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Thursday, March 28, 2019

6:30 PM · 1h 19m · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
Topic tracked across meetings:
Discussion: City Strategic Plan Update 10/10
Section
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Commission Membership
packet pp.3
Staff report:
Planning Policy Commission About Staff Liaison Created in 1983, this commission serves as a Trish Heinonen, Planning Manager policy advisory body to the Mayor and provides Email guidance and direction for Issaquah’s future growth through continued review and improvement to the Regular Members City’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan and related 2019 – Joan Probala land use documents. 2020 – Ron Faul 2020 – Vacant Membership 2022 – Joy Lewis The Planning Policy Commission is comprised of 2022 – Vacant seven regular members, with four-year terms; and 2022 – Bill Rinehart several alternates, with two-year terms. All 2022 – Vacant members are appointed by the Mayor and subject to confirmation by the City Council. Terms expire Alternate Members April 30 of the year listed. For more information, 2020 – Vacant see IMC 18.03. 2020 – Vacant 2020 – Jason Voiss 2020 – Vacant
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Minutes of February 14, 2019
packet pp.5–9
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 02-14-19 Planning Policy Commission Minutes Page [0000]
2b
Minutes of February 28, 2019
packet pp.11–14
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES b) 02-28-19 Planning Policy Commission Minutes Page [0000]
3. REGULAR BUSINESS
3a
Discussion: City Strategic Plan Update
Trish Heinonen, Policy Planning Manager · packet pp.15–40
Staff report:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Mayor Christen Leesan Terry Pottmeyer Issaquah Alps Trails Club Mary Lou Pauly Matt Mechler Bill Ramos Issaquah City Council Matt Mornick Jamie Rosen Issaquah Highlands Community Association City Council Liesl Olson Brookie Scholl Issaquah School District Mariah Bettise Stephen Padua Keith Seiler Issaquah Schools Foundation Stacy Goodman Gene Paul Bruce Semple King County Library Services Victoria Hunt Julia Pilon Arthur Sullivan Mountains to Sound Tola Marts Denise Pirolo Jeff Tanka Park Board Chris Reh Valerie Porter Blake Trask Planning Policy Commission Lindsey Walsh Christina Reller Marisol Visser Rowley Properties Paul Winterstein Ruth Riddle Geoff Walker Senior Center Advisory Board Brianne Ross Lindsey Walsh Sound Transit Project Team Stacey Rush Cori Walters Swedish Medical Center Micah Bonkowski Thomas Rush Bill Way Talus Megan Curtis-Murphy Paula Schwan Linda…
4. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS
4a
Upcoming Schedule
packet pp.67
Staff report:
OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS a) 2019 PPC Schedule (tentative) .n,n.nntz ll /97 AH meevin-Talocated in Council (‘liambers I!IitBS>noted
0:08 good evening and welcome to the March
0:12 28th meeting of the planning policy
0:14 Commission tonight we have some
0:17 discussion on our city ratite plan draft
0:23 but first of all we have as usual we
0:29 have to have approval from the minutes
0:30 from two of our last meeting so is there
0:34 do I have an approval for the February
0:36 14th approval a motion to approve the
0:42 February 14th meeting of the Planning
0:44 Policy Commission like to make a motion
0:47 to approve the minutes on the 14th and
0:50 28th this 114th i motion carries
0:59 or I have another motion to accept the
1:02 one the minutes from February 28th I'll
1:04 make a motion to approve the minutes of
1:07 February 28th any discussion in a second
1:12 I'll second any no discussion no
1:14 changing all those in favor say aye aye
1:18 motion carries so with that we're going
1:21 to go right into a discussion of this
1:23 strategic plan by Jean Lyn our senior
1:29 planner but first of all after going
1:31 through the strategic plan and seeing
1:34 how many people in the city were
1:36 involved in putting this together I just
1:39 like to say thank you for all the time
1:41 that you as a city and the community
1:44 have put together to come up with a very
1:50 concise nice strategic plan so with that
1:54 Jean
1:58 thank you so much good evening
2:01 commissioners my name is jean lin I'm a
2:03 planner with the development services
2:05 department and I am here to talk to you
2:09 about the draft strategic plan that is
2:12 out for community input at this point so
2:17 for tonight I'm gonna give you kind of
2:19 an overview of the draft plan and I'm
2:22 also going to talk about our Community
2:25 Engagement a process and how you can be
2:29 involved and I'll also talk a little bit
2:32 about the next steps in the planning in
2:36 the strategic planning process so work
2:44 on the strategic plan actually started
2:46 about a year ago we established some key
2:50 goals in our plan that to help the city
2:55 take on some more strategic a more
2:57 strategic approach to our work and so
3:00 some of these include better aligning
3:03 efforts and focusing our energy to a
3:07 clearer vision and strategy to get us
3:10 there and then to work most of our work
3:14 is coming from the bottom up so these
3:17 are these are the priorities that our
3:19 community has identified with the plan
3:23 we're also looking to strengthen the
3:25 city's ability to make deliberate
3:28 forward-looking and informed strategic
3:32 decisions it'll allow us to help it'll
3:36 allow us to better understand what our
3:39 near-term actions are within this
3:42 strategic context it'll increase the use
3:46 of metrics and performance measures to
3:49 help us gauge and understand our
3:52 progress and and also better inform our
3:56 decision-making and then finally it's
3:59 it's really an important communication
4:01 tool it's a means of communicating to
4:04 the community what the city's plans
4:06 priorities and are and how we're working
4:10 towards meeting those goals
4:17 so we started with a broad
4:20 community-wide engagement process and we
4:22 tried to get people from all corners of
4:25 the community to participate in that
4:28 process we've established both
4:32 qualitative and quantitative goals
4:35 throughout the the engagement process
4:38 and this slide actually shows some of
4:40 the progress that we've made in terms of
4:42 our outreach efforts and we are also
4:46 making an effort to regularly check back
4:49 with the community so so far today we've
4:53 actually received over 1600 responses on
4:56 the strategic plan and so this
4:59 presentation this meeting tonight is a
5:02 continuation of that checking back
5:04 process and checking in really making
5:08 sure that were they were part of the
5:10 meeting in the box series very beginning
5:13 that where we had that Kristen and I had
5:15 the flip charts and there was some one
5:18 from Tallis and the audience that helped
5:20 us with our with the comments it was
5:22 just a great meeting so yeah that so
5:24 this is a check back yes this is a check
5:26 back then so as part of the process
5:31 we've developed a vision statement and
5:33 the vision is Issaquah straw thrives as
5:38 a welcoming community creating a
5:40 sustainable legacy for future
5:42 generations that honors its rich history
5:45 and passion for the natural environment
5:47 and again this is a vision statement
5:53 that we've crafted through all of all of
5:56 our community engagement processes so
6:01 now we'll go into the plan itself and
6:04 and all the parts and pieces of the plan
6:07 and how they interact so on the left of
6:12 the screen there I call that the Cliff
6:14 Notes version of the plan
6:17 it has our vision mission and guiding
6:19 principles as well as towards the
6:23 bottom of the plan you'll see the six
6:25 priority goal areas and I'll go into
6:28 those into a little more detail later on
6:31 in this presentation so each of these
6:35 each of the strategic priorities at the
6:37 bottom come with their own goal
6:39 statements as well and with the goal
6:43 statements there's objectives and
6:45 potential actions as well as success
6:48 measures to on how to achieve those
6:51 goals so once again here are the six
7:00 strategic priority areas they are
7:02 mobility growth and development
7:06 environmental stewardship social and
7:09 economic vitality city leadership and
7:12 services and infrastructure
7:20 so the first goal area and I'll talk
7:25 about is mobility
7:26 and so mobilities goal statement is
7:29 getting around town it's easier for
7:31 people who live work and play here and
7:34 what this recognizes is that traffic
7:37 affects many aspects of life in Issaquah
7:40 and some of the key elements of the
7:45 objectives action potential actions and
7:48 performance measures focus on future
7:50 growth in and around as a qua as well as
7:53 considering multiple modes of
7:55 transportation and as well as the
7:59 transportation improvements system
8:02 improvements as a whole the next
8:09 priority area is growth and development
8:12 and the goal statement for this priority
8:15 is growth is proactively managed planned
