interesting to hear a use case story of

47:56 ↗ one of our east side Cities coalition

47:58 ↗ members and arts talk about their focus

48:01 ↗ on doing something housing related with

48:04 ↗ private landowners that ever had

48:05 ↗ unutilized underutilized land I thought

48:07 ↗ that was a good story to hear Redmond

48:09 ↗ spoke about their success within

48:11 ↗ genera zoning in their downtown area and

48:15 ↗ how they were able to get housing at 80%

48:17 ↗ of AMI and how they're now combined

48:21 ↗ inclusionary zoning with em FTE

48:23 ↗ geography based not project-based in

48:25 ↗ another area of town in there and

48:27 ↗ they're starting to have conversations

48:29 ↗ with builders in that area that they see

48:31 ↗ getting housing at 60% of ami so again

48:35 ↗ kind of a nice interesting thing to hear

48:37 ↗ from one of our colleagues here on the

48:38 ↗ east side and lastly we heard from

48:40 ↗ Bellevue about their work in preserving

48:42 ↗ existing affordable housing housing it

48:45 ↗ is a priority for their council they are

48:49 ↗ being proactive and identifying

48:51 ↗ properties that may be lost and they

48:54 ↗ even told one example where the school

48:58 ↗ district learned about the potential

48:59 ↗ loss of housing from their students and

49:01 ↗ the school district notified the city

49:04 ↗ they also are finding that their funding

49:07 ↗ and no surprise here for the

49:09 ↗ preservation of affordable housing goes

49:11 ↗ further than their funding for new

49:13 ↗ development and lastly they mentioned a

49:17 ↗ thing of interest that they mentioned is

49:18 ↗ that their approach does if they acquire

49:22 ↗ housing for preservation affordable

49:25 ↗ their program does include that

49:28 ↗ transferring the ownership of those

49:29 ↗ properties to a non-profit housing

49:32 ↗ management agency so and that's why I

49:35 ↗ attended that meeting I want to share

49:36 ↗ with all of you we can never hear a much

49:38 ↗ you can never hear too much about what

49:40 ↗ it's happening around us related

49:42 ↗ affordable housing I just want to share

49:43 ↗ that with you that concludes my report

49:45 ↗ so deputy president tees thank you madam

49:49 ↗ mayor no report this evening Thank You

49:51 ↗ council president Mertz

49:54 ↗ thank you madam mayor the council and in

49:57 ↗ short committee will not be meeting this

50:00 ↗ Thursday April 5th it's in fact gonna

50:02 ↗ mean Thursday April 19th on a special

50:05 ↗ date and you may be asking why I am

50:08 ↗ giving this information and it's because

50:11 ↗ councilmember Goodman is not going to be

50:13 ↗ able to be there on Thursday April 19th

50:14 ↗ so I am going to be chairing Landon

50:17 ↗ Shore and councilmember hunt is going to

50:19 ↗ be sitting in for councilmember Goodman

50:23 ↗ of course and of course councilmember

50:25 ↗ winter Stein will also be there as as

50:27 ↗ normal sound cities Association pick is

50:32 ↗ meeting on Wednesday April 11th the pre

50:34 ↗ pick at 6:00 p.m. a Trenton City Hall is

50:36 ↗ going to be the second of two

50:39 ↗ presentations on King County Executive

50:42 ↗ Constantine's one table

50:44 ↗ organization and its strategies to

50:46 ↗ address root causes of homelessness and

50:49 ↗ then at the main pick meeting there is

50:53 ↗ going to be a conversation that I'm sure

50:55 ↗ Issaquah can have some contribution on

50:57 ↗ school siting best practices and how

50:59 ↗ municipalities can work with their

51:01 ↗ school district as well as an update on

51:04 ↗ the veteran seniors and human services

51:06 ↗ levy that went into effect the beginning

51:09 ↗ of this year this concludes my report

51:10 ↗ thank you council president Mertz

51:13 ↗ for the mayor's report this evening

51:15 ↗ there was a special linkage meeting this

51:17 ↗ evening from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. with our

