Development Commission · Wednesday, December 7, 2016 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Commission Membership

packet pp.3

Previously discussed: Development Commission · Nov 2, 2016

Open packet at p.3 ↗

Staff report:

Development Commission About Staff Liaison Created in 1983, this commission reviews all land Christopher Wright, use actions requiring a Level 3 review. The Project Oversight Manager Commission further serves as an advisory board to Email the City Council on land use actions requiring council approval (Level 5 review). Regular Members 2018 - Vacant The appearance of fairness doctrine prohibits 2018 - Raymond Leong Development Commission members and City 2018 - Richard Sowa Council members from discussing the merit of 2019 - Michael Brennan specific land use development applications outside 2019 - Randolph Harrison of the formal public meeting process. Citizens, 2020 - Melvin Morgan however, may discuss any issue with the City's 2020 - Kevin Price Development Services Department. Written comments are also welcome. Alternate Members 2017 - TJ Ginthner Membership 2017 - Vacant The…

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of November 2, 2016

packet pp.5–11

Previously discussed: Development Commission · Nov 2, 2016

▶ Watch from 1:29 Open packet at p.5 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) Development Commission Page 1 of 7 November 2, 2016

3. AGENDA ITEMS

Public Hearing: Inneswood Multi-Family Site Development Permit - SDP16

Carried

Amy Tarce, Senior Planner · packet pp.13–40

Topics: HousingLand Use

Previously discussed: Development Commission · Nov 2, 2016

Open packet at p.13 ↗

Staff report:

Development Services 1775 – 12th Ave. NW | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3100 issaquahwa.gov

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0:31 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

0:36 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

0:44 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

0:49 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

0:53 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

0:58 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

1:03 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

1:07 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

1:11 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

1:17 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

1:22 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

1:29 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

1:35 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

1:41 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

1:47 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

1:53 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

2:13 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

2:18 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

2:24 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

2:30 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

2:35 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

2:49 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

2:55 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

3:00 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

3:05 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

3:11 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

3:17 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

3:31 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

3:34 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

3:40 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

3:46 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

3:52 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

3:58 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

4:05 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

4:24 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me well? Doesn't

4:28 ↗ sound very loud. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the senior planner

4:34 ↗ for the city of Issaquah that will be presenting what is basically

4:40 ↗ the second of two.

4:54 ↗ So last time we were before you, I did a

4:59 ↗ overview and a basically touching on all the different

5:04 ↗ chapters of the central Issaquah development and design standards for,

5:09 ↗ you know, for our analysis of how this

5:15 ↗ project complied with the plan or our development and design

5:21 ↗ standards. So tonight, my presentation will focus primarily on answering

5:26 ↗ a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. I am not going

5:32 ↗ to repeat the same ones, what I call the easy questions last time that I

5:37 ↗ addressed. And what I'm doing tonight is basically most of

5:43 ↗ the follow -up items that we did not have available, primarily the drawings

5:49 ↗ and redesign of some of the elements of the architecture. And also

5:55 ↗ just to kind of, again, touch on some of the more, what we would call

6:01 ↗ bigger concerns, not only from the development commission, but also from the

6:07 ↗ public. So just a quick overview and scope of this

6:12 ↗ project, the developable area is 2 .28 acres out

6:18 ↗ of 4 .69 acres. So it's approximately, so the developable area

6:24 ↗ is approximately 51 % of the whole project site. There are 2

6:30 ↗ buildings, Parcel B has an 86 -unit building, which is shown here

6:36 ↗ in the back, more in the background, and Parcel C has 7 units. The

6:41 ↗ frontage improvements for this project includes a roundabout at Northwest Juniper

6:47 ↗ and the Parkway standards application for the rest of Newport Way.

6:53 ↗ And there is also stormwater detention vault on one of the

6:58 ↗ offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a little bit at the edge of

7:04 ↗ this, the Abyssin parcel, which is

7:07 ↗ partially part of this project,

7:13 ↗ but also part of another project. And so as far as

7:19 ↗ location, again, just very quickly, this is in Central Issaquah and in the Gilman

7:24 ↗ District. And the vision in the Gilman District primarily talks about how this area

7:30 ↗ will accommodate residential development and

7:34 ↗ future retail and office. And there's also an acknowledgement

7:40 ↗ of the Issaquah Creek as a defining natural feature. Although for this

7:46 ↗ particular site, we don't have the creek anywhere close to the site. But what we

7:51 ↗ have is the hillside of Squawk Mountain. So

7:56 ↗ my presentation, I broke it down into two sections for,

8:01 ↗ I'm sorry, three sections. So I'll first talk about the tree retention

8:07 ↗ and the steep slopes, then the building design, and then Newport Way improvements.

8:12 ↗ So among the questions and discussion last time

8:18 ↗ were concerns about the

8:22 ↗ stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

8:27 ↗ presence of water in the hillside and the impacts of

8:33 ↗ construction. So just as we have mentioned in our briefing

8:39 ↗ response memo, the hillside has been evaluated multiple

8:45 ↗ times. First, when it was part of the evaluation for the industry.

