City Council Regular Meeting · Monday, July 6, 2020 · City Council Digest

6. INFORMATIONAL UPDATES

Olde Town Traffic Calming Update ID 0725

Carried 5-2

packet pp.21–38

Topics: Land UseTransportation

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Staff report:

At the July 6, 2020 City Council Meeting, Council will receive an informational presentation on recent developments relating to Olde Town traffic calming, and school zone related improvements.

Roll call:

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by WALSH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Opposed: Hunt, Marts

7. CONSENT CALENDAR

Accounts: Payables and Payroll of July 6, 2020, $3,403,251.78 ID 0588

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.39–72

Topics: Budget

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Staff report:

Finance Department P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 PH: 425-837-3050 www.issaquahwa.gov

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Minutes: City Council Study Session, June 9

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.73–74

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR b) 06-09-20 Council Study Session Minutes Page (0000)

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Minutes: City Council Special Meeting, June 11, 2020

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.75–76

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR c) 06-11-20 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000)

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

City Council Special Meeting, June 22, 2020

Carried 7-0

Approve · packet pp.83–85

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Staff report:

CONSENT CALENDAR f) 06-22-20 City Council Special Meeting Minutes Page (0000)

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network (PSERN) Operator Interlocal Agreement AB 7958

Carried 7-0

Authorize · packet pp.87–119

Topics: Public Safety

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Staff report:

C. About PSERN

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Memorandum of Understanding with Teamsters 763 Ratify AB 7996

Carried 7-0

packet pp.121–124

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Staff report:

On March 6, 2017, the City Council approved a collective bargaining agreement ("CBA") between the City and Teamsters Local No. 763 effective Jan. 1, 2016 to Dec. 31, 2019. The CBA approved by the City Council sets wages and benefits for staff in the Teamsters 763 bargaining unit. Modifications to the CBA must be negotiated by the parties and, if there is a financial

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Surplus City Equipment AB 7997

Carried 7-0

Approve Resolution · packet pp.125–128

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Staff report:

The Administration recommends approval of the proposed resolution declaring the items as surplus and authorizing the Administration to dispose of them in accordance with Washington State law.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Grant (Eastside Workforce Reskilling Initiative) AB 8001

Carried 7-0

Authorize Submittal · packet pp.129–132

Topics: ElectionsEconomic Development

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Staff report:

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) provided EDA with $1.5 billion for economic development assistance programs to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the economic impacts of COVID-19.

Roll call:

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

9. GOOD OF THE ORDER

Upcoming Council Meetings

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0:08 ↗ good evening everyone and welcome I'm

0:11 ↗ going to call the July 6th City Council

0:13 ↗ meeting to order

0:14 ↗ game before we move on to the tonight's

0:17 ↗ agenda items I'd like to acknowledge

0:19 ↗ that we are still using our remote

0:21 ↗ meeting format on March 6th I issued an

0:25 ↗ emergency proclamation declaring a civil

0:27 ↗ emergency in the city due to the Cova

0:29 ↗ 1903

0:31 ↗ on march 24th the governor issued

0:33 ↗ proclamation 20 - 28 prohibiting

0:36 ↗ meetings that fall under the open public

0:38 ↗ meetings acts such as our City Council

0:40 ↗ meetings from being conducted in person

0:42 ↗ the prohibition has been extended

0:45 ↗ through July 7th tonight's meeting will

0:47 ↗ be held entirely remotely the meeting

0:50 ↗ will be recorded streamed live and

0:52 ↗ available for later viewing on the

0:53 ↗ city's YouTube channel a callin number

0:56 ↗ was provided on the meeting agenda for

0:58 ↗ members of the public who wish to call

0:59 ↗ him by phone listen live to the meeting

1:02 ↗ or make comments for those members of

1:04 ↗ the public on the call welcome for those

1:07 ↗ of you who submitted the online forum to

1:09 ↗ make comments your name will be called

1:11 ↗ under the audience comments portion of

1:13 ↗ the meeting if there's anyone on this

1:15 ↗ cup on the call who did not sign up but

1:17 ↗ would like to make comments tonight

1:19 ↗ please press star 3 on your phone and we

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1:23 ↗ list

1:25 ↗ at this point in time we'll take a

1:26 ↗ moment to take roll call of the council

1:29 ↗ members in attendance please say hear

1:31 ↗ when I call your name

1:32 ↗ councilmember Dee Michelle here

1:35 ↗ councilmember Goodman here councilmember

1:38 ↗ Hall here council president hon here

1:43 ↗ Thank You councilmember marks here

1:46 ↗ Liberty council president ray here

1:49 ↗ councilmember Walsh here

1:52 ↗ thank you that's seven of seven council

1:55 ↗ members in attendance this evening

1:56 ↗ there are also some city staff

1:58 ↗ participating in tonight's meeting

2:00 ↗ including city administrator babka wits

2:02 ↗ assistant to the city administrator

2:04 ↗ autumn Monaghan senior engineer Matt

2:07 ↗ Ellis deputy City Administrator Andrea

2:10 ↗ Snyder city attorney Jim Haney city

2:13 ↗ clerk Tina Eggers and deputy city clerk

2:16 ↗ tisha Geezer there may also be some

2:18 ↗ other staff in attendance this evening

2:20 ↗ but for the meeting guidelines I'd like

2:22 ↗ to reiterate some guidance for all

2:25 ↗ meeting attendees please be clearly and

2:29 ↗ pause frequently state your name each

2:32 ↗ time before speaking and mute your

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2:51 ↗ a motion or second emotion or

2:53 ↗ participate in debate it's a little

2:56 ↗ reminder to the mayor herself to turn on

2:58 ↗ the chat feature so she does how to

3:00 ↗ recognize somebody when they're ready to

3:02 ↗ time them

3:05 ↗ the next item on our agenda this evening

3:07 ↗ is the Pledge of Allegiance if you could

3:09 ↗ all keep your microphones muted I do

3:11 ↗ welcome you to join me in the Pledge of

3:13 ↗ Allegiance

3:15 ↗ I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

3:18 ↗ United States of America and to the

3:21 ↗ Republic for which it stands one nation

3:23 ↗ under God indivisible with liberty and

3:27 ↗ justice for all

3:29 ↗ thank you the next item on the agenda

3:31 ↗ this evening is audience comments and

3:34 ↗ here are some guidelines for providing

3:36 ↗ those comments please direct your

3:39 ↗ comments to the whole of the council and

3:41 ↗ not individuals and while this is not a

3:43 ↗ question-and-answer session we will

3:45 ↗ contact you to follow up if needed win

3:48 ↗ recognize unmute your microphone and

3:51 ↗ star-6 may be an option on your phone

3:53 ↗ state your name address and relationship

3:56 ↗ to the city be clearly and pause

3:58 ↗ frequently please limit your comments to

4:01 ↗ five minutes and please remute your

4:03 ↗ microphone when you're done if you do

4:05 ↗ not respond after your name or phone

4:07 ↗ number is called or if your connection

4:09 ↗ is lost unexpectedly the meeting will be

4:11 ↗ will need to proceed you are encouraged

4:14 ↗ encouraged to rejoin the meeting if able

4:17 ↗ again for those who have joined us

4:19 ↗ tonight and would like to speak but did

4:20 ↗ not sign up in advance please press star

4:23 ↗ three on your phone and we will call the

4:25 ↗ first six digits of your phone number

4:27 ↗ when it is your turn to make comment

4:30 ↗ personal attacks obscene language

4:32 ↗ derogatory remarks and disruptive

4:34 ↗ behavior will not be permitted if the

4:36 ↗ speaker is out of order I will have to

4:38 ↗ ask them to stop and to mute their

4:40 ↗ microphone if the speaker does not

4:42 ↗ comply I may direct staff to meet the

4:44 ↗ microphone and if the disruption to the

4:46 ↗ meeting continues to occur an order

4:48 ↗ cannot be restored I may direct staff to

4:50 ↗ remove you from the call citizen

4:52 ↗ comments written and verbal or important

4:54 ↗ aspect of the public process City

4:57 ↗ Council and your mayor takes these

4:58 ↗ comments seriously and we thank you for

5:01 ↗ taking the time to address us I'm gonna

5:03 ↗ ask the city clerk to please identify

5:04 ↗ the first person who signed up to speak

5:06 ↗ this evening

5:07 ↗ certainly

5:13 ↗ and Donna if you could unmute on your

5:17 ↗ end you have the floor

5:20 ↗ good evening this is Donna Robinson and

5:23 ↗ I had asked to speak to the council

5:26 ↗ unfortunately I thought we would be at

5:28 ↗ the end after you covered some of the

5:30 ↗ business so I'm not sure how relevant

5:32 ↗ this is because I wasn't sure if you

5:34 ↗ were actually covering this point the

5:36 ↗ seasoning or not my biggest concern when

5:40 ↗ I saw an initial listing of what codes

5:44 ↗ and things that were going to be

5:45 ↗ discussed had to do with the permeable

5:49 ↗ versus Imperva I'm very curious versus

5:53 ↗ impervious decisions I spoke at a

5:56 ↗ council meeting actually it was almost

5:58 ↗ two years ago now specifically on this

6:01 ↗ topic when the code was being addressed

6:03 ↗ and the example that was given was

6:06 ↗ schools that it would allow the schools

6:09 ↗ to cover a little more space or ground

6:13 ↗ we're talking about a change of adding

6:16 ↗ it tonight increasing it to 95 percent

6:18 ↗ instead of the 50/50 percent at least

6:21 ↗ that residents are required as I just

6:24 ↗ wanted to express my concern this feels

6:26 ↗ like and as I said I haven't heard the

6:29 ↗ discussion of the council yet nor have I

6:32 ↗ actually seen all the documentation

6:34 ↗ because I think there was a a note about

6:37 ↗ it being discussed after the storm

6:40 ↗ drainage portion of the work was done

6:43 ↗ but I just want to stress again that it

6:46 ↗ feels like it's much too general

6:49 ↗ language that I've been seeing the

6:52 ↗ language was not specific to schools

6:55 ↗ last time it was a general language but

6:57 ↗ it didn't seem to be clear when it was

6:59 ↗ presented to the council in fact there

7:01 ↗ were a couple of council members that

7:03 ↗ commented after I spoke but they did not

7:05 ↗ realize that it was only for schools and

7:07 ↗ that it was for general purposes of the

7:09 ↗ city to determine whenever it was valid

7:13 ↗ and so once again I just want to really

7:15 ↗ stress that I don't think it's a good

7:19 ↗ idea I think we have a lot of water

7:21 ↗ around here especially when the waters

7:25 ↗ get high like in February and I would

7:29 ↗ really be interested in having it if in

7:31 ↗ fact it's a benefit to

7:33 ↗ buddy a business or a resident or the

7:35 ↗ city in town especially in downtown that

7:39 ↗ the code be very much narrowed and not

7:44 ↗ general language to be used that at

7:46 ↗ somebody discretion that was what I was

7:49 ↗ concerned about and I appreciate the

7:51 ↗ opportunity to speak

7:52 ↗ thank you

7:55 ↗ thank you next on our list is Mike

7:59 ↗ Kearns i unmoving you you can do so on

8:02 ↗ your line as well you have the floor

8:04 ↗ thank you very much

8:07 ↗ well it's been an interesting year to

8:09 ↗ say the least especially these last

8:11 ↗ couple of weeks have been quite

8:14 ↗ saddening and interesting this last

8:16 ↗ weekend six young children were murdered

8:18 ↗ in our nation all of them were black all

8:22 ↗ of the people who shot them are black

8:26 ↗ out of black lives matter if blacks are

8:29 ↗ senselessly murdering their own last

8:33 ↗ weekend alone Chicago had 67 people shot

8:38 ↗ 14 of them died all who died were black

8:43 ↗ who were shot were black and all who did

8:46 ↗ the shooting were black what sense does

8:50 ↗ this make in almost every large city in

8:53 ↗ our nation violent crime is up over 200

8:57 ↗ percent this year compared to the same

8:59 ↗ time period last year why people are

9:03 ↗ taking advantage of the rioting that

9:04 ↗ started from George Floyd's murder

9:06 ↗ yes his murder was not justified and a

9:10 ↗ police officer who killed him is being

9:12 ↗ prosecuted and rightly so but it has

9:15 ↗ long since not been about George Floyd

9:18 ↗ it's about black lives matter promoting

9:20 ↗ their socialist political agenda through

9:23 ↗ violence intimidation and silencing

9:26 ↗ anyone opposed to them that's not

9:28 ↗ something we want in Issaquah so what

9:31 ↗ does black lives matter truly believe

9:33 ↗ here it is straight off their own

9:35 ↗ website quote

9:38 ↗ dismantle the patriarchal practice that

9:40 ↗ requires mothers to work double shifts

9:42 ↗ so that they can mother in private even

9:45 ↗ as they participate in public justice

9:47 ↗ work unquote in other words we are

9:50 ↗ making it so single mothers don't have

9:52 ↗ to work to raise a family

9:54 ↗ but what shaper those families into date

9:57 ↗ why does she have to work double shifts

10:00 ↗ it's because there's no father in the

10:02 ↗ home

10:04 ↗ been consistent for several decades now

10:06 ↗ 70% of black children are raised in a

10:09 ↗ home where there is no father the

10:11 ↗ nuclear family which is the best support

10:13 ↗ structure for a family is broken

10:16 ↗ what else does black lives matter say

10:19 ↗ about themselves on their website

10:21 ↗ quote we disrupt the Western proscribed

10:24 ↗ nuclear family structure requirement by

10:26 ↗ supporting each other as extended

10:28 ↗ families and villages that collectively

10:31 ↗ care for one another especially our

10:33 ↗ children to the degree that mothers

10:35 ↗ parents and children are comfortable

10:37 ↗ unquote but let's look at the

10:40 ↗ contradiction here black lives matter

10:42 ↗ wants to eliminate the nuclear family

10:45 ↗ but the black community already has a

10:48 ↗ majority of the nuclear family

10:50 ↗ eliminated at this time how well is that

10:53 ↗ working out

10:55 ↗ kids to grow up in a broken family is

10:57 ↗ the worst idea ever and black lives

10:59 ↗ matter wants to increase the number of

11:01 ↗ broken families in the cultural in the

11:04 ↗ black cultural community that is

11:07 ↗ cultural suicide black lives matter

11:11 ↗ started out after the death of Trayvon

11:13 ↗ Martin and the acquittal of George

11:14 ↗ Zimmerman who wasn't charged as

11:16 ↗ witnesses said it was self-defense

11:18 ↗ even Eric Holder who was the Attorney

11:21 ↗ General for the United States at the

11:22 ↗ time found there were no charges he

11:25 ↗ could bring against George Zimmerman

11:26 ↗ because was clearly self-defense black

11:29 ↗ lives matter built on that fault story

11:31 ↗ of Trayvon Martin and continued the same

11:33 ↗ pattern of deception with Michael Brown

11:35 ↗ incident in Ferguson Missouri black

11:38 ↗ lives matter built up the false story of

11:40 ↗ hands up don't shoot

11:42 ↗ which obviously from the video tapes was

11:45 ↗ a lie black lives matter is built on

11:48 ↗ lies which are sensationalized for their

11:50 ↗ own political gain not for the

11:52 ↗ betterment of blacks and certainly not

11:54 ↗ for the betterment of our community

11:55 ↗ speaking of Eric Holder who was the

11:58 ↗ Attorney General during the Obama

11:59 ↗ administration

12:00 ↗ they had eight full years in which they

12:02 ↗ could have addressed these issues of

12:03 ↗ black lives matter but they didn't

12:05 ↗ address it at all

12:06 ↗ why is that black lives matter does not

12:10 ↗ have the best interest of black people

12:12 ↗ or any people in mind they are

12:14 ↗ implementing their own socialist

12:15 ↗ revolution on the backs of and to the

12:18 ↗ detriment of black people we are seeing

12:21 ↗ more and more black people in the media

12:22 ↗ in use in movies and everyday working

12:25 ↗ people standing up to say black lives

12:28 ↗ matter does not represent me and my

12:30 ↗ beliefs just because my skin is black

12:37 ↗ please

12:41 ↗ maybe regardless we're all people

12:47 ↗ you cannot say all cops are racist nor

12:50 ↗ can you say all white cops are racist

12:52 ↗ because it is not true as far as

12:55 ↗ defunding or especially abolishing the

12:58 ↗ police well just be ready for the

13:00 ↗ consequences

13:01 ↗ we saw how well no police worked out on

13:04 ↗ Capitol Hill in Seattle recently and

13:07 ↗ we've seen it as well in Detroit

13:08 ↗ Minneapolis st. Paul Atlanta Baltimore

13:11 ↗ and Chicago abolishing the police will

13:14 ↗ have a disproportionate negative impact

13:16 ↗ on black neighborhoods why would we ever

13:19 ↗ think of polishing the police is a good

13:21 ↗ thing to do

13:22 ↗ excuse me mr. Turner you've reached the

13:25 ↗ end of your comment time please

13:27 ↗ summarize okay we need to keep our

13:32 ↗ beautiful vibrant city tolerant and

13:34 ↗ understanding that black lives matter is

13:37 ↗ working against everything we stand for

13:39 ↗ they seek to divide us separate us and

13:41 ↗ encourage misunderstanding between us

13:43 ↗ mayor Polly esteemed council members and

13:46 ↗ to everyone listening tonight I thank

13:48 ↗ you for your time in your consideration

13:49 ↗ I yield the floor

13:51 ↗ [Music]

13:53 ↗ thank you

13:56 ↗ did you clerk is there anyone else that

13:58 ↗ has signed up this evening to speak I

14:00 ↗ have know others who wish to sign up or

14:03 ↗ who have indicated by the raise of hand

14:07 ↗ with the star three feature that there

14:09 ↗ would like to make a comment thanks I

14:12 ↗ want to apologize if my speaker created

14:16 ↗ some echo for everybody in the meeting

14:18 ↗ and switched over now to a headset which

14:20 ↗ I think should address it and I want to

14:21 ↗ thank Donna and Mike for coming in

14:22 ↗ tonight talking about old town code

14:25 ↗ updates related to pervious and

14:26 ↗ impervious standards and comments on the

14:28 ↗ black life matters movement and

14:30 ↗ abolishing the police they hope Donna

14:33 ↗ that you're able to stay with us tonight

14:35 ↗ because I think some of the questions

14:37 ↗ that you had will be addressed in

14:38 ↗ tonight's presentation

14:42 ↗ thank you both for coming and addressing

14:44 ↗ the council in the mayor this evening as

14:47 ↗ a reminder

14:51 ↗ written comments can be submitted at any

14:54 ↗ time to City Council a disco wha gov and

14:56 ↗ in addition comments received by email

14:58 ↗ on tonight's agenda topics will be

15:00 ↗ acknowledged by council president hunt

15:02 ↗ under the relative agenda item we've

15:04 ↗ been doing this throughout the remote

15:07 ↗ meetings

15:08 ↗ Dudek Ovid and I appreciate that we can

15:10 ↗ capture those comments that way the next

15:12 ↗ item of business is committee and

15:14 ↗ regional reports and I'll go by calling

15:16 ↗ each council member by name council

15:18 ↗ member Hall

15:24 ↗ Thank You Mara Polly council member Hall

15:27 ↗ here I have one report for cascade water

15:33 ↗ Alliance so last Wednesday June 24th I

15:37 ↗ guess that was you Wednesday's ago mayor

15:41 ↗ Polly and I attended a meeting of the

15:42 ↗ cascade water Alliance board of

15:44 ↗ directors

15:46 ↗ among the many topics that we discussed

15:48 ↗ of the board authorized the CEO to enter

15:51 ↗ into a contract Reverb to perform

15:54 ↗ herbicide treatment for the control of

15:56 ↗ aquatic vegetation in the Lake Tapps

15:58 ↗ Reservoir we were notified that cascade

16:02 ↗ has officially issued an RFP or request

16:04 ↗ for proposals for a feasibility study of

16:07 ↗ potential solar power generation at Lake

16:09 ↗ Tapps reservoir and we were also

16:11 ↗ notified that staff plans to meet with

16:14 ↗ Pierce County staff later this summer to

16:17 ↗ discuss planning efforts for Lake Tapps

16:18 ↗ and also potential amendments to the

16:21 ↗ Pierce County Comprehensive Plan

16:23 ↗ regarding storm water management or

16:25 ↗ storm water treatment in the surrounding

16:27 ↗ area in addition to that the board heard

16:29 ↗ a presentation from cascade staff on

16:32 ↗ preliminary budgeting and water rates in

16:35 ↗ the future and if our meeting doesn't go

16:37 ↗ too late I plan to bring this topic back

16:39 ↗ up during good of the order as our

16:42 ↗ conversation really centered around what

16:44 ↗ an increase in water rates would look

16:46 ↗ like and I know councilmember marks

16:49 ↗ brought this same issue up with King

16:51 ↗ County a few weeks ago so I wanted to

16:53 ↗ honor that precedent and bring it up

16:56 ↗ with you guys I know what some of you

16:57 ↗ might say but I think I just wanted to

16:59 ↗ gauge City Council's interest level so

17:01 ↗ talk more about that later and that

17:04 ↗ concludes my report

17:13 ↗ little delay there Thank You

17:15 ↗ councilmember Hall councilmember D

17:17 ↗ Michelle Thank You mayor Paulie this is

17:21 ↗ John celebrity Michelle I attended a

17:26 ↗ joint meeting of Metro Transit with the

17:28 ↗ Eastside transportation partnership

17:30 ↗ South King County Transportation Board

17:33 ↗ and North King County Transportation

17:34 ↗ Board on June the 16th the following day

17:38 ↗ on June 17th mayor polly attended the

17:40 ↗ regional transit committee and on July

17:43 ↗ 2nd a third presentation with the same

17:45 ↗ information was given to the sound

17:47 ↗ cities association at the joint meeting

17:50 ↗ I attended Peter Rogoff CEO of south

17:53 ↗ transit presented similar to the report

17:56 ↗ we received from Metro Transit in April

17:58 ↗ Sound Transit experienced major declines

18:01 ↗ in ridership in March and April even

18:04 ↗ more significant than those two Metro

18:06 ↗ Transit Sound Transit took measures

18:09 ↗ similar to Metro Transit to reduce

18:11 ↗ service has been fares and posed

18:13 ↗ rigorous cleanliness standards and

18:15 ↗ suspend construction projects so I'm

18:18 ↗ just going to pause for a second and

18:20 ↗ just say that a lot of times I hear from

18:23 ↗ people why do we have two different

18:24 ↗ transit agencies serving us Metro

18:28 ↗ Transit's Charter allows it to serve

18:31 ↗ King County only Sound Transit's Charter

18:34 ↗ allows it to serve King Pearson

18:36 ↗ Snohomish County BIA Light Rail trains

18:38 ↗ and buses and it's a clause served by

18:42 ↗ both Metro Transit and Sound Transit

18:44 ↗ there is a long historic and legal

18:47 ↗ reason why we have to agencies to

18:49 ↗ provide transit service in Issaquah and

18:52 ↗ I can provide a long explanation over a

18:55 ↗ virtual coffee with anyone who's

18:58 ↗ interested so I'll put that offer out

19:00 ↗ there like Metro Sound Transit is facing

19:04 ↗ a huge budget shortfall over the next

19:06 ↗ decade for Metro the shortfall is

19:09 ↗ projected to be about 2 billion for

19:11 ↗ Sound Transit is projected to be about

19:13 ↗ 1.5 billion Karis funding provided each

19:17 ↗ agency with some immediate relief that

19:19 ↗ will not help with a long-range deficit

19:21 ↗ and a federal infrastructure bill or a

19:24 ↗ federal bailout bill would help people

19:26 ↗ the agency's operating through the

19:27 ↗ recovery period at the meeting I

19:30 ↗ attended we also heard from congressman

19:32 ↗ Adam Smith who said there is a strong

19:34 ↗ bipartisan support for the

19:36 ↗ reauthorization of the transportation

19:38 ↗ bill which would bring a projected 500

19:41 ↗ billion into local projects he has a

19:45 ↗ hope that it will be passed and signed

19:47 ↗ by the president September

19:49 ↗ however he has very little hope for the

19:52 ↗ hero's bailout bill to be passed so with

19:56 ↗ respect to specific issues related to

19:59 ↗ his clock we face some unique challenges

20:02 ↗ and restoring service to the Issaquah

20:04 ↗ area diane carlson representing the

20:07 ↗ metro transit said that the agency has

20:10 ↗ to balance demand and supply the

20:13 ↗ presentation given to the regional

20:15 ↗ transit committee and the sound cities

20:16 ↗ association shows that ridership on the

20:19 ↗ east side drops the furthest of any

20:22 ↗ place in King County and is across

20:24 ↗ specifically is now in the bottom 10%

20:26 ↗ for service demand that is due at least

20:30 ↗ in part to the fact that our residents

20:31 ↗ are tech-savvy and wired and

20:33 ↗ telecommuting is both an option and a

20:36 ↗ requirement for many households in

20:37 ↗ Issaquah I asked specifically about the

20:40 ↗ impacts of telecommuting since the

20:42 ↗ majority of us Club writers are daily

20:44 ↗ commuters primarily to Bellevue in

20:47 ↗ Seattle and Carlson said that they are

20:49 ↗ monitoring the situation but the

20:51 ↗ long-range impacts will take time to

20:52 ↗ understand and Metro anticipates that

20:55 ↗ some changes will be permanent their

20:58 ↗ focus now is on transit dependent

20:59 ↗ communities where people must access

21:01 ↗ transit for work shopping and recreation

21:04 ↗ so overall this is the most significant

21:07 ↗ development for long-range recovery of

21:09 ↗ service in the in supply area it could

21:12 ↗ have a significantly detrimental impact

21:14 ↗ on our ability as a community to provide

21:17 ↗ transit services to densifying areas in

21:20 ↗ the downtown and central areas and so

21:24 ↗ that is my report on the transit

21:27 ↗ communities I will also be attending a

21:30 ↗ virtual meeting of Eastside Human

21:32 ↗ Services forum legislative committee

21:34 ↗ tomorrow and I will be attending the

21:37 ↗ healthier tier governing board on

21:39 ↗ Thursday to

21:40 ↗ by the 9th and that is my report thank

21:43 ↗ you

21:46 ↗ Thank You councilmember Dee Michelle

21:49 ↗ next up is councilmember Walsh thank you

21:53 ↗ this is councilmember wolf last week I

21:56 ↗ attended the Economic Development

21:58 ↗ District Board meeting this was actually

22:01 ↗ our first meeting since we everybody

22:05 ↗ started quarantine and one of the things

22:08 ↗ we have realized is that as an economic

22:10 ↗ development board we are not situated

22:14 ↗ very well with our meetings to respond

22:16 ↗ rapidly to an economic crisis so I don't

22:19 ↗ know if we'll be adjusting that going

22:21 ↗ forward at this point we meet quarterly

22:24 ↗ and so not very often

22:30 ↗ um the economic development herd

22:35 ↗ um can you hear me yeah yes okay I just

22:40 ↗ heard a noise okay is applying for a

22:44 ↗ four hundred thousand dollar grant from

22:46 ↗ the economic development administration

22:48 ↗ to work on a kovat 19 response from a

22:54 ↗ regional perspective and then the other

22:56 ↗ thing we addressed was an update to the

22:59 ↗ amazing place idea which is kind of our

23:02 ↗ economic development strategy from a

23:05 ↗ regional perspective and we were set to

23:11 ↗ approve a version that would last for

23:14 ↗ the next five years but we realize now

23:17 ↗ that there maybe need to be some changes

23:18 ↗ considering racial equity and then also

23:23 ↗ covin 19 and how economic development

23:26 ↗ will have to adjust so we started

23:29 ↗ talking about that and will continue

23:30 ↗ that conversation and we have to submit

23:34 ↗ the next version by January 2022 and

23:37 ↗ that concludes my report

23:40 ↗ Thank You councilmember wall

23:42 ↗ councilmember Goodman Thank You mayor

23:45 ↗ Polly councilmember Goodman here on June

23:49 ↗ 17th I attended the Eastside fire and

23:52 ↗ rescues finance and administrative

23:54 ↗ committee meeting that committee

23:56 ↗ recommended to the Eastside Fire and

23:58 ↗ Rescue Board to consider a more robust

24:01 ↗ robust effort to collect transportation

24:04 ↗ fees that are charged to the individuals

24:07 ↗ who are not insured by insurance

24:10 ↗ currently the agency collects all that

24:13 ↗ it is allowed to collect from Medicare

24:15 ↗ Medicaid and from insurance coverage but

24:19 ↗ the agency only receives about 20% of

24:23 ↗ the charges that are built to private

24:25 ↗ payers who are not covered by insurance

24:27 ↗ which leaves about a hundred and twenty

24:29 ↗ thousand dollars that's left and

24:31 ↗ collected each year the Board's decision

24:33 ↗ years ago was to not do any collections

24:36 ↗ but that decision is now being revisited

24:39 ↗ because the agency now does way more

24:41 ↗ transports than it used to so that

24:44 ↗ leaves a lot more money that's

24:45 ↗ uncollected

24:47 ↗ the the related issue of the rate to

24:52 ↗ charge for transports is a little

24:55 ↗ complicated and that will be discussed

24:59 ↗ during the budget process the rate that

25:01 ↗ is now charged is the same as every

25:04 ↗ agency in what's called zone one which

25:08 ↗ includes cities such as Kirkland and

25:10 ↗ Redmond and that is a rate that's

25:13 ↗ negotiated with AMR which is the private

25:15 ↗ ambulance service that rate is just

25:18 ↗ under $800 but it doesn't begin to cover

25:21 ↗ aside fire costs but the effect of

25:25 ↗ Eastside fire raising its fee for what

25:28 ↗ it would charge is that the AMR fee

25:31 ↗ would have to be raised as well because

25:34 ↗ it's in a contract that requires the fee

25:38 ↗ to be a Mars rate to be negotiable

25:41 ↗ renegotiated if the agency changes its

25:43 ↗ fee so it does have a far-reaching

25:46 ↗ impact that needs to be thoughtfully

25:48 ↗ considered and like I said that what we

25:50 ↗ consider during the budget process

25:52 ↗ that's coming up soon this fall we also

25:57 ↗ at the committee level had a very brief

25:59 ↗ introduction to the proposed budget and

26:02 ↗ that's coming back before the committee

26:05 ↗ [Music]

