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Planning Policy Commission Auto captions

Thursday, January 28, 2016

6:30 PM · 32m 21s · Council Chambers, 135 East Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
Topics tracked across meetings:
Olde Town Subarea Plan Update AB 7326 1/14
2016 Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map Amendments AB 7270 1/5
2016 Docket of Comprehensive Plan Amendments AB 7107 1/3
PUBLIC HEARING: PROPOSED 2016 2/2
Section
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Commission Membership
packet pp.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 October 1, 2015
packet pp.5–10
Staff report:
CITY OF ISSAQUAH PLANNING POLICY COMMISSION MINUTES
3. AGENDA ITEMS
3a
PUBLIC HEARING: PROPOSED 2016
packet pp.11–32
Staff report:
By State Law, Comprehensive Plan amendments may only be done once a year and a Docket (list) of amendments must be established by Council. This is to ensure that all the items on the Docket are reviewed together in a thoughtful way, not piecemeal as requests trickle in throughout the year.
0:52 oh good the video still up here
1:00 we're live good evening and welcome to
1:04 the january toyota 28th meeting of the
1:07 planning policy Commission tonight we're
1:10 going to after presentation from Risch
1:14 have a public hearing on a proposal list
1:17 of the comprehensive plan amendments for
1:20 this year but first we have to approve
1:24 the minutes of our last meeting which
1:27 was in October first do I have a motion
1:32 to approve the minutes well make such
1:34 motion I'll second it any discussion
1:37 changes all those in favor please say
1:40 aye I post hearing none the minutes from
1:45 the October meaning of a clinical estate
1:49 commission is are hereby approved so
1:52 with that we're going to open up to
1:53 Trish to tell us a little bit about what
1:56 the public hearing is am okay we start
2:00 out the new year with a new list of
2:02 comprehensive plan amendments and that's
2:04 our purpose for tonight as you might
2:07 remember the growth management act of
2:09 the state says the comprehensive plan is
2:12 very important it's a policy document
2:15 for your jurisdiction it's the umbrella
2:17 to which everything needs to fit
2:19 underneath and you can only amend it
2:22 once a year and that's so
2:25 comprehensively you look at all the
2:27 impacts of your choices at one time that
2:30 year to change or modify your policies
2:34 of your city so that's their intent and
2:36 so we can only do it once a year so we
2:38 have to establish the list in the
2:40 beginning of the year and then you can't
2:41 add anything the entire year those have
2:44 to go to next year if someone in June as
2:47 I said comes in with a fabulous idea we
2:49 can't look at it until the next round of
2:52 the docket amendments the way we do this
2:56 requirement is we call it a docket and
2:58 we have it in the code how you create a
3:01 docket and we gather information and
3:04 ideas the previous year that didn't make
3:07 it into last year's dakot and we hold
3:09 this hearing by code it has to be done
3:12 by the end of
3:13 January in order to get it to the
3:15 council in February and they look at it
3:17 and then they have to they should have a
3:20 list established in March and this is
3:22 the crazy chart that's in our land use
3:25 code that shows all the decisions and
3:28 all the input times that get that get
3:31 worked through and the little circle
3:36 that's where we are right now is
3:39 establishing the docket and it has to be
3:42 done by your second meeting in January
3:45 or by the end of January okay the land
3:52 use code on the other hand we can do as
3:55 many code amendments at any time of the
3:57 year as staff can work on it's very
4:01 different than the comprehensive plan we
4:05 quit making dockets for the code
4:07 amendments a few years ago because there
4:09 were so many that it was overwhelming
4:12 this year it'll be a little overwhelming
4:14 because we have olive round 3 for the
4:18 central standards you might remember
4:21 fondly round one and round to that you
4:23 all worked on last year this is around
4:25 three and there's 22 amendments on there
4:28 we're going to do it in three stages we
4:31 hope maybe act 1 egg 2 and the final we
4:35 haven't quite decided how to call them
4:36 we also have old town standards the task
4:39 force just finished up from their work
4:41 last year and they have all sorts of
4:42 ideas for how we could change the
4:44 standards in old town so we're working
4:46 on those this year there's going to be
4:48 an exciting one on marijuana this year
4:51 that has to be done by June merging the
4:53 medical and recreational somehow before
4:58 the state deadline in June that's
5:00 another exciting one so there's all
5:02 sorts of code amendments coming to you
5:04 soon but we don't actually have a
5:07 concrete list because it's just changing
5:09 too much but know that they are coming
5:11 we're not just doing comp plan this year
