Planning Policy Commission · Thursday, May 12, 2016 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Commission Membership

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Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Mar 24, 2016

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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

Meeting Minutes from April 28, 2016

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Previously discussed: Planning Policy Commission · Mar 24, 2016

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Staff report:

CITY OF ISSAQUAH PLANNING POLICY COMMISSION MINUTES

3. AGENDA ITEMS

PROPOSED 2017-2022 TRANSPORTATION

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Topics: Transportation

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Staff report:

The Proposed 2017-2022 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) will be presented to the Planning Policy Commission by Sheldon Lynne, Issaquah’s Public Works Director. The 6 year TIP changed to a 20-year plan a few years ago and therefore Staff has continued to show it as a 20-year plan.

IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

COMMISSIONER TRAINING

Trish Heinonen, Planning Manager

Topics: Boards & Commissions

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0:27 ↗ You don't have an agenda? Good

0:33 ↗ evening, ladies and gentlemen, and our viewing at home public.

0:38 ↗ Tonight's meeting of the Planning Policy Commission will come to order at 636.

0:45 ↗ First item of business is approval of minutes.

0:51 ↗ From the April 28th meeting. Are there any

0:57 ↗ additions or corrections to the minutes?

1:04 ↗ Hearing none, our motion to accept the minutes. Also move. Second. Second.

1:11 ↗ Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. You guys all in favor? Aye. Aye.

1:17 ↗ That's what I like to hear. We weren't here, but

1:19 ↗ yeah. We're

1:25 ↗ welcoming new members. tonight as well. And tonight in, I gotta get the names

1:31 ↗ right, we have Saleem Juma, is that the correct pronunciation? Yes.

1:37 ↗ And he's an alternate. We have Troy Ramming, we have John Staub,

1:43 ↗ and Ron Fall. Thank you for joining us. And

1:49 ↗ pretty soon you'll get to elect somebody else maybe to do the chair, next April.

1:57 ↗ When I did did Joan and I win again? When did we

2:01 ↗ vote? So

2:07 ↗ tonight's item of business you ready to go we have the ever exciting

2:14 ↗ TIP presentation Sheldon Lund Sheldon you want to

2:21 ↗ face the wrath of the Commission?

2:27 ↗ Somebody turn the mic on for me. Thank you. As Carl mentioned, my name is

2:33 ↗ Sheldon Lynn. I'm the director for Public Works Engineering. And I'm here tonight to talk

2:37 ↗ about and inform the commission of the Transportation Improvement Plan.

2:44 ↗ As part of the presentation, I'm going to go through a little bit of introductions.

2:47 ↗ I'm going to give you a little bit about the background and process, what goes

2:52 ↗ into it as far as planning, things of that sort. and finally get to the

2:58 ↗ actual transportation improvement plan. So with that,

3:04 ↗ I'm going to get started. How does that sound? So what is the TIP?

3:11 ↗ Why do we do it? And what's the process? The TIP

3:17 ↗ is a document, it's a planning document for transportation projects that

3:23 ↗ is required by the state of Washington under the RCWs each city and county must

3:28 ↗ plan for the future and provide information to the state

3:34 ↗ for purposes of creating a list of projects that is eligible for federal and state

3:39 ↗ funding. In the RCW, it specifically states that the purpose is to

3:44 ↗ assure that each city and town perpetually shall have available advanced plans looking to the

3:50 ↗ future for not less than six years as a guide in carrying out a coordinated

3:54 ↗ transportation plan. The idea is that the state and the regional growth organizations and so

3:59 ↗ forth are coordinating their transportation efforts here. That way, they're ensuring that the

4:05 ↗ needs are met for the greater region as well as locally, we're planning for ourselves.

4:11 ↗ As I mentioned earlier, this is a list of projects that creates

4:17 ↗ eligibility for funding, for outside funding sources for the city. One other thing to note

4:23 ↗ about the TIP is that this list while it does show projections and

4:29 ↗ expenditures in different years and things like that it is not a prioritized list of

4:33 ↗ projects prioritization actually occurs by the city council as the city council evaluates

4:39 ↗ the capital facilities plan and then ultimately the ultimate prioritization comes when the city

4:45 ↗ council adopts its budget for the projects so the projects

4:51 ↗ here are not prioritized the process for

4:57 ↗ this year is that we've already introduced the schedule to the

5:02 ↗ infrastructure committee back in April. Tonight I'm here. On May 19th, I'll be

5:08 ↗ presenting this TIP to the Chamber Government Affairs Committee and then again in more detail

5:14 ↗ at the Council Infrastructure Committee that evening on May 19th. Following that, the

5:19 ↗ City Council will have a public hearing on June 20th in which they may adopt

5:23 ↗ it at that time or hopefully not too distant in the future, adopt the

5:29 ↗ transportation improvement plan. The city is required to have the transportation improvement plan

5:36 ↗ to the state of Washington by the end of July of each year. So we

5:42 ↗ need to have it approved by the council before we can submit it.