9:22 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

9:27 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

9:35 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

9:40 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

9:44 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

9:49 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

9:54 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

9:58 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

10:03 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

10:08 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

10:13 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

10:20 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

10:26 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

10:32 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

10:38 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

10:44 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

11:04 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

11:10 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

11:16 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

11:21 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

11:27 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

11:40 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

11:46 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

11:51 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

11:57 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

12:02 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

12:08 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

12:22 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

12:25 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

12:31 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

12:37 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

12:43 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

12:49 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

12:56 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

13:15 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

13:19 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

13:24 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

13:30 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

13:36 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

13:42 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

13:48 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

13:54 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

14:00 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

14:05 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

14:11 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

14:16 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

14:22 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

14:26 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

14:32 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

14:37 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

14:43 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

14:49 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

14:55 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

15:01 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

15:07 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

15:13 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

15:19 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

15:25 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

15:30 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

15:36 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

15:42 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

15:48 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

15:53 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

16:00 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

16:05 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

16:11 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

16:17 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

16:23 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

16:28 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

16:34 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

16:40 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

16:45 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

16:50 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

16:55 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

17:01 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

17:07 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

17:13 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

17:19 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

17:24 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

17:30 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

17:36 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

17:41 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

17:47 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

17:53 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

18:00 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

18:06 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

18:12 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

18:17 ↗ the steep slope buffer.

18:51 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

18:56 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

19:03 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

19:08 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

19:13 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

19:18 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

19:23 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

19:27 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

19:31 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

19:37 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

19:42 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

19:49 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

19:55 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

20:01 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

20:07 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

20:13 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

20:33 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

20:38 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

20:44 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

20:50 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

20:55 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

21:08 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

21:15 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

21:19 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

21:25 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

21:31 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

21:37 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

21:50 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

21:54 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

22:00 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

22:06 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

22:12 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

22:18 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

22:24 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

22:44 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

22:48 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

22:53 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

22:59 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

23:04 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

23:11 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

23:17 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

23:23 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

23:28 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

23:34 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

23:39 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

23:45 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

23:50 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

23:55 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

24:01 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

24:06 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

24:12 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

24:17 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

24:23 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

24:29 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

24:35 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

24:41 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

24:47 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

24:53 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

24:59 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

25:05 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

25:10 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

25:16 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

25:22 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

25:28 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

25:34 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

25:40 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

25:45 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

25:51 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

25:57 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

26:03 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

26:08 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

26:13 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

26:19 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

26:24 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

26:30 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

26:35 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

26:41 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

26:47 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

26:53 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

26:59 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

27:04 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

27:10 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

27:16 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

27:22 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

27:29 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

27:35 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

27:40 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

27:46 ↗ the steep slope buffer.

28:19 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

28:25 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

28:32 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

28:37 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

28:41 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

28:46 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

28:51 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

28:55 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

29:00 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

29:06 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

29:10 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

29:18 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

29:24 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

29:29 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

29:35 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

29:41 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

30:01 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

30:07 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

30:13 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

30:18 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

30:24 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

30:37 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

30:43 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

30:48 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

30:54 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

31:00 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

31:05 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

31:19 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

31:23 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

31:28 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

31:34 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

31:40 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

31:46 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

31:53 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

32:12 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

32:17 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

32:22 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

32:27 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

32:33 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

32:40 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

32:45 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

32:51 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

32:57 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

33:03 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

33:08 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

33:13 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

33:19 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

33:23 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

33:29 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

33:34 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

33:40 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

33:46 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

33:52 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

33:58 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

34:04 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

34:10 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

34:16 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

34:22 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

34:27 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

34:33 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

34:39 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

34:45 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

34:51 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

34:57 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

35:02 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

35:08 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

35:14 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

35:20 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

35:26 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

35:31 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

35:37 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

35:42 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

35:47 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

35:53 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

35:58 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

36:04 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

36:10 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

36:16 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

36:22 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

36:27 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

36:33 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

36:39 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

36:44 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

36:50 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

36:57 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

37:03 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

37:09 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

37:14 ↗ the steep slope buffer. Uh, this project...

37:48 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

37:53 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

38:00 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

38:06 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

38:10 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

38:15 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

38:20 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

38:24 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

38:28 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

38:34 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

38:39 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

38:46 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

38:52 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

38:58 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

39:04 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

39:10 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

39:30 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

39:35 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

39:41 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

39:47 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

39:52 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

40:06 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

40:12 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

40:17 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

40:22 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

40:28 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

40:34 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

40:47 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

40:51 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

40:57 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

41:03 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

41:09 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

41:15 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

41:21 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

41:41 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

41:45 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

41:50 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

41:56 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

42:02 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

42:08 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

42:14 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

42:20 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

42:25 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

42:31 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

42:36 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

42:42 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

42:47 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

42:52 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

42:58 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

43:03 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

43:09 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

43:14 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

43:20 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

43:26 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

43:32 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

43:38 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

43:44 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

43:51 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

43:56 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

44:02 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

44:07 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

44:13 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

44:19 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

44:25 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

44:31 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

44:37 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

44:43 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

44:48 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

44:54 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

45:00 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

45:05 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

45:10 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

45:16 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

45:21 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

45:27 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

45:32 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

45:39 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

45:44 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

45:50 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

45:56 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

46:01 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

46:07 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

46:13 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

46:19 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

46:26 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

46:32 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

46:37 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

46:43 ↗ the steep slope buffer.

