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Thursday, September 10, 2015

6:30 PM · 1h 28m · Council Chambers, 135 East Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
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Section
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Commission Membership
packet pp.3
Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Apr 23, 2015 Planning Policy Commission · Jul 9, 2015
Open packet at p.3 ↗
Staff report:
Planning Policy Commission About Contacts Created in 1983, this commission serves as a policy advisory body to the Mayor and provides guidance and direction for Issaquah’s Staff Liaison future growth through continued review and improvement to the Trish Heinonen, Planning City’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan and related land use Manager documents. Email
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Meeting Minutes from August 27, 2015
packet pp.5–10
Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Apr 23, 2015 Planning Policy Commission · Jul 9, 2015
Open packet at p.5 ↗
Staff report:
CITY OF ISSAQUAH PLANNING POLICY COMMISSION MINUTES
3. AGENDA ITEMS
3a
PUBLIC HEARING: Central Issaquah Plan and Land Use Code Amendments
Christen Leeson, Senior Planner Trish Heinonen, Policy Planning Manager · packet pp.11–86
Topics: Land Use
Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Apr 23, 2015
Open packet at p.11 ↗
Staff report:
Exhibit C Proposed Findings of Fact and
1050 segments .txt ↗
0:30 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
0:35 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
0:40 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
0:46 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
0:52 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
0:56 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
1:01 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
1:07 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
1:22 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
1:27 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
1:33 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
1:39 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
1:44 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
1:46 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
1:51 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
1:57 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
2:04 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
2:08 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
2:13 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
2:19 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
2:24 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
2:29 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
2:35 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
2:40 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
2:45 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
2:52 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
2:58 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
3:03 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
3:08 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
3:11 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
3:15 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
3:19 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
3:22 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
3:28 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
3:33 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
3:39 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
3:43 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
3:49 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
3:54 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
4:00 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
4:07 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
4:12 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
4:18 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
4:24 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
4:28 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
4:33 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
4:39 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
4:44 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
4:50 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
4:56 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
5:00 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
5:02 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
5:08 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
5:17 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
5:23 ↗ run through these amendments.
5:32 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
5:36 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
5:40 ↗ most of its existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
5:43 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
5:51 ↗ So this actually...
6:23 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
6:27 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
6:33 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
6:39 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
6:44 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
6:49 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
6:54 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
7:00 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
7:15 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
7:20 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
7:26 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
7:32 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
7:36 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
7:39 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
7:44 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
7:50 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
7:57 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
8:01 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
8:06 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
8:11 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
8:17 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
8:22 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
8:28 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
8:33 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
8:38 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
8:44 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
8:50 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
8:56 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
9:01 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
9:03 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
9:08 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
9:12 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
9:15 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
9:21 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
9:26 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
9:31 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
9:36 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
9:42 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
9:47 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
9:53 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
9:59 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
10:05 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
10:11 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
10:17 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
10:21 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
10:26 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
10:32 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
10:37 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
10:43 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
10:49 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
10:52 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
10:55 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
11:00 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
11:10 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
11:15 ↗ run through these amendments.
11:24 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
11:28 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
11:33 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
11:36 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
11:43 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
11:48 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
11:53 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
11:57 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
12:01 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
12:05 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. It could be on the
12:10 ↗ other hand side of the project, as I mentioned before. So we've got some information.
12:10 ↗ We'll just take some information for the project to actually find out that are inrealment
12:10 ↗ data.
12:40 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
12:45 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
12:51 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
12:57 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
13:02 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
13:07 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
13:12 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
13:18 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
13:32 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
13:38 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
13:43 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
13:50 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
13:54 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
13:57 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
14:02 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
14:07 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
14:15 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
14:19 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
14:24 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
14:29 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
14:35 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
14:40 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
14:46 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
14:51 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
14:56 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
15:02 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
15:08 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
15:14 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
15:19 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
15:21 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
15:25 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
15:30 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
15:33 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
15:39 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
15:43 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
15:49 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
15:54 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
16:00 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
16:05 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
16:11 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
16:17 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
16:23 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
16:29 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
16:34 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
16:39 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
16:44 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
16:50 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
16:55 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
17:00 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
17:06 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
17:10 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
17:13 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
17:18 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
17:27 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
17:33 ↗ run through these amendments.