5:48 ↗ The TIP, the planning efforts that go into it, what feeds into the TIP projects?

5:54 ↗ How do we come up with this list?

6:00 ↗ Part of the planning efforts that go into this list are the land use plans.

6:04 ↗ What do the city's comprehensive plans say we need for transportation infrastructure, what's the growth

6:10 ↗ that's anticipated, and things like that. The city recently went through the Central Issaquah Plan,

6:16 ↗ which was adopted a couple of years ago. That is one of the major factors

6:20 ↗ that has gone into this. Other factors include just normal growth through the rest of

6:25 ↗ the community, as well as the urban villages like Tallis, Highlands, I even

6:31 ↗ incidental infill growth that occurs in South Cove, Greenwood Point,

6:37 ↗ Montreux, Lakemont areas. You know, there's growth everywhere, but certainly different areas affect it

6:43 ↗ more than others. Secondly, we have the walk and roll plan

6:50 ↗ where the community got together and established a vision for how it wants the community

6:55 ↗ to be able to walk and ride throughout the community. the projects that were

7:01 ↗ identified in that effort were also incorporated where appropriate in the transportation

7:07 ↗ improvement plan. Then we have some

7:13 ↗ information coming in from outside now. We have WSDOT. WSDOT a number of years ago

7:18 ↗ did the I-90 corridor study in which they've identified some improvements along I-90 that are

7:23 ↗ needed. Front Street Interchange, It needs to be improved for

7:29 ↗ capacity. And so we have to be thinking about what are other agencies

7:35 ↗ doing that affect what we're doing so we're not double spending, so to speak.

7:41 ↗ And we're planning sequentially our projects in a reasonable time frame so that

7:47 ↗ we understand what's going to happen here, so we design appropriately and build over here.

7:54 ↗ And then also, just A thing to note is that not only do we pay

7:58 ↗ attention and coordinate with WSDOT, but we coordinate with Sound Transit, King County,

8:05 ↗ City of Sammamish, so that when we understand what's going on with these

8:10 ↗ agencies, again, we can better plan for our needs as well and coordinate and

8:16 ↗ collaborate with other agencies to solve transportation issues.

8:25 ↗ The TIP itself is a list of 45 projects shown here on the screen.

8:31 ↗ I'm not going to bore you with going through each one of these projects on

8:34 ↗ this list like this. But what I will do is I will highlight the projects

8:40 ↗ that are shown to have funding expected to be spending in the first six

8:46 ↗ years, and then I'll look a little bit further out, and then I'll look a

8:49 ↗ little bit further out. I'm not going to go through every single project, but I'm

8:52 ↗ going to give you a flavor for what this TIP is about. how the projects

8:56 ↗ kind of work together and the like. And feel free if you do have specific

9:00 ↗ questions about any project in particular, feel free and ask. I'm always happy to help

9:04 ↗ answer the question. Mr. Sheldon? Mr. You bet. Mr. When you go through the TIP,

9:10 ↗ could you let people know which projects are being considered by the traffic task force?

9:16 ↗ Mr. I was actually going to talk a little bit about the task force recommendations

9:21 ↗ at the very end of the presentation. you could hold on that I was fine

9:27 ↗ I I do plan on I bringing up some information about go is a call

9:33 ↗ so beginning here we've got a series of projects that are shown in red and

9:39 ↗ I'm gonna have to step out so I can see the screen a little better

9:44 ↗ I or maybe I could just do it here in no particular order I what

9:49 ↗ we have is Newport way from 900 to southeast

9:55 ↗ fifty-fourth also known as the zoo road as well as gillman boulevard safety on

10:01 ↗ and bicycle and pet improvements those two projects are shown in red

10:07 ↗ as the red projects I should back up these projects are the ones that are

10:11 ↗ in the initial planning periods that we expect to spend money or we are already

10:16 ↗ spending money on them I the nine hundred to

10:22 ↗ fifty-fourth this year we're expending money on that just to survey the

10:27 ↗ property lines topographic features and things like that for planning purposes to further our planning

10:33 ↗ efforts on that project Gilman Boulevard safety improvements as well as the