8:19 and communicated in a responsible way
8:21 that retains our strong sense of
8:24 community and livability
8:26 and again this recognizes that as a qua
8:30 has been a rapidly growing community and
8:34 there are impacts as a result of that
8:38 growth and so some of the key elements
8:40 of this plan include protecting the
8:44 elements of the community's character
8:46 maintaining livability protecting
8:49 elements such as hillsides and
8:51 neighborhoods and then focusing our
8:53 growth on the valley floor
9:00 the next priority area is environmental
9:04 stewardship and its goal statement
9:07 States environmental resources are
9:10 proactively enhanced protected and
9:13 stewarded and it does it recognizes that
9:17 the environment is a defining feature
9:19 for Issaquah and some of the key
9:21 elements of this priority include a
9:24 focus on the natural setting and strong
9:27 community environmental values it also
9:31 focuses on engaging the community in
9:34 being stewards of the environment and
9:36 acquiring land for preservation as well
9:40 as recreation the next priority area is
9:49 social and economic vitality and its
9:53 goal statement reads an economically
9:56 vital and diverse community is supported
9:59 by robust businesses affordable housing
10:02 and supportive services and it
10:04 recognizes that residential growth in
10:08 our community has been outpacing job
10:10 creation and so some of the key elements
10:13 of this priority include housing
10:16 affordability providing more jobs that
10:22 give people the ability to both live and
10:24 work within our community and providing
10:28 improved access to supportive services
10:38 the next priority is the city leadership
10:42 and services and its goal is leadership
10:47 and accountability in the delivery of
10:49 public services for our growing and
10:52 diversifying community and this priority
10:56 recognizes that our community is
10:58 becoming more diverse and in response to
11:01 that we need to we need to engage in
11:05 different methods and of communicating
11:08 with the community as well as focus on
11:12 service delivery and how we can better
11:15 deliver our services and focus on
11:17 continuous improvements finally finally
11:28 we have the infrastructure priority and
11:30 its goal statement reads an
11:33 infrastructure system that is planned
11:35 designed built and well maintained
11:38 supports current and future community
11:42 needs it recognizes that infrastructure
11:46 provides the underpinnings for our local
11:48 economy or economic vitality as well as
11:52 the environment and it plays a pretty
11:55 big role in our daily lives and so some
11:57 of the key elements of this priority
11:59 include shifting the focus to consider
12:03 not just expansion of our infrastructure
12:05 but also ongoing maintenance and
12:08 replacement and then it also does focus
12:13 on some of the more recent growth as
12:15 well as planned future growth so that
12:22 concludes the six priority areas then
12:26 we're moving into how are we going to
12:28 implement the plan and we do have an
12:30 implementation framework that includes
12:34 some tools for how we would implement
12:40 the strategic plan which is the first in
12:43 Issaquah so there's three components to
12:47 this framework the first is the work
12:50 plan
12:51 that is on the lower left-hand corner of
12:54 the screen with the three boxes let me
12:57 see right here so what we're looking at
12:59 is there's three critical components
13:03 that kind of play off each other there
13:05 this includes the strategic plan work
13:08 plan which is this plan that we're
13:13 drafting it also includes critical
13:16 services work plan which are the ongoing
13:19 and necessary functions of the city and
13:22 then finally it includes timely
13:25 opportunities so these are these are
13:27 opportunities or emergent needs that
13:30 come up as as needed and in terms of the
13:35 overall priority you get a sense of that
13:39 with the sizes of the boxes so the
13:44 strategic work plan and critical
13:45 services work plans play a fairly large
13:48 role in our focus where as timely
13:52 opportunities plays a relatively more
13:55 minor role the second component is we
14:01 have strategic prioritization criteria
14:04 and there are five key criteria criteria
14:08 they're not on this slide but the
14:11 criteria that we've developed would help
14:13 us assess the relative favorability and
14:17 timing of particular actions and then
14:21 finally we have a annual cycle where we
14:28 go through the process of planning doing
14:32 evaluating and adjusting with the intent
14:36 that you know this is kind of a working
14:38 document and it is continually being
14:42 improved and adjusted as needed so
14:48 that's kind of the the circular cycle
14:50 you see on the lower right hand corner
14:59 so that brings us to where we are today
15:02 where we're in the community engagement
15:05 phase again and we're looping back with
15:09 everyone who's participated in the
15:11 process so far and we are collecting
15:14 feedback through the online survey so
15:16 this is the link to the online survey
15:19 and and and the and I encourage you to
15:25 everyone to go ahead and take that
15:29 survey online I'm not going to be taking
15:31 any feedback tonight but I encourage
15:33 everyone to go online and provide
15:35 feedback through the survey and so in
15:39 terms of next steps what we're looking
15:41 at is going back to Council and for with
15:46 this feedback in April and then we're
15:50 looking towards adoption of the
15:53 strategic plan in May I'm available to
15:57 answer any questions thank you so when
15:59 the survey link closes oh yes the survey
16:02 link closes at the end of the month so
16:04 March 31st so you've got a few days
16:07 until Sunday so to implement this plan
16:14 does this city expect to hire additional
16:18 people to work on it so as part of this
16:25 plan one of the things that we've
16:27 started identifying as the resources
16:30 needed to try to implement the the
16:35 objectives and goals I don't know about
16:38 hiring but it will definitely factor
16:41 greatly into the budgeting process and I
16:45 believe there's also some prioritization
16:49 of of the actions and objectives I
16:55 bringing that up I would like to see
16:58 that kind of prioritization because
17:01 there are so many different facets in
17:03 this somebody has to choose
17:09 which are the most important to do at
17:11 any specific time so that would be nice
17:15 to have some priority anyway in there
17:19 absolutely I think we could bring that
17:21 for me so you found that to be a really
17:23 big hole
17:24 especially in this implementation and
17:26 framework there's no mention of
17:28 ownership it constantly says staff will
17:30 and as people who work with staff we
17:33 know that they're working all the time
17:35 on all kinds of things and this is a big
17:37 lift and I really felt that there was
17:39 there ought to be actually like a
17:41 paragraph talking about how this is how
17:44 the implementation is going to be
17:45 implemented because right now it feels a
17:48 little pie-in-the-sky to me and I would
17:50 like a lot more details about that
17:51 specifically I think that we actually
17:54 need somebody who is like position like
17:57 strategic development maybe that is its
17:59 own Department maybe every department
18:01 has somebody who's assigned within it
18:02 that says this is where the buck stops
18:05 because right now you have you're
18:07 bringing in counsel and this big onerous
18:10 issue of staff I don't see this
18:12 happening in a realistic way like we
18:15 want to because it's not lined out in a
18:18 really clear way of how are we going to
18:20 even attack the implementation and I'm
18:22 also not seeing any component where
18:24 we're looping in the public because
18:25 you're asking really big questions I
18:27 don't even have it on your slide but the
18:28 the five questions that you want to go
18:30 through first at reject prioritization
18:32 our questions that not necessarily one
18:34 individual can answer because you're
18:36 saying what's the impact of this that
18:38 really requires a back and forth with
18:40 people from all different backgrounds
18:40 saying hey I see this Avenue happening
18:43 and what about this being impacted it
18:45 requires a lot of collaboration to
18:47 really see what these far-reaching
18:48 effects are to be able to give that
18:50 prioritization and what I see that needs
18:53 is the role of the public being able to
18:56 comment and so I would like to see not
18:58 only there being a direct ownership that
19:01 is either being given to people who are
19:04 existing in each department then has
19:05 somebody who is accountable for it or
19:07 even where it's maybe one person and
19:08 that's like their part time job is
19:10 really the strategic development and I'd
19:12 like to see a component of how the
19:14 public is going to be brought in to say
19:16 hey this is how this impacts me and this