17:42 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
17:46 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
17:50 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
17:54 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
18:01 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
18:06 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
18:11 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
18:15 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
18:19 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
18:23 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
18:58 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
19:03 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
19:08 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
19:14 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
19:20 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
19:25 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
19:29 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
19:35 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
19:50 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
19:56 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
20:01 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
20:07 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
20:12 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
20:15 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
20:19 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
20:25 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
20:33 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
20:37 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
20:42 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
20:47 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
20:53 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
20:58 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
21:04 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
21:08 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
21:14 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
21:20 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
21:26 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
21:32 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
21:37 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
21:39 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
21:43 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
21:47 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
21:51 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
21:57 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
22:01 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
22:07 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
22:12 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
22:18 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
22:23 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
22:29 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
22:35 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
22:40 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
22:46 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
22:52 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
22:57 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
23:02 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
23:07 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
23:13 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
23:18 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
23:24 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
23:28 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
23:31 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
23:36 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
23:45 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
23:51 ↗ run through these amendments.
24:00 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
24:04 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
24:08 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
24:12 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
24:19 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
24:24 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
24:29 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
24:33 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
24:37 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
24:41 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
25:16 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
25:21 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
25:26 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
25:32 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
25:38 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
25:43 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
25:47 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
25:53 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
26:08 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
26:14 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
26:19 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
26:25 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
26:30 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
26:33 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
26:37 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
26:43 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
26:50 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
26:55 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
27:00 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
27:05 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
27:11 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
27:16 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
27:21 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
27:26 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
27:32 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
27:38 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
27:44 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
27:50 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
27:54 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
27:57 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
28:01 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
28:05 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
28:09 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
28:15 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
28:19 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
28:25 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
28:30 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
28:36 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
28:41 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
28:46 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
28:53 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
28:58 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
29:04 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
29:10 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
29:14 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
29:20 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
29:25 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
29:31 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
29:36 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
29:42 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
29:46 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
29:49 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
29:54 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
30:03 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
30:09 ↗ run through these amendments.
30:18 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
30:22 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
30:26 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
30:30 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
30:37 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
30:42 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
30:46 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
30:50 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
30:55 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
30:59 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. And that's the same information.
31:04 ↗ So we're going to see a lot of information so you can check out, or
31:04 ↗ if we check out the information and see what answers are.
31:34 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
31:39 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
31:44 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
31:50 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
31:56 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
32:00 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
32:05 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
32:11 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
32:26 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
32:32 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
32:37 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
32:43 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
32:48 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
32:51 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
32:55 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
33:01 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
33:08 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
33:12 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
33:17 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
33:23 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
33:29 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
33:33 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
33:39 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
33:44 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
33:50 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
33:56 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
34:02 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
34:08 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
34:12 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
34:15 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
34:19 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
34:23 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
34:27 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
34:33 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
34:37 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
34:43 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
34:48 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
34:54 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
34:58 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
35:04 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
35:11 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
35:16 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
35:22 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
35:28 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
35:32 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
35:38 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
35:43 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
35:49 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
35:54 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
36:00 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
36:04 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
36:07 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
36:12 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
36:21 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
36:27 ↗ run through these amendments.
36:36 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
36:40 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
36:44 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
36:48 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
36:55 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
36:59 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
37:04 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
37:08 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
37:12 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
37:17 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
37:52 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
37:57 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
38:02 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
38:08 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
38:13 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
38:18 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
38:23 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
38:29 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
38:44 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
38:49 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
38:55 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
39:01 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
39:06 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
39:08 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
39:13 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
39:19 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
39:26 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
39:30 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
39:35 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
39:41 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
39:46 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
39:51 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
39:57 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
40:02 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
40:07 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
40:14 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
40:20 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
40:25 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
40:30 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
40:33 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
40:37 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
40:41 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
40:44 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
40:50 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
40:55 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
41:01 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
41:05 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
41:11 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
41:16 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
41:22 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
41:29 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
41:34 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
41:40 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
41:46 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
41:50 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
41:55 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
42:01 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
42:06 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
42:12 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
42:18 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
42:22 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
42:24 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
42:30 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
42:39 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
42:45 ↗ run through these amendments.