10:40 ↗ bike and ped project were combined into one project similarly to Newport

10:46 ↗ over here we're just surveying the property lines topographic features things like that that are

10:52 ↗ gonna affect how we actually plan the project out and work through the issues along

10:57 ↗ that corridor. So Gilman and Newport over here, we're doing survey work this

11:03 ↗ year. More actively, we're under construction for Eastlake-Summammish

11:09 ↗ Parkway. That project, I don't know how familiar you are with it, but it's roughly,

11:15 ↗ by the time we deal with design, right-of-way, construction, it's roughly a $7.5

11:21 ↗ million project is expected to be substantially complete September this year I it

11:27 ↗ includes adding a new lane southbound bicycle and southbound curb gutter sidewalk as well as

11:32 ↗ street illumination on the west side of East Lake Sammamish Parkway

11:39 ↗ the next project I want to talk about is the southeast 62nd Street extension currently

11:44 ↗ southeast 62nd Street only goes between here we're now going to realign 62nd in this

11:48 ↗ area and build a brand new road all the way across through here

11:54 ↗ and tie into Lake Drive to create a new grid in the network north of

11:59 ↗ I-90. That project is under-designed right now. We're in the process of acquiring right-of-way,

12:05 ↗ and it's expected to go advertise for construction bids in the first quarter of next

12:10 ↗ year, with construction beginning next year. I'm going

12:16 ↗ to stay north of I-90 here for a little bit. The intersection of 12th and

12:19 ↗ SR-900 You may hear people interchangeably talk about 17th.

12:26 ↗ 17th is also SR 900. So this intersection right here

12:32 ↗ will go under design once this one goes under construction, and it's anticipated

12:38 ↗ that this project will begin construction when this new road opens up. Again, we have

12:44 ↗ to think about sequentially how do we minimize impact to the community and keep traffic

12:49 ↗ moving as best as possible as we do these. I this one increases the capacity

12:55 ↗ for left turns coming out and turning south to get to I-90 and then it

13:00 ↗ also creates a right turn drop lane that comes in and turns into 12 for

13:06 ↗ ingress and egress into this area and that helps relieve congestion and so forth along

13:11 ↗ 56 or south is Northwest Sammamish Road and increases the operational

13:16 ↗ capacity of that intersection moving south of I-90

13:22 ↗ We have Holly Street, which is a pedestrian, non-motorized

13:28 ↗ project. It's going to construct a 10 to 12-foot wide multipurpose path on the south

13:34 ↗ side of Holly Street between 5th Avenue Northwest and Rainier Boulevard.

13:40 ↗ And it does include a pedestrian-slash-bicycle bridge across Issaquah Creek, 12 feet wide.

13:47 ↗ uh... it also what goes along with that also is street elimination and things like

13:52 ↗ that because we want to be lit and comfortable for pedestrian bicycle use uh...

14:00 ↗ that's currently under design it's funded for design this year and we're applying for

14:05 ↗ grants for other agencies to see if we get construction money so we can construct

14:10 ↗ it next year three trails crossing straight here uh...

14:17 ↗ That project, we had some initial starts to the design a few years ago,

14:24 ↗ and the project was put on hold for a little bit, but it is within

14:28 ↗ the next two to three years expected to start back up again and get back

14:34 ↗ under design. The purpose behind this project is that people, when they use the regional

14:39 ↗ trail, they just cross right here at the intersection of Juniper, Gilman, and Rainier, and

14:45 ↗ don't use the pedestrian signal crossing just a couple hundred feet to the west. It

14:51 ↗ creates some safety issues, some traffic issues, and so we're going to try and connect

14:57 ↗ three trails, the Juniper Street Trail, Rainier Trail, and the East Lake Sammamish Trail with

15:02 ↗ a more direct connection right here using traffic signals.

15:10 ↗ the next project I'm gonna talk about is the circle right here as the front

15:14 ↗ street interchange project well that's a washed out project it on our tip for specific

15:19 ↗ reason in that one front street interchange is important to this community but it's also

15:25 ↗ right now washed out has funding to do is known as an interchange justification report

15:30 ↗ you may hear it shortlisted as an IJ are and that IJ are is going

15:36 ↗ to inform the city on another very important project for the city that's in its

15:40 ↗ TAP, and that's a potential crossing of I-90 for local traffic and

15:46 ↗ pedestrians somewhere in this vicinity right here to create another connection north-south.