19:18 is what I was thinking about this rather
19:20 than it being
19:22 where I can I can see this getting
19:24 boiled down to a work session over lunch
19:26 while everyone else is slammed between
19:28 meetings it's just something that's too
19:30 big I think to just cram into what its
19:32 already existing in the workload and I
19:35 would like to see something really
19:36 addressed with that ownership if that
19:40 doesn't happen that degree I'm looking
19:44 at this wonderful plan and all the work
19:49 that went into it but like most other
19:52 strategic plans in other areas it's done
19:57 very nicely but it's on the shelf and
20:00 it's not implemented to its full
20:02 potential and so when you it's it's
20:08 great it sounds wonderful
20:10 and I just want to reiterate that you
20:13 have to have more into it then then
20:16 what's here it's always nice to say we
20:18 will have trees but how do you get trees
20:21 who is responsible for trees as an
20:25 example I think that if this is the
20:31 strategic plan then there should be
20:33 another implementation thing that's just
20:37 this thick in each one of these just
20:40 like we did when we went through some of
20:43 the plans that we went through
20:44 you need the follow-on you need to know
20:48 it's nice to say we're going to have all
20:51 the infrastructure that we need but how
20:54 do we get there and what is the
20:55 instruction infrastructure that we need
20:57 we're missing those kinds of pieces in
21:00 this to Joan's point I kind of felt like
21:04 that throughout the document to be
21:05 honest I hear that you don't want
21:07 feedback tonight because I have a good
21:09 dozen comments so I will put that in a
21:11 form that you appreciate differently but
21:13 I'm going to give you one example on
21:14 infrastructure your success measurement
21:18 measures are pretty limited to what
21:21 we're talking about as far as the
21:23 gravity of of being able to actually
21:26 track these things so for instance like
21:28 I think there ought to be a list of
21:30 issues with priorities similar the way
21:31 we do with the tip I think there needs
21:33 to be an actual
21:34 Hardcore list I think it should be
21:36 evaluated with engineers I think there
21:38 need to be a prioritization given on
21:39 that list something that's again
21:41 measurable trackable something that's
21:44 easy for people to put into put to to
21:45 email the city and say hey I'm really
21:48 concerned about this hey I was driving
21:50 past this I saw this and being able to
21:52 actually have a real tangible list of
21:54 things throughout this document we have
21:56 a lot of great ideas without necessarily
21:58 a direct correlation to being able to
22:01 say we are addressing this specific
22:03 issue which i think is really important
22:04 for the implementation of it so I'll put
22:08 again I won't go through all of my
22:09 comments but I think that's one example
22:11 when you look at these success measures
22:13 they can be a little more vague and I
22:15 think we need to work on really honing
22:17 in this is the place that people can
22:19 submit this is the place where we can
22:21 actually have a hard-core list of people
22:23 saying I wonder what the city is doing
22:25 about that and we can have a measurable
22:26 spreadsheet that says that I have a
22:31 question as far as the sixteen hundred
22:34 and fifty people that responded how many
22:37 people were given this document to
22:41 respond to this is I believe the 1,650
22:47 people that respondent have been that's
22:50 kind of a total response as we've
22:53 received throughout the process so far
22:55 sure so so how many people do have seen
22:57 this do you have like a ballpark figure
22:59 to this go up to the whole city it's the
23:02 amount of people that have input till
23:04 now you guys being included since you
23:07 were at one of the meetings that we
23:08 talked about the beginnings of it and
23:10 then I think now that the draft is
23:12 coming out the ticker will go up again
23:15 because now there's actually something
23:16 else to respond to so that so I would
23:19 guess that the 1,600 were part of
23:22 putting it together not reacting to this
23:24 exact draft because this job came out
23:26 two weeks ago I think yeah right so
23:32 specifically most of those 1,600 people
23:35 just answered the survey or were part of
23:39 the meetings in a box or they were
23:42 probably
23:43 that part but but just to separate them
23:45 how many just came in through the survey
23:48 do you have that number the originals
23:50 are you know yeah I don't have that
23:52 number but we could sit again oh okay
23:58 1300 okay are there's three more days to
24:03 answer the survey and give us your
24:06 thoughts about the strategic plan so
24:12 anybody out there that would like to do
24:14 that please do the other questions thank
24:19 you thank you so much Dean and the next
24:24 topic is near and dear to our hearts we
24:26 talked about the existing list of
24:28 treasures that we did back in 1993 and
24:31 we've had a lot of discussions
24:33 internally with all the things going on
24:35 one of them being the strategic plan and
24:38 Leeson who is one of our amazing
24:40 coordination neighborhood coordinating
24:43 communicating she does everything people
24:46 is she said remember when I went out to
24:49 the neighborhoods and we made this we
24:51 had this great thing happen and I was
24:52 like which is sort of like the treasures
24:55 20 years later and so I wanted listen to
24:58 come explain what she did how she did it
25:00 and what the outcome was to see if this
25:04 is sort of the next step of the
25:05 treasures that happened what just two
25:07 years ago right and so I will I will let
25:11 Lisa take over thanks for the
25:14 introduction
25:14 good evening commissioners and residents
25:18 and those that are watching thanks for
25:20 having me here and my name is Lisa and
25:22 goosh I'm the neighborhood engagement
25:24 coordinator for the city I've been here
25:27 now about three years my position just a
25:30 little bit of a background came from a
25:32 council goal there their hope was to
25:35 have more interactions on a neighborhood
25:37 basis so going out to the neighborhoods
25:40 I'm instead of always having residents
25:42 come to the city to engage so I ran the
25:46 first year of my program as a pilot and
25:48 then luckily I am still here with a
25:51 full-time job
25:52 and I love what I do so I'm also gonna
25:54 squat resident but one of the things
25:56 that this came out was when I first
25:59 started I really wanted to connect with
26:02 the different neighborhoods and we right
26:05 now go off it for the 13 sub areas which
26:08 is something that also planning uses to
26:11 kind of keep it a linear thing that
26:16 everybody can associate with and so
26:19 you'll see those on this neighborhood
26:21 map but I came up with this idea of
26:24 having having the first neighborhood
26:25 summit and I invited what I call
26:30 neighborhood champions from each of
26:32 these thirteen sub areas to come and
26:34 just to talk and so we had all thirteen
26:37 represented which was very cool and
26:39 there are about thirty people that
26:41 participated and the question that I
26:43 asked them was what makes your
26:46 neighborhood unique or special and then
26:50 they started throwing out all of the
26:52 things that made their different
26:53 neighborhoods special why they loved
26:55 living in in the neighborhood that they
26:57 live in and so there were a lot of
26:59 sticky notes that this was at first
27:01 before it was a beautiful art piece and
27:05 then visual artists took the sticky
27:10 notes and then kind of put together this
27:12 tangible piece that we've really been
27:15 able to hold on to throughout Issaquah
27:16 you know it has all the different not
27:19 only we and marks that you'll see on
27:21 there from within the city but it also
27:24 has experiences so there's different
27:26 like fourth of July is really big in
27:29 South code for that general area you
27:32 know there's an Easter egg hunt there
27:34 there's a big Easter egg hunt Alice
27:35 so things like that so it was a really
27:38 it kind of evolved to this this tangible
27:41 I guess if you will a feel of what
27:44 really makes a sequester so we thought
27:47 it was a really great exercise it's kind
27:49 of a living breathing document that kind
27:51 of shows how it's evolved and then still
27:54 some of the same historical elements
27:55 that we have but it's also a little bit
27:57 more than just I know we have a list of
28:00 treasures that we all that we all love
28:02 from 93 but I think it was just
28:05 interesting listening
28:06 kind of some of the things that make it
28:07 unique where a lot of experiences within
28:10 their own neighborhood that maybe not
28:11 beyond the is quad trousers list so I
28:13 think I'm here just to kind of give you
28:15 an overview about how this evolves and
28:17 and maybe help think about a way to kind
28:20 of capture that as we move forward I