51:20 ↗ iskele School District Board the city of

51:22 ↗ a squad council and mayor and our

51:24 ↗ respective leadership staff we discussed

51:26 ↗ impact fees collected from developers to

51:28 ↗ pay for impacts from growth to the

51:30 ↗ school system municipal services and

51:32 ↗ local infrastructure the second item

51:34 ↗ discussed was future school siting and

51:36 ↗ the district's desire to purchase

51:37 ↗ city-owned property it was a good first

51:41 ↗ step which is what we've already heard

51:43 ↗ but also I just wanted to talk about how

51:45 ↗ difficult it is when we're talking about

51:47 ↗ school siting and other competing

51:50 ↗ community priorities we need to be

51:53 ↗ striving to work together to reinforce

51:55 ↗ the work that we do with each other and

51:57 ↗ not have these priorities competing

51:59 ↗ against each other and so this meeting

52:01 ↗ tonight was a good first step in the

52:03 ↗ right direction I attended several

52:05 ↗ meetings in the last couple of weeks

52:07 ↗ March 28th the cascade water Alliance

52:10 ↗ board meeting with councilmember hunt

52:11 ↗ items presented in the chief executive

52:14 ↗ officers report were mostly related to

52:16 ↗ the management of the Lake Tapps

52:17 ↗ reservoir and upcoming barrier dam and

52:20 ↗ fish passage construction projects we

52:23 ↗ are working with United States Army

52:25 ↗ Corps of Engineers on those and the next

52:27 ↗ board meeting is on April 25th at 3:30

52:29 ↗ p.m. in cascades bellevue office the

52:31 ↗ agenda has not

52:32 ↗ been set March 26 I attended an

52:35 ↗ orientation meeting with Rima Griffith

52:37 ↗ from the Washington State Transportation

52:38 ↗ Commission's

52:39 ↗ she is the Washington state

52:41 ↗ transportation Commission's executive

52:43 ↗ director I'm going to be serving on the

52:46 ↗ road usage charge steering committee the

52:48 ↗ seat was for formerly held by surveyor

52:51 ↗ Sammamish City Mayor Don gerund by

52:54 ↗ former Samara City Mayor Don Jaron I did

52:56 ↗ a couple of community and staff outreach

52:58 ↗ events on March 20th I attended a Senior

53:02 ↗ Center lunch and conducted a QA over

53:05 ↗ several projects going on in town on

53:07 ↗ March 22nd I attended the mountain sound

53:09 ↗ green We Trust annual breakfast a couple

53:12 ↗ of announcements Public Works

53:13 ↗ engineering had to bid openings occur on

53:15 ↗ the afternoon of Tuesday March 27th

53:17 ↗ the 2018 water main replacement program

53:21 ↗ this is a significant amount of work

53:25 ↗ being done in the South Cove and

53:26 ↗ Timberlake Lane neighborhoods this

53:28 ↗ summer the work will start in May and

53:30 ↗ June and be completed by August

53:31 ↗ September there's a neighborhood

53:33 ↗ outreach plan for engagement to the

53:35 ↗ impacted community also the forest rim

53:38 ↗ booster pump station was also awarded

53:40 ↗ and this work involves installing a new

53:42 ↗ booster pump station demolishing

53:44 ↗ existing booster pump station on

53:46 ↗ mountainside Drive Northwest most of the

53:48 ↗ work will be done on the existing site

53:50 ↗ although some of the new piping

53:51 ↗ connecting to the new booster station

53:53 ↗ will be installed in the right-of-way

53:54 ↗ this will have traffic control implement

53:57 ↗ implications and will allow for a

53:58 ↗ minimum of only one lane to access the

54:00 ↗ fours Rim neighborhood at that time the

54:03 ↗ work will start in June and be completed

54:04 ↗ by the end of the year neighborhood

54:06 ↗ outreach is also planned for this

54:07 ↗ project a couple of updates on issues

54:11 ↗ moratorium there are still two remaining

54:13 ↗ work items under the moratorium

54:15 ↗ inclusionary zoning requirements staff

54:18 ↗ is working with eco Northwest to

54:20 ↗ evaluate the impact the proposed

54:22 ↗ inclusionary zoning requirements would

54:24 ↗ would have had on the atlas project this

54:27 ↗ is being used as a case study it should

54:29 ↗ be coming to the land ensure committee

54:30 ↗ in April the district or community

54:33 ↗ visions document for Central is

54:35 ↗ currently in the city land and Shore

54:37 ↗ committee and will be discussed at the

54:38 ↗ committee's April meeting there's no new