5:14 I thought I would put the list that you
5:17 have in your packet and flip through
5:19 there's three pages of them I believe
5:21 there are 20 we have them broken down
5:24 into
5:25 two new amendments or and I start with
5:29 annual those are the easiest to talk
5:30 about there's some that we do every year
5:32 and that's our Transportation
5:35 Improvement Program which is the amount
5:37 of money that we allocate to our
5:40 transportation program each year and you
5:42 all have a hearing in front of with our
5:45 engine our city engineer and they go
5:47 through the transportation the TI p as
5:49 we call it they go through that with you
5:51 every year and you make a recommendation
5:52 to the council we do that every year
5:55 that's part of the comprehensive plan
5:56 and also the capital facilities program
5:59 which would be like parks and trucks and
6:02 other facilities that the city purchases
6:04 or plans to purchase the next year that
6:06 keeps us going with our level of service
6:08 commitment that we make to the community
6:10 we do that every year we update our
6:13 population every year so that all our
6:15 forecasting is accurate and we also do
6:20 what we call community facility redoes
6:22 ignatian and reasons every year and
6:24 those are when the city purchases
6:26 property usually it's with a FEMA grant
6:28 FEMA monies which is the Federal
6:31 Emergency Management Agency perhaps what
6:36 else would a it's the group that gives
6:39 money to buy flood prone properties and
6:41 we've gotten a lot of those monies over
6:44 the years and we take the zoning off of
6:47 them whatever they were single-family
6:48 multi-family commercial and we make them
6:50 community facilities zone which shows
6:52 that they're publicly owned for public
6:54 purpose usually it's a recreation zone
6:56 for just parks and kind of opens or
6:59 they're an open space kind of a zone
7:01 floods and we're just leaving it natural
7:04 there's five of those this year and I'll
7:06 quickly run through just for excitement
7:08 where they are the first of the five is
7:12 in what we call the Atlas development
7:14 and they're giving us over an acre acre
7:17 and a half park there they have to give
7:21 us because it's part of their approval
7:25 and it's going to be community
7:26 facilities recreation and it's going to
7:29 be in the middle of their their project
7:32 and it'll be for the public it'll also
7:34 be for their the folks that live there
7:36 but it also be a community park there
7:38 right off of Gilman and there's two on
7:43 either side of dog would both would be
7:46 open space I believe those are
7:48 flood-prone seeing the creek and the
7:51 buffer going right through and the
7:53 little parentheses are that was the
7:54 owner that we were able to get them from
7:58 four and five are off of front street
8:01 and Newport and five i think is
8:05 flood-prone and four we own some of the
8:11 parcels to the north and so we're trying
8:14 to to put them together to do so and
8:17 we're proposing the zoning to be
8:19 facilities which allows you more leeway
8:23 at what the use would be so it might
8:25 even actually have to get to have a
8:27 building on it if it becomes a park it
8:29 might have a restroom or something like
8:31 that as you can see they're pretty
8:32 little parcels so it wouldn't be like a
8:34 fire station or like a big building but
8:37 the facilities zone allows you a little
8:39 more leeway and what you might put there
8:41 but again it would have to be for public
8:44 purpose are there any questions on the
8:46 five I don't know much about them other
8:49 than then then what I said that and the
8:52 other exciting one that's not
8:54 technically community facilities because
8:56 it's not publicly owned but one of our
8:59 community members has asked for her
9:02 property her vacant property to be
9:05 rezone to Conservancy and she has a
9:08 contract she went through the whole
9:10 process of the name just escaped me but
9:16 to put a conservation easement on her
9:17 property up here up at the top of 56 and
9:21 it's and I put the language right from
9:23 the conservation easement that for the
9:26 purpose of forever conserving the open
9:28 space character ecological significance
9:30 native vegetation and wildlife habitat
9:32 features of the subject property which
9:35 is really amazing that a landowner would
9:37 do that and it's almost a full acre and
9:40 it's a beautiful little piece of land
9:42 and she's required to keep it maintained
9:46 and a marvelous for a wildlife and all
9:48 those good purposes so I lump that even
9:51 though that
9:52 was her request to us it's still to me
9:55 sort of fit into the public purpose kind
9:57 of rezone so that's why i love this
9:59 requesting with that any questions on
10:01 this one okay back to the not so
10:05 exciting ones the sustainable indicators
10:08 that you adopted last year to put in the
10:10 appendix we're updating those with new
10:12 data we try to do that as often as