26:07 ↗ I think that's all we talked about and

26:09 ↗ then with the board meeting for a site

26:12 ↗ fire will be July 9th at 4:00 p.m. and

26:17 ↗ we will be having that ambulance fee

26:21 ↗ collection discussion that I just

26:23 ↗ discussed we will also be having a

26:26 ↗ racial equity discussion which is the

26:28 ↗ first time that that issue has been

26:30 ↗ before the board and we also will have a

26:34 ↗ discussion kind of our first

26:36 ↗ introduction to the potential new entity

26:38 ↗ structure for the agency and that will

26:41 ↗ be coming to the City Council for

26:45 ↗ discussion this is just a first there

26:48 ↗ will be more than one discussion of the

26:51 ↗ ISA fire board level so no worries there

26:54 ↗ that this is going to get decided

26:55 ↗ without our city and other members

26:58 ↗ discussions and I also wanted to note

27:01 ↗ that were those people out there who

27:03 ↗ know Larry Rudy

27:05 ↗ Larry Rudy has been it with local fire

27:09 ↗ service since the 1970s specifically

27:13 ↗ with Fire District ten and he is moving

27:15 ↗ to Maple Valley so he will have to

27:17 ↗ resign in August from his duties so at

27:20 ↗ that meeting on July 9th where there

27:21 ↗ will be a recognition of director Rudy's

27:24 ↗ years of service tomorrow the lodging

27:28 ↗ tax Advisory Committee will be meeting

27:30 ↗ at 3:00 p.m. this virtual meeting and we

27:33 ↗ will be discussing the coab it 19

27:36 ↗ impacts on the tourism and hospitality

27:39 ↗ industries and I think more specifically

27:42 ↗ that get to the revenue which has been

27:45 ↗ on the lodging tax which has been as you

27:50 ↗ can imagine extraordinary we also will

27:52 ↗ be discussing $25,000 funding request

27:55 ↗ from village theatres and a future

27:59 ↗ lodging tax revenues and funding ability

28:02 ↗ for it visit Issaquah and as part of all

28:04 ↗ of those discussions will be the role of

28:06 ↗ the committee and revenues and expenses

28:09 ↗ we haven't met for a while so there will

28:12 ↗ be a lot of overviews and

28:18 ↗ that are important in light of all the

28:20 ↗ economic circumstances right now and

28:24 ↗ that's my report thank you Thank You

28:26 ↗ councilmember Goodman councilmember

28:28 ↗ marks thank you madam mayor this is

28:30 ↗ councilmember marks the sound Teachers

28:32 ↗ Association public issues committee will

28:35 ↗ be meeting on a remote only basis this

28:38 ↗ Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Renton City Hall

28:40 ↗ on the agenda includes a discussion of

28:44 ↗ the Board of Health declaration of

28:46 ↗ racism at the public health emergency

28:49 ↗ and in a related manner um I want to

28:53 ↗ point out that SCA will be hosting a

28:55 ↗ racial equity injustice Siri and that's

28:58 ↗ open to elected and the first panel

29:00 ↗ discussion is scheduled for Friday July

29:03 ↗ 10th from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. and

29:07 ↗ information on that is in our email and

29:10 ↗ I just have to say some amazing leaders

29:13 ↗ in the region are part of the panel so

29:16 ↗ it should be a should be a really good

29:18 ↗ conversation we will also be having a

29:21 ↗ discussion on the budget outlook that

29:23 ↗ should be festive and then the King

29:26 ↗ County Regional homelessness authority

29:28 ↗ will have an update on how things are

29:31 ↗ going there then the after after quite a

29:35 ↗ while the Puget Sound Puget Sound

29:37 ↗ Regional Council growth management

29:39 ↗ policy board is meeting for the first

29:41 ↗ time in about four months it is going to

29:44 ↗ be a remote only basis it's a special

29:46 ↗ date next Thursday July 16

29:50 ↗ well Thursday July 16th at any rate from

29:52 ↗ 10 a.m. till noon on the agenda is

29:55 ↗ included a briefing on housing efforts

29:57 ↗ at Parc and hearing from outside

30:00 ↗ speakers about collaborative housing

30:02 ↗ work that is moving forward in the

30:04 ↗ region that should be good and an update

30:06 ↗ on implementation of the regional

30:07 ↗ centers framework and then finally a

30:10 ↗ recommendation on Buckley's

30:12 ↗ Comprehensive Plan Update this concludes

30:14 ↗ my report

30:15 ↗ Thank You counsel

30:17 ↗ 50 council president ray

30:21 ↗ Thank You mayor polly the king county

30:24 ↗ growth management planning council met

30:26 ↗ on june 24th at 4 p.m. using a remote

30:28 ↗ meeting format there were 5 agenda items

30:31 ↗ of interests at first the G MPC approved

30:34 ↗ minor changes to the urban growth area

30:37 ↗ that were proposed in the 2020 King

30:39 ↗ County Comprehensive Plan one involved a

30:42 ↗ roundabout in Woodinville one involved

30:45 ↗ the Maplewood subdivision adjacent to

30:47 ↗ Maple Valley and the most interest to us

30:49 ↗ was one involving East Cougar Mountain

30:51 ↗ urban growth area three parcels that had

30:54 ↗ been zoned for urban plan development

30:56 ↗ were re-designated as rural rural areas

31:00 ↗ this change was supported by both the

31:02 ↗ city of Issaquah and by the landowners

31:04 ↗ number two the GMP GMP C received a

31:08 ↗ briefing on the proposed changes to the

31:10 ↗ four to one program GMP C recommended

31:14 ↗ that the King County Council defer any

31:15 ↗ action on any changes the porta one

31:18 ↗ program that are related to the

31:19 ↗ countywide pying policies and

31:21 ↗ recommended that those amendments be

31:23 ↗ considered as part of the 2021 update to

31:26 ↗ the countywide planning policies third

31:29 ↗ the GMP C received an update on the plan

31:31 ↗ for completing the king countywide

31:33 ↗ planning policy updates and preparing

31:36 ↗ the changes for presentation to the PSR

31:39 ↗ C for certification by December 31st

31:41 ↗ 2021 next the GMP C was briefed on the

31:46 ↗ progress towards completing the urban

31:47 ↗ growth capacity report including the

31:50 ↗ schedule for completing the report the

31:53 ↗ urban growth capacity report is required

31:55 ↗ for the Comprehensive Plan Update and

31:56 ↗ will be presented to the GMP C for

31:59 ↗ approval in June of 2021 and finally a

32:02 ↗ GMP

32:04 ↗ affordable housing committee status

32:06 ↗ report was presented on the work of the

32:08 ↗ committee G M piece GMP C will be

32:11 ↗ considering affordable housing committee

32:12 ↗ recommendations and amendments to the

32:15 ↗ county planning policies in December

32:17 ↗ 2020 and that concludes my report this

32:19 ↗ evening Thank You deputy council

32:21 ↗ president ray council president hunt

32:29 ↗ Thank You sis council president hunt I

32:32 ↗ attended the yr8 salmon recovery Council

32:37 ↗ Management Committee meeting on June

32:40 ↗ 30th this is a subcommittee of the

32:44 ↗ salmon recovery Council and we were

32:46 ↗ tasked with administrative duties and

32:49 ↗ oversight over things like budget and

32:52 ↗ then we make recommendations to the

32:54 ↗ salmon recovery council and also a note

32:59 ↗ that ayah eight is the technical name

33:01 ↗ for our community's watershed in the

33:05 ↗ salmon recovery council management

33:06 ↗ committee meeting we discussed the

33:09 ↗ budget and in particular the cost share

33:12 ↗ component of the budget and the

33:14 ↗ committee was generally an agreement

33:16 ↗ that because of the extraordinary

33:18 ↗ economic situation cities find

33:21 ↗ themselves in right now to to the Cova

33:23 ↗ 19 financial impacts that we would we

33:28 ↗ recommended we were in general

33:30 ↗ agreements or recommend to forego our

33:32 ↗ usual 2.3 9% cost increase and go with

33:36 ↗ the same cost share breakdown as in last

33:41 ↗ year and so this will go before the full

33:45 ↗ council at our next meeting we also

33:48 ↗ discussed adding a work plan item or

33:55 ↗ Meishan about a workplan item to support

33:57 ↗ local governments in terms of increasing

34:00 ↗ the technical committees input into

34:04 ↗ local planning and salmon recovery

34:06 ↗ efforts at the local level and and then

34:11 ↗ we also discuss that we would like to as

34:14 ↗ a committee have a larger equity

34:16 ↗ discussion with the stammering coveri

34:18 ↗ Council as well and the next meeting of

34:20 ↗ the salmon recovery council will be July

34:23 ↗ 16th that concludes my report

34:25 ↗ Thank You council president hunt the

34:29 ↗ next item on the agenda is the mayor's

34:31 ↗ report

34:34 ↗ items to share there will be an

34:36 ↗ executive session this evening to

34:37 ↗ discuss collective bargaining per RCW

34:40 ↗ 42.3 0.14 o / n 4 / n a datum is

34:45 ↗ expected to last 30 minutes and no

34:47 ↗ action is anticipated in open open

34:50 ↗ session I have an item on Parks and

34:54 ↗ Recreation Professionals Day so every

34:56 ↗ day the city staff of the Parks and

34:58 ↗ Recreation and Community Services

35:00 ↗ Department are providing essential

35:01 ↗ services to make Issaquah a better place

35:03 ↗ to live work and play July 17 to 20 20

35:08 ↗ is parks and recreational professionals

35:10 ↗ day in the City of Issaquah and I'm

35:12 ↗ going to read into the record of

35:13 ↗ Proclamation whereas we recognize that

35:16 ↗ the Parks and Recreation field is the

35:19 ↗ diverse and comprehensive system that

35:21 ↗ improves personal social environmental

35:24 ↗ and economic health and whereas we

35:27 ↗ recognize the importance and benefits of

35:29 ↗ park and recreation services that enrich

35:31 ↗ the lives of its citizens and help makes

35:34 ↗ this community a desirable place to live

35:36 ↗ work and play and whereas we support the

35:39 ↗ skilled work of Park and Recreation

35:41 ↗ professionals to strengthen community

35:44 ↗ cohesion and resiliency connect people

35:47 ↗ with nature and each other and provide

35:49 ↗ and promote opportunities for healthful

35:51 ↗ living social equity and environmental

35:54 ↗ sustainability and whereas we value the

35:57 ↗ essential services that Park and

35:59 ↗ Recreation professionals and volunteers

36:01 ↗ perform to provide recreational and

36:03 ↗ developmental enrichment for our

36:05 ↗ children youth adults and older adults

36:09 ↗ and to ensure our parks and recreational

36:11 ↗ spaces are clean safe inclusive

36:14 ↗ welcoming and ready to use I encourage

36:17 ↗ all citizens to get out and see what our

36:20 ↗ local Parks and Recreation has to offer

36:22 ↗ and share your appreciation for the

36:24 ↗ people who provide these essential

36:25 ↗ services

36:27 ↗ I'd also like to give an update on our

36:29 ↗ mass distribution efforts to date and

36:31 ↗ our plan going forward

36:32 ↗ Friday the community emergency response

36:35 ↗ team our cert volunteers distributed a

36:38 ↗ thousand masks at Blakely Hall and 350

36:41 ↗ at the community center combined with

36:43 ↗ other locations the total number handed

36:45 ↗ out is 6,400 masks cert volunteers will

36:49 ↗ set up tables at the following locations

36:51 ↗ this week City Hall from 1:00 to 5:00

36:54 ↗ p.m. Tuesday through Friday for

36:55 ↗ distribution lakely Hall from noon till

36:58 ↗ 2 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday and the

37:01 ↗ farmers market from 8:30 till 2:00 on

37:03 ↗ Saturday July 11th these events should

37:06 ↗ deplete the remaining supply so the city

37:09 ↗ has to hand out of 90 100 miles and just

37:12 ↗ in case there is anyone out there who is

37:15 ↗ wondering why we are doing this masks

37:18 ↗ are not only recommended in Washington

37:20 ↗ State masks are now required we want to

37:23 ↗ make sure that they're available to

37:25 ↗ everyone and that concludes the mayor's

37:28 ↗ reports evening moving through the

37:30 ↗ agenda we're going to go through some

37:32 ↗ informational updates and the first one

37:34 ↗ is ID zero six three eight neighborhood

37:37 ↗ engagement program and I'd like to ask

37:39 ↗ assistant to the city administrator

37:40 ↗ autumn Monahan to make a presentation

37:42 ↗ autumn

37:44 ↗ thank you madam mayor members of the

37:46 ↗ City Council my name is Otto Monahan I'm

37:48 ↗ the city administrator and I lead our

37:52 ↗ communications team and thanks for the

37:54 ↗ opportunity tonight to talk about our

37:55 ↗ neighborhood engagement program so first

37:58 ↗ I want to provide a quick overview about

38:01 ↗ our program as we have new council

38:03 ↗ members since we've last presented on

38:05 ↗ this body of work during the city

38:07 ↗ council's 2015 goal-setting retreat

38:09 ↗ community leaders identified the need

38:11 ↗ for more engagement at the neighborhood

38:13 ↗ level from that brainstorm our

38:15 ↗ neighborhood engagement program was then

38:16 ↗ born and officially founded in January

38:19 ↗ of 2017

38:20 ↗ this program aligns very well with the

38:22 ↗ city strategic plan including two

38:24 ↗ specific guiding principles the first is

38:26 ↗ people which is fostering community

38:28 ↗ pride engagement strong and safe

38:31 ↗ neighborhoods and diverse opportunities

38:33 ↗ and the second is service excellence

38:35 ↗ which is delivering proactive efficient

38:38 ↗ and effective public services the

38:39 ↗ resident

38:42 ↗ we've often asked neighborhoods what

38:44 ↗ they want to see from engagement with

38:46 ↗ the city and here's some of the feedback

38:47 ↗ they provided over the years they value

38:50 ↗ networking with each other they'd like

38:52 ↗ to hear from other people and from other

38:54 ↗ neighborhoods not just their own and

38:56 ↗ they'd like to have the city leveraged

38:59 ↗ champions in each neighborhood to help

39:01 ↗ facilitate engagement with their own

39:03 ↗ person and we also hear that they often

39:07 ↗ like us to take engagement opportunities

39:09 ↗ to our residents physically instead of

39:11 ↗ expecting them to come to City Hall for

39:13 ↗ engagement they ask that engagements

39:16 ↗ accessible informal and relaxed and they

39:19 ↗ also want to have an active role in

39:20 ↗ selecting mean poppin

39:26 ↗ so here is a variety of tools we use to

39:28 ↗ engage at the neighborhood level this

39:30 ↗ list of tools has varied over time over

39:33 ↗ the years depending on best level the

39:35 ↗ demands the topics that we're covering

39:37 ↗ and also the neighborhood so our

39:39 ↗ neighborhoods are very different in its

39:40 ↗ apply and so some prefer certain tools

39:42 ↗ over others once we've received feedback

39:45 ↗ and we've worked on that engagement and

39:47 ↗ we then provide that feedback back to

39:50 ↗ our decision-makers in many ways so

39:53 ↗ through project updates memos agenda

39:56 ↗ bills in-person engagement surveys and

39:59 ↗ maps which I will highlight later in the

40:02 ↗ presentation

40:05 ↗ so here's our work plan for 2020

40:07 ↗ involving neighborhood engagement this

40:09 ↗ has definitely changed due to our covet

40:11 ↗ 19 response so much of what our

40:14 ↗ residents value with this program is

40:15 ↗ in-person engagement and so we've had to

40:18 ↗ get very creative in the last few months

40:20 ↗ on how we connect with neighborhoods so

40:22 ↗ I'll cover each of these topics a bit

40:24 ↗ marred and death

40:27 ↗ up is news items by neighborhood so

40:30 ↗ thanks to our website redesign

40:35 ↗ from last year it enables us to send

40:38 ↗ news to neighborhoods specifically by

40:41 ↗ subscribers so we work to promote this

40:44 ↗ subscription feature every chance we can

40:46 ↗ when engaging with residents and then

40:48 ↗ can really target and specify news

40:50 ↗ that's important to certain neighborhood

40:55 ↗ we're also experimenting with hosting

40:57 ↗ some virtual neighborhood meetings as we

40:59 ↗ stay safe by physical distancing

41:01 ↗ so far we've hosted Timberlake Lane and

41:03 ↗ Newport Montrose HOA meeting is later

41:06 ↗ this week and several council members

41:08 ↗ are joining Mara Polly and I for that

41:10 ↗ meeting and then we're working on

41:11 ↗ another meeting soon for us himself like

41:13 ↗ Sammamish residents so expect more

41:16 ↗ details on that soon and for any of the

41:18 ↗ city hosted meetings that we've had

41:20 ↗ we've been able to record these via

41:21 ↗ video and then share that afterward on

41:24 ↗ our YouTube page which has been very

41:25 ↗ well received and while we've been

41:27 ↗ covering a lot of citywide kovat 19

41:30 ↗ issues or other things that are more

41:31 ↗ citywide in nature there definitely have

41:34 ↗ been a lot of neighborhood specific

41:36 ↗ questions at these meetings that require

41:38 ↗ answers and follow-up and so there's

41:41 ↗ still a lot of interest from our

41:42 ↗ community about very neighborhood

41:43 ↗ specific issues

41:47 ↗ times have definitely changed for our

41:49 ↗ neighborhoods and so has the focus of

41:50 ↗ our service delivery Ovid 19 has sparked

41:53 ↗ a lot of questions on neighborhood

41:55 ↗ gatherings so we're working to help

41:57 ↗ residents plan safe social options and

41:59 ↗ what you see here is a step by step

42:01 ↗ process that we've posted on our website

42:03 ↗ for hosting food trucks in neighborhoods

42:05 ↗ which is happening in multiple places

42:07 ↗ around town

42:11 ↗ there are also some projects that are

42:13 ↗ still proceeding this year that require

42:16 ↗ a lot of neighborhood connections most

42:18 ↗ definitely the washed-out auxilary lane

42:19 ↗ project which will close one lane of

42:21 ↗ Northwest Irish Road here very soon will

42:25 ↗ acquire a lot of outreach the South Lake

42:27 ↗ Sammamish residence other examples

42:30 ↗ include the new school which is starting

42:31 ↗ construction in Talisman's

42:36 ↗ before kovat 19 we were also working to

42:39 ↗ finalize a welcome pitch for new

42:41 ↗ residents as a foie which is something

42:43 ↗ that we can print in the future and also

42:45 ↗ post online this is good for our

42:47 ↗ neighborhood champions or liaisons to

42:50 ↗ have on hand to welcome new neighbors to

42:52 ↗ the neighborhood and we also want to

42:54 ↗ make this available in Lobby areas or

42:56 ↗ common areas of multifamily units here

42:59 ↗ in Issaquah and we've heard from

43:00 ↗ Realtors who are also excited to share

43:02 ↗ this type of resource with new residents

43:05 ↗ as well

43:08 ↗ there are plenty of other projects on

43:10 ↗ our list that we'll work on in the

43:12 ↗ future examples include overhauling our

43:15 ↗ process to host a block party in

43:17 ↗ Issaquah there are currently a lot of

43:19 ↗ barriers to having a black party

43:21 ↗ including cost at time to make the

43:24 ↗ application and insurance requirement

43:26 ↗ though we really want to simplify that

43:28 ↗ process and encourage neighbors to get

43:30 ↗ to know each other through social events

43:32 ↗ and have those neighborhoods

43:35 ↗ neighborhood connection we also love the

43:37 ↗ idea of taking the City Council meetings

43:39 ↗ on the road when we are able to meet

43:42 ↗ again in person so our idea was to maybe

43:44 ↗ host two or three council meetings out

43:46 ↗ in neighborhoods here to facilitate

43:49 ↗ engagement and hopefully pick some

43:51 ↗ topics too that are of interest to those

43:52 ↗ specific neighborhoods

43:53 ↗ we're also researching the idea of a

43:56 ↗ neighborhood made a grant program to

43:58 ↗ encourage neighborhood connected

43:59 ↗ connectedness several cities have

44:02 ↗ similar programs so we're doing some

44:03 ↗ research on that front we also have some

44:06 ↗ great data from last year's national

44:08 ↗ community survey on which neighborhoods

44:10 ↗ in Issaquah are less engaged so our goal

44:13 ↗ is help specific neighborhoods organized

44:15 ↗ with each other communicate better with

44:17 ↗ one another and then improve the two-way

44:20 ↗ communications and engagement with the

44:21 ↗ city

44:25 ↗ so when we first started this program a

44:28 ↗ big question was how do we keep our City

44:29 ↗ Council informed of what's happening in

44:32 ↗ neighborhoods as we conduct this

44:33 ↗ engagement so we created this dynamic

44:35 ↗ tool which is an online maps it's

44:38 ↗ available for anyone in the public to

44:39 ↗ view we have maintained this map since

44:42 ↗ 2016 so you can filter it by year can

44:45 ↗ filter it by neighborhood and it shows

44:47 ↗ all of the meetings we've had with

44:48 ↗ neighborhoods along with the number of

44:50 ↗ attendees the topics that were covered

44:52 ↗ and any links to attachments like the

44:55 ↗ YouTube videos that I mentioned earlier

44:56 ↗ and so I'm sure you see here from the

44:58 ↗ city council tonight if this is still a

45:00 ↗ useful tool for us to maintain and

45:02 ↗ informing you about that type of

45:03 ↗ engagement

45:07 ↗ and lastly we'd like some feedback on

45:09 ↗ how you as City Council members would

45:10 ↗ like to stay engaged with this program

45:12 ↗ we will continue to invite you to

45:14 ↗ neighborhood meetings I also encourage

45:16 ↗ you to subscribe to our neighborhood

45:17 ↗ alerts on our website there's a button

45:19 ↗ on our home page I will notify me where

45:22 ↗ you can select what topics you're

45:24 ↗ interested in subscribing to we will

45:26 ↗ also email you when we update that

45:28 ↗ neighborhood map with a link each time

45:30 ↗ so that you can check on what kind of

45:33 ↗ dialogue or what kind of engagement has

45:34 ↗ taken place in certain neighborhoods and

45:36 ↗ hopefully we can take City Council's and

45:38 ↗ council meetings on the road at some

45:40 ↗ point in the future and with that I am

45:42 ↗ available for questions

45:46 ↗ Thank You autumn I am prompting council

45:51 ↗ members to raise their hand in the chat

45:53 ↗ box and we'll start to move through them

45:55 ↗ okay let's start with councilmember Hall

46:00 ↗ Thank You Mara Polly this is

46:02 ↗ councilmember hall autumn thank you very

46:04 ↗ much this is my favorite subject in city

46:07 ↗ government so I appreciate the

46:09 ↗ presentation I have a few questions and

46:12 ↗ then I have a comment the slide on

46:16 ↗ community engagement tools that we had I

46:19 ↗ would be interested in hearing from you

46:22 ↗ what the outreach tools what was most

46:26 ↗ fruitful you think in your opinion in

46:28 ↗ terms of type of outreach let's first

46:31 ↗ talk pre kovat and then maybe talk now

46:35 ↗ sure I'll start with I'll start with now

46:38 ↗ and definitely these virtual meetings

46:40 ↗ have been helpful and I think they were

46:43 ↗ actually seeing a bit more engagement

46:44 ↗ because people can just connect from

46:46 ↗ their home than if they had to go to an

46:48 ↗ event in the past when we've had

46:50 ↗ neighborhood meetings we've definitely

46:52 ↗ offered something else to a place for

46:54 ↗ kids to play I love to have any kind of

46:57 ↗ event outdoors even near a playground so

47:00 ↗ that you know entire families think mom

47:02 ↗ sometimes I've served food or dinners

47:04 ↗ because often time for host amusing

47:06 ↗ meetings in the evening and it's hard to

47:07 ↗ juggle all of those family priorities as

47:09 ↗ well and so anything we can do to make

47:12 ↗ it easier and more exciting for folks to

47:14 ↗ come and engage with us on some city

47:16 ↗ topics is helpful so I would say

47:18 ↗ definitely the the email alerts we're

47:20 ↗ doing right now and then the virtual

47:22 ↗ meetings have been helpful I would also

47:24 ↗ you know as I mentioned a couple weeks

47:27 ↗ ago during a presentation next door is a

47:29 ↗ very powerful tool for communicating

47:31 ↗ with our residents more than half of

47:33 ↗ households and is a van next door

47:35 ↗ account and so a very powerful way for

47:39 ↗ us to push messaging out which we can

47:41 ↗ target by it's amazing we can target the

47:43 ↗ entire city about my next door or we can

47:46 ↗ target it by a very specific

47:47 ↗ neighborhoods and so oftentimes we'll do

47:49 ↗ alerts or we'll do news updates once we

47:52 ↗ push it out for our website we'll also

47:53 ↗ post a next door and filter it to those

47:56 ↗ specific neighborhoods to receive that

47:57 ↗ moves so I would say no matter what time

48:00 ↗ next door has been a helpful tool priek

48:03 ↗ Ovid I would say that a lot of our

48:05 ↗ residents do t value that in-person

48:07 ↗ connection and in those relationships so

48:10 ↗ knowing us here at City Hall knowing

48:12 ↗ somebody to call when they have

48:14 ↗ question or concern has has always been

48:17 ↗ super appreciated by our residents and

48:19 ↗ so as soon as we can do more it more in

48:22 ↗ person I want to look at ways that we

48:24 ↗ can brainstorm again how we can get out

48:27 ↗ into our neighborhoods and make those

48:29 ↗ one-on-one personal connection

48:35 ↗ council member hall thank you this is

48:39 ↗ Zack Hall again thanks on him yeah it's

48:41 ↗ good to hear about next door I actually

48:42 ↗ just just got a next door account last

48:45 ↗ week it's pretty cool what else I had

48:50 ↗ been resisting it for too long I just

48:51 ↗ had to jump in in terms of council

48:55 ↗ meetings and neighborhoods I'm really

48:57 ↗ really interested in that and I'd be

49:00 ↗ interested in what the city thinks the

49:03 ↗ biggest barriers are because I feel you

49:07 ↗ know with an equity lens on it or just a

49:11 ↗ you know us going to

49:16 ↗ it's equally lens on it

49:20 ↗ places like Blakely Hall it might be

49:22 ↗ easier to host a meeting but like South

49:24 ↗ Lake Sammamish all along Newport might

49:27 ↗ be really difficult so what are what are