15:52 ↗ This IJR is required by the Federal Highway Administration that any time you want to

15:57 ↗ do a modification to an interchange or change access with I-90 or even cross over

16:02 ↗ I-90, FHWA requires these types of reports to evaluate other options

16:08 ↗ and alternatives. One potential option and alternative that may come out of this is that

16:14 ↗ this crossing right here may be a more viable solution in the short term to

16:18 ↗ solving the issue here, which then helps us when we go ask for funding and

16:23 ↗ other things in other arenas, as well as it will inform us where FHWA is

16:28 ↗ likely to approve a crossing. So it's an important thing to keep on the radar

16:34 ↗ screen, on the planning horizons for the city. And so that's the

16:40 ↗ IJR. WSDOT's expected to start that in

16:48 ↗ end of 2017. They're expected to start it. And it's expected to take a couple

16:52 ↗ of years to get the study completed. So these are the more immediate near-term plans.

17:00 ↗ forecasted projects that are having expenditures or planning work done on them.

17:07 ↗ Next, in yellow, a little bit further out in the time frame,

17:13 ↗ I mentioned the crossing. While it's shown here, it's really somewhere between

17:19 ↗ here and here. The crossing itself is going to

17:25 ↗ follow on the heels of the IJR being published and then we'll begin those studies

17:30 ↗ and things like that that'll be associated with that. That's just a representation that there's

17:36 ↗ some crossing that happens. Doesn't specifically identify the exact location.

17:43 ↗ We have what's known as the Newport Way Maple to Sunset project. That

17:48 ↗ includes intersection improvements at Maple and Newport right here, as well as corridor

17:54 ↗ improvements that go from that intersection all the way to Sunset Way. involving three roundabouts

18:00 ↗ one at juniper one at holly and one at dogwood. Oops, juniper, holly and

18:05 ↗ dogwood. I got them backwards. Dogwood is down here, sorry.

18:12 ↗ Then we have two 21st improvements between southeast 56 and this new road that

18:18 ↗ we're building here to improve the surface and recondition that road, improve stormwater

18:24 ↗ and make it a little bit more urban for

18:30 ↗ use. We've got, let's see, sorry, the angle is hard for me to see the

18:36 ↗ colors.

18:45 ↗ No, I don't believe that's in the near term. There we go. Now we bring

18:50 ↗ up more in the distant expectations right now.

18:55 ↗ You'll see arrows at this road which is the isaqaul pine lake road arrows on

19:01 ↗ northwest sammamish road those are improvements that basically extend from roughly this location to see

19:07 ↗ limits from this location to the city limits future improvements for widening roads

19:13 ↗ dealing with pedestrian non motorized along the corridors as well I I do want to

19:19 ↗ mention that all projects that the city looks at we include pedestrian bicycles

19:26 ↗ know where feasible and viable that is a code in the city complete streets code

19:30 ↗ we do our best to incorporate all modes of transportation East Sunset

19:36 ↗ Way right here this project is one also that is shown in the

19:43 ↗ walk and roll plan to incorporate a cycle track and we need to

19:49 ↗ basically provide safer facilities for pedestrians on both sides of the road as well as

19:53 ↗ operational capacity along East Sunset Way given the volumes of traffic we have and the

19:59 ↗ turning movements. Intersection of front and sunset, those are

20:05 ↗ improvements to the turning capacities at that intersection so that we can operate the signal

20:10 ↗ more efficiently and move traffic through it easier. Over on

20:15 ↗ this end, we have similar types of improvements at Maple and 12th.

20:23 ↗ Northwest Sammamish Road in this area is on the planning docket for

20:29 ↗ widening one lane each direction. That's out in the years.

20:36 ↗ In this location right here, we have a grade separated crossing for the East Lake

20:41 ↗ Sammamish Trail planned on the books. And I

20:47 ↗ believe that's it. There's one more trail project right here in dashed yellow, which is

20:54 ↗ the Pickering Trail, and that's out sometime in the future as well.

21:01 ↗ So this is kind of the bulk and the larger scale projects. There are

21:07 ↗ some other projects in limited access along in here for the off-ramps, as well as

21:11 ↗ between Maple and Newport for widening and adding turn lanes and things of that sort

21:17 ↗ in the plan. Grand total in the TIP,

21:23 ↗ is greater than three hundred million dollars worth of improvements that the city has on

21:26 ↗ the books that are that we believe are necessary just

21:32 ↗ a general map picture showing how these

21:38 ↗ projects all lay out in the city generally for location this is just the

21:44 ↗ six-year picture it doesn't show all the projects but you

21:50 ↗ can tell that remember earlier I mentioned The land uses drive a lot of the

21:54 ↗ transportation needs and things like that. While we have a lot of improvements on the

22:00 ↗ valley floor, these improvements are also designed for the benefit of the entire community to

22:05 ↗ move traffic through and make it easier for everybody to have mobility, not just those

22:09 ↗ people that are adjacent to or within near vicinity of the project.