54:41 ↗ information in regards to the Cougar

54:42 ↗ Mountain Bergsma update

54:44 ↗ at the March 5th City Council meeting I

54:47 ↗ did share with you that we are

54:48 ↗ partnering with the trust for public

54:49 ↗ lands and exploring acquisition options

54:52 ↗ for this property in that work Park

54:54 ↗ staff and the trust for public lands are

54:55 ↗ collaborating on research and grant

54:57 ↗ options and other funding strategies

54:59 ↗ that would be needed to support any size

55:01 ↗ or scale of acquisition also just an

55:06 ↗ update if you are not paying attention

55:09 ↗ to our last council meeting the

55:11 ↗ Highlands development agreement did end

55:13 ↗ that council acted on March 19th and put

55:16 ↗ in place replacement regulations also at

55:18 ↗ the March 19th council meeting the

55:20 ↗ council referred the ending of the Talz

55:22 ↗ development agreement and imposing new

55:24 ↗ replacement regulations to the Planning

55:26 ↗ Policy Commission for review of the

55:28 ↗ proposed zoning designation for tellus

55:30 ↗ parcel 9 that completes the mayor's

55:33 ↗ report next item on our agenda is the

55:38 ↗ consent calendar I also had a discussion

55:40 ↗ at the March 19th meeting about the

55:43 ↗ reading of the consent calendar by the

55:44 ↗ clerk going forward in our council

55:47 ↗ meetings this year the council consent

55:50 ↗ calendar has been distributed to council

55:51 ↗ in advance and it has been past practice

55:53 ↗ at the mayor's preference to read it

55:55 ↗ into the record if the count if the

55:59 ↗ council authorizes sorry if authorized

56:03 ↗ the council will act by single motion on

56:06 ↗ it I'm proposing that we we do not read

56:10 ↗ it into the record unless there is a

56:11 ↗ request to do so so for this evening

56:13 ↗ we'll just be moving and seconding if

56:15 ↗ that works

56:16 ↗ does any councilmember desire to remove

56:18 ↗ any item from the consent calendar and

56:20 ↗ considered under regular business do you

56:25 ↗ like to make a motion madam mayor I move

56:27 ↗ to adopt the consent agenda as as listed

56:30 ↗ in this evening they can set in calendar

56:33 ↗ as listed in this evening's agenda

56:35 ↗ second it's been moved and seconded all

56:38 ↗ those in favor signify by saying aye all

56:41 ↗ right was opposed passes unanimously

56:47 ↗ next item is our public hearing a b7 485

56:51 ↗ vacation of a portion of Northeast

56:53 ↗ Gilman Boulevard this public hearing is

56:57 ↗ continued from the March

56:58 ↗ nineteenth Council meeting it was heard

57:00 ↗ as an informational item in the council

57:02 ↗ Infrastructure Committee before resuming

57:04 ↗ the public hearing I'd like to invite

57:06 ↗ Public Works engineering director

57:07 ↗ sheldon lin to briefly present this item

57:12 ↗ thank you madam mayor council citizens

57:15 ↗ i'm sheldon lin the director of public

57:17 ↗ works engineering i'm gonna give a short

57:20 ↗ presentation tonight as a follow-up to

57:22 ↗ the previous presentation that the

57:24 ↗ council received at the march 19

57:26 ↗ initiation of this public hearing

57:29 ↗ tonight i'm going to speak briefly as

57:32 ↗ this is a hearing continuance i'm gonna

57:35 ↗ recap some of the comments as well as

57:37 ↗ some recommendation as well as i'm going

57:39 ↗ to recap a little bit about the area to

57:41 ↗ be vacated or proposed to be vacated I

57:44 ↗ should say the area proposed to be

57:47 ↗ vacated is shown in the yellow /

57:49 ↗ greenish yellow color on the map it is a

57:53 ↗ section that is located just as an

57:56 ↗ extension of Northeast Gilman Boulevard

57:58 ↗ just east of 3rd Avenue Northeast

58:01 ↗ currently the right-of-way provides for

58:05 ↗ utilities and access to property that's

58:08 ↗ shaded in the blue and that property is

58:11 ↗ all owned by one person

58:15 ↗ in tonight's continuance the council is

58:18 ↗ asked the policy question does the City

58:20 ↗ Council wish to vacate a portion of

58:22 ↗ Northeast Gilman Boulevard specifically

58:24 ↗ that portion that was shown in the

58:26 ↗ previous slide in the testimony and

58:30 ↗ comments that the city has received

58:32 ↗ testimony was heard on the 19th by mr.