49:29 ↗ those barriers that we're looking to

49:31 ↗ resolve yes I think the priority for us

49:34 ↗ will be as I mentioned that a national

49:36 ↗ community survey really gave us a lens

49:37 ↗ on some neighborhoods that are less

49:39 ↗ engaged and one is Newport and I would

49:42 ↗ say we have a lot of new residents that

49:44 ↗ are in that Newport neighborhood and so

49:46 ↗ as we were brainstorming options one

49:48 ↗ idea was and we had actually reached out

49:51 ↗ and we're working with Gateway they have

49:52 ↗ a great community space in their new

49:55 ↗ property and were open to the idea of us

49:57 ↗ hosting a city council meeting there so

49:59 ↗ we would have gotten creative we would

50:01 ↗ have had a kitchen as part of our

50:02 ↗ meeting space but we were ready to to

50:06 ↗ really investigate options like that so

50:08 ↗ that we could maybe start the meeting

50:10 ↗ with you know a dinner or at some time

50:12 ↗ that we could all socialize a bit before

50:15 ↗ the meeting and then ensure that we have

50:16 ↗ some topics that councils talking about

50:19 ↗ that night that also pertain to that

50:21 ↗ neighborhood so that was the idea and a

50:24 ↗ focus to start with some of the less

50:25 ↗ engaged neighborhoods I'd say those that

50:28 ↗ are very well connected like Highlands

50:30 ↗ and talus would be really easy to do but

50:33 ↗ I think that we're up for the challenge

50:34 ↗ and trying to find creative ways to

50:36 ↗ reach out to other neighborhoods that um

50:39 ↗ we're just not as connected with

50:41 ↗ oh good point mayor

50:46 ↗ if I may just one final comment then

50:48 ↗ I'll stop hogging the space my apologies

50:50 ↗ actually counselor how can I ask you a

50:52 ↗ favor can you hold your comment because

50:55 ↗ I again forgot to go to council

50:57 ↗ president hunt let all of the council

50:59 ↗ hear about any email that might have

51:00 ↗ come in and so I will go to her and then

51:04 ↗ I will come back to you for your

51:06 ↗ comments Thanks council president Han I

51:08 ↗ apologize I'm thinking about a mirror we

51:11 ↗ did not receive any comments specific on

51:13 ↗ this item okay that was a bit of a

51:16 ↗ letdown on my part

51:17 ↗ council member Hall thank you Mary Polly

51:20 ↗ this is that Hall again last thing I

51:23 ↗ wanted to say too is specific kind of

51:26 ↗ about the South Cove neighborhood and

51:30 ↗ autumn I heard the heat it seems like he

51:32 ↗ caught it I heard you say South Lake

51:34 ↗ Sammamish and those unicity know I'm

51:37 ↗ kind of a stickler for this thing I grew

51:38 ↗ up in the south code neighborhood in the

51:40 ↗ way we see it you know there are several

51:43 ↗ and I know we all know you know this but

51:45 ↗ there are several different

51:46 ↗ neighborhoods in that South Lake

51:49 ↗ Sammamish area south cove near would

51:50 ↗ point Greenwood Point Lindley Shore

51:52 ↗ Timberlake Lane Sammamish Beach Club so

51:56 ↗ as you enter that community there's a

51:59 ↗ big sign insists South Lake Sammamish

52:01 ↗ and so I was wondering what the city

52:04 ↗ thought about maybe changing how we

52:06 ↗ refer to that to the neighborhood as

52:09 ↗ South Lake Sammamish on the website and

52:11 ↗ in future plans that we do and I'd be

52:13 ↗ interested in what counsel things to

52:18 ↗ that's a great question I'm not sure if

52:21 ↗ you wanted to have that discussion now

52:23 ↗ or have a split note that that we you'd

52:25 ↗ like to have that conversation thank you

52:27 ↗ I appreciate thank you I appreciated

52:29 ↗ that autumn also referred to the as the

52:32 ↗ South Lake Sammamish communities I think

52:34 ↗ that is great I'm going to move now to

52:36 ↗ back to council sorry deputy council

52:41 ↗ president ray followed by council

52:43 ↗ president hunt a question in two

52:46 ↗ comments first have we looked at ways

52:48 ↗ that we can pick the public brain for

52:53 ↗ ways to engage I mean I think we're

52:55 ↗ doing a really interesting job and we're

52:57 ↗ trying to find new ways but how do we

52:59 ↗ how do we engage with the public you

53:02 ↗ know to tell us how best to engage for

53:05 ↗ them and then more importantly how do we

53:07 ↗ engage with those people who are really

53:08 ↗ been on the fringe and not not been

53:12 ↗ actively involved in the community

53:15 ↗ crease the number of people

53:17 ↗ yes that's that's always our goal and

53:20 ↗ like I said I think one of the first

53:22 ↗ items is identifying those neighborhoods

53:24 ↗ that we have not done a lot of

53:26 ↗ engagement or have a lot of

53:27 ↗ relationships with and then work to find

53:30 ↗ some more of those neighborhood

53:31 ↗ champions and I have a great list of

53:33 ↗ folks that I can email or call and say

53:36 ↗ hey will you help me get the news out

53:37 ↗ about this with your neighbors and that

53:39 ↗ is always more effective than the city

53:42 ↗ pushing or you know news out or asking

53:44 ↗ for engagement is ask for help from the

53:47 ↗ neighborhoods and so you know that is

53:50 ↗ that is one priority for me in the

53:52 ↗ coming you know months and in the coming

53:55 ↗ years is finding those areas that we've

53:57 ↗ not reached out with as much and then

53:59 ↗ really working to create some some good

54:02 ↗ personal relationships with folks who

54:03 ↗ can help me and leveraging their

54:05 ↗ connections as well and then two

54:09 ↗ comments one is as difficult as it has

54:13 ↗ been through this over 19 crisis we have

54:17 ↗ learned a lot about new ways to do

54:19 ↗ meetings and new ways to engage and I

54:21 ↗ think we need to to build on that and

54:23 ↗ and keep that option open and then the

54:26 ↗ second comment I have was the lesson I

54:29 ↗ learned on Saturday as you paraded

54:32 ↗ through South Lake Sammamish

54:35 ↗ neighborhood and you know we took it was

54:42 ↗ a it was a small thing but it was a

54:43 ↗ really good example of taking what we do

54:47 ↗ to the community instead of waiting for

54:49 ↗ the community making the community come

54:51 ↗ to us and the the parade was I thought

54:54 ↗ an unmitigated success and you know who

54:58 ↗ does everybody who made that happen

54:59 ↗ and then I just want to give a shout out

55:01 ↗ to the South Lake Sammamish neighborhood

55:03 ↗ because without a doubt they were those

55:05 ↗ neighborhood that turned out the vast so

55:08 ↗ I don't know why that is but they did

55:10 ↗ not that everybody didn't turn out but

55:11 ↗ they they rocked it so anyway that was

55:14 ↗ my only comment that was a really

55:15 ↗ interesting example of how to think

55:17 ↗ differently about things and it's a

55:19 ↗ model I think we need to do more of

55:23 ↗ thank you great comment I totally +1

55:26 ↗ that on thanking them for everybody for

55:28 ↗ putting it together going to go to

55:30 ↗ council president hunt

55:33 ↗ Thank You this is council resident hunch

55:35 ↗ so we did not receive any comment

55:37 ↗ specific on this item but we did receive

55:40 ↗ and I forwarded to Council that we have

55:45 ↗ received some feedback from a resident

55:47 ↗ of squawk in terms of frustration about

55:50 ↗ the internet service on squawk and that

55:54 ↗ there's not communication about what's

55:56 ↗ being improved and the importance of

55:58 ↗ that in particular right now when so

55:59 ↗ many people are using the internet for

56:02 ↗ meetings and for work and for school and

56:06 ↗ why I think that is relevant to this

56:09 ↗ conversation is because there are very

56:11 ↗ specific neighborhood differences and

56:13 ↗ and that is one concern of that

56:15 ↗ neighborhood and specific and I as a

56:18 ↗ former resident of that neighborhood I

56:20 ↗ think that neighborhood many of the

56:23 ↗ homeowners and the people living there

56:25 ↗ are not in HOAs and they don't have that

56:28 ↗ organizational structure so it's that

56:31 ↗ much more important for some

56:32 ↗ neighborhoods to have a framework or to

56:35 ↗ have something like the mini grants

56:37 ↗ program I think would be very empowering

56:38 ↗ and the the you know ability to have

56:43 ↗ block parties without having to jump

56:45 ↗ through hoops would also be really

56:46 ↗ important for those communities that

56:47 ↗ don't have those structures in place

56:50 ↗ otherwise so I just wanted to you know

56:53 ↗ you mentioned that all the

56:54 ↗ neighborhood's have different character

56:57 ↗ and and different needs in terms of

56:59 ↗ neighborhood engagement I think that's

57:00 ↗ really important to continue to to

57:04 ↗ address those needs of the different

57:07 ↗ neighborhoods I I think that the

57:12 ↗ mini-grants program we've been talking

57:14 ↗ about that for a while and I would

57:17 ↗ really like to see that explored more

57:20 ↗ fully because again for those

57:23 ↗ neighborhoods that don't have a HOA or

57:27 ↗ organization in place to make changes I

57:31 ↗ think that would be something that they

57:32 ↗ could those neighborhoods could come

57:35 ↗ together and work on together and could

57:37 ↗ it could be really really great

57:41 ↗ opportunity it reminds me of there's a

57:45 ↗ book the case for everyday democracy by

57:47 ↗ an author who probably will pronounce

57:49 ↗ his name wrong but Malenko Matoo of it

57:52 ↗ she has a personal connection to ethical

57:54 ↗ and in there in that book they talk

57:56 ↗ about the placemaking and the power of

57:59 ↗ neighborhoods coming together over a

58:01 ↗ project and I think the mini grant

58:03 ↗ program would be really great for that I

58:04 ↗ would like to see that go forward I

58:06 ↗ appreciate the neighborhood engagement I

58:08 ↗ think we have a lot of work to do

58:10 ↗ specifically with those community

58:12 ↗ residents who continue to feel like they

58:15 ↗ want more information and more

58:16 ↗ connection with the city and then you

58:22 ↗ asked about how council members want to

58:24 ↗ be engaged I think it is really

58:25 ↗ important that well for me I would want

58:29 ↗ to do all of the options listed I think

58:31 ↗ maintaining personal connections with

58:33 ↗ people in the neighborhoods is important

58:35 ↗ see you hear voices from people in the

58:37 ↗ neighborhoods when issues come up

58:38 ↗ specific to those neighborhoods so I

58:40 ↗ would like to continue to use the

58:42 ↗ neighborhood engagement program to make

58:44 ↗ connections with residents through all

58:45 ↗ the options that are listed

58:49 ↗ Thanks Thank You council president hunt

58:52 ↗ councilmember Walsh

58:55 ↗ thank you this councilmember wolf so

58:59 ↗ I'll jump out on some of the questions

59:03 ↗ that you had asked us just specifically

59:05 ↗ respond to I don't find the map very

59:09 ↗ useful there to me there's just some

59:12 ↗ barrier that when you email and say hey

59:15 ↗ there's updates like I have to click

59:17 ↗ through that and then I have to find it

59:19 ↗ on there and I don't know it just I

59:21 ↗ don't tend to engage in that way I would

59:24 ↗ prefer just an email that lists out hey

59:27 ↗ there here's the top points that I think

59:29 ↗ are important to you on the note of how

59:33 ↗ do council members want to engage I love

59:36 ↗ the idea of online meetings I think that

59:38 ↗ gives us an opportunity to work in time

59:41 ↗ in our busy lives to connect with the

59:44 ↗ different neighborhoods so I'm

59:45 ↗ interested in that or your

59:48 ↗ recommendation and have signed up for

59:50 ↗ the notify me for all the neighborhood's

59:53 ↗ so I'm also interested in seeing how

59:55 ↗ that gets used

59:56 ↗ I really appreciated you in the

1:00:00 ↗ presentation saying this is how the

1:00:02 ↗ residents want to be engage this is this

1:00:05 ↗ is what they're looking for from the

1:00:07 ↗ program so using that as the evaluation

1:00:10 ↗ scope I would say with online meetings

1:00:14 ↗ we're able to bring the meetings to them

1:00:16 ↗ online meetings also allowed them to

1:00:19 ↗ choose the topics which is great but

1:00:22 ↗ what I'm not really seeing as much of is

1:00:25 ↗ networking and I think you know whether

1:00:32 ↗ that is encouraging people to sign up

1:00:37 ↗ for next door or encouraging you know

1:00:41 ↗ having a sheet that people can sign up

1:00:45 ↗ for on those online meetings that says

1:00:47 ↗ here's my email I'm gonna send out an

1:00:49 ↗ email to everybody if you check the box

1:00:51 ↗ so that you guys can start having

1:00:54 ↗ conversations after that just I think

1:00:56 ↗ there's a little more that might be able

1:00:59 ↗ to be done to engage in that way but

1:01:01 ↗ otherwise I think you've checked those

1:01:04 ↗ boxes by being responsive to what the

1:01:06 ↗ community is looking for

1:01:08 ↗ great thank you Thank You councilmember

1:01:11 ↗ wall councilmember Goodman followed by

1:01:15 ↗ councilmember ray Thank You

1:01:17 ↗ councilmember Goodman here um autumn I

1:01:20 ↗ just want to say that it seems like we

1:01:22 ↗ put a lot of work into this over the

1:01:23 ↗ past few years and that we've made some

1:01:26 ↗ significant progress and I really

1:01:28 ↗ appreciate that I do hear comments from

1:01:31 ↗ community members that they appreciate

1:01:33 ↗ all our efforts to engage with the

1:01:35 ↗ neighborhoods and I too like all of the

1:01:41 ↗ options you've laid out for engagement

1:01:42 ↗ and like all of them and very much

1:01:46 ↗ appreciate that we are as council

1:01:48 ↗ members finally getting what appears to

1:01:52 ↗ me routinely invite it to these meetings

1:01:55 ↗ and I really I really appreciate that

1:01:57 ↗ and hope we keep that up and as far as

1:02:01 ↗ I'm concerned if we have to cross that

1:02:04 ↗ threshold of four council members

1:02:09 ↗ wanting to attend and so we have to

1:02:11 ↗ notice it as a public meeting then I am

1:02:14 ↗ in favor of considering that rather than

1:02:17 ↗ restricting it to three or to have some

1:02:20 ↗ sort of a some sort of a I'm not sure

1:02:25 ↗ but not sure I'm thrilled with the first

1:02:29 ↗ come first serve um because we're not

1:02:32 ↗ always on our emails and so it doesn't

1:02:35 ↗ seem I'm in the long run to be the

1:02:38 ↗ fairest way so I think we might want to

1:02:42 ↗ think about it

1:02:43 ↗ a different way to do that I'm certainly

1:02:46 ↗ not opposed to noticing the meetings

1:02:47 ↗ anyway thank you very much for the

1:02:50 ↗ presentation and all of your work

1:02:53 ↗ Thank You councilmember Goodman deputy

1:02:55 ↗ council president ray thank you for

1:02:58 ↗ letting me have a another comment so I

1:03:01 ↗ was thinking about how important it is

1:03:04 ↗ to listen but I also was thinking about

1:03:06 ↗ how important it is to feedback to the

1:03:09 ↗ community what we hear and how do we

1:03:11 ↗ close the loop and how do we make sure

1:03:13 ↗ that when we are going out and meeting

1:03:17 ↗ with the community and we are getting

1:03:18 ↗ their input that we are using that

1:03:20 ↗ information to help guide us in in

1:03:22 ↗ day-to-day operations and also in

1:03:23 ↗ policymaking and then how do we provide

1:03:27 ↗ feedback to a community that is has

1:03:29 ↗ given us input and say yes we heard you

1:03:32 ↗ and here's what we did so it's it's it's

1:03:35 ↗ taking it to the next step from being

1:03:37 ↗ really good listeners to being active

1:03:40 ↗ participants with the community so so

1:03:42 ↗ just I think we're ready we as everyone

1:03:44 ↗ instead we've come a long ways in the

1:03:46 ↗ listening front yay but now let's take

1:03:48 ↗ the next step and say how do we start

1:03:52 ↗ making it a dialogue

1:03:55 ↗ there was a question in there right

1:03:59 ↗ rodham all right okay I know it was that

1:04:02 ↗ was a just a comment but but if bottom

1:04:05 ↗ would like to respond to it that'd be

1:04:06 ↗ awesome yes

1:04:08 ↗ closing the feedback loop is extremely

1:04:10 ↗ important to me because why else would

1:04:12 ↗ you continue engaging with the city if

1:04:13 ↗ you don't hear back after providing your

1:04:15 ↗ feedback so we have an engagement tool

1:04:18 ↗ kit that we use with all of our staff

1:04:21 ↗ when they're when they are starting a

1:04:22 ↗ project and planning out their project

1:04:24 ↗ on how what level of engagement what

1:04:26 ↗ tools they'll use how they'll plan for

1:04:29 ↗ scheduling that type of engagement and a

1:04:30 ↗ big part of that toolkit is how do you

1:04:32 ↗ then close that engagement loop and I

1:04:34 ↗ have found that our website subscribe

1:04:36 ↗ tool has been very popular in that once

1:04:38 ↗ we engage with folks and they provide

1:04:40 ↗ their feedback we say please go

1:04:41 ↗ subscribe to your neighborhood that way

1:04:43 ↗ I have their email account and their

1:04:45 ↗ address not only for the topic that

1:04:47 ↗ we're engaging on at the moment but I

1:04:49 ↗ have it four years later so I've found

1:04:51 ↗ that to be very important that as we

1:04:53 ↗ start to build these these contact lists

1:04:55 ↗ that I can keep them for more than one

1:04:56 ↗ issues they come but we are using those

1:04:59 ↗ news items to keep books updated so a

1:05:01 ↗ good example is Old Town we've had so

1:05:04 ↗ many different touches with Old Town and

1:05:06 ↗ many news items we've sent as we've

1:05:07 ↗ updated whether it items are gonna be on

1:05:10 ↗ your agenda or a decisions been made or

1:05:12 ↗ policy has been has been voted on that

1:05:15 ↗ we then close that loop and we say

1:05:17 ↗ here's what the decision was or here's

1:05:18 ↗ what program or activity or thing is

1:05:20 ↗ happening so that's very important and

1:05:23 ↗ it's something that we continue to talk

1:05:24 ↗ about with our internal team as we look

1:05:26 ↗ at engagement tool

1:05:29 ↗ Thank You autumn I'm not seeing any

1:05:32 ↗ other questions or comments right now

1:05:34 ↗ but I did want to add on a couple of

1:05:36 ↗ thoughts having been on council when the

1:05:39 ↗ community engagement goal came about it

1:05:42 ↗ really was sort of a three-legged stool

1:05:45 ↗ of trying to connect the elected council

1:05:47 ↗ with the community the community with

1:05:50 ↗ the city administration and the city

1:05:51 ↗ administration with the elected council

1:05:53 ↗ and it's been an evolutionary process

1:05:58 ↗ the tools were developed first and now

1:06:01 ↗ we're working on the connection I really

1:06:03 ↗ feel like this council and community has

1:06:06 ↗ moved into Phase two which is the

1:06:08 ↗ exciting one which is more opportunities

1:06:10 ↗ to strengthen the council community link

1:06:12 ↗ by finding the opportunities for council

1:06:15 ↗ members to go out at events that are

1:06:18 ↗ already planned by others or events that

1:06:20 ↗ we plan and you put you face to face

1:06:21 ↗ with your constituents so I feel like

1:06:25 ↗ this has evolved in a wonderful way and

1:06:27 ↗ it is really close to meeting my

1:06:29 ↗ expectations for what that original

1:06:31 ↗ council goal was supposed to obtain I'm

1:06:33 ↗ a he I cannot wait to have a council

1:06:35 ↗ meeting on-site the second thing is I

1:06:39 ↗ wanted to point out that one thing that

1:06:40 ↗ hasn't really made a struggle in this

1:06:42 ↗ town is the loss of other media outlets

1:06:44 ↗ and that the community relied heavily on

1:06:47 ↗ newspapers to get more details about

1:06:52 ↗ things that we're going on in town to

1:06:54 ↗ look at the calendar and see what's

1:06:56 ↗ going on and you know I hear every month

1:07:00 ↗ from somebody who is mourning the loss

1:07:02 ↗ of some of those other media outlets

1:07:06 ↗ that used to be here so this work that

1:07:09 ↗ we're doing right now is super important

1:07:11 ↗ so autumn I want to thank you for

1:07:13 ↗ providing the update today and not

1:07:17 ↗ seeing any other comments we will move

1:07:20 ↗ to our next informational item which is

1:07:23 ↗ ID 0-7 25 the old town traffic calming

1:07:26 ↗ update and I'd like to ask in your

1:07:29 ↗ engineer Matt Ellis make a presentation

1:07:31 ↗ oh thank you Mary pop of Mayor Polly and

1:07:36 ↗ council members this is Matt Ellis with

1:07:38 ↗ Public Works engineering and this is an

1:07:40 ↗ update on the old town traffic

1:07:44 ↗ you

1:07:47 ↗ to present updates on work relating to

1:07:49 ↗ the old town traffic calming and other

1:07:53 ↗ projects around the schools and nearby

1:07:57 ↗ neighborhoods

1:08:01 ↗ on February 12th 2020 the administration

1:08:05 ↗ held an open house with residents within

1:08:08 ↗ the old town neighborhood regarding

1:08:10 ↗ traffic calming projects and studies and

1:08:12 ↗ topics were then presented to Council on

1:08:15 ↗ February 25th 2020 council provided

1:08:18 ↗ direction on the following topics 2nd

1:08:21 ↗ Avenue and Bush intersection

1:08:22 ↗ improvements school zone signage

1:08:25 ↗ evaluation and the Darce neighborhood

1:08:30 ↗ attorney restrictions including the 4th

1:08:32 ↗ Avenue closure so tonight I'll talk

1:08:34 ↗ about these activity activities on these

1:08:37 ↗ items and next steps

1:08:42 ↗ a picture of the second Avenue and Bush

1:08:44 ↗ Street intersection this is right before

1:08:47 ↗ the start of school and we are looking

1:08:50 ↗ at ways to improve this intersection

1:08:55 ↗ nextslide

1:08:58 ↗ here we've done a survey of the

1:09:01 ↗ intersection and we've started to do the

1:09:04 ↗ design of putting in narrower lanes with

1:09:08 ↗ some bulb outs we are evaluating

1:09:10 ↗ different features including street

1:09:12 ↗ lighting potential beacons and possibly

1:09:18 ↗ a mountable traffic circle in the middle

1:09:20 ↗ that would help slow traffic and improve

1:09:24 ↗ pedestrian safety this is just a

1:09:28 ↗ preliminary design and we're still

1:09:30 ↗ looking through our turning movements

1:09:33 ↗ just to verify that all vehicles can get

1:09:35 ↗ through the intersection safely so next

1:09:40 ↗ slide

1:09:42 ↗ um the next step is to discuss the the

1:09:45 ↗ topic with the school district we've

1:09:46 ↗ already began that process and we this

1:09:50 ↗ summer we will install temporary curbing

1:09:53 ↗ to match our intended design and we will

1:09:58 ↗ the school district has agreed to

1:10:00 ↗ provide us one bus and one bus driver

1:10:03 ↗ you drive the interim improvements and

1:10:07 ↗ see how a bus operates and then we can

1:10:11 ↗ make changes accordingly before we put

1:10:14 ↗ in the permanent improvements so we get

1:10:16 ↗ a really cool opportunity to see things

1:10:19 ↗ in person and really see how it will

1:10:23 ↗ impact the people that drive it every

1:10:25 ↗ day after that we'll discuss it with the

1:10:28 ↗ Eastside Fire and Rescue and city staff

1:10:31 ↗ including our operations department just

1:10:33 ↗ to verify that the improvements will be

1:10:36 ↗ effective for fire vehicles emergency

1:10:39 ↗ vehicles and our snow plows we will also

1:10:44 ↗ coordinate with the neighborhood once

1:10:45 ↗ we've got a design in the near

1:10:49 ↗ completion I just to make sure that

1:10:52 ↗ we've heard all their comments and that

1:10:55 ↗ this is something that will benefit the

1:10:58 ↗ community we then plan to return to

1:11:01 ↗ Council and I we believe we can do this

1:11:04 ↗ in the fall and we'll talk about

1:11:06 ↗ financial stuff on a later slide Thanks

1:11:13 ↗ topic is the school zone signage

1:11:15 ↗ evaluation so we looked at signage in

1:11:20 ↗ around pisco high school middle school

1:11:23 ↗ and Clark elementary to see if

1:11:25 ↗ improvements need to be made at certain

1:11:27 ↗ crossings next slide please

1:11:32 ↗ I did a desktop survey of all the

1:11:36 ↗ crossings in and around the schools and

1:11:40 ↗ also the signage that correlates with

1:11:42 ↗ those crosses so the red are the

1:11:45 ↗ crosswalks and then the signs that we

1:11:49 ↗ currently have in place are shown and

1:11:51 ↗ from that we are currently evaluating

1:11:54 ↗ what we can do to improve certain

1:11:56 ↗ crossings and then going to provide a

1:11:59 ↗ recommendation through the school

1:12:01 ↗ district and to Council next slide

1:12:05 ↗ this does require quite a bit of

1:12:08 ↗ coordination with the school district

1:12:10 ↗ and they will provide us with their

1:12:14 ↗ pedestrian walking route for the school

1:12:16 ↗ the the schools in question that way we

1:12:19 ↗ can better evaluate the crossings

1:12:22 ↗ unfortunately this does require a

1:12:25 ↗ physical evaluation of students walking

1:12:28 ↗ to school and unfortunately we cannot do

1:12:31 ↗ that with school not in session so do

1:12:35 ↗ you finalize our design and really

1:12:38 ↗ fine-tune where we want to put in signs

1:12:40 ↗ and where we can do some micro

1:12:42 ↗ improvements to really emphasize

1:12:44 ↗ different crossings and make things

1:12:46 ↗ safer for both pedestrians and drivers

1:12:49 ↗ we need to be able to do this on the

1:12:54 ↗ ground while students are going to and

1:12:56 ↗ from school so this will probably have

1:12:59 ↗ to resume in 2021 to get this finalized

1:13:02 ↗ but during that process we will

1:13:05 ↗ coordinate with the neighborhood and

1:13:07 ↗ then return to Council with a

1:13:09 ↗ recommendation probably in the beginning

1:13:11 ↗ of 2021 hopefully when school resumed

1:13:17 ↗ and finally is the Darst neighborhood

1:13:19 ↗ and 4th Avenue closure this is a picture

1:13:22 ↗ of the closure recently the temporary