47:16 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

47:22 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

47:29 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

47:34 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

47:38 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

47:44 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

47:48 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

47:52 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

47:57 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

48:03 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

48:08 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

48:15 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

48:21 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

48:27 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

48:32 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

48:38 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

48:58 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

49:04 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

49:10 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

49:15 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

49:21 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

49:34 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

49:40 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

49:45 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

49:51 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

49:57 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

50:02 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

50:16 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

50:20 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

50:25 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

50:31 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

50:37 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

50:43 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

50:50 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

51:10 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

51:14 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

51:19 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

51:25 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

51:30 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

51:37 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

51:42 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

51:48 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

51:54 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

52:00 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

52:05 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

52:11 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

52:16 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

52:20 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

52:26 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

52:32 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

52:37 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

52:43 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

52:49 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

52:55 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

53:01 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

53:07 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

53:13 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

53:19 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

53:24 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

53:30 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

53:36 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

53:42 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

53:48 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

53:54 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

54:00 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

54:05 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

54:11 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

54:17 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

54:23 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

54:28 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

54:34 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

54:39 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

54:45 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

54:50 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

54:55 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

55:01 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

55:07 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

55:13 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

55:19 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

55:24 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

55:30 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

55:36 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

55:42 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

55:47 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

55:54 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

56:00 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

56:06 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

56:11 ↗ the steep slope buffer.

56:45 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

56:50 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

56:58 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

57:03 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

57:07 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

57:12 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

57:17 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

57:21 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

57:25 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

57:31 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

57:36 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

57:43 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

57:49 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

57:55 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

58:01 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

58:07 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

58:27 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

58:32 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

58:38 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

58:44 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

58:49 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

59:03 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

59:09 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

59:14 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

59:19 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

59:25 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

59:31 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

59:45 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

59:48 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

59:54 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

1:00:00 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

1:00:06 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

1:00:12 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

1:00:19 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

1:00:38 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

1:00:42 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

1:00:47 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

1:00:53 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

1:00:59 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

1:01:05 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

1:01:11 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

1:01:17 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

1:01:22 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

1:01:28 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

1:01:34 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

1:01:39 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

1:01:44 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

1:01:49 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

1:01:55 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

1:02:00 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

1:02:06 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

1:02:12 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

1:02:18 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

1:02:23 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

1:02:29 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

1:02:35 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

1:02:42 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

1:02:48 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

1:02:53 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

1:02:59 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

1:03:04 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

1:03:10 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

1:03:16 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

1:03:23 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

1:03:28 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

1:03:34 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

1:03:40 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

1:03:46 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

1:03:51 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

1:03:57 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

1:04:03 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

1:04:07 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

1:04:13 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

1:04:18 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

1:04:24 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

1:04:30 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

1:04:36 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

1:04:42 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

1:04:47 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

1:04:53 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

1:04:59 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

1:05:04 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

1:05:10 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

1:05:16 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

1:05:23 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

1:05:29 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

1:05:34 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

1:05:40 ↗ the steep slope buffer.

1:06:13 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

1:06:19 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

1:06:26 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

1:06:31 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

1:06:36 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

1:06:41 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

1:06:46 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

1:06:49 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

1:06:54 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

1:07:00 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

1:07:05 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

1:07:12 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

1:07:18 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

1:07:24 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

1:07:29 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

1:07:35 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

1:07:55 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

1:08:01 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

1:08:07 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

1:08:12 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

1:08:18 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

1:08:31 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

1:08:37 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

1:08:42 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

1:08:48 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

1:08:54 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

1:08:59 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

1:09:13 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

1:09:17 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

1:09:23 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

1:09:29 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

1:09:34 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

1:09:40 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

1:09:47 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

1:10:07 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

1:10:11 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

1:10:16 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

1:10:22 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

1:10:27 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

1:10:34 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

1:10:40 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

1:10:45 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

1:10:51 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

1:10:57 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

1:11:02 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

1:11:08 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

1:11:13 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

1:11:17 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

1:11:23 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

1:11:29 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

1:11:34 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

1:11:40 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

1:11:46 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

1:11:52 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

1:11:58 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

1:12:04 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

1:12:10 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

1:12:16 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

1:12:21 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

1:12:27 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

1:12:33 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

1:12:39 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

1:12:45 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

1:12:51 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

1:12:57 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

1:13:03 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

1:13:08 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

1:13:14 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

1:13:20 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

1:13:26 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

1:13:31 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

1:13:36 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

1:13:42 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

1:13:47 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

1:13:53 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

1:13:58 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

1:14:04 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

1:14:10 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

1:14:16 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

1:14:21 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

1:14:27 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

1:14:33 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

1:14:39 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

1:14:44 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

1:14:51 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

1:14:57 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

1:15:03 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

1:15:08 ↗ the steep slope buffer.