22:17 ↗ So with that, are there any questions about the TIP? And then after that, I'll

22:21 ↗ follow up with a little bit of information on the traffic task force and the

22:25 ↗ GO-Issaquah. Can you talk a little bit about how the Sound

22:31 ↗ Transit 3 plan has fed into this, if at all? There's a light bringing light

22:36 ↗ rail to the. Sure, you bet. Let's see.

22:46 ↗ So, Sound Transit, ST3. ST3 is

22:52 ↗ coming up for a vote in November, I believe. And it has in it

22:58 ↗ set to bring light rail out to Issaquah. The exact location is not laid out.

23:05 ↗ We have in our minds and radar screen really

23:11 ↗ trying to work with Sound Transit as we do studies like the IJR and the

23:16 ↗ crossings. And as we look at road projects like Gilman, Newport, these major

23:22 ↗ corridors and access to what's likely gonna be the corridor coming from the

23:27 ↗ west is likely gonna be I-90. How does it come into the city?

23:34 ↗ Where does it land? And so as that, we're watching that vote very closely. The

23:38 ↗ mayor is on the sound transit board. And so we're watching that activity very closely

23:44 ↗ and we'll be very engaged And as our projects move forward, we're gonna be talking

23:49 ↗ with Sound Transit and WSDOT going, how's all this gonna fit together? So hopefully we're

23:54 ↗ not building a project that we're gonna end up tearing out in whole in the

23:59 ↗ future. Because obviously when you build a transit station, you're gonna tear something out. We

24:05 ↗ wanna minimize what we tear out.

24:07 ↗ Sure.

24:13 ↗ Anybody else got questions? Go ahead. Sure. You mentioned the coordination with King County and

24:18 ↗ Sammamish and others, and that all makes sense. Is there ever any outreach to the

24:24 ↗ communities to the south, just knowing that a lot of the traffic impacts that come

24:28 ↗ through the city come from the south? Is there ever any outreach to them? Just

24:32 ↗ thinking about kind of level of service over time. What we've done with that is

24:38 ↗ we've actually, like for instance, when the transportation package was being voted on in the

24:43 ↗ state last year, we had a coalition cities that were actually going down to the

24:48 ↗ legislature lobbying for improvements along highway 18 improvements at the

24:54 ↗ interchange of 18 and I 90 because we see that as you know another

24:59 ↗ bottleneck that's forcing people to come up Hobart Road which comes into our community we

25:05 ↗ are working with King County right now to develop a scope which we're going to

25:09 ↗ share in the cost of hopefully to do a corridor study of Hobart Road to

25:13 ↗ see if there's some reasonable improvements that we could do to move traffic now because

25:19 ↗ we know that Highway 18 improvements are going to be a while down the road.

25:23 ↗ Good question. Very good question. I have a question

25:28 ↗ here. Looking here at the tip, I don't see

25:34 ↗ breakdown of funding. All the projects are being funded.

25:44 ↗ with me for just a second. My question is,

25:51 ↗ is it possible to break some of these projects out, and we're just gonna

25:58 ↗ take the Northwest Holly Street as an example. Okay. You have a total

26:04 ↗ funding here of 4.5 million. Is there a way that we could break that out

26:10 ↗ and say this is coming from taxes, this is coming from

26:16 ↗ GRANTS OR OTHER SOURCES? THAT WAY THE PUBLIC COULD ACTUALLY SEE AND

26:21 ↗ UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TRUE COST TO THEM IS FOR THIS PROJECT. WE HAVE

26:27 ↗ PLANNING NUMBERS LIKE THAT ON THE PROJECTS WHERE WE UNDERSTAND THEM MORE FULLY AND WHERE

26:33 ↗ WE'RE MORE CONFIDENT IN WHAT OUR GRANTS WOULD BE. FOR INSTANCE, THE NORTHWEST HOLLY STREET,

26:38 ↗ NONMOTORIZED, WE FEEL CONFIDENT that we're gonna qualify well for a

26:44 ↗ WSDOT Ped and Bike grant for that. We've just recently applied for it this

26:50 ↗ month. I believe we were asking for about just under $2 million

26:57 ↗ for that. The next step there is we're hoping also to get a TIB grant

27:03 ↗ for that. Projecting grants in the planning document is just that. It's a

27:08 ↗ projection. Until you get into that grant cycle, and the competition because you don't know

27:13 ↗ who and what projects you're competing against, it's hard to say for certain that you're

27:18 ↗ going to get it. We have projections, yes. But at the end of the day,

27:24 ↗ grants are not guaranteed. I wasn't necessarily thinking of projection because you're right,

27:30 ↗ you can't really project and know for certainty. But create more of

27:36 ↗ a, take the TIP and turn it into a living document. So this is the

27:40 ↗ six-year plan, but as we progress in time and those grants start

27:46 ↗ coming in, then we can start allocating those grants to these projects for the specified

27:52 ↗ projects. And that way people can see in real time how the grants are stacking

27:56 ↗ up for the projects as we go through this. We actually do that. Okay.