1:13:27 ↗ temporary barriers keep getting moved by

1:13:30 ↗ residents and the right turn

1:13:34 ↗ restrictions into the neighborhood are

1:13:36 ↗ currently not being enforced and not

1:13:40 ↗ being invited by by residents and

1:13:44 ↗ they're not the intention of these

1:13:45 ↗ things was to

1:13:48 ↗ restrict student driver driving behavior

1:13:53 ↗ in and around the neighborhood be law

1:13:56 ↗ schools in session and since school is

1:13:58 ↗ not in session that it's not the it's

1:14:00 ↗ not being utilized for its purposes and

1:14:03 ↗ so our recommendation on this is to

1:14:06 ↗ remove the temporary barrier in the

1:14:09 ↗ short term and put bags over the signs

1:14:11 ↗ and then reinstall when school resumed

1:14:15 ↗ again and finally is our funding for

1:14:21 ↗ improvements all these improvements

1:14:23 ↗ utilize the school's own safety fund we

1:14:28 ↗ currently have a balance of

1:14:29 ↗ approximately 2.2 million dollars for

1:14:32 ↗ this and that includes about two and a

1:14:36 ↗ half months of revenue from this year

1:14:40 ↗ before school was no longer in session

1:14:45 ↗ and then this helps facilitate

1:14:48 ↗ expenditures for the camera maintenance

1:14:50 ↗ court enforcement as well as and

1:14:53 ↗ supports Issaquah Police Department

1:14:55 ↗ enforcement and then it helps pay for

1:14:58 ↗ certain yeah

1:15:00 ↗ capital improvement projects including

1:15:03 ↗ the East Lake Sammamish Parkway and 43rd

1:15:06 ↗ way around about revisions project that

1:15:08 ↗ is slated for later this year as well as

1:15:11 ↗ the Newport pedestrian bridge and raised

1:15:13 ↗ intersection project that is currently

1:15:15 ↗ slated for this year and small capital

1:15:18 ↗ projects unfortunately or fortunately

1:15:22 ↗ the Newport pedestrian bridge and raised

1:15:25 ↗ intersection project will most likely

1:15:27 ↗ slide till next year due to a

1:15:29 ↗ right-of-way conflict and that

1:15:32 ↗ potentially gives us an opening to put

1:15:35 ↗ in the second Avenue and Bush Street

1:15:38 ↗ improvements this year if we can get all

1:15:41 ↗ the things done that we need to do and

1:15:45 ↗ then that would that way we would do the

1:15:47 ↗ East Lake Sammamish Parkway this year

1:15:48 ↗ and as well as the second Avenue in Bush

1:15:51 ↗ Street improvements and then the signage

1:15:53 ↗ improvements would be a small capital

1:15:55 ↗ project that we could do in 2021

1:15:59 ↗ and that is just the update that I have

1:16:01 ↗ for now any questions

1:16:05 ↗ Thank You max I'm going to go to council

1:16:07 ↗ president hunt first for a community

1:16:09 ↗ comments

1:16:10 ↗ thank you madam mayor we did receive one

1:16:12 ↗ comment from a community member on this

1:16:15 ↗ topic the comment was overall negative

1:16:18 ↗ about these improvements so specifically

1:16:22 ↗ this resident felt that the turn signals

1:16:25 ↗ change reversal that's proposed was

1:16:27 ↗ inadequate and didn't address the

1:16:30 ↗ residents long advocated for a change

1:16:32 ↗ and also did not think that

1:16:35 ↗ characterizing the concern as being

1:16:38 ↗ specific only to students turning with

1:16:40 ↗ was accurate and that it was a bigger

1:16:41 ↗ problem and then so so basically not for

1:16:46 ↗ reversing the turn signal change and

1:16:49 ↗ also was concerned about traffic from

1:16:53 ↗ increased density resulting from the old

1:16:55 ↗ town land youth amendments that will

1:16:57 ↗ with that council will also discuss

1:16:58 ↗ later this evening and the effects of

1:17:01 ↗ those amendments on the effectiveness of

1:17:05 ↗ these traffic changes

1:17:09 ↗ Thank You council president hunt I'm

1:17:11 ↗ going to start with councilmember

1:17:13 ↗ Goodman for comments or questions I have

1:17:15 ↗ a question Thank You councilmember

1:17:17 ↗ Goodman here Matt thank you for the

1:17:19 ↗ update and I wanted to ask a question

1:17:23 ↗ about we've heard several comments and

1:17:28 ↗ requests from some community members

1:17:31 ↗ about school zone areas and that they

1:17:37 ↗ seem to be much broader at other schools

1:17:40 ↗ and my understanding of what you were

1:17:45 ↗ presenting about signs had to do more

1:17:49 ↗ with pedestrian routes to the schools

1:17:56 ↗ and so I was wondering what the city is

1:18:01 ↗ doing in response to or what the city

1:18:03 ↗ has done in response to the requests

1:18:05 ↗ that we look at an expanded school zone

1:18:08 ↗ and I think specifically state RCW was

1:18:13 ↗ mentioned by the residents so that's my

1:18:15 ↗ that's my question is overall talked of

1:18:17 ↗ topic of where we stand with risk being

1:18:21 ↗ responsive to the residents concerned

1:18:22 ↗ about a broadened school zones Thank You

1:18:25 ↗ councilmember Goodman well thank you I

1:18:27 ↗ so the

1:18:30 ↗ RC W is about these reduced speeds prior

1:18:35 ↗ to a school and that the RC W does state

1:18:38 ↗ it's 300 feet from the school so we're

1:18:41 ↗ not looking at increasing the that zone

1:18:46 ↗ but we are looking at increasing signage

1:18:49 ↗ around the schools to provide safer

1:18:53 ↗ crossings so it does we are evaluating

1:18:58 ↗ the pedestrian

1:19:03 ↗ routes to school which is part of that

1:19:07 ↗ RCW to provide more awareness for people

1:19:13 ↗ get into internment school

1:19:17 ↗ councilmember Goodman does that answer

1:19:18 ↗ your question well it answers my

1:19:21 ↗ question

1:19:22 ↗ not sure I agree but anyway you answered

1:19:24 ↗ my question thanks Matt

1:19:27 ↗ Thank You councilmember Dee Michelle

1:19:31 ↗ councilman do we shall I have two

1:19:33 ↗ questions I'd like to ask the first one

1:19:36 ↗ is I live fairly close to the

1:19:39 ↗ intersection SEC second and Bush and I

1:19:43 ↗ see a lot of well I don't know if it's a

1:19:46 ↗ lot I do see students who are taking

1:19:48 ↗ their bicycles to school and I'm just

1:19:51 ↗ wondering if the plan that you put

1:19:53 ↗ together takes into account safety in

1:19:56 ↗ sight lines and so forth for kids who

1:19:59 ↗ are riding their bikes and and have you

1:20:02 ↗ integrated that part of our

1:20:04 ↗ transportation picture into the into the

1:20:06 ↗ plan thank you

1:20:09 ↗ I think you we will be evaluating that

1:20:11 ↗ we have not finished the design we've

1:20:14 ↗ just begun okay and and then my second

1:20:18 ↗ question is and I'm sorry for it being

1:20:22 ↗ so complicated but of course we've seen

1:20:25 ↗ a huge reduction in traffic since March

1:20:29 ↗ and I've heard from residents in the old

1:20:33 ↗ town area that we've had less traffic

1:20:36 ↗ but that that is sometimes increase the

1:20:39 ↗ speed of the cars that are going through

1:20:40 ↗ and then the third part of the puzzle is

1:20:45 ↗ I'm hearing from them and I haven't

1:20:48 ↗ heard anything definitive I should make

1:20:49 ↗ it really clear but I'm hearing that

1:20:51 ↗ their thoughts about staggering the

1:20:53 ↗ number of kids coming in because they

1:20:56 ↗ have to be social distancing at school

1:20:57 ↗ so we might have half of the kids there

1:21:00 ↗ instead of the usual number so all that

1:21:04 ↗ is kind of like you know art if there's

1:21:07 ↗ just a big unknown about we're going to

1:21:10 ↗ have as much traffic is usually have is

1:21:12 ↗ it going to be spaced out over the day

1:21:15 ↗ instead of in the morning in the

1:21:16 ↗ afternoon and so just some questions

1:21:21 ↗ maybe when you work with the school

1:21:22 ↗ district to be thinking about in terms

1:21:25 ↗ of the impacts of kovat maybe long term

1:21:28 ↗ here and may have a significant impact

1:21:33 ↗ on the plans that we're making

1:21:37 ↗ thank you for that comment councilmember

1:21:39 ↗ Dee Michelle I think even with the not

1:21:43 ↗ having the kids in school because it

1:21:45 ↗ does tend to be one of those north-south

1:21:47 ↗ routes through town that there will

1:21:50 ↗ always be great concern about having

1:21:52 ↗ that kind of route through a residential

1:21:54 ↗ area so that was a really good comment

1:21:57 ↗ thank you very much

1:21:58 ↗ kind of if you are you done

1:22:00 ↗ councilmember de Michelle I am thank you

1:22:02 ↗ Thank You councilmember Hall

1:22:08 ↗ thank you Mary Polly this is a call

1:22:10 ↗ again I'm a couple questions what you

1:22:14 ↗ were just saying in response to

1:22:15 ↗ councilmember Goodman's question be

1:22:18 ↗ [Music]

1:22:20 ↗ distance away from a school of school

1:22:23 ↗ zone in is is that a long a specific

1:22:26 ↗ route traveled or is it like a circle

1:22:29 ↗ around the school and that's the school

1:22:32 ↗ I'm not as familiar with the RCW to know

1:22:36 ↗ the Internet's of that but that's

1:22:38 ↗ something that we will evaluate if

1:22:40 ↗ there's ways we could extend that or

1:22:42 ↗ ways to improve it well and even just

1:22:47 ↗ I'm interested why members of our

1:22:50 ↗ community think schools school zones are

1:22:53 ↗ bigger for other schools and they are

1:22:54 ↗ for or basically school in escuela

1:22:57 ↗ middle school so I think investigating

1:22:59 ↗ that is is prudent my other question was

1:23:03 ↗ about the evaluation of student walking

1:23:06 ↗ routes is that a state law or is that a

1:23:08 ↗ city regulation or why do we have to see

1:23:12 ↗ them walk to school in person I

1:23:16 ↗ well the schools are supposed to have a

1:23:19 ↗ pedestrian walking route that is

1:23:21 ↗ designated and it allows us to actually

1:23:26 ↗ see where kids are crossing so if

1:23:28 ↗ they're crossing on one side of the

1:23:30 ↗ street or the other we could then make

1:23:32 ↗ recommendations for putting signs on one

1:23:35 ↗ side or the other

1:23:36 ↗ emphasize where they cross make

1:23:40 ↗ improvements at certain points whereas

1:23:42 ↗ other parts may not be as necessary it

1:23:45 ↗ just provides us a little more data you

1:23:48 ↗ make a holistic approach to improving

1:23:51 ↗ the rat school it's a good point and my

1:23:57 ↗ final question sorry Mira Polly thank

1:24:00 ↗ you

1:24:01 ↗ is the

1:24:04 ↗ the graphic that you have a second in

1:24:06 ↗ Bush

1:24:08 ↗ one of the label says RR f BER just

1:24:12 ↗ winter that is a rectangular rapid

1:24:16 ↗ flashing beacon those are you can see

1:24:18 ↗ those all over town we're still

1:24:20 ↗ evaluating if that is a improvement that

1:24:23 ↗ we would put here just because there are

1:24:26 ↗ some challenges with those and we don't

1:24:28 ↗ want people to get complacent but it is

1:24:30 ↗ a good method it is something that we

1:24:33 ↗ are considering

1:24:36 ↗ Thank You councilmember Hill thank you

1:24:39 ↗ very much

1:24:40 ↗ council president hunt

1:24:44 ↗ you council president hunt I had two

1:24:47 ↗ questions one is is there you you

1:24:50 ↗ mentioned having to have that kids had

1:24:55 ↗ to be walking to school in order to

1:24:57 ↗ survey the the walking routes for the

1:24:59 ↗ signage and is that a requirement by law

1:25:02 ↗ or could you do that with a survey and I

1:25:04 ↗ guess my question is if we could if we

1:25:07 ↗ could just survey and find out the most

1:25:09 ↗ common routes to school could we improve

1:25:11 ↗ signage before the kids go back to

1:25:13 ↗ school rather than have to wait on that

1:25:19 ↗ question I believe we could get a good a

1:25:24 ↗ good head start by asking those

1:25:28 ↗ questions live from the community again

1:25:31 ↗ I think my there's no requirement on it

1:25:35 ↗ it was more of my thought you really see

1:25:39 ↗ if we could fine tune the crossings

1:25:43 ↗ because I think everybody has different

1:25:45 ↗ perspectives on how kids get to school

1:25:48 ↗ but definitely input from the community

1:25:51 ↗ is most welcome and really how we'll get

1:25:54 ↗ most information at this point in time

1:25:57 ↗ it was just a thought to get more

1:26:01 ↗ accurate data was to see it in person

1:26:05 ↗ but no we don't there's no requirement

1:26:07 ↗ and we could do that if that is the

1:26:11 ↗ direction that we want to take okay

1:26:12 ↗ thank you for that the comment is that I

1:26:15 ↗ know on the on the Gillman revision

1:26:19 ↗ aside there was an online survey and

1:26:21 ↗ people could actually put markers on

1:26:22 ↗ that map and maybe something like that

1:26:25 ↗ could be potentially explored anyway my

1:26:29 ↗ second question is about the the

1:26:32 ↗ reversal or the putting the bags over

1:26:34 ↗ the no left turn signs so right now

1:26:39 ↗ there is school closure to do to Cove it

1:26:41 ↗ but there's also school closure

1:26:42 ↗ regularly for holidays and for the

1:26:46 ↗ summer and so with the proposal be to

1:26:49 ↗ put the bags over the signs whenever

1:26:52 ↗ school is not in session and then so you

1:26:55 ↗ know turn them on and off basically

1:26:56 ↗ depending on a school is in session

1:27:00 ↗ that's a good question our intention was

1:27:04 ↗ primarily due to Kovac because the

1:27:06 ↗ closure would be prolonged obviously

1:27:10 ↗ summers it was a bit of a challenge on

1:27:14 ↗ that but and that's something lofted

1:27:17 ↗ we'll have to talk about but I I don't

1:27:21 ↗ know I just

1:27:22 ↗ okay thank you

1:27:26 ↗ president hunt they think we're trying

1:27:27 ↗ to balance how to easily and effectively

1:27:30 ↗ let the neighbors access their streets

1:27:33 ↗ and to be able to access them at all in

1:27:36 ↗ heavy traffic so it's a difficult

1:27:38 ↗ balancing exercise that's a great

1:27:40 ↗ question about the summer I'm going to

1:27:42 ↗ ask curtsy men to make some comments on

1:27:45 ↗ school zone signs before we go back to

1:27:47 ↗ questions from Council members hurt

1:27:51 ↗ you

1:27:56 ↗ you

1:27:59 ↗ there you go am i speaking now we can

1:28:03 ↗ hear you

1:28:04 ↗ I was speaking all the time I just

1:28:06 ↗ didn't know if you could hear me so

1:28:08 ↗ thank you Mary Polly yeah I think Jim

1:28:12 ↗ Haney our attorneys going to comment

1:28:14 ↗ about the legality of the school zone

1:28:16 ↗ areas but just in the night let me let

1:28:19 ↗ me talk briefly about I think two

1:28:22 ↗ council member Goodman and others

1:28:25 ↗ question about school zones and school

1:28:28 ↗ science I think it's always been our

1:28:29 ↗ intent to have the school zone the

1:28:34 ↗ regulated school zone where you need to

1:28:36 ↗ slow to 20 miles an hour

1:28:39 ↗ remain the same and and mr. Haney I

1:28:42 ↗ think can comment on that as well

1:28:44 ↗ I think the comment from the residents

1:28:49 ↗ keep track of time here but when they

1:28:52 ↗ came into council and talked about

1:28:53 ↗ school areas that were signed more

1:28:57 ↗ completely I think they gave some

1:28:58 ↗ examples in Bell V if I remember

1:29:00 ↗ correctly

1:29:03 ↗ those signs were to alert drivers in the

1:29:09 ↗ area of the school that there was a

1:29:12 ↗ school and that they were driving into

1:29:14 ↗ an area where there where there was a

1:29:16 ↗ school or multiple schools and so what

1:29:19 ↗ now was showing on that map our

1:29:21 ↗ intention is to put up similar signs we

1:29:24 ↗ looked at those school areas in Bellevue

1:29:27 ↗ and we're looking to replicate that idea

1:29:30 ↗ here in Issaquah so it's two different

1:29:33 ↗ ideas related but different one is the

1:29:36 ↗ school zone and the and the legal part

1:29:39 ↗ of it which mr. Haney can talk about and

1:29:41 ↗ the you know it's a slower 20 miles an

1:29:44 ↗ hour it's where you get your tickets and

1:29:46 ↗ then the other part of it which is more

1:29:49 ↗ broadly signing the area to let people

1:29:52 ↗ know as they're driving in that we'll

1:29:55 ↗ call it the southern old town area and

1:29:57 ↗ the area around as you're getting closer

1:30:00 ↗ to the both the elementary school and

1:30:03 ↗ them actually all the schools in that

1:30:04 ↗ area that you're entering an area where

1:30:07 ↗ there are schools so I

1:30:10 ↗ that helps clarify things or makes it

1:30:12 ↗ more complicated and that's your like

1:30:15 ↗ thank you good I think when we go back

1:30:18 ↗ to your councilmember questions and

1:30:20 ↗ comments we'll find out if that helped

1:30:21 ↗ or hurt City Attorney

1:30:24 ↗ Haney comment yes I can just answer two

1:30:28 ↗ questions that came up during the

1:30:30 ↗ discussion the first was where the

1:30:33 ↗ school zone could be located under state

1:30:37 ↗ law you can have a school zone on any

1:30:40 ↗ Street that borders a school or a school

1:30:44 ↗ playground so first of all it has to be

1:30:46 ↗ on a street that borders it can't be on

1:30:48 ↗ streets that don't second you can have

1:30:51 ↗ that that school zone extend 300 feet

1:30:58 ↗ from the border of the school so it can

1:31:03 ↗ go beyond the school boundaries the

1:31:05 ↗ boundaries of the school property up to

1:31:07 ↗ 300 feet beyond that so those are the

1:31:10 ↗ two parameters in state law and that's

1:31:12 ↗ where you create a school zone that has

1:31:16 ↗ a speed limit of 20 miles per hour so

1:31:19 ↗ that's what dictates that the other

1:31:22 ↗ question that was raised was the the

1:31:27 ↗ requirement for walking areas and under

1:31:32 ↗ state law all school districts are

1:31:35 ↗ required to come up with a school

1:31:39 ↗ district walking plan a route suggested

1:31:44 ↗ route plan for kids who walk to and from

1:31:47 ↗ school and there are guidelines put out

1:31:51 ↗ by the Washington State Department of

1:31:53 ↗ Transportation on how those route plans

1:31:57 ↗ are to be put together and then the

1:31:59 ↗ school districts are required to

1:32:00 ↗ disseminate those plans to all of their

1:32:03 ↗ students so that students will know the

1:32:05 ↗ safest way to watch school so that's all

1:32:09 ↗ I had to add regarding that unless there

1:32:11 ↗ are any questions thank you to the

1:32:13 ↗ attorney Haney I'm gonna go back to the

1:32:15 ↗ list and we'll keep working down it

1:32:16 ↗ councilmember Walsh was up next

1:32:19 ↗ Thank You this is councilmember Walsh

1:32:22 ↗ well I won't comment on both of those

1:32:25 ↗ responses from Curt and Jim Heaney and

1:32:29 ↗ say that that is very helpful to

1:32:32 ↗ understand how how the school zone area

1:32:37 ↗ is limited and also understanding that

1:32:40 ↗ yes the intention is to put out signs I

1:32:43 ↗ think that would make the community feel

1:32:45 ↗ very heard and is exactly what they're

1:32:49 ↗ looking for which is important Matt I

1:32:53 ↗ would say thank you very very very much

1:32:55 ↗ for saying that we're going to start

1:32:58 ↗ with kind of a trial run of cheap put a

1:33:02 ↗ few things down you know paint or cones

1:33:05 ↗ and see how it works for the school

1:33:07 ↗ district and everything I think that's

1:33:10 ↗ fantastic

1:33:11 ↗ my question is how long will not be live

1:33:14 ↗ and is it possible then to message out

1:33:19 ↗ using autumns fantastic notify me to the

1:33:25 ↗ neighborhood the old town neighborhood

1:33:27 ↗ to say hey we're gonna have this live

1:33:29 ↗ please check it out please comment to us

1:33:31 ↗ you know kids are dying for something

1:33:34 ↗ that's probably the wrong word kids are

1:33:37 ↗ excited to have opportunities to engage

1:33:41 ↗ during this summer period and so having

1:33:45 ↗ encouraging them to walk it with their

1:33:47 ↗ parents and show them how they would do

1:33:49 ↗ it I think would be a family fabulous

1:33:51 ↗ way to engage with that community and

1:33:52 ↗ also test it out and you might even get

1:33:55 ↗ enough people responding with how they

1:33:57 ↗ walk that he wouldn't need to wait

1:33:59 ↗ necessarily until school is back in

1:34:00 ↗ session

1:34:01 ↗ very good point I appreciate that Thank

1:34:05 ↗ You councilmember Walsh did you have any

1:34:06 ↗ other questions or comments my question

1:34:09 ↗ was just how long do you plan to keep we

1:34:14 ↗ have not made a decision yet we just we

1:34:16 ↗ primarily wanted to get the school buses

1:34:18 ↗ through but we would definitely keep it

1:34:19 ↗ up long enough for the community to as

1:34:23 ↗ to that as well that's a fantastic idea

1:34:27 ↗ Thank You councilmember Walsh I'm gonna

1:34:30 ↗ circle back now to councilmember Goodman

1:34:33 ↗ Thank You councilmember Goodman here

1:34:35 ↗ thanks from attorney Heaney for that I'm

1:34:38 ↗ looking at Washington Administrative

1:34:40 ↗ Code four six eight - ninety five -

1:34:44 ↗ three thirty and the second to the last

1:34:46 ↗ sentence says the no school or

1:34:47 ↗ playground speed zone may extend less

1:34:50 ↗ than 300 feet from a marked school or

1:34:54 ↗ playground crosswalk but may extend by

1:34:59 ↗ traffic regulation beyond 300 feet based

1:35:02 ↗ on its traffic and engineering

1:35:03 ↗ investigation so I mentioned this not

1:35:06 ↗ because I don't think you're accurate I

1:35:12 ↗ mentioned it because I'm still a little

1:35:14 ↗ bit confused because there seems to be

1:35:15 ↗ some conflicting information what I

1:35:18 ↗ would like is a more thorough response

1:35:21 ↗ to the community's repeated concern that

1:35:27 ↗ my words not necessarily theirs that

1:35:30 ↗ they think we might at this area because

1:35:32 ↗ we have so many schools and students in

1:35:36 ↗ this very very small area coupled with

1:35:40 ↗ regional traffic that I would like more

1:35:44 ↗ information I think we deserve more

1:35:46 ↗ information about what we specifically

1:35:49 ↗ can and can't do and then specifically

1:35:51 ↗ what we plan to do I like to start with

1:35:54 ↗ our the authority of what we can and

1:35:57 ↗ can't do and then move to our intent so

1:36:00 ↗ I'm not completely satisfied with the

1:36:01 ↗ answers tonight I understand the answer

1:36:03 ↗ but I'm not completely satisfied and if

1:36:06 ↗ I'm not completely satisfied that I'm

1:36:08 ↗ guessing that the folks who keep coming

1:36:09 ↗ to us or not are not satisfied either so

1:36:12 ↗ that's my request thank you Thank You

1:36:15 ↗ councilmember Goodman is there I'm not

1:36:18 ↗ seeing any staff wishing to comment on

1:36:22 ↗ that camera Goodman's comment so I'm

1:36:26 ↗ going to move to council president hunts

1:36:29 ↗ thank you so I had a couple comments one

1:36:33 ↗ is that I think it is potentially

1:36:36 ↗ confusing to be changing the left-hand

1:36:41 ↗ turn cyan putting it back over at taking

1:36:43 ↗ the bag off depending on whether or not

1:36:45 ↗ tool is in session and also confusing or

1:36:50 ↗ just a strange it seems strange to me to

1:36:55 ↗ be changing the way we route traffic it

1:36:58 ↗ seems like you know the Cova 19 crisis

1:37:01 ↗ has changed traffic throughout all of

1:37:02 ↗ our neighborhoods so to try to retailer

1:37:05 ↗ the way that traffic is moving based on

1:37:07 ↗ that new pattern seems like we could

1:37:09 ↗ spend a lot of effort trying to optimize

1:37:12 ↗ for that and then potentially we'll

1:37:14 ↗ start seeing traffic returning or or we

1:37:16 ↗ don't know how much it's going to be

1:37:18 ↗ returning but I guess I just that

1:37:20 ↗ doesn't seem I don't see the full

1:37:23 ↗ reasoning behind that and so it is

1:37:25 ↗ concerning because to have it be there

1:37:27 ↗ sometimes and then not there sometimes

1:37:29 ↗ is probably confusing for the

1:37:30 ↗ neighborhood and especially confusing

1:37:31 ↗ for people that might want to or might

1:37:34 ↗ start using that as a as a pass-through

1:37:37 ↗ traffic which is I know what concerns

1:37:40 ↗ the neighborhood and then I appreciate

1:37:43 ↗ the the temporary improvements to the

1:37:47 ↗ intersection we did receive a lot of

1:37:49 ↗ feedback on the need for improving the

1:37:53 ↗ safety for pedestrians at that

1:37:55 ↗ particular intersection so I appreciate

1:37:57 ↗ that going forward at this time and I

1:37:58 ↗ also appreciate looking at some more

1:38:00 ↗ signage I think having more signage more

1:38:03 ↗ awareness of the speed reduction around

1:38:06 ↗ the school is important but since it

1:38:08 ↗ needs to be something that we have heard

1:38:09 ↗ time and time again from the

1:38:11 ↗ neighborhood they want to have it be

1:38:14 ↗ safe for pedestrians and for the people

1:38:16 ↗ of getting to school in that area so to

1:38:18 ↗ the extent that we can work on the

1:38:21 ↗ signage issue more and have signage

1:38:26 ↗ improved that would also be great

1:38:28 ↗ Thank You council president hunt I'm

1:38:31 ↗ going to get city attorney Jim hey need

1:38:33 ↗ to provide some comments on

1:38:35 ↗ councilmember Goodman earlier question

1:38:38 ↗ and comment Danny yes

1:38:41 ↗ the RCW that councilmember Goodman is

1:38:44 ↗ looking for I think is our CW forty six

1:38:47 ↗ point sixty one point four four zero the

1:38:51 ↗ the WAC that she's looking for as a

1:38:53 ↗ department as a is a part of the highway

1:38:55 ↗ regulations but basically what the RCW

1:38:58 ↗ says is it in section one it says that

1:39:01 ↗ if you have a marked school crosswalk or

1:39:05 ↗ marked playground crosswalk then you can

1:39:08 ↗ have you you must have a lower speed

1:39:12 ↗ limit of 20 miles per hour from 300 feet

1:39:16 ↗ of that crosswalk on either side but as

1:39:20 ↗ far as if you don't have a school with a

1:39:23 ↗ marked school crosswalk the rule is that

1:39:26 ↗ it is the entire boundary of the school

1:39:30 ↗ plus 300 feet on either side of the

1:39:32 ↗ border so

1:39:35 ↗ thank you for that clarification mr.