10:14 possible the transportation element if
10:18 you remember when we were certified last
10:21 year in June when we finished you all
10:23 finished the comp plan update that took
10:25 two years the big one last year psrc
10:28 came back they loved it but they had
10:30 some ideas that they wanted us to add
10:32 the next time one of it is to recognize
10:34 state-owned facilities there nothing
10:38 that would have stopped our
10:39 certification but they thought they
10:41 could make our plan even better if we
10:43 would do a couple of things so I don't
10:45 think those will be very hard there are
10:48 two items that have been requested for
10:51 the central issaquah plan one of those
10:53 is to move the boundary to include the
10:57 staples the staples area take it out of
11:03 old town and put it into central
11:05 issaquah so we'll look at that it I
11:12 haven't quite figured it out yet but one
11:15 of the Economic Development Commission
11:18 no economic vitality Commission was
11:21 looking at anchor projects that would
11:24 vitalize the central plan and they
11:26 thought that corner would be a really
11:27 good corner for an anchor project till
11:30 we said it's really technically not in
11:33 the central plan it's an old town you
11:36 know it's right it's where they collide
11:38 but it's so they said well you should
11:41 look at change in the boundary because
11:42 that would be a fabulous place for an
11:44 anchor project okay we'll look at it but
11:47 I don't know if you've seen the video
11:49 that they did the economic vitality
11:50 Commission on possible anchor projects
11:53 sites in town it's I think it's on the
11:56 website but they did a fabulous video
11:58 you know standing right on the different
12:00 corners where they think it would be a
12:01 really good idea I thought well we
12:03 should get PPC out there to do a video
12:05 not sure what the topic would be but it
12:07 was fabulous video I thought they did
12:09 but that's that's one of our amendments
12:12 we get to look at this year and the
12:14 seventh one is old town the task force
12:16 they came up with some plan changes that
12:19 they would like to see us look at so
12:22 that's going to be a fun one I think
12:23 there's only a few for the plan they
12:26 have a lot of code amendments for old
12:28 town but I think they only have a few
12:29 suggestions for the plan all of the
12:34 elements need an implementation strategy
12:37 last year if you remember we made the
12:40 elements shorter and just policy instead
12:43 of having all the implementation ideas
12:45 mixed in it because it was kind of
12:47 confusing so we took all the
12:49 implementation out and now we have to
12:51 firm up how you implement each chapter
12:54 because we couldn't do both pieces last
12:56 year so that's that's going to be a big
12:58 part is thinking up ways that it we
13:01 would know that for example the land use
13:03 element is successful because this is
13:04 how we implemented it and so I think
13:06 that's going to be really fun to talk
13:08 about those kinds of things this year
13:12 the development agreements in issaquah
13:15 highlands and talus have almost run out
13:18 they were 20 year plans that we did back
13:20 in would that be 95 and 96 and in 2017
13:25 is when they're supposed to sunset which
13:29 means they would go to regular zoning
13:32 and since they're so very different than
13:34 any other zoning we have in town we have
13:38 to sort of ease them into what would
13:39 that look like when they turn back into
13:42 regular zoning and so we're not sure if
13:46 we need a comprehensive plan amendment
13:47 for that but we wanted to put a
13:49 placeholder in in case there's something
13:51 up there in either of the urban villages
13:54 that doesn't have it like sort of a
13:56 safety net policy and the comp plan so
13:59 we don't really know if we need that but
14:01 as I said if something happened in June
14:04 and we realize we needed something we
14:05 wouldn't be able to do it this year we'd
14:07 have to wait till the next year and by
14:09 then they'd be sun setting and we'd be
14:11 we'd be lost so this is sort of a
14:14 placeholder because we're not really
14:15 sure what it looks that we've never had
14:17 to close out of development agreement
14:18 for so we're trying to think of every
14:21 situation just a quick question on that
14:22 hasn't been any discussion with the
14:25 developers of they come forward oh yeah
14:27 okay because some of them are really
14:29 happy there's that that they're just
14:31 about because a lot of the lot of pieces
14:34 have have moved very far from 20 years
14:37 ago as you can imagine and so some of
14:40 them are looking forward to and some are
14:43 them Sun setting and maybe getting to
14:45 use some different standards or some but
14:47 there's an in both of them there's not a
14:48 lot of parcels left and but there are
14:51 some that they're wanting to hang out if
14:53 they could just do an extension for 18