28:22 know there's going to be a lot more
28:23 discussions on kind of what happens
28:25 where the treasures come in a strategic
28:29 plan obviously if and when that gets
28:31 adopted where they fit underneath that
28:33 to preserve character of neighborhoods
28:36 is important I think also that came out
28:39 of this when when I looked at it and
28:42 yeah I'm just kind of here to answer any
28:45 questions show you this you have a copy
28:47 as well that I hope you take home and
28:49 really look at because every time I look
28:51 at it I feel like I see something
28:52 different but this was in conjunction as
28:56 well with our hundred and twenty-fifth
29:00 birthday when I first came on board too
29:03 so happy to answer any questions the
29:06 only treasure that I could not find down
29:08 there was the mist in the mountains and
29:10 from the original list everything else
29:13 is on there I I really think this map is
29:18 cute and it's something that you know
29:20 kind of what's everything together but
29:24 if we're using this as showing people
29:30 outside our community what our community
29:32 has I think that it misses it doesn't
29:36 show enough about the exactly what where
29:43 each one of the neighborhoods is and
29:46 exactly what other things or listed
29:50 there might be trees but there are this
29:54 this this and this in that neighborhood
29:56 I'm sure that they've said more than two
29:57 or three things like what South Coke did
29:59 it would be nice at some point in time
30:02 to be able to say this is what these
30:05 neighborhoods are so people coming into
30:07 the community could know which one they
30:11 fit into and start looking there if they
30:14 wanted to buy a home or
30:16 or use a park or whatever so so I that
30:21 would be nice I think it's important
30:25 mm-hmm no question the idea to hand this
30:30 map out so I'm not really understanding
30:32 it this is this like an outreach program
30:34 and how exactly is outreach done
30:36 with this map I actually enjoy the map I
30:39 couldn't I couldn't find front Street
30:42 but other than that I really enjoyed it
30:44 but in terms of practicality how is this
30:49 map actually going to be used other than
30:51 the four of us looking at it yeah that's
30:53 a great question um a lot of its just
30:56 it's a lot of fun like you say you enjoy
30:58 looking at it it's also something that I
31:01 think certainly the people that were
31:04 involved feel a sense of ownership over
31:05 it but it's also something that you know
31:08 when you do go over to different
31:09 neighborhood pockets it's it's fun for
31:12 them to look at and it's nice for them
31:13 to see kind of oh yeah that is something
31:15 that we really value in treasure I also
31:18 do think it does show a little bit of
31:20 what's unique in every every
31:21 neighborhood which is nice I mean like
31:23 in the highlands it shows the highlands
31:25 fiber network that's not something that
31:26 you know every neighborhood has and then
31:29 there's a couple other things like
31:32 central Issaquah is known for confluence
31:34 Park bridge now so just little things
31:36 like that but it's it's kind of just and
31:39 I know I'm here tonight just to kind of
31:41 give you another thought process of how
31:44 how you can make a list tangible how you
31:46 can how we could maybe start thinking
31:49 about what we want to do I know in this
31:52 city right now we're also doing a
31:53 branding and wayfinding which is a
31:55 really big part of kind of that outer
31:57 what is the croisé going to be feel like
32:00 and I there's a lot of there's a big
32:02 team working on that so where that's
32:04 gonna land this year with the DMO with
32:07 city and also with the Chamber so I
32:10 think kind of all of this is a
32:12 conversation that I I first see ongoing
32:15 for a while and kind of how it all fits
32:17 in with strategic plan branding
32:20 wayfinding and things like that so I
32:21 think you should frame it
32:25 and and put it in several different
32:27 places I mean I think it's so colorful
32:30 and so fun and and stop I really think
32:34 it should be highlighted in different
32:38 areas of the city so it's not that the
32:40 mural that went up at the on the end of
32:44 the teriyaki building isn't beautiful
32:45 but I'm thinking like something like
32:47 this would be great there you know Japan
32:52 ginger teriyaki they put that beautiful
32:54 mural up there like three four months
32:57 ago something like this would be great
32:59 I'd be happy with it here or in the yeah
33:03 I mean some places this part of the city
33:06 but you know if somebody could do this
33:08 in the mural I'm glad you brought up the
33:10 branding and wayfinding cuz what I
33:12 really liked and what struck me about
33:14 this and what I liked about it was that
33:15 it was how these neighborhoods are
33:17 defining themselves rather than how
33:18 other people see the neighborhoods and
33:21 so like I was like wait there's multiple
33:23 neighborhoods who would define
33:24 themselves by their Easter egg hunt I
33:25 think that's really interesting and so
33:28 that's what I really liked about it
33:29 because I think that we pushed the city
33:30 in a lot of ways to be like hey we want
33:32 detailed maps of all these different
33:34 things and so it was actually nice to
33:36 see one that really wasn't about where
33:38 roads are and what direction because at
33:40 first I was like wait North is down and
33:41 then I was like it doesn't matter
33:42 there's so much joy in this thing so I
33:45 honestly was hoping that we could make
33:47 them into postcards and every time like
33:49 you needed to go into City Hall like
33:50 renew a license or a tab there was a
33:52 stack there like I just see it as being
33:54 a great promotional thing because I
33:55 think it really exudes how people feel
33:58 about where they're from which is
33:59 something that we don't necessarily
34:00 always get in the work that we do here
34:03 and I love that about this map be nice
34:04 to be on the front page of the website
34:10 that's a great idea
34:11 this is this is put together by the
34:13 people yes and you know if you looked at
34:16 this map you wouldn't know unless you
34:18 had the background or something on here
34:22 said people have told us or whatever but
34:25 I think you should propagate it
34:30 as much as you can okay it's just so
34:34 colorful it's just so nice to be hanging
34:36 on the wall somewhere mm-hmm his second
34:39 joy Joan and Bill's comments well we may
34:46 be using you in the future because we
34:47 were thinking with with this that just
34:49 have happening two years ago and the
34:51 strategic plan has that whole part of
34:53 growth and development I don't know if
34:55 you saw the part about the charm in all
34:57 the neighborhoods we have a feeling that
34:59 and when it when and if like I said it
35:02 gets adopted that will be one of the
35:03 projects that comes to long range when
35:06 probably you all and so I think part of
35:09 defining the charm would be doing
35:11 something not maybe this buts the next
35:14 generation you know we went from the
35:15 list of 35 to 5 million much lots more
35:20 colorful than the 93 list was but still
35:23 important but then maybe the next
35:25 generation is neighborhood by
35:27 neighborhood by neighborhood that shows
35:28 not only what makes them special but
35:30 also that charm piece of it that will
35:33 have to define and know it if when we
35:35 see it and when we don't see it but and
35:38 so we're thinking and I want you to
35:39 ponder this you don't have to decide
35:40 tonight maybe not working on the
35:43 treasures this year through the comp
35:45 plan because there's so many plates that
35:47 are still spinning but once it's
35:49 actually adopted in the strategic plan
35:51 and we get that as a work plan probably
35:53 next year that then we can unpack it in
35:56 it with a new focus neighborhood by
35:59 neighborhood so I just you don't have to
36:00 answer yet but just I want you to ponder
36:03 that because when we realized that it
36:04 had been redone already this recently we
36:06 thought is it really time for us to to
36:10 just update them or renew them without
36:13 sort of underlying why and so we thought
36:17 this the piece of the strategic plan
36:19 sort of gave us another reason why we
36:22 would want to update and renew and
36:23 figure them out a little differently but
36:27 we're open to thoughts and what how you
36:29 feel about it but you don't have to like
36:31 come up with a this is the way kind of
36:34 an idea tonight we'll think I have a
36:38 question for Trish how would you how
36:41 would you draw the mist the mountain
36:43 mist
36:44 that last trip just put little things in
36:46 on all the sides okay so we can't forget
36:49 the mountain right yeah I notice right
36:52 away there's room for it in the forested
36:53 hillsides right between the gap where
36:56 Mount Rainier is yeah yeah yeah there's
36:59 room for the mist because I think I'm
37:03 hoping Oliver Twist
