Development Commission · Wednesday, September 5, 2018 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Commission Membership

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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 2019 – Michael Brennan The appearance of fairness doctrine prohibits 2019 – Randolph Harrison Development Commission members and City 2020 – Melvin Morgan Council members from discussing the merit of 2020 – Kevin Price specific land use development applications outside 2022 – Jasmina Mihova of the formal public meeting process. Citizens, 2022 – Richard Sowa however, may discuss any issue with the City's 2022 – Richard Sanford Development Services Department. Written comments are also welcome. Alternate Members 2019 – Ryan Roeter Membership 2019 – Vacant…

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of June 6, 2018

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CITY OF ISSAQUAH Development Commission MINUTES June 6, 2018 City Hall South 135 E. Sunset Way Council Chambers Issaquah, WA 98027

3. AGENDA ITEMS

Costco Campus Expansion - Building 4 Community Conference, (I)

Jean Lin, Senior Planner

Public Hearing: Costco Campus Expansion - Building 5, (Q)

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Staff report:

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0:19 ↗ good evening ladies gentlemen I'd like

0:21 ↗ to welcome you to the Costco campus

0:24 ↗ expansion for tonight we're going to be

0:27 ↗ having a community conference and public

0:32 ↗ hearing and so if you wish to speak if

0:37 ↗ you're members of the public I'd like

0:39 ↗ you to sign in on the table up here and

0:41 ↗ we'll when you get ready to speak we'll

0:44 ↗ ask you to go up in and state your name

0:47 ↗ and address and then we'll listen to

0:51 ↗ what you have to say we have a few we

0:54 ↗ have an administrative process that we

0:56 ↗ have to go through we have some some

0:58 ↗ minutes from June 6th which was our last

1:00 ↗ meeting which was quite a while ago but

1:02 ↗ that we have to prove so I'll ask the

1:05 ↗ members of the Commission if they've had

1:07 ↗ a chance to review those and would look

1:09 ↗ for a motion motion to approve the June

1:21 ↗ 6 2018 development Commission meeting

1:24 ↗ minutes mr. chair second any discussion

1:30 ↗ Corrections all those in favor of

1:33 ↗ proving the new CI I posed looks like we

1:38 ↗ approved the minutes I think

1:54 ↗ good evening I'm Lucie sloman Land

1:56 ↗ Development Manager for DSD and tonight

2:00 ↗ we start the first of two nights

2:02 ↗ two-part public hearing for the Costco

2:06 ↗ development agreement jean lin will be

2:08 ↗ making the presentation i'm taking you

2:10 ↗ through the quasi-judicial piece of the

2:14 ↗ agenda i am going to just do a little

2:21 ↗ bit abbreviated since most of you are

2:23 ↗ overly familiar with this deck of slides

2:26 ↗ so as a quasi-judicial matter things

2:30 ↗ need to be handled like a court which

2:32 ↗ means the proceedings are both fair and

2:34 ↗ appear fair we do this through two

2:38 ↗ different processes one is procedural

2:40 ↗ due process the other is substantive due

2:42 ↗ process procedural due process as the

2:45 ↗ name indicates it's that the procedures

2:47 ↗ that we use we provide notice all the

2:50 ↗ discussion is on the record available

2:54 ↗ for everyone and we also explore the

2:57 ↗ relationships between the applicant and

2:59 ↗ the decision-makers substantive due

3:02 ↗ process essentially means that the basis

3:05 ↗ for which we make a decision is adopted

3:07 ↗ codes so what I would like to ask the

3:12 ↗ commissioners to do first is to read

3:14 ↗ through the questions that are up here

3:16 ↗ and then I'll ask you a series of

3:18 ↗ questions

3:33 ↗ how many of you would answer no to all

3:36 ↗ the questions no yes is okay that's

3:41 ↗ great and then the second piece as I

3:44 ↗ mentioned has to do with that all the

3:46 ↗ communications have to be on the record

3:48 ↗ ex parte communications are discussions

3:52 ↗ that you might have had outside of these

3:57 ↗ chambers not on the microphone not part

4:00 ↗ of the record and so my question to you

4:02 ↗ is has anyone had any ex parte

4:06 ↗ communications regarding this permit no

4:10 ↗ okay great

4:12 ↗ and if the applicant chooses to

4:15 ↗ challenge any of the commissioners

4:16 ↗ please to do so during your presentation

4:19 ↗ and that's it

5:04 ↗ good evening commissioners I'm gene Linn

5:08 ↗ I'm a Senior Planner with the city of

5:10 ↗ Issaquah Development Services Department

5:11 ↗ and I'm also the project planner for the

5:14 ↗ proposed development we've received

5:17 ↗ three pieces of Correspondence on the

5:19 ↗ project after the publication of the

5:21 ↗ staff report the comments have been

5:24 ↗ distributed to the development

5:26 ↗ commissioners and extra copies are

5:28 ↗ available up front the colors materials

5:32 ↗ board is also available for viewing

5:33 ↗ tonight as well if you wish the proposal

5:37 ↗ before you tonight is the Costco campus

5:39 ↗ expansion project which consists of two

5:42 ↗ discrete land use applications an

5:45 ↗ administrative site development permit

5:48 ↗ or a SDP and a site development permit

5:52 ↗ or SDP with two distinct review

5:55 ↗ processes well they are listed as two

5:58 ↗ separate items on tonight's agenda

6:00 ↗ I'll be making one comprehensive

6:03 ↗ presentation for both the following

6:12 ↗ meeting sequence is proposed to help

6:14 ↗ organize the presentations and

6:15 ↗ discussions we start off with a staff

6:18 ↗ presentation on the ASDP or

6:21 ↗ administrative site develop permit

6:23 ↗ excuse me and site development permit

6:25 ↗ followed by the applicants presentation

6:28 ↗ we then proceed with receiving public

6:31 ↗ comments on both applications after

6:34 ↗ public comments

6:35 ↗ we'll proceed with the community

6:37 ↗ conference for the administrative site

6:39 ↗ development permit with discussion by

6:42 ↗ the development Commission and finally

6:46 ↗ will hold the public hearing for the

6:48 ↗ site development permit with discussion

6:50 ↗ by the development commission members of

6:53 ↗ the public who are interested in

6:55 ↗ speaking should sign in at the clipboard

6:57 ↗ at the front of the room

6:58 ↗ as you listen to the presentation

7:00 ↗ consider presenting your comments around

7:02 ↗ each building separately since the

7:05 ↗ development Commission's will have to

7:08 ↗ have two separate conversations one on

7:11 ↗ each building so this is just a quick

7:18 ↗ overview of the themes of this

7:19 ↗ presentation I'm gonna start by

7:22 ↗ providing some background on the

7:24 ↗ existing development agreement and

7:26 ↗ highlighting the elements from the

7:29 ↗ agreement that are relevant to this

7:31 ↗ project given that we're looking at two

7:34 ↗ discreet land use permits I'll explain

7:37 ↗ the different review criteria and what

7:39 ↗ the development Commission's roles are

7:41 ↗ with respect to each permit in our

7:45 ↗ analysis of the project I'll be focusing

7:47 ↗ on connectivity of the circulation

7:50 ↗ system as well as the visual

7:52 ↗ connectivity through views and quality

7:54 ↗ and the quality of open spaces provided

7:56 ↗ as part of the development and the

7:58 ↗ building in site design elements that

8:00 ↗ emphasize the urban streetscape and the

8:03 ↗ pedestrian experience the Costco

8:10 ↗ corporate campus is located in central

8:12 ↗ Issaquah and it's bounded by interstate

8:14 ↗ 90 to the south

8:17 ↗ Pickering pond and Pickering place

8:19 ↗ shopping center to the west northwest

8:21 ↗ Sammamish Road to the north and the

8:25 ↗ Issaquah Creek corridor to the east

8:27 ↗ within the campus the retail warehouse

8:30 ↗ is at the north end office buildings 1 2

8:34 ↗ & 3 are along Pickering pond and the

8:39 ↗ western portion of the campus and the

8:41 ↗ existing parking garage and trading

8:44 ↗ building are at the eastern portion of

8:46 ↗ the campus the proposed buildings 4 & 5

8:49 ↗ would be at the southern end of the

8:50 ↗ campus the site for building 4 is

8:53 ↗ highlighted in orange and building 5 is

8:56 ↗ highlighted in green

9:00 ↗ the proposed development is planned

9:02 ↗ across to existing Lots bisected by the

9:05 ↗ future extension of Lake Drive the

9:08 ↗ project site is currently developed with

9:10 ↗ two surface parking lots that serve

9:13 ↗ Costco's existing corporate campus

9:15 ↗ buildings so a little bit of background

9:23 ↗ on the project in 1987 the city approved

9:27 ↗ this master site plan for the

9:29 ↗ coordinated development of Pickering

9:31 ↗ place which was consistent with the

9:33 ↗ city's vision at the time in the

9:36 ↗ intervening 25 years or so the city's

9:39 ↗ vision for this area has evolved and the

9:41 ↗ city adopted the central is a call plan

9:43 ↗ and development and design standards the

9:46 ↗ development agreement which was approved

9:48 ↗ in 2015 would implement the central is a

9:52 ↗ call plan and associated standards with

9:55 ↗ the development agreement Costco may

9:58 ↗ build up to 1.5 million square feet of

10:00 ↗ new development on their properties over

10:03 ↗ 30 years these include the property

10:06 ↗ Costco owned at the time the development

10:08 ↗ agreement was approved as well as

10:10 ↗ properties they may acquire with the

10:12 ↗ expansion areas the development

10:15 ↗ agreement relies on the central Issaquah

10:18 ↗ standards as the primary land use

10:20 ↗ regulations with the development

10:22 ↗ agreement coupled with the

10:24 ↗ interpretations and adjustments to

10:26 ↗ address unique and specific

10:28 ↗ characteristics of Pickering place

10:35 ↗ so one of the major purposes of the

10:37 ↗ development agreement was to establish a

10:39 ↗ partnering agreement between the city

10:42 ↗ and Costco for finding road improvements

10:44 ↗ that are necessary in the Pickering

10:47 ↗ place area to accommodate the planned

10:49 ↗ growth the master transportation funding

10:52 ↗ agreement included identified three

10:54 ↗ transportation projects that would

10:56 ↗ create transportation capacity for

10:58 ↗ Costco and the larger community and

11:01 ↗ provide substantial public benefits for

11:03 ↗ circulation and for enabling growth of

11:06 ↗ businesses and jobs the first of these

11:09 ↗ projects is the East Lake Sammamish

11:11 ↗ Parkway which included Road widening

11:13 ↗ between South East 56th Street and

11:16 ↗ southeast is a cloth wall city road and

11:19 ↗ that was completed in 2016 that's

11:21 ↗ denoted by the number one on the map the

11:25 ↗ 12th Avenue Northeast and 17th Avenue

11:28 ↗ Northwest SR 900 project includes adding

11:32 ↗ turn lanes bicycle lanes and sidewalks

11:34 ↗ improvements timing for this project has

11:37 ↗ been delayed to allow for coordination

11:39 ↗ with Lake Sammamish State Park and this

11:42 ↗ is denoted by the number two on the map

11:45 ↗ finally the South East 62nd Street

11:48 ↗ extension project includes the widening

11:50 ↗ and extension of South East 62nd Street

11:53 ↗ to the west to meet the southerly

11:55 ↗ extension of Lake Drive within the

11:57 ↗ Costco campus it's currently under

12:00 ↗ construction and scheduled for

12:02 ↗ completion later this year and this is

12:04 ↗ all this is noted as number 3 on the map

12:06 ↗ I'll describe this in a bit more detail

12:09 ↗ in the next slide so once completed the

12:16 ↗ southeast 62nd Street extension project

12:18 ↗ would provide an integral east-west

12:21 ↗ connection from Lake Drive to East Lake

12:23 ↗ Sammamish Parkway the project includes

12:26 ↗ extension of the southern lake a

12:28 ↗ southern leg excuse me of Lake Drive

12:30 ↗ within the Costco corporate campus with

12:33 ↗ a roundabout at that intersection

12:35 ↗ additional improvements include upgrades

12:38 ↗ to the existing Pickering trail for

12:41 ↗ reference the site's four buildings four

12:43 ↗ and five are outlined in red in the map

12:49 ↗ the land plan is contained in Exhibit D

12:52 ↗ of the development agreement and it's a

12:55 ↗ high-level site development permit

12:58 ↗ establishing one scenario for how the

13:00 ↗ development agreement could be

13:02 ↗ implemented the land plan shows office

13:06 ↗ buildings with under building parking at

13:08 ↗ the sites of both buildings four and

13:10 ↗ five you should note also that there's a

13:13 ↗ small parking lot on the north end of

13:15 ↗ building five between building five and

13:17 ↗ existing building three per the

13:21 ↗ development agreement proposals that are

13:23 ↗ consistent with the land plan are

13:24 ↗ reviewed administrative ly following a

13:27 ↗ community conference proposals over a

13:30 ↗ hundred and fifty thousand square feet

13:31 ↗ that represent a major alteration to the

13:35 ↗ land plan shall follow centralized

13:37 ↗ across standard processes this will be

13:40 ↗ discussed in more detail later on with

13:43 ↗ the review criteria discussion the

13:50 ↗ development agreement establishes a

13:52 ↗ sustainability component that has

13:55 ↗ sustainability goals and implementing

13:58 ↗ tools as a requirement new developments

14:01 ↗ are required to implement a leadership

14:03 ↗ innovation that targets energy-efficient

14:06 ↗ performance and a technology innovation

14:08 ↗ that focuses on techniques and

14:10 ↗ technologies that could benefit the

14:12 ↗ community by demonstration some of the

14:15 ↗ notable elements from Costco's proposed

14:18 ↗ sustainability approach include

14:20 ↗ establishing an energy use intensity

14:23 ↗ design targets establishing water

14:27 ↗ reduction targets installation of solar

14:30 ↗ panels achieving LEED Silver equivalent

14:34 ↗ energy performance targets and providing

14:37 ↗ an energy feedback display that will be

14:39 ↗ viewable by Costco staff and the public

14:45 ↗ the proposed development includes the

14:47 ↗ construction of two new buildings as

14:49 ↗ part of Costco's corporate campus this

14:51 ↗ includes a ninth story office building

14:53 ↗ and a 10 story parking garage the

14:57 ↗ buildings are needed to bring

14:58 ↗ approximately two

14:59 ↗ thousand current employees on to the

15:01 ↗ main campus as well as to accommodate

15:03 ↗ future growth the proposed office

15:06 ↗ building is anticipated to accommodate

15:08 ↗ up to forty three hundred employees both

15:11 ↗ building sites would include structured

15:13 ↗ parking and outdoor community spaces

15:17 ↗ building four which is the office

15:19 ↗ building would be located on the on the

15:22 ↗ northeast corner of Lake Drive in South

15:25 ↗ East 62nd Street with Costco's existing

15:27 ↗ two-story trading building to the north

15:29 ↗ and the Issaquah creek corridor to the

15:32 ↗ east the building is approximately

15:34 ↗ 600,000 square feet and its footprint on

15:37 ↗ the street level is separated into two

15:41 ↗ discrete wings with a through block

15:44 ↗ passage between the west and east wings

15:46 ↗ and a sky bridge connecting these wings

15:49 ↗ on the upper floors ground floor active

15:53 ↗ uses include the main entry lobby

15:55 ↗ meeting rooms and cafeteria there's also

16:00 ↗ an auditorium and service uses on the

16:02 ↗ ground floor this building frames

16:04 ↗ several outdoor spaces including the

16:07 ↗ central court plaza 62nd East Plaza and

16:10 ↗ Creekside Terrace building five the

16:15 ↗ parking structure would be located on

16:18 ↗ the northeast corner of Lake Drive in

16:20 ↗ South East 62nd Street with Costco's

16:22 ↗ existing three-story building three

16:25 ↗ office building to the north and

16:27 ↗ Pickering pond to the west at the street

16:30 ↗ level this building is also separated

16:33 ↗ into two wings with a through block

16:35 ↗ passage between the north and south

16:37 ↗ wings these wings are fully connected on

16:41 ↗ the upper levels

16:42 ↗ the building is l-shaped where the

16:45 ↗ narrower north wing is designed around

16:47 ↗ the existing loading area and garage

16:49 ↗ ramp serving building 3 and that would

16:52 ↗ largely screen these vehicular and

16:54 ↗ service uses from views along Lake Drive

16:56 ↗ on the ground floor there would be

16:59 ↗ approximately 30,000 square feet of

17:01 ↗ exhibition and fitness space wrapping

17:04 ↗ much of the parking utility and service

17:06 ↗ uses at the interior at the site and

17:09 ↗ finally a sky bridge across

17:12 ↗ Lake Drive is proposed to provide an

17:14 ↗ internal connection between the two

17:16 ↗ buildings on the upper floors

17:26 ↗ the zoning for the property's urban core

17:29 ↗ which is shaded in pink and the intent

17:32 ↗ of the zone is to provide a dense

17:34 ↗ vibrant pedestrian friendly urban

17:37 ↗ environment with active first floors

17:39 ↗ that provide pedestrian interests the

17:43 ↗ proposed development includes

17:44 ↗ high-density office and office support

17:46 ↗ uses which are permitted in the urban

17:48 ↗ core zone surrounding properties within

17:51 ↗ Pickering place

17:52 ↗ Costco's corporate campus and properties

17:54 ↗ south of interstate 90 are also within

17:57 ↗ the urban core as mentioned earlier the

18:06 ↗ Costco campus expansion project consists

18:09 ↗ of two discrete permits an

18:11 ↗ administrative site development permit

18:13 ↗ for building four and a site development

18:15 ↗ permit for building five even though

18:18 ↗ it's presented in the same staff report

18:20 ↗ our intent is to promote a comprehensive

18:23 ↗ analysis of the overall development to

18:27 ↗ reduce redundancy and still provide the

18:29 ↗ site-specific analysis that would have

18:31 ↗ been provided had this been separated

18:33 ↗ into two staff reports our intent is

18:37 ↗ also to retain the distinct levels of

18:39 ↗ development Commission review roles and

18:42 ↗ purview as established by the Costco

18:44 ↗ development agreement the proposed

18:47 ↗ building for substantially consistent

18:50 ↗ with the land plan and that and which

18:52 ↗ shows an office building with under

18:54 ↗ building parking the proposed the

18:57 ↗ proposal does not meet any of the major

18:59 ↗ alteration thresholds defined in the

19:02 ↗ development agreement and only minor

19:03 ↗ alterations are proposed according to

19:06 ↗ the development agreement the proposals

19:08 ↗ that are consistent with the land plan

19:10 ↗ are reviewed administrative Lee except

19:12 ↗ that during the review process an

19:14 ↗ informal community conference will be

19:16 ↗ held with the Development Commission the

19:19 ↗ community conference is an opportunity

19:21 ↗ to invite conversation and receive input

19:24 ↗ from the Commission and the public

19:26 ↗ following the community conference staff

19:29 ↗ will use this input and the preparation

19:31 ↗ of an administrative decision

19:33 ↗ and tonight serves as the community

19:35 ↗ conference for the ASDP for building for

19:44 ↗ proposed building five is a parking

19:46 ↗ garage whereas it's shown as an office

19:48 ↗ building with underground parking in the

19:50 ↗ land plan as originally contemplated in

19:53 ↗ the land plan the existing Costco

19:55 ↗ parking garage adjacent to Pickering

19:58 ↗ barn was intended to serve both existing

20:00 ↗ and new buildings but Costco chose to

20:04 ↗ build another garage next to building

20:05 ↗ for another change that results from the

20:08 ↗ major alteration of land plan is the

20:10 ↗ elimination of the small parking lot

20:13 ↗ between buildings 3 & 5 where a new

20:15 ↗ Plaza is now proposed this is a

20:18 ↗ beneficial change and it's in greater

20:20 ↗ compliance with the Central Isaac law

20:21 ↗ standards for these reasons building 5

20:25 ↗ is not substantially consistent with the

20:27 ↗ land plan and is a major alteration

20:30 ↗ requiring more traditional development

20:32 ↗ Commission review the site development

20:37 ↗ permit review process would follow the

20:38 ↗ two meeting format where the first

20:41 ↗ meeting will feature presentations by

20:43 ↗ both staff and the applicant followed by

20:46 ↗ the development commission and public

20:49 ↗ comments questions and concerns the

20:51 ↗ second meeting will be responses to

20:53 ↗ these comments questions and concerns in

20:55 ↗ addition to the standard briefing

20:58 ↗ response memo the applicants also

21:05 ↗ requesting to administrative adjustment

21:07 ↗ of standards that would apply to both

21:09 ↗ buildings 4 & 5 these requests include

21:13 ↗ modifying the loading space and tree

21:15 ↗ retention requirements both of these

21:17 ↗ will be discussed in more detail later

21:19 ↗ and the discussion this is the decision

21:22 ↗ excuse me for these administrative

21:24 ↗ adjustments of standards will be part of

21:26 ↗ the development Commission's

21:28 ↗ consideration on the administrative site

21:31 ↗ development permits and the development

21:33 ↗ Commission's decision on the site

21:35 ↗ development permits a third

21:39 ↗ administrative adjustment of standards

21:40 ↗ will be requested as part of the 3 block

21:42 ↗ passage design at building 5 and that

21:45 ↗ will be discussed in more detail later

21:47 ↗ in the presentation

21:57 ↗ with respect to environmental review a

22:00 ↗ planned action environmental impact

22:02 ↗ statement was adopted for the central is

22:04 ↗ across sub area plan in 2012 the purpose

22:08 ↗ of the planned action environmental

22:09 ↗ impact statement was to address

22:11 ↗ environmental impacts up front in order

22:14 ↗ to facilitate an expedite environmental

22:16 ↗ review for future individual development

22:19 ↗ projects and to streamline the permit

22:21 ↗ review process when the development

22:24 ↗ projects are proposed that are

22:26 ↗ consistent with the environmental impact

22:28 ↗ statement analysis no additional

22:30 ↗ environmental review or separate SEPA

22:33 ↗ determination is required a planned

22:37 ↗ action determination was adopted in 2014

22:40 ↗ as part of the Costco development

22:41 ↗ agreement the planned action

22:43 ↗ determination evaluated impacts as part

22:46 ↗ of the development agreement for future

22:48 ↗ build-out of Costco's corporate

22:50 ↗ headquarters for up to 1.5 million

22:53 ↗ square feet of additional office

22:55 ↗ development no additional SEPA review is

22:58 ↗ required if future proposals are

23:01 ↗ consistent with the Costco development

23:03 ↗ agreement and the planned action

23:05 ↗ determination the proposed development

23:08 ↗ for buildings 4 & 5 were evaluated and

23:10 ↗ found to be consistent with the planned

23:12 ↗ action determination and no significant

23:15 ↗ adverse environmental impacts were

23:17 ↗ identified with respect to pedestrian

23:25 ↗ circulation / the central Issaquah

23:27 ↗ standards additional pedestrian

23:28 ↗ circulation facilities need to be

23:31 ↗ provided where the block lengths exceed

23:33 ↗ 300 feet pedestrian connectivity / the

23:37 ↗ land plan requires an incremental

23:39 ↗ build-out of the pedestrian system

23:40 ↗ between Lake Drive and the existing

23:42 ↗ shared use routes a traditional grid

23:46 ↗ block street system couldn't be applied

23:48 ↗ to Costco's corporate campus due to the

23:51 ↗ site configuration and adjacency to

23:53 ↗ Ezequiel Creek and Pickering pond the

23:56 ↗ existing shared use roots of the

23:58 ↗ Pickering trail to the east and the

24:00 ↗ Pickering pond trail to the west

24:03 ↗ are approximately 300 feet from Lake

24:05 ↗ Drive and they would provide north-south

24:08 ↗ connections however it's necessary to

24:11 ↗ provide regular connections between Lake

24:13 ↗ Drive and the shared use routes to meet

24:16 ↗ the requirements for east-west

24:17 ↗ connectivity as envisioned in the land

24:20 ↗ plan the east-west through blocked

24:23 ↗ passages would be provided at buildings

24:24 ↗ 4 & 5 I circled in yellow and the

24:27 ↗ graphic on top the proposed east-west

24:31 ↗ through block passages are circled in

24:33 ↗ blue and the graphic on the bottom and

24:36 ↗ provides pedestrian connections to the

24:38 ↗ existing shared use routes at building

24:42 ↗ floor this pedestrian route is located

24:44 ↗ at the northern edge of the site and is

24:46 ↗ adjacent to the trading building it

24:49 ↗ extends from Lake Drive to the Pickering

24:52 ↗ trail at building 5 the pedestrian route

24:55 ↗ is located approximately midpoint along

24:58 ↗ Lake Drive frontage in the area

25:01 ↗ separating the buildings north and south

25:02 ↗ wings and extends to the pond overlooked

25:05 ↗ and Pickering Pond Trail additionally a

25:08 ↗ north-south through blocked passage at

25:11 ↗ building 4 is provided between the east

25:14 ↗ and west wings of this building at the

25:16 ↗ street level and it provides a

25:18 ↗ connection between the central court

25:19 ↗ plaza and the 62nd east plaza on the

25:22 ↗ site

25:30 ↗ the eastern segment of the through

25:31 ↗ blocked passage pedestrian route would

25:34 ↗ be adjacent to the trading building with

25:37 ↗ building floor just to the south at the

25:40 ↗ east end the path would cross the

25:42 ↗ trading buildings loading in service

25:44 ↗ area building floors loading in service

25:46 ↗ areas also just to the south and while

25:49 ↗ it's functionally logical to have these

25:51 ↗ uses at this location it could be a

25:53 ↗ pedestrian unfriendly area where the

25:56 ↗ route doesn't give pedestrians equal

25:58 ↗ priority to vehicles the blue oval on

26:02 ↗ the drawing shows a location where this

26:05 ↗ conflict occurs and the photo on the

26:08 ↗ right shows the existing loading area at

26:10 ↗ the Trading Building we've included

26:13 ↗ condition 3 which would require that the

26:15 ↗ pedestrian path be designed to

26:17 ↗ prioritize pedestrians and to minimize

26:20 ↗ conflicts with the truck loading area

26:23 ↗ Costco anticipates redeveloping the

26:26 ↗ trading building in the future however

26:28 ↗ this condition will ensure that this

26:31 ↗ path works now since the timing of the

26:33 ↗ trading building redevelopment is

26:34 ↗ unknown

26:42 ↗ at building five the proposed alignment

26:44 ↗ and design of the through block passage

26:46 ↗ presents some challenges as a Haseeno

26:49 ↗ gate negotiate through an area that is

26:52 ↗ predominantly designed for vehicles so

26:55 ↗ building five is the parking garage and

26:57 ↗ the diagram on top shows the proposed

26:59 ↗ alignment in blue which does not provide

27:01 ↗ a direct route and requires pedestrians

27:04 ↗ to cross to vehicular areas which are

27:06 ↗ circled in orange the diagram on the

27:11 ↗ bottom shows a straighter alignment

27:13 ↗ although there's still two points where

27:16 ↗ the pedestrians would need to cross

27:17 ↗ vehicular pass the secondary thru block