28:02 ↗ And that living document that you refer to is really more the CFP than the

28:06 ↗ TIP. but we try and keep the information in both,

28:13 ↗ but it's on the detail sheets and so forth of the projects themselves. I believe

28:18 ↗ the detail sheets will indicate the different types of funding sources. So for

28:24 ↗ instance, if you looked at the North Issaquah Roadway improvements, Eastlake Sammamish Parkway,

28:30 ↗ funding sources down at the bottom. Which number are you looking at?

28:37 ↗ Let's see. The very first one. Very first project. I just pulled up the top

28:43 ↗ one. You'll notice that there's funding sources. There's a rally developer contribution.

28:50 ↗ Doesn't have any money next to it, but we're using rally development money as part

28:54 ↗ of the city's contribution on that. PSRC, TAB, and Costco also pay.

29:01 ↗ This is just 2017 forecasting. Okay, so what you're not seeing is the prior years,

29:07 ↗ where other PSRC money, other TIB money, and Raleigh developer contributions have

29:13 ↗ gone towards that. For instance, the Raleigh developer contribution, while it's worded that way, is

29:19 ↗ actually an impact fee that Raleigh Enterprise has paid as part of

29:26 ↗ the development agreement. Is there a way that someone in the public

29:32 ↗ could actually easily access a document to see how this

29:38 ↗ really breaks out. In other words, they wanna know what the true cost is out

29:42 ↗ of their pocket for some of these projects. So if this project is 350,000 and

29:48 ↗ we are, or 350 million, so out of 350

29:54 ↗ million, how much of it is actually coming from us, the Issaquah residents, taxpayers, as

29:59 ↗ opposed to the grants and so on? East Lake Samanish Parkway, it is next year,

30:03 ↗ only 350,000 for 2017. Because we expect to basically just have

30:08 ↗ residual amount of work left on it, clean up work, things like that, and probably

30:12 ↗ pay the last pay estimate or something on the large contract. At this stage of

30:17 ↗ this project, we'd be able to go to the financial system and dig out all

30:21 ↗ the grants and things like that, who's paid what exactly, because

30:27 ↗ it's historical information. Okay. You referenced the CFP. What is that? That's

30:33 ↗ the Capital Facilities Plan. That's the document that the council uses for

30:39 ↗ budgetary purposes as they look to the next year for budget. Thank you.

30:51 ↗ You mentioned in the beginning that this isn't a prioritized list.

30:57 ↗ Correct. But it looks like a prioritized list.

31:06 ↗ been here for 10 years about and old Providence Point

31:12 ↗ interchange and on this list for ever never seems

31:18 ↗ to go up just stays there I noticed that we've spent

31:24 ↗ three hundred and sixty eight thousand on it and it's still sitting there

31:32 ↗ it's not prioritized how do these projects get to where they are

31:38 ↗ I mean somebody has to prioritize in the TIP itself or in the CFP

31:45 ↗ because the CFP is what prioritizes but the two documents are pretty similar but the

31:50 ↗ council at the end of the day can move projects up as they want to

31:53 ↗ budget them for instance it may show the Providence Point where is it shown

31:59 ↗ here it's got a million out in

32:06 ↗ subsequent years. Yeah, it looks like it's number 36 as a reference number on this.

32:12 ↗ If the City Council wanted to fund that next year, they can fund it.

32:19 ↗ It's on this list in hopes of grant criteria changing

32:25 ↗ that would allow it to be eligible for funding and would compete well. Right now,

32:29 ↗ That project does not compete well for any type of funding outside of the city.

32:34 ↗ Okay, I understand that. The problem is that people are looking at this, if they

32:40 ↗ see this list, it ends up being prioritized. I know that

32:46 ↗ Connie brought that up in one of her comments, that it really seems like it.