37:05 there's always a way yes well Joanie are
37:09 there questions for Lisa oh you have to
37:12 come up to the but you have to come up
37:14 to the microphone Robin because it's our
37:17 huge television audience needs to hear
37:19 you
37:20 I was guy asked you if he wanted to
37:24 speak you I didn't until I saw this I
37:27 think it's wonderful and colorful and I
37:29 would love to see it utilized I think
37:32 that it's confusing to call it a map and
37:36 I think that that that's maybe where
37:39 people will get stuck because it's
37:42 you're not going to use this to go
37:44 anywhere so having some other naming
37:48 protocol for this mm-hmm
37:50 I think would help people understand and
37:53 accept it for what it is representing
37:56 these wonderful things not wayfinding
38:00 right something maybe along Joy's point
38:05 which is how the neighborhood's feel
38:07 about themselves like that with that
38:12 with some kind of a social question no I
38:24 think the job it's fun I especially like
38:27 the fact that you were able to bring 13
38:30 different neighborhoods together at the
38:32 same time not only does it bring the
38:37 city closer it you know enables people
38:42 to know each other and see what they
38:45 have and maybe I need that in my
38:46 neighborhood and and so the discussions
38:49 I'm sure were fun and it ran and
38:55 good and to your point that was actually
38:58 the number one thing that came out of
39:00 that particular meeting was that
39:03 residents really wanted an opportunity
39:04 to meet other residents from different
39:07 neighborhoods to be able to network with
39:09 neighborhood you know ideas neighborhood
39:12 issues so that was something that was
39:14 really important that we heard in that
39:17 particular meeting just like you're
39:18 saying is nice to connect those
39:21 connections that they wouldn't maybe
39:23 normally have with other people in the
39:26 community and other neighborhoods and
39:30 you still have the champions right the
39:32 neighbors you yeah in fact they we're
39:34 planning on some more this year so I'll
39:36 let you go in those that's so important
39:38 especially as we grow this really feels
39:40 like the heart of where we've come from
39:42 yeah well done thank you for coming
39:46 super super fun and thanks for bringing
39:49 them their own very own graphics I love
39:51 that now I have to go home and get a
39:54 frame to frame it and find a place to
39:56 put it
40:06 Trish is going to update us on Puget
40:10 Sound regional councils 2015 plan 2050
40:15 plan they ask a question before you
40:18 start yes wrote this document which
40:21 document the you're gonna go over the
40:23 king county regional well you're huge it
40:25 sound regional council staff did and a
40:30 quick byline I am NOT an expert on this
40:33 plan I am only the messenger but feel
40:37 free to ask me questions but the chances
40:39 that I know the answers are not a
40:42 hundred percent thank you sir and I will
40:45 do my best
40:54 here we are in 2050 a draft supplemental
41:02 environmental impact statement is out
41:06 and what that means is there the Puget
41:12 Sound Regional Council is asking for
41:15 comments on the supplemental
41:18 environmental impact statement and
41:20 they're asking for comments by the by
41:23 April 29th and so the purpose of this
41:26 meeting with PPC is to get the word out
41:29 that it's akua's City Council has
41:32 established three dates in April to not
41:36 only get a presentation from PSR C staff
41:39 that wrote it and are totally
41:42 understanding of every element a piece
41:44 of it that will happen April 8th and
41:47 then they will announce to that on the
41:50 50 and the I'm sorry and the first the
41:53 staff will provide the presentation and
41:55 then on April 8th we'll take public
41:57 comments because will we figure you'll
42:00 have a chance to have been educated on
42:02 it to watch the presentation to ponder
42:04 any comments that you might have and
42:06 then unfit the 15th the council will
42:09 actually talk about the presentation the
42:11 comments they've received and kind of
42:13 deliberate their thoughts and then they
42:15 will be able to decide what what kind of
42:18 comments they want to share with PSR C
42:21 on the the s-cis and the three
42:24 alternatives and if you're not able to
42:27 share comments at the council meeting
42:30 there's a website link where you can
42:33 actually go right in and give your
42:35 comments directly to PSR C and the neat
42:38 thing about that is they track them by
42:40 city so you'll will be able to tell that
42:43 you know a hundred comments came from
42:45 Issaquah or how many ever so that's a
42:48 cool thing that PSR C is doing is
42:50 tracking them by location so that's the
42:53 purpose of the meeting and what I'll try
42:54 to do now is educate you just a little
42:57 bit about the three alternatives and
43:00 sort of how they're different based on
43:02 the
43:02 the executive summary that I shared with
43:05 you so I'm not making up anything that I
43:07 didn't find either on their website or
43:10 on in their executive summary the other
43:13 piece of this there's there's three
43:17 alternatives in the environmental impact
43:20 statement the supplement there's and and
43:23 as you may know or may not know an
43:25 environmental impact statement has to
43:27 look at three alternatives one that
43:29 would be what they call no action which
43:32 would be staying the course of whatever
43:34 was in place previously and so that's
43:37 sort of your viewer a scientist that's
43:40 sort of your nothing changes in that one
43:42 that's your over the word for my science
43:46 days and then there's an alternative
43:47 that works with a lot of the plans and
43:50 policies and pieces that you have and
43:52 then there has to be one more so that
43:54 you have like a way to compare three of
43:56 them so so in addition to the three
44:00 alternatives that the SE is looks at
44:03 they've also started to distribute draft
44:05 policies and so far there's only three
44:08 elements out and the stack there are the
44:11 new or actually all the policies that
44:13 they've put out for housing element
44:15 housing chapter environmental chapter
44:18 and the development patterns chapter
44:21 last night we shared the environmental
44:23 policies with River and stream board and
44:26 they had quite a lot of fun with them
44:28 they had a really good discussion on
44:30 them um we're not sure yet as a city
44:33 if the council will want us to look at
44:36 the policies at this point that's up to
44:39 them to say PPC we would really love a
44:42 recommendation from you all on the
44:43 policies the policies don't have to be
44:46 commented on until I think early summer
44:49 because they're not all out yet just the
44:51 three chapters are out and although
44:53 there's a lot of policies in vision 2050
44:57 there's there's not a lot that have
44:59 changed and those are the ones we're
45:01 focusing on are the ones that have
45:02 changed and that we think will affect us
45:04 Issaquah so I'm just giving you that
45:06 before I do the alternatives to know
45:09 that even though the alternatives are
45:10 exciting the policies are really what
45:13 effect us or don't affect us
45:15 probably gone over everything in the
45:17 slide some of the numbers that are
45:20 pretty exciting
45:22 I thought they works well first the one
45:25 the first number the Puget Sound
45:27 Regional Council includes four counties
45:30 King County which is us Snohomish Pierce
45:34 and Kitsap County those are what this
45:36 whole growth vision is for those four
45:39 counties it's an update of 2040 division
45:43 2040 which was done in 2008 the new one
45:47 2050 says the region four counties need
45:51 to plan for 1.8 million additional
45:54 people and 1.2 million additional jobs
46:00 so those are some big numbers to think
46:02 about and the three alternatives one
46:06 stay the course which would be no action
46:09 which technically isn't no action but
46:11 it's no change in the action that's the
46:13 first one
46:14 the second one is called transit focused
46:17 growth and the third one is called reset
46:20 urban growth they also have they say
46:27 that the the the existing policies those
46:30 are the ones that have come out I
46:31 already mention that so I'm ready for
46:34 the next time or any questions before I
46:36 launch into it okay this is the four
46:40 County region of Snohomish to the North
46:43 King counties in the middle
46:45 Pierce's to the south and Kitsap is over
46:48 with the water easiest way and you'll
46:52 see that there are labels for some of
46:56 the cities and the areas the very top of
46:58 the legend the big black dot regional
47:01 growth center it's a quoi is a regional
47:03 growth center the first color
47:07 metropolitan cities mystic wise not
47:09 those are the big five
47:11 Seattle Bellevue Bremerton Tacoma I say
47:18 Bellevue Brooklyn Bellevue Seattle
47:20 Bremerton Tacoma
47:22 Everett Everett thank you it's like oh
47:25 I'm forgetting someone important