27:21 ↗ passage standard requires 13 feet

27:23 ↗ overall width with five feet of tread

27:25 ↗ and four feet of landscaping on either

27:27 ↗ side while the western end of this route

27:30 ↗ can likely comply given the landscaped

27:33 ↗ area the eastern end the go sheets

27:35 ↗ through the building where it'll be

27:37 ↗ difficult for plants to grow and where

27:39 ↗ the width is limited condition four is

27:43 ↗ proposed as a preliminary condition to

27:46 ↗ require an administrative adjustment of

27:48 ↗ standards to remove the landscape border

27:51 ↗ where the route passes through the

27:52 ↗ building and replace it with a slightly

27:55 ↗ wider trail it also requires building

27:58 ↗ design and hem enhancements to

28:00 ↗ compensate for the removal of the

28:02 ↗ landscape border the applicant intends

28:05 ↗ to pursue the administrative adjustment

28:07 ↗ of standards to provide greater clarity

28:10 ↗ to the design of this route and that'll

28:12 ↗ be reviewed as part of the briefing this

28:14 ↗ briefing response memo during the

28:17 ↗ development Commission's second meeting

28:20 ↗ should this preliminary condition be

28:22 ↗ adequately addressed at that time it

28:25 ↗ will not warrant inclusion in the final

28:27 ↗ conditions of approval

28:32 ↗ the primary streets providing access to

28:35 ↗ the proposed development include Lake

28:36 ↗ Drive in South East 62nd Street both of

28:39 ↗ which are core streets and are shown in

28:41 ↗ the dark blue course streets create a

28:44 ↗ livable Street character with pedestrian

28:46 ↗ and bicycle priority where active ground

28:49 ↗ floor uses are encouraged and it

28:51 ↗ promotes walkability

28:52 ↗ as mentioned before both of these

28:55 ↗ streets are current

28:55 ↗ under construction in this diagram

28:59 ↗ vehicular driveway access points are

29:01 ↗ noted with red arrows truck loading

29:04 ↗ areas are called out with the letter L

29:06 ↗ in the pink circle and parking access is

29:09 ↗ noted with the letter P in the blue

29:11 ↗ circle for building for one driveway

29:15 ↗ along Lake Drive would provide access to

29:18 ↗ the auto court circular passenger

29:20 ↗ loading area the at-grade loading area

29:23 ↗ at the north end of the building and the

29:26 ↗ ramp for the underground garage the same

29:29 ↗ driveway would also provide access to

29:30 ↗ the existing loading docks and surface

29:33 ↗ area on the south side of the trading

29:35 ↗ building for building five two driveways

29:38 ↗ would be serving this site one along

29:42 ↗ Lake Drive at the thru block passage and

29:45 ↗ the second would be along South East

29:48 ↗ 62nd Street at the southwest corner of

29:50 ↗ the building

29:51 ↗ both driveways would provide access to

29:54 ↗ the existing service area and garage

29:56 ↗ ramp at building three which minimizes

29:59 ↗ the number of driveways serving both

30:02 ↗ buildings central is across standards

30:08 ↗ requires developments to make actual

30:09 ↗ views and this is to be the focal points

30:13 ↗ additionally the land plan requires that

30:15 ↗ building designs explore opportunities

30:17 ↗ to highlight territorial views and

30:19 ↗ vistas the build out of Lake Drive has

30:23 ↗ resulted in a straighter straighter

30:24 ↗ alignment than was contemplated in the

30:27 ↗ development agreement and this isn't

30:30 ↗ abled a strong review corridor of the

30:32 ↗ Issaquah Alps to the south

30:34 ↗ the design of the sky bridge over Lake

30:37 ↗ Drive intentionally incorporates a high

30:40 ↗ level of transparency as required by the

30:42 ↗ development agreement which improves

30:45 ↗ access and frames views of the Issaquah

30:47 ↗ Alps the sky bridge which connects level

30:50 ↗ 4 and building 4 and level 5 in building

30:53 ↗ 5 these renderings show the mountain

30:56 ↗ views as they're seen along Lake Drive

31:07 ↗ the two renderings on the Left show

31:10 ↗ anticipated views from the through block

31:12 ↗ passages the rendering on top shows

31:16 ↗ views looking east towards as a clock

31:18 ↗ creek and the rendering on the bottom

31:21 ↗ shows views looking west towards

31:23 ↗ Pickering Pond the Eastern through

31:26 ↗ blocked passage which is north of

31:28 ↗ building four and adjacent to the

31:29 ↗ trading building provides a mostly

31:31 ↗ direct route that ends at the Issaquah

31:33 ↗ Creek corridor with the natural habitat

31:36 ↗ as the focal point the Western through

31:40 ↗ blocked passage is approximately 15 feet

31:42 ↗ in height where it goes through building

31:44 ↗ five which will likely allow for views a

31:47 ↗ Pickering pond as the focal point an

31:50 ↗ existing example on the Costco campus is

31:53 ↗ at the building 1 sky bridge as shown in

31:56 ↗ the photo on the bottom right also note

31:59 ↗ that the sky bridge is narrower than the

32:01 ↗ through blocked passage through building

32:03 ↗ five the central Issaquah standards

32:13 ↗ requires new projects to retain 25% of

32:16 ↗ the total diameter of significant and

32:19 ↗ landmark trees on the exists in the

32:21 ↗ existing tree stock there are a total of

32:24 ↗ 140 significant and landmark trees on

32:26 ↗ the property with a total of 1535

32:30 ↗ caliper inches and 25% of that would be

32:34 ↗ 384 Cal / inches the applicant is

32:39 ↗ proposing to modify this requirement

32:42 ↗ through an administrative adjustment of

32:43 ↗ standards to allow all the trees to be

32:46 ↗ removed proposed tree removals are noted

32:49 ↗ by red circles on this plan many of

32:53 ↗ these trees are in the parking lots and

32:55 ↗ along the edges were planted when the

32:58 ↗ parking lot and Pickering place were

32:59 ↗ developed in the 1990s

33:01 ↗ there's clusters of significant trees

33:04 ↗ along the eastern and western edges of

33:06 ↗ the site adjacent to is a quote adjacent

33:09 ↗ to the Issaquah Creek corridor and

33:11 ↗ Pickering pond

33:13 ↗ over the years these trees have thrived

33:16 ↗ due to their adjacency to open spaces

33:19 ↗ staff and the applicant have explored

33:21 ↗ ways to preserve these trees at the

33:24 ↗ edges but it wasn't possible because

33:27 ↗ they would be significantly impacted by

33:29 ↗ the proposed grading activities and

33:31 ↗ utility installations as part of the

33:33 ↗ development as a result these trees are

33:36 ↗ proposed for a removal new landscaping

33:39 ↗ including trees and green screens are

33:41 ↗ proposed to be planted along these edges

33:43 ↗ to help mitigate the impact the project

33:52 ↗ proposes approximately 1,800 vehicular

33:55 ↗ parking spaces which meets the minimum

33:57 ↗ required all of the parking serving the

34:01 ↗ proposed development would either be

34:02 ↗ under the building or in structured

34:04 ↗ parking existing parking facilities

34:07 ↗ throughout Costco's corporate campus

34:09 ↗ would include existing surface Lots

34:11 ↗ under building garages and the eight

34:13 ↗ story parking garage currently all of

34:17 ↗ the bicycle parkings proposed in

34:19 ↗ building five and no part bicycle

34:21 ↗ parking at building four which is

34:24 ↗ inconsistent with the central is across

34:25 ↗ standards condition 12 would ensure that

34:28 ↗ at least 25% of the required bicycle

34:31 ↗ parking would be provided at building

34:33 ↗ four and that bicycle parking would be

34:36 ↗ placed in close proximity to primary

34:38 ↗ building entrances without blocking

34:40 ↗ pedestrian circulation facilities at

34:46 ↗ this point of the presentation I'm going

34:48 ↗ to switch from elements that apply

34:50 ↗ equally to both buildings to information

34:53 ↗ relevant only to the community

34:55 ↗ conference for the office building while

34:59 ↗ building four is large is a large and

35:02 ↗ dense building it does comply with the

35:04 ↗ development standards of the urban core

35:06 ↗ zone

35:13 ↗ proposed community spaces at the site

35:16 ↗ include the central court plaza 62nd

35:19 ↗ East Plaza and Creekside Terrace these

35:25 ↗ spaces range from the formal and urban

35:27 ↗ plazas to the informal and nature

35:30 ↗ focused Terrace the central court Plaza

35:37 ↗ is centrally located along Lake Drive

35:41 ↗ and extends to the interior of the site

35:43 ↗ where it's framed by building fours east

35:45 ↗ and west wings a through block passage

35:48 ↗ between the two wings connects this

35:50 ↗ plaza to the 62nd East Plaza primary

35:54 ↗ entries to the building front on this

35:56 ↗ plaza including the main entry Lobby

35:59 ↗ cafeteria and dining areas some of the

36:03 ↗ proposed amenities include a variety of

36:05 ↗ seating options formal landscaping and

36:08 ↗ tree wells and raised planter beds and

36:09 ↗ decorative paving the tree wells in the

36:14 ↗ plaza is relocated above the underground

36:16 ↗ garage in order to ensure that there

36:19 ↗ will be sufficient soil for trees to

36:21 ↗ thrive conditions 6 is included to

36:25 ↗ require minimum dimensions and depths

36:26 ↗ for the tree wells the Creek site

36:33 ↗ Terrace outdoor amenity space is located

36:36 ↗ at the rear of the building and it

36:38 ↗ overlooks as a quad creek corridor in

36:41 ↗ contrast to the more urban environment

36:42 ↗ of the plazas the terrace highlights the

36:45 ↗ adjacent natural environment some of the

36:48 ↗ amenities in the space include a wood

36:50 ↗ deck area informal plantings and a

36:53 ↗ curvilinear path with pockets of seating

37:02 ↗ the southwestern corner of the building

37:06 ↗ is located at the street intersection

37:08 ↗ this building corner is required to have

37:10 ↗ a minimum of 60 feet of building

37:13 ↗ frontage at the build to line to

37:15 ↗ maintain a continuous street wall

37:17 ↗ building floors approximately has

37:19 ↗ approximately 150 feet extending from

37:22 ↗ the corner along both streets and that's

37:25 ↗ noted by the blue line above other areas

37:28 ↗ where the building is located within the

37:29 ↗ build two line are also noted with the

37:32 ↗ blue line in areas where the plazas and

37:35 ↗ landscape elements would help define the

37:36 ↗ street edge are noted in green building

37:41 ↗ at building entries are noted with the

37:43 ↗ red asterisks and open onto the

37:46 ↗ community spaces and the streets the

37:50 ↗ building's ground floor is designed to

37:52 ↗ incorporate active uses including the

37:55 ↗ main entry lobby meeting rooms and staff

37:57 ↗ cafeteria elevations at the ground floor

38:01 ↗ incorporate a brick base with Bay's of

38:04 ↗ glazed storefront windows and canopies

38:07 ↗ and rendering suggest a high level of

38:10 ↗ transparency between the interior and

38:12 ↗ exterior spaces breaking up the glazed

38:15 ↗ storefront with bays coupled with the

38:17 ↗ canopies helps make the building more

38:19 ↗ pedestrian scaled primary entrances to

38:23 ↗ these active uses face both the plaza

38:25 ↗ and the street and the canopies are at

38:28 ↗ our six feet in depth are proposed at

38:31 ↗ the building entries and across at least

38:33 ↗ 75% of the building facade and they

38:36 ↗ provide weather protection where the

38:38 ↗ building is set back from the property

38:40 ↗ line the sidewalk would be extended up

38:43 ↗ to the building the land plan requires

38:49 ↗ that the presence of buildings be

38:51 ↗ maximized at the corners many building

38:53 ↗ corners incorporate special treatment to

38:55 ↗ highlight the importance of these

38:57 ↗ locations Corner lanterns are located at

39:01 ↗ prominent building corners and consists

39:03 ↗ of clear glass curtain walls with opaque

39:06 ↗ glass spandrels extending from the

39:08 ↗ ground floor all the way to the top

39:10 ↗ floor when it's lit the vertical volume

39:14 ↗ lights up like a lantern the northern

39:18 ↗ elevation the corner Lantern is located

39:21 ↗ at the building corner above the main

39:23 ↗ entry and which would be a prominent

39:26 ↗ feature along Lake Drive and that's

39:28 ↗ outlined in red on the south elevations

39:32 ↗ the corners of both buildings at the

39:34 ↗ street intersection feature similar

39:36 ↗ corner Lantern elements and accent panel

39:40 ↗ cladding at the ends of both buildings

39:41 ↗ help bookend the buildings on Costco's

39:44 ↗ corporate campus and they're outlined in

39:47 ↗ orange the sky bridge across Lake Drive

39:50 ↗ coupled with the central court plaza and

39:53 ↗ auto Court at building four would convey

39:56 ↗ an impressible impressionable sense of

39:59 ↗ arrival along Lake Drive

40:02 ↗ additionally corner building treatment

40:04 ↗ design elements on buildings four and

40:06 ↗ five such as the corner lanterns

40:08 ↗ an accent panel cladding bookends would

40:11 ↗ help frame this entry portal well the

40:21 ↗ building is designed with detail none of

40:23 ↗ the facade is treated as the back side

40:26 ↗ there are locations where the brick base

40:29 ↗ creates blank walls that need further

40:31 ↗ articulation or modulation the southeast

40:35 ↗ corner of the building where the

40:37 ↗ proposed auditorium is located is

40:39 ↗ designed with a continuous stretch of

40:41 ↗ blank masonry wall that wraps around the

40:44 ↗ corner and that's outlined in red and

40:46 ↗ the diagram above these walls would be

40:51 ↗ prominent along 62nd Street as well as

40:53 ↗ from the Pickering trail and they don't

40:56 ↗ represent a pedestrian friendly design

40:58 ↗ the applicant proposes to treat this

41:01 ↗ corner with landscaping which includes

41:03 ↗ raised landscape planters with evergreen

41:05 ↗ shrubs and trees but given the length of

41:08 ↗ this corner and its prominence

41:11 ↗ landscaping alone isn't sufficient an

41:14 ↗ additional surface relief would be

41:16 ↗ needed to help break up its massing

41:19 ↗ there's a section of blank wall on the

41:22 ↗ west elevation at the northwest corner

41:24 ↗ of the building that fronts on the ramp

41:26 ↗ to the underground

41:27 ↗ Raaj it's outlined in red in the bottom

41:31 ↗ drawing this section of blank wall is

41:33 ↗ visible but set back from Lake Drive and

41:36 ↗ conceptual landscape plans show

41:38 ↗ landscaping between the wall and the

41:40 ↗ edge of the garage ramp as well as on

41:42 ↗ the other side of the ramp given the

41:44 ↗ conceptual nature of the landscape plans

41:46 ↗ it's difficult to determine whether at

41:49 ↗ this stage if the proposed landscape

41:51 ↗ treatment is sufficient or of additional

41:54 ↗ treatment would be needed condition 10

41:56 ↗ has been included to require treatment

41:58 ↗ of the blank walls on the south what

42:00 ↗ southeast corner and West elevations

42:03 ↗ treatment would include articulation or

42:06 ↗ other techniques with landscaping

42:08 ↗ applied as a secondary feature

42:16 ↗ development on on the building for site

42:19 ↗ includes removal of a 561 square foot

42:22 ↗ wetland at the southeast corner of the

42:25 ↗ parcel this is the only wetland on the

42:28 ↗ project site and it's not part of a

42:31 ↗ wetland complex the wetland is a cat has

42:34 ↗ a category 4 rating which is indicative

42:37 ↗ of wetlands that are heavily disturbed

42:39 ↗ and have low habitat function according

42:42 ↗ to the Issaquah Municipal Code wetlands

42:45 ↗ that are less than 2,500 square feet in

42:47 ↗ size and that are not part of a wetland

42:50 ↗ complex may be altered if mitigation is

42:53 ↗ provided to demonstrate no less no net

42:56 ↗ loss of functions or values and no

42:59 ↗ buffer is required for these wetlands

43:01 ↗ the applicant is proposing off-site

43:04 ↗ mitigation through the king county

43:05 ↗ mitigation reserves program which is an

43:09 ↗ N Luffy program that allows primitives

43:11 ↗ to mitigate impacts through the purchase

43:14 ↗ of credits applicants will pay a fee to

43:18 ↗ King County and this would be used to

43:20 ↗ restore establish enhance and are

43:23 ↗ preserved wetland River stream and

43:26 ↗ buffer within the same watershed as the

43:28 ↗ impact condition 14 would prohibit any

43:32 ↗ removal of the wetland until off-site

43:34 ↗ mitigation has been provided

43:42 ↗ at this point of the presentation I'm

43:45 ↗ going to switch to information relevant

43:47 ↗ only to the public hearing for the

43:49 ↗ parking garage so building five is a

43:54 ↗ large dense building that is close to

43:56 ↗ reaching the maximum allowable building

43:58 ↗ envelope its floor area ratio is low due

44:01 ↗ to the fact that areas used for parking

44:03 ↗ don't count towards the floor area ratio

44:05 ↗ this building complies with the

44:08 ↗ development standards of the urban core

44:10 ↗ zone proposed community spaces at the

44:17 ↗ site include North Plaza and 62nd West

44:20 ↗ Plaza while not proposed as a community

44:24 ↗ space the pond overlook adds the variety

44:27 ↗ of open space options for future users

44:30 ↗ similar to the Creekside Terrace at

44:32 ↗ building for the pond overlook takes

44:34 ↗ advantage of its proximity to and

44:36 ↗ highlights natural habitats around

44:38 ↗ Pickering pond and it provides direct

44:41 ↗ connection to the Pickering pond trail

44:46 ↗ North Plaza is located on the west side

44:49 ↗ of Lake Drive between building five and

44:52 ↗ existing building three these adjacent

44:54 ↗ buildings help frame this new triangular

44:56 ↗ plaza as well as provide a transitional

44:59 ↗ open space between these two buildings

45:01 ↗ the adjacent exhibit space on the ground

45:04 ↗ floor of building five have entries onto

45:06 ↗ this Plaza and its storefront windows

45:09 ↗ provide transparency between the indoor

45:11 ↗ and outdoor spaces these amenities the

45:14 ↗ amenities that are suggested for this

45:16 ↗ Plaza include an art feature a variety

45:18 ↗ of seating options formal landscaping

45:22 ↗ and tree wells and planter beds and

45:24 ↗ decorative paving

45:31 ↗ buildings are required to be located at

45:34 ↗ the build to line of ten of zero to ten

45:37 ↗ feet in the urban core zone in order to

45:39 ↗ help define the street edge with some

45:41 ↗ allowance for architectural and

45:43 ↗ landscape elements to help define this

45:45 ↗ edge due to the curvilinear nature of

45:47 ↗ the adjacent streets the development

45:50 ↗ agreement allows buildings to meet the

45:52 ↗ purpose and intent of the central

45:53 ↗ Issaquah standards rather than the

45:55 ↗ strict letter of this standard at the

45:59 ↗ street corners buildings are also

46:00 ↗ required to have a minimum street

46:02 ↗ presence of 60 feet of building frontage

46:05 ↗ at the build to line in the diagram on

46:07 ↗ the Left area is where the building is

46:10 ↗ located within the build two line are

46:12 ↗ noted in the blue line and areas where

46:15 ↗ the plazas and landscape elements would

46:17 ↗ help define the street edge are noted in

46:19 ↗ green active ground floor uses

46:22 ↗ consisting of exhibit space and fitness

46:26 ↗ center wrap around the majority of the

46:28 ↗ building Street frontages the extensive

46:32 ↗ use of storefront windows provide a high

46:34 ↗ level of transparency and primary

46:37 ↗ entrances to these active uses face both

46:39 ↗ the plaza and the street canopies that

46:44 ↗ are six feet in depth are proposed at

46:45 ↗ the building entries and deep eve

46:48 ↗ overhangs over the southwest corner of

46:50 ↗ the building where the fitness center is

46:52 ↗ located would help give the building a

46:54 ↗ more pedestrian scale where the building

46:57 ↗ is set back from the property line the

47:00 ↗ sidewalk would be extended up to the

47:01 ↗ building

47:07 ↗ building corner treatments at building

47:10 ↗ five these would mirror those at

47:13 ↗ building four so a corner Lantern which

47:16 ↗ is outlined in red would be at the

47:18 ↗ street intersection an accent paneling

47:21 ↗ outline in orange would book in the

47:23 ↗ Costco campus buildings over all the

47:32 ↗ building corporates color texture and

47:35 ↗ material variation that provides visual

47:38 ↗ interest and helps break up the

47:39 ↗ perception of building massing but

47:42 ↗ there's two locations where blank walls

47:44 ↗ are present and where they need to be

47:46 ↗ treated on the West elevation facing the

47:50 ↗ Pickering pond trail there's a section

47:52 ↗ of brick clad wall to the south of the

47:56 ↗ green screen that screens the driveway

47:58 ↗ at that location it's it's outlined in

48:02 ↗ red on the elevation on top on the North

48:05 ↗ elevation a section of blank wall

48:07 ↗ extends from the generator room to the

48:09 ↗ stair tower that's also outlined in red

48:12 ↗ and the elevation on the bottom this

48:16 ↗ excuse me this section of wall would be

48:19 ↗ adjacent to the through block passage

48:21 ↗ pedestrian paths between Pickering Pond

48:23 ↗ Trail and Lake Drive and due to its

48:26 ↗ visibility on along these pedestrian

48:29 ↗ paths this wall would also need to be

48:31 ↗ treated condition 11 requires treatment

48:35 ↗ of the blank walls on the west and north

48:36 ↗ elevations treatment could include

48:39 ↗ articulation or other techniques and

48:41 ↗ landscaping can be applied as a

48:43 ↗ secondary feature

48:51 ↗ to screen the rooftop parking from views

48:57 ↗ from building four from both above and

49:02 ↗ from views from across and above

49:05 ↗ trellises and lo perimeter walls are

49:07 ↗ proposed trellises are proposed along

49:10 ↗ most of the perimeter of the rooftop as

49:12 ↗ well as the interior of the rooftop to

49:15 ↗ provide screening from above and these

49:18 ↗ trellises are shown in orange in the

49:20 ↗ floor plan on the left the trellises

49:23 ↗ would also be designed to accommodate

49:25 ↗ the installation of solar panels the

49:29 ↗ perimeter wall around the roof is only

49:32 ↗ three feet tall where five feet is

49:33 ↗ required due to the visibility from

49:36 ↗ building four and compliance with the

49:38 ↗ standard of be insured through condition

49:40 ↗ 13 so in conclusion staff finds that the

49:50 ↗ administrative site development permit

49:52 ↗ for building for the office building

49:55 ↗ largely complies with the land plan and

49:58 ↗ centralism call plan and standards staff

50:01 ↗ is seeking input from the development

50:03 ↗ Commission and the public as part of the

50:05 ↗ community conference before proceeding

50:07 ↗ with the administrative decision for

50:09 ↗ this application and this includes the

50:12 ↗ associated administrative adjustment of

50:16 ↗ standards staff all staff finds that the

50:20 ↗ site development permit for building

50:21 ↗ five the parking garage is consistent

50:24 ↗ with the Comprehensive Plan the central

50:27 ↗ is a call plan and meets all applicable

50:30 ↗ codes rules regulations and policies and

50:33 ↗ complies with the applicable development

50:35 ↗ agreement and land plan elements and

50:38 ↗ recommends approval for this application

50:40 ↗ and associated administrative

50:44 ↗ adjustments of standards

50:50 ↗ so once again this is the proposed

50:54 ↗ meeting sequence members of the public

50:57 ↗ who are interested in speaking should

50:59 ↗ sign in at the front and as you listen

51:01 ↗ to the presentation consider presenting

51:03 ↗ your comments around each building

51:05 ↗ separately since the development

51:07 ↗ commissioners will happen to have two

51:09 ↗ separate conversations on each building

51:12 ↗ one on each building so at this time I'd

51:15 ↗ like to turn this over to the applicants

51:17 ↗ for their presentation thank you

51:38 ↗ good

51:50 ↗ good evening everyone

51:53 ↗ mr. chair members of the Development

51:56 ↗ Commission my name is Jackie Frank I'm

51:58 ↗ the vice president of real-estate

51:59 ↗ development for Costco Wholesale I first

52:04 ↗ presented before the development

52:05 ↗ Commission I think it was an early of

52:07 ↗ 1993 which was over 25 years ago it's

52:13 ↗ been a long time and it's been a long

52:16 ↗ relationship and we appreciate that

52:18 ↗ first of all let me thank Jean Lucy

52:22 ↗ Keith the rest of staff throughout this

52:25 ↗ entire process you should know staff has

52:27 ↗ has shown Costco as well as the design

52:30 ↗ team a tremendous courtesy tremendous

52:32 ↗ professionalism and we really appreciate

52:35 ↗ the collaborative partnership that we've

52:37 ↗ developed it's been a great working

52:41 ↗ relationship and I and I think you can

52:43 ↗ see that as a result of or see that

52:46 ↗ reflected in the in the design a couple

52:49 ↗ things tonight I want to try and put

52:51 ↗ this in context for you all and then

52:54 ↗ we've got two two presentations I want

52:57 ↗ to talk a little bit about the company

52:58 ↗ and and why we're doing this in the

53:00 ↗ first place

53:01 ↗ I'd like Steve Bullock to talk a little

53:05 ↗ bit about planning constraints and

53:08 ↗ design determinants and then Sharon

53:10 ↗ Shannon soos will discuss the specifics

53:13 ↗ as to design solutions as to how we

53:18 ↗ arrived at solutions relative to the

53:22 ↗ SIDS the CIP and and the coordination

53:26 ↗ with staff we do have representatives

53:28 ↗ here from from Weitzman our landscape

53:31 ↗ architect from rushing our MEP and

53:33 ↗ sustainability consultant from Dowell

53:34 ↗ our civil engineer who helped us with

53:37 ↗ with utilities grading drainage etc so

53:43 ↗ we're not planning a formal presentation

53:45 ↗ but they are here to answer any

53:48 ↗ questions you might have

53:49 ↗ Patrick Mulaney has here a Foster pepper

53:51 ↗ who was instrumental in working with

53:54 ↗ ritual and

53:55 ↗ the adoption of the development

53:57 ↗ agreement so if there are any questions

53:59 ↗ regarding the implementation or the

54:02 ↗ intent of the development agreement

54:03 ↗ Patrick can help us with that as well so

54:08 ↗ we've had a long history here you have

54:12 ↗ an aerial photograph above before you

54:17 ↗ retail warehouse in the north the north

54:20 ↗ edge of the campus buildings one two and

54:23 ↗ three that have evolved since the early

54:25 ↗ 90s all the way through the mid 2000s we

54:30 ↗ built the parking structure north of the

54:33 ↗ trading building 2013 2014 as well right

54:43 ↗ now we currently have about four hundred

54:45 ↗ and eighty thousand square feet of

54:47 ↗ office space

54:48 ↗ of course the retail of warehouse is one

54:51 ↗ hundred and sixty thousand square feet

54:52 ↗ the trading building which really serves

54:54 ↗ as kind of a packaging manufacturing and

54:57 ↗ some distribution that's about 50,000

54:59 ↗ square feet they're currently 4,000

55:01 ↗ stalls on-site which is about 7.45

55:05 ↗ stalls per thousand square feet we

55:07 ↗ currently have around 3,000 employees on

55:10 ↗ the campus but the campus has has been a

55:15 ↗ little constraining for us so in the

55:18 ↗ [Music]