1:39:38 ↗ Haney I am not seeing anyone else lining

1:39:42 ↗ up for questions or comment so I would

1:39:44 ↗ like to thank Matt for his presentation

1:39:46 ↗ and update thank you very much and we

1:39:49 ↗ will think and we'll move down a little

1:39:52 ↗ further down our agenda this evening

1:39:53 ↗ through the consent calendar the consent

1:39:56 ↗ calendar was distributed to counsel in

1:39:58 ↗ advance and if authorized the items on

1:40:01 ↗ the consent calendar will be considered

1:40:02 ↗ together and approved by one motion have

1:40:05 ↗ the payables and payroll been reviewed

1:40:07 ↗ this is Chris Rea they have this is

1:40:12 ↗ councilmember Walsh they'd have thank

1:40:14 ↗ you very much does any council members

1:40:16 ↗ desire to remove any item from the

1:40:18 ↗ consent color and consider it under

1:40:20 ↗ regular business

1:40:24 ↗ I am not seeing anything in the chat box

1:40:28 ↗ so before we move to the motion I'd like

1:40:30 ↗ to see if council president hunt has any

1:40:32 ↗ email comments that she would like to

1:40:33 ↗ share on consent calendar item

1:40:36 ↗ thank you madam mayor we did not receive

1:40:38 ↗ email on the consent I thank you very

1:40:41 ↗ much is there a motion to approve the

1:40:43 ↗ consent calendar

1:40:49 ↗ council president on I moved to approve

1:40:52 ↗ the consent calendar as presented in

1:40:54 ↗ this evening's agenda

1:40:57 ↗ Chris for a second that thank you it's

1:41:00 ↗ been moved and seconded is there any

1:41:03 ↗ discussion

1:41:06 ↗ I would like to ask

1:41:08 ↗ to take a roll call vote Thank You clerk

1:41:10 ↗ Eggers speaking

1:41:13 ↗ Burtie Michelle hi

1:41:17 ↗ for Goodman hi

1:41:19 ↗ / Hall aye

1:41:22 ↗ the president has

1:41:24 ↗ I

1:41:26 ↗ mark I deaf

1:41:29 ↗ resident ray I councilmember Walsh I

1:41:33 ↗ that passes unanimously thank you very

1:41:38 ↗ much

1:41:39 ↗ I have built in a potential five-minute

1:41:43 ↗ break at nine o'clock I just want to

1:41:44 ↗ take the temperature of the body and see

1:41:46 ↗ if you'd rather have that five-minute

1:41:48 ↗ break now before we move in to the next

1:41:50 ↗ item hang a bunch a head nod so city

1:41:53 ↗ clarify I think what we'll do is take

1:41:55 ↗ the five minute break now and reconvene

1:41:57 ↗ at 846

1:42:07 ↗ you

1:46:24 ↗ to connect with Tim

1:46:32 ↗ thank you Tim thank you City Clerk so we

1:46:36 ↗ are back in session and we're going to

1:46:38 ↗ move into our regular business item a B

1:46:40 ↗ seven-seven eight-eight the Old Town

1:46:43 ↗ land use code amendments the request of

1:46:46 ↗ council this evening is to adopt the

1:46:48 ↗ ordinance and this item was last heard

1:46:50 ↗ by council at the February 25th council

1:46:52 ↗ study session which seems like a year or

1:46:55 ↗ more ago I'd like to invite senior

1:46:58 ↗ planner Kristen Leeson to make a

1:47:00 ↗ presentation welcome Kristen it's nice

1:47:02 ↗ to see you

1:47:04 ↗ thank you very much it's nice to see you

1:47:06 ↗ so good evening mayor and members of the

1:47:10 ↗ City Council I have been asked to

1:47:11 ↗ provide an introduction as to why and

1:47:14 ↗ how we arrived at the proposed

1:47:15 ↗ amendments that are before you tonight

1:47:17 ↗ so I'm going to do that first I'm in

1:47:19 ↗ early March of this year we had planned

1:47:21 ↗ to begin a conversation with council

1:47:23 ↗ about growth in Issaquah over the next

1:47:25 ↗ several decades and what that might look

1:47:27 ↗ like in all of our unique neighborhoods

1:47:30 ↗ that make up our city the council's work

1:47:33 ↗ schedule for 2020 was dramatically

1:47:35 ↗ upended by a series of crises this year

1:47:38 ↗ and we're still working to reschedule

1:47:39 ↗ many items the study session for March

1:47:42 ↗ 10th was subsequently canceled and we

1:47:45 ↗ anticipate bringing this back to this

1:47:48 ↗ conversation back to the council

1:47:50 ↗ regarding citywide growth sometime

1:47:53 ↗ either in q3 or late q3 or q4 of 2020

1:47:57 ↗ Issaquah is located within an urban

1:48:00 ↗ growth boundary and is required under

1:48:02 ↗ the state's growth management act to

1:48:03 ↗ plan for future growth in coordination

1:48:05 ↗ with the county so as part of this

1:48:08 ↗ larger conversation we hope to engage

1:48:09 ↗ City Council in a dialogue about varying

1:48:12 ↗ ways that each of our neighborhoods is

1:48:14 ↗ expected to grow in the years to come

1:48:16 ↗ direction provided by Council will be

1:48:18 ↗ used to inform the negotiation of future

1:48:21 ↗ growth targets with King County these

1:48:23 ↗ negotiations are expected to begin and

1:48:25 ↗ fall of 2020 and will set the path for

1:48:28 ↗ the next several decades in the 90s as

1:48:31 ↗ the state's growth management Act was

1:48:33 ↗ put into place the city was able to meet

1:48:35 ↗ the growth targets by upzoning certain

1:48:37 ↗ areas in the city we will be able to

1:48:39 ↗ meet our 2006 to 2013 one growth targets

1:48:43 ↗ primarily through the construction of

1:48:45 ↗ the Highlands and talus it's the

1:48:47 ↗ emissive anticipated that central

1:48:50 ↗ Issaquah will be able to accommodate the

1:48:52 ↗ majority of future growth over the

1:48:54 ↗ coming decades however most of our

1:48:56 ↗ existing neighborhoods will also see

1:48:58 ↗ some changes but - excuse me a much

1:49:01 ↗ lesser degree our vision is to maintain

1:49:04 ↗ the character of our existing

1:49:05 ↗ neighborhoods essential Issaquah is

1:49:08 ↗ transformed into a more urban style city

1:49:10 ↗ center

1:49:12 ↗ the city's strategic plan growth and

1:49:16 ↗ development objective one is for

1:49:18 ↗ neighborhoods to retain their charm and

1:49:20 ↗ distinctive character patterns and

1:49:21 ↗ settings the first potential action is

1:49:24 ↗ to update codes and standards to retain

1:49:27 ↗ and protect essential characteristics in

1:49:29 ↗ established neighborhoods so while we're

1:49:31 ↗ looking forward to the whole of the city

1:49:34 ↗ growth conversation with council

1:49:36 ↗ we're continuing our work in some of our

1:49:38 ↗ existing neighborhoods to ensure that we

1:49:39 ↗ can maintain their character tonight

1:49:42 ↗ we're talking about Old Town it is

1:49:44 ↗ anticipated that Old Town will have low

1:49:46 ↗ to moderate growth over the next several

1:49:48 ↗ decades with the addition of some

1:49:50 ↗ duplexes accessory dwelling units and

1:49:52 ↗ potentially low-rise multifamily over

1:49:56 ↗ first floor retail on Front Street or in

1:49:58 ↗ maybe sunset way he cents that way

1:50:02 ↗ in 2014 after spending seven years on

1:50:04 ↗ Central is o´clock the council asked

1:50:06 ↗ staff to really focus on Old Town to

1:50:08 ↗ ensure its character and economic

1:50:10 ↗ vitality remain intact in 2015 mayor

1:50:14 ↗ Butler formed the old town vitality task

1:50:17 ↗ force businesses and property owners

1:50:19 ↗ made recommendations to down the update

1:50:21 ↗ the Old Town sub area plan and to update

1:50:23 ↗ development regulations that would

1:50:25 ↗ better support development and

1:50:26 ↗ redevelopment of commercial properties

1:50:28 ↗ prior to the plan update council a staff

1:50:31 ↗ to include preservation of the

1:50:33 ↗ residential areas as well

1:50:35 ↗ in 2018 after several open houses a

1:50:38 ↗ survey

1:50:40 ↗ many Commission meetings and council

1:50:43 ↗ meetings the sub area plan received its

1:50:44 ↗ first update in over 20 years and was

1:50:47 ↗ adopted by council the proposed code

1:50:49 ↗ amendments before you are a result of

1:50:51 ↗ the adopted update some of the issues

1:50:53 ↗ brought up in public conversations

1:50:55 ↗ included management of existing parking

1:50:57 ↗ concerns over code that would allow that

1:51:00 ↗ could allow development out of scale and

1:51:01 ↗ character for Old Town concerns from

1:51:04 ↗ business community the business

1:51:05 ↗ community that current codes are

1:51:08 ↗ hindrance to commercial development or

1:51:09 ↗ redevelopment the prioritization of

1:51:12 ↗ vehicles over pedestrians in active

1:51:14 ↗ spaces that could be repurposed to

1:51:16 ↗ enhance community engagement and

1:51:17 ↗ interaction a lack of connection to

1:51:20 ↗ Issaquah Creek and a lack of services to

1:51:23 ↗ support a residential neighborhood

1:51:25 ↗ the vision for the old town neighborhood

1:51:27 ↗ is to be a complete well serviced

1:51:28 ↗ community with smaller scale

1:51:30 ↗ architecture easily and safely traveled

1:51:33 ↗ by car on foot or on bike and to serve

1:51:36 ↗ as the historic downtown of our city the

1:51:38 ↗ code amendments included in a be 77 88

1:51:42 ↗ tonight our items that council suggested

1:51:45 ↗ could proceed and would address concerns

1:51:47 ↗ over existing code that would allow

1:51:48 ↗ development out of scale and character

1:51:51 ↗ for a historical downtown and out of

1:51:53 ↗ step with the neighborhood vision and

1:51:55 ↗ the lack of services to support the

1:51:57 ↗ residential neighborhood there will be a

1:51:59 ↗ future agenda bill or two as we work

1:52:01 ↗ through the other items that council

1:52:03 ↗ requested where council requested

1:52:04 ↗ additional discussion and clarification

1:52:06 ↗ and those items could address concerns

1:52:08 ↗ from the business community the current

1:52:10 ↗ codes are hindrance to commercial

1:52:11 ↗ development or redevelopment so now I

1:52:15 ↗ will like to walk us through the

1:52:17 ↗ specific proposed code amendments for

1:52:19 ↗ tonight

1:52:24 ↗ I need to share my screen one moment

1:52:28 ↗ you

1:52:33 ↗ you

1:52:40 ↗ there we go

1:52:44 ↗ Thank You Kristen we can now see your

1:52:46 ↗ screen okay thank you so as mayor Polly

1:52:53 ↗ mentioned tonight the purpose of our

1:52:55 ↗ discussion is continued discussion on

1:52:57 ↗ the proposed amendments that were

1:52:59 ↗ continued there being continued from

1:53:01 ↗ February 25th and to take action on an

1:53:04 ↗ ordinance you may recall I should

1:53:09 ↗ mention too that we did the outreach for

1:53:13 ↗ the plan which gave very specific

1:53:15 ↗ direction for code updates and then

1:53:17 ↗ following the adoption of the plan and

1:53:19 ↗ in preparation for the code updates we

1:53:21 ↗ did two Planning Policy Commission

1:53:23 ↗ meetings two public hearings and we also

1:53:25 ↗ sent out letters to every property owner

1:53:27 ↗ describing each of the proposed

1:53:28 ↗ amendments in the plan we adopted

1:53:35 ↗ action short-term actions and long

1:53:37 ↗ longer term actions and I'm gonna walk

1:53:40 ↗ through this quickly just to let you

1:53:42 ↗ give have an idea of where we stand so

1:53:44 ↗ far so you probably wonder what my

1:53:45 ↗ colors were when I sent out the

1:53:47 ↗ presentation the new architectural

1:53:51 ↗ standards design guidelines which we are

1:53:53 ↗ just calling architectural standards are

1:53:54 ↗ in progress we are working on those

1:53:57 ↗ right now it's been slowed a little bit

1:53:59 ↗ because of Cova and the lack of the

1:54:00 ↗ ability to do the public outreach so

1:54:02 ↗ we'd like to do tonight we are

1:54:04 ↗ presenting actions two four five and six

1:54:07 ↗ which I will talk about later three was

1:54:10 ↗ on the table but has been temporarily

1:54:12 ↗ delayed and our parking analysis to

1:54:15 ↗ increase public parking has was

1:54:17 ↗ completed in 2019

1:54:23 ↗ Metro is has not started any work with

1:54:27 ↗ the downtown Issaquah association has

1:54:30 ↗ not really started there have been some

1:54:31 ↗ changes there in Cove it has been in

1:54:33 ↗ place we are as you heard tonight

1:54:36 ↗ implementing in the process of

1:54:38 ↗ implementing improvements that

1:54:39 ↗ discourage cut through traffic and the

1:54:42 ↗ funding and building of the remaining

1:54:44 ↗ portion of phase 1 of the downtown

1:54:47 ↗ streetscape plan is in progress it's

1:54:50 ↗ been designed part of it has been

1:54:52 ↗ destructed and I think are awaiting some

1:54:56 ↗ funding to complete the construction

1:54:58 ↗ there and that goes the street trees are

1:55:01 ↗ included in that as well

1:55:02 ↗ the other item that has been postponed

1:55:06 ↗ and is no longer on the table tonight

1:55:09 ↗ two development incentives reducing

1:55:11 ↗ parking requirements for neighborhood

1:55:13 ↗ oriented commercial projects code

1:55:15 ↗ revisions to expand the sidewalk use

1:55:17 ↗ district were completed in 2019 review

1:55:20 ↗ the old town boundaries cannot begin

1:55:22 ↗ until after architectural standards have

1:55:24 ↗ been adopted amending the streetscape

1:55:27 ↗ plan to require lighting and utility

1:55:30 ↗ poles has not started and promoting

1:55:32 ↗ sustainable building action plan

1:55:33 ↗ strategies is ongoing that is included

1:55:37 ↗ in conversations we encourage these this

1:55:40 ↗ green building but it's not yet required

1:55:44 ↗ so last time we talked council had two

1:55:47 ↗ concerns two primary concerns one was

1:55:50 ↗ increasing the impervious surface in the

1:55:53 ↗ cultural and business district or CBD

1:55:55 ↗ from 85% to 95% and in multifamily high

1:56:00 ↗ zone on East sunset way only from 50% to

1:56:03 ↗ 75% at the time and under the

1:56:07 ↗ circumstances we were told that there

1:56:09 ↗ shouldn't be issues with this but things

1:56:13 ↗ were postponed and then our public works

1:56:17 ↗ director left and you all asked us

1:56:19 ↗ questions that we could no longer answer

1:56:20 ↗ so right now I believe as you know the

1:56:23 ↗ storm and surface water master plan is

1:56:26 ↗ going through an update and once that is

1:56:28 ↗ complete they are aware of these

1:56:29 ↗ proposed amendments and once that is

1:56:32 ↗ complete we will be able to go back and

1:56:34 ↗ address your questions and concerns and

1:56:37 ↗ we will bring that back to you at a

1:56:38 ↗ later date

1:56:40 ↗ and then the other one was looking for

1:56:43 ↗ incentives besides parking reductions

1:56:45 ↗ for neighborhood oriented businesses and

1:56:47 ↗ something else that you all had brought

1:56:49 ↗ up was maybe a solution could be looking

1:56:53 ↗ at these uses by type rather than just

1:56:55 ↗ they have ten locations throughout the

1:56:58 ↗ US and less so you know if thought that

1:57:01 ↗ wasn't such a bad idea in this with the

1:57:04 ↗ staff so we're going to go back and look

1:57:06 ↗ at this one again this will require

1:57:07 ↗ another public hearing with the planning

1:57:09 ↗ policy commission so that'll take a

1:57:12 ↗ little bit longer

1:57:13 ↗ moving on to it is still on the table

1:57:16 ↗ tonight the first one the action is to

1:57:19 ↗ reduce Heights to three storeys in the

1:57:21 ↗ cultural and business district and

1:57:23 ↗ multi-family high you sense that way

1:57:25 ↗ only from two three storeys and then two

1:57:29 ↗ two stories in the single-family

1:57:30 ↗ duplexes own so currently in the CBD the

1:57:34 ↗ base is 45 feet the max is 65 feet we

1:57:38 ↗ are proposing to lower that to both the

1:57:40 ↗ base and the max to 40 feet or three

1:57:42 ↗ storeys whichever is lower

1:57:45 ↗ and mfh it's very similar the base is 40

1:57:48 ↗ feet the max is 65 feet again proposing

1:57:51 ↗ to lower it to 40 feet or three storeys

1:57:53 ↗ whichever is lower written and meditate

1:57:56 ↗ did you

1:57:57 ↗ I apologize multifamily high east sunset

1:58:00 ↗ way only in multifamily medium we

1:58:05 ↗ realized if we didn't make changes there

1:58:07 ↗ the height would be higher than in

1:58:09 ↗ multifamily high so in multifamily

1:58:12 ↗ medium in Old Town only we're proposing

1:58:15 ↗ the same thing that we're proposing for

1:58:16 ↗ multifamily high which is 40 feet or

1:58:19 ↗ three storeys whichever is lower the

1:58:22 ↗ difference between those two zones right

1:58:24 ↗ now if we don't change the impervious is

1:58:26 ↗ that multifamily high you can have up to

1:58:28 ↗ 29 units per acre and multifamily medium

1:58:31 ↗ is 14.5 units per acre so it is still

1:58:33 ↗ less dense and then we'll say family

1:58:34 ↗ high single-family duplex we are

1:58:37 ↗ proposed there was no max height the

1:58:39 ↗ base height was 30 feet and people were

1:58:43 ↗ concerned about three-story buildings

1:58:45 ↗ that were coming in so our proposal is

1:58:47 ↗ to do 25 feet or 2 storeys whichever is

1:58:50 ↗ lower

1:58:51 ↗ you

1:58:53 ↗ so immediate action for was to require

1:58:55 ↗ ground-floor commercial on Front Street

1:58:57 ↗ this came from the vitality Task Force

1:58:59 ↗ in 2015

1:59:00 ↗ trying to activate the ground floor a

1:59:02 ↗ little bit more and not just had if

1:59:04 ↗ somebody puts in a residence not have

1:59:06 ↗ just a lobby on the first floor or two

1:59:09 ↗ you know maybe to prevent some offices

1:59:13 ↗ from coming in although this would still

1:59:16 ↗ allow offices so that's what we're doing

1:59:20 ↗ is requiring properties on Front Street

1:59:21 ↗ within the CBD to have ground-floor

1:59:24 ↗ commercial

1:59:28 ↗ next action was to allow small-scale

1:59:31 ↗ retail on East sunset way only so the

1:59:33 ↗ amendment is to allow small-scale

1:59:35 ↗ standalone retail not to exceed 4,000

1:59:38 ↗ square feet and yes there are currently

1:59:41 ↗ very many businesses on since uh nice

1:59:43 ↗ sunset way where that are there but they

1:59:46 ↗ have mostly been grandfathered in so

1:59:48 ↗ they were there prior to the amendments

1:59:50 ↗ the code that is there now

1:59:55 ↗ next action is to remove so no one well

2:00:02 ↗ at least residents we don't want to see

2:00:05 ↗ additional density about what's allowed

2:00:07 ↗ through the code so the proposal is to

2:00:10 ↗ remove transfer of development rights II

2:00:14 ↗ receiving sites from Alton and these are

2:00:17 ↗ located in the cultural and business

2:00:19 ↗ district multifamily medium district

2:00:21 ↗ zone and multi-family high zone and so

2:00:24 ↗ we're to proposing to remove all

2:00:25 ↗ references to receiving sites in the

2:00:28 ↗ code as well as on the map

2:00:34 ↗ I apologize somehow the wrong map wound

2:00:36 ↗ up there is one additional proposed

2:00:39 ↗ amendment that we have is to expand the

2:00:41 ↗ boundaries of the parking exceptions and

2:00:43 ↗ the parking exceptions say that if you

2:00:46 ↗ are going to do a change of use that

2:00:52 ↗ you don't have to change your parking

2:00:54 ↗ you don't have to increase your parking

2:00:56 ↗ and if you expand the property less than

2:00:58 ↗ 10% so than what it already is

2:01:01 ↗ so it was a really strange shape that

2:01:04 ↗ was called downtown Issaquah and it was

2:01:07 ↗ adopted in 1986 as part of the Li D that

2:01:10 ↗ was in place and it seemed a little

2:01:12 ↗ dated to us and being that the taxes yes

2:01:16 ↗ lol I do

2:01:19 ↗ I see any you'd ask me that um local

2:01:21 ↗ Improvement District

2:01:22 ↗ I still have Houston in my head where

2:01:24 ↗ it's a levy Improvement District but

2:01:26 ↗ this is a local Improvement District

2:01:27 ↗ thank you you're welcome

2:01:29 ↗ it was adopted in 1986 that his sense

2:01:32 ↗ sunsetted and we thought that was a

2:01:34 ↗ little dated and particularly since we

2:01:37 ↗ would like to get a more commercial on

2:01:40 ↗ Easton that way which was not included

2:01:41 ↗ in the previous boundaries so that's

2:01:46 ↗ what's on the table tonight

2:01:47 ↗ there are options to approved the

2:01:50 ↗ proposed amendments as adopted to change

2:01:53 ↗ some of the promoted proposed amendments

2:01:55 ↗ or to not approve all or some of the

2:01:58 ↗ amendments that's what's on the table

2:02:00 ↗ and our recommendation is tonight is to

2:02:03 ↗ approve an ordinance implementing

2:02:05 ↗ certain goals policies and actions in

2:02:06 ↗ the Old Town sub area plan and that is

2:02:10 ↗ that is my presentation so it's open to

2:02:13 ↗ questions Thank You Kristen before we go

2:02:16 ↗ to questions I'm going to give council

2:02:17 ↗ president hunt an opportunity to share

2:02:19 ↗ any email correspondence that the

2:02:22 ↗ council may have received on this item

2:02:24 ↗ thank you madam mayor we did receive an

2:02:27 ↗ email specific to this item within the

2:02:31 ↗ last week and generally this resident

2:02:38 ↗ felt that council generally this

2:02:41 ↗ resident recommended that council not

2:02:44 ↗ proceed with these amendments either

2:02:47 ↗ reject them return them for further

2:02:49 ↗ consideration or modify substantially

2:02:53 ↗ this resident was concerned about

2:02:58 ↗ concerned about that this should go to

2:03:01 ↗ the new or newly to be formed as a Guam

2:03:05 ↗ era mental committee specifically about

2:03:08 ↗ the impervious surface item also

2:03:11 ↗ concerned about flooding with the

2:03:14 ↗ impervious changes and was not in favor

2:03:18 ↗ of the parking reductions that would be

2:03:21 ↗ that are potentially recommended for

2:03:25 ↗ encouraging businesses and

2:03:30 ↗ was was over all concerned about the

2:03:34 ↗ amendments

2:03:38 ↗ president hunt will move in to questions

2:03:40 ↗ and comments and we'll start with

2:03:42 ↗ councilmember Walsh thank you this

2:03:45 ↗ councilmember will christen just

2:03:48 ↗ clarifying question it sounds like what

2:03:51 ↗ I'm hearing is the proposed amendments

2:03:55 ↗ that the staff is presenting tonight

2:03:58 ↗ does not include action immediate action

2:04:03 ↗ number three regarding impervious

2:04:04 ↗ surfaces and does not include immediate

2:04:07 ↗ action number 15 regarding parking

2:04:11 ↗ reductions for those neighborhood

2:04:13 ↗ oriented businesses so everything except

2:04:17 ↗ for those that was in your presentation

2:04:19 ↗ is what is proposed tonight is that

2:04:21 ↗ correct that is correct okay thank you

2:04:25 ↗ Thank You councilmember walls

2:04:27 ↗ councilmember Hall

2:04:30 ↗ thank you Mary Paulie this is

2:04:32 ↗ councilmember hole I have three

2:04:35 ↗ questions

2:04:39 ↗ versus a quick one what's the timeline

2:04:42 ↗ for planning policy we're having a

2:04:45 ↗ hearing on narrowing the types of

2:04:47 ↗ neighborhood businesses we want to

2:04:49 ↗ incentivize that we mentioned Hey this

2:04:53 ↗ is Kristen listen I don't know with with

2:04:56 ↗ kovat in place I don't happening I don't

2:04:59 ↗ know at where at what our schedule looks

2:05:01 ↗ like

2:05:02 ↗ thank you for that question

2:05:04 ↗ councilmember Hall we also as the city

2:05:06 ↗ have a staffing resource issue and

2:05:08 ↗ currently have 0.65 employee to do all

2:05:15 ↗ of the city's long-range planning so we

2:05:18 ↗ have some work to sort out how we're

2:05:20 ↗ going to fit back all of the things that

2:05:21 ↗ we were working on but that's a great

2:05:23 ↗ question did you have another question I

2:05:24 ↗ do and thank you for all your work

2:05:30 ↗ [Music]