58:35 ↗ Sam Kyle his testimony essentially

58:38 ↗ identified that the origin of this right

58:41 ↗ away was originally it was owned by the

58:43 ↗ state of Washington and then as part of

58:45 ↗ the i-90 improvements and at the end of

58:49 ↗ that the state did deeded over the

58:53 ↗ right-of-way to the city of Issaquah I

58:55 ↗ it was specifically held as right away

58:58 ↗ to provide access to the multiple

59:00 ↗ parcels that are shaded in blue on this

59:04 ↗ map these parcels are currently all

59:08 ↗ owned by one person or entity

59:11 ↗ controlled by mr. Kile comments that

59:15 ↗ were heard at the council Infrastructure

59:17 ↗ Committee were twofold one was a desire

59:21 ↗ to keep the right-of-way for public use

59:23 ↗ and then that was identified as when the

59:30 ↗ PPC was talking about uses at the

59:32 ↗ eastern end of Northeast Gilman

59:34 ↗ Boulevard there was public conversation

59:37 ↗ about the land but that conversation

59:39 ↗ occurred and was related to the property

59:42 ↗ that was west of third Avenue and it

59:44 ↗ didn't really go into the area that was

59:46 ↗ the section which is a little tail off

59:49 ↗ the end of Gilman Boulevard the other

59:51 ↗ was a concern for how this area may or

59:54 ↗ may not be used for a trail connection

59:58 ↗ dealing with mountains of sound Greenway

1:00:00 ↗ and the possibility of a connection to

1:00:02 ↗ the High Point Way area as you can see

1:00:06 ↗ this right away dead ends into the

1:00:09 ↗ property of mr. Kyle and his property

1:00:12 ↗ abuts and it has a common property line

1:00:15 ↗ with the i-90 limited access

1:00:17 ↗ right-of-way to be able to accomplish

1:00:19 ↗ the any type of trail connection it

1:00:22 ↗ would involve property acquisition as

1:00:24 ↗ well as going through substantially

1:00:27 ↗ environmentally sensitive areas to the

1:00:29 ↗ east of mr. Kyle's property to gain

1:00:31 ↗ access to the trails around this and

1:00:34 ↗ said interchange to help further

1:00:37 ↗ understand a little bit about what this

1:00:39 ↗ property is I've got some google street

1:00:41 ↗ views that will provide a visual for

1:00:44 ↗ what the right-of-way is that the

1:00:45 ↗ council is being asked the question

1:00:47 ↗ about this is a street view taken from

1:00:51 ↗ the intersection of 3rd Avenue where 3rd

1:00:54 ↗ Avenue meets Northeast Gilman looking to

1:00:57 ↗ the east as you can see it's a narrow

1:00:58 ↗ access road pretty much the width of a

1:01:01 ↗ driveway bounded by the overpass at the

1:01:05 ↗ sunset interchange and then the private

1:01:07 ↗ property on the right-hand side of the

1:01:09 ↗ road this is just another view moving

1:01:12 ↗ further along essentially the character

1:01:14 ↗ or the right-of-way remains the same and

1:01:17 ↗ then at the end of the right away this

1:01:19 ↗ shows the larger parcel back in the back

1:01:22 ↗ that is the basically the dead end of

1:01:25 ↗ the the right-of-way this picture is

1:01:28 ↗ taken right about property line where

1:01:31 ↗ the right-of-way ends and with that if

1:01:34 ↗ there's what one last thing the

1:01:37 ↗ administration's recommendation for a

1:01:40 ↗ motion tonight is to adopt the ordinance

1:01:41 ↗ number whichever comes up

1:01:44 ↗ vacating a portion of the street

1:01:46 ↗ right-of-way Jason to the property

1:01:48 ↗ located at three hundred and 371

1:01:50 ↗ northeast Gilman Boulevard subject to

1:01:52 ↗ easements and establishing compensation

1:01:55 ↗ to be paid for such vacation if there's

1:01:59 ↗ any questions this council have any

1:02:01 ↗ questions for Sheldon not singing Thank

1:02:06 ↗ You Sheldon

1:02:08 ↗ guidelines for citizens comments that

1:02:11 ↗ are on the agenda also apply for those

1:02:12 ↗ made under this public hearing I now

1:02:14 ↗ open the public hearing at 8:03 p.m. has

1:02:18 ↗ anyone signed up to speak this evening

1:02:20 ↗ no thank you

1:02:22 ↗ is there anyone who would like to speak

1:02:24 ↗ this evening Dave then Steve okay David

1:02:34 ↗ Kepler I I would hope that the retained

1:02:39 ↗ easement would be enough that a trail

1:02:42 ↗ could have if some day a trail goes