42:54 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
42:58 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
43:02 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
43:05 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
43:12 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
43:17 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
43:22 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
43:26 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
43:30 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
43:35 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
44:10 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
44:14 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
44:20 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
44:26 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
44:31 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
44:36 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
44:41 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
44:47 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
45:02 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
45:07 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
45:13 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
45:19 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
45:24 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
45:26 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
45:31 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
45:37 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
45:44 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
45:48 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
45:53 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
45:58 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
46:04 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
46:09 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
46:15 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
46:20 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
46:25 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
46:31 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
46:37 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
46:43 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
46:48 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
46:50 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
46:55 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
46:59 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
47:02 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
47:08 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
47:13 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
47:18 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
47:23 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
47:29 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
47:34 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
47:40 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
47:46 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
47:52 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
47:58 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
48:04 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
48:08 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
48:13 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
48:19 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
48:24 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
48:30 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
48:36 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
48:39 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
48:42 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
48:47 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
48:57 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
49:02 ↗ run through these amendments.
49:11 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
49:15 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
49:20 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
49:23 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
49:30 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
49:35 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
49:40 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
49:44 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
49:48 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
49:52 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
50:27 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
50:32 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
50:38 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
50:44 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
50:49 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
50:54 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
50:59 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
51:05 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
51:19 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
51:25 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
51:30 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
51:37 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
51:41 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
51:44 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
51:49 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
51:55 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
52:02 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
52:06 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
52:11 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
52:16 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
52:22 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
52:27 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
52:33 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
52:38 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
52:43 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
52:49 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
52:55 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
53:01 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
53:06 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
53:08 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
53:13 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
53:17 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
53:20 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
53:26 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
53:31 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
53:36 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
53:41 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
53:47 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
53:52 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
53:58 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
54:04 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
54:10 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
54:16 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
54:21 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
54:26 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
54:31 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
54:37 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
54:42 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
54:47 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
54:54 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
54:57 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
55:00 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
55:05 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
55:14 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
55:20 ↗ run through these amendments.
55:29 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
55:33 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
55:38 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
55:41 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
55:48 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
55:53 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
55:58 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
56:02 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
56:06 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
56:10 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. Thank you, Pamela. Just do
56:15 ↗ a second slide.
56:45 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
56:50 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
56:56 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
57:02 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
57:07 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
57:12 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
57:17 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
57:22 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
57:37 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
57:43 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
57:48 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
57:54 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
57:59 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
58:02 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
58:06 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
58:12 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
58:20 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
58:24 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
58:29 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
58:34 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
58:40 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
58:45 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
58:51 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
58:55 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
59:01 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
59:07 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
59:13 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
59:19 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
59:24 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
59:26 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
59:30 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
59:35 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
59:38 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
59:44 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
59:48 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
59:54 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
59:59 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
1:00:05 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
1:00:10 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
1:00:16 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
1:00:22 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
1:00:28 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
1:00:34 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
1:00:39 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
1:00:44 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
1:00:49 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
1:00:54 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
1:01:00 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
1:01:05 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
1:01:11 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
1:01:15 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
1:01:18 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
1:01:23 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
1:01:32 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
1:01:38 ↗ run through these amendments.
1:01:47 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
1:01:51 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
1:01:55 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
1:01:59 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
1:02:06 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
1:02:11 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
1:02:16 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
1:02:20 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
1:02:24 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
1:02:28 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. Okay. So that's something that
1:02:33 ↗ we're doing here in the space.
1:03:03 ↗ Thank you all for being here. The first thing on our agenda is always the
1:03:07 ↗ approval of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do
1:03:13 ↗ I have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
1:03:20 ↗ All those in favor? Aye. Minutes approved.
1:03:26 ↗ So tonight we are looking forward to a public hearing on
1:03:31 ↗ several parts of the comp plan, I
1:03:37 ↗ guess. First of all, we're going to start out with a presentation from
1:03:42 ↗ Kristen.
1:03:55 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
1:04:01 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
1:04:06 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
1:04:12 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
1:04:17 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
1:04:20 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
1:04:24 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
1:04:30 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
1:04:37 ↗ So the first one is the Urban Core Regional Growth Center. So many of you
1:04:42 ↗ were not here when we adopted. We went through a very long process and adopted
1:04:47 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
1:04:52 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1 ,100 acres of land, about 900
1:04:57 ↗ developable acres. The green area in there is the now Urban Core Regional Growth Center.