2:05:32 ↗ uh yeah two other questions um what is I

2:05:36 ↗ need a little bit more information about

2:05:38 ↗ what

2:05:41 ↗ removal of receiving sites in whole town

2:05:44 ↗ really means can you walk me through

2:05:46 ↗ what the consequence of removing all

2:05:48 ↗ references to receiving tight receipt

2:05:51 ↗ means excuse me yes this is Kristen Lisa

2:05:54 ↗ and absolutely and I apologize the I

2:05:58 ↗ don't have the wrong map is up there

2:06:00 ↗ I'll explain to you transfer development

2:06:03 ↗ rights briefly transfer of development

2:06:05 ↗ rights allow matiz identified properties

2:06:11 ↗ with significant critical areas on their

2:06:14 ↗ site and the city has identified areas

2:06:18 ↗ where we would like growth to occur and

2:06:21 ↗ this was a while back this was around

2:06:23 ↗ 2003 or so and what happens is a the

2:06:29 ↗ area where they want growth to go a

2:06:31 ↗ property owner there can actually buy

2:06:33 ↗ the development rights from the sending

2:06:35 ↗ sites to go on to his receiving site

2:06:39 ↗ what that does is increase so if the max

2:06:42 ↗ height is currently 40 feet

2:06:46 ↗ could actually increase the height it

2:06:49 ↗ could make the development go over 40

2:06:51 ↗ feet or it could increase the impervious

2:06:53 ↗ on that site depending on how many

2:06:54 ↗ rights they purchase there are Heights

2:06:58 ↗ and square footages associated with each

2:07:00 ↗ of the sending site amounts so this then

2:07:05 ↗ says no we don't want more more

2:07:08 ↗ development to go into old town remove

2:07:10 ↗ those or sending sites those receiving

2:07:13 ↗ sites so that more development and

2:07:14 ↗ allowed by code cannot go there

2:07:17 ↗ Christine could you also identify areas

2:07:20 ↗ in Issaquah that can still receive

2:07:22 ↗ additional density yes

2:07:26 ↗ there are central Issaquah has most of

2:07:29 ↗ the receiving sites that are left

2:07:32 ↗ there were some amendments a few years

2:07:34 ↗ ago but I believe that some are still

2:07:36 ↗ allowed in the Iskra Highlands and

2:07:39 ↗ perhaps one or two sites in Dallas not

2:07:44 ↗ as many as there used to be them

2:07:48 ↗ thank you for that councilmember Hall

2:07:50 ↗ did you have an additional question I

2:07:52 ↗ did matter Polly thank you this is a

2:07:54 ↗ call again thank you very much on that

2:07:56 ↗ now now I have a better understanding of

2:07:57 ↗ what he's thinking

2:07:59 ↗ my last question last question / comment

2:08:03 ↗ is kind of umbrella for this thing in

2:08:07 ↗ response to something you said right at

2:08:09 ↗ the very beginning and that you know you

2:08:12 ↗ wanted to engage with counsel on how

2:08:14 ↗ each neighborhood should grow you know

2:08:17 ↗ as we're trying to meet city growth in

2:08:19 ↗ the future and I would also think that

2:08:23 ↗ engaging with HOAs early on and in

2:08:27 ↗ neighborhood organizations is a really

2:08:29 ↗ good idea to say hey how do you think

2:08:31 ↗ you should grow and how because then you

2:08:35 ↗ have built in you know that unique

2:08:37 ↗ character and charm of each neighborhood

2:08:39 ↗ they're always thinking about it and

2:08:41 ↗ they know it best because they live just

2:08:43 ↗ a suggestion

2:08:47 ↗ Thank You councilmember Hall went back

2:08:50 ↗ over to my list I believe councilmember

2:08:52 ↗ marks is up next

2:08:53 ↗ Thank You Madame mayor we don't actually

2:08:56 ↗ have we don't have a motion in front of

2:09:00 ↗ us right yes you are just doing a QA on

2:09:04 ↗ the presentation itself if you'd like to

2:09:08 ↗ make a motion you are the last person in

2:09:11 ↗ line with a question but we have not

2:09:12 ↗ gotten that far yet know that I'll hold

2:09:15 ↗ my comment till work til there's

2:09:16 ↗ emotional most thank you okay that's

2:09:18 ↗ great thank you I'm looking into the

2:09:21 ↗ chatbox I can see that there is some

2:09:24 ↗ draft language in there I am not seeing

2:09:26 ↗ any other questions or questions at this

2:09:31 ↗ time would anyone care to make a motion

2:09:36 ↗ I take that back there is a question

2:09:39 ↗ council president hunt um I I do have a

2:09:41 ↗ question from the for the clerk's this

2:09:46 ↗ council president hunt so I would think

2:09:49 ↗ that if counsel were to consider a

2:09:51 ↗ motion to postpone then that should that

2:09:53 ↗ should go after the motion to adopt the

2:09:58 ↗ ordinance that shouldn't be a standalone

2:10:00 ↗ motion is that correct I can go either

2:10:03 ↗ way you can if you prefer to refer the

2:10:09 ↗ ad and its entirety

2:10:11 ↗ thank you that if if someone wishes to

2:10:15 ↗ make a motion to adopt the ordinance as

2:10:19 ↗ presented or as amended and then apply a

2:10:23 ↗ second motion that would postpone it

2:10:26 ↗ would be postponing the ordinance at

2:10:28 ↗ that moment

2:10:31 ↗ does it have council president

2:10:34 ↗ yes it does

2:10:41 ↗ I'll see if other councilmembers would

2:10:43 ↗ like to make a motion before I make a

2:10:45 ↗ motion okay I'm looking in the chat box

2:10:47 ↗ to see if there was somebody who would

2:10:50 ↗ make a motion

2:10:58 ↗ councilmember Goodman

2:11:02 ↗ sure thanks councilmember Goodman here

2:11:06 ↗ is the proposed motion that's in the

2:11:09 ↗ agenda bill the one on top here I think

2:11:12 ↗ moved to adopt ordinance number 29 11

2:11:16 ↗ adopting by reference to amendment to

2:11:18 ↗ the Issaquah Municipal Code relating to

2:11:20 ↗ the old town sub area including

2:11:21 ↗ amendments modifying standards for

2:11:23 ↗ multifamily high east sunset way only

2:11:26 ↗ multifamily medium old town only

2:11:28 ↗ cultural business district and

2:11:31 ↗ single-family duplexes owns Old Town

2:11:33 ↗ parking provisions transfer of

2:11:35 ↗ development rights and the table of

2:11:36 ↗ permitted uses if there a second

2:11:40 ↗ councilmember Walsh yes this is

2:11:43 ↗ councilmember wolf will second up it's

2:11:46 ↗ been moved in second councilmember

2:11:48 ↗ Goodman would you like to speak to your

2:11:51 ↗ motion sure just briefly that it seems

2:11:58 ↗ to me that this was summed up pretty

2:12:00 ↗ well in the comments by Kristen Leeson

2:12:03 ↗ about how many years this goes back and

2:12:06 ↗ that the that the action that were asked

2:12:11 ↗ to adopt tonight is consistent with the

2:12:16 ↗ actions in this hotel every area plan

2:12:18 ↗ which was put together um after input

2:12:25 ↗ community input from a task force and

2:12:29 ↗ that I mean that's why I'm proposing

2:12:31 ↗ that's why I made the motion

2:12:33 ↗ Thank You councilmember Walsh would you

2:12:35 ↗ like to speak to it before I move on to

2:12:38 ↗ councilmember mark thank you this is

2:12:41 ↗ councilmember will I'll say ditto really

2:12:46 ↗ third and three we're going right to

2:12:48 ↗ counsel member murse

2:12:50 ↗ thank you madam mayor councilman remarks

2:12:52 ↗ boy oh boy do I miss land and shore at

2:12:57 ↗ this moment this is the kind of topic

2:13:01 ↗ that would have generated I don't know

2:13:05 ↗ three four five Lyndon Shore meetings as

2:13:08 ↗ we delved into it and as if we as we

2:13:12 ↗ also heard from folks in the community

2:13:15 ↗ and businesses there is a lot in it and

2:13:19 ↗ it may well be that it reflects the

2:13:22 ↗ sub-area plan but just to just to pick a

2:13:25 ↗ couple of them that are big complicated

2:13:29 ↗ issues I think there's a decent number

2:13:32 ↗ of developments in the sfd area that

2:13:36 ↗ have gone up recently that have been

2:13:38 ↗ more than two stories so I think the

2:13:41 ↗ market has an interest in more than two

2:13:43 ↗ stories and so I'm very nervous when

2:13:46 ↗ there's been an established interest and

2:13:49 ↗ it increases density I'm very nervous

2:13:53 ↗ about short circuiting that thing that's

2:13:57 ↗ already occurring in the in that region

2:13:59 ↗ and then councilmember halls question

2:14:02 ↗ about TD are receiving sites that could

2:14:07 ↗ have had its own entire land and Shore

2:14:10 ↗ meeting about the current status of

2:14:12 ↗ receiving sites and the folks that hold

2:14:16 ↗ TDRs would come and talk to us about

2:14:19 ↗ what the market looks like and how to

2:14:22 ↗ DRS were set up and whether this would

2:14:25 ↗ be fair or not oh you know I don't I'm

2:14:29 ↗ just super uncomfortable I'm gonna I'm

2:14:31 ↗ gonna vote no tonight just because this

2:14:35 ↗ is the kind of issue I think that was my

2:14:38 ↗ big one of my biggest concerns when we

2:14:40 ↗ got rid of subcommittees I think this is

2:14:42 ↗ the sort of thing that Landon Shore did

2:14:44 ↗ very well and I think two hours into a

2:14:48 ↗ meeting on a month where we've had so

2:14:51 ↗ many huge issues in front of us I am

2:14:53 ↗ uncomfortable making large decisions

2:14:55 ↗ without more without more debate

2:15:01 ↗ Thanks council president tents

2:15:06 ↗ thank you discount the present hunch I

2:15:09 ↗ am going to make a motion an amendment I

2:15:14 ↗ moved to postpone a B seven-seven

2:15:17 ↗ eight-eight Old Town land use code

2:15:19 ↗ amendments to allow for additional

2:15:21 ↗ consideration and recommendations to

2:15:23 ↗ address Old Town sub area plan goals

2:15:25 ↗ identified in Community Engagement and

2:15:27 ↗ in the immediate actions list

2:15:29 ↗ returning to the City Council on or

2:15:32 ↗ before a date to be determined by the

2:15:38 ↗ administration

2:15:42 ↗ is there a second councilmember Dee

2:15:44 ↗ Michelle

2:15:49 ↗ you have to come off of mute

2:15:54 ↗ also we'd like to clarify that the

2:15:56 ↗ postponement is of the ordinance not of

2:15:58 ↗ the agenda bill

2:16:00 ↗ thank you I second I second that motion

2:16:04 ↗ thank you it's been moved and seconded

2:16:06 ↗ council president hunt do you want to

2:16:07 ↗ speak to the motion yes thank you

2:16:11 ↗ I am opposed to adopting this ordinance

2:16:17 ↗ this evening for two main reasons

2:16:21 ↗ and that's why I'm recommending that we

2:16:23 ↗ postpone because I think that with

2:16:26 ↗ additional understanding perhaps and

2:16:30 ↗ more thoroughness I could support

2:16:33 ↗ something but I do not at all support it

2:16:35 ↗ in its current form my first main reason

2:16:39 ↗ why I'm opposed this evening is because

2:16:41 ↗ I think that this is incomplete it does

2:16:45 ↗ seem to be a subset that was selected

2:16:47 ↗ from items that council discussed

2:16:50 ↗ previously the items that council had

2:16:53 ↗ questions about when we discussed this

2:16:55 ↗ previously were removed and will be

2:16:57 ↗ postponed to a date that's not certain

2:16:59 ↗ and then the items that counsel do not I

2:17:01 ↗ guess have as much discussion are the

2:17:03 ↗ ones that are are going forward

2:17:06 ↗ I like councilmember Mart's I feel like

2:17:10 ↗ this could have been vetted more

2:17:13 ↗ thoroughly in a small group had we had

2:17:15 ↗ Landon Shore or have we had those

2:17:17 ↗ discussions but selecting a subset is I

2:17:20 ↗ think not a good practice when we have a

2:17:22 ↗ whole plan in place and I am not

2:17:27 ↗ supportive of moving forward only a few

2:17:29 ↗ items I

2:17:33 ↗ I also my second main reason is for

2:17:38 ↗ being opposed is that I don't see that

2:17:41 ↗ this is backed up by the the information

2:17:44 ↗ that's presented in the agenda bill I

2:17:46 ↗ think that the

2:17:49 ↗ that was presented in the preamble by

2:17:53 ↗ Kristen did help but that isn't in our

2:17:55 ↗ that should really be with the agenda

2:17:57 ↗ bill and should be supportive

2:17:59 ↗ documentation and then when I looked at

2:18:01 ↗ the survey that we did which had I think

2:18:06 ↗ four hundred and seventy seven

2:18:08 ↗ respondents so a lot of community

2:18:10 ↗ engagement lowering building heights

2:18:12 ↗ from three to two stories had 44% so

2:18:15 ↗ less than half of the respondents

2:18:16 ↗ supported that change so I don't know

2:18:19 ↗ how low it would have to be that we

2:18:20 ↗ would continue to support that change

2:18:22 ↗ but it being less than half seems seems

2:18:27 ↗ confusing especially when we did have so

2:18:29 ↗ much community engagement on this item

2:18:31 ↗ and then I also noticed that almost as

2:18:34 ↗ much support for that was for increasing

2:18:38 ↗ the minimum green space for a lot and

2:18:40 ↗ that tends to be at odds with the

2:18:43 ↗ increasing impervious surface which we

2:18:44 ↗ will be considering again later and then

2:18:48 ↗ there's also a item on live in the

2:18:51 ↗ survey that has more support than

2:18:53 ↗ reducing the building height from three

2:18:55 ↗ to two stories which is to not allow

2:18:58 ↗ lots to be consolidated to allow bigger

2:19:00 ↗ buildings and that is not one item so

2:19:02 ↗ it's recommended for councils adoption

2:19:05 ↗ this evening so I I basically don't

2:19:09 ↗ think that the changes that are

2:19:12 ↗ recommended are complete I don't see

2:19:14 ↗ affordability considerations here

2:19:16 ↗ I think bigger build area taller

2:19:20 ↗ buildings can opt-in or not having very

2:19:23 ↗ restricted Heights can often lead to

2:19:26 ↗ more affordable buildings and more

2:19:27 ↗ energy-efficient buildings and I think

2:19:29 ↗ we should have considered that and I

2:19:30 ↗ don't see any consideration of that here

2:19:32 ↗ I also don't see any consideration of

2:19:34 ↗ sustainability really there's a mention

2:19:37 ↗ of the sustainability plan but not the

2:19:39 ↗ actions to back that up

2:19:42 ↗ and then also lastly in audience

2:19:46 ↗ comments there was a comment made about

2:19:48 ↗ being more specific about you know where

2:19:52 ↗ the rules apply if the comment was made

2:19:55 ↗ for impervious surfaces but I think

2:19:57 ↗ generally we just need know better I

2:20:00 ↗ think we do need to be more specific

2:20:02 ↗ about where these items apply and why

2:20:06 ↗ it's backed up by the community

2:20:07 ↗ engagement if we're if we're

2:20:09 ↗ cherry-picking

2:20:10 ↗ for a lack of a better word items from

2:20:12 ↗ this plan

2:20:14 ↗ and then last thing I'll mention is that

2:20:17 ↗ in the word cloud that came out of the

2:20:19 ↗ survey affordable came out really big

2:20:22 ↗ but it wasn't really asked about but

2:20:24 ↗ people wrote that in their answers and I

2:20:26 ↗ you know we hear that over and over and

2:20:28 ↗ over and I would like to see us take

2:20:30 ↗ that into consideration especially now I

2:20:33 ↗ think we really need to think more about

2:20:34 ↗ how early induced changes affect

2:20:37 ↗ affordability and I again I didn't see

2:20:40 ↗ that this evening council

2:20:44 ↗ and I have a question from the clerk

2:20:45 ↗ about the returning date of the

2:20:48 ↗ postponement

2:20:50 ↗ okay

2:20:52 ↗ does go to the city clerk does that need

2:20:54 ↗ to be included in the motion

2:20:56 ↗ my apologies thank you yes I was wanting

2:21:01 ↗ to know when the returning date would be

2:21:03 ↗ honor before

2:21:06 ↗ I had hoped to so I was going to ask the

2:21:11 ↗ same question as councilmember Hall

2:21:13 ↗ about when we would hear back from

2:21:15 ↗ planning policy on the the next steps

2:21:17 ↗ but since we didn't have a date I would

2:21:19 ↗ like to have an input from the

2:21:21 ↗ administration if I'm going to make a

2:21:24 ↗ recommendation there

2:21:27 ↗ I think at this point I'll go back to

2:21:29 ↗ Kristin loosen'd so in order to complete

2:21:32 ↗ the items that require other actions

2:21:35 ↗ what would be the return date

2:21:40 ↗ so if they're all coming back at the

2:21:42 ↗ same time I know that the storm and

2:21:45 ↗ surface water plan is being updated now

2:21:48 ↗ staff was asked to provide

2:21:52 ↗ comments by July 9th so I need to check

2:21:55 ↗ back with them see what the comments

2:21:56 ↗ were and see what the proposed date for

2:21:58 ↗ that completion might be we can answer

2:22:01 ↗ those questions I can check in and find

2:22:03 ↗ out today the planning policy piece

2:22:07 ↗ parts being referred back to planning

2:22:09 ↗ policy would be actually a christen if

2:22:12 ↗ it's okay with you I'm gonna get the

2:22:14 ↗ city administrator to provide some

2:22:16 ↗ additional comments as well thank you

2:22:17 ↗ pretty mystery about Chris yes madam

2:22:19 ↗ mayor members of the council uh one of

2:22:22 ↗ the reasons we brought these issues

2:22:23 ↗ before you is that we have looked

2:22:24 ↗ through the calendar between now and

2:22:26 ↗ Thanksgiving and we we saw this as the

2:22:29 ↗ one and only opportunity we thought

2:22:31 ↗ would make sense to do this so our guess

2:22:34 ↗ would be that this could come back after

2:22:36 ↗ Thanksgiving maybe at a meeting in

2:22:39 ↗ December orange aimer that's a long time

2:22:42 ↗ from now and we recognize that but as we

2:22:44 ↗ look at the other items before the City

2:22:46 ↗ Council unless the council is committed

2:22:48 ↗ to meeting you know twice a week several

2:22:51 ↗ times during the months of October and

2:22:54 ↗ November I don't know that we'll be

2:22:56 ↗ ready to do that before the beginning of

2:22:58 ↗ next year

2:22:59 ↗ good administrate about quizzes that

2:23:00 ↗ take into account for current planning

2:23:03 ↗ resources as well we mean which means we

2:23:09 ↗ have whatever Kristen's current workload

2:23:12 ↗ is which is a little about 3/4 time we

2:23:16 ↗ do not have any additional resources we

2:23:18 ↗ have cut because of the Cova 19 crisis

2:23:20 ↗ planning staff significantly in order to

2:23:22 ↗ balance our budget and so unless the

2:23:25 ↗ council is willing to allocate

2:23:27 ↗ additional resources to get some of this

2:23:29 ↗ work done again I don't suspect this

2:23:31 ↗ could come back before December 1st

2:23:34 ↗ January 1st thank you I have a comment

2:23:38 ↗ from the city clerk on the motion

2:23:39 ↗ followed by a comment from the Director

2:23:41 ↗ of Development Services mr. Nevins Tina

2:23:44 ↗ you're up first

2:23:45 ↗ I thank you clerk ad were speaking just

2:23:47 ↗ wanted to clarify that a date certain is

2:23:51 ↗ what we're aiming for otherwise it's a

2:23:54 ↗ postponement indefinitely

2:23:56 ↗ I'll just point of clarification oh

2:23:58 ↗ thank you and director Niven

2:24:06 ↗ good evening madam mayor City Council

2:24:09 ↗ Keith Niven director of Community

2:24:11 ↗ Planning and Development so I think the

2:24:15 ↗ discussion about timing is complicated

2:24:17 ↗ because I don't think we know what scope

2:24:20 ↗ of work the council is contemplating the

2:24:23 ↗ ordinance before you this evening is a

2:24:25 ↗ specific implementation of a plan that

2:24:28 ↗ you recently adopted for Old Town all of

2:24:30 ↗ the items are identified on the

2:24:32 ↗ immediate action lists if there's a

2:24:35 ↗ change to those implementing actions I

2:24:38 ↗ think it would require us going back and

2:24:41 ↗ updating the Old Town sub area to plan

2:24:44 ↗ to reflect those changes that work item

2:24:47 ↗ would be I think longer than the next

2:24:49 ↗ couple months and and possibly into next

2:24:52 ↗ year is city administrator Bob Kuwait's

2:24:55 ↗ mentioned earlier Thank You director

2:24:58 ↗ Nevin we have a question from

2:25:00 ↗ councilmember Goodman um thank you and I

2:25:04 ↗ think part of my question was what

2:25:09 ↗ director never and just talked about I

2:25:11 ↗ just want to make sure that I understand

2:25:14 ↗ here and that we're all on the same page

2:25:15 ↗ so my understanding is that the subset

2:25:20 ↗ that's we're talking about our specific

2:25:23 ↗ actions immediate actions that are

2:25:26 ↗ listed in the Old Town sub area plan

2:25:28 ↗ that the council adopted and that the

2:25:34 ↗ immediate that the entire plan including

2:25:37 ↗ all of those actions were as it talks

2:25:41 ↗ about an agenda bill were vetted with

2:25:43 ↗ the task force for open houses six PBC

2:25:47 ↗ meetings six council land inshore

2:25:50 ↗ committee meetings and then the survey

2:25:52 ↗ and so I guess I'm a little bit confused

2:25:56 ↗ about what it is that is offensive or

2:26:03 ↗ not acceptable about a subset I and I'm

2:26:08 ↗ looking at the sub area plan you know

2:26:13 ↗ that I mean these are just specific

2:26:16 ↗ actions that implement

2:26:19 ↗ what the sub-area plan calls for so I

2:26:25 ↗ guess I'm just a little bit confused and

2:26:28 ↗ I'm wondering if the question is it

2:26:31 ↗ really is the concern really now a

2:26:34 ↗ disagreement or or is there some is

2:26:40 ↗ there you know not liking the sub area

2:26:43 ↗ plan is that's different from

2:26:44 ↗ implementation because if we go back and

2:26:48 ↗ we do things that are inconsistent with

2:26:50 ↗ the sub area plan then you know we need

2:26:53 ↗ to change the separation plan first then

2:26:55 ↗ I'm thinking so I guess I'm just a

2:26:57 ↗ little bit confused about why we would

2:27:01 ↗ postpone adopting actions that they're

2:27:06 ↗ in a plan that we adopted that don't

2:27:10 ↗ have any question about what those items

2:27:13 ↗ what we're being asked to approve

2:27:15 ↗ tonight so specifically it says in the

2:27:18 ↗ plan code revisions to reduce heights to

2:27:21 ↗ three storeys in CBD three stories in

2:27:23 ↗ mfh two stories in SF d I mean it seems

2:27:26 ↗ these are just code revision so I'm a

2:27:28 ↗ little bit confused

2:27:30 ↗ about it is that a comment or a question

2:27:35 ↗ for the motion maker in the second yeah

2:27:38 ↗ it's a question for the folks who are

2:27:43 ↗ thinking about supporting the motion to

2:27:47 ↗ postpone I'm just trying to understand

2:27:49 ↗ why would push postpone specific

2:27:54 ↗ implementation of specific actions that

2:27:57 ↗ have already been completely vetted

2:27:59 ↗ so is it really that we don't like the

2:28:01 ↗ plan or are we just I just I'm sorry I

2:28:05 ↗ just don't understand

2:28:07 ↗ council president hunt um thank you

2:28:12 ↗ so I discounts president I will respond

2:28:16 ↗ with my answer so I think that by

2:28:23 ↗ selecting this subset first of all the

2:28:26 ↗ plan has been I think that this plan

2:28:29 ↗ update it's been something like 20 years

2:28:31 ↗ it's not right into the update I mayor

2:28:37 ↗ Polly said yes yes sorry it has been 20

2:28:40 ↗ years since the siberia plan it's been

2:28:42 ↗ updated correct no no no new plan was

2:28:48 ↗ just adopted an update to the sub dairy

2:28:50 ↗ it was just adopted right so that let me

2:28:54 ↗ let me clarify there was an old town sub

2:28:57 ↗ area plan and there was a five to seven

2:29:00 ↗ year process of community engagement to

2:29:03 ↗ review and get input to understand what

2:29:06 ↗ concerns the neighborhood had and to

2:29:08 ↗ update the plan that was originally

2:29:11 ↗ written probably 22 ish plus years ago

2:29:15 ↗ and so two years ago the council

2:29:17 ↗ received the final product of that which

2:29:20 ↗ was the old town is the quest sub area

2:29:22 ↗ plan update and adopted it is that

2:29:27 ↗ clarify

2:29:29 ↗ yeah so I guess why I raised this is we

2:29:33 ↗ we often adopt plans and then when we

2:29:36 ↗ get to the code part because of the

2:29:39 ↗ length of time and I think and other

2:29:43 ↗ factors but we often make refinements to

2:29:48 ↗ the items in the plan and I also think

2:29:51 ↗ that by selecting certain items were

2:29:53 ↗ were de facto prioritizing those items

2:29:58 ↗ in a plan that is has a bunch of other

2:30:01 ↗ items which are not being the ones that

2:30:05 ↗ are going forward this evening so I

2:30:07 ↗ would like to see more so I'm postponing

2:30:11 ↗ it because I would like those code

2:30:15 ↗ amendments that do reflect an adopted

2:30:17 ↗ plan to be better vetted against the

2:30:21 ↗ data and that information to be

2:30:22 ↗ presented we did not receive a lot of

2:30:24 ↗ public engagement on this right now

2:30:26 ↗ because of obvious reasons I think

2:30:28 ↗ everybody has there are so many other

2:30:32 ↗ challenges happening right now but we

2:30:34 ↗ have received a lot of community

2:30:36 ↗ engagement in the past and I would like

2:30:37 ↗ to see as we're adopting the code

2:30:40 ↗ changes to address this that we continue

2:30:42 ↗ to set those I'm also just frankly

2:30:46 ↗ concerns that the items that council

2:30:48 ↗ asked questions about because those have

2:30:50 ↗ to go after so the impervious surface

2:30:53 ↗ having to go after the shoreline master

2:30:55 ↗ plan those ones are the ones that are

2:30:56 ↗ being pushed off and then these other

2:30:58 ↗ ones are proceeding right now I think

2:31:00 ↗ that we should continue to try to look

2:31:03 ↗ at this holistically and implement

2:31:07 ↗ implement a plan that makes sense

2:31:11 ↗ as possible and that does not seem to be

2:31:15 ↗ the case with us

2:31:17 ↗ in my opinion Thank You council

2:31:19 ↗ president hunt I think the clerk wants

2:31:21 ↗ to provide some clarifying information

2:31:24 ↗ on the motion pretty quick

2:31:27 ↗ thank you clerk Edgar speaking so to be

2:31:32 ↗ clear the motion on the floor without a

2:31:35 ↗ specific returning date basically kills

2:31:39 ↗ the item if you want to postpone with a

2:31:45 ↗ certain returning date such as December

2:31:47 ↗ 31 2020 or returning on or before

2:31:51 ↗ February or whatever that date is the

2:31:55 ↗ item would but then return

2:32:00 ↗ Thank You clerk thank