14:56 months could they keep the existing
14:58 development for another year so we're
15:01 trying to negotiate and figure out you
15:03 know what's the best all-around you know
15:06 do you sunset it with some criteria or
15:08 do you but again we've never had to do
15:10 this before so we're sitting down with
15:12 the master developers and trying to walk
15:14 through it together to see what works
15:17 best for you know even just figuring out
15:19 the zoning you know because the sizes of
15:21 the parcels you know in the highlands
15:24 there you know there's such density and
15:26 there's uses that are mixed in there so
15:29 just even finding a zoning category
15:30 because right now the whole thing is
15:32 one's own it's urban village and you
15:35 know if people go traditionally you got
15:37 your residential you got your mixed-use
15:39 do you have your office game so it's
15:41 even just figuring out how to how to
15:43 parcel it out it's it's just kind of
15:45 like a coloring book that you haven't
15:47 invented yet so it's kind of exciting
15:50 but we don't really know what it's going
15:52 to what it's going to mean any other
15:54 questions on that one 18 is an exciting
15:59 one this is the mayor's request to
16:02 remove East cougar mountain from the
16:04 city's PAA and there's a map of East
16:07 cougar and we had our meeting on the
16:10 King County meeting on it last night and
16:11 I'll show you the little video that we
16:13 put together of driving through and
16:15 walking through the area just two
16:17 minutes it's it was really well done our
16:20 I to Tim Smith did a fabulous job on it
16:22 I'm any questions on that one I just
16:25 have one just for background
16:28 there was a mention in the letter of
16:30 talus potentially looking at that area
16:32 earlier and was there a reason that they
16:34 rejected going forward with that
16:36 actually that's part of the last one
16:39 lied the very last one is the the little
16:43 star you see the twentieth amendment is
16:49 the property owner there the blacks
16:51 would like to annex those ten acres and
16:54 get access through talus and they came
16:58 in actually it was more property owners
17:01 last year came in and they weren't able
17:04 to make they weren't able to make a deal
17:08 with the talus master developer and also
17:11 the folks that live in tell us we're not
17:14 really excited about more development
17:16 happening out there out there in the
17:18 more rural area and so that one went
17:20 away the the master developer pulled
17:22 that one and so this one came back as
17:24 just the ten acres and when we let him
17:27 know that the mayor has come forward and
17:30 said you know after the council talked
17:32 about this all last summer with the comp
17:34 plan update he's making his move to say
17:37 okay county we're ready to ask you this
17:39 and so the blacks are trying different
17:42 ways with the master developer to see if
17:45 maybe they can get access but not annex
17:47 and just for the two houses not for 50
17:50 or I think they asked for almost a
17:52 hundred last time with the strip of
17:54 property so that one is they still
17:58 wanted to keep this as a placeholder in
17:59 case they couldn't figure out another
18:01 way to work through with the master
18:03 developer but the mayor and we've it's
18:06 listed on your packet that that's the
18:08 only one that the administration doesn't
18:10 support because it's in conflict with
18:13 the mayor's request to King County and
18:17 the one in between not to make it any
18:21 less exciting the that this would be the
18:23 last potential annexation area that we
18:26 have and we call that the King County
18:28 Eiling Island and it has the King County
18:30 shopsite in it now they're trying to to
18:35 move it because they have to course go
18:37 through the freeway interchange you know
18:39 the I don't know if you've ever been
18:40 back there
18:41 it's a little now there's a traffic
18:43 light at least but it's tricky to get
18:45 out of there there they just want to
18:48 move and our shop site is also back in
18:50 there although ours is in the city
18:51 limits but we're going to try and annex
18:55 that this year and then it will be all
18:57 anak stand we won't have any other
18:58 potential annexation areas will be as
19:01 full as we should ever be so that's kind
19:03 of exciting and you guys would be part
19:05 of the annexation I believe actually you
19:08 know since it's already in in the comp
19:12 plan as an annex as a PA a i'm not sure
19:15 that you will be but we'll i'll have to
19:18 check that but because usually you guys
19:19 at least get to say yeah that looks
19:22 right when we do annexations so that's
19:24 exciting are there questions on any of
19:28 the 20 oh the mountain mm-hmm was that
19:38 the property that we had discussed
19:40 several years ago about annexing into
19:45 the city and the city was having trouble
19:47 getting utilities and stuff and oh is
19:51 that that piece of property right right