1:15:42 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

1:15:47 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

1:15:55 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

1:16:00 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

1:16:04 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

1:16:09 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

1:16:14 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

1:16:18 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

1:16:23 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

1:16:28 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

1:16:33 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

1:16:40 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

1:16:46 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

1:16:52 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

1:16:58 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

1:17:04 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

1:17:24 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

1:17:29 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

1:17:36 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

1:17:41 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

1:17:46 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

1:18:00 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

1:18:06 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

1:18:11 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

1:18:17 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

1:18:22 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

1:18:28 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

1:18:42 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

1:18:45 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

1:18:51 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

1:18:57 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

1:19:03 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

1:19:09 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

1:19:16 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

1:19:35 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

1:19:39 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

1:19:44 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

1:19:50 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

1:19:56 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

1:20:02 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

1:20:08 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

1:20:14 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

1:20:20 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

1:20:25 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

1:20:31 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

1:20:36 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

1:20:42 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

1:20:46 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

1:20:52 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

1:20:57 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

1:21:03 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

1:21:09 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

1:21:15 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

1:21:20 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

1:21:26 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

1:21:32 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

1:21:39 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

1:21:45 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

1:21:50 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

1:21:56 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

1:22:02 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

1:22:08 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

1:22:13 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

1:22:20 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

1:22:25 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

1:22:31 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

1:22:37 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

1:22:43 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

1:22:48 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

1:22:54 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

1:23:00 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

1:23:04 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

1:23:10 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

1:23:15 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

1:23:21 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

1:23:27 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

1:23:33 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

1:23:39 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

1:23:44 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

1:23:50 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

1:23:56 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

1:24:01 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

1:24:07 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

1:24:13 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

1:24:20 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

1:24:26 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

1:24:32 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

1:24:37 ↗ the steep slope buffer.

1:25:10 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

1:25:16 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

1:25:23 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

1:25:28 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

1:25:33 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

1:25:38 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

1:25:43 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

1:25:47 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

1:25:51 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

1:25:57 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

1:26:02 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

1:26:09 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

1:26:15 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

1:26:21 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

1:26:27 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

1:26:33 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

1:26:53 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

1:26:58 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

1:27:04 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

1:27:10 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

1:27:15 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

1:27:28 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

1:27:34 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

1:27:39 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

1:27:45 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

1:27:51 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

1:27:57 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

1:28:10 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

1:28:14 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

1:28:20 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

1:28:26 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

1:28:31 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

1:28:37 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

1:28:44 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

1:29:04 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

1:29:08 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

1:29:13 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

1:29:19 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

1:29:24 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

1:29:31 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

1:29:37 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

1:29:42 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

1:29:48 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

1:29:54 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

1:29:59 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

1:30:05 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

1:30:10 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

1:30:15 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

1:30:20 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

1:30:26 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

1:30:32 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

1:30:37 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

1:30:43 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

1:30:49 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

1:30:55 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

1:31:01 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

1:31:07 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

1:31:13 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

1:31:19 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

1:31:24 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

1:31:30 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

1:31:36 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

1:31:42 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

1:31:48 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

1:31:54 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

1:32:00 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

1:32:05 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

1:32:11 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

1:32:17 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

1:32:23 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

1:32:28 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

1:32:33 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

1:32:39 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

1:32:44 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

1:32:50 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

1:32:55 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

1:33:01 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

1:33:07 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

1:33:13 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

1:33:18 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

1:33:24 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

1:33:30 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

1:33:36 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

1:33:42 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

1:33:49 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

1:33:55 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

1:34:00 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

1:34:05 ↗ the steep slope buffer. Um, this project.

1:34:39 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

1:34:44 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

1:34:52 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

1:34:57 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

1:35:01 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

1:35:06 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

1:35:11 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

1:35:15 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

1:35:20 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

1:35:26 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

1:35:30 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

1:35:37 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

1:35:43 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

1:35:49 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

1:35:55 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

1:36:01 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

1:36:21 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

1:36:27 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

1:36:33 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

1:36:38 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

1:36:44 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

1:36:57 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

1:37:03 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

1:37:08 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

1:37:14 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

1:37:19 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

1:37:25 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

1:37:39 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

1:37:43 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

1:37:48 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

1:37:54 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

1:38:00 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

1:38:06 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

1:38:13 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

1:38:32 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me well? Doesn't

1:38:37 ↗ sound very loud. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the senior planner

1:38:42 ↗ for the city of Issaquah that will be presenting what is basically

1:38:48 ↗ the second of two.

1:39:03 ↗ So last time we were before you, I did a

1:39:07 ↗ overview and a basically touching on all the different

1:39:13 ↗ chapters of the central Issaquah development and design standards for,

1:39:18 ↗ you know, for our analysis of how this

1:39:23 ↗ project complied with the plan or our development and design

1:39:29 ↗ standards. So tonight, my presentation will focus primarily on answering

1:39:34 ↗ a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. I am not going

1:39:40 ↗ to repeat the same ones, what I call the easy questions last time that I

1:39:46 ↗ addressed. And what I'm doing tonight is basically most of

1:39:51 ↗ the follow -up items that we did not have available, primarily the drawings

1:39:57 ↗ and redesign of some of the elements of the architecture. And also

1:40:03 ↗ just to kind of, again, touch on some of the more, what we would call

1:40:09 ↗ bigger concerns, not only from the development commission, but also from the

1:40:15 ↗ public. So just a quick overview and scope of this

1:40:21 ↗ project, the developable area is 2 .28 acres out

1:40:26 ↗ of 4 .69 acres. So it's approximately, so the developable area

1:40:32 ↗ is approximately 51 % of the whole project site. There are 2

1:40:38 ↗ buildings, Parcel B has an 86 -unit building, which is shown here

1:40:44 ↗ in the back, more in the background, and Parcel C has 7 units. The

1:40:50 ↗ frontage improvements for this project includes a roundabout at Northwest Juniper

1:40:55 ↗ and the Parkway standards application for the rest of Newport Way.