2:32:04 ↗ thank you question 4 for the clerks so

2:32:09 ↗ should I do I have to make an amendment

2:32:12 ↗ or can I just change my motion sink to

2:32:15 ↗ answer disease

2:32:19 ↗ I I guess I would ask the attorney if he

2:32:23 ↗ would like to weigh in on that I would

2:32:24 ↗ think that we have a motion that I'm

2:32:28 ↗ uncertain as to what motion is on the

2:32:30 ↗ floor so if you can clarify that and ii

2:32:34 ↗ can concur we can proceed okay I will

2:32:37 ↗ clarify the motion then if there's no

2:32:40 ↗ objection so I will clarify that the

2:32:43 ↗ motion is to move to postpone 87 7 eight

2:32:48 ↗ 8 Old Town land use code amendments to

2:32:50 ↗ allow for additional consideration and

2:32:52 ↗ recommendations to address Old Town sub

2:32:54 ↗ area plan goals identified and community

2:32:56 ↗ engagement and in the immediate actions

2:32:57 ↗ list returning to the City Council on or

2:32:59 ↗ before December 31st 2020 second

2:33:05 ↗ councilmember G Michelle Wright wrecker

2:33:07 ↗ great and councilmember D Michelle you

2:33:10 ↗ have a comment yes I i seconded this

2:33:15 ↗ motion and I agree with many of the

2:33:20 ↗ rationales that council president put

2:33:23 ↗ forward there were two other things that

2:33:26 ↗ I took into consideration I did take to

2:33:30 ↗ heart the comment when we seen this

2:33:32 ↗ afternoon via email from Steve Pereira

2:33:36 ↗ regarding the fact that we do you know

2:33:40 ↗ we are in the process of getting an

2:33:42 ↗ environmental Council or board and that

2:33:48 ↗ it would be excellent for them to review

2:33:51 ↗ this work as one of their first items so

2:33:54 ↗ that I thought was a really good comment

2:33:56 ↗ the other thing is I pulled myself from

2:34:00 ↗ a week ago and say you know we're in a

2:34:03 ↗ whole new world here and we said very

2:34:06 ↗ clearly that we were going to take some

2:34:08 ↗ actions and we said that we would look

2:34:11 ↗ at all of our policies from and equity

2:34:14 ↗ through equity lands and I think that we

2:34:18 ↗ should take a pause here and do that

2:34:22 ↗ that was the promise we made to the

2:34:24 ↗ public that we were going to look at

2:34:25 ↗ everything through an equity lens and

2:34:27 ↗ this has not been vetted through an

2:34:30 ↗ equity land so for those two reasons

2:34:32 ↗ and many of the things that council

2:34:34 ↗ president hunt put forward I am

2:34:37 ↗ supporting this motion thank you thank

2:34:40 ↗ you I have a comment from city

2:34:42 ↗ administrator Bob comets and then a

2:34:44 ↗ comment from councilmember Goodman

2:34:47 ↗ thank you madam mayor members of the

2:34:48 ↗ council I want to go back to mr. Nivens

2:34:50 ↗ comment because I think the council is

2:34:52 ↗ really approaching an entirely different

2:34:55 ↗ topic and that is I'm hearing that

2:34:58 ↗ perhaps the sub area plan itself needs

2:35:00 ↗ to be revisited again what these

2:35:02 ↗ ordinances are doing is implementing the

2:35:03 ↗ sub area plan you know we can nibble

2:35:07 ↗ around the edges we can have additional

2:35:09 ↗ public comment but ultimately we are

2:35:11 ↗ implementing that sub area plan if there

2:35:13 ↗ is a an interest in reviewing with an

2:35:16 ↗ equity lens if there's an interest in

2:35:17 ↗ getting additional comment the changes

2:35:20 ↗ that we're seeing with the COBIT process

2:35:22 ↗ then perhaps a more appropriate motion

2:35:25 ↗ would be to stop this process entirely

2:35:28 ↗ and then come back to you what would

2:35:30 ↗ make sense to completely revisit this

2:35:32 ↗ plan and that was already a multi-year

2:35:35 ↗ process revisiting the plan available to

2:35:38 ↗ your process but we would not want to

2:35:40 ↗ spend six more months working on

2:35:42 ↗ ordinances to implement a plan if there

2:35:44 ↗ are fundamental disagreements with that

2:35:46 ↗ sub area plan so madam mayor I'm not

2:35:49 ↗ sure what you your your direction might

2:35:53 ↗ be but it sounds like the council has

2:35:55 ↗ questions about the plan that was

2:35:57 ↗ multiple years in making and if that's

2:35:59 ↗ the case then perhaps a different

2:36:01 ↗ direction of different motion may be in

2:36:03 ↗ order that's true I completely agree

2:36:06 ↗ with it you're saying to the

2:36:07 ↗ administrator I'll have to be honest I'm

2:36:08 ↗ pretty disappointed that we would

2:36:10 ↗ actually be having talking about this

2:36:14 ↗ tonight

2:36:14 ↗ and discounting five to seven years

2:36:18 ↗ worth of community work and engagement

2:36:20 ↗ but it is the council pleasure to do

2:36:23 ↗ that and put away the sub area plan and

2:36:26 ↗ we'll go back to square one and we'll go

2:36:28 ↗ back out to the community and restart so

2:36:31 ↗ it's absolutely possible and I think

2:36:33 ↗ you're right I think you've nailed it

2:36:34 ↗ that that is the question that's being

2:36:36 ↗ asked tonight deputy council president

2:36:38 ↗ Rey followed by a councilmember Goodman

2:36:40 ↗ followed by councilmember wash um

2:36:43 ↗ Thank You mayor paulien and thank you

2:36:46 ↗ she's Minister about which I was going

2:36:49 ↗ to ask a question about whether or not

2:36:51 ↗ we were debating the actions that are

2:36:55 ↗ proposed or whether or not the sub area

2:36:57 ↗ plan was correct so all asking different

2:36:59 ↗ questions

2:37:01 ↗ and it is are the actions that we've

2:37:03 ↗ identified here to those the intent of

2:37:05 ↗ dosas is to implement the specifics that

2:37:09 ↗ came out of the sub area plan is that is

2:37:11 ↗ that a correct statement this is Kristin

2:37:14 ↗ listen yes when we looked at the

2:37:17 ↗ immediate actions those actions that we

2:37:19 ↗ selected were all of the code omit

2:37:21 ↗ everything that would be everything that

2:37:22 ↗ were to require a code amendment we

2:37:24 ↗ tried to bundle together to bring

2:37:26 ↗ forward to Council at once and and then

2:37:28 ↗ there are some things that are in the

2:37:31 ↗ sub area plan that Kirsten you you

2:37:35 ↗ talked about this that we haven't gotten

2:37:37 ↗ to yet and so there's still things

2:37:39 ↗ there's still work to do and there's

2:37:40 ↗ still work code changes needed to

2:37:42 ↗ implement the rest of the sub area plan

2:37:46 ↗ correct most of the code changes are

2:37:48 ↗ under immediate actions and are what we

2:37:50 ↗ are talking about tonight step for those

2:37:52 ↗ to have been postponed but there are

2:37:54 ↗ some additional code changes that are

2:37:56 ↗ that are still forthcoming

2:37:59 ↗ I believe so yes I'd have to

2:38:01 ↗ double-check okay

2:38:05 ↗ so I guess I would be curious to know

2:38:08 ↗ from my my colleagues if we think that

2:38:11 ↗ these proposed actions and changes to

2:38:15 ↗ code don't

2:38:18 ↗ deliver on the vision of the sub-area

2:38:20 ↗ plan and if that's the case then we need

2:38:23 ↗ to figure out why that is and send it

2:38:25 ↗ back and have them come back or if the

2:38:27 ↗ problem is the sub area plan isn't

2:38:29 ↗ really aligned to our needs and then

2:38:30 ↗ that's different question so might be I

2:38:33 ↗ need some some guidance on what the

2:38:36 ↗ objection to the current ordinance is is

2:38:38 ↗ it because it's it's not delivering what

2:38:41 ↗ we think the sub area plan should

2:38:42 ↗ include because the sub area the the

2:38:47 ↗ ordinance doesn't reflect what's been

2:38:48 ↗ written or do we need to go back and

2:38:50 ↗ revisit the sub area plan

2:38:54 ↗ council member head or council member

2:38:56 ↗ team Michelle

2:39:00 ↗ council member hunch I made the motion

2:39:04 ↗ which is to bring back which is to

2:39:07 ↗ revisit the immediate actions list and

2:39:10 ↗ bring back actions after further

2:39:12 ↗ consideration and a more complete form

2:39:15 ↗ so there have been a discussion about

2:39:18 ↗ revisiting a sub area plan but that's

2:39:20 ↗ not the motion that's currently on the

2:39:23 ↗ table so I'll speak to the motion

2:39:26 ↗ there's actions there for example to

2:39:29 ↗ align with our sustainable building plan

2:39:31 ↗ and our sustainable building plan has a

2:39:34 ↗ bunch of actions that we also have not

2:39:36 ↗ implemented so the issue I think is that

2:39:39 ↗ we are choosing specific for me the

2:39:43 ↗ issue is that we're choosing specific

2:39:45 ↗ ones and potentially acting on that on

2:39:48 ↗ those in a vacuum and we I I do not

2:39:53 ↗ think that the information that was

2:39:56 ↗ presented this evening in our packet

2:40:00 ↗ supports those and I think we could do a

2:40:03 ↗ better job and then the other thing is I

2:40:08 ↗ would like to

2:40:11 ↗ comments on the mayor's comment about

2:40:14 ↗ discounting community engagement and I

2:40:16 ↗ don't think that's that is not at all my

2:40:18 ↗ intent I looked very closely at our last

2:40:22 ↗ community engagement and I for instance

2:40:25 ↗ brought forward a number of statistics

2:40:27 ↗ from our online survey that I think are

2:40:28 ↗ important I'm not discounting the years

2:40:31 ↗ of community engagement that went into

2:40:32 ↗ this I would rather say that I want to

2:40:38 ↗ be considerate of the entirety of the

2:40:42 ↗ work and I don't think that that's what

2:40:44 ↗ we're doing this evening and I I I'm not

2:40:51 ↗ discounting the community engagement

2:40:53 ↗ that's not amazing

2:40:56 ↗ council member ray

2:41:01 ↗ so my my I guess the root of my question

2:41:04 ↗ is do we not like the way that this

2:41:07 ↗ ordinance implements the sub-area plan

2:41:09 ↗ or do we not like the sub-area plan or

2:41:12 ↗ do we think that we should do all the

2:41:13 ↗ elements of the sub area plan at the

2:41:15 ↗ same time and we don't want a piecemeal

2:41:16 ↗ it in so either their treater and I'm

2:41:18 ↗ trying to figure out what we would have

2:41:20 ↗ come what we're trying to accomplish by

2:41:22 ↗ delaying taking action on this that's

2:41:25 ↗ really where I'm trying to understand

2:41:27 ↗ what the what the outcome of that will

2:41:29 ↗ be

2:41:32 ↗ cat's present huh

2:41:34 ↗ thank you so I would say that the action

2:41:39 ↗ I would like out of this is to have it

2:41:45 ↗ returned to Council with a more complete

2:41:49 ↗ or more maybe not complete but a more

2:41:52 ↗ balanced approach to the actions list

2:41:55 ↗ for our consideration so that we can

2:41:58 ↗ proceed in enacting the sub-area plan

2:42:02 ↗ but also seeing how the actions that

2:42:04 ↗ we're taking addressed the core goals of

2:42:07 ↗ that plan and the core goals that came

2:42:09 ↗ out of that community engagement I also

2:42:12 ↗ I I feel that this there as was

2:42:16 ↗ mentioned by a city administrator about

2:42:18 ↗ quotes there was a an ability to put

2:42:21 ↗ this item on the agenda this evening and

2:42:24 ↗ then there isn't availability and for a

2:42:28 ↗ while but that isn't in my opinion a

2:42:30 ↗ good reason to take action this this

2:42:32 ↗ evening

2:42:34 ↗ you

2:42:37 ↗ president ray

2:42:40 ↗ you know um I think there's some others

2:42:42 ↗ like to comment so I'm happy to hold on

2:42:45 ↗ for a bit Thank You councilmember Walsh

2:42:48 ↗ followed by councilmember Hall

2:42:52 ↗ Thank You this is councilmember Walsh I

2:42:55 ↗ think this is kind of what happens when

2:42:59 ↗ it takes a long time to go through a

2:43:02 ↗ planning process and then the planning

2:43:06 ↗ process and the code implementation get

2:43:10 ↗ a little bit separated out between the

2:43:14 ↗ two steps because we as a council as a

2:43:18 ↗ maybe it was the previous council I

2:43:21 ↗ don't remember had agreed upon the old

2:43:27 ↗ town sub area plan and that included

2:43:30 ↗ these actions and so as much as I

2:43:35 ↗ appreciate the idea of maybe we don't

2:43:38 ↗ like which actions have been chosen to

2:43:42 ↗ be implemented in a first round of code

2:43:47 ↗ revisions I also appreciate that the

2:43:51 ↗ staff recognized that there was an

2:43:55 ↗ ongoing issue with impervious surface

2:43:57 ↗ and actually pulled that out of this

2:43:59 ↗ list so I think this list is responsive

2:44:04 ↗ to the community and is long overdue

2:44:08 ↗ from when a plan was created and adopted

2:44:13 ↗ and I don't want to wait longer to

2:44:17 ↗ implement code that our community has

2:44:19 ↗ told us that they want because then we

2:44:23 ↗ end up running the risk of something

2:44:26 ↗ gets developed that because the code

2:44:29 ↗ allows it and the community comes back

2:44:31 ↗ to us and says well we told you that

2:44:34 ↗ this was gonna happen

2:44:35 ↗ three four years ago well I have a new

2:44:38 ↗ fix to this by now and I think that sits

2:44:43 ↗ on us and especially at a time when we

2:44:46 ↗ have

2:44:48 ↗ approved limited staff to let this

2:44:53 ↗ continue on or and potentially an

2:44:57 ↗ indefinite period of time to get more

2:45:00 ↗ community feedback we're going back to

2:45:02 ↗ the plan I think that would be

2:45:04 ↗ irresponsible of us at this point

2:45:06 ↗ Thank You councilmember Wallace I'm

2:45:08 ↗ going to go to staff for a second it

2:45:10 ↗ looks like director Niven would like to

2:45:12 ↗ add some comment and then I'll be coming

2:45:14 ↗ back to council member home

2:45:18 ↗ didn't even thank you madam mayor Keith

2:45:21 ↗ Niven Director of Community Planning and

2:45:23 ↗ Development so I just wanted to provide

2:45:25 ↗ some context for the plan and part of

2:45:29 ↗ the conversation going through the land

2:45:30 ↗ and short committee of the City Council

2:45:32 ↗ was and asked by the committee for us to

2:45:36 ↗ draft a very different kind of plan the

2:45:39 ↗ criticism of the old old town plan

2:45:42 ↗ excuse me for the multiple holds was

2:45:45 ↗ that most of the action items were very

2:45:47 ↗ broadly written and hard to understand

2:45:50 ↗ and hard to understand if they were ever

2:45:52 ↗ implemented so what we did is we turned

2:45:55 ↗ the implementation part of the plan into

2:45:58 ↗ immediate actions short-term actions and

2:46:02 ↗ longer-term actions it's a ten year

2:46:04 ↗ implementation of the vision for the

2:46:07 ↗ plan where we prioritize what we wanted

2:46:11 ↗ to have happened in the next two years

2:46:13 ↗ so 2019 2020

2:46:15 ↗ now obviously the pandemic has caused a

2:46:18 ↗ little bit of delay in our progress but

2:46:21 ↗ my understanding of the plan that the

2:46:24 ↗ council adopted is there are already

2:46:26 ↗ prioritized action items and there was

2:46:29 ↗ never an expectation from the City

2:46:31 ↗ Council that we would bring them all

2:46:33 ↗ together at once because from a staffing

2:46:35 ↗ standpoint that's a that's a huge lift

2:46:39 ↗ and so this was anticipated to be

2:46:42 ↗ brought forward kind of incrementally to

2:46:44 ↗ the council and by the time we get to

2:46:47 ↗ 2030 hopefully we've implemented all of

2:46:50 ↗ the action items from the plan so I just

2:46:52 ↗ wanted to provide that for the council

2:46:53 ↗ Thank You director Niven council member

2:46:56 ↗ Hall

2:47:02 ↗ Thank You Mira Polly

2:47:06 ↗ stewey

2:47:12 ↗ I don't know where I am quite yet but I

2:47:15 ↗ wanted to voice of one thing that I was

2:47:18 ↗ just thinking and you know councilmember

2:47:22 ↗ Walsh just said

2:47:27 ↗ the effective you know this is what the

2:47:28 ↗ community has been asking us and we

2:47:30 ↗ should move forward with that but I

2:47:33 ↗ don't I'm not quite sure if this is what

2:47:37 ↗ the community is asking I mean I was

2:47:40 ↗ just looking at the sub area plan and it

2:47:43 ↗ seems like you know to council president

2:47:46 ↗ Hunts Point again we're not discounting

2:47:49 ↗ work that's already gone into this or a

2:47:52 ↗ community feedback that's already gone

2:47:53 ↗ into this but it seems like at least for

2:47:55 ↗ housing is one example we've bumped into

2:47:59 ↗ tension within the plan itself I mean

2:48:01 ↗ one of the goals is to preserve

2:48:03 ↗ residential neighborhoods by reducing

2:48:05 ↗ allowable Heights and the higher density

2:48:06 ↗ areas to maintain character and that's

2:48:09 ↗ kind of what some of this does but then

2:48:11 ↗ there's another goal to increase housing

2:48:13 ↗ types and retain and increase the supply

2:48:15 ↗ of housing by implementing the housing

2:48:17 ↗ strategy work plan so it seems like

2:48:20 ↗ we're doing one of them at the expense

2:48:22 ↗ of another two councilmember marks

2:48:26 ↗ points earlier to about you know not

2:48:28 ↗ wanting to rule out another level

2:48:32 ↗ because that could increase

2:48:33 ↗ affordability within our broader

2:48:35 ↗ community so I don't really know where I

2:48:38 ↗ am but I wanted to mention I think we've

2:48:42 ↗ run into a problem Thank You council

2:48:47 ↗ president hunt

2:48:51 ↗ thank you I wanted to thank mr. Niven

2:48:56 ↗ for the comments because I think that

2:48:58 ↗ they did help clarify some things and so

2:49:01 ↗ I also wanted to in turn clarify I don't

2:49:04 ↗ I also don't expect the entire list and

2:49:07 ↗ the entire implementation to come

2:49:09 ↗ forward at once I I would ask that there

2:49:13 ↗ be a more balanced approach of

2:49:15 ↗ councilmember apologist was talking

2:49:17 ↗ about there's affordability goals and

2:49:19 ↗ there's also character goals and right

2:49:21 ↗ now it doesn't it doesn't seem that that

2:49:23 ↗ is what we're going for with we're going

2:49:26 ↗ forward with things that we didn't ask

2:49:27 ↗ questions about when this came to

2:49:29 ↗ council last time which I I it doesn't

2:49:32 ↗ seem like a balanced first step to me

2:49:36 ↗ that implements implementing the plan

2:49:38 ↗ and the goals

2:49:40 ↗ of the plan the other thing is there are

2:49:43 ↗ some goals that still are not sorry

2:49:46 ↗ there are some immediate actions that

2:49:47 ↗ are still not very specific one is the

2:49:50 ↗ sustainable building plan and so it

2:49:53 ↗ would be kind of hard as it is to know

2:49:55 ↗ if we've implemented that or not and

2:49:59 ↗ some are more specific so there there's

2:50:02 ↗ always I think room for council to have

2:50:04 ↗ discussions around the action items both

2:50:06 ↗ when we adopt the plan but also when we

2:50:08 ↗ adopt the code it's just because we

2:50:11 ↗ adopt a plan I don't think that that

2:50:12 ↗ means we have to adopt I think we can we

2:50:16 ↗ can think about we can take thoughtful

2:50:19 ↗ measures in terms of how we adopt that

2:50:22 ↗ plan after we adopt or how we implement

2:50:25 ↗ the plan after we adopted thanks council

2:50:30 ↗ member G Michelle

2:50:35 ↗ thank you

2:50:37 ↗ Michelle and I just want to clarify to

2:50:41 ↗ you and thank you everybody for the

2:50:43 ↗ comments that have been made I just

2:50:47 ↗ wanted to clarify that I my intention

2:50:49 ↗ here is not to overturn the sub-area

2:50:51 ↗ plan or anything like that we have a

2:50:55 ↗ very discrete to me and this is why I'm

2:50:57 ↗ looking at it and we have a discreet

2:50:59 ↗ list of items here that and and we are

2:51:06 ↗ in a new place here and I know that

2:51:11 ↗ we're I know it's important to keep

2:51:13 ↗ marching forward to implement things but

2:51:15 ↗ I do think that we are in a place where

2:51:18 ↗ the community and world is basically

2:51:21 ↗ saying we've got a pause we've got to

2:51:23 ↗ think about what we're doing and so the

2:51:26 ↗ fact that we have a very discrete list

2:51:28 ↗ of a few items that to me is an

2:51:32 ↗ advantage that here we're asking to get

2:51:34 ↗ a little bit more information we're

2:51:36 ↗ asking us to be we looked at one more

2:51:38 ↗ time and can you come back to us with

2:51:43 ↗ that a little bit more of information

2:51:44 ↗ with that with that second look through

2:51:48 ↗ a different lens if it's the equity lens

2:51:51 ↗ and I do not want to discount the work

2:51:53 ↗ that's being done by the staff I know

2:51:55 ↗ that I know that's not a little bit of

2:51:58 ↗ work but I think that to be comfortable

2:52:02 ↗ with what we're passing that we are

2:52:06 ↗ asking that it be reviewed one more time

2:52:09 ↗ so that is that was the intent of what I

2:52:14 ↗ am saying and I

2:52:19 ↗ sorry that it looks as though we're

2:52:21 ↗ trying to overturn you know the whole

2:52:23 ↗ plan that is not my intent I'm just

2:52:25 ↗ looking at these items that are in front

2:52:27 ↗ of us and saying I would like to looked

2:52:29 ↗ at one more time

2:52:31 ↗ deputy council president ray at followed

2:52:35 ↗ by deputy or sorry by councilmember mark

2:52:39 ↗ no I'm just trying I'm really wrestling

2:52:42 ↗ with this I'm trying to figure out what

2:52:44 ↗ we what the benefit we get if we push

2:52:47 ↗ this thing out until the end of the year

2:52:49 ↗ what would change and why would we think

2:52:52 ↗ that it'll be better or different so I

2:52:55 ↗ know that we talked about a more

2:52:57 ↗ balanced approach so is what I'm hearing

2:53:01 ↗ that the ordinance that we have

2:53:05 ↗ developed

2:53:07 ↗ doesn't fully reflect our thinking about

2:53:11 ↗ how best to implement the specifics in

2:53:15 ↗ the sub area plan and that we need to do

2:53:18 ↗ some work because I think if we're

2:53:20 ↗ giving them them there we're directing

2:53:23 ↗ the administration to go back and try

2:53:24 ↗ again we're also missing an element here

2:53:27 ↗ which is they they did the best that

2:53:31 ↗ they thought they could with what they

2:53:33 ↗ knew so if we're going to send the

2:53:35 ↗ administration back to do this again we

2:53:37 ↗ need to form an ad hoc committee to

2:53:39 ↗ provide some guidance or some other

2:53:41 ↗ mechanism to provide guidance because I

2:53:44 ↗ don't know why I would see this changing

2:53:47 ↗ dramatically if we just say go try again

2:53:50 ↗ and then I feel like we're sitting on a

2:53:51 ↗ fecha Rock exercise and I don't think

2:53:53 ↗ that's fair

2:53:56 ↗ council member marks thank you madam

2:53:59 ↗ mayor so this is a tough one

2:54:03 ↗ I hear councilmember Goodman and and I

2:54:08 ↗ hear the administration and the work

2:54:11 ↗ that went into this but I'll I will also

2:54:13 ↗ say that two years is a long time it's

2:54:16 ↗ been 18 months 20 months something like

2:54:19 ↗ that

2:54:20 ↗ since we voted on only four if the seven

2:54:22 ↗ council members are the same housing

2:54:25 ↗ prices have jumped what looked to be a

2:54:28 ↗ pretty sure thing for transit ordinance

2:54:31 ↗ development is now much more in question

2:54:34 ↗ many of us have kids that are living at

2:54:38 ↗ home with limited prospects on where

2:54:42 ↗ they're gonna live and so some of these

2:54:44 ↗ things feel a little different yeah I'm

2:54:46 ↗ not I'm not sure I'm ready to say

2:54:48 ↗ throughout seven years of revisions but

2:54:51 ↗ certain things feel different the the

2:54:53 ↗ sfd going is two-story it feels

2:54:56 ↗ different than it did two years ago and

2:54:58 ↗ I understand why that's frustrating I

2:55:02 ↗ think you're what you're hearing is

2:55:04 ↗ different people on the council at this

2:55:07 ↗ moment aren't ready to say yes this

2:55:08 ↗ evening perhaps for different reasons I

2:55:11 ↗ would like to think about it more I I

2:55:15 ↗ think maybe my reaction earlier was a

2:55:17 ↗ little hasty and I certainly don't want

2:55:20 ↗ to like I said integrate all the work

2:55:22 ↗ that's been done but I stand by the idea

2:55:25 ↗ that some of these things I think feel

2:55:26 ↗ different than they did two years ago so

2:55:29 ↗ it's frustrating as that may be thank

2:55:31 ↗ you thank you and councilmember Goodman

2:55:39 ↗ Thank You councilman working me here I I

2:55:43 ↗ think that councilmember Walsh said it

2:55:46 ↗ really really well and

2:55:52 ↗ Goodman you access I think councilmember

2:55:56 ↗ Walsh said it really well I don't think

2:55:58 ↗ how many times we say we're not

2:56:00 ↗ intending to open the plan to me that

2:56:06 ↗ feels exactly like what the undercurrent

2:56:11 ↗ is and there has been a lot of community

2:56:14 ↗ input and I see I see

2:56:17 ↗ I actually don't see any reason for not

2:56:19 ↗ implementing the items that have been

2:56:21 ↗ recommended to be implemented tonight

2:56:25 ↗ I'm I just really do fail to see the

2:56:29 ↗ reason there's still so much more work

2:56:31 ↗ to do on this plan I completely disagree

2:56:35 ↗ having been on the council now for nine

2:56:38 ↗ going on ten years that we often that

2:56:45 ↗ code changes we look at code changes to

2:56:48 ↗ make sure that they're consistent with

2:56:49 ↗ plans that we've adopted this is

2:56:51 ↗ completely consistent with a plan that

2:56:54 ↗ was completely put together by the

2:56:55 ↗ community and we I don't understand what

2:57:00 ↗ balanced approach means we can't do

2:57:02 ↗ everything at one time in a perfect

2:57:06 ↗ world I suppose all the dominoes would

2:57:07 ↗ fall in exactly the same way exactly the

2:57:10 ↗ way we lined them up and that is

2:57:12 ↗ completely impossible

2:57:13 ↗ so and in terms of the core goals I

2:57:16 ↗ don't know what we mean by that we have

2:57:18 ↗ all the actions are laid out there's

2:57:21 ↗ dozens of them and I really I really

2:57:25 ↗ honestly fail to see why we would delay

2:57:28 ↗ a few items that have come forward in

2:57:32 ↗ black and white in the plan if there was

2:57:35 ↗ one thing that I think that we should