55:21 ↗ mid-2000s 2006 2007 we leased and

55:25 ↗ purchased Lake place one in Lake place

55:27 ↗ to those primarily how's our Costco

55:31 ↗ travel business which has been a growing

55:33 ↗ and successful successful business that

55:36 ↗ space wasn't enough for us so

55:38 ↗ subsequently we've entered into leases

55:41 ↗ on the Sammamish Park place as well as

55:44 ↗ the space labs property to the to the

55:47 ↗ north and to the east those leases were

55:50 ↗ done in late 2014 early 2015 so as we as

55:58 ↗ we started thinking about our needs we

56:03 ↗ have approximately 4,000 employees that

56:06 ↗ are off-site in about 40

56:09 ↗ about four hundred and forty five

56:10 ↗ thousand square feet of office as we

56:13 ↗ look to implementing the development

56:16 ↗ agreement and taking advantage of the of

56:18 ↗ the the 1.5 million square feet of

56:21 ↗ development entitlements we started

56:24 ↗ looking at a couple of options

56:26 ↗ number one costco is successful

56:29 ↗ primarily because of its collaboration

56:30 ↗ and tremendous efficiencies and we think

56:33 ↗ that having people in a in a caste wide

56:38 ↗ around the sukhoi area is probably not

56:40 ↗ as efficient as we could be so the first

56:42 ↗ thought we had was we would like to

56:44 ↗ travel will stay at blake place one and

56:47 ↗ lake place two but we'd like to return

56:48 ↗ about twenty five hundred employees who

56:51 ↗ are currently off-site and leased

56:52 ↗ facilities to come back to the campus

56:55 ↗ and help us realize those synergies and

56:57 ↗ efficiencies but we'd also like to

56:59 ↗ provide a reasonable reasonable amount

57:02 ↗ of space to allow for growth of the

57:05 ↗ company the central headquarters is is

57:08 ↗ really intended to be a support for the

57:11 ↗ remainder of the company and and we do

57:14 ↗ find that there's a certain number

57:15 ↗ certain amount of population per

57:18 ↗ warehouse of support for all the various

57:22 ↗ support services and we are seeing a

57:25 ↗ probably three and a half to four

57:26 ↗ percent of employment growth per year as

57:29 ↗ we continue to grow our our business in

57:32 ↗ really internationally so if we take

57:41 ↗ advantage of the the development

57:43 ↗ agreement with the intention of bringing

57:45 ↗ offsite folks back to the campus

57:47 ↗ realizing those efficiencies and then

57:50 ↗ providing room for growth it really

57:52 ↗ helped us think about how we kind of

57:55 ↗ marry our our intentions with the city

57:58 ↗ of Issaquah z' intentions and what this

58:00 ↗ would give us would be about a million

58:03 ↗ won of square feet on campus of office

58:07 ↗ space about fifty seven hundred total

58:09 ↗ parking stalls which nets out to about

58:12 ↗ four point four per thousand square feet

58:15 ↗ of square footage which would take us up

58:19 ↗ to about seven thousand on-site

58:21 ↗ employees and

58:22 ↗ we would still remain with about 1500

58:25 ↗ off-site employees primarily for Cosmo

58:27 ↗ travel so just a just a kind of a brief

58:34 ↗ highlight of our of our partnership in

58:37 ↗ our relationship you've all worked with

58:40 ↗ ritual and over over the years and I've

58:43 ↗ been involved since the since the days

58:46 ↗ of the of the warehouse but we've been

58:48 ↗ we've actually had a couple of other

58:50 ↗ folks who've been involved with the the

58:53 ↗ central Issaquah plan as a matter of

58:56 ↗ fact both Peter Kahn and and kim katz

59:00 ↗ represented and participated in the

59:02 ↗ citizens advisory committee for central

59:05 ↗ Issaquah this is at their very early

59:06 ↗ days of the CIP it also participated on

59:11 ↗ the Transportation Committee for

59:13 ↗ consideration of the local

59:14 ↗ transportation improvements the city

59:16 ↗ would take on and both of them have been

59:18 ↗ over time involved with both the chamber

59:21 ↗ and the government affairs committee

59:23 ↗ with the city of Issaquah all of us have

59:26 ↗ been involved in the early stages of the

59:28 ↗ negotiations of the development

59:29 ↗ agreement as well as various projects in

59:31 ↗ Issaquah the wetlands fill the expansion

59:35 ↗ projects the gas design construction

59:37 ↗ various approvals construction of the as

59:41 ↗ well as construction of the lake and 60

59:43 ↗ second improvements project it's

59:46 ↗ interesting because no sooner was the

59:48 ↗ development agreement completed that is

59:50 ↗ when we started thinking about growth

59:53 ↗ and the objective to bring our remote

59:55 ↗ employees back to campus and and to and

59:59 ↗ to grow in place on campus

1:00:05 ↗ so when we look at our goals number one

1:00:07 ↗ we want to grow our business we want to

1:00:10 ↗ take care of our employees which is a

1:00:11 ↗ key component of our of our mission

1:00:14 ↗ statement we wanted to have an

1:00:15 ↗ integrated campus that realized the

1:00:18 ↗ efficiencies of enhanced collaboration

1:00:20 ↗ and proximity and we wanted the proper

1:00:23 ↗ square footage and adequate parking that

1:00:25 ↗ would allow for for us to stay in

1:00:27 ↗ Issaquah frankly and to grow in place we

1:00:30 ↗ look at the city's goals just taking a

1:00:33 ↗ look at the adoption of the CIP clearly

1:00:37 ↗ the city was anticipating growth and

1:00:39 ↗ development so thoughtful thoughtful

1:00:43 ↗ densification of the of the urban area

1:00:46 ↗ was was really wise and prudent hence

1:00:49 ↗ the the implementation of the the CIP

1:00:52 ↗ and with that the development design

1:00:56 ↗ standards to implement the CIP and in an

1:00:59 ↗ urban way we applaud the city's goals to

1:01:03 ↗ enhance the public realm and to really

1:01:06 ↗ develop public pedestrian connections

1:01:08 ↗ all through the use of kind of well

1:01:12 ↗ coordinated and well thought-out design

1:01:14 ↗ standards that would help guide the

1:01:15 ↗ implementation of the city's objectives

1:01:18 ↗ so in that I think our we found a happy

1:01:21 ↗ medium and a and an overlap of of

1:01:25 ↗ intention so just to reiterate our goals

1:01:30 ↗ once again coming out of both Costco's

1:01:32 ↗ goals in the city's goals we've

1:01:34 ↗ identified our space needs we're trying

1:01:36 ↗ to create a dense high-performing

1:01:39 ↗ facility that that is inherently

1:01:41 ↗ efficient with mobility and connectivity

1:01:45 ↗ with the community and its vision with

1:01:49 ↗ all the synergies that that come from

1:01:51 ↗ that and if we do all of this right I

1:01:57 ↗ think we can measure our success by

1:02:00 ↗ having a project that really illustrates

1:02:02 ↗ quality and value to very very core

1:02:06 ↗ attributes of certainly Costco's

1:02:08 ↗ intention a project that's

1:02:10 ↗ forward-looking for both ourselves and

1:02:13 ↗ for the city of Issaquah a respect for

1:02:16 ↗ the design that really respects the

1:02:18 ↗ campus Conte

1:02:20 ↗ it's interesting because we have a we

1:02:22 ↗ have a kind of a traditional suburban

1:02:24 ↗ campus low-rise buildings with curved

1:02:27 ↗ linear streets and some beautiful

1:02:29 ↗ riparian natural environments yet we

1:02:32 ↗ also on the other hand have the intent

1:02:34 ↗ to create more of a urban vision of a

1:02:39 ↗ rectilinear streets close set backs so

1:02:42 ↗ this really represented an opportunity

1:02:44 ↗ to balance not competing constraints but

1:02:47 ↗ complementary constraints in a very

1:02:49 ↗ creative way as far as expanding the

1:02:52 ↗ campus

1:02:53 ↗ Costco's one one objective would be to

1:02:55 ↗ attract and retain quality talent and we

1:02:58 ↗ can do that by having a physical plant

1:03:02 ↗ the physical presence that really

1:03:05 ↗ respects its environment both urban and

1:03:08 ↗ rural all at the same time and we're

1:03:12 ↗ really trying to create both a

1:03:13 ↗ productive and an enjoyable work

1:03:15 ↗ environment if we do all these things

1:03:17 ↗ right I think we will have accomplished

1:03:18 ↗ our objectives so a little bit about the

1:03:22 ↗ development agreement we really

1:03:25 ↗ appreciated the all of the work that

1:03:27 ↗ went into it it it did in effect

1:03:30 ↗ streamline the entitlement process it

1:03:32 ↗ created a flexible framework for the

1:03:35 ↗ implementation of the SIDS

1:03:37 ↗ it allowed us to grow in place it

1:03:40 ↗ densifies in an urban way very

1:03:43 ↗ thoughtfully it provided for

1:03:45 ↗ infrastructure funding that supported

1:03:48 ↗ this planned growth and intentional

1:03:49 ↗ densification and it also had at its

1:03:52 ↗ core a commitment to sustainability it

1:03:55 ↗ was a tremendous mutual benefit for both

1:03:57 ↗ the city of Issaquah and the and the and

1:04:00 ↗ Costco Wholesale that would yield us a

1:04:03 ↗ million and a half square feet of new

1:04:04 ↗ commercial area and it would provide an

1:04:07 ↗ infrastructure funding mechanism to

1:04:09 ↗ support this planned growth and that is

1:04:13 ↗ the true essence of a partnership Costco

1:04:18 ↗ I sometimes joke that that Costco was

1:04:21 ↗ into sustainability before it was

1:04:22 ↗ fashionable and the reason why we do

1:04:25 ↗ that is because it makes sense it's not

1:04:27 ↗ an altruistic approach it makes sense it

1:04:30 ↗ makes economic sense it makes people

1:04:31 ↗ sense

1:04:33 ↗ I don't know if you know this but from a

1:04:34 ↗ corporate point of view Costco is one of

1:04:36 ↗ the largest private generators of power

1:04:38 ↗ we have well over a hundred photovoltaic

1:04:40 ↗ installations throughout the western

1:04:42 ↗ United States I think we generate nearly

1:04:46 ↗ 10 million kilowatt hours of renewable

1:04:49 ↗ power a month or a year

1:04:55 ↗ everything from passive day lighting to

1:04:58 ↗ low water use tremendous commitment to

1:05:02 ↗ recycling greenhouse gas reductions

1:05:08 ↗ everything that we do in our supply

1:05:10 ↗ chain from from packaging to recycling

1:05:13 ↗ is all geared toward extraordinary

1:05:18 ↗ efficiencies and economy how that

1:05:23 ↗ translates into this project is all

1:05:26 ↗ right and we committed to it as a part

1:05:28 ↗ of exhibit K and the development

1:05:29 ↗ agreement we're gonna use less energy

1:05:32 ↗ we're going to have a compact

1:05:34 ↗ development and as you may know Costco

1:05:38 ↗ is probably the number one participant

1:05:41 ↗ in the county for its rideshare program

1:05:45 ↗ which reduces single occupancy trips as

1:05:49 ↗ it was as Jean mentioned earlier we're

1:05:51 ↗ targeting a equivalency to LEED Silver

1:05:55 ↗ elements will be included in the design

1:05:58 ↗ such as high efficiency heat recovery

1:06:00 ↗ public feedback displays photovoltaics

1:06:04 ↗ high r-value and even a target energy

1:06:08 ↗ use intensity of about 35 to up to 40

1:06:13 ↗ just to put that into perspective the

1:06:17 ↗ when you look at BU is for for Building

1:06:21 ↗ Code excuse me

1:06:27 ↗ I think we're looking at ranges that are

1:06:31 ↗ in the 50 to 60 range and you know

1:06:35 ↗ normal buildings built say throughout

1:06:38 ↗ Seattle over the last 10 years occur

1:06:40 ↗ into the 50 to 100 range

1:06:42 ↗ so our target on this project is to in

1:06:45 ↗ the 35 to 40 range I mentioned the less

1:06:49 ↗ water use and water monitoring we've

1:06:53 ↗ adopted throughout the chain and upon a

1:06:55 ↗ system that has individual sub metering

1:06:58 ↗ and we've saved literally millions of

1:07:01 ↗ gallons of water across the across the

1:07:03 ↗ world with the use of this with this use

1:07:06 ↗ of this system and of course commitments

1:07:08 ↗ to modern multi stream waste system as

1:07:11 ↗ well as low VOCs in all of our building

1:07:15 ↗ products so sustainability is in as an

1:07:17 ↗ important objective to us and it's

1:07:19 ↗ definitely going to be a huge aspect to

1:07:23 ↗ this particular project so what I'd like

1:07:25 ↗ to do now is kick it over to Steve have

1:07:28 ↗ them talk a little bit about planning

1:07:29 ↗ site constraints and design determinants

1:07:39 ↗ commissioners get to be in front of you

1:07:41 ↗ again I'm Steve Bullock of mg2 and just

1:07:44 ↗ want to spend a little bit of time

1:07:45 ↗ talking about the site you're somewhat

1:07:47 ↗ familiar with it but I want to reiterate

1:07:49 ↗ some things probably and maybe even show

1:07:51 ↗ you some things that you didn't realize

1:07:52 ↗ about it don't you use arrows there we

1:07:55 ↗ go

1:07:56 ↗ the as you can see by looking at it both

1:08:00 ↗ Lots are rather irregular in shape which

1:08:03 ↗ is never the easiest condition to start

1:08:06 ↗ with right each lot is is bounded by

1:08:11 ↗ buildings to the north existing

1:08:12 ↗ buildings that for now are going to be

1:08:14 ↗ staying each slot has roads on the south

1:08:19 ↗ side and then in between them so they're

1:08:21 ↗ bounded on two sides by roads and then

1:08:24 ↗ they're both bounded on therefore sides

1:08:25 ↗ by environmental features is a clock

1:08:28 ↗ creek to the east and in Pickering pond

1:08:30 ↗ to the west and and there's there's

1:08:33 ↗ views leaving the site in all directions

1:08:35 ↗ even even when we get high enough up

1:08:38 ↗ there will be use to the north out Lake

1:08:41 ↗ Sammamish which we're excited about

1:08:42 ↗ potentially being able to achieve you

1:08:46 ↗ know and another thing to look at here

1:08:50 ↗ is is adjacent to two Issaquah Creek and

1:08:54 ↗ you're all very familiar with it but it

1:08:56 ↗ floods from time to time the the red

1:08:59 ↗ dash line is identifying the floodplain

1:09:01 ↗ line and and you'll see the black dashed

1:09:04 ↗ line to the east of that is actually

1:09:07 ↗ where our property line is so so here's

1:09:11 ↗ our actual property line we're not

1:09:14 ↗ actually prohibited from building within

1:09:17 ↗ the within the floodplain but there's a

1:09:19 ↗ whole nother level of reviews and codes

1:09:23 ↗ that we have to comply with before we

1:09:25 ↗ can go into that part of our site we're

1:09:28 ↗ going to be encroaching slightly but for

1:09:29 ↗ the most part trying to stay out of it

1:09:31 ↗ there's there's a corner of our building

1:09:33 ↗ of the East Wing of our building that

1:09:36 ↗ that encroaches into it at the south end

1:09:39 ↗ and a little bit at the north end and

1:09:41 ↗ and we've had we're going to have to

1:09:43 ↗ demonstrate a number of different things

1:09:44 ↗ for city staff to get them to buy up on

1:09:48 ↗ that to make

1:09:48 ↗ sure that it's okay but we are for the

1:09:52 ↗ most part staying out of that floodplain

1:09:54 ↗ area but we absolutely do want to take

1:09:56 ↗ advantage of these views looking towards

1:09:59 ↗ Issaquah Creek looking towards the the

1:10:01 ↗ pond area and what could be a really

1:10:03 ↗ nice park like sitting there and then

1:10:05 ↗ obviously there's quiet the mountains to

1:10:08 ↗ the south and maybe the lake to the

1:10:10 ↗ north when we were kind of doing some

1:10:15 ↗ just programmatic diagramming of the

1:10:18 ↗ site you know just trying to identify

1:10:20 ↗ things and talk about them you know one

1:10:22 ↗ of the things that popped out to us as

1:10:24 ↗ Jean even mentioned is is that we've got

1:10:27 ↗ the service area here at the southeast

1:10:30 ↗ corner of building of the trading

1:10:32 ↗ building we've also got a service area

1:10:35 ↗ here at the South corner of building

1:10:38 ↗ three both of those service areas are

1:10:41 ↗ off of Lake Drive and and it would be

1:10:43 ↗ great if we could make them do double

1:10:46 ↗ duty have them perform as service areas

1:10:50 ↗ for each of these new buildings because

1:10:51 ↗ they would be back out of the way and

1:10:54 ↗ and that's also enforced by the fact

1:10:57 ↗ that the city city code the this CIP and

1:11:02 ↗ hence is really encourages an urban

1:11:06 ↗ development which is characterized by

1:11:08 ↗ buildings being located out close to the

1:11:10 ↗ street edge right and so having the

1:11:13 ↗ buildings which were symbolizing with

1:11:15 ↗ with the blue circles being shoved out

1:11:19 ↗ towards Lake Drive in 62nd gives us an

1:11:22 ↗ opportunity to to have the the building

1:11:25 ↗ area that we need get it out close to

1:11:27 ↗ the road and then we started looking at

1:11:29 ↗ some places that we might be able to

1:11:31 ↗ pick up some some community spaces and

1:11:33 ↗ some entry courts and and and we kind of

1:11:36 ↗ carried that on and started doing some

1:11:39 ↗ conceptual design work and and this plan

1:11:42 ↗ is a plan that we kind of came up with

1:11:45 ↗ and it's one of the early plans that we

1:11:47 ↗ brought and had a conversation with city

1:11:50 ↗ staff about and in this plan we were you

1:11:53 ↗ know trying to start to apply some of

1:11:55 ↗ the the codes that are are included in

1:11:58 ↗ the central Issaquah design

1:12:00 ↗ development standards for being close to

1:12:04 ↗ the street for providing active edges

1:12:07 ↗ but we're we were for the first time

1:12:09 ↗ kind of bringing up the idea that we're

1:12:11 ↗ weren't going to have an office building

1:12:12 ↗ on the the east side of lake there's

1:12:16 ↗ gonna be the west side of Lake Drive

1:12:18 ↗ after talking things over with Costco

1:12:21 ↗ they really felt like we were gonna need

1:12:22 ↗ to add to our parking count for it for

1:12:24 ↗ the campus and the way it runs for them

1:12:26 ↗ the the guests that they have the

1:12:27 ↗ employees that they're gonna have and so

1:12:29 ↗ that that was gonna this is the first

1:12:31 ↗ time that we shared with the city the

1:12:32 ↗ idea about having a just a fully parking

1:12:36 ↗ structure on that corner and and the

1:12:39 ↗ result of that conversation you know

1:12:40 ↗ they gave us a number of different

1:12:42 ↗ things to be thinking about that we

1:12:44 ↗ could continue to take back and design

1:12:45 ↗ on first being that you know they felt

1:12:49 ↗ like the building for which is here and

1:12:51 ↗ then on the east side was you know can

1:12:55 ↗ conceivably gonna be consistent with the

1:12:58 ↗ land plan that was approved with the

1:13:00 ↗ development agreement but we're gonna

1:13:01 ↗ need to focus on getting that building

1:13:03 ↗ close to the street making sure we're

1:13:05 ↗ complying with the the build to line

1:13:08 ↗ that we're complying with emphasizing

1:13:11 ↗ the building corners that we're creating

1:13:13 ↗ obvious entry areas and that there's

1:13:16 ↗ active spaces on that ground floor and

1:13:18 ↗ and and if that was the case and we

1:13:21 ↗ would potentially be able to get go

1:13:23 ↗ through an administrative process there

1:13:24 ↗ but for the garage because that wasn't

1:13:27 ↗ envisioned in the land plan we're gonna

1:13:29 ↗ that's going to require a full site

1:13:32 ↗ development permit review with the

1:13:33 ↗ development Commission and then the

1:13:36 ↗ biggest thing is is at least for us when

1:13:39 ↗ we were first talking about them is that

1:13:40 ↗ we needed to to kind of scrap the idea

1:13:42 ↗ of having parking on the first floor and

1:13:45 ↗ and figure out some different ways to to

1:13:47 ↗ be compliant with the this is standards

1:13:52 ↗ and you know and we talked quite a bit

1:13:56 ↗ about the through block connections

1:13:58 ↗ about having community spaces entry

1:14:01 ↗ plazas things like that and ultimately

1:14:03 ↗ we get to the the plan that's part of

1:14:07 ↗ our site development permit in front of

1:14:10 ↗ you now

1:14:11 ↗ and and you know now we have a set of

1:14:13 ↗ buildings that are pulled out to the to

1:14:17 ↗ the street in places where we couldn't

1:14:20 ↗ quite get to the the 10-foot we brought

1:14:23 ↗ the sidewalk to the face of buildings in

1:14:25 ↗ most cases to to make it feel like the

1:14:28 ↗ buildings right out you know it's a zero

1:14:30 ↗ lot line building or you know it's right

1:14:32 ↗ up to the street is because the

1:14:33 ↗ sidewalks there and in places where we

1:14:36 ↗ have landscape being incorporated in

1:14:39 ↗ that area was used to landscape and hard

1:14:42 ↗ scape is is used to direct and and move

1:14:46 ↗ people towards main entrances of the

1:14:47 ↗ buildings is to shape spaces and create

1:14:50 ↗ places and and not just you know throw

1:14:54 ↗ down someone and just call it a 15-foot

1:14:57 ↗ setback it's really designed to be

1:14:59 ↗ something that's purposeful that's

1:15:00 ↗ intentional and is is helping direct

1:15:03 ↗ people around and into and through

1:15:05 ↗ spaces and into buildings on the parking

1:15:09 ↗ garage you know we're doing things that

1:15:11 ↗ that whole first floor has been

1:15:13 ↗ completely reimagined from what we first

1:15:16 ↗ submitted to this city and and there's

1:15:19 ↗ an exhibition on the space in the north

1:15:21 ↗ wing that is really meant to give Costco

1:15:24 ↗ the ability for their buyers and their

1:15:26 ↗ vendors to get together to to look at

1:15:29 ↗ potential products that they may be

1:15:30 ↗ sewing it's it's a big enough space that

1:15:33 ↗ they can almost even outfit it like a

1:15:36 ↗ mini warehouse if they want to do that