1:41:01 ↗ And there is also stormwater detention vault on one of the

1:41:07 ↗ offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a little bit at the edge of

1:41:12 ↗ this, the Abyssin parcel, which is

1:41:15 ↗ partially part of this project,

1:41:21 ↗ but also part of another project. And so as far as

1:41:27 ↗ location, again, just very quickly, this is in Central Issaquah and in the Gilman

1:41:33 ↗ District. And the vision in the Gilman District primarily talks about how this area

1:41:38 ↗ will accommodate residential development and

1:41:42 ↗ future retail and office. And there's also an acknowledgement

1:41:48 ↗ of the Issaquah Creek as a defining natural feature. Although for this

1:41:54 ↗ particular site, we don't have the creek anywhere close to the site. But what we

1:41:59 ↗ have is the hillside of Squawk Mountain. So

1:42:05 ↗ my presentation, I broke it down into two sections for,

1:42:09 ↗ I'm sorry, three sections. So I'll first talk about the tree retention

1:42:15 ↗ and the steep slopes, then the building design, and then Newport Way improvements.

1:42:21 ↗ So among the questions and discussion last time

1:42:26 ↗ were concerns about the

1:42:30 ↗ stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

1:42:36 ↗ presence of water in the hillside and the impacts of

1:42:42 ↗ construction. So just as we have mentioned in our briefing

1:42:47 ↗ response memo, the hillside has been evaluated multiple

1:42:53 ↗ times. First, when it was part of the evaluation for the

1:42:58 ↗ Inniswood Estate short plat. That's when the critical areas steep slopes

1:43:04 ↗ analysis was done. And then that's when the buffer and the

1:43:10 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So

1:43:15 ↗ what we have today for the Inniswood apartments

1:43:21 ↗ is basically a well -defined area where

1:43:25 ↗ the development will occur and it's all outside of the steep

1:43:31 ↗ slopes and the steep slope buffer.

1:44:08 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

1:44:13 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

1:44:20 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

1:44:25 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

1:44:30 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

1:44:35 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

1:44:40 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

1:44:44 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

1:44:48 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

1:44:54 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

1:44:59 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

1:45:06 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

1:45:12 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

1:45:18 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

1:45:24 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

1:45:30 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

1:45:50 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

1:45:55 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

1:46:01 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

1:46:07 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

1:46:12 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

1:46:25 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

1:46:32 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

1:46:36 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

1:46:42 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

1:46:48 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

1:46:54 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

1:47:07 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

1:47:11 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

1:47:17 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

1:47:23 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

1:47:29 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

1:47:35 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

1:47:41 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

1:48:01 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me well? Doesn't

1:48:05 ↗ sound very loud. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the senior planner

1:48:11 ↗ for the city of Issaquah that will be presenting what is basically

1:48:17 ↗ the second of two.

1:48:31 ↗ So last time we were before you, I did a

1:48:36 ↗ overview and a basically touching on all the different

1:48:41 ↗ chapters of the central Issaquah development and design standards for,

1:48:46 ↗ you know, for our analysis of how this

1:48:52 ↗ project complied with the plan or our development and design

1:48:57 ↗ standards. So tonight, my presentation will focus primarily on answering

1:49:03 ↗ a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. I am not going

1:49:09 ↗ to repeat the same ones, what I call the easy questions last time that I

1:49:14 ↗ addressed. And what I'm doing tonight is basically most of

1:49:20 ↗ the follow -up items that we did not have available, primarily the drawings

1:49:26 ↗ and redesign of some of the elements of the architecture. And also

1:49:32 ↗ just to kind of, again, touch on some of the more, what we would call

1:49:37 ↗ bigger concerns, not only from the development commission, but also from the

1:49:43 ↗ public. So just a quick overview and scope of this

1:49:49 ↗ project, the developable area is 2 .28 acres out

1:49:55 ↗ of 4 .69 acres. So it's approximately, so the developable area

1:50:01 ↗ is approximately 51 % of the whole project site. There are 2

1:50:06 ↗ buildings, Parcel B has an 86 -unit building, which is shown here

1:50:12 ↗ in the back, more in the background, and Parcel C has 7 units. The

1:50:18 ↗ frontage improvements for this project includes a roundabout at Northwest Juniper

1:50:24 ↗ and the Parkway standards application for the rest of Newport Way.

1:50:30 ↗ And there is also stormwater detention vault on one of the

1:50:35 ↗ offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a little bit at the edge of

1:50:41 ↗ this, the Abyssin parcel, which is

1:50:44 ↗ partially part of this project,

1:50:50 ↗ but also part of another project. And so as far as

1:50:56 ↗ location, again, just very quickly, this is in Central Issaquah and in the Gilman

1:51:01 ↗ District. And the vision in the Gilman District primarily talks about how this area

1:51:07 ↗ will accommodate residential development and

1:51:11 ↗ future retail and office. And there's also an acknowledgement

1:51:17 ↗ of the Issaquah Creek as a defining natural feature. Although for this

1:51:22 ↗ particular site, we don't have the creek anywhere close to the site. But what we

1:51:28 ↗ have is the hillside of Squawk Mountain. So

1:51:33 ↗ my presentation, I broke it down into two sections for,

1:51:38 ↗ I'm sorry, three sections. So I'll first talk about the tree retention

1:51:44 ↗ and the steep slopes, then the building design, and then Newport Way improvements.

1:51:49 ↗ So among the questions and discussion last time

1:51:55 ↗ were concerns about the

1:51:59 ↗ stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

1:52:04 ↗ presence of water in the hillside and the impacts of

1:52:10 ↗ construction. So just as we have mentioned in our briefing

1:52:16 ↗ response memo, the hillside has been evaluated multiple

1:52:21 ↗ times. First, when it was part of the evaluation for the

1:52:27 ↗ Inniswood Estate short plat. That's when the critical areas steep slopes

1:52:33 ↗ analysis was done. And then that's when the buffer and the

1:52:39 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So

1:52:44 ↗ what we have today for the Inniswood apartments

1:52:50 ↗ is basically a well -defined area where

1:52:54 ↗ the development will occur and it's all outside of the steep

1:53:00 ↗ slopes and the steep slope buffer.