47:27 it's akua's a core
47:28 city so we're that second color orange
47:31 down on the legend and then the third
47:34 one is a high-capacity transit community
47:38 those are the big ones to take the
47:40 growth in most of the scenarios the
47:42 other ones are cities and towns and
47:45 urban unincorporated those are when you
47:47 start getting away from the urban growth
47:48 line so I wanted you just to have a
47:50 visual before we launched into the
47:53 alternatives just quickly stay the
47:56 course you're right it was Everett well
47:59 done you guys the largest share
48:01 continues to go into the five big
48:04 metropolitan cities some growth is
48:06 focused in the core cities especially
48:09 because there's transportation economic
48:12 hubs there so this scenario continues on
48:17 the way we've been going some of the
48:21 pieces that I thought were interesting
48:23 is that this one currently keeps most of
48:27 the growth in the urban area and not as
48:29 much out in the unincorporated urban in
48:32 the rural area I always think that's
48:34 that's a good thing the second
48:37 alternative is transit focused so as you
48:40 can imagine all the growth goes to not
48:42 only the big five metropolitan cities
48:44 but the core cities and the
48:46 high-capacity transit communities so
48:49 again the greatest role for the areas
48:52 that have the transit abilities would be
48:55 to take the growth in fact this one has
48:58 an explicit goal of 75 percent of the
49:02 region's population and employment
49:04 growth has to go along these areas
49:07 within a quarter mile or half mile from
49:08 transit so this was one of those we keep
49:12 talking about this let's have one of the
49:14 alternatives actually do this and put
49:16 all the new growth seventy-five percent
49:19 of it right along the areas that have
49:21 that transit ability
49:25 [Music]
49:28 perfect not the 75% would be shared
49:32 amongst the areas that don't have high
49:34 capacity but only the 25% and this one
49:40 also gives higher levels of growth to
49:42 King County and comparatively lower and
49:45 could set Pearson Snohomish because they
49:47 don't there's not as much transit
49:49 high-capacity transit in those areas so
49:52 the King County would get the higher
49:53 level of growth and the third
49:57 alternative reset urban growth this one
50:01 follows more some of the actual action
50:05 that's happened since this was first
50:07 done in 2008 where some of the areas
50:11 that are not incorporated got a lot of
50:14 growth and I should say a lot got growth
50:16 some of the urban rural areas still
50:19 received growth and this would say that
50:22 those areas can go up to their capacity
50:24 plus 10% and then and then the rest
50:29 would go to the urban areas and so this
50:33 is allowing the rural and the urban
50:35 areas that are not incorporated to allow
50:39 them to go to their capacity and have
50:40 that be part of the forecast so this is
50:43 just a different tact on resetting urban
50:45 growth and where it would go so this
50:47 wouldn't focus them in transit areas
50:50 this would sort of be more distributed
50:56 not by transportation or infrastructure
50:58 but just by the capacity that's in the
51:01 areas so all three alternatives are very
51:04 different oh this one this is the
51:10 highest alternative as I said for growth
51:12 in unincorporated areas so that would be
51:16 I'm going to think of one that you would
51:18 know of you know Maple Valley I don't
51:22 think is incorporated so it would be
51:23 those outlying areas that are in a city
51:26 but they're definitely a Township or a
51:29 town kind of a thing it would be 12%
51:32 population and 6% employ employment
51:36 would go in those on unaffiliated
51:37 unincorporated areas
51:43 so this is a table that that actually
51:49 Keith did trying to understand
51:52 differences in the alternatives and we
51:55 took this from the chart that had the
51:57 arrows it had like a lot more
51:59 descriptions and the arrows up or down
52:01 whether or not it changed that this
52:05 state of course a lot of the
52:09 alternatives are super close
52:12 for example that well one that's
52:14 different is the percent of population
52:16 in employment
52:17 1 2 3 4 down for the first alternative
52:21 stay the course 48 percent of population
52:23 is near high-capacity transit 75 percent
52:28 an alternative to 44 percent an
52:32 alternative 3 I love the average drive
52:35 time and time stuck in traffic I love
52:38 that we forecast that kind of thing
52:40 alternative 2 with transit the drive
52:43 time Goes Down and the time stuck in
52:45 traffic goes down a little bit as a land
52:49 use planner something that I thought was
52:51 interesting the third one down third
52:53 item down amount of land needed to
52:56 accommodate growth the first and the
52:59 third 322 million acres and the third
53:04 one is 331 million acres versus the
53:07 transit is 285 million so there's less
53:11 land needed for growth and alternative
53:14 too so it's just a different way of
53:19 looking at the charts that they put in
53:23 we tried to put in one little chart what
53:25 they had I think four pages with the
53:27 arrows although there was a lot of good
53:28 information it was hard to take all in
53:31 if you just looked at the raw numbers of
53:34 population and employment Lou is stay
53:38 the course and this is core city this
53:40 would be Issaquah red is the transit
53:45 green is the resetting urban
53:49 you know it's a real rough another rough
53:52 way to look at it
53:54 hopefully this what's your appetite to
53:57 think huh you know to dig in a little
53:59 bit because you know regional planning
54:02 is is big a lot of its market driven a
54:04 lot of its employment you know who's
54:06 who's there who's coming where do people
54:10 choose to live this slide moves into the
54:14 next part and I don't know if you want
54:15 to do the next part or if you want to
54:17 wait till we're asked to do the next
54:19 part but of all the policies and actions
54:22 that are in the existing vision 2040
54:25 this is how many have been new are new
54:27 or changed and have actions with them in
54:31 the only the three chapters that they've
54:33 they've drafted yet and that are out
54:35 available for a review so totally up to
54:39 you if you wanted to go through them
54:41 I'll just show you a slide to show how I
54:44 was thinking of it if you wanted this is
54:46 a draft of the housing chapter there's
54:48 only three on here that have the little
54:50 blue stars oops that that that in staff
54:56 looking at it we think that that we need
54:59 to look at them because they affect
55:01 Issaquah for example h.5 says expand the
55:06 supply and range of housing and the part
55:08 that's new at densities to maximize the
55:11 benefits of transit investment we want
55:15 to know what benefits mean we want to
55:18 know what maximize means and we want to
55:21 know that if we've already up zoned area
55:24 like Central Issaquah just recently up
55:26 own the whole big big area would we
55:30 still have to go higher or with our up
55:34 zone new plan regional growth center
55:36 would that already count to fit in with
55:38 that so that's just an example of
55:40 questions that we have for PSR C when
55:43 they when they come and share their new
55:45 drafts we could go through them all or
55:48 you could take the list of policies home
55:50 and ponder them and we may get to go
55:52 through them between now and early
55:54 summer if the council wants to go that
55:56 way totally up to you all
56:00 I don't mind picking Tricia's brain
56:03 while we're here
56:06 boundary yeah blunder you got to take
56:10 them home and ponder okay any other
56:12 questions for for me um feel free to go
56:16 if you can't be at council
56:18 feel free to for you and your neighbors
56:20 to go on the website there's a new draft
56:23 or a new order they call it news flash
56:26 that says again that the survey is open
56:29 for the SE is for PS or C so you can go
56:33 in and take the survey on how you feel
56:35 about the alternatives and I think
56:37 there's questions about growth and
56:38 transit and all sorts of good things
56:40 feel free to take the survey if you
56:42 can't come to Council and and give them
56:44 your thoughts I was alright with you
56:47 explaining it yeah I am - oh okay so now
56:50 to ponder not a ponder Bill and Joan way
56:56 different I'm fine either way it's a lot
57:00 to soak in there's a lot of I can just
57:05 go over the cliff notes just start yeah
57:09 this is the actual stack on that
57:10 actually is over here there's a stack
57:13 that we moved them she has all the
57:15 policies even the ones that didn't
57:18 change because I couldn't figure out how
57:19 to cut and paste to just you know
57:21 because you may find some that are super
57:23 important that we missed that's totally
57:25 possible okay well I mentioned h5 that
57:29 had this substantial change that we have
57:31 questions about the the second star is