1:15:39 ↗ and and just demonstrate products look

1:15:41 ↗ at them set it all up we think that it's

1:15:44 ↗ going to be a space that's in real high

1:15:45 ↗ demand for them and then on the south

1:15:47 ↗ end to provide an amenity space that

1:15:50 ↗ currently is envisioned as a as a

1:15:53 ↗ fitness center that the employees can

1:15:57 ↗ use and will be visible right out to the

1:15:59 ↗ public and and we'll show some activity

1:16:02 ↗ and and just energy

1:16:09 ↗ so there's there's a number of comments

1:16:13 ↗ that were that were just submitted today

1:16:17 ↗ and I think maybe we'll wait until after

1:16:19 ↗ we've heard any other comments that

1:16:21 ↗ might get raised tonight and then try to

1:16:24 ↗ address those all at one point in time

1:16:26 ↗ and and now I'll turn this over to

1:16:29 ↗ Shannon soos who has a really fun part

1:16:31 ↗ of talking about the design of the

1:16:33 ↗ buildings yeah I love my job

1:16:37 ↗ hi everybody I'm Shannon soos I'm a

1:16:40 ↗ senior designer at mg2 I've come on this

1:16:43 ↗ project fairly recently I'm only about

1:16:46 ↗ two years into it compared and flee to

1:16:48 ↗ the rest of the group here but taking

1:16:52 ↗ into accounts Jean presented really

1:16:56 ↗ fantastic backbone to where we're at and

1:16:59 ↗ what we've come up with and where we've

1:17:01 ↗ come I think what we're trying to do is

1:17:04 ↗ enhance and utilize all the things that

1:17:08 ↗ we've found in the city of this akua's

1:17:10 ↗ design guidelines we've had meetings

1:17:12 ↗ with them multiple times about how to

1:17:14 ↗ break the building down and keep the

1:17:18 ↗ scale the right size so what I've done

1:17:21 ↗ is kind of giving you a little bit of

1:17:23 ↗ background I kind of wanted to give you

1:17:25 ↗ a little bit about Costco's needs as

1:17:28 ↗ well because these are just some aspects

1:17:31 ↗ of what they are looking for in their

1:17:33 ↗ building as well things that also direct

1:17:38 ↗ us when we're shaping them massing a

1:17:40 ↗ building Costco they want to truly in

1:17:44 ↗ value what they are which is they're

1:17:47 ↗ efficient and they have great culture

1:17:50 ↗ and values for their people they're

1:17:52 ↗ smart and intentional they want spaces

1:17:54 ↗ that work for them so some of the new

1:17:57 ↗ things that were proposing that Steve

1:17:59 ↗ brought up which was this new flex space

1:18:01 ↗ is turned into a thing where they had a

1:18:05 ↗ spot in their campus that they would set

1:18:08 ↗ up large projects but by the city asking

1:18:11 ↗ for some public realm areas on the first

1:18:13 ↗ floor we found this great spot in the

1:18:16 ↗ parking garage to incorporate some of

1:18:18 ↗ their flexible and intentional needs

1:18:22 ↗ they want to be flexible for a changing

1:18:25 ↗ workforce so we're in creating areas

1:18:29 ↗ that are definitely public room spaces

1:18:31 ↗ and then spaces that they can flex and

1:18:33 ↗ change for their own needs

1:18:35 ↗ sustainability is always part of our

1:18:37 ↗ package we constantly in everything that

1:18:41 ↗ we do at MG to infuse these aspects to

1:18:45 ↗ it Costco is also a great workplace and

1:18:49 ↗ they have a lot of teaching programs

1:18:53 ↗ they have a sustainability group they

1:18:55 ↗ have a couple of other groups that they

1:18:56 ↗ have some conferences so you'll see on

1:18:59 ↗ our first floor we incorporated a

1:19:02 ↗ auditorium space which is mainly meant

1:19:04 ↗ to be a teaching facility where they can

1:19:06 ↗ break down and have classes and large

1:19:09 ↗ meeting groups where they can bring back

1:19:11 ↗ all their managers of course it's always

1:19:15 ↗ about the human and the partnership with

1:19:17 ↗ the people evolutionary in the building

1:19:20 ↗ facades the way we treated it and

1:19:23 ↗ healthy employees we adopted a work plan

1:19:27 ↗ of creating the building and the shape

1:19:30 ↗ that you saw it part of that was because

1:19:32 ↗ we wanted to day light the building

1:19:33 ↗ inside it was about the how the people

1:19:35 ↗ so you see the two buildings turning the

1:19:38 ↗ into those shapes in those two L's

1:19:41 ↗ shapes and it's also about how we tried

1:19:43 ↗ to keep the building narrow and keep the

1:19:45 ↗ light and keep people's relationships to

1:19:48 ↗ the trees and the outside as close as

1:19:50 ↗ possible so from a design narrative we

1:19:55 ↗ just kind of threw this in is you know

1:19:56 ↗ we are rooted in the northwest

1:19:59 ↗ Costco's read it here in Issaquah that's

1:20:01 ↗ very important to them keeping a

1:20:03 ↗ presence of their corporate campus but I

1:20:06 ↗ think the main line and this is it's a

1:20:09 ↗ design that infuses the natural

1:20:11 ↗ surroundings into the workplace building

1:20:13 ↗ designing and creating a warm inviting

1:20:15 ↗ and healthy environment it's about the

1:20:17 ↗ people and the health and creating

1:20:20 ↗ spaces that people flow out of the

1:20:22 ↗ building function

1:20:24 ↗ there's a thing efficiency is part of

1:20:27 ↗ Costco's goals so we're trying to be

1:20:31 ↗ purposeful in what we do we're not

1:20:33 ↗ putting things on the first floor or

1:20:34 ↗ places that don't make any sense or we

1:20:37 ↗ don't need them just to be saying but

1:20:39 ↗ we're putting retail down there well

1:20:40 ↗ we're not putting retail down there just

1:20:41 ↗ to put something on the floor store and

1:20:44 ↗ say it's not activated we're making them

1:20:46 ↗ activated spaces we want to be part of

1:20:50 ↗ the Northwest and the nature of the

1:20:52 ↗ space we sit up against a beautiful

1:20:56 ↗ river with great trees and there's this

1:21:01 ↗ kind of economy of having an urban edge

1:21:03 ↗ as well as a natural edge we're gonna

1:21:06 ↗ use that to our advantage in the facade

1:21:08 ↗ of the building as well sensible we want

1:21:12 ↗ lasting materials we want it to look

1:21:14 ↗ like it's been there for a while we want

1:21:15 ↗ it to relate to its sites we want it to

1:21:18 ↗ relate to the areas it's in and people

1:21:21 ↗ it's always about the humans I think

1:21:25 ↗ gene and them all kind of went through

1:21:26 ↗ this stuff makes my job a little easier

1:21:29 ↗ the main things that we really wanted to

1:21:31 ↗ point out is our first floor is bright

1:21:35 ↗ open and natural we have active street

1:21:38 ↗ frontage in terms of what we've placed

1:21:40 ↗ in those areas we've put the green parts

1:21:43 ↗ those are what we're considering cafes

1:21:47 ↗ and restaurants this will activate in

1:21:49 ↗ the morning and the afternoon in the

1:21:51 ↗ evening for the employees the blue zones

1:21:54 ↗ are meeting and an auditorium space an

1:21:58 ↗ interesting fact that there's a new

1:22:00 ↗ bridge they can't hear you so you need

1:22:04 ↗ to stay a microphone I like to move the

1:22:09 ↗ 60 second bridge comes across and it's

1:22:12 ↗ actually quite high so we have a sloped

1:22:15 ↗ grade which is the reason why we kind of

1:22:17 ↗ put the auditorium to that side the side

1:22:21 ↗ on the river side is all the open glazed

1:22:24 ↗ system which you'll see in the

1:22:25 ↗ elevations we also have the through

1:22:28 ↗ block connection through the middle of

1:22:30 ↗ the building and this is why I said the

1:22:32 ↗ building is intentionally narrow in

1:22:36 ↗ it's width but lengthwise what we did is

1:22:41 ↗ kind of staggered it in order with this

1:22:44 ↗ site being curved you can't just place

1:22:46 ↗ the building without kinking it all the

1:22:48 ↗ way around so we did an intentional

1:22:49 ↗ slide and created the 67 West Plaza like

1:22:57 ↗ we said before level four we created a

1:23:00 ↗ sky bridge across the building and it's

1:23:04 ↗ called a sky bridge it through the

1:23:05 ↗ middle piece so we're trying to keep the

1:23:07 ↗ building as one building but because

1:23:09 ↗ it's longer at six hundred and

1:23:11 ↗ thirtysomething feet we can't have one

1:23:14 ↗ continuous long line so we broke the

1:23:16 ↗ building in the two parts

1:23:17 ↗ it also affects the elevation as well

1:23:20 ↗ the high level bridge is actually 30

1:23:23 ↗ feet off the ground at its highest point

1:23:25 ↗ so it feels very grand you're not going

1:23:28 ↗ to feel like you're being squished when

1:23:29 ↗ you're walking through it and the

1:23:30 ↗ skybridge connector to the other side is

1:23:34 ↗ mainly for the employees to come across

1:23:36 ↗ from the parking garage with minimal

1:23:38 ↗ impact of them crossing streets and

1:23:40 ↗ involving them with pedestrians we put

1:23:43 ↗ it in at level 4 which actually puts

1:23:46 ↗ that bridge at about 40 feet above the

1:23:49 ↗ road line so it's way high and the whole

1:23:52 ↗ purpose for that is to keep the views of

1:23:53 ↗ the mountains that was very intentional

1:23:55 ↗ as well as it comes in at the middle of

1:23:59 ↗ the building the building's nine stories

1:24:01 ↗ we come in at the middle we're doing

1:24:04 ↗ active cores as part of the keeping the

1:24:08 ↗ employees active in the ploys currently

1:24:11 ↗ we'll run the stairs of the parking

1:24:13 ↗ garage next door

1:24:14 ↗ they go out there as part of their

1:24:16 ↗ exercise program so we intentionally did

1:24:18 ↗ to feature Grand stairs in the building

1:24:20 ↗ to emphasize that but we put the

1:24:23 ↗ entrance at four so that they go up and

1:24:25 ↗ down it kind of encourages them to do

1:24:27 ↗ that over elevators level nine we're

1:24:31 ↗ just showing that we part of the

1:24:33 ↗ building tripartite system is to step

1:24:36 ↗ the building in so level nine actually

1:24:39 ↗ squishes on all sides and then we broke

1:24:42 ↗ it at the open rooftop terrace in the

1:24:45 ↗ middle

1:24:46 ↗ to intentionally come across as that we

1:24:49 ↗ have two different buildings not one

1:24:52 ↗ large building and then for level five

1:24:55 ↗ this is this is where we have the most

1:24:59 ↗ fun with you know normally we were

1:25:01 ↗ saying we just wanted to put a parking

1:25:02 ↗ garage in but because we want to have an

1:25:05 ↗ active front we found functions in

1:25:08 ↗ Costco's program that made us have the

1:25:11 ↗ ability to create spaces that activated

1:25:13 ↗ the front street lines gave reason why

1:25:16 ↗ we had plazas so the front piece is the

1:25:20 ↗ fitness center and there's an active

1:25:23 ↗ plaza to the front that spills out to it

1:25:26 ↗ and then the active street frontage on

1:25:29 ↗ the top where we've connected that North

1:25:31 ↗ Plaza in between building 3 we

1:25:33 ↗ intentionally we're trying not to a

1:25:35 ↗ block to many of these from building 3

1:25:38 ↗ create a plaza area that they would

1:25:40 ↗ spill out to but give Costco a reason

1:25:43 ↗ why they could use that whole entire

1:25:44 ↗ first floor not for parking but as a

1:25:47 ↗ public space and then at the top of the

1:25:51 ↗ building we as Jean showed you we're

1:25:54 ↗ providing PV panels part of the

1:25:59 ↗ interesting design part is that we're

1:26:00 ↗ using a speed ramp to get up at the

1:26:02 ↗ first floor so we are able to do a high

1:26:04 ↗ level 17 18 foot floor line and then we

1:26:09 ↗ go flat deck from there with

1:26:10 ↗ intermediate ramps so it kind of creates

1:26:13 ↗ more of an office building or a flat

1:26:16 ↗ plane across the frontage we didn't want

1:26:18 ↗ to have a lot of sloping ramp beam

1:26:21 ↗ systems going around so the building at

1:26:23 ↗ the top of the north is all flat so it

1:26:25 ↗ will it'll intentionally look from the

1:26:28 ↗ elevation as a building part of the

1:26:33 ↗ materials as we wanted to point out that

1:26:35 ↗ we're we're trying to be contextual with

1:26:39 ↗ what's existing on the campus so you're

1:26:41 ↗ looking at mainly our newest building

1:26:44 ↗ and the campus which is building 3 it's

1:26:46 ↗ the one that sits closest to building 5

1:26:48 ↗ and the parking lot you can see that it

1:26:50 ↗ has brick facade metal metal awnings

1:26:55 ↗ punched windows

1:26:58 ↗ so these are a lot of the features that

1:26:59 ↗ we are trying to incorporate when we got

1:27:01 ↗ to the new building the new building

1:27:03 ↗ though is nine stories this is three

1:27:05 ↗ stories so in order to do these feats

1:27:08 ↗ and not have it look a little awkward we

1:27:11 ↗ changed the scale or the materials in

1:27:13 ↗ certain areas but we kept the intention

1:27:15 ↗ of what this building looks and what one

1:27:18 ↗ and two look like next to it and then

1:27:20 ↗ these are just some materials just to

1:27:24 ↗ give you an idea that brick it was very

1:27:26 ↗ important so we used brick at the

1:27:27 ↗ baseline for people

1:27:30 ↗ we're using some vertical slat kind of

1:27:33 ↗ elements on the parking garage we have

1:27:36 ↗ some patterned glass awnings so

1:27:38 ↗ everywhere around the building there's

1:27:40 ↗ an awning system to keep people

1:27:41 ↗ protected when they're walking we're

1:27:44 ↗ using a curtain wall system for our main

1:27:47 ↗ body

1:27:48 ↗ we've worked intensively with rushing in

1:27:52 ↗ terms of how to do the energy for this

1:27:54 ↗ it is actually going to be a triple

1:27:56 ↗ plate paned building which is not rare

1:28:00 ↗ new it's actually been done in Europe

1:28:01 ↗ for many many years but not as frequent

1:28:05 ↗ in the Pacific Northwest yet it's on its

1:28:08 ↗ way within your building codes and then

1:28:12 ↗ we're doing some wood soffit to warm it

1:28:14 ↗ up and some pattern features so this is

1:28:17 ↗ kind of our first I guess you call it or

1:28:20 ↗ well-shot mainly what we're trying to

1:28:24 ↗ show here is we are gonna have this

1:28:26 ↗ tripartite building we are stepping it

1:28:29 ↗ back we're trying to articulate the

1:28:31 ↗ urban side with multiple three different

1:28:35 ↗ types of languages as Jean proposed we

1:28:38 ↗ have the bookends we have the lanterns

1:28:40 ↗ we have glass we have the step-back at

1:28:42 ↗ the top and this great opportunity where

1:28:45 ↗ we will be able to have views from the

1:28:47 ↗ rooftop out to Lake Sammamish to the

1:28:50 ↗ mountains to the lake into the ponds I

1:28:54 ↗ think another intentional thing we

1:28:57 ↗ hasn't been discussed yet is the parking

1:28:59 ↗ garage not only are we adding curtain

1:29:03 ↗ wall glazing to the corners to mimic the

1:29:05 ↗ lantern effect

1:29:07 ↗ that's occurring on the office building

1:29:08 ↗ we intentionally brought the scale down

1:29:10 ↗ by lowering the floor to floor Heights

1:29:12 ↗ because it is a parking garage we don't

1:29:14 ↗ need as much height in it so you can

1:29:16 ↗ definitely see how the parking garage

1:29:18 ↗ has dropped as it goes across the site

1:29:21 ↗ the building is intentional to look like

1:29:23 ↗ it's connected or part of the same

1:29:26 ↗ family but of course it's two different

1:29:29 ↗ functions this is looking from the view

1:29:36 ↗ coming down on 62nd and I'm just kind of

1:29:39 ↗ using the 3d views to kind of give you a

1:29:41 ↗ sense of what we were looking for we

1:29:44 ↗ have the bookends which will be done in

1:29:46 ↗ a metal the baseline is or the first

1:29:49 ↗ level of the tripartite is the brick

1:29:52 ↗ which you saw in the one view that gene

1:29:54 ↗ showed it's bringing the scale down in

1:29:56 ↗ that portion of the building because

1:29:59 ↗ it's set on the property line as part of

1:30:02 ↗ the street frontage a nine-story

1:30:05 ↗ building right up against the street

1:30:06 ↗ line tends to be fairly opposing so we

1:30:10 ↗ used the brick to the second or third

1:30:12 ↗ level we also did kind of this white

1:30:16 ↗ pattern textured panels and what we're

1:30:19 ↗ showing there is that we're actually

1:30:21 ↗ spanning the two levels per floor so

1:30:24 ↗ it's kind of a trick of breaking the

1:30:27 ↗ building down and give you the sense of

1:30:29 ↗ it's only a three storey but it's not

1:30:30 ↗ but you know and then setting the back

1:30:33 ↗ line and having roof overhangs so that

1:30:38 ↗ was the urban edge you saw it was a

1:30:39 ↗ little more solid on that side this side

1:30:42 ↗ is our Creekside Terrace view it's on

1:30:45 ↗ the nature side this side were

1:30:47 ↗ intentionally open up and using mostly

1:30:50 ↗ glass and other than a little bit of the

1:30:52 ↗ white textured panels where we want to

1:30:58 ↗ reflect the nature and we want to have

1:31:00 ↗ the most open views to nature on this

1:31:04 ↗ side and this is the kind of opposite of

1:31:06 ↗ the urban edge because of where it sits

1:31:12 ↗ through the three black piece you can

1:31:17 ↗ see that it's a 30-foot high open to the

1:31:21 ↗ floor so we're actually coming in at

1:31:23 ↗ level three on that and then it goes

1:31:25 ↗ only a few floors up from there the

1:31:28 ↗ brick facade the we have the metal

1:31:33 ↗ panels for the expression of punched

1:31:35 ↗ openings that kind of brings back that

1:31:36 ↗ punched opening from building three and

1:31:39 ↗ other buildings in the area but we're

1:31:41 ↗ using a different material type instead

1:31:43 ↗ of brick at the high level trying to

1:31:45 ↗ lighten the building as it goes up as as

1:31:47 ↗ opposed to doing a nine story brick

1:31:48 ↗ building which we felt had this heavy

1:31:51 ↗ quality instead of a lighter more modern

1:31:53 ↗ efficient building as we come around

1:31:59 ↗ we're coming across the front of the 90

1:32:02 ↗ and at the apex of where like drive and

1:32:07 ↗ 62nd you're looking at the far right

1:32:10 ↗ side the lantern to the parking garage

1:32:13 ↗ and the high level of the sky bridge so

1:32:16 ↗ sky bridge is 40 feet from Road deck to

1:32:20 ↗ underside quite high which turns into a

1:32:24 ↗ structural challenge in itself but the

1:32:27 ↗ intention was so that we would see

1:32:29 ↗ through it and not have it as a blocking

1:32:32 ↗ mechanism as you come across the front

1:32:37 ↗ of the building now you're seeing a

1:32:40 ↗ little bit more of the parking garage

1:32:41 ↗ this is the fitness center in the lower

1:32:44 ↗ portion two story volume glass we're

1:32:47 ↗ doing a mezzanine or kind of taking

1:32:49 ↗ advantage of the front of the parking to

1:32:52 ↗ have a plaza we're using the bookend

1:32:54 ↗ metal panels with open punching and then

1:32:59 ↗ you can see the slats is a probably a

1:33:02 ↗ metal slat that's going to levels up

1:33:05 ↗ with screening we've added a concrete

1:33:08 ↗ line to mimic that to level part tide

1:33:11 ↗ aspect and then that's the drive through

1:33:14 ↗ on the one side

1:33:20 ↗ this is coming down like place you're

1:33:22 ↗ looking at the corner of the parking

1:33:26 ↗ garage

1:33:26 ↗ this lower pieces like we said is trying

1:33:29 ↗ to lower the scale for the people it

1:33:32 ↗ gives this two-story volume effect to

1:33:36 ↗ the function flex space this is where

1:33:39 ↗ they're going to use it for everything

1:33:41 ↗ from product displays to gathering

1:33:42 ↗ events it spills out into the plaza so

1:33:46 ↗ we're encouraging walking from the two

1:33:49 ↗ buildings down the side we did

1:33:52 ↗ intentionally use the brick all the way

1:33:54 ↗ up it sits right next to the building

1:33:55 ↗ three it will be very complementary to

1:33:58 ↗ the building as well as you see the back

1:34:02 ↗ panels the slats ride through so that's

1:34:05 ↗ kind of a one element and then there's a

1:34:07 ↗ back panel inside there's these lines

1:34:10 ↗ that are behind the screen those are

1:34:13 ↗ intentionally used to block the light of

1:34:15 ↗ cars at night so we will have a

1:34:19 ↗ consistent light glow from the building

1:34:21 ↗ without having these light bleed outs

1:34:24 ↗ from cars driving through and then off

1:34:26 ↗ to the far side you can kind of see how

1:34:28 ↗ that one Lantern starts to connect the

1:34:30 ↗ office building and then we come to the

1:34:38 ↗ the end and really what the building is

1:34:41 ↗ about when we talk about connection to

1:34:44 ↗ the existing campus this is kind of the

1:34:47 ↗ view of the training building is the

1:34:49 ↗ kind of ghosted one on the side you're

1:34:51 ↗ coming down Lake Place you kind of have

1:34:54 ↗ this warm glow at night of the Flex base

1:34:57 ↗ and the parking garage but intentionally

1:35:00 ↗ what we really want people to kind of

1:35:02 ↗ see is they come around the corner and

1:35:03 ↗ the way this built this road turns is

1:35:06 ↗ the lantern to the entry which is the

1:35:09 ↗ main entrance to the building the warm

1:35:11 ↗ glow of the plaza how the building kind

1:35:14 ↗ of tucks and steps around and creates

1:35:17 ↗ this kind of capturing moment and you

1:35:20 ↗ can kind of see through and you see the

1:35:22 ↗ mountains at beyond so the focal points

1:35:26 ↗ the lantern edges

1:35:28 ↗ and the vistas to the mountains

1:35:30 ↗ emphasizing the curves with that I just

1:35:35 ↗ wanted to thank you all for your time we

1:35:37 ↗ have everyone here available for

1:35:40 ↗ questions I hopefully give you enough