1:53:36 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

1:53:42 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

1:53:49 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

1:53:54 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

1:53:58 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

1:54:04 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

1:54:08 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

1:54:12 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

1:54:17 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

1:54:23 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

1:54:28 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

1:54:35 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

1:54:41 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

1:54:46 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

1:54:52 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

1:54:58 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

1:55:18 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

1:55:24 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

1:55:30 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

1:55:35 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

1:55:41 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

1:55:54 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

1:56:00 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

1:56:05 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

1:56:11 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

1:56:17 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

1:56:22 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

1:56:36 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

1:56:40 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

1:56:45 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

1:56:51 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

1:56:57 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

1:57:03 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

1:57:10 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

1:57:29 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me well? Doesn't

1:57:34 ↗ sound very loud. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the senior planner

1:57:39 ↗ for the city of Issaquah that will be presenting what is basically

1:57:45 ↗ the second of two.

1:58:00 ↗ So last time we were before you, I did a

1:58:04 ↗ overview and a basically touching on all the different

1:58:10 ↗ chapters of the central Issaquah development and design standards for,

1:58:15 ↗ you know, for our analysis of how this

1:58:20 ↗ project complied with the plan or our development and design

1:58:26 ↗ standards. So tonight, my presentation will focus primarily on answering

1:58:32 ↗ a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. I am not going

1:58:37 ↗ to repeat the same ones, what I call the easy questions last time that I

1:58:43 ↗ addressed. And what I'm doing tonight is basically most of

1:58:49 ↗ the follow -up items that we did not have available, primarily the drawings

1:58:54 ↗ and redesign of some of the elements of the architecture. And also

1:59:00 ↗ just to kind of, again, touch on some of the more, what we would call

1:59:06 ↗ bigger concerns, not only from the development commission, but also from the

1:59:12 ↗ public. So just a quick overview and scope of this

1:59:18 ↗ project, the developable area is 2 .28 acres out

1:59:23 ↗ of 4 .69 acres. So it's approximately, so the developable area

1:59:29 ↗ is approximately 51 % of the whole project site. There are 2

1:59:35 ↗ buildings, Parcel B has an 86 -unit building, which is shown here

1:59:41 ↗ in the back, more in the background, and Parcel C has 7 units. The

1:59:47 ↗ frontage improvements for this project includes a roundabout at Northwest Juniper

1:59:52 ↗ and the Parkway standards application for the rest of Newport Way.

1:59:58 ↗ And there is also stormwater detention vault on one of the

2:00:04 ↗ offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a little bit at the edge of

2:00:09 ↗ this, the Abyssin parcel, which is

2:00:12 ↗ partially part of this project,

2:00:18 ↗ but also part of another project. And so as far as

2:00:24 ↗ location, again, just very quickly, this is in Central Issaquah and in the Gilman

2:00:30 ↗ District. And the vision in the Gilman District primarily talks about how this area

2:00:35 ↗ will accommodate residential development and

2:00:40 ↗ future retail and office. And there's also an acknowledgement

2:00:45 ↗ of the Issaquah Creek as a defining natural feature. Although for this

2:00:51 ↗ particular site, we don't have the creek anywhere close to the site. But what we

2:00:56 ↗ have is the hillside of Squawk Mountain. So

2:01:02 ↗ my presentation, I broke it down into two sections for,

2:01:07 ↗ I'm sorry, three sections. So I'll first talk about the tree retention

2:01:12 ↗ and the steep slopes, then the building design, and then Newport Way improvements.

2:01:18 ↗ So among the questions and discussion last time

2:01:24 ↗ were concerns about the

2:01:27 ↗ stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

2:01:33 ↗ presence of water in the hillside and the impacts of

2:01:39 ↗ construction. So just as we have mentioned in our briefing

2:01:44 ↗ response memo, the hillside has been evaluated multiple

2:01:50 ↗ times. First, when it was part of the evaluation for the

2:01:56 ↗ Inniswood Estate short plat. That's when the critical areas steep slopes

2:02:01 ↗ analysis was done. And then that's when the buffer and the

2:02:07 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So

2:02:13 ↗ what we have today for the Inniswood apartments

2:02:18 ↗ is basically a well -defined area where

2:02:22 ↗ the development will occur and it's all outside of the steep

2:02:28 ↗ slopes and the steep slope buffer.