32:51 ↗ And I don't know if there's a way to make it clearer, unless we also

32:55 ↗ put down the CFP, you say put okay so

33:01 ↗ it is not prioritized from the state's perspective or the city's perspective this is not

33:05 ↗ the prioritization document the two may look similar if not identical between the

33:11 ↗ cfp and the tap when the cfp is drafted but the

33:17 ↗ council can move the cfp around they can move this around but it doesn't make

33:21 ↗ any difference to the state the state just looks at this and goes this is

33:25 ↗ the money that we think we may be asked for sometime in the future you

33:29 ↗ know be in the first six years or out in the future and they know

33:33 ↗ at any given time we can move a project up forward an example of that

33:37 ↗ is actually the one that we just talked about north eastlake sammamish parkway that project

33:42 ↗ used to be about halfway down the tip until all of a sudden funding came

33:46 ↗ available from the federal government and we received

33:52 ↗ almost a million dollars in design money from the federal government, and that's what moved

33:56 ↗ it up. And then we figured out other ways with federal money, Costco money and

34:01 ↗ others to finish out that funding package. Sometimes it takes a little bit of a

34:07 ↗ ignition spark to get the projects to move. Hopefully that answered your question, Carl.

34:13 ↗ Yes and no? Yes and no. Okay. Any other questions?

34:26 ↗ One of my primary questions you were saying you were still yet to address, which

34:29 ↗ is how this aligns to what other commissions have had eyes on this, specifically regarding

34:33 ↗ the Traffic Commission. I was hoping to, I hadn't, we didn't get any kind of

34:38 ↗ information about that prior to the meeting and we keep being alluding to it. So

34:42 ↗ I think before questions it would be concluded, we'd like to hear about that. Okay,

34:46 ↗ so what I'd like to do there

34:52 ↗ is the Traffic Task Force recommended to the City Council nine projects.

34:58 ↗ These projects are listed here. Maple, Providence Point signalization, you mentioned, how does it

35:04 ↗ move up? How does it get funded? East Sunset Way, if you recall, that's down

35:09 ↗ somewhere near the bottom in the TIP. Three trails crossing, Newport Way, 54th

35:16 ↗ to 900. Front and Sunset intersection, that's another one that's down pretty far in the

35:20 ↗ TIP. Newport Way, Maple to Sunset. Gielman Boulevard safety and bike head

35:25 ↗ improvements and then a parking structure parking structure is not in the TIP but

35:31 ↗ it's one that the task force evaluated and recommending and what I'd like to do

35:36 ↗ is take you to the city's website for go is a qual

35:46 ↗ this is the home page for go is a qual what I'm gonna do is

35:51 ↗ I'm play a little video kind of talks a little bit about what the city's

35:54 ↗ doing for transportation, what are some of the things that are going on so that

36:01 ↗ you understand more about what the task force has been doing.

36:08 ↗ As well as what I'd like to remind you is that while the task force

36:10 ↗ recommended nine projects, as you can tell from the list of TIP, there's a huge

36:16 ↗ backlog. So there's still a lot that we have to get done, not just the

36:20 ↗ nine that task force is recommending so hopefully we understand that

36:26 ↗ but by nature of the list that those nine recommendations could jump up in terms

36:32 ↗ of their prioritization that's correct if they're put on a ballot measure which the City

36:37 ↗ Council has not yet approved or authorized and the people vote for it

36:43 ↗ those projects would move up because then there's certainty in funding and they would be

36:48 ↗ completed

36:55 ↗ and get the right volume here. So this is just there's no question. We

37:01 ↗ know Issaquah is a great place to live, work, learn and play. And we're not

37:05 ↗ alone. In the next 15 years, central Issaquah's population and workforce are expected to more

37:10 ↗ than double. Traffic is already a problem and it's not going away. That's why Issaquah

37:16 ↗ isn't waiting for development to decide our fate. Instead, we're tackling traffic now. Recently,

37:22 ↗ we more than doubled traffic fees to ensure developers are paying their fair share. We

37:26 ↗ understand we can't tackle this issue alone. So we're advocating for more bus service, parking

37:31 ↗ rides, and someday light rail to Issaquah. And we're working with our neighbors, like Sammamish

37:36 ↗ and King County, on congestion that starts beyond our borders. To get more people out

37:42 ↗ of their cars, Issaquah is making it easier to get around by foot or bike.

37:47 ↗ Making our streets safer for pedestrians is also a top priority. And since grants and

37:52 ↗ fees won't grow fast enough to fund projects we need now, Issaquah is considering a

37:56 ↗ package of local transportation projects that could go to voters this fall. Together we can

38:01 ↗ tackle traffic. It's time to stop swimming upstream.