57:35 h8 expand housing capacity for a
57:38 moderate density now moderate density
57:41 for the region is 14 to 49 units an acre
57:49 our medium density goes to 15 and acres
57:53 so that would count in this our higher
57:57 density goes the rest of the way so just
58:01 so you know that they're moderate
58:03 density isn't the same as our moderate
58:05 density but it says expand housing
58:07 capacity for modern density to bridge
58:10 the gap between single fan
58:11 and more intense multifamily and again
58:15 we're wondering is this to be done
58:18 locally do we need higher densities what
58:21 is it that they're asking local
58:24 jurisdictions to do with this policy it
58:27 seems like quite a big change from
58:29 encourage the use of innovative
58:32 techniques I mean it it seems much more
58:36 direct than it was before
58:39 so that that's why it has the start and
58:40 stop me if you have questions on any of
58:42 these d again is a verb identified
58:48 potential physical economic and cultural
58:50 displacement of low-income households
58:53 and marginalized populations that may
58:55 result from redevelopment and market
58:57 pressure use a range of strategies to
59:00 mitigate displacement impacts to the
59:03 extent feasible and again we're going to
59:05 ask them what what they're intending for
59:08 that is that something something new
59:09 something extra is that done locally is
59:12 it done countywide at how is that done
59:17 for development patterns the first one
59:22 that gave us pause was number two
59:26 they've changed we're totally in favor
59:31 encourage efficient use of urban land
59:33 then it says an increasing density in
59:36 the urban growth area consistent with
59:38 regional growth strategy and again we're
59:41 wondering does our up zone for their
59:43 regional growth center that we have
59:45 does that count towards this or do we
59:48 have to go again and increase it again
59:50 that's our question one of our questions
59:55 letter a plan for densities that
59:58 maximize benefits of transit investments
1:00:00 again we want to understand what they
1:00:03 mean by benefits and we want to know if
1:00:08 that means our densities have to go up
1:00:10 as well so quick question I because I am
1:00:13 I don't know enough about PSR C so there
1:00:19 are three alternatives are essentially
1:00:20 what they think is going to happen as
1:00:22 far as growth
1:00:23 through 2050 to there that could happen
1:00:27 bro a that could happen and they can't
1:00:28 really direct what's gonna happen they
1:00:30 can just forecast what they how they
1:00:32 think we're gonna grow as a region does
1:00:35 their does their document or their
1:00:36 policies directly impact anything that
1:00:39 we do from this Kloss standpoint can
1:00:42 they say you know we have a policy that
1:00:44 you're going to add more density in this
1:00:47 one area to accommodate transit and so
1:00:49 does that force us to change the way we
1:00:51 plan or these are suggestions right well
1:00:54 that's what we're gonna ask because some
1:00:55 of the changes to their policies seem
1:00:57 very specific to what this isn't this is
1:01:02 the first time it sounds like they've
1:01:03 given us policies on growth right right
1:01:06 so in the past when they do that are
1:01:08 those suggestions for how we think we
1:01:10 should grow or do they have some type of
1:01:13 do they actually direct us on how we do
1:01:15 zoning other things right I would say
1:01:17 most of it is they're encouraging us
1:01:21 they're they're trying to direct us so
1:01:25 that we all meet the strategy when we do
1:01:28 comprehensive planning and when we
1:01:30 applied to them to be a regional growth
1:01:32 center we had to commit to making
1:01:34 certain density allowing a certain
1:01:38 amount of density in the central plan
1:01:40 where the regional growth center is and
1:01:43 so we we had to commit to that to be to
1:01:48 be certified if you will as a regional
1:01:50 growth center and that allows us now to
1:01:53 get funding from them now we're eligible
1:01:56 for funding from PSR C because they have
1:01:58 a lot of grant money for transportation
1:02:00 projects and so in that sense we're
1:02:03 committed with them to reach certain to
1:02:06 accommodate certain densities in their
1:02:07 regional growth center okay
1:02:09 and so that we're sure of we're just
1:02:12 wondering whether the new set of
1:02:13 policies changes that relationship
1:02:16 anymore do we actually have to go higher
1:02:18 than what we were approved at or is
1:02:21 everything fine with what we were
1:02:23 approved at I see okay and it's it's
1:02:25 typically they don't have a hammer other
1:02:30 than when we've already committed to
1:02:31 something or if we're if we're trying to
1:02:34 survive for for transportation funding
1:02:37 so we've committed to is through 2040 on
1:02:40 an original plan and they're proposing
1:02:42 we're seeing possible changes to hacking
1:02:46 another 10 years on to that through 2050
1:02:48 actually what we've committed to is the
1:02:50 central Issaquah regional growth center
1:02:52 which is which is our plan and they
1:02:55 approved it it's it it fits into the
1:02:58 regional strategy of vision 2040 but it
1:03:01 isn't we didn't agree well we we agreed
1:03:07 inadvertent and then advertently our
1:03:11 because our plan goes along with their
1:03:13 regional strategy and all of our
1:03:15 densities and all of our provisions
1:03:17 we're in compliance with vision 2040 ok
1:03:20 it that way and is there like as part of
1:03:23 the 2040 is there a point called out
1:03:28 where they can come in and change it all
1:03:30 or make modifications not us
1:03:33 specifically but their language in the
1:03:36 update can cause us and other
1:03:39 jurisdictions to do things a different
1:03:40 way depending on how they're written and
1:03:43 so that's what we want to understand is
1:03:45 some of the some of their language
1:03:48 actually says local jurisdictions will
1:03:50 do this and we're wondering is there
1:03:52 money for local jurisdictions to do this
1:03:55 is there you know timing for local
1:03:57 jurisdictions to do this because you
1:03:59 know we may not have the money or the
1:04:01 resources to do whatever it is they're
1:04:02 asking us to do so we're just trying in
1:04:05 that in the draft stage we're trying to
1:04:06 understand what they're asking us to do
1:04:09 or what they're trying to direct us to
1:04:11 do just so we we know what's expected ok
1:04:14 it's good questions it's my
1:04:16 understanding too that this is also like
1:04:17 a matter of compliance because the state
1:04:21 has directed down this is kind of like
1:04:24 this downward trickle from what the
1:04:26 legislature has said this is what we
1:04:28 need and want from our communities to
1:04:30 give us and so this is like if we could
1:04:33 in theory have been in compliance with
1:04:35 2040 but 2050 has new language that
1:04:39 directs do things if we're out of
1:04:40 compliance and we can then not be
1:04:42 eligible for this grant funding so
1:04:47 in a way it's my understanding Trish
1:04:49 tell me if I'm wrong this does impact us
1:04:51 in terms of like you know when we talk
1:04:54 about making ourselves original gross
1:04:55 and are being certified we could fall
1:04:57 out of compliance still be a regional
1:04:59 growth center I'd get in getting growth
1:05:01 but not actually getting the benefits
1:05:02 from that if we are like well we're not
1:05:04 going to adhere to these certain things
1:05:05 not like there's a punitive measure but
1:05:07 there's a level of like needing to be
1:05:12 within what this new direction would be
1:05:14 right because I would say if we let's
1:05:16 say we decided to change some of the
1:05:19 zoning in the regional growth centre and
1:05:21 all of a sudden were below the threshold
1:05:23 that we agreed to for them to certify us
1:05:26 then we would certainly be out of
1:05:28 compliance and we'd probably lose our
1:05:30 eligibility for transportation funds
1:05:33 that would be that would be like does
1:05:38 the word when it's so obvious I mean
1:05:39 that would be clearly a you know we're
1:05:42 not we're not in compliance anymore some
1:05:45 of these are so general that you wonder
1:05:47 are you giving us ten years to do this
1:05:49 are you giving you know is there
1:05:50 timeline is there a deadline is there
1:05:52 are there are there ramifications if we
1:05:56 can't do it in that time like one of
1:05:58 them is a housing analysis to see this
1:06:01 you know how much you have and and what
1:06:04 if we can't do a housing complete
1:06:05 housing analysis in seven years or in
1:06:07 ten years
1:06:08 does that make us fall out of compliance
1:06:10 with the whole thing because we can't
1:06:12 afford to do whatever it is that they're
1:06:14 asking so those are the kind of things
1:06:16 where because we you know we work really
1:06:18 well with PSR C so we just want to be
1:06:20 sure that we understand what they're
1:06:22 expecting of all the local jurisdictions