2:03:05 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

2:03:10 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

2:03:17 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

2:03:23 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

2:03:27 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

2:03:32 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

2:03:37 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

2:03:41 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

2:03:45 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

2:03:51 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

2:03:56 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

2:04:03 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

2:04:09 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

2:04:15 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

2:04:21 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

2:04:27 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

2:04:47 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

2:04:52 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

2:04:58 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

2:05:04 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

2:05:09 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

2:05:23 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

2:05:29 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

2:05:34 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

2:05:39 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

2:05:45 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

2:05:51 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

2:06:04 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

2:06:08 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

2:06:14 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

2:06:20 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

2:06:26 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

2:06:32 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

2:06:39 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

2:06:58 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

2:07:02 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

2:07:07 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

2:07:13 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

2:07:19 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

2:07:25 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

2:07:31 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

2:07:37 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

2:07:42 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

2:07:48 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

2:07:53 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

2:07:59 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

2:08:04 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

2:08:09 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

2:08:15 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

2:08:20 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

2:08:26 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

2:08:31 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

2:08:38 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

2:08:43 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

2:08:49 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

2:08:55 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

2:09:01 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

2:09:08 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

2:09:13 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

2:09:19 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

2:09:24 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

2:09:30 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

2:09:36 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

2:09:42 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

2:09:48 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

2:09:54 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

2:10:00 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

2:10:06 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

2:10:11 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

2:10:17 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

2:10:22 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

2:10:27 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

2:10:33 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

2:10:38 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

2:10:44 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

2:10:49 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

2:10:56 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

2:11:01 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

2:11:07 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

2:11:13 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

2:11:18 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

2:11:24 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

2:11:30 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

2:11:36 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

2:11:43 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

2:11:49 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

2:11:54 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

2:12:00 ↗ the steep slope buffer. Um, there's pride.

2:12:33 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

2:12:39 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

2:12:46 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

2:12:51 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

2:12:56 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

2:13:01 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

2:13:05 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

2:13:09 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

2:13:14 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

2:13:20 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

2:13:25 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

2:13:32 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

2:13:38 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

2:13:44 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

2:13:49 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

2:13:55 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

2:14:15 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

2:14:21 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

2:14:27 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

2:14:32 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

2:14:38 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

2:14:51 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

2:14:57 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

2:15:02 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

2:15:08 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

2:15:14 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

2:15:19 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

2:15:33 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

2:15:37 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

2:15:42 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

2:15:48 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

2:15:54 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

2:16:00 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

2:16:07 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

2:16:27 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

2:16:31 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

2:16:36 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

2:16:42 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

2:16:47 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

2:16:54 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

2:16:59 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

2:17:05 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

2:17:11 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

2:17:17 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

2:17:22 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

2:17:28 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

2:17:33 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

2:17:37 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

2:17:43 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

2:17:49 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

2:17:54 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

2:18:00 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

2:18:06 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

2:18:12 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

2:18:18 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

2:18:24 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

2:18:30 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

2:18:36 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

2:18:41 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

2:18:47 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

2:18:53 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

2:18:59 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

2:19:05 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

2:19:11 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

2:19:17 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

2:19:22 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

2:19:28 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

2:19:34 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

2:19:40 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

2:19:45 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

2:19:51 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

2:19:56 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

2:20:02 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

2:20:07 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

2:20:12 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

2:20:18 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

2:20:24 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

2:20:30 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

2:20:36 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

2:20:41 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

2:20:47 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

2:20:53 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

2:20:59 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

2:21:04 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

2:21:11 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

2:21:17 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

2:21:23 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

2:21:28 ↗ the steep slope buffer.

2:22:02 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

2:22:07 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

2:22:15 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

2:22:20 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

2:22:24 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

2:22:29 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

2:22:34 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

2:22:38 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

2:22:43 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

2:22:48 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

2:22:53 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

2:23:00 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's a

2:23:06 ↗ November 2nd meeting. Right. I guess this is

2:23:12 ↗ December. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Meetings have been, a motion has been

2:23:18 ↗ made and approved. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the

2:23:24 ↗ minutes, say aye. No minutes are approved.

2:23:44 ↗ Good evening, commissioners. I'm Lucy Sloman, land development manager and your quasi

2:23:49 ↗ -judicial tour guide for this evening. As you know,

2:23:55 ↗ this is a site development permit, continuation of the public hearing. Site development

2:24:01 ↗ permits for buildings over 150 ,000 square feet in central Issaquah

2:24:06 ↗ are quasi -judicial matters for which you are the decision maker.

2:24:20 ↗ To do that, we have both procedural due process,

2:24:26 ↗ which means that we follow certain processes such as notice and

2:24:31 ↗ the role of the decision maker to people who benefit from the decision. And

2:24:36 ↗ then substantive due process, which means that we use adopted regulations as the basis for

2:24:42 ↗ our decision. So I'd like the commission to please read through the

2:24:48 ↗ six questions up on the screen.

2:25:02 ↗ It's no for everyone. And then

2:25:05 ↗ part of it is that all of the discussion and decision making

2:25:11 ↗ is done in an open setting. And so if the question is

2:25:17 ↗ whether you've had any ex parte contacts, which is discussion of this permit

2:25:23 ↗ outside this forum. Does anyone in

2:25:29 ↗ the audience care to challenge any of the members of the commission?

2:25:36 ↗ Hearing none, we're done.