1:05:03 ↗ It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned by the
1:05:09 ↗ Rowley properties. And they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs the development
1:05:14 ↗ of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision. So the
1:05:19 ↗ goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
1:05:25 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center. And on June 25th of this
1:05:30 ↗ year, it had, it was given provisional status. So most people
1:05:36 ↗ when they go in, in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an
1:05:41 ↗ area we want to be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but
1:05:44 ↗ now you need to write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of
1:05:47 ↗ the stuff, marketing analysis that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But
1:05:51 ↗ we still had a few things that need to be tweaked before we could get
1:05:55 ↗ that provisional status taken away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on.
1:06:01 ↗ I started talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional
1:06:06 ↗ growth center is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding
1:06:11 ↗ through PSRC grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for
1:06:16 ↗ stormwater or transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the
1:06:22 ↗ requirements that we need to meet have to do with, we'd have to meet PSRC
1:06:25 ↗ requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040 and the King County county -wide
1:06:30 ↗ planning policies. Most of the
1:06:35 ↗ amendments that we had have to do with vision, environment,
1:06:41 ↗ land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation. Those are the
1:06:46 ↗ categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information and
1:06:52 ↗ existing conditions information. Things that we did in existing conditions report for Central Issaquah, but
1:06:58 ↗ that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information. and things that were specific
1:07:02 ↗ to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd pages that
1:07:07 ↗ are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing policies relating
1:07:13 ↗ to the urban core up into, what we did was we decided to establish a
1:07:19 ↗ separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan so that we could, so
1:07:24 ↗ that was clearly spelled out for PSRC. So most of the
1:07:30 ↗ information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies that listed that were
1:07:34 ↗ existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section and we created a
1:07:37 ↗ couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one for transportation as well.
1:07:44 ↗ So I think what I'm going to do.
1:07:50 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to run
1:07:56 ↗ through these amendments.
1:08:05 ↗ I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments were.
1:08:10 ↗ I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said, most
1:08:13 ↗ of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions as
1:08:17 ↗ we're going through, just let me know.
1:08:24 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
1:08:29 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was a little confusing and we
1:08:34 ↗ had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things that we
1:08:38 ↗ just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just changed it
1:08:42 ↗ up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah report,
1:08:46 ↗ a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
1:09:21 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
1:09:26 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
1:09:31 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
1:09:37 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
1:09:43 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
1:09:47 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
1:09:52 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
1:09:58 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
1:10:13 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
1:10:19 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
1:10:24 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
1:10:30 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
1:10:35 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
1:10:38 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
1:10:42 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
1:10:48 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
1:10:55 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
1:10:59 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
1:11:04 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
1:11:10 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
1:11:16 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
1:11:20 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
1:11:26 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
1:11:31 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
1:11:37 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
1:11:43 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
1:11:49 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
1:11:54 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
1:11:59 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
1:12:02 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
1:12:06 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
1:12:10 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
1:12:13 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
1:12:19 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
1:12:24 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
1:12:30 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
1:12:35 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
1:12:40 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
1:12:45 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
1:12:51 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
1:12:58 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
1:13:03 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
1:13:09 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
1:13:15 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
1:13:19 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
1:13:25 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
1:13:30 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
1:13:35 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
1:13:41 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
1:13:47 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
1:13:51 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
1:13:54 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
1:13:59 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
1:14:08 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
1:14:14 ↗ run through these amendments.
1:14:23 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
1:14:27 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
1:14:31 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
1:14:35 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
1:14:42 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
1:14:46 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
1:14:51 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
1:14:55 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
1:14:59 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
1:15:04 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information. We need to know. Thank
1:15:08 ↗ you very much.
1:15:39 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
1:15:44 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
1:15:49 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
1:15:55 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
1:16:00 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
1:16:05 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
1:16:10 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
1:16:16 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
1:16:31 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
1:16:36 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
1:16:42 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
1:16:48 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
1:16:53 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
1:16:55 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
1:17:00 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
1:17:06 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
1:17:13 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
1:17:17 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
1:17:22 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
1:17:27 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
1:17:33 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
1:17:38 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
1:17:44 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
1:17:49 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
1:17:54 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
1:18:01 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
1:18:06 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
1:18:12 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
1:18:17 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
1:18:20 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
1:18:24 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
1:18:28 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
1:18:31 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
1:18:37 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
1:18:42 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
1:18:48 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
1:18:52 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
1:18:58 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
1:19:03 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
1:19:09 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
1:19:16 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
1:19:21 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
1:19:27 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
1:19:33 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
1:19:37 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
1:19:42 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
1:19:48 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
1:19:53 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
1:19:59 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
1:20:05 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
1:20:08 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
1:20:11 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
1:20:17 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
1:20:26 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
1:20:32 ↗ run through these amendments.