19:54 so now what happens to it is that
19:56 issaquah doesn't annex it Bobby doesn't
19:59 want it right then it would it would
20:01 stay in king county and the line as you
20:05 see the heavy red line is now what we
20:08 call the urban growth boundary the king
20:10 county would move the urban growth
20:12 boundary to follow our city limits which
20:16 it is the rest of like the south and all
20:19 through grand ridge and around that's
20:21 all the urban growth boundary we're like
20:22 the farthest out and so this would again
20:26 allow more rural area the zoning would
20:29 change in that instead of having the
20:32 suffix over it called urban reserve that
20:35 if you meet all this criteria you could
20:37 get more density one of the criterias
20:40 being annexed by the city that you can
20:43 have more density but that would go away
20:44 and it would just be rural so it would
20:47 be the st. like some of them are rural
20:49 one acre lots some of them are rural
20:51 five acre lots and so that zoning would
20:53 just stay there
20:55 so they wouldn't but they would lose
20:57 that opportunity that if they ever got a
20:59 next they could get more density when
21:02 you're up there it's a lot of the areas
21:06 are very steep and very critical areas
21:10 with with wetlands and streams and
21:12 beautiful area though and but what we
21:16 were when we looked up there and went
21:17 around we can't imagine putting any
21:20 density up there because the roadway I'm
21:23 going to step away from the microphone
21:32 there there's just no way that we could
21:36 imagine to get that road to be a
21:38 standard road I mean it's even on a
21:43 really nice day it's like holding onto
21:46 the it's really steep and there's
21:50 everybody up there has just private
21:53 water water wells the loop that's the
21:56 little neighborhood at Edgehill they
21:58 have their own little water system and
22:01 as King County said last night they can
22:04 still try to hook up to public water if
22:06 they can get it through bellevue or
22:09 through issaquah but if their rural
22:11 they're not allowed to do sewer I'm not
22:14 sure why the county makes that
22:15 distinction but but they do I've never
22:20 heard that before but I can imagine
22:22 sewer would be really hard to figure out
22:24 how to do that but they're still served
22:26 by eastside Fire and Rescue as they are
22:28 today and they would still be served by
22:31 King County Sheriff as they are today so
22:33 the only things that would change would
22:35 be that their urban reserves own and
22:39 category would come off any other
22:44 questions about
22:50 so tonight is the public hearing
22:53 februari the council and inshore would
22:55 look at your recommendation and march
22:58 they would have the final action on the
22:59 list and then we work on it all year and
23:03 hopefully bring it back to you September
23:05 depending on how long it takes us in
23:07 between all the code amendments and then
23:09 you take the council would take action
23:12 in December any questions on that does
23:16 anybody want to see the video of the
23:18 least cougar paa for two minutes do you
23:22 want to dim the lights maybe a little
23:23 bit let me get out of here
23:36 and I'm going to just say ahead of time
23:39 because there was kind of a squeal when
23:41 we started it yesterday the camera is
23:43 mounted on the car as we're driving
23:46 through the little skinny roads and up
23:48 the hairpin so I kept kind of holding on
23:51 to my chair as we were going over the
23:52 speed bumps even though you can't tell
23:54 you can see the speed bump coming and it
23:56 just feels like you're going to go over
23:57 but so I just wanted to warn you it
23:59 seems like you're driving very fast
24:00 through this but you're really not it's
24:02 just he's sped up in here
24:26 the east cougar mountain potential
24:29 annexation area covers 776 acres and
24:33 includes 83 acres of king county land
24:36 the area is adjacent to Cougar Mountain
24:38 Regional wild land park in the early
24:42 1990s the area became a potential
24:44 annexation area or PAA as King County
24:48 work to establish an urban growth
24:50 boundary under the state's growth
24:52 management act after 20 years of growth
24:55 issaquah has requested for East Cougar
24:57 Mountain to be removed from a squaws
24:59 potential annexation area for several
25:02 reasons the area is not suitable for
25:05 urban growth due to environmental
25:07 constraints such as steep slopes and
25:10 streams wooded hillsides and rural large
25:13 lots the area is not served by public
25:17 source or standard roads issaquah would
25:20 have difficulty providing urban services
25:22 to this area East cougar mountain is no
25:26 longer necessary to accommodate is a
25:28 quad urban growth targets for these
25:31 reasons issaquah has no intention of
25:34 annexing East cougar mountain in
25:36 addition the city supports changing the
25:39 designation of this area to rural