2:25:55 ↗ I'm not sure if the mic is on. Can you guys hear me? Well, it

2:25:59 ↗ doesn't sound very loud. Um, good evening. My name is Amy Tarson and I'm the

2:26:04 ↗ senior planner for the city of Issaquah that, uh, will be presenting, um, what

2:26:10 ↗ is basically the second of two. Uh, uh, uh, of a two part public

2:26:16 ↗ hearing, um, for the Innisfit Apartments site development permit, um,

2:26:22 ↗ uh, SDP 16 dash 00006. So last time we were before

2:26:28 ↗ you, um, I did a, uh, uh, uh, overview and a, uh, basically

2:26:34 ↗ touching on all the different, uh, chapters of the central Issaquah development and design

2:26:39 ↗ standards for, um, um, uh, you know, for our, um, analysis

2:26:45 ↗ of how this project complied with, um, the, uh, the plan or, or, or our

2:26:51 ↗ development and design standards. So tonight, um, my presentation will focus primarily

2:26:56 ↗ on answering a lot of the questions that were brought up last time. Um, um,

2:27:01 ↗ I, uh, I, I am not gonna, uh, repeat the same ones, what I call

2:27:06 ↗ the easy questions last time that I, um, addressed, um, and what I'm doing

2:27:12 ↗ tonight is basically, uh, most of the, uh, follow up items that we did not

2:27:17 ↗ have available. Um, primarily, um, the drawings and redesign of some of the, uh,

2:27:23 ↗ elements of the, uh, architecture and also, um, just to kind of, again, touch on

2:27:29 ↗ some of the more, um, what we would call, um, uh, bigger concerns,

2:27:35 ↗ not only from the development commission, but also from the public. So, um, just a

2:27:40 ↗ quick overview and, uh, scope of this project, uh, the developable area is

2:27:46 ↗ 2 .28 acres out of 4 .69 acres. So it's

2:27:52 ↗ approximately, um, so the developable area is approximately 51 % of the whole, uh,

2:27:59 ↗ project site. Um, there are two buildings. Parcel B has an 86 unit building,

2:28:05 ↗ um, which is shown here in the back more on the background and parcel C,

2:28:10 ↗ um, has seven units. The frontage improvements for this project includes around

2:28:16 ↗ about at Northwest Jennifer and, um, the parkway standards, um, application

2:28:21 ↗ for the rest of Newport way. And, um, there is also stormwater detention vault

2:28:27 ↗ on, on one of the, um, offsite parcel. It's actually kind of just shown a

2:28:33 ↗ little bit, um, at the edge of this, the Abbasin parcel, which is, um, um,

2:28:40 ↗ part, um, which is partially part of this project, but also part of another

2:28:45 ↗ project. Um, and, um, so, um, as far as location, again, just

2:28:51 ↗ very quickly, this is in central Issaquah and, um, in the Gilman district. And the

2:28:57 ↗ vision in the Gilman district primarily talks about how this area, um, will accommodate,

2:29:03 ↗ um, residential development and, um, and, uh, future retail and office.

2:29:08 ↗ And, um, there's also an acknowledgement of the Issaquah Creek as a defining,

2:29:14 ↗ um, natural feature. Although for this particular site, we don't have the Creek

2:29:20 ↗ anywhere close to the site, but what we have is, um, the hillside of Squawk

2:29:24 ↗ mountain. So, um, my presentation, I broke it down into

2:29:30 ↗ two sections, um, for, for, uh, I'm sorry, three sections. Um, so

2:29:35 ↗ I'll first talk about the tree retention and the steep slopes, um, then the

2:29:41 ↗ building design and then Newport way improvements. So among the, uh,

2:29:47 ↗ questions that, and discussion last time, um, were concerns about, um,

2:29:53 ↗ the, uh, the, the stability of the slopes and the presence or potential

2:29:59 ↗ presence of water. Um, uh, uh, in the, in the hillside and the impacts of

2:30:04 ↗ construction. Um, so, um, just as we have mentioned in our briefing

2:30:10 ↗ response memo, um, the hillside has, has been evaluated multiple

2:30:16 ↗ times. Uh, first when it was part of the, uh, evaluation for the

2:30:21 ↗ Inniswood estate short plat, um, that's when the critical areas, steep slopes

2:30:27 ↗ analysis was done. And then, um, that's when the, um, buffer and the, the

2:30:33 ↗ actual areas of steep slopes or regulated steep slopes were identified. So, um,

2:30:40 ↗ um, what we have today for the Inniswood, um, uh, apartments is basically a well

2:30:46 ↗ -defined area where, um, um, where the development will occur.

2:30:51 ↗ And it's all outside of the steep slopes and the, and the, I'm sorry, in

2:30:57 ↗ the steep slope buffer.

2:31:30 ↗ Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us to start the public hearing for

2:31:36 ↗ the Ennis Site Development Plan 1600006.

2:31:43 ↗ Appreciate you all coming out on this frosty night and hope you feel compelled to

2:31:48 ↗ provide some additional comments. So we have a few administrative duties that we have to

2:31:53 ↗ do first and then we'll have a presentation from the city staff. Then we'll open

2:31:58 ↗ up the meeting for some public comments. If you intend to make a comment tonight,

2:32:03 ↗ I would sure appreciate it if you would sign the paper on the table right

2:32:06 ↗ there. And at the appropriate time, we'll call you up and we'll ask you to

2:32:11 ↗ state your name and then make your comments. So without

2:32:17 ↗ anything else, we do have minutes from last meeting, the December

2:32:22 ↗ 7th, I think, meeting to approve.

2:32:29 ↗ Move to approve the minutes as written. Okay. Second. At the meetings. There's

2:32:35 ↗ a November 2nd meeting. Yeah.

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Extracted from the next meeting's packet, where this meeting's minutes were approved as a consent-calendar attachment.

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CARRIED BY UNANIMOUS VOTE OF ALL COMMISSIONERS PRESENT. Page 9 of 10 APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) Development Commission 12-7-16 MOVED BY BRENNAN, SECONDED BY HARRISON that the Development Commission direct the Development Services Department to prepare Findings of Fact and conclusions for review and appr…

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