1:20:41 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
1:20:45 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
1:20:49 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
1:20:52 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
1:20:59 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
1:21:04 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
1:21:09 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
1:21:13 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
1:21:17 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
1:21:22 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
1:21:57 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
1:22:01 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
1:22:07 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
1:22:13 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
1:22:18 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
1:22:23 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
1:22:28 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
1:22:34 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
1:22:49 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
1:22:54 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
1:23:00 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
1:23:06 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
1:23:11 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
1:23:13 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
1:23:18 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
1:23:24 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
1:23:31 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
1:23:35 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
1:23:40 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
1:23:45 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
1:23:51 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
1:23:56 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
1:24:02 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
1:24:07 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
1:24:12 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
1:24:18 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
1:24:24 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
1:24:30 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
1:24:35 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
1:24:37 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
1:24:42 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
1:24:46 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
1:24:49 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
1:24:55 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
1:25:00 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
1:25:05 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
1:25:10 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
1:25:16 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
1:25:21 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
1:25:27 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
1:25:33 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
1:25:39 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
1:25:45 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
1:25:51 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
1:25:55 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
1:26:00 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
1:26:06 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
1:26:11 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
1:26:17 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
1:26:23 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
1:26:26 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
1:26:29 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
1:26:34 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
1:26:44 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
1:26:49 ↗ run through these amendments.
1:26:58 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
1:27:02 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
1:27:07 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
1:27:10 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
1:27:17 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
1:27:22 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
1:27:27 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
1:27:31 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
1:27:35 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
1:27:39 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
1:28:14 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
1:28:19 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
1:28:25 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
1:28:31 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
1:28:36 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
1:28:41 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
1:28:46 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
1:28:51 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
1:29:06 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
1:29:12 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
1:29:17 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
1:29:24 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
1:29:28 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
1:29:31 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
1:29:35 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
1:29:41 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
1:29:49 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
1:29:53 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
1:29:58 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
1:30:03 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
1:30:09 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
1:30:14 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
1:30:20 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
1:30:24 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
1:30:30 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
1:30:36 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
1:30:42 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
1:30:48 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
1:30:53 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
1:30:55 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
1:30:59 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
1:31:04 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
1:31:07 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
1:31:13 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
1:31:17 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
1:31:23 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
1:31:28 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
1:31:34 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
1:31:39 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
1:31:45 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
1:31:51 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
1:31:57 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
1:32:03 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
1:32:08 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
1:32:13 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
1:32:18 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
1:32:23 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
1:32:29 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
1:32:34 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
1:32:40 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
1:32:44 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
1:32:47 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
1:32:52 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
1:33:01 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
1:33:07 ↗ run through these amendments.
1:33:16 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
1:33:20 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
1:33:24 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
1:33:28 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
1:33:35 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
1:33:40 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
1:33:45 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
1:33:49 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
1:33:53 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
1:33:57 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
1:34:32 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always the approval
1:34:37 ↗ of the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I
1:34:42 ↗ have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
1:34:48 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
1:34:54 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
1:34:59 ↗ hearing on several parts of the
1:35:03 ↗ comp plan, I guess. First of all, we're going to start out
1:35:09 ↗ with a presentation from Kristen.
1:35:24 ↗ And Kristen is the senior planner for the city of Issaquah, so take it away.
1:35:30 ↗ All right. So I'm just going to cover the first part of this, which you
1:35:35 ↗ all did not talk about last week. And that is, well,
1:35:41 ↗ let's start here. I'll start at the beginning. So tonight we're going to just talk
1:35:46 ↗ about all the amendments again to make sure that we understand them before we make
1:35:49 ↗ a recommendation. Open the meeting for public comment. So presentation and open the meeting for
1:35:53 ↗ public comment. And then have a PBC discussion and recommendation. And after that, we
1:35:59 ↗ will talk about the next round of amendments and what that schedule will be like.