1:02:45 ↗ through that corridor it would be enough

1:02:47 ↗ to provide a trail through this part of

1:02:50 ↗ the property when you look at the there

1:02:54 ↗ is some space there between Kyle's

1:02:56 ↗ property and i-90 and it does get kind

1:02:59 ↗ of funny as you go east but the

1:03:02 ↗ possibility is there for a trail

1:03:04 ↗ sometime maybe when the Kyle property is

1:03:06 ↗ redeveloped or something happens in the

1:03:08 ↗ long term so I would just hope there's

1:03:10 ↗ enough easement retained for a trail on

1:03:13 ↗ this part of the property that's the

1:03:15 ↗ subject of the potential sale thank you

1:03:18 ↗ if you do Steve

1:03:28 ↗ ice-t Pereira so I live on northeast

1:03:31 ↗ dogwoods so I just am poaching from my

1:03:33 ↗ own personal perspective and that's more

1:03:36 ↗ I know the PBC recommended that that

1:03:39 ↗ district we moved out of the central as

1:03:41 ↗ well there's a couple an eye and so I'm

1:03:43 ↗ concerned with women's right away what

1:03:45 ↗ potential structure could be built there

1:03:48 ↗ and whether that's in code or in support

1:03:50 ↗ of what not being CI PE I'd like not to

1:03:53 ↗ see a large-scale development back there

1:03:55 ↗ in what seems to be more of a

1:03:57 ↗ residential or at least connected to a

1:03:59 ↗ residential area so because that I tend

1:04:03 ↗ to lean against approving this thank you

1:04:05 ↗ thank you Steve anyone else like to

1:04:08 ↗ speak this evening

1:04:20 ↗ that that was a pretty pitchy pitch by

1:04:24 ↗ the city to to turn this land over which

1:04:29 ↗ disturbs me a little bit I think it

1:04:31 ↗ should be even-handed pros and cons not

1:04:35 ↗ just one direction and so I guess that

1:04:41 ↗ that concerns me sort of going along

1:04:46 ↗ with my prior public comment it's like

1:04:48 ↗ the community now needs to be equal to

1:04:54 ↗ any particular landowner and what they

1:04:57 ↗ want to do and I would like to see that

1:05:00 ↗ change be made for me

1:05:01 ↗ I watched the city in this mega planning

1:05:04 ↗ effort and no one really knows what's

1:05:08 ↗ going to go on all the parcels no one

1:05:10 ↗ knows what big changes are gonna happen

1:05:12 ↗ we're gonna have a strategic plan our

1:05:14 ↗ Park strategic plan is only it hasn't

1:05:17 ↗ been approved yet we're looking at

1:05:20 ↗ potentially giving up a piece of land

1:05:22 ↗ before we have a plan and I just think

1:05:26 ↗ that's unwise it might take six months

1:05:29 ↗ and we might say you know what it looks

1:05:31 ↗ from all of our planning efforts like we

1:05:33 ↗ will never give up this piece of land

1:05:36 ↗ for me that's one of those connections

1:05:38 ↗ that I can see going back into that area

1:05:41 ↗ it's sort of a cool area you can have

1:05:43 ↗ movies up against i-90 you could have an

1:05:46 ↗ auditorium there as a part of a large

1:05:48 ↗ parks plan that could be our festival

1:05:51 ↗ Street for goodness sake because no cars

1:05:53 ↗ use it and we could turn that area of

1:05:56 ↗ town into a community amenity rather

1:05:59 ↗ than some development now how much would

1:06:03 ↗ that cost would we ever do it but I

1:06:05 ↗ don't think you want to give up

1:06:06 ↗ opportunities before you have had your

1:06:08 ↗ planning effort so I would say no

1:06:12 ↗ tonight with the caveat when we get are

1:06:15 ↗ all of our planning put in place by what

1:06:17 ↗ the middle of next year whatever then

1:06:19 ↗ come on back and we might say yes thanks

1:06:22 ↗ thanks Connie

1:06:23 ↗ would anyone else like to speak this

1:06:25 ↗ evening Mary

1:06:34 ↗ my name is Mary Lynch and I recited 2 6

1:06:37 ↗ 9 O Northwest Oh Crest Drive and I just

1:06:40 ↗ want to build on what Dave and Connie is

1:06:43 ↗ that is as part of the central area plan

1:06:46 ↗ we had looked at this area as being a

1:06:48 ↗ destination place where we could have

1:06:51 ↗ old car venues have you know parking for

1:06:56 ↗ take off to the to the other trails

1:06:58 ↗ within Tiger Mountain and that sort of

1:07:00 ↗ thing and I don't haven't really seen

1:07:02 ↗ the park plan yet or the Emerald

1:07:05 ↗ Necklace the full connections to know