1:35:42 ↗ insight into some of the design aspects

1:35:46 ↗ as we move forward thank you very much

1:35:53 ↗ it's been really a couple of great

1:35:56 ↗ presentations and so I think at this

1:35:57 ↗ point the best thing to do would be to

1:35:59 ↗ open the opportunity for any members the

1:36:02 ↗ public that wish to speak to speak and

1:36:05 ↗ then I'd recommend we probably take a

1:36:07 ↗ five minute break just to stand up and

1:36:10 ↗ get blood circulating again and no I

1:36:13 ↗ could use it so how about are there

1:36:16 ↗ members of the public who wish to speak

1:36:18 ↗ then if you would wish to speak I'd

1:36:21 ↗ appreciate you signing in and then when

1:36:23 ↗ you go to stock if you would tell us

1:36:26 ↗ your name

1:36:43 ↗ David Kapler the speaking is my an

1:36:50 ↗ individual tonight and then as Issaquah

1:36:53 ↗ helps trails club a vice president for

1:36:55 ↗ advocacy I'll start with that

1:36:57 ↗ I sent late this afternoon a letter did

1:37:01 ↗ the commissioners get that great okay so

1:37:05 ↗ that just stressing the retention of

1:37:09 ↗ trees especially on parcel for the trail

1:37:15 ↗ there is really it is part of the

1:37:18 ↗ transportation system but the people

1:37:21 ↗ that are really traveling north-south is

1:37:24 ↗ a transportation trail we'll be using

1:37:27 ↗ these Lake Sammamish trail which has

1:37:30 ↗ been closed for a long time especially

1:37:32 ↗ when Sammamish eventually let's the

1:37:36 ↗ county finish the trail to the north and

1:37:38 ↗ get to paved the serious bicyclists that

1:37:41 ↗ are going over i-90 up to Kenmore and

1:37:43 ↗ further and then back around making the

1:37:46 ↗ big loop and and others that are even

1:37:48 ↗ just going to Redmond are going to be on

1:37:50 ↗ that so there's still be bikes on that

1:37:51 ↗ trail but it's definitely and you see it

1:37:55 ↗ now already there's a lot of badges

1:37:57 ↗ people with badges walk in that trail

1:37:58 ↗ they're not trying to get somewhere else

1:38:00 ↗ on the campus necessarily of Costco they

1:38:03 ↗ are just enjoying walking in on that

1:38:06 ↗ trail which has got quite a few nice

1:38:08 ↗ trees growing I do make a pitch about

1:38:11 ↗ the concerns about cottonwood trees or

1:38:13 ↗ other trees that end up wrecking the

1:38:16 ↗ pavement causing tripping hazards and

1:38:19 ↗ costs and cottonwood trees not herve

1:38:24 ↗ agrees with me but having seen a very

1:38:26 ↗ large branch come off of and cottonwood

1:38:29 ↗ tree for no apparent reason is and I

1:38:32 ↗ know it's an issue out there they are

1:38:34 ↗ not a tree that we need to encourage

1:38:37 ↗ there but we do want to have native

1:38:39 ↗ trees we also have to recognize the

1:38:42 ↗ watering needs and the rest of trees and

1:38:44 ↗ climate change I know the mountain sound

1:38:48 ↗ Greenway is looking at reforestation

1:38:51 ↗ restoration projects and they're

1:38:52 ↗ thinking more about trees that are more

1:38:54 ↗ friendly to exist

1:38:55 ↗ climate in Oregon Western Oregon then

1:38:58 ↗ Western Washington and that's just any

1:39:01 ↗ way we want to have trees that do not

1:39:03 ↗ require high maintenance cause problems

1:39:05 ↗ will require lots of water once they're

1:39:09 ↗ established the back over on the parking

1:39:16 ↗ garage area like that trail there which

1:39:21 ↗ is on the south end of the ponds on the

1:39:24 ↗ east side of the pond has been with

1:39:28 ↗ covered with water drainage forever I

1:39:31 ↗ thought when Costco bought the site from

1:39:34 ↗ the original owners there they might fix

1:39:36 ↗ that but it's still at least the last

1:39:38 ↗ time I was there it's a terrible

1:39:40 ↗ situation with like wet water coming

1:39:45 ↗ over the trail of course if when the

1:39:46 ↗ winter or even more with that so

1:39:48 ↗ hopefully there's going to be some

1:39:50 ↗ drainage improvements that are tied in

1:39:52 ↗ with the the parking garage but we also

1:39:56 ↗ going to lose potential vegetation when

1:39:58 ↗ they do the solving the problem

1:40:00 ↗ hopefully of the water across the trail

1:40:02 ↗ so there's hopefully that's going to be

1:40:04 ↗ thought out and make that trail a much

1:40:07 ↗ more usable and safer part of our

1:40:11 ↗ recreational trail system as well as

1:40:13 ↗ part of into enteric AMPAS

1:40:17 ↗ transportation system the lantern on

1:40:26 ↗ building for one of them looked like it

1:40:29 ↗ was at the northeast corner of that

1:40:32 ↗ building or the very eastern very

1:40:34 ↗ eastern part of the building at the

1:40:35 ↗ north that seems like it's closer to the

1:40:38 ↗ trail in the woods and the open space

1:40:41 ↗ over there I didn't maybe I didn't

1:40:43 ↗ understand the drawing the sky bridge is

1:40:47 ↗ I hope they're going to figure out a way

1:40:48 ↗ so they ventilate them and not because

1:40:51 ↗ they're gonna be so there's gonna be a

1:40:54 ↗ huge heat just the poor little crummy

1:40:58 ↗ greenhouse I have with the door open

1:41:00 ↗ this summer was unbearably hot and just

1:41:03 ↗ been those kind of those sky bridges are

1:41:06 ↗ just which is cool that they're all

1:41:09 ↗ but they are a greenhouse and I hope

1:41:11 ↗ they figure out to have a lot of natural

1:41:14 ↗ venting of those some just to make them

1:41:16 ↗ more comfortable and not be energy

1:41:19 ↗ requiring lots of energy to to cool them

1:41:23 ↗ down or deal with that hot air coming

1:41:26 ↗ into the buildings back from my earlier

1:41:30 ↗ days on the council I was working we

1:41:31 ↗ deal with Costco on the recycling issue

1:41:35 ↗ and Corp and what happens at the back

1:41:39 ↗ end of the store the warehouse store I

1:41:42 ↗ think is very good but the general

1:41:46 ↗ public that interfaces with Costco at

1:41:48 ↗ the food court would have no idea that

1:41:51 ↗ they're actually quite good at recycling

1:41:55 ↗ overall but I would hope they could get

1:41:59 ↗ that as part of this whole thing and

1:42:01 ↗ making sure that the recycling is really

1:42:04 ↗ obvious to visitors to the building and

1:42:07 ↗ to employees putting on just a citizen

1:42:15 ↗ hat not as coops Trails Club and that is

1:42:18 ↗ perhaps you've already received some

1:42:20 ↗ information about the concern we all

1:42:23 ↗ have especially residents south of town

1:42:25 ↗ have about the 55

1:42:28 ↗ I mean 55,000 yards of material that

1:42:33 ↗ could be exported from this side that's

1:42:38 ↗ 5,000 you know regular truck dump truck

1:42:41 ↗ loads there's also going to be material

1:42:44 ↗ brought in apparently to some degree

1:42:46 ↗ because some of the site has will need

1:42:49 ↗ the only better better material

1:42:53 ↗ personally living a block of Amarna

1:42:57 ↗ block that way and my brother having a

1:42:59 ↗ building on east sunset I've benefited

1:43:02 ↗ tremendously by the city banning the

1:43:05 ↗ trucks from Newport front street in the

1:43:11 ↗ sunset but when we've done that we are

1:43:13 ↗ really putting a huge burden on the

1:43:16 ↗ rural residents south of town especially

1:43:18 ↗ in May Valley Road

1:43:20 ↗ it's a crazy road as it is connecting

1:43:22 ↗ Hobart is aqua Road in 900 and it's we

1:43:26 ↗ do not need to be sending more trucks

1:43:28 ↗ full of dirt speeding on that road there

1:43:32 ↗ has been an agreement on the Bergsma so

1:43:34 ↗ far that they will use i-90 and have

1:43:37 ↗ some other way of dealing with their

1:43:41 ↗ 80,000 potential cubic yards of material

1:43:44 ↗ excess material from their site thank

1:43:48 ↗ you for the opportunity

1:43:59 ↗ good evening I'm Hart Sugarman I'm a

1:44:02 ↗ resident of Issaquah for 23 years and

1:44:05 ↗ I've jotted down some notes as I watched

1:44:08 ↗ the presentation this evening

1:44:10 ↗ Yasuko has experienced unprecedented

1:44:12 ↗ growth over the past several years due

1:44:15 ↗ to all the development that has taken

1:44:17 ↗ place

1:44:17 ↗ traffic has a big impact on the

1:44:20 ↗ community one intersection that needs to

1:44:23 ↗ be addressed sooner than later is the

1:44:27 ↗ intersection of 17th Avenue and 12th

1:44:29 ↗ Avenue with the Holiday Inn located at

1:44:32 ↗ the southeast corner my specific request

1:44:35 ↗ is to add a right turn only lane from

1:44:39 ↗ northbound 17th Avenue to enter 12th

1:44:42 ↗ Avenue to facilitate the ingress many of

1:44:46 ↗ you might know that intersection as you

1:44:47 ↗ approach the City Hall Northwest as

1:44:51 ↗ shown in tonight's slide the ratio of

1:44:54 ↗ parking stalls per 1000 is decreasing

1:44:57 ↗ this is a concern the city and the state

1:45:01 ↗ should also look at constructing a

1:45:04 ↗ bridge across i-90 connecting Lake Drive

1:45:07 ↗ on the North to Maple Avenue on the

1:45:09 ↗ south side this will significantly

1:45:12 ↗ assist with the current traffic

1:45:14 ↗ congestion experienced on East Lake

1:45:16 ↗ Sammamish Northwest Sammamish Road and

1:45:19 ↗ 17th Avenue my license my last item is

1:45:23 ↗ related to community in this slide

1:45:26 ↗ presentation tonight we see a community

1:45:29 ↗ pass through area whereby residents can

1:45:31 ↗ walk through the new Costco development

1:45:34 ↗ from the east to the west or vice versa

1:45:36 ↗ however today if I'm walking or biking

1:45:40 ↗ along the trail of the Creek I cannot

1:45:43 ↗ get over to Lake Drive there are signs

1:45:47 ↗ posts that say no trespassing and I

1:45:49 ↗ think Costco should allow someone to be

1:45:51 ↗ able to pass through the property today

1:45:54 ↗ as a community goodwill one suggestion

1:46:01 ↗ for the architects and Costco for the

1:46:03 ↗ new construction maybe it's already

1:46:04 ↗ being considered I might have missed

1:46:05 ↗ this point but to put in a rooftop

1:46:08 ↗ terrace on top of this buildings to

1:46:11 ↗ allow the employees of

1:46:12 ↗ go to have their lunch coffee breaks or

1:46:16 ↗ just relaxation time the views from that

1:46:19 ↗ area the vistas are stunning it's a

1:46:22 ↗ spectacular view from that height so I

1:46:24 ↗ think that'd be a really nice advantage

1:46:26 ↗ for the employees thank you very much

1:46:40 ↗ hi I'm Connie Marsh I live on squawk so

1:46:47 ↗ Costco Costco is sustainable except for

1:46:53 ↗ in the environment in which they're

1:46:55 ↗ building they are using potentially

1:46:58 ↗ reasonable building techniques but

1:47:01 ↗ they're filling the floodplain and they

1:47:03 ↗ don't even want to replant the trees

1:47:05 ↗ that they're taking it out so it is hard

1:47:08 ↗ for me to fathom that you can say you're

1:47:15 ↗ trying to emulate the nature of the

1:47:18 ↗ Pacific Northwest when you're beating

1:47:20 ↗ the bejesus out of this parcel when

1:47:23 ↗ you're looking at the impacts to

1:47:25 ↗ Pickering Creek I fail to understand why

1:47:29 ↗ they need to fill the floodplain and

1:47:32 ↗ then we have a secondary note flood

1:47:35 ↗ hazard special flood hazard areas are a

1:47:38 ↗ part of our critical areas chapter and

1:47:42 ↗ they're part of SEPA and I do not

1:47:45 ↗ believe that they are in the planned

1:47:47 ↗ action ordinance and this means you

1:47:49 ↗ would see but does not suffice and you

1:47:53 ↗ would need to have a SEPA decision on

1:47:56 ↗ the flood hazard now it might just be a

1:48:00 ↗ condition saying that they must apply

1:48:03 ↗ with chapter 16 that deals with flood

1:48:06 ↗ hazard areas but you can't make a

1:48:08 ↗ decision until your sefa is completed

1:48:12 ↗ and I don't know how that we can

1:48:15 ↗ understand how that building is going to

1:48:18 ↗ be put in place without knowing what

1:48:20 ↗ they're going to have to do to provide

1:48:22 ↗ the compensatory detention that you need

1:48:24 ↗ when you fill in a flood hazard area and

1:48:27 ↗ it's just missing that flood hazard area

1:48:32 ↗ fill is a large part of the reason that

1:48:34 ↗ they want to take all the trees out

1:48:36 ↗ adjacent to the Pickering trail leaving

1:48:39 ↗ Pickering trail reasonably denuded the

1:48:43 ↗ Overlook that they're talking about from

1:48:45 ↗ their building is raised up so it

1:48:50 ↗ doesn't interface with the trails

1:48:52 ↗ so and I'm going to repeat this for both

1:48:56 ↗ buildings well the people who are

1:49:00 ↗ working at Costco are gonna be happiest

1:49:04 ↗ clamps because who wouldn't they get all

1:49:07 ↗ the benefits the people who live in the

1:49:10 ↗ town and walk Pickering trail are losing

1:49:14 ↗ and that is not a part of the central

1:49:17 ↗ Issaquah plan it is supposed to be

1:49:20 ↗ augmenting the community features - and

1:49:23 ↗ we all know that Costco is not open for

1:49:29 ↗ the public it's a condition in their

1:49:32 ↗ development agreement so these areas

1:49:34 ↗ that they're talking about for to be

1:49:36 ↗ community open spaces are not for you

1:49:38 ↗ and I that is for their workers so I

1:49:44 ↗ think we need a little balance there I

1:49:46 ↗ think we need the trees to put that be

1:49:49 ↗ either taking win then put back against

1:49:53 ↗ Pickering or just leave them how they

1:49:56 ↗ are certainly the conditions should not

1:49:59 ↗ be to give the ability to put money into

1:50:04 ↗ a tree fund so that those trees could be

1:50:06 ↗ planted elsewhere I asked about the tree

1:50:09 ↗ fund they do not seem to track the tree

1:50:12 ↗ fund by location and even though the

1:50:14 ↗ central Issaquah plan says that those

1:50:16 ↗ trees when you be planted in the central

1:50:18 ↗ is quite area we don't have a mechanism

1:50:21 ↗ to do so so now I'm going to skip over

1:50:24 ↗ to the other side and it's basically the

1:50:26 ↗ same conversation you have the community

1:50:30 ↗ trail that goes around the Pickering

1:50:33 ↗ pond and right now it's sort of a gentle

1:50:36 ↗ slant with trees and you walk around

1:50:39 ↗ that corner and yes you may slip but you

1:50:42 ↗ are in nature then you go up a little

1:50:45 ↗ bit and there's a bit of a retaining

1:50:46 ↗ wall if you look at their plans they are

1:50:49 ↗ putting a retaining wall up and more

1:50:52 ↗ fill they're basically putting the trail

1:50:55 ↗ into an armpit of more shadow and yes it

1:51:00 ↗ is delightful from up on top of that

1:51:03 ↗ retaining wall if you work for Costco

1:51:06 ↗ you get to look at the people down there

1:51:07 ↗ in the armpit and you get to look at the

1:51:10 ↗ ponds but the central is a quat area is

1:51:13 ↗ for all of us and you cannot allow a

1:51:16 ↗ development to impact a community

1:51:19 ↗ benefit like the Pickering pond trail

1:51:22 ↗ and so if a condition was added saying

1:51:27 ↗ that the Pickering pond trail needed to

1:51:30 ↗ be improved and made better for the

1:51:33 ↗ community even as they fill or do what

1:51:37 ↗ they need to do I don't have too much of

1:51:39 ↗ a problem with them doing whatever they

1:51:44 ↗ want to do I'm not a fan of the

1:51:46 ↗ buildings got a say but you can see the

1:51:51 ↗ environmental side I'm coming from here

1:51:53 ↗ you don't need to clear it that much I

1:51:56 ↗ don't understand the filling and why

1:51:57 ↗ they need to move that much dirt and

1:51:59 ↗ don't impact the two trails on either

1:52:02 ↗ end for goodness sakes your Costco you

1:52:05 ↗ can do it you can make the town better

1:52:07 ↗ and your kin and your your company

1:52:10 ↗ better you just have to take that next

1:52:12 ↗ step

1:52:13 ↗ thank you

1:52:18 ↗ any other members the public wish to

1:52:20 ↗ speak so we'll close the public portion

1:52:26 ↗ of this public open will close the

1:52:29 ↗ public hearing part of this puppet is

1:52:30 ↗ the public public comment period and I

1:52:33 ↗ would suggest we take a break until 9

1:52:36 ↗ o'clock so get back

1:52:54 ↗ you

2:00:21 ↗ okay I think we're back on air and I

2:00:24 ↗ would encourage everybody it's welcome

2:00:27 ↗ you back and we'll start the session I'd

2:00:30 ↗ like to have the commissioners address

2:00:32 ↗ their comments on building four or their

2:00:35 ↗ their questions first and then comments

2:00:37 ↗ on building four then we'll do questions

2:00:39 ↗ and comments on building five so

2:00:43 ↗ starting with building four questions

2:00:46 ↗ first

2:00:47 ↗ commissioners chairman have a question

2:00:55 ↗ great

2:00:56 ↗ this may apply to both buildings we have

2:00:59 ↗ a geotechnical study for the site and it

2:01:03 ↗ noted the soils on the site or subject

2:01:05 ↗ to liquefaction during seismic events in

2:01:08 ↗ the CEPA checklist I think it stated the

2:01:11 ↗ building's will be supported by a pile

2:01:13 ↗ foundation system but I'm wondering

2:01:16 ↗ about the skybridge do we have any

2:01:17 ↗ special concerns for safety regarding

2:01:20 ↗ that skybridge and are we confident that

2:01:24 ↗ any of the standards and requirements

2:01:27 ↗ that we reference in our document air

2:01:30 ↗ sufficiently apply to sky bridges in

2:01:32 ↗ that case are you looking for us to

2:01:39 ↗ answer that we'd be happy to you know

2:01:44 ↗ we're gonna be clean we use yourself

2:01:46 ↗ first I'm sorry Steve Bullock with mg2

2:01:49 ↗ Thanks

2:01:50 ↗ we have a structural engineer as part of

2:01:54 ↗ our team and they've already been

2:01:56 ↗ looking at this and and they will have

2:01:58 ↗ to submit substantial justification with

2:02:02 ↗ the building department as we as we go

2:02:04 ↗ through the permitting process at this

2:02:05 ↗ point in time the the skybridge is not

2:02:08 ↗ going to have any column supports going

2:02:11 ↗ down to the ground it's going to be

2:02:12 ↗ fully supported by one of the buildings

2:02:15 ↗ it's going to have a sliding connection

2:02:19 ↗ I'm sorry which building is just like on

2:02:22 ↗ the office side so it's going to be

2:02:23 ↗ fixed on the garage side which is a

2:02:26 ↗ concrete building and the end that

2:02:29 ↗ projects into the office building will

2:02:31 ↗ slide to accommodate the difference of

2:02:35 ↗ movement between them but everything

2:02:37 ↗ we're hearing from our structural

2:02:38 ↗ engineer so far is that it's going to be

2:02:40 ↗ acceptable and that's including the

2:02:43 ↗ concerns with liquefaction another one

2:02:54 ↗ like to say it's really encouraging to

2:02:56 ↗ see a number of sustainability features

2:02:58 ↗ that are built into the plan a couple of

2:03:02 ↗ comments or questions minor ones related

2:03:04 ↗ to that the trellis is on top well will

2:03:07 ↗ any of that be planted vegetated I'm

2:03:10 ↗ going for a little green roof there or

2:03:11 ↗ is that for solar cell only right now

2:03:14 ↗ it's just for solar cell and aesthetic

2:03:16 ↗ purposes only no plans to introduce any

2:03:19 ↗ greenery on the roof port for the

2:03:22 ↗ parking garage hi Jackie Frank I was

2:03:25 ↗ just going to qualify that that's

2:03:28 ↗ correct

2:03:28 ↗ the the trellis and pretend and

2:03:31 ↗ photovoltaic will be for the garage but

2:03:33 ↗ we do have and we can pull up the roof

2:03:35 ↗ plan again for the office building

2:03:37 ↗ there's quite a quite a bit of a

2:03:39 ↗ potential landscape area at the at the

2:03:43 ↗ top okay Barry okay another related

2:03:46 ↗ question are any of the windows I guess

2:03:49 ↗ this is the right building right in

2:03:52 ↗ building four I'm going to be operable

2:03:54 ↗ or is that all sealed window a thing

2:03:57 ↗ about a little healthy building aspect

2:03:58 ↗ there right they're all sealed windows

2:04:01 ↗ we had we've had a number of

2:04:03 ↗ conversations related to that with our

2:04:05 ↗ MEP sustainability expert and and we're

2:04:08 ↗ considering having some operable windows

2:04:11 ↗ some of the difficulties that we have

2:04:14 ↗ with it is I 90 to the South is a huge

2:04:17 ↗ noise generator and and just the the

2:04:22 ↗ climate that we're in we and and the

2:04:26 ↗ mechanical system that we're proposing

2:04:28 ↗ will have better modulation of the whole

2:04:33 ↗ building by having them be completely

2:04:36 ↗ fixed

2:04:39 ↗ just one final wine if I may the Google

2:04:43 ↗ Earth renditions on sheets 40 and 41 in

2:04:46 ↗ some of those the buildings appear

2:04:48 ↗ pretty stark black unlike some of the

2:04:51 ↗ other renditions the architecture

2:04:52 ↗ architectural renditions was that just

2:04:56 ↗ kind of a convention of the Google Earth

2:05:00 ↗ illustrations and do you expect the

2:05:02 ↗ colors of those triple pane windows to

2:05:06 ↗ be lighter so you're referring to these

2:05:09 ↗ images right here right right and and a

2:05:13 ↗ lot of that is is because we don't have

2:05:15 ↗ a lot of control in the Google Earth

2:05:18 ↗ model we're able to create a model and

2:05:21 ↗ drop it in but then they start rendering

2:05:23 ↗ what some of the materials look like and

2:05:26 ↗ we don't have control at that point so

2:05:27 ↗ it is much darker than we expected that

2:05:30 ↗ was the case yeah okay Thank You

2:05:35 ↗ commissioners well this is when he asked

2:05:37 ↗ about

2:05:46 ↗ so a question about the through block

2:05:51 ↗ passage that moves between the trading

2:05:55 ↗ building and building or and there's a