25:49 beautiful it's just beautiful up there
25:54 any questions um yeah I want to making
26:05 me dizzy then it's a beautiful area
26:10 there's a couple of lookouts that you
26:12 come around the corner when we first
26:14 start up there look down on the
26:23 Highlands it just it's just really hard
26:25 to figure out where you really were that
26:29 are they trail stops for all that area
26:32 yeah the Wildman part is amazing okay
26:37 anybody have any other thoughts okay so
26:40 I'm going to open the public hearing at
26:42 X 52 g 7 all right 57 hearing and seeing
26:53 no one to comment i will close the
26:56 public hearing at 658 there anything
27:05 else that you need oh do you think
27:16 anything else needs to be added to to
27:19 have the they look like next year that
27:22 would cause consternation for next year
27:27 so with that do I have a motion to
27:31 approve the docket as written I'll make
27:35 such a motion I'll second that motion
27:38 they just any further discussion all
27:41 those in favor say aye I could be it so
27:47 with that if there's nothing else to
27:50 discuss this evening anybody has
27:51 anything for the common good if not with
27:54 extra meeting you know
28:00 I've asked Dave if he can bring the
28:04 first pieces and parts of the marijuana
28:07 amendment at the last meeting in
28:10 February so that's what we're hoping for
28:13 oh it's not to the end the 25th right
28:17 right and what did I was curious I had
28:20 never done that before but I put in all
28:23 the work that you did last year and then
28:26 how it ended because I thought probably
28:28 sometimes you don't know how all your
28:29 hard work turns into real ordinances and
28:32 legislation and things so I thought that
28:36 was probably my fault that I didn't let
28:38 you know how it all works out really
28:40 well back this morning at the Puget
28:43 Sound Regional Council Executive Board
28:46 confirmed or certified us as a regional
28:48 growth centre and that's taken a couple
28:51 years to finally get through so now
28:53 we're eligible for a lot more grant
28:55 money then for transportation especially
28:57 than we used to be so so that's good and
29:00 we're in line for a bike share program
29:03 by the end of the year we're supposed to
29:05 have some locations chosen in the city
29:08 for a bike share program we're one of
29:10 three jurisdictions that that receive
29:12 the grant from of course I don't know
29:16 now but we're working with two other
29:20 jurisdictions in there it's really
29:22 exciting to and I can't remember how
29:24 many stations but that will be coming to
29:27 you all as well just I don't know
29:30 exactly what the process is I know it'll
29:32 have to go to counsel but one of the
29:35 amendments we're doing is doing a code
29:37 amendment to make sure that bike
29:38 stations are you know that you can have
29:41 bike stations in all the part you know
29:42 and right-of-way a course or and you
29:44 know like if we wanted at the transit
29:46 center if we want it at a school or if
29:48 we want it you know all the locations
29:50 that you might want a bike share program
29:53 so we're excited about that in the other
29:54 that reminds me of the other pieces I
29:57 don't know if you all saw the article
29:58 about sound transit three and we were
30:02 misquoted or someone misquoted us that
30:04 said that issaquah does not allow light
30:07 rail facilities in the city
30:09 which typically light rail would be in
30:13 your right-of-way and which is uh you
30:16 know owned by the public and so we just
30:19 thought that was a little crazy and so
30:21 but we're actually going to put an
30:22 amendment we're together to make sure
30:24 that it is totally crystal clear that we
30:27 can have light rail come to the city and
30:30 it would be okay with our land use so
30:32 we're going to do that in the bike-share
30:33 amendment at the same time just so the
30:36 region doesn't have any questions about
30:37 our intent with as far as a ways of
30:42 traveling that are not a single
30:44 occupancy vehicle so we're excited about
30:46 both of those two things sometimes well
30:49 a lot of times we all feel the
30:51 government goes very slowly get things
30:54 done but all those things in the
30:55 background have to be done so yeah okay
30:58 so with that I as I kind of do every
31:04 January I want to make sure that our
31:07 wonderful listening public understands
31:10 that there are openings on the planning
31:12 policy Commission and if you are so
31:14 interested please fill out an
31:17 application that you can get online and
31:19 let us know you do not have to be a
31:23 resident of the city nice if you were
31:27 close but you don't have to be a that's
31:29 not a prerequisite and with that i'm
31:33 going to close the meeting at seven oh
31:36 two home thank you much thank you for
31:40 coming tonight it's very exciting and
31:43 the reason i'll wait or off the air
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