38:10 ↗ So this website, it's off the city's home webpage.com. and you can see that there's

38:16 ↗ information about the walk and roll

38:21 ↗ plan as soon as it comes up here shows a map the walk and roll

38:26 ↗ projects there's pedestrian safety projects

38:34 ↗ not all of these are the ones recommended they're just a picture as to what

38:38 ↗ is the cause looking at and planning for as time goes by It talks about

38:44 ↗ developer fees, regional projects that are planned and in the works.

38:53 ↗ You should be able to click on one and bring up information about it. There's

38:57 ↗ Sound Transit bus service. So I encourage you to go visit the website,

39:03 ↗ explore around it. The task force did a great job

39:09 ↗ of reviewing a number of different projects and debating the issues around each and every

39:15 ↗ one of them and came up with their recommendation for funding. The package that the

39:20 ↗ task force recommended is on the order of $71 million. The council is currently deliberating

39:25 ↗ it and will be meeting, they met at a workshop on Monday where they were

39:31 ↗ presented the information from the task force. They're going to be discussing it at their

39:37 ↗ infrastructure committee meeting on May 19th and then the council sometime in

39:43 ↗ June, maybe early July, will make a decision on how they're going to move forward

39:48 ↗ with a package or not. Does that help you understand, Joy, a little bit about

39:53 ↗ what it's about? Unfortunately, it doesn't because I had already been onto the site. I

39:57 ↗ think what happened was as I got this packet and was reading through it, I

40:01 ↗ was hoping for a little bit more information. While I understand that some of these

40:05 ↗ projections are unknown because they haven't really had the proper studies done because we're not

40:10 ↗ really ready to address it. It seems like it's more of these overarching concepts right

40:16 ↗ now. As we get deeper into the packet, we start to get less and less

40:19 ↗ information as we start to go through these projects. I was hoping for a little

40:25 ↗ bit finer detail about exactly For instance, looking at the very first one when we

40:29 ↗ look at the East Lake Sammamish Parkway, I was disappointed to not see any kind

40:33 ↗ of contribution from the developer like listed out. So we've kind of talked about how

40:38 ↗ we kind of want a little bit more access to information. And you're kind of

40:41 ↗ saying, well, it's out there, but I'm not actually seeing these direct correlations, especially to

40:45 ↗ each project. So as we recommend these things for council to move ahead with and

40:50 ↗ say these are the priorities and goals of our community, it's hard to say when

40:54 ↗ we're not seeing a full package of information, whether that's I didn't see any information,

40:59 ↗ for instance, about prioritizing wildlife corridors. I was expecting to see a broader package of

41:05 ↗ things than maybe was included. I was also expecting to see a little bit more

41:11 ↗ finer detail about expectations of where we want to be gaining funding, even if that

41:16 ↗ hasn't yet been secured. So I was hoping that maybe that information had been given

41:22 ↗ to the task force But right now I'm hearing more broader strokes.

41:28 ↗ Well, the purpose of the task force, one of the things that they were tasked

41:32 ↗ with was projects that we feel like we need to be able to fund locally

41:38 ↗ and be able to do that on our own. And what was within reason

41:45 ↗ for that. Certainly we can pursue grants and other things.

41:52 ↗ But the task force recommendation is based upon if we don't get grants, these are

41:57 ↗ the projects they would recommend that the city move forward and fund on its own.

42:04 ↗ The information, I believe we do contain information about forecasting

42:10 ↗ potential grant sources. We may not have the numbers there because we really don't

42:16 ↗ know how much it's going to be. Some projects we know just won't qualify for

42:21 ↗ grants, but we don't put those on the planning sheets. Are you

42:27 ↗ looking for specific dollars on each of those projects for the task force? I'm

42:33 ↗ curious, when we start getting through this whole package of all these

42:39 ↗ different projects, is it that the city isn't actually putting through

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FAUL asked Lynne in describing the projects, to please also indicate which projects were considered and recommended by the Traffic Task Force.
He used the East Lake Sammamish Parkway project as an example of a project that was half-way down the CIP list, but federal funds became available and it moved up the list as a result of that opportunity.
Lynne explained the Traffic Task Force’s work resulted in nine traffic projects that it recommended to Council, and showed the list on the overhead screen.
He noted the City has a large backlog of transportation projects in addition to the nine projects recommended by the Task Force.
He explained resources available on the City’s website about the City’s transportation planning, and noted the Council is currently deliberating the Task Force’s recommended nine projects, and explained the schedule for…
Commission Deliberation WALSH asked staff to speak to the issue raised in Public Comment about presenting the CFP to Council the last few years.