1:36:06 ↗ So the first one is the urban core regional growth center. So many of you
1:36:11 ↗ were not here when we adopted, we went through a very long process and adopted
1:36:16 ↗ our central Issaquah plan in December of 2012. And the boundary for that is in
1:36:21 ↗ red up here for central Issaquah. And it's 1100 acres of land, about 900 developable
1:36:27 ↗ acres. The green areas. The green area in there is the now urban core regional
1:36:32 ↗ growth center. It's 461 acres. 101 acres are taken up or owned
1:36:37 ↗ by the Rowley properties and they have a Rowley development agreement. That is what governs
1:36:42 ↗ the development of that property. But it all falls under the central Issaquah plan vision.
1:36:48 ↗ So the goal and the vision for both areas are the same.
1:36:54 ↗ So the urban core was designated regional growth center on June 25th of this year.
1:37:00 ↗ It had, it was given provisional status. So most people when they go in,
1:37:06 ↗ in the past, have gone in and said, we've identified an area we want to
1:37:11 ↗ be a regional growth center. And they say, that's great, but now you need to
1:37:13 ↗ write a plan and do an environmental analysis and all of the stuff, marketing analysis
1:37:17 ↗ that goes along with it. We'd already done all that. But we still had a
1:37:21 ↗ few things that need to be tweaked before we could get that provisional status taken
1:37:25 ↗ away. So that is what we're doing tonight. So, hang on. I started
1:37:31 ↗ talking and I forgot to breathe. What it means to be a regional growth center
1:37:35 ↗ is that we are now eligible for approximately $200 million in infrastructure funding through PSRC
1:37:41 ↗ grants that we were not previously eligible for. So that can go for stormwater or
1:37:46 ↗ transportation or transit infrastructure. So some of the requirements that we need to
1:37:52 ↗ meet have to do with PSRC requirements. We have to comply with their Vision 2040
1:37:57 ↗ and the King County county -wide planning policies.
1:38:03 ↗ Most of the amendments that we had have to do with vision,
1:38:09 ↗ environment, land use, housing, economy, public services, and transportation.
1:38:14 ↗ Those are the categories. But most of the information that they needed was background information
1:38:20 ↗ and existing conditions information. Things that we did an existing conditions report for Central
1:38:26 ↗ Issaquah, but that was done in 2007. So they wanted updated information and things that
1:38:31 ↗ were specific to the urban core. So most of that, the 22 or some odd
1:38:36 ↗ pages that are additional in here are background. We also pulled some existing
1:38:41 ↗ policies relating to the urban core up into what we did was we decided to
1:38:47 ↗ establish a separate regional growth center chapter or elements in the plan
1:38:52 ↗ so that we could, so that was clearly spelled out for PSRC.
1:38:58 ↗ So most of the information is in there. We pulled some of the existing policies
1:39:02 ↗ that listed that were existing in the plan and pulled them up to that section
1:39:05 ↗ and we created a couple of new policies for economic vitality, urban community, and one
1:39:10 ↗ for transportation as well. So I think what I'm going to do.
1:39:19 ↗ I'm going to go and show. There we go. I'm just going to
1:39:25 ↗ run through these amendments.
1:39:34 ↗ Yes. I'm going to scroll through what we sent you, what some of the amendments
1:39:38 ↗ were. I'm not going to stop on a lot of these because, like I said,
1:39:42 ↗ most of it's existing information. Hopefully you've read it. So if you have any questions
1:39:46 ↗ as we're going through, just let me know.
1:39:53 ↗ So this actually, the reason we did this, we deleted this table, which talked about
1:39:58 ↗ what's existing and what our goals were. And it was, it was a little confusing
1:40:02 ↗ and we had things like level of service, public parks, and a few other things
1:40:06 ↗ that we just, we realized we weren't going to keep track of. So we just
1:40:11 ↗ changed it up a little bit and we annually have to do a central Issaquah
1:40:15 ↗ report, a monitoring report, and this is the same information.
1:40:50 ↗ Thank you all for being here. First thing on our agenda is always approval of
1:40:55 ↗ the minutes from the last meeting. The last meeting was August 27th. Do I have
1:41:01 ↗ a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Do I have a second?
1:41:06 ↗ Seconded. All those in favor? Aye.
1:41:12 ↗ Minutes approved. So tonight we are looking forward to a public
1:41:17 ↗ hearing on
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