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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