1:07:07 ↗ how we're going to connect out of that

1:07:09 ↗ area into the other areas so without

1:07:12 ↗ that plan in place to vacate land and

1:07:15 ↗ not have the full plan I think it's just

1:07:17 ↗ premature and I think we need more

1:07:19 ↗ public input explaining where this is

1:07:22 ↗ and what the impact is thank you thank

1:07:25 ↗ you Mary anything else anyone else like

1:07:28 ↗ to make a comment this evening think

1:07:31 ↗ none ask a second time anyone for public

1:07:34 ↗ comment

1:07:35 ↗ last time closing the public hearing

1:07:38 ↗ acts 807 and it's for counsel here to

1:07:46 ↗ make motion I would move to adopt

1:07:50 ↗ ordinance number 2 8 3 to make hitting a

1:07:54 ↗ portion of Street right away Ajay's

1:07:56 ↗ adjacent to property located at 303 71

1:08:00 ↗ North East Gilman Boulevard subject to

1:08:03 ↗ easements and establishing the

1:08:04 ↗ compensation to be paid for such

1:08:06 ↗ vacation thank you thank you it's been

1:08:11 ↗ moved and seconded council discussion

1:08:15 ↗ that's member hunt I am not in favor of

1:08:20 ↗ this motion I up this ordinance this

1:08:23 ↗ evening I think that this part of town

1:08:25 ↗ is potentially very important for the

1:08:29 ↗ green necklace and as

1:08:30 ↗ has been mentioned in public comment

1:08:32 ↗ this evening the parks a strategic plan

1:08:34 ↗ is still in the works and I think that

1:08:38 ↗ nearby to this property there is

1:08:41 ↗ potential for a linear park in the very

1:08:45 ↗ wide right of way along Gilman and

1:08:48 ↗ potentially also kiddy Korner there are

1:08:50 ↗ some areas that may also be part of the

1:08:52 ↗ parks plan and of that green necklace

1:08:56 ↗ and of that connectivity I think that

1:08:59 ↗ there is potential if if currently

1:09:02 ↗ undefined potential for public use and I

1:09:05 ↗ think that we can't know what this area

1:09:09 ↗ looks like in the future particularly if

1:09:11 ↗ we vacate this property I because of the

1:09:15 ↗ potential for future use

1:09:17 ↗ I am in favor of retaining the property

1:09:19 ↗ and I'm opposed to the adoption of the

1:09:24 ↗ ordinance Thank You councilmember heads

1:09:27 ↗ there's council president Mertz I have a

1:09:32 ↗ question for the administration which is

1:09:36 ↗ timeliness on this if we were to say

1:09:40 ↗ that this is something that we would

1:09:41 ↗ like to wait for the Parks Recreation

1:09:45 ↗ open-space Trails plan before making a

1:09:48 ↗ decision what if any would be the impact

1:09:51 ↗ on the on the owner in their plans of

1:09:55 ↗ the property that's served by this

1:09:57 ↗ easement

1:10:03 ↗ I can't speak to the impact on the owner

1:10:06 ↗ I'm not sure what the owners plans

1:10:09 ↗ entail at this moment in time but what I

1:10:12 ↗ can say is there's no urgency from the

1:10:18 ↗ perspective of the city this has been

1:10:22 ↗ our property as Sheldon mentioned for

1:10:25 ↗ several years I think we've been trying

1:10:27 ↗ to collaborate for at least two years

1:10:29 ↗ with the property owner on this transfer

1:10:34 ↗ but having said that your parks plan is

1:10:37 ↗ imminent and we'll also say that we've

1:10:40 ↗ had conversations with the parks and

1:10:42 ↗ recreation director about what may or

1:10:46 ↗ may not be shown in the draft parks plan

1:10:48 ↗ in there's not a foreseen need for this

1:10:51 ↗ piece of property as an element in the

1:10:55 ↗ parks plan or inter-gold of making other

1:10:56 ↗ elements of the parks plan come to

1:10:59 ↗ fruition

1:11:03 ↗ any other councilmember conversation

1:11:06 ↗ council member Ramos yeah I guess I have

1:11:09 ↗ some other question you two is

1:11:11 ↗ timeliness in discussion there we never

1:11:16 ↗ talked about a need to rush to do this

1:11:19 ↗ it was just something

1:11:20 ↗ it started as a conversation of property

1:11:24 ↗ owner wanted it it would take a piece of

1:11:25 ↗ roadway out of our inventory basically

1:11:28 ↗ they currently functions as a driveway

1:11:30 ↗ okay and and it just would relieve us

1:11:33 ↗ some of that now what you did talk about

1:11:36 ↗ was keeping me right away access for

1:11:39 ↗ both washed-out and the city and that