2:05:57 ↗ condition that is included in the staffs

2:06:01 ↗ recommendations here condition three

2:06:04 ↗ that talks about prioritization of the

2:06:07 ↗ pedestrians and putting in place some

2:06:09 ↗ kind of traffic calming or things that

2:06:11 ↗ provide a kind of a safer environment

2:06:16 ↗ for pedestrians have you given thought

2:06:18 ↗ to how you're going to accomplish that

2:06:19 ↗ that's a fairly large space that you're

2:06:23 ↗ going to cross that's active with large

2:06:25 ↗ vehicles I'm you talking about this side

2:06:32 ↗ trading that right passage and and so

2:06:36 ↗ one of the things that I guess I'd like

2:06:37 ↗ to give you a little bit of background

2:06:40 ↗ with is the the photo that you saw

2:06:43 ↗ earlier of the trading building loading

2:06:45 ↗ dock you saw that those were garage

2:06:47 ↗ doors right and normally what happens

2:06:49 ↗ there is the garage door is open and the

2:06:52 ↗ trucks actually drive inside the

2:06:53 ↗ building in the garage doors close they

2:06:57 ↗ don't sit out there in that loading dock

2:07:00 ↗ the voting actually happens inside the

2:07:02 ↗ building and so we are we're considering

2:07:06 ↗ the number of different things for

2:07:08 ↗ signing striping using different

2:07:11 ↗ material whatever it is to emphasize the

2:07:14 ↗ pedestrian crossing in that zone

2:07:17 ↗ we haven't you know gotten to a final

2:07:20 ↗ solution on that is that that's a trail

2:07:22 ↗ connection yes from back across that's

2:07:25 ↗ correct yeah so the trucks that are

2:07:32 ↗ accessing that building are they full

2:07:33 ↗ tractor trailer no any smaller those are

2:07:36 ↗ steps step vans okay full tractor

2:07:40 ↗ trailer there's a separate loading dock

2:07:42 ↗ over here on this side of the building

2:07:44 ↗ but the ones that are here are smaller

2:07:46 ↗ step bands not trailers okay and that

2:07:49 ↗ helps to I think everything I've heard

2:07:52 ↗ is one to two trips a day at this out

2:07:55 ↗ the end

2:07:56 ↗ so it's not a high-traffic your eye exam

2:08:00 ↗ thank you

2:08:02 ↗ that's a follow-up question if you don't

2:08:05 ↗ mind this would go into building five

2:08:07 ↗ but since we're talking about that

2:08:08 ↗ excuse me the east-west yeah cross

2:08:11 ↗ through your thoughts on the staff

2:08:14 ↗ suggestion about moving that from the

2:08:18 ↗ north to the south side of the under

2:08:19 ↗ building and because they think staffer

2:08:21 ↗ was recognizing there's problems either

2:08:23 ↗ what either way

2:08:25 ↗ yeah and you know I don't know that we

2:08:29 ↗ want to get in a big fight about it we

2:08:31 ↗ had a discussion we thought it was

2:08:33 ↗ better on the north side because it got

2:08:35 ↗ you past most of the traffic before you

2:08:37 ↗ crossed over at the same time if you're

2:08:40 ↗ on the south side you you might have to

2:08:42 ↗ cross more traffic being the cars that

2:08:45 ↗ are entering into the the parking garage

2:08:47 ↗ ramp but then you are avoiding the

2:08:50 ↗ driveway where the trucks are driving it

2:08:54 ↗ can go either way

2:08:55 ↗ and we're okay with the condition as

2:08:59 ↗ they have it written right now yeah yeah

2:09:01 ↗ Jackie Frank but Lizzie and Jane and I

2:09:04 ↗ met about this recently and the way the

2:09:07 ↗ condition is written we're actually

2:09:09 ↗ going we intend to have a sidewalk on

2:09:11 ↗ both sides on the north and the south

2:09:13 ↗ side but the intention is to make the

2:09:15 ↗ southerly one slightly wider

2:09:27 ↗ other questions on building for mom I'll

2:09:30 ↗ jump in the horse under one of my big

2:09:35 ↗ concerns is that blank wall the

2:09:36 ↗ southeast corner building for you

2:09:41 ↗ mentioned that the elevation difference

2:09:43 ↗ with the roadway in the sidewalk but I

2:09:45 ↗ haven't seen anything where I can

2:09:47 ↗ identify exactly what that elevation

2:09:51 ↗ difference is do you have anything that

2:09:54 ↗ would show that or do we know what that

2:09:57 ↗ that number is I do I mean

2:10:11 ↗ this is a grading plan

2:10:21 ↗ resumed weigh-in so the finished floor

2:10:24 ↗ this building is set at 64 and here you

2:10:29 ↗ see on this sidewalk and catch basin at

2:10:33 ↗ 69 so at this point let's see here I

2:10:42 ↗ don't know he's is that is that the rim

2:10:45 ↗ of the catch basin

2:10:47 ↗ that's the sidewalk elevation so we're

2:10:50 ↗ you know five feet above it the sidewalk

2:10:53 ↗ is five feet above the finished floor of

2:10:54 ↗ the building right here and then and

2:10:57 ↗ then how far is that sidewalk from that

2:10:59 ↗ corner that as close as you're showing

2:11:04 ↗ right there it is you know that's that's

2:11:07 ↗ five feet that built to line says we're

2:11:12 ↗ supposed to be within ten feet

2:11:18 ↗ a question I guess for staff speaking in

2:11:24 ↗ that same corner the section eleven

2:11:29 ↗ point two point II talks about a sense

2:11:33 ↗ of arrival and in the staff report

2:11:36 ↗ there's a discussion about a sense of

2:11:38 ↗ arrival with the lanterns between

2:11:41 ↗ buildings four and five it seems like

2:11:44 ↗ that there's a huge number of people

2:11:47 ↗ coming from the east and from the south

2:11:49 ↗ that are going to their arrival into

2:11:51 ↗ this district which is the way it's

2:11:53 ↗ worded is once you come across 62nd and

2:11:58 ↗ you this is the first point you would

2:12:00 ↗ come into the urban core district that

2:12:03 ↗ will be the sense of arrival right there

2:12:05 ↗ and I don't really see anything that

2:12:08 ↗ talks about or indicates sense of

2:12:11 ↗ arrival at this location and wondered

2:12:14 ↗ about your thoughts on that both the

2:12:18 ↗ blank wall issue these address but also

2:12:22 ↗ the the I'll start the blank wall will

2:12:29 ↗ be buried five feet down so I think that

2:12:32 ↗ does help and we have talked that with

2:12:35 ↗ Costco that the the way that is shown in

2:12:42 ↗ the plans is kind of a preliminary I

2:12:44 ↗ mean they recognize that those walls

2:12:47 ↗ needed further attention and agree that

2:12:50 ↗ that was a planned refinement I think

2:12:56 ↗ that the question of arrival is you're

2:13:00 ↗ right that corner needs at every corner

2:13:03 ↗ that sort of exposed present needs to be

2:13:11 ↗ detailed and visually strong but I'm not

2:13:20 ↗ sure that necessarily the roundabout

2:13:24 ↗ isn't the arrival point it's the you

2:13:28 ↗ know the edge of something can be the

2:13:30 ↗ arrival point or it

2:13:32 ↗ be the intersections so I think they

2:13:34 ↗ have chosen a different arrival point

2:13:37 ↗ the pre arrival point is I don't know if

2:13:44 ↗ you have something you want either if

2:13:46 ↗ you would like to add I think Shannon I

2:13:49 ↗ wanted to address it a little bit too

2:13:51 ↗ first of all on on the blank wall you

2:13:53 ↗ know we're still at a point where we

2:13:56 ↗ felt like we needed to get some kind of

2:13:58 ↗ feedback from you guys that we're going

2:13:59 ↗ the right direction so we haven't gotten

2:14:01 ↗ to our endgame as far as the design and

2:14:04 ↗ especially with the brickwork you know

2:14:06 ↗ we plan to have soldier core seen reveal

2:14:09 ↗ lines plan to build things into to make

2:14:13 ↗ it interesting not have it just be a

2:14:15 ↗ sink a solid blank field of brick all

2:14:19 ↗ running bond no change to that so I

2:14:22 ↗ think that there there are going to be

2:14:24 ↗ things in that wall that give it a

2:14:27 ↗ ditional detail that give it a little

2:14:28 ↗ interest that that help address some of

2:14:31 ↗ the concerns Shannon wanted to talk

2:14:33 ↗ about the sense of arrival I believe

2:14:35 ↗ Shannon second yeah we did talk about

2:14:38 ↗ the the wall also adding a planter that

2:14:41 ↗ kind of raises it so we're already

2:14:43 ↗ coming up five feet and then adding

2:14:45 ↗ another level of landscape so we're

2:14:47 ↗ minimizing that just dead wall back

2:14:50 ↗ there and I think I did I wanted to

2:14:52 ↗ point out that coming across the bridge

2:14:54 ↗ we've done fly throughs which we plan to

2:14:58 ↗ show at the next meeting because there's

2:15:01 ↗ a lot of entourage that goes into making

2:15:03 ↗ it look right on all sides but when you

2:15:05 ↗ come across the bridge here

2:15:15 ↗ you have to be near the microphone you

2:15:20 ↗ come around the corner with that that

2:15:24 ↗ metal wall piece the the bookend is

2:15:26 ↗ actually helping kind of direct you

2:15:28 ↗ around the corner as you come across

2:15:30 ↗ this bridge okay can you talk more about

2:15:32 ↗ when you say that's going to be a

2:15:33 ↗ lantern Corner well I understood with

2:15:37 ↗ the others where they're sort of a calm

2:15:38 ↗ like a staircase or something and I'm

2:15:40 ↗ not sure I understand on that corner

2:15:41 ↗ well we're treating kind of the corners

2:15:44 ↗ that are focal points from certain

2:15:47 ↗ vantage points so we see as you come

2:15:49 ↗ across this bridge that the first thing

2:15:51 ↗ you see across that bridge is kind of

2:15:53 ↗ this end piece and red lantern we call

2:15:56 ↗ it a Lantern effect you main link is

2:15:58 ↗ what we put inside the space we're

2:16:01 ↗ planning on it being like a meeting room

2:16:03 ↗ or something that we can actually

2:16:04 ↗ control the light and keep a constant

2:16:06 ↗ level now we can dim the lights we've

2:16:08 ↗ talked to our lighting designers about

2:16:10 ↗ which type of light how do we light it

2:16:12 ↗ it can be a consistent light source you

2:16:17 ↗ know most office buildings at five

2:16:18 ↗ o'clock are going to go fairly dark and

2:16:21 ↗ dim so we were kind of planning lighting

2:16:24 ↗ on the building from the outside to kind

2:16:26 ↗ of up light it in certain areas and then

2:16:28 ↗ have these kind of focal points at the

2:16:31 ↗ corners as corner emphasis here at the

2:16:35 ↗ main entry and then the corner at the

2:16:38 ↗ roundabout there's the four main

2:16:40 ↗ locations where we kind of will maintain

2:16:43 ↗ a consistent lighting system at night

2:16:46 ↗ thank you in looking at the language

2:16:49 ↗ which always helps I think that one of

2:16:54 ↗ the things to consider is that the

2:16:58 ↗ building may not be the the point of

2:17:01 ↗ arrival as much as crossing the bridge

2:17:04 ↗ because the the bridges has some nice

2:17:09 ↗ details and sort of syncopation as you

2:17:11 ↗ go across it and then you're coming

2:17:13 ↗ across the bridge and arriving in in the

2:17:16 ↗ district so well I'm not saying that the

2:17:20 ↗ building isn't a part of that I think

2:17:22 ↗ the question may be about the elements

2:17:24 ↗ between

2:17:25 ↗ that are happening along with building

2:17:29 ↗ between the building and the bridge that

2:17:31 ↗ give that sense of arrival and I would

2:17:35 ↗ say that I don't know exactly what those

2:17:37 ↗ are right now so I need to spend some

2:17:39 ↗ time I think we need to go back and look

2:17:40 ↗ at that relative to that piece of code

2:17:43 ↗ you identified right thank you it sounds

2:17:46 ↗ like you're looking at it too is it

2:17:48 ↗ and for a lot of people it's gonna be

2:17:49 ↗ it's a gonna be a big building and

2:17:52 ↗ you're gonna drive on and people are

2:17:53 ↗ saying wow that's the Costco

2:17:54 ↗ headquarters that'll be their view of it

2:17:56 ↗ right there see that if you don't mind

2:18:04 ↗ me keep going going the question on the

2:18:08 ↗ build to line for building for so is

2:18:16 ↗ when we were doing the osco master site

2:18:21 ↗ plan the build two line when the road

2:18:23 ↗ was curvilinear was quite the issue and

2:18:26 ↗ trying to maintain the view of the

2:18:28 ↗ mountains and I'm glad it got

2:18:30 ↗ straightened out and does have a great

2:18:32 ↗ view

2:18:33 ↗ and I know that it's written such that

2:18:36 ↗ the buildings don't have to be curved to

2:18:39 ↗ meet a curvilinear Street but everything

2:18:44 ↗ I read and the code says it's supposed

2:18:46 ↗ to be a bill to line if it can be and I

2:18:51 ↗ look out the east half of building for

2:18:54 ↗ that set back quite a ways that a at an

2:18:57 ↗ angle it could very easily be moved up

2:19:00 ↗ to be closer to the bill to line and I

2:19:02 ↗ think the requirements I think you need

2:19:07 ↗ to be c11 built in the that's 11.0 not

2:19:17 ↗ sure if it's 11 zero but the minimum

2:19:19 ↗ building frontage the sufficient length

2:19:21 ↗ of building shall be present the bill to

2:19:23 ↗ line minimum building frontage shall be

2:19:25 ↗ at least 75% in the urban core so when I

2:19:29 ↗ look at building for if I do just Lake

2:19:32 ↗ Drive or if I do just sixty second I get

2:19:34 ↗ thirty eight percent in the bill to

2:19:36 ↗ I include Lake Drive and Du Bois streets

2:19:39 ↗ I get fifty three percent bill two so I

2:19:42 ↗ think well it seems like we're we're

2:19:45 ↗ saying the built in line is important we

2:19:49 ↗ have a minimum of 75 percent bill two

2:19:51 ↗ but then we've designed a building

2:19:52 ↗ that's not meeting that requirement and

2:19:57 ↗ I can see the idea of creating the plaza

2:20:00 ↗ as a nice feature and trying to wrap my

2:20:04 ↗ head around we have a requirement in

2:20:07 ↗ Cid's that states you're supposed to do

2:20:10 ↗ this and it doesn't look to me like

2:20:13 ↗ we're prevented from doing that when I

2:20:15 ↗ look at the bottom picture they're

2:20:16 ↗ building for it seems like it could be

2:20:18 ↗ moved down and I don't know if it's

2:20:20 ↗ question for the architect or for staff

2:20:22 ↗ I guess it's how do we how do we accept

2:20:25 ↗ that and say it's okay well I think that

2:20:28 ↗ we can't one thing we can do is go

2:20:31 ↗ through and provide a more detailed

2:20:33 ↗ fine-grained evaluation against the

2:20:36 ↗ interpretation and the elements that are

2:20:38 ↗ identified because I do think that even

2:20:43 ↗ though the streets are straighter they

2:20:45 ↗ are not exactly straight however I think

2:20:48 ↗ the other piece to identify from chapter

2:20:51 ↗ 11 relative to the seventy-five percent

2:20:54 ↗ is that community spaces give or reduce

2:21:00 ↗ the percentage and using alternative

2:21:03 ↗ frontage elements reduces the percentage

2:21:06 ↗ and seventy-five percent or just from

2:21:10 ↗ the seventy-five percent and I think

2:21:13 ↗ those I'm doing this from memory but I

2:21:15 ↗ believe it gets it down to around 45

2:21:17 ↗ percent and so I they did indicate if

2:21:22 ↗ you look on page 11 of the packet they

2:21:27 ↗ did indicate that where the building is

2:21:30 ↗ set back they are doing community space

2:21:33 ↗ and alternative building elements so I

2:21:37 ↗ think it is meeting the intent but I

2:21:41 ↗ think it's worthwhile as you've

2:21:43 ↗ identified that to

2:21:45 ↗ more fine-grained evaluation relative to

2:21:47 ↗ what's in exhibit J okay right and in my

2:21:52 ↗ attendance I think it looks attractive I

2:21:54 ↗ think that'd be a nice Plaza to have out

2:21:55 ↗ there and have that space that's what

2:21:56 ↗ make sure that we're we're not doing

2:21:59 ↗ something that just because we think it

2:22:01 ↗ looks nice and I appreciate you bringing

2:22:04 ↗ that up and and I was just looking in

2:22:06 ↗ the code just to confirm things and and

2:22:07 ↗ on page eleven as Lucy recommended but

2:22:11 ↗ item item I says that the the required

2:22:17 ↗ build you know seventy five percent can

2:22:20 ↗ be reduced by ten percent for community

2:22:22 ↗ spaces and I the item J alternative

2:22:26 ↗ building frontage lets you reduce it

2:22:27 ↗ another twenty percent down DUP forty

2:22:29 ↗ five percent like like Lucy said and on

2:22:33 ↗ page eleven we've documented up in the

2:22:36 ↗ top right-hand corner how we believe

2:22:39 ↗ we're complying with that requirement by

2:22:42 ↗ by doing the math on that

2:22:44 ↗ I'm sorry page 11 of it looks it looks

2:22:48 ↗ like this in your packet it's a black

2:22:51 ↗ and white site plan with some red no I'm

2:22:54 ↗ not a staff report of the package that

2:22:57 ↗ we said sorry

2:23:06 ↗ yes you know that the development

2:23:08 ↗ agreement also addresses the setback the

2:23:12 ↗ build two line specifically we're due to

2:23:20 ↗ existing curvilinear streets property

2:23:21 ↗ lines block length and secure nature of

2:23:24 ↗ the Costco buildings is not possible to

2:23:25 ↗ meet the strict letter of the standards

2:23:27 ↗ site plans will locate buildings to

2:23:28 ↗ create street wall to the extent

2:23:30 ↗ practical or reasonable without forcing

2:23:32 ↗ the buildings to be curved you know we

2:23:34 ↗ when we face this dilemma we came in

2:23:36 ↗ with our tracing paper at with Keith and

2:23:38 ↗ with Lucia we sat and so you got to help

2:23:40 ↗ us address this because before we freeze

2:23:42 ↗ a site plan we're gonna have to this is

2:23:44 ↗ a he's a huge issue and what we have is

2:23:48 ↗ a is a kind of a diminishing return if

2:23:52 ↗ you were to slide the more you slide

2:23:54 ↗ this building forward and try and keep

2:23:56 ↗ the planes parallel this building gets

2:23:59 ↗ shorter and shorter and shorter which

2:24:00 ↗ certainly and here you the building gets

2:24:02 ↗ shorter and shorter as you slide the

2:24:04 ↗ building forward the critical the

2:24:07 ↗ critical setback if you will is is that

2:24:09 ↗ point we didn't want to rotate it around

2:24:11 ↗ that building and get everything out of

2:24:13 ↗ square because then you wouldn't meet

2:24:14 ↗ the bill to line on the other side so we

2:24:17 ↗ picked a side we picked the parallel the

2:24:20 ↗ road is still curvilinear although it's

2:24:21 ↗ straighter than it used to be well

2:24:22 ↗ actually the road didn't exist but what

2:24:25 ↗ we what we found was this is as this is

2:24:28 ↗ as regular as we can get without being

2:24:31 ↗ curvilinear and still kind of maximizing

2:24:34 ↗ the or minimizing the build to if you

2:24:37 ↗ will and so I you know basically we were

2:24:42 ↗ frozen in so I asked Keith asked Lucy

2:24:45 ↗ are we are we all agreement with this

2:24:48 ↗ strategy because this is the zip we we

2:24:50 ↗ don't have a project if we can't obtain

2:24:53 ↗ the square footage we're looking for and

2:24:55 ↗ try and you know really minimize the

2:24:57 ↗ amount of setback which is everybody's

2:24:59 ↗ intent so that that's what we were that

2:25:02 ↗ was the dilemma we were faced by and I

2:25:05 ↗ apologize I hadn't read the notes up on

2:25:08 ↗ the upper right hand corner of your page

2:25:09 ↗ 11 so I get you should have read through

2:25:12 ↗ that before it there's a lot of detail

2:25:15 ↗ and the stuff together

2:25:17 ↗ so just a quick bottle absolutely Morgan

2:25:21 ↗ so it what because I was thinking about

2:25:23 ↗ the same thing and and about that East

2:25:26 ↗ Plaza and so if we're not pulling the

2:25:28 ↗ building forward creating that kind of

2:25:30 ↗ that urban edge how do you accomplish

2:25:32 ↗ that with the plaza how it's what's that

2:25:34 ↗ urban experience going to be like and I

2:25:36 ↗ know you're still early but I think

2:25:38 ↗ that's going to be part of the know kind

2:25:41 ↗ of important part of how you accommodate

2:25:43 ↗ you know what the city is trying to

2:25:45 ↗ accomplish with the design standards

2:25:49 ↗ right and and as Shannon mentioned a bit

2:25:52 ↗ ago we're going to be working with raise

2:25:54 ↗ planting beds probably vary in heights

2:25:57 ↗ as we were working to that area there's

2:26:00 ↗ there's a possibility that we would be

2:26:02 ↗ using street trees

2:26:05 ↗ you may when you look at that there's a

2:26:09 ↗ pullout that got introduced here for a

2:26:12 ↗ drop-off for pedestrians which is

2:26:15 ↗ eliminating the street trees that are

2:26:17 ↗ out on the curb line well you know we're

2:26:20 ↗ going to be introducing those back into

2:26:22 ↗ our site plan and maybe they run along

2:26:24 ↗ where that needs to be to create the

2:26:26 ↗ street wall you know there's a number of

2:26:29 ↗ different things that we're still kind

2:26:30 ↗ of thinking about related to that I

2:26:32 ↗ think that'll be kind of an important

2:26:34 ↗ kind of interface yep for the

2:26:36 ↗ pedestrians particularly you might also

2:26:41 ↗ just the code that they you know the

2:26:45 ↗ alternative building frontage there are

2:26:48 ↗ elements listed like pergolas arcades

2:26:50 ↗ arbors trellises so it's it's more than

2:26:54 ↗ just street trees its actual vertical

2:26:56 ↗ architectural elements that would be

2:27:01 ↗ appropriate but help kind of stand in

2:27:06 ↗ from the street wall

2:27:10 ↗ like I said another question on SIDS

2:27:13 ↗ 11:3 a pedestrian connection says

2:27:18 ↗ pedestrian facility connection shall be

2:27:20 ↗ convenient with generally no further

2:27:21 ↗ than 250 feet of separations when a

2:27:24 ↗ block length exceeds 300 feet so there's

2:27:27 ↗ a lot of discussion about the 300 foot

2:27:30 ↗ maximum I'm just curious on this reading

2:27:34 ↗ where it says - no further than 250 feet

2:27:37 ↗ separation of pedestrian connections so