2:57:37 ↗ have had in the agenda bill tonight that

2:57:39 ↗ I know certainly don't have in the one I

2:57:40 ↗ printed out it would have been a copy of

2:57:43 ↗ the sub area plan maybe there was a link

2:57:48 ↗ to it I just printed it out and maybe

2:57:49 ↗ there was a link to it but we could have

2:57:52 ↗ held him side-by-side and seen that says

2:57:54 ↗ we'll do this this is what we're doing

2:57:56 ↗ so I really honestly don't see a reason

2:57:58 ↗ to delay these few things thank you

2:58:00 ↗ Thank You councilmember Goodman

2:58:04 ↗ saying that anyone else is signed up for

2:58:06 ↗ comments right now I just want to check

2:58:09 ↗ back in with the administration in

2:58:12 ↗ particular City Clerk it is to the

2:58:14 ↗ administrator I'm hearing two different

2:58:16 ↗ things here tonight I'm hearing we have

2:58:19 ↗ to rethink things and I'm hearing we

2:58:22 ↗ just need to push something out and have

2:58:25 ↗ you come back and bring it back

2:58:27 ↗ examine through another lens they're

2:58:29 ↗ very very different things I'm not sure

2:58:31 ↗ I have a very clear understanding at all

2:58:33 ↗ with what the council is talking about

2:58:35 ↗ right now I'm hearing you need to take

2:58:38 ↗ these back and run it through an equity

2:58:40 ↗ lens you may need to take it back and

2:58:42 ↗ see how it compares to the housing

2:58:43 ↗ affordability I'm not sure you're going

2:58:46 ↗ to get a different outcome and so I'm

2:58:48 ↗ really baffled about what we're doing

2:58:50 ↗ here we don't have other lenses to put

2:58:54 ↗ it through these are just the actual

2:58:56 ↗ specific actions that were in the plan

2:58:58 ↗ that had there were problems that the

2:59:02 ↗ old town neighborhood wanted resolved

2:59:03 ↗ there was a plan adopted with actions to

2:59:06 ↗ do it and you are basically just

2:59:07 ↗ adopting code if what you want us to do

2:59:11 ↗ is come back with more explanation of

2:59:14 ↗ why you should adopt the ordinance as it

2:59:15 ↗ is you're going to have to be very

2:59:18 ↗ specific about what it is that you want

2:59:20 ↗ done because I am extremely confused if

2:59:23 ↗ that's the intent if the intent is to

2:59:25 ↗ say I no longer believe that the

2:59:29 ↗ February plan adopted two years ago is

2:59:31 ↗ reflective of our community values which

2:59:33 ↗ is what every council president Ray is

2:59:35 ↗ saying and say that and say that but I

2:59:38 ↗ fear that what you're doing is sending

2:59:40 ↗ us back to the administration to do

2:59:42 ↗ something very vague that will come back

2:59:44 ↗ in December and be very disappointing

2:59:46 ↗ and it will tell you three stories to

2:59:49 ↗ 255 feet 240

2:59:52 ↗ and so I'm not sure anybody is going to

2:59:54 ↗ be satisfied with that we accomplished

2:59:56 ↗ anything of benefit during that time so

2:59:59 ↗ if I could get some clarity of what it

3:00:02 ↗ would be that you would be specifically

3:00:04 ↗ asking us to do and it might make more

3:00:08 ↗ sense but I'm really confused right now

3:00:18 ↗ maybe there's a different time in a

3:00:21 ↗ different place then the plan is gone

3:00:24 ↗ administrative outputs you know let me

3:00:27 ↗ just speak to councilmember Dee

3:00:28 ↗ Michelle's concerned about the equity

3:00:30 ↗ lines because I think that's a really

3:00:31 ↗ important issue and certainly is one

3:00:33 ↗ that wasn't on the table during the

3:00:35 ↗ community's discussions about this I

3:00:38 ↗ think we're going to spend a lot of time

3:00:39 ↗ talking about equity lenses and I think

3:00:42 ↗ that you know the sub area plan all of

3:00:45 ↗ the Lanie's planning central Issaquah

3:00:47 ↗ unlike business if you want to if you

3:00:48 ↗ want to start talking about how we're

3:00:50 ↗ going to have to think about plans in

3:00:51 ↗ different ways um that's when we're

3:00:53 ↗ going to have to think about different

3:00:54 ↗ ways with the neck module and you know

3:00:57 ↗ my recommendation to the council is you

3:00:59 ↗ have so many years of community input in

3:01:02 ↗ this year you know the ordinance before

3:01:04 ↗ you is implementing that you know I

3:01:06 ↗ think we need to let that continue to

3:01:08 ↗ move forward with the recognition that

3:01:11 ↗ we've got lots and lots of land-use work

3:01:13 ↗ ahead of us as a community and we can't

3:01:17 ↗ hold up everything that has been done

3:01:19 ↗ and be able to look back now six months

3:01:22 ↗ from now a year from now and and try to

3:01:25 ↗ second-guess all of that I think we have

3:01:28 ↗ to you know continue to march forward

3:01:30 ↗ again we're implementing a plan um I

3:01:33 ↗ think that makes sense and the issues of

3:01:35 ↗ inequity lens or something that we're

3:01:36 ↗ going to be with we with us for a while

3:01:38 ↗ so madam mayor I would encourage the

3:01:41 ↗ council to move forward with these

3:01:43 ↗ ordinances understanding that over the

3:01:45 ↗ last several months our list of to dues

3:01:47 ↗ is growing longer almost by the week and

3:01:50 ↗ I think a reflection on overall land-use

3:01:52 ↗ planning is important but I don't want

3:01:54 ↗ that to be at the expense of the

3:01:57 ↗ individuals who've spent years and years

3:02:00 ↗ and years working on this sub area plan

3:02:03 ↗ and thinking that once it was adopted

3:02:05 ↗ then the council had the stewardship to

3:02:08 ↗ move forward to implement it with more

3:02:09 ↗ thank you Thank You administrator Bob

3:02:12 ↗ crips so I am not seeing anymore

3:02:14 ↗ comments in the chat bar

3:02:16 ↗ so the motion if I could have the city

3:02:20 ↗ clerk read back the motion that's on the

3:02:22 ↗ floor

3:02:24 ↗ thank you clerk Hagar speaking the

3:02:27 ↗ motion on the floor is the postpone the

3:02:31 ↗ ordinance to allow for additional

3:02:33 ↗ consideration and recommendations to

3:02:35 ↗ address Old Town sub area plan goals

3:02:38 ↗ identified in community engagement and

3:02:39 ↗ in the immediate actions list

3:02:42 ↗ returning to the City Council on or

3:02:43 ↗ before December 31 2020

3:02:47 ↗ thank you and so looking over it looks

3:02:51 ↗ like the conversation in the tap box is

3:02:55 ↗ done so could the city clerk please do a

3:02:57 ↗ roll call vote

3:03:00 ↗ thank you yes councilmember D Michelle I

3:03:06 ↗ have to be the first I will say that I'm

3:03:11 ↗ torn now

3:03:17 ↗ hi I will vote me on that one

3:03:21 ↗ councilmember Goodman nay

3:03:25 ↗ Hall hi

3:03:29 ↗ council president hunts

3:03:33 ↗ I

3:03:36 ↗ council member marks

3:03:40 ↗ deputy council president ray hey and

3:03:45 ↗ councilmember Walsh nay thank you I have

3:03:50 ↗ that as a three to four vote

3:03:54 ↗ the motion fails would anybody care to I

3:03:59 ↗ have to back myself up did we already

3:04:02 ↗ have another motion on table we did

3:04:07 ↗ sorry City Clerk you have a motion to

3:04:10 ↗ adopt ordinance number 2 9 1 1 is there

3:04:15 ↗ any additional discussion

3:04:18 ↗ conversation comments or questions on

3:04:20 ↗ the motion to adopt ordinance to 9-1-1

3:04:29 ↗ and scrolling down to see

3:04:33 ↗ president hunt

3:04:37 ↗ council president hunch I I want to

3:04:39 ↗ clarify why I'm going to vote for the

3:04:42 ↗ items because I also voted for the

3:04:45 ↗ amendment to postpone so like I said I

3:04:48 ↗ am not opposed to implementing the plan

3:04:51 ↗ I am though it

3:04:55 ↗ we aren't adopting anything about

3:04:58 ↗ affordability this evening we are

3:04:59 ↗ adopting at least I don't see anything

3:05:01 ↗ about affordability I don't see anything

3:05:02 ↗ about sustainability those are things

3:05:04 ↗ that we hear from the community all the

3:05:05 ↗ time if you if we talk about respecting

3:05:08 ↗ the Community Engagement I don't know

3:05:10 ↗ why this does not feel strategic to me

3:05:14 ↗ this does not feel like an

3:05:15 ↗ implementation that strategic I

3:05:18 ↗ understand that we need to proceed with

3:05:20 ↗ implementation of plans I take to heart

3:05:22 ↗ all the concerns of council and I take

3:05:25 ↗ to heart that many years went into

3:05:27 ↗ making the plan but again implementation

3:05:30 ↗ is one thing in this case it's several

3:05:32 ↗ years away from the adoption of the plan

3:05:34 ↗ we have a lot of work to do on a lot of

3:05:37 ↗ a lot of things but I we need to I think

3:05:41 ↗ the strategic and how we implement our

3:05:44 ↗ plans

3:05:47 ↗ council president hunts or anybody else

3:05:48 ↗ who would like to make a comment

3:05:56 ↗ Bing none in the chat box I will go up

3:05:59 ↗ and reread the motion motion on the

3:06:03 ↗ table is to move to adopt ordinance

3:06:05 ↗ number to 911 by reference amendments to

3:06:08 ↗ the Isco Municipal Code relating to the

3:06:10 ↗ Old Town sub area including amendments

3:06:13 ↗ modifying standards for multifamily high

3:06:15 ↗ each sunset way only multifamily medium

3:06:18 ↗ old town only cultural business district

3:06:22 ↗ and single-family duplex zones old town

3:06:25 ↗ parking provisions transfer of

3:06:27 ↗ development rights and the table of

3:06:30 ↗ permitted uses

3:06:35 ↗ and I will ask the clerk to do a roll

3:06:38 ↗ call vote um excuse me madam mayor there

3:06:42 ↗ is a comment you just wanted to oh sorry

3:06:44 ↗ yes thank you very much council member

3:06:46 ↗ hall thank you yeah if that's okay this

3:06:49 ↗ is this is that whole I just

3:06:56 ↗ wanted to say I'll be supporting the

3:06:57 ↗ final motion to butt out for a different

3:06:59 ↗ reason

3:07:01 ↗ I think my main concern looking at this

3:07:04 ↗ is affordability and looking at

3:07:06 ↗ single-family dwelling the proposed

3:07:09 ↗ limit to two storeys I thought

3:07:15 ↗ got rid of future potential for

3:07:17 ↗ affordable housing options in in

3:07:21 ↗ Issaquah but I think two stories

3:07:24 ↗ obviously still there are still options

3:07:27 ↗ there are still housing types that are

3:07:30 ↗ affordable that can play into that and I

3:07:33 ↗ think it's better than nothing and

3:07:36 ↗ eCampus some extent it honors

3:07:42 ↗ well there sorry-sorry Amir Pauling one

3:07:45 ↗ more thing into some extent honors to

3:07:49 ↗ the two goals in the old town sub area

3:07:53 ↗ plan which was you know to increase more

3:07:55 ↗ affordable housing and also to maintain

3:07:58 ↗ the character in the scale of

3:07:59 ↗ residential neighborhoods but I don't

3:08:02 ↗ see how it's honoring our housing

3:08:04 ↗ strategy work plan so those are my

3:08:06 ↗ concerns but elbow Thank You

3:08:09 ↗ councilmember Hall

3:08:10 ↗ councilmember D Michelle just again I

3:08:14 ↗ was very very torn on that last vote and

3:08:17 ↗ one one consideration is that we still

3:08:23 ↗ need to put in place definition for what

3:08:26 ↗ an equity lens is and some criteria for

3:08:31 ↗ that which will take more time but I

3:08:34 ↗ just want to say that I I feel like

3:08:37 ↗ we've made a promise to the community

3:08:38 ↗ and I want to honor that promise that we

3:08:42 ↗ are going to continue to we're not going

3:08:46 ↗ to continue we're going to start looking

3:08:48 ↗ at things with that equity land so this

3:08:53 ↗ is probably not the hill to die on on

3:08:56 ↗ that issue but there will come that hill

3:08:59 ↗ to die on and I I am willing to do that

3:09:03 ↗ I think that we have to seriously take

3:09:07 ↗ into consideration that promise to the

3:09:09 ↗ community we said we were going to take

3:09:11 ↗ actions not just words and that has got

3:09:14 ↗ to mean something and so I will vote YES

3:09:20 ↗ on this motion but I am not feeling

3:09:24 ↗ great right now and I will be coming

3:09:29 ↗ back on the same issue so thank you

3:09:32 ↗ Thank You councilmember Dee Michelle

3:09:34 ↗ councilmember mark thank you madam mayor

3:09:37 ↗ this is councilmember marks I'm going to

3:09:39 ↗ vote no I said eleven years ago that

3:09:43 ↗ what was important to me was workforce

3:09:45 ↗ housing and living women job

3:09:48 ↗ that continues to be what's important to

3:09:50 ↗ me if I've made a mistake anywhere along

3:09:52 ↗ this way it was approving or voting for

3:09:54 ↗ this measure two years ago now more than

3:09:57 ↗ ever

3:09:58 ↗ workforce housing is critical in our

3:10:00 ↗ community it touches almost every family

3:10:03 ↗ in our community and it sounds like this

3:10:05 ↗ bill is going to or this motion is going

3:10:08 ↗ to move forward but it sounds like this

3:10:11 ↗ council has led said loud and clear that

3:10:13 ↗ there's a majority that cares about

3:10:15 ↗ workforce housing and for everybody who

3:10:19 ↗ said they're torn on this we need to

3:10:21 ↗ find a way to express that in other

3:10:24 ↗ public policy that's going to come

3:10:26 ↗ before this council in the near future

3:10:27 ↗ so I'm still going to be in no thank you

3:10:30 ↗ Thank You councilmember marks

3:10:32 ↗ councilmember Goodman followed by

3:10:34 ↗ council president hunt thank you a

3:10:37 ↗ councilmember Goodman here certainly we

3:10:40 ↗ can do better but we have taken actions

3:10:43 ↗ and I think one of the the one of the

3:10:46 ↗ questions that was posed to the

3:10:48 ↗ administration this afternoon and the

3:10:49 ↗ answer was about affordable housing and

3:10:52 ↗ that we do have a citywide affordable

3:10:54 ↗ housing code that waives fees and

3:10:59 ↗ certain things that in order to

3:11:01 ↗ incentivize affordable housing there's a

3:11:03 ↗ difference between affordable housing

3:11:04 ↗ and housing that is less expensive than

3:11:09 ↗ it is it also is a very expensive

3:11:14 ↗ endeavor to create affordable housing as

3:11:19 ↗ in the ami type housing and so we it

3:11:28 ↗ it's not it's not simple and it's not

3:11:30 ↗ inexpensive and several members who have

3:11:33 ↗ sat with me have experienced that and

3:11:36 ↗ the decisions that we've wrestled with

3:11:38 ↗ in order to create affordable housing so

3:11:41 ↗ I certainly don't disagree that we can

3:11:45 ↗ we can try to you know move the needle

3:11:48 ↗ more but I will be supporting this

3:11:52 ↗ because we

3:11:55 ↗ because I've already said before the

3:11:56 ↗ multi-year effort and we need to move

3:11:59 ↗ forward we got a lot of work to do when

3:12:00 ↗ a lot of things and a lot of them we've

3:12:04 ↗ talked about tonight already thank you

3:12:07 ↗ last one signed up so far in the chat if

3:12:10 ↗ council president hunt if anybody else

3:12:11 ↗ would like to speak after please

3:12:13 ↗ indicate in the chat box

3:12:15 ↗ council president hunt yes this is

3:12:18 ↗ council president hunt

3:12:19 ↗ I have also been very torn I I think

3:12:26 ↗ actually after listening especially to

3:12:29 ↗ councilmember mark I think I am going to

3:12:33 ↗ vote against the actions and again I'm

3:12:35 ↗ not I really want to be clear that I'm

3:12:38 ↗ not discounting the I'm not discounting

3:12:41 ↗ the work that went into the sub area

3:12:43 ↗ plan but I do think that the

3:12:44 ↗ implementation this evening is is not

3:12:48 ↗ strategic and I I am very concerned but

3:12:51 ↗ it does not address some of the core

3:12:53 ↗ things that we've heard about time and

3:12:55 ↗ time again from the community in terms

3:12:57 ↗ of affordability maintaining naturally

3:13:00 ↗ affordable housing that is there and

3:13:03 ↗ also the sustainability elements so I

3:13:07 ↗ think in the end I will be voting

3:13:09 ↗ against and that is why Thank You

3:13:12 ↗ council president hunt and councilmember

3:13:14 ↗ Goodman thank you madam mayor

3:13:17 ↗ councilmember Goodman here one last

3:13:19 ↗ thing and compared to the big issues we

3:13:21 ↗ are talking about this may not seem

3:13:23 ↗ significant but we did get a comment

3:13:25 ↗ tonight from our today from Steve

3:13:28 ↗ prairie regarding central business

3:13:30 ↗ district CBE as opposed to cultural and

3:13:34 ↗ [Music]

3:13:36 ↗ business district so our code 18:06 110

3:13:41 ↗ defines it as a cultural and business

3:13:44 ↗ district and the Old Town summary plan

3:13:47 ↗ also says cultural and business district

3:13:49 ↗ so I'm unclear why we are now referring

3:13:53 ↗ to this as the central business district

3:13:56 ↗ so maybe somebody can just answer that

3:14:01 ↗ question I thought we did by email this

3:14:04 ↗ afternoon but I'll let Christian

3:14:06 ↗ Lutheran weigh in

3:14:08 ↗ hi so this is Kristen Lisa and it is

3:14:11 ↗ cultural and business district I'm not

3:14:12 ↗ sure where a typo kurtal I'm away but it

3:14:15 ↗ did it but it is clearly cultural and

3:14:17 ↗ business district thank you thank you

3:14:21 ↗ I'm not seeing anyone else signed up in

3:14:24 ↗ the chat that I will give it a few

3:14:26 ↗ seconds

3:14:28 ↗ and City Clerk can you do the roll call

3:14:31 ↗ vote

3:14:33 ↗ we

3:14:34 ↗ councilmember T Michelle hi

3:14:39 ↗ our Goodman

3:14:42 ↗ halt I

3:14:45 ↗ at Hunt

3:14:47 ↗ name

3:14:49 ↗ remember mark hey

3:14:52 ↗ deputy council president ray

3:14:57 ↗ councilmember Walsh

3:15:01 ↗ that was five eyes and two nays

3:15:06 ↗ city clerk that passes

3:15:10 ↗ and we are moving on to the next item on

3:15:14 ↗ the agenda which is good of the order

3:15:15 ↗ and if you could please use the chat box

3:15:18 ↗ to let me know if you have anything for

3:15:20 ↗ good of the order and I do believe

3:15:21 ↗ councilmember Hall does so let's start

3:15:23 ↗ with councilmember hall

3:15:27 ↗ Thank You Mara Polly this is AK hole so

3:15:29 ↗ I know it's late and we just had a long

3:15:32 ↗ conversation and I said earlier that I

3:15:34 ↗ would bring up something from cascade

3:15:36 ↗ water but here's a thought what if how

3:15:39 ↗ would I bring it up at the next regular

3:15:42 ↗ meeting which is Mayor Polly feel free

3:15:44 ↗ to if you'd rather have a conversation

3:15:45 ↗ night since you're that the regular

3:15:47 ↗ member we can but we have a regular

3:15:49 ↗ council meeting I have the planning

3:15:52 ↗ calendar in front of me on July 20th and

3:15:56 ↗ two days later is the next board meeting

3:15:58 ↗ and so what Mayor Polly and I were

3:16:00 ↗ hoping to do is to say hey here's what

3:16:02 ↗ our colleagues on in Issaquah think

3:16:04 ↗ about potential rate increases from

3:16:07 ↗ cascades so how about I just wait till

3:16:08 ↗ the next meeting I think that would be

3:16:11 ↗ helpful I also think I know the slide

3:16:13 ↗ deck from cascade was fairly long but I

3:16:15 ↗ think in order to get the council's

3:16:17 ↗ opinion we may need to Ford that on and

3:16:21 ↗ again it's a throughout this covered

3:16:27 ↗ crisis and this economic collapse that

3:16:29 ↗ we're seeing everybody's being asked to

3:16:31 ↗ take a second look at rate increases and

3:16:33 ↗ I think that's the question that you

3:16:34 ↗ want to pose to your fellow council

3:16:36 ↗ members is cascade is going ahead with a

3:16:39 ↗ rate increase that they already had

3:16:41 ↗ scheduled and on the books and there

3:16:44 ↗ isn't any second look so I think council

3:16:46 ↗ member hall can share some information

3:16:48 ↗ and even though it's only two days

3:16:49 ↗ before if the council decides that they

3:16:53 ↗ think this is a significant issue then

3:16:55 ↗ council member hall and I have some work

3:16:57 ↗ to contact some other cascade board

3:16:59 ↗ members and and say that we're going to

3:17:01 ↗ bring forward a concern with it so I

3:17:02 ↗ think that would be appropriate

3:17:04 ↗ thanks for bringing that up council

3:17:07 ↗ member Hall did you have anything else

3:17:08 ↗ for good of the order just to say if no

3:17:11 ↗ one has any objections then I will

3:17:13 ↗ that's a great idea mayor Polly I'll

3:17:15 ↗ forward the slide deck and also my my

3:17:17 ↗ notes on the presentation to the rest of

3:17:20 ↗ that work I'll send it to you and

3:17:22 ↗ someone in your office could that would

3:17:24 ↗ be great

3:17:25 ↗ Thank You councilmember ray just for a

3:17:29 ↗ councilmember hi this is Chris Reyes for

3:17:31 ↗ council member Hall just a clarifying

3:17:33 ↗ question so and mayor Pauline are you

3:17:36 ↗ looking for feedback on whether or not

3:17:38 ↗ we are a parade increases as

3:17:40 ↗ the gist of where we're going because

3:17:43 ↗ we're going to take two weeks we might

3:17:45 ↗ as well have some time to think about it

3:17:46 ↗ - I just want to be clear on the

3:17:48 ↗ question you're asking yeah we'll try

3:17:51 ↗ and get the information out to in the

3:17:54 ↗ next couple of days and it's absolutely

3:17:55 ↗ about where you stand on rate increases

3:18:01 ↗ I had a couple of little items first I

3:18:04 ↗ know had been mentioned a little bit

3:18:05 ↗ earlier but I did want to say thank you

3:18:08 ↗ to all of the staff that worked on

3:18:11 ↗ putting together that first ever fourth

3:18:13 ↗ of July brought to the neighborhood's

3:18:15 ↗ parade and to say you know strongly

3:18:19 ↗ support what councilmember Rey said

3:18:21 ↗ about this is what we've always talked

3:18:23 ↗ about doing is going to where the people

3:18:24 ↗ are and so I think it was a huge success

3:18:27 ↗ and I know I was pretty excited after

3:18:30 ↗ looking at that many smiling faces in a

3:18:32 ↗ short period of time it's been really

3:18:35 ↗ tough also I just want to make a comment

3:18:37 ↗ about the council report outs that you

3:18:40 ↗ did tonight

3:18:41 ↗ I think it's apparent to the public or

3:18:43 ↗ anybody that's watching that the state

3:18:45 ↗ is trying a limited way to get back to

3:18:48 ↗ business of governing in the region you

3:18:50 ↗ are starting to meet with your

3:18:52 ↗ committees and your action groups a game

3:18:54 ↗ but just like every other sector we're

3:18:57 ↗ coming back and we're going to look

3:18:59 ↗ different and all of the agencies you

3:19:02 ↗ work with or in the similar boat to the

3:19:04 ↗ city and that is that there's a

3:19:06 ↗ significant reduction in funding which

3:19:08 ↗ has meant a significant reduction in

3:19:10 ↗ staff resources which means all of our

3:19:12 ↗ work plans and timelines are going to

3:19:14 ↗ change and shift and so while we're

3:19:16 ↗ getting back to the business of

3:19:17 ↗ governing the new reality is that we

3:19:21 ↗ just were just not the same kind of

3:19:23 ↗ government or the same kind of agency or

3:19:25 ↗ the same kind of board that we sat on

3:19:29 ↗ before so it's going to look very

3:19:30 ↗ different does anybody else have

3:19:33 ↗ anything for good of the order

3:19:36 ↗ not seeing anything in the chatbox

3:19:40 ↗ we are

3:19:42 ↗ having some upcoming council meetings

3:19:45 ↗ there's a special city council meeting

3:19:47 ↗ on Monday July 13th it's an executive

3:19:49 ↗ session there's a City Council study

3:19:51 ↗ session on Tuesday July 14th

3:19:54 ↗ potential agenda items at this point

3:19:56 ↗ include the environmental and

3:19:58 ↗ sustainability board discussion the

3:20:01 ↗ first performance measurement workshop

3:20:03 ↗ City Council regular meeting from Monday

3:20:05 ↗ July 20th at 7 p.m. the potential agenda

3:20:08 ↗ items include an update on the dog park

3:20:11 ↗ update on the proposed dog park a public

3:20:14 ↗ hearing on interim zoning regulation we

3:20:18 ↗ are now going to move into an executive

3:20:21 ↗ session as earlier a now there is an

3:20:23 ↗ executive session this evening to

3:20:25 ↗ discuss collective bargaining for RCW

3:20:27 ↗ 42.3 0.14 Oh paren for Brent aim

3:20:31 ↗ this item is expected to laugh I'm going

3:20:36 ↗ to say 15 minutes and we'll if we need

3:20:40 ↗ to extend it we will no action is

3:20:43 ↗ anticipated to follow an open session we

3:20:46 ↗ will now recess into executive session

3:20:48 ↗ at 10:21 p.m. I ask the clerk to move

3:20:52 ↗ anyone who's not part of the closed

3:20:54 ↗ session

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Council / Members (7)

Barbara de Michele

Stacy Goodman

Zach Hall

Victoria Hunt

Tola Marts

Chris Reh

Lindsey Walsh

Motions and votes (4)

Adopt Ordinance No. 2911, adopting by reference amendments to the Issaquah Municipal Code relating to the Olde Town Subarea, including amendments adding a definition for Neighborhood Oriented Businesses and modifying standards for Multifamily-High (E Sunset Way only), Multifamily-Medium (Olde Town o…

Moved by GOODMAN · seconded by WALSH

Carried 5-2

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Opposed: Hunt, Marts

Postpone the ordinance to allow for additional consideration and recommendations to address Olde Town Subarea Plan goals identified in community engagement and in the ‘Immediate Actions’ List, returning to the City Council on or before a date to be determined by the Administration [Dec. 31, 2020]

Moved by HUNT · seconded by DE MICHELE

Failed 3-4

(Proponents: Hall, Hunt, Marts). (Opponents: Hunt, Marts).

Moved by HUNT · seconded by DE MICHELE

Carried 5-2

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh

Opposed: Hunt, Marts

APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. Page 64 of 576 CONSENT CALENDAR b) 07-06-20 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes Page (0000) a) ID 0588 - Accounts: Payables and Payroll of July 6, 2020, $3,403,251.78; Approved. b) Minutes: City Council Study Session, June 9, 2020; Approved. c) Minutes: City…

Moved by HUNT · seconded by REH

Carried 7-0

In favor: Barbara de Michele, Stacy Goodman, Zach Hall, Victoria Hunt, Tola Marts, Chris Reh, Lindsey Walsh