1:11:42 ↗ was if I'ma register for utilities

1:11:44 ↗ correct so all the underground utilities

1:11:46 ↗ would have the right way for us what we

1:11:48 ↗ would maintain nothing on the surface

1:11:50 ↗ that's corrected the ordinance would

1:11:54 ↗ retain all the utility easements as well

1:11:57 ↗ as access for maintenance for the washed

1:11:59 ↗ out wall that's right there that abuts

1:12:01 ↗ that a little roadway any other

1:12:07 ↗ questions or comments

1:12:11 ↗ I'm deputy council president batise so I

1:12:15 ↗ would say just in regard I actually had

1:12:18 ↗ a similar question to Tola just in terms

1:12:22 ↗ of timing and where we were at with that

1:12:26 ↗ but would I I believe at this point

1:12:29 ↗ would be echoing a lot of what

1:12:32 ↗ councilmember hunt talked about in terms

1:12:34 ↗ of this having been talked about in the

1:12:38 ↗ past and if it would be part of the

1:12:41 ↗ strategic plan or part of the green

1:12:43 ↗ necklace if there's if we're not in a

1:12:48 ↗ rush to do that then I would consider

1:12:51 ↗ delaying thank you neither coming

1:12:56 ↗ council member we're interesting thank

1:12:58 ↗ you

1:13:03 ↗ regarding you know potential park site

1:13:05 ↗ or anything like that up against a

1:13:08 ↗ highway for me that would be a real

1:13:14 ↗ stretch of the imagination to be used as

1:13:18 ↗ a park site the property owner does have

1:13:21 ↗ ingress egress over it now over that and

1:13:23 ↗ that will probably retained there's some

1:13:25 ↗ open land south east of there which is

1:13:29 ↗ accessible via 3rd Street and Bush

1:13:30 ↗ Street if we wanted to get to there

1:13:32 ↗ there is other ways to get to the other

1:13:34 ↗ open land that's like I said southeast

1:13:36 ↗ of there which is still jacent to a

1:13:39 ↗ highway I so it's I'm gonna agree with

1:13:48 ↗ the administration and this

1:13:49 ↗ recommendation I because it's really

1:13:55 ↗ difficult imagine at all there's a parks

1:13:59 ↗ use for a parcel of land this of this

1:14:02 ↗ size and shape in this location it's

1:14:05 ↗ probably going to remain a ingress and

1:14:07 ↗ egress the property owner for now into

1:14:11 ↗ the future so I'm gonna support this

1:14:13 ↗ motion any other discussion

1:14:18 ↗ it's president Mart's so I am of two

1:14:24 ↗ minds on this I am having a hard time

1:14:29 ↗ envisioning how it gets used as

1:14:32 ↗ recreational space but because there

1:14:35 ↗ isn't an urgency to this and because

1:14:38 ↗ some of my fellow council members would

1:14:41 ↗ like to pursue this a little further I

1:14:44 ↗ am also going to vote against this bill

1:14:48 ↗ this evening again primarily because of

1:14:55 ↗ some of the questions raised this

1:14:56 ↗ evening and because there isn't a

1:14:58 ↗ imminent urgent need for this to be

1:15:00 ↗ transferred right now but I do

1:15:02 ↗ appreciate the administration saying

1:15:04 ↗ that there isn't currently anything

1:15:05 ↗ recreationally planned around this space

1:15:07 ↗ and I hear that but nonetheless I'm

1:15:10 ↗ going to be voting no any other

1:15:13 ↗ discussion this evening are you ready

1:15:16 ↗ for a vote there is no further

1:15:20 ↗ discussion all those in favor of

1:15:22 ↗ adopting ordinance number two eight

1:15:24 ↗ three tubes vacating a portion of Street

1:15:27 ↗ right away adjacent to property located

1:15:29 ↗ at three hundred and 371 northeast

1:15:31 ↗ Gilman Boulevard subject to easements

1:15:33 ↗ and establishing the compensation to be

1:15:35 ↗ paid for such vacations signify by

1:15:37 ↗ saying aye aye opposed no motion fails

1:15:43 ↗ winter Stein in favor and four others

1:15:48 ↗ opposed the next item on the agenda is

1:15:54 ↗ regular business there is no regular

1:15:58 ↗ business that's the good news we'll move

1:16:02 ↗ to go to the order do any of the council

1:16:04 ↗ members have something on for good of

1:16:06 ↗ the order council president marks I do

1:16:08 ↗ madam mayor thank you very much some of

1:16:11 ↗ you in the audience and an in the

1:16:12 ↗ viewing public may notice that I am not

1:16:16 ↗ wearing my standard solid color polo

1:16:19 ↗ shirt I am actually wearing this is