2:27:40 ↗ looking I guess at the south end of the

2:27:43 ↗ East half of building 4 but I'm not sure

2:27:48 ↗ what that distance is can that does that

2:27:51 ↗ have to be less than 250 feet then

2:28:04 ↗ so if I may chime in jinhwan physical so

2:28:10 ↗ on sheet 11 of the project plans there

2:28:16 ↗ are some dimensions that are provided

2:28:19 ↗ along that stretch of the building I'm

2:28:23 ↗ gonna call it the East Wing and so

2:28:27 ↗ there's there's a couple of dimensions

2:28:29 ↗ here that are worth noting one is if you

2:28:31 ↗ start from the very eastern corner of

2:28:33 ↗ the building working West you've got a

2:28:35 ↗ 31-foot bill to line then you have a 288

2:28:40 ↗ foot community and alternative building

2:28:42 ↗ frontage and that that 288 feet

2:28:45 ↗ incorporates pretty much the bulk of

2:28:48 ↗ that building facade as well as the

2:28:52 ↗ through block passage area if you're

2:28:55 ↗ looking proportionately at the through

2:28:58 ↗ block passage area it's roughly maybe 2

2:29:03 ↗ times the width of that 31 foot build 2

2:29:06 ↗ line area that makes sense

2:29:11 ↗ so it would be approximately 250 feet I

2:29:14 ↗ don't know the exact dimensions but it

2:29:17 ↗ would be approximately 250 feet before

2:29:21 ↗ you come across a pedestrian path to get

2:29:28 ↗ you through the block yeah well I guess

2:29:29 ↗ that maybe the architect could chime in

2:29:31 ↗ too because maybe you've got that

2:29:32 ↗ dimension somewhere from the south east

2:29:36 ↗ corner building 4 to the pedestrian

2:29:38 ↗ connection well in the way I I need to

2:29:42 ↗ look at the code I mean I think Jean

2:29:44 ↗ nailed it we're showing on there 288

2:29:48 ↗ feet and I betcha it's it's less than

2:29:51 ↗ then 250 the yeah that's I got the 31

2:29:57 ↗ the 288 and I was trying to but I didn't

2:29:59 ↗ have the dimension of the pedestrian

2:30:01 ↗ opening try to get to that number so the

2:30:04 ↗ other piece I would add is that on the

2:30:07 ↗ Costco campus it is the because a lot of

2:30:12 ↗ the traffic will be the employees

2:30:16 ↗ the ability to go through the building

2:30:20 ↗ counts as well as kind of an alternating

2:30:23 ↗ pattern of a trail that's outside then a

2:30:27 ↗ path through the building and so if you

2:30:31 ↗ look down the page ten of the drawing

2:30:36 ↗ packet it's that pastor would count yeah

2:30:39 ↗ but becomes a moot point yeah okay sorry

2:30:42 ↗ I slowed to clicking thank you there's

2:30:47 ↗ another section of the Syd's that also

2:30:49 ↗ says that buildings can be up to 300

2:30:52 ↗ feet long before they're required to

2:30:54 ↗ have that break and in the in the

2:30:57 ↗ development agreement is specifically

2:30:58 ↗ calls it out which which septum is this

2:31:01 ↗ yeah and so I said incrementally build a

2:31:05 ↗ connected pedestrian system between Lake

2:31:08 ↗ Drive and the shared use routes behind

2:31:10 ↗ the buildings Pickering trail and

2:31:12 ↗ Pickering pond trail consistent with the

2:31:14 ↗ intent of SIDS section six point two a

2:31:16 ↗ if buildings are longer than 300 feet

2:31:20 ↗ open-air arcades and closed through

2:31:22 ↗ building atriums or other elements that

2:31:24 ↗ serve a similar purpose will be provided

2:31:27 ↗ and I believe it that language is comes

2:31:30 ↗ from SIDS as well six point two

2:31:37 ↗ hopefully if again if we're if that

2:31:40 ↗ through block through the building

2:31:41 ↗ counts then we don't have to worry about

2:31:43 ↗ it so I think showing you some of the

2:31:47 ↗ diagrams that were in the original SDP

2:31:51 ↗ along with the layout will sort of help

2:31:55 ↗ so we'll show you some pictures yeah and

2:32:02 ↗ SIDS 6.0 point two block length says

2:32:07 ↗ we're block length exceeds 300 feet

2:32:10 ↗ additional circulation facilities are to

2:32:13 ↗ be provided we know we're within 300

2:32:17 ↗ feet yeah I was just like that what

2:32:21 ↗ jumped out to me was 11 3a where it

2:32:23 ↗ talks about every 250

2:32:28 ↗ the another question on so 14 from the

2:32:41 ↗ building standards in 14.3 14 3 a one

2:32:51 ↗ for all uses setback buildings with

2:32:56 ↗ heights over three stories through

2:32:57 ↗ changes in building materials

2:32:59 ↗ articulation and modulation the

2:33:01 ↗ difference between the first 3 floors so

2:33:06 ↗ it's it's a question it says setback it

2:33:11 ↗ says to modulation things like that but

2:33:13 ↗ these buildings aren't setback obviously

2:33:18 ↗ the intent here - I guess I'm reading

2:33:23 ↗ that and I'm trying to figure out ok was

2:33:25 ↗ this written to say ok you go up three

2:33:28 ↗ floors and when you see the example they

2:33:30 ↗ show in it just a building that steps

2:33:32 ↗ back after three floors in the

2:33:36 ↗ building's be compliant with this one

2:33:39 ↗ there there's no setback at all I would

2:33:43 ↗ say yes based on the material chain add

2:33:46 ↗ that in buildings can use material

2:33:49 ↗ changes to accomplish that not just

2:33:52 ↗ physical setbacks ok and and we have

2:33:57 ↗ step back the top floor

2:34:06 ↗ okay

2:34:10 ↗ more questions on building 4 I have one

2:34:14 ↗ more broader question and I was thinking

2:34:18 ↗ about it and then we had one of the

2:34:19 ↗ public speakers kind of speak to the

2:34:21 ↗ question about kind of the employee

2:34:25 ↗ experience and also the public

2:34:26 ↗ experience with respect to these develop

2:34:28 ↗ this development I think it's going to

2:34:33 ↗ be a wonderful environment for the

2:34:36 ↗ employees of thinking and looking at the

2:34:38 ↗ design work and the thought and the

2:34:39 ↗ detail and spaces that you're creating I

2:34:42 ↗ think is the challenge of everybody

2:34:46 ↗ these days to make sure that you are

2:34:47 ↗ tracking and retaining the highest

2:34:50 ↗ quality staff you can find but it is

2:34:53 ↗ about the and I don't know I don't

2:34:55 ↗ recall how the development agreement

2:34:56 ↗ deals with the public access or not to

2:35:00 ↗ any of these public spaces particularly

2:35:02 ↗ those that are adjacent to the streets

2:35:07 ↗ and or the through passage to get to

2:35:10 ↗ public trails from the street

2:35:12 ↗ and is that open and accessible to the

2:35:15 ↗ general public or is this a closed

2:35:17 ↗ campus

2:35:23 ↗ hi Jackie Frank every time I go walking

2:35:28 ↗ out I ran into Keith I mean like every

2:35:32 ↗ time so how do you supposed to work for

2:35:36 ↗ him

2:35:37 ↗ it's always out there you know the

2:35:39 ↗ public trails along the pond and along

2:35:42 ↗ the creek side the public you use it

2:35:45 ↗ quite quite well and quite frequently

2:35:48 ↗ accesses is there we're not proposing

2:35:50 ↗ anything that would preclude access as

2:35:54 ↗ currently exists if anything we're

2:35:56 ↗ trying to design a complementary

2:35:57 ↗ solution that would allow coexistence of

2:36:00 ↗ both the public and the private and the

2:36:02 ↗ private property

2:36:03 ↗ I do direct you to the to the

2:36:07 ↗ development agreement as it relates to

2:36:09 ↗ community space and I quote through this

2:36:12 ↗ development agreement Costco in the city

2:36:14 ↗ of work to balance Costco's need to

2:36:15 ↗ provide safe and inviting workplace with

2:36:17 ↗ implementing the SID the CIP and SIDS

2:36:20 ↗ and making a positive contribution to

2:36:22 ↗ the public realm as clarification to

2:36:24 ↗ both the definitions of public realm and

2:36:25 ↗ community spaces in the SIDS quote

2:36:28 ↗ required community spaces on Costco's

2:36:30 ↗ property are privately owned and the use

2:36:33 ↗ of Costco's property is intended for

2:36:34 ↗ employees vendors invited guests and

2:36:36 ↗ visitors no quote significant community

2:36:38 ↗ spaces are located within the Costco

2:36:40 ↗ property though they are located on some

2:36:42 ↗ of the parcels within the expansion area

2:36:44 ↗ so you know our intention is to not do

2:36:47 ↗ anything that would preclude the public

2:36:49 ↗ trail systems that surround the property

2:36:51 ↗ but but let's point out this is this is

2:36:54 ↗ private property as well so both can

2:36:59 ↗ coexist

2:37:10 ↗ um so I guess is four and five the bike

2:37:13 ↗ parking question that there were there

2:37:18 ↗ were 63 required 60 provided and zoom we

2:37:22 ↗ can figure out three more but the staff

2:37:24 ↗ was staff reports said 25% would have to

2:37:28 ↗ be in building four and I think that was

2:37:32 ↗ due to section 15 or whatever that

2:37:35 ↗ talked about arcing should be near I

2:37:38 ↗ guess two questions one is that bike

2:37:41 ↗ parking for people throughout the campus

2:37:43 ↗ so it's not just building four but also

2:37:46 ↗ could be close to added buildings and

2:37:48 ↗ then that was curious where the staff

2:37:50 ↗ got the 25% number I didn't see a source

2:37:53 ↗ for by 25% not 50 not 75 and so forth

2:38:00 ↗ any other thoughts on the bike party if

2:38:03 ↗ we could explain maybe some of our

2:38:05 ↗ thought process for why we were

2:38:07 ↗ proposing it all in the garage - and and

2:38:11 ↗ we're okay with the condition we're

2:38:13 ↗ gonna comply with the condition - but

2:38:15 ↗ our original thought was employees of

2:38:19 ↗ Costco are coming to work here all day

2:38:21 ↗ if they're avid bicyclists and they're

2:38:24 ↗ riding their bike they're probably gonna

2:38:25 ↗ want to hop into the shower and take a

2:38:27 ↗ shower before they go to work and so we

2:38:29 ↗ have a bunch of indoor bike parking

2:38:31 ↗ provided in the garage and that's where

2:38:33 ↗ we provided all our parking to start

2:38:34 ↗ with because they could go park in the

2:38:36 ↗ garage hop into the fitness center get

2:38:38 ↗ cleaned up and go to work say all they

2:38:41 ↗ reverse that and leave staffs concern is

2:38:46 ↗ short-term you know people coming on

2:38:49 ↗ bikes and just want to come up and say

2:38:50 ↗ hi to somebody visit somebody can't come

2:38:53 ↗ directly to building 4 we have places in

2:38:56 ↗ the basement of the garage to put some

2:38:58 ↗ saws and we'll put some racks up in the

2:39:01 ↗ plaza by the front entryway as well so

2:39:03 ↗ we fully intend to comply with that so

2:39:09 ↗ from a staff perspective if I'm

2:39:11 ↗ understanding your question questions

2:39:14 ↗ yes one piece of it is there does need

2:39:17 ↗ to be visitor parking as Steve was

2:39:20 ↗ suggesting with rats

2:39:22 ↗ in some of the plazas for the very

2:39:25 ↗ reasons he identified 25% there isn't a

2:39:30 ↗ code basis in the sense of a specific

2:39:34 ↗ number there is an expectation that

2:39:39 ↗ bicycle parking is located where it will

2:39:44 ↗ be close to direct convenient and

2:39:47 ↗ accessible and I think our concern was

2:39:51 ↗ there's kind of you know and I'm I don't

2:39:57 ↗ know the percentages but let's say 75

2:40:00 ↗ percent of the vehicular parking is in

2:40:03 ↗ the garage and 25 percent is under the

2:40:06 ↗ building I that is I'm doing that in my

2:40:09 ↗ head right now so it's not true but I

2:40:12 ↗ think that there was an expectation that

2:40:15 ↗ there should be an equal opportunity for

2:40:20 ↗ distributing bike parking between the

2:40:23 ↗ two buildings and that while everything

2:40:27 ↗ that Steve says is true that some people

2:40:31 ↗ may just want their bike parking in the

2:40:34 ↗ same building where they are they may

2:40:36 ↗ feel more comfortable if we want to make

2:40:38 ↗ it a koala attractive equally convenient

2:40:42 ↗ in some of the same ways that we're

2:40:45 ↗ doing with vehicular parking okay I

2:40:48 ↗ guess I guess my suggestion is you know

2:40:51 ↗ things like bike parking usually if you

2:40:53 ↗ ask the bicyclist they'll tell you how

2:40:55 ↗ much they want in both and instead of

2:40:57 ↗ necessarily maybe a hard 25% maybe your

2:41:00 ↗ condition could be you know an

2:41:03 ↗ appropriate number of stalls would be

2:41:05 ↗ located in building four or something

2:41:06 ↗ like that to let them work it out I my

2:41:11 ↗ only hesitation is I think we're all

2:41:14 ↗ trying to have predictability because

2:41:15 ↗ they're moving pretty fast so I I'd

2:41:22 ↗ certainly would support at least but I

2:41:26 ↗ don't think we're saying it can be it

2:41:29 ↗ shall be no more nor no less

2:41:32 ↗ than 25% and I think that your point is

2:41:35 ↗ well-taken that there may be members of

2:41:37 ↗ the bike their bike community that can

2:41:39 ↗ help guide them on that and hopefully

2:41:42 ↗ maybe they could have that conversation

2:41:44 ↗ before we come back so that if we need

2:41:46 ↗ to adjust the percentage we can do it

2:41:48 ↗ it's part of the Brazil and I am sharing

2:41:50 ↗ them with ya Thank You Jackie Frank I

2:41:54 ↗ actually had a conversation with our

2:41:55 ↗ facilities guys you know architects drew

2:41:58 ↗ one plan and and then there's the

2:42:00 ↗ reality and the reading and the reality

2:42:02 ↗ is is that there's a portion of

2:42:03 ↗ subterranean parking under four and

2:42:05 ↗ obviously there's parking in in five so

2:42:09 ↗ that we will have lockable lockable bike

2:42:12 ↗ area just like we do in building

2:42:14 ↗ buildings too and and currently

2:42:18 ↗ buildings one and two we will have

2:42:21 ↗ subterranean lockable parking and

2:42:23 ↗ building four we will have lockable

2:42:24 ↗ parking in building five adjacent to the

2:42:27 ↗ gym and we'll have parking in the in the

2:42:29 ↗ breezeway through block connection we

2:42:33 ↗ would do it regardless of a condition

2:42:35 ↗ and will provide ample parking for our

2:42:37 ↗ for our folks let's get is a move it's a

2:42:41 ↗ moot point yeah because we're gonna do

2:42:44 ↗ it anyway

2:42:44 ↗ yeah there you have a lot of questions

2:42:50 ↗ so the loading loose yeah I'm gene I'm

2:42:54 ↗ curious about the I agree with the idea

2:42:56 ↗ of not having 18 loading docks and I was

2:43:02 ↗ trying to figure out where does one per

2:43:03 ↗ 30 thousand come from I know it's in

2:43:07 ↗ there but I don't know where that I

2:43:10 ↗ guess number one I want to say I totally

2:43:12 ↗ agree with allowing that administrative

2:43:15 ↗ adjustment but just also curious maybe

2:43:17 ↗ it's some in the future we could change

2:43:19 ↗ well I don't know that it's a I guess

2:43:25 ↗ what I would say Mel is that what we've

2:43:29 ↗ seen is that for some for smaller uses

2:43:32 ↗ it's probably accurate for some of these

2:43:35 ↗ really big uses we had the same problem

2:43:37 ↗ of Swedish hospital I think it was gonna

2:43:40 ↗ have to have 30 or some crazy number

2:43:43 ↗ and and we also I think even the rally

2:43:48 ↗ hotel was it was way out of whack and so

2:43:52 ↗ some of these big and/or specialized

2:43:55 ↗ uses I mean that's where the AAS is I

2:43:58 ↗ think the administrative adjustment of

2:43:59 ↗ standards is vital because they usually

2:44:02 ↗ have very good you know objective data

2:44:05 ↗ that is the basis and then we can tailor

2:44:07 ↗ the use to really tailor the loading

2:44:12 ↗ docks to the use as to the origins of

2:44:16 ↗ that I believe that those numbers have

2:44:18 ↗ been here as long as I have since before

2:44:21 ↗ I was here and the thing I would

2:44:24 ↗ probably say that we discovered with car

2:44:27 ↗ parking you know we used to try and peel

2:44:30 ↗ a part visitor in guest parking from

2:44:33 ↗ either resident or employee parking

2:44:35 ↗ because we allowed that on street and we

2:44:39 ↗ tried to figure out what that percentage

2:44:41 ↗ was because you know understandably at

2:44:43 ↗ some point someone did some calculations

2:44:45 ↗ and said employees you need this much

2:44:48 ↗ for employees in this much for your

2:44:50 ↗ retail customers or for your guests of

2:44:52 ↗ the reson but it's been bundled together

2:44:54 ↗ so long its back in the mists of time

2:44:57 ↗ you know with the dinosaurs and we don't

2:45:01 ↗ really know what that where that came

2:45:04 ↗ from and so as I said I think it serves

2:45:08 ↗ as well with smaller uses but with

2:45:10 ↗ larger uses we really we pretty much

2:45:13 ↗ expect that we're going to gather data

2:45:15 ↗ to help us adjust it to the appropriate

2:45:18 ↗ number great thank you more questions

2:45:26 ↗ any more questions on building for about

2:45:30 ↗ comments on building for people have

2:45:35 ↗ specific comments they would like to

2:45:36 ↗ make this is for our input to their

2:45:39 ↗ decision yes

2:45:51 ↗ yeah no no comments oh you're right I'll

2:46:00 ↗ jump in because I think our job is to

2:46:01 ↗ provide them our opinions about the

2:46:06 ↗ decision they'll be making or input I

2:46:09 ↗ would take a little more than one if my

2:46:12 ↗ concerns about building for where the

2:46:16 ↗ the blank wall but given that it's

2:46:19 ↗ dropped down and I think you're working

2:46:21 ↗ on that anyway but since it's below

2:46:23 ↗ grade not as much of an issue that sense

2:46:26 ↗ of arrival that end of the building but

2:46:28 ↗ it sounds like you're well aware of that

2:46:30 ↗ too and the importance of that the

2:46:33 ↗ through block passages in the

2:46:36 ↗ calculation of the bill to line

2:46:38 ↗ satisfied what I thought about it the

2:46:43 ↗ there attractive looking buildings I

2:46:46 ↗ think they've done a lot to make it a

2:46:48 ↗ you know an excellent place with both

2:46:52 ↗ employees and firm appearances for or

2:46:55 ↗ the public and then the outside spaces

2:46:57 ↗ for the employees rooftop decks all of

2:46:59 ↗ that in the very nice looking building

2:47:03 ↗ inside it to work great I think shining

2:47:09 ↗ too so I echo the comment of that I

2:47:13 ↗ think they're very attractive it's a

2:47:15 ↗ very attractive building I liked

2:47:17 ↗ variations in materials I think you've

2:47:21 ↗ done a real nice job integrating the

2:47:24 ↗ kind of open space the plaza is the the

2:47:28 ↗ East Plaza and the central plaza through

2:47:31 ↗ the mid-block connection I think that's

2:47:33 ↗ gonna be because you've got upper floor

2:47:37 ↗ the skybridge is above up higher so it's

2:47:41 ↗ gonna be open and invisible and

2:47:42 ↗ attractive and inviting to pull people

2:47:45 ↗ in and so I think that I think that is

2:47:47 ↗ really well done still concerned about

2:47:49 ↗ how you're going to deal with connection

2:47:52 ↗ across the vehicular Drive but

2:47:56 ↗ after your explanation not as great a

2:47:58 ↗ concern has this little traffic area

2:47:59 ↗ smaller products not talking about

2:48:01 ↗ people maneuvering around semis backing

2:48:03 ↗ up etc so I think that that helps but

2:48:06 ↗ still you need to figure out how to

2:48:07 ↗ define that in a way that's safe for

2:48:10 ↗ people and recognizable to people that

2:48:13 ↗ are providing deliveries

2:48:16 ↗ I like the lantern effect that you're

2:48:18 ↗ creating this arrival to the building I

2:48:22 ↗ think that that will be interesting how

2:48:23 ↗ you work the lighting at night on that

2:48:25 ↗ could be a trick but I think that will

2:48:28 ↗ be I mean we think about the buildings

2:48:30 ↗ during the day but they're also a real

2:48:32 ↗ high impact at night if you treat them

2:48:34 ↗ you know with some effective lighting

2:48:39 ↗ you can create a whole different image

2:48:41 ↗ and I think you can do some real are you

2:48:43 ↗ doing some really interesting stuff with

2:48:45 ↗ that nighttime effect on the building so

2:48:47 ↗ I think that's that's really exciting

2:48:49 ↗ and then just as far as an inviting

2:48:52 ↗ place for people to work I think it will

2:48:55 ↗ be great and people who are traveling

2:48:57 ↗ through here that don't work here

2:48:59 ↗ unfortunately

2:49:00 ↗ Ty's invited in but understand the deal

2:49:03 ↗ but it will be still attractive for

2:49:06 ↗ people passing by I think that that was

2:49:11 ↗ final comment yeah I also say that I

2:49:15 ↗ think it's gonna be a great looking

2:49:17 ↗ building I think it's gonna be really

2:49:18 ↗ great for Costco as well to be able to

2:49:21 ↗ bring more employees to his aquatic

2:49:22 ↗ that's that's great

2:49:24 ↗ as far as for the community I think and

2:49:27 ↗ I think you guys are gonna be doing

2:49:28 ↗ something like this but adding to our

2:49:31 ↗ complementing the trail system around

2:49:33 ↗ there I think would go a really long way

2:49:40 ↗ best chance about questions on building

2:49:44 ↗ five they have one mr. Sharma yep

2:49:58 ↗ absolutely

2:49:59 ↗ on page 180 of 272 in the SIDS checklist

2:50:04 ↗ section 14 - there's it does not meet

2:50:09 ↗ the standard check there was wondering

2:50:13 ↗ what that means is it foreseen can you

2:50:16 ↗ get the page number again yeah sorry

2:50:18 ↗ that was maybe page 180 of 272 thank you

2:50:26 ↗ and there's a check mark there and a

2:50:29 ↗ does not meet and I was wondering what

2:50:30 ↗ that means is that foreseen that the use

2:50:34 ↗ of the parking space may evolve over

2:50:36 ↗ time if so is this related to a

2:50:40 ↗ condition anywhere

2:51:06 ↗ [Applause]