1:16:23 ↗ Ghanaian meaning from the nation of

1:16:26 ↗ Ghana and West Africa I have from the

1:16:29 ↗ 9th through the 26th of

1:16:31 ↗ March I was doing training in northern

1:16:34 ↗ Ghana for people who don't know Africa

1:16:38 ↗ is really huge right you could fit all

1:16:40 ↗ of the United States and China and India

1:16:43 ↗ and Western Europe in Africa and still

1:16:46 ↗ have room left over and so Ghana doesn't

1:16:49 ↗ show up very large on a map but it's

1:16:50 ↗ actually about the size of Minnesota and

1:16:52 ↗ it has about 25 million people about 70

1:16:55 ↗ percent Christian about 25 percent

1:16:57 ↗ Muslim the two communities get along

1:16:59 ↗ very very well it's a democracy it's had

1:17:02 ↗ numerous transit orderly transition of

1:17:05 ↗ power as a result of Elections and

1:17:07 ↗ that's becoming more and more common in

1:17:08 ↗ Africa

1:17:09 ↗ and it was an absolute delight to spend

1:17:12 ↗ two weeks in Ghana although it was

1:17:15 ↗ unmercifully hot it was about a hundred

1:17:17 ↗ and five in the northern dry parts and

1:17:20 ↗ the populated southern parts it was only

1:17:23 ↗ about 85 but it was a 75 degree dew

1:17:25 ↗ point which is sticky indeed and I was

1:17:29 ↗ undergoing training on how to interview

1:17:31 ↗ people in for humanitarian technology so

1:17:34 ↗ I was learning how to speak primarily

1:17:37 ↗ with smallholder farmers these are the

1:17:40 ↗ folks in Africa who are most at risk of

1:17:42 ↗ famine and drought when bad things

1:17:44 ↗ happen in Africa and and my day job I

1:17:46 ↗ developed technology for those folks and

1:17:49 ↗ so I mentioned all this as a precursor

1:17:53 ↗ to saying as I said before I left how

1:17:56 ↗ much I appreciate that my fellow council

1:17:59 ↗ members and the administration supported

1:18:02 ↗ me in being gone for two weeks I don't

1:18:04 ↗ intend to be gone for two weeks again

1:18:06 ↗ for a very long time but it was

1:18:09 ↗ exceedingly worthwhile and I will be

1:18:11 ↗ better able to develop technology and

1:18:14 ↗ for that I hope to help the folks in

1:18:17 ↗ Ghana and other parts of sub-saharan

1:18:18 ↗ Africa and South Asia and for that I

1:18:21 ↗ thank you all very much for your

1:18:22 ↗ assistance

1:18:24 ↗ anything else for good of the order I

1:18:29 ↗ have an item if no one else does or

1:18:32 ↗ actually I guess for the next item

1:18:34 ↗ upcoming council meeting just checking

1:18:35 ↗ nothing else for good of the order okay

1:18:37 ↗ I've come in council meetings council

1:18:40 ↗ will be having a work session on April

1:18:41 ↗ 9th to discuss property acquisition

1:18:43 ↗ and disc disposition practices in the

1:18:46 ↗ city this is coming out of our joint its

1:18:49 ↗ Crosse school district city of istic web

1:18:51 ↗ meeting tonight we're going to be

1:18:52 ↗ looking at our practice and in

1:18:54 ↗ particular in relation to a parcel that

1:18:56 ↗ the school district is interested in

1:18:58 ↗ buying in the highlands on April 16th

1:19:00 ↗ the council meeting council will be

1:19:03 ↗ getting a 2018 legislative summary there

1:19:07 ↗ is an awful lot of items on consent

1:19:10 ↗ calendar but the main meeting that night

1:19:14 ↗ there'll be a public hearing on the

1:19:16 ↗ first major amendment to the Costco

1:19:17 ↗ development agreement and returning

1:19:21 ↗ believe it's no it's a fun new funding

1:19:24 ↗ request for temporary staffing I'm just

1:19:26 ↗ checking with the interim City

1:19:28 ↗ Administrator is that a new or returning

1:19:29 ↗ request for additional staffing it's a

1:19:33 ↗ new request and that's what we have to

1:19:36 ↗ look forward to in our next couple of

1:19:37 ↗ meetings last item executive session

1:19:41 ↗ there is no executive session this

1:19:43 ↗ evening

1:19:44 ↗ oh there being no further business the

1:19:46 ↗ meeting is adjourned at 8:20

1:20:00 ↗ you

Approved minutes

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Attendance

Council / Members (7)

Mariah Bettise

Stacy Goodman (By Phone)

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Bill Ramos

Paul Winterstein

Jeff Watling, Parks & Recreation Director

Excused

Chris Reh