2:51:27 ↗ so there's quite a few standards in 14.2

2:51:30 ↗ and it could be there's actually perhaps

2:51:36 ↗ maybe a few of those standards where it

2:51:38 ↗ does not comply one of them is the avoid

2:51:43 ↗ blank walls and so we did include a

2:51:46 ↗ condition for the blank walls at

2:51:49 ↗ building five it's that the note

2:51:53 ↗ involved evolution use evolving over

2:51:57 ↗ time and I almost imagined a parking

2:51:59 ↗ garage in a loft area for example that

2:52:01 ↗ might go from a parking lot to loft

2:52:04 ↗ space and requires flat flooring for

2:52:07 ↗ that or something like that

2:52:08 ↗ I couldn't imagine I was trying to

2:52:10 ↗ envision how the use of this might

2:52:11 ↗ evolve over time I wonder if it says 14

2:52:15 ↗ - a but building shall be designed to

2:52:17 ↗ accommodate many uses so they may evolve

2:52:19 ↗ over time and and are you saying the

2:52:21 ↗ parking worsens if I could interject the

2:52:27 ↗ end the last part of the note says C

2:52:30 ↗ sheet 31 and item ten point nine when

2:52:34 ↗ you go to ten point nine it's talking

2:52:36 ↗ about blank walls and I think that's

2:52:40 ↗ what Jean was referring to it's both yes

2:52:49 ↗ yes I mean part of it is with the

2:52:52 ↗ flexibility of space it's a little more

2:52:56 ↗ challenging to convert a parking garage

2:52:59 ↗ use to a different use over time and so

2:53:05 ↗ I think the blank wall is definitely

2:53:09 ↗ addressed by condition we have that

2:53:11 ↗ wondering if there was something about a

2:53:13 ↗ different use anticipated for that

2:53:15 ↗ garage right and I think the only the

2:53:18 ↗ one thing that we identified is that yes

2:53:20 ↗ the exhibition space in the fitness

2:53:22 ↗ center that could be repurposed over

2:53:24 ↗ time you know but not so much the

2:53:29 ↗ parking areas

2:53:40 ↗ other questions I'm building client I

2:53:42 ↗ have a question to getting back back on

2:53:44 ↗ the walkway idea if I understand the

2:53:48 ↗ parking garage correctly it at five

2:53:50 ↗ o'clock people flowing out of here and

2:53:53 ↗ there's gonna be a lot of cars coming

2:53:55 ↗ out of Costco and see they they be

2:53:59 ↗ coming out that Northeast exit coming

2:54:03 ↗ out looking to their left to get out

2:54:06 ↗ make sure there's no trucks coming or

2:54:08 ↗ cars coming from the ramp from the other

2:54:09 ↗ garage they're making that quick right

2:54:11 ↗ turn I guess your disk you're mentioning

2:54:15 ↗ keeping the pedestrians on the north

2:54:17 ↗ side of that walkway it seems to me that

2:54:20 ↗ that's a better idea I'd be afraid of at

2:54:23 ↗ nighttime a lot of people not being seen

2:54:26 ↗ by a carbine pulling out of there I'd I

2:54:29 ↗ would trust them to have a better vision

2:54:32 ↗ of pedestrians if they went across the

2:54:35 ↗ north side of that driveway and then

2:54:36 ↗ came down like your proposal is so their

2:54:40 ↗ walkways on both sides in both proposals

2:54:42 ↗ yeah I think he said they were gonna

2:54:44 ↗ make the southern walkway right wider

2:54:47 ↗ right and I thought I think one thing to

2:54:51 ↗ think about you know it's always hard to

2:54:54 ↗ anticipate how buildings will actually

2:54:58 ↗ be used right I think part of our

2:55:03 ↗ recommendation to maybe emphasize the

2:55:07 ↗ south side over the north side in spite

2:55:09 ↗ of that is that as with our walkers of

2:55:14 ↗ Jackie and Keith they're often out there

2:55:16 ↗ at lunch they're out there at morning

2:55:19 ↗ breaks they're out there at different

2:55:21 ↗ times I think the people who are going

2:55:23 ↗ to the garage to get their car at five

2:55:25 ↗ o'clock or coming out first thing in the

2:55:29 ↗ morning which is when you're gonna have

2:55:30 ↗ most of the traffic in and out of the

2:55:32 ↗ garage is not going to be the time when

2:55:34 ↗ most people are walking people who are

2:55:36 ↗ using the garage you're probably going

2:55:37 ↗ to be using the skybridge because it

2:55:39 ↗ gets them into the building system

2:55:41 ↗ and so I think that was why we were

2:55:44 ↗ comfortable moving it to that side is in

2:55:49 ↗ sort of thinking it through it didn't

2:55:51 ↗ seem like the timelines were likely to

2:55:53 ↗ have the overlap that would cause the

2:55:55 ↗ concern that you're identifying about

2:55:57 ↗ you good point okay since we're talking

2:56:01 ↗ about that through block connection

2:56:03 ↗ there and then excess so the what's the

2:56:06 ↗ I think it was in the staff report I

2:56:08 ↗ forgot the dimensions but what's the

2:56:10 ↗ width from wall to wall in the through

2:56:13 ↗ block of the bill between the building

2:56:15 ↗ 37 feet 37 feet and then what a four

2:56:19 ↗ foot sidewalk on we had a 24 foot wide

2:56:23 ↗ drive aisle and then we were doing a

2:56:26 ↗ five foot sidewalk on the north and a

2:56:29 ↗ seven and a half foot sidewalk on this

2:56:31 ↗ out because I'm just trying to kind of

2:56:38 ↗ visualize what the experience will be

2:56:40 ↗ like in that space when the garages are

2:56:43 ↗ active it's not going to be a very

2:56:45 ↗ comfortable space to be in I don't think

2:56:47 ↗ so I'm just wondering what can you do to

2:56:52 ↗ make that feel safer and a bit more I

2:56:55 ↗ mean it's not going to be an inviting

2:56:57 ↗ place to travel through when you've got

2:56:59 ↗ a lot of cars coming in and out of there

2:57:00 ↗ it's pretty constrained you got a fairly

2:57:01 ↗ low ceiling this is challenge a design

2:57:06 ↗ challenge the reason why we made that a

2:57:11 ↗ preliminary condition is that we wanted

2:57:16 ↗ to this came up towards the end of

2:57:19 ↗ preparing the staff report and we

2:57:21 ↗ recognized that doing more detailed

2:57:24 ↗ studies that through block passage

2:57:27 ↗ looking at the dimensions the wall

2:57:29 ↗ treatments it does have a 15-foot height

2:57:33 ↗ so it is a little taller than it appears

2:57:38 ↗ a much more than a garage deck - exactly

2:57:41 ↗ but we want I gene mentioned that in our

2:57:45 ↗ presentation we want to come back with

2:57:46 ↗ more materials and more visuals and

2:57:49 ↗ potentially refining the condition

2:57:51 ↗ and to give a better sense of what

2:57:54 ↗ that's gonna be

2:57:56 ↗ III would appreciate that because that's

2:57:58 ↗ the one one of the elements that cannot

2:58:00 ↗ of a scratch on my head over a little

2:58:01 ↗ bit as we're looking at the staff report

2:58:04 ↗ and the plans and they won't okay well

2:58:06 ↗ you you want these through block

2:58:07 ↗ connections to be no attractive and

2:58:10 ↗ inviting and pull people through and

2:58:13 ↗ that will be challenging for this space

2:58:15 ↗ and so whatever you can do to kind of

2:58:17 ↗ show how is this going to work to its

2:58:20 ↗ highest potential for to meet those

2:58:23 ↗ objectives I think would be you spend

2:58:27 ↗ then obviously the stuff that you know

2:58:28 ↗ we were just talking about as far as

2:58:29 ↗ safety of people that are you know

2:58:33 ↗ traveling with the car through that same

2:58:35 ↗ space they do have a question or maybe a

2:58:42 ↗ comment but more of course I'm about the

2:58:45 ↗ last slide you showed view from the

2:58:48 ↗ northbound Lake Drive showing the garage

2:58:50 ↗ to the ride if you can pull that one up

2:58:52 ↗ again

2:59:05 ↗ Hey I guess uh my one concern about this

2:59:10 ↗ building is is that view of the garage

2:59:14 ↗ right there when you're coming south on

2:59:17 ↗ Lake Drive and Costco's built beautiful

2:59:20 ↗ buildings and a beautiful campus and I

2:59:23 ↗ have the feeling that driving along

2:59:25 ↗ there even with the the vendor event

2:59:29 ↗ center display Center on the first floor

2:59:32 ↗ lit up I think that would be great

2:59:34 ↗ but seeing those it looks to me like you

2:59:38 ↗ know four floors even though it's got

2:59:39 ↗ the trim stuff it's a pretty utilitarian

2:59:44 ↗ structure on that corner it appears to

2:59:47 ↗ me and I wondered if there is you

2:59:50 ↗ thought about there's something you can

2:59:51 ↗ do maybe even to the corner of that and

2:59:55 ↗ make it look less monolithic or

2:59:59 ↗ something on those upper levels looks

3:00:01 ↗ like a parking garage or I had a similar

3:00:09 ↗ reaction and I was wondering you know

3:00:12 ↗ you talked about the lantern effect that

3:00:13 ↗ you'd created at the corners at the

3:00:15 ↗ South corner and I don't know if there's

3:00:17 ↗ something else or how that could work at

3:00:20 ↗ that corner as you're creating another

3:00:22 ↗ kind of a gateway element as it is I

3:00:24 ↗ think the utilitarian description is

3:00:27 ↗ probably a good one as you look at that

3:00:29 ↗ that it's there's an opportunity to do

3:00:33 ↗ something that's a little more striking

3:00:35 ↗ that kind of frames both sides of the

3:00:36 ↗ street as you're traveling in that

3:00:37 ↗ direction that I think might be worth

3:00:39 ↗ exploring thank you

3:00:50 ↗ [Applause]

3:00:54 ↗ one more question Steve the skybridge

3:01:02 ↗ that travels from the garage to the

3:01:04 ↗ building and I really appreciate that

3:01:08 ↗ raising it up trying to create as much

3:01:11 ↗ transparency as possible because I know

3:01:13 ↗ when we were dealing with the original

3:01:15 ↗ land plan discussion here it was like

3:01:17 ↗ okay this is a view of the south you've

3:01:20 ↗ got the mountains and it's not it's not

3:01:22 ↗ ruin it let's try to enhance it so I

3:01:24 ↗ appreciate what you're doing with this

3:01:26 ↗ just a simple question though as far as

3:01:28 ↗ is it a conditioned space or is this

3:01:29 ↗ gonna be kind of open air since you're

3:01:32 ↗ coming up from an unconditioned Rodge

3:01:33 ↗ into a conditioned building you could

3:01:35 ↗ probably keep it unconditioned and kind

3:01:37 ↗ of fresh until you get to the building I

3:01:39 ↗ suppose but I don't know your thinking

3:01:40 ↗ on that is that's our intent we're going

3:01:42 ↗ to have a vestibule inside the building

3:01:44 ↗ for where we make the transition but the

3:01:47 ↗ bridge itself will be an unconditioned

3:01:49 ↗ okay so and we had a speaker early right

3:01:54 ↗ raising concerns about the greenhouse

3:01:56 ↗ effect in that thing so yeah so we still

3:01:58 ↗ have to work that out to ventilate it

3:02:00 ↗ all but that will be the intent

3:02:08 ↗ other questions

3:02:17 ↗ no more questions how about comments on

3:02:19 ↗ building five

3:02:30 ↗ I I have to say I like I liked for a

3:02:35 ↗ parking structure I thought it looked

3:02:36 ↗ pretty decent you know so not I guess I

3:02:41 ↗ support the notion of maybe some kind of

3:02:43 ↗ Lander an effect on the corners but but

3:02:45 ↗ in general for a for an urban parking

3:02:49 ↗ structure I especially with the glass on

3:02:52 ↗ the bottom I think that really helped a

3:02:53 ↗ lot and thought it looked really good

3:02:55 ↗ and I do like those the uses you've put

3:02:58 ↗ on the ground floor to have the exercise

3:03:00 ↗ facility and the activity that goes with

3:03:02 ↗ that and vendor space and all that that

3:03:05 ↗ I mean all that at the base of a parking

3:03:09 ↗ garage instead of just vacant retail you

3:03:12 ↗ see so many places that I think you did

3:03:16 ↗ a very nice job thank you so I

3:03:21 ↗ appreciate that too

3:03:23 ↗ knowing how challenging it is to put to

3:03:27 ↗ meet that requirement of active uses on

3:03:30 ↗ ground floors and as a single user in an

3:03:32 ↗ office campus that makes it particularly

3:03:35 ↗ challenging since you don't add a bunch

3:03:37 ↗ of separate retail uses etc the I like

3:03:42 ↗ the the work that you're doing on

3:03:43 ↗ sustainability I think that's something

3:03:46 ↗ that is a high value in this community

3:03:48 ↗ and as you know a major corporate

3:03:54 ↗ resident here are citizens that

3:03:56 ↗ reflecting that back is I think really a

3:03:59 ↗ positive thing to do not only for the

3:04:01 ↗ Costco but for the community so I think

3:04:04 ↗ that's setting the example I think

3:04:05 ↗ that's excellent

3:04:06 ↗ the I agree that for a parking garage

3:04:09 ↗ again challenging to keep it interesting

3:04:12 ↗ got maybe a little bit more work to do

3:04:14 ↗ but I think the Alta shoot it's an

3:04:17 ↗ interesting or above grade parking

3:04:19 ↗ garage I think your architectural

3:04:23 ↗ treatments looked good that north corner

3:04:26 ↗ would be the exception

3:04:28 ↗ the the interface with the trail part so

3:04:33 ↗ a little bit more on that would be

3:04:34 ↗ useful when we see this come back is

3:04:37 ↗ what will the public experience be as

3:04:40 ↗ we're walking by this because we've got

3:04:43 ↗ retaining walls and things and you're

3:04:45 ↗ kind of down in a hole that's not good

3:04:47 ↗ so I think that will be useful for us to

3:04:50 ↗ see a little bit more about that because

3:04:51 ↗ we want to really protect the public the

3:04:54 ↗ public's experience not only Costco

3:04:57 ↗ employees that matter but also the

3:04:58 ↗ public will be walking through the

3:05:00 ↗ campus and and using the public trails

3:05:02 ↗ that are adjacent to it so I think that

3:05:04 ↗ would be good to see that and then again

3:05:09 ↗ similar to the kind of discussion about

3:05:12 ↗ the interface of the plaza the East

3:05:14 ↗ Plaza on Second Street our 62nd but the

3:05:17 ↗ North Plaza here what's the what's this

3:05:20 ↗ interface look like if the street kind

3:05:23 ↗ of the urban edge Plaza that will be

3:05:26 ↗ interesting to see what you're doing

3:05:28 ↗ with that and I know you've provided

3:05:29 ↗ some example you know treatments in the

3:05:34 ↗ packet but that I think was another

3:05:38 ↗ piece I think that will be what we

3:05:40 ↗ general public they don't wear a costco

3:05:42 ↗ badge experience and so i think we would

3:05:45 ↗ like to see a little bit more about that

3:05:46 ↗ we start with

3:05:55 ↗ in their comments

3:06:02 ↗ looks like we're their other business to

3:06:05 ↗ conduct if you're concluded with this

3:06:09 ↗ permit I think we can close the public

3:06:15 ↗ hearing for this evening while leaving

3:06:17 ↗ it open for our next meeting which we

3:06:21 ↗ anticipate to be October 3rd I'll do

3:06:25 ↗ that okay and then I'll and then I do

3:06:28 ↗ have a couple of other matters that I

3:06:30 ↗ want to bring up I know there's other

3:06:32 ↗ business to do but it at this point the

3:06:34 ↗ public hearing for this portion for

3:06:37 ↗ building five is oh there's we have some

3:06:41 ↗ additional business like to thank

3:06:43 ↗ negative members of the public they can

3:06:45 ↗ sit here and listen to that additional

3:06:46 ↗ business if you want and I guess I have

3:06:49 ↗ to say I think the Costco Group did an

3:06:53 ↗ excellent job and it's obvious that you

3:06:56 ↗ did a you worked real hard to to meet

3:06:59 ↗ the requirements and the conditions that

3:07:01 ↗ were necessary and it's greatly

3:07:03 ↗ appreciated I think I won't speak for

3:07:05 ↗ the whole group but I sure think it'll

3:07:08 ↗ be a real asset you know I thank you

3:07:11 ↗ I agree thank you so other business one

3:07:21 ↗ is that we haven't met much this year we

3:07:24 ↗ need to elect your officers we wouldn't

3:07:29 ↗ do that tonight but I would like to do

3:07:32 ↗ that at the next regular meeting which

3:07:33 ↗ would be October 3rd and so I just want

3:07:37 ↗ you all to think about who would like to

3:07:39 ↗ run for chairperson and vice chair of

3:07:42 ↗ the Commission and we will have a fierce

3:07:46 ↗ political battle yes

3:07:51 ↗ I'm looking for my button so the other

3:07:57 ↗ thing we do have a special meeting on

3:08:00 ↗ September 26 do 626 it's not a regular

3:08:08 ↗ meeting night which is why I want to

3:08:10 ↗ hold the election at the regular meeting

3:08:14 ↗ the special meeting will be unusual

3:08:21 ↗ really unusual you guys are gonna get

3:08:24 ↗ your own legal counsel to or to advise

3:08:32 ↗ you and so the permits for that will go

3:08:38 ↗ out later the packet will go out

3:08:43 ↗ this is Patrick's hanging around because

3:08:48 ↗ so the Highlands development

3:08:52 ↗ agreement ended there are some permits

3:08:56 ↗ that were in and there are questions

3:09:03 ↗ around vesting which rules apply and so

3:09:10 ↗ the city will probably be represented by

3:09:15 ↗ the city attorney the applicant will

3:09:18 ↗ probably be represented by their

3:09:20 ↗ attorney which is not Patrick but

3:09:21 ↗ someone else from his firm and so

3:09:25 ↗ because staff are normally neutral but

3:09:29 ↗ because we are defending ourselves

3:09:31 ↗ against potential litigation we may not

3:09:35 ↗ be seen as neutral so you'll get your

3:09:37 ↗ own advisor we have identified a legal

3:09:42 ↗ adviser he's not a lawyer he's a Hearing

3:09:45 ↗ Examiner and he will be here to help you

3:09:47 ↗ guide you through this process it will

3:09:49 ↗ be do more like a trial probably there

3:09:52 ↗ will be witnesses and exhibits and

3:09:55 ↗ various things we are still working this

3:09:59 ↗ out it will probably go for several

3:10:01 ↗ nights not consecutive nights

3:10:04 ↗ it will probably not be concluded in one

3:10:07 ↗ night so I'm just giving you a heads up

3:10:09 ↗ that September 26 will be special can I

3:10:14 ↗ ask a quick question about it so we're

3:10:16 ↗ in the role of deciding the standing of

3:10:20 ↗ permits based on no well maybe it's too

3:10:26 ↗ early to ask that question yeah so step

3:10:31 ↗ you know they have permits that they had

3:10:35 ↗ that the applicant has submitted permits

3:10:38 ↗ they have taken a certain position about

3:10:42 ↗ how they should be moved forward staff

3:10:45 ↗ have taken a different position about

3:10:48 ↗ how they should be moved forward and you

3:10:52 ↗ will get a recommendation from the city

3:10:54 ↗ right and you will be asked either to

3:10:58 ↗ uphold that recommend any that that part

3:11:00 ↗ of it is no different than what you

3:11:01 ↗ normally do but it'll be more on a

3:11:03 ↗ technical issue of process all right

3:11:10 ↗ it will no it will be also content okay

3:11:13 ↗ okay so we're deciding on the permit

3:11:16 ↗ it's a permit decision

3:11:17 ↗ it is a permit decision okay now I got

3:11:19 ↗ it okay is the uvd seen oh no no but and

3:11:26 ↗ this this is one of the matters is that

3:11:32 ↗ under the development agreement it would

3:11:34 ↗ have gone to the you VDC but the city's

3:11:37 ↗ position is that because the development

3:11:40 ↗ agreement has been terminated that and

3:11:43 ↗ now all the permits in the urban

3:11:46 ↗ villages that are not vested according

3:11:50 ↗ to the city would come to the

3:11:52 ↗ Development Commission so I think you're

3:11:55 ↗ beginning to see some of the issues that

3:11:56 ↗ will be presented to you VDC only

3:11:59 ↗ existed because of the development

3:12:01 ↗ agreement not just to have different

3:12:04 ↗ workloads other words I mean the

3:12:07 ↗ development agreement goes away well

3:12:09 ↗ there's still our development agreements

3:12:11 ↗ who's you know there are probably eight

3:12:14 ↗ development agreements in the city

3:12:17 ↗ and four of them were terminated this

3:12:20 ↗ year or modified this year there remains

3:12:28 ↗ lakeside Swedish wash dot TDR which is

3:12:33 ↗ where Bellevue college is Costco

3:12:37 ↗ although that that comes to Development

3:12:39 ↗ Commission so it it's not that there is

3:12:46 ↗ not a purpose remaining for the you VDC

3:12:49 ↗ there just may not be very frequent

3:12:51 ↗ activity and I think that is a question

3:12:54 ↗ the council will have to make a decision

3:12:56 ↗ on in probably over the next six or

3:13:01 ↗ eight months is is this the best way to

3:13:04 ↗ use our volunteers or is it important to

3:13:08 ↗ have that standalone Commission to serve

3:13:11 ↗ the development agreements and I can't

3:13:23 ↗ wait for sure so let's

3:13:43 ↗ you

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She continued her presentation on the environmental review (SEPA) results, noting that both proposed buildings #4 and #5 are consistent with the Planned Action Determination adopted in 2014 for the Costco Campus…
She noted an AAS is being requested to bring the project into compliance with City code on tree retention, and would require the replanting of about 211 trees to replace those removed by construction.