1:06:24 there you have a lot of questions I
1:06:28 would hope or think that if you couldn't
1:06:33 meet the exact requirements that you
1:06:37 would create your plan take it to the to
1:06:41 PSR C and they would decide if it was
1:06:45 good enough for what they had hoped what
1:06:48 happened this is all we can do so this
1:06:50 is you know this is our plan do we get
1:06:56 close enough to what you project my
1:07:00 heartburn with some of these plans is
1:07:04 County State make rules that are general
1:07:11 without for all the cities in each city
1:07:15 is different and there is only so much
1:07:17 that they are capable of doing they only
1:07:21 have so much land to have so many new
1:07:24 housing starts they don't take that into
1:07:28 consideration they just blanket it so
1:07:31 somehow somewhere it's got to come up
1:07:33 too we can't do it you know you just
1:07:38 can't do it it seems like this is much
1:07:41 more carrot much less stick approach
1:07:44 from PSR C okay we're kin working we're
1:07:49 the public getting more information on
1:07:50 kind of how the whole relationship works
1:07:52 between era C and the city of this cloth
1:08:01 the relationship as far as how house how
1:08:05 yeah I guess what the commitment is
1:08:08 first quad what those numbers are first
1:08:11 quad green to be well that would be in
1:08:14 the regional growth center that would be
1:08:16 that the actual approved numbers for
1:08:21 growth and development and densities
1:08:23 that are in that regional growth center
1:08:25 actually it's in the central Issaquah
1:08:27 plan there's a little section when we
1:08:29 got approved we had to put a section in
1:08:31 the central plan that talked about the
1:08:33 regional growth center and one of the
1:08:35 goals or policies is we have to
1:08:38 prioritize infrastructure funding
1:08:40 through the regional growth center that
1:08:42 was something that was required by the
1:08:45 to be certified as we had to say as a
1:08:48 city we're gonna try and make sure a
1:08:50 majority of our prioritize I can't
1:08:52 remember the exact words infrastructure
1:08:54 funding where all the new growth and
1:08:56 jobs are going to go so there were
1:08:58 things like that that we had to put into
1:09:00 the plan to be compliant
1:09:01 they're like commitments is what I kind
1:09:03 of remember
1:09:04 when we were going through them the only
1:09:06 thing is that we that it dedicated
1:09:08 ourselves to as a commitments of how we
1:09:10 were going to plan moving forward based
1:09:14 on getting the certification of the
1:09:16 erosional regional girl center and the
1:09:18 word turn certified that they that now
1:09:20 were eligible for transportation funding
1:09:23 that we weren't before okay and we're so
1:09:26 right now we're certified yes
1:09:28 certification lasts through 2040 it
1:09:31 lasts as long as we keep the regional
1:09:33 center zoned and that we keep doing all
1:09:37 the things we said we were going to do
1:09:38 in their regional growth center okay and
1:09:40 so now city council once the wants them
1:09:42 to doctor city council about language in
1:09:47 the new updated 2050 to make sure that
1:09:50 it's not nullifying anything we did in
1:09:52 central we're just trying to understand
1:09:55 how far does vision 20's vision 2050 go
1:09:58 does it does it not change central at
1:10:00 all that would be great does it change
1:10:03 the regional growth center at all yeah
1:10:06 maybe not but we just want to be sure
1:10:08 before we say that this is great to make
1:10:12 sure that all of a sudden there are good
1:10:14 more things that we have to do that
1:10:16 we're not ready to do yet I think of it
1:10:21 more as like this extra layer then
1:10:23 necessarily like you're talking about
1:10:24 more carrot bursts that kind of a thing
1:10:26 it's less of like I was having to hit
1:10:27 specific numbers it was more that we
1:10:30 kind of joined this club of people
1:10:32 saying cities this is what we want to
1:10:35 commit ourselves to of how we're going
1:10:36 to grow and how we're gonna help this
1:10:38 kind of share this this burden kind of
1:10:42 in a way we know we have population
1:10:43 coming how can we plan for it in a
1:10:45 responsible sustainable way rather than
1:10:48 necessarily like you haven't hit that
1:10:49 number you know so they do review sounds
1:10:52 like we do yeah we have to a density
1:10:54 numbers we have to hit housing numbers
1:10:55 there are specific metrics that we have
1:10:58 to hit to qualify they're not
1:10:59 suggestions no they're not suggestions
1:11:01 but these are layers of how we then
1:11:03 implement it rather than necessarily
1:11:05 though about that no no I'd like to
1:11:07 understand so when when was the 2040
1:11:10 when when was that planned with City
1:11:12 Council when did we commit to those
1:11:14 numbers
1:11:14 um and
1:11:15 2008 vision 2040 was adopted by PSR C
1:11:19 and then we ran through them when we
1:11:22 updated that our comp plan and I think
1:11:24 it was 2015 which Christian was here cuz
1:11:27 she would remember exactly we had to
1:11:29 actually put the PSR C vision 2040
1:11:32 policies into our existing comp plan and
1:11:34 show how we met them and that was an
1:11:38 output of so that that P SRC knew that
1:11:41 we were actually thinking of them and
1:11:43 their policies when we were updating
1:11:45 so that was the big 8 year every one I
1:11:48 don't know if it's eight years now but
1:11:49 it was every eight years you had to
1:11:52 completely overhaul all their elements
1:11:54 of the comp plan and that was one of the
1:11:55 requirements for the overhaul is you had
1:11:57 to address PSR sees vision 2040 to make
1:12:00 sure we were in compliance we were we
1:12:03 passed with flying colors but that was a
1:12:06 new piece in the introduction that we
1:12:08 had to start out with that that we were
1:12:09 in compliance with the regional plan
1:12:12 that's like 19% growth by that time
1:12:15 spread out amongst Puget Sound it's it's
1:12:21 such an exciting area too and there at
1:12:23 the four counties are so different but
1:12:26 we're all but we're all in it together
1:12:30 okay I went through a by the the other
1:12:34 page on development patterns address
1:12:38 existing health disparities and improve
1:12:41 outcomes that's a totally new one what
1:12:46 they're asking exactly we're going to
1:12:48 hopefully get some some direction on
1:12:51 that one and then action seven animam
1:12:55 densities and transit station areas this
1:12:59 is another one that we're curious if it
1:13:02 changes our regional growth center or if
1:13:04 our regional growth center already meets
1:13:06 action seven we just want to do you want
1:13:13 to go through environment knowing that I
1:13:15 think there's only a few other than land
1:13:18 our rivers and streams went through
1:13:21 yesterday this one talks about noise and
1:13:24 light pollution
1:13:26 and transportation and public facilities
1:13:29 so this is a bigger change than the
1:13:32 original we want to we want to
1:13:34 understand what they mean by mitigating
1:13:37 all of those things and the second one
1:13:39 was the regional open space conservation
1:13:42 plan which sounds like an amazing
1:13:44 document but we haven't seen it yet so
1:13:46 we flagged that one to make sure that it
1:13:48 goes with our green net you know our
1:13:50 parks strategic plan we want to be sure
1:13:52 that they're not in conflict with each
1:13:54 other and the last two are counties and
1:14:00 cities will work to address open space
1:14:02 conservation access needs identified
1:14:04 again in the the new plan that we
1:14:06 haven't seen yet so we flag that just to
1:14:09 be sure that that we're in agreement
1:14:11 with the new plan and then also cities
1:14:14 and counties will incorporate emission
1:14:16 reduction policies you may recall in the
1:14:19 comp plan we already have a climate
1:14:23 change greenhouse gas policy it's not
1:14:26 worded exactly as this one is but we
1:14:30 want to ask it for how close are we to
1:14:32 to complying with action seven or well
1:14:34 we have to redo that policy the good
1:14:36 news is we have something on the books
1:14:37 now it's just not exist as exact as that
1:14:41 is those are all of them any questions
1:14:46 or Ponder's or thoughts or lots of
1:14:51 questions but going through it was like
1:14:54 oh that's an interesting one such a
1:14:58 bigger picture than we're used to you
1:14:59 know here in our know we think there's a
1:15:02 huge picture here but you go out four
1:15:04 counties and there's a lot going on well
1:15:07 it's hard to because the language is
1:15:09 vague enough that it can apply to so
1:15:12 many different areas but at the same
1:15:13 time it's hard to understand what
1:15:14 compliance means it sounds exactly like
1:15:18 what you said it is it's a rough draft
1:15:19 looking for our feedback to tighten up
1:15:23 language and then everybody getting
1:15:26 their fair share to point out what they
1:15:28 like and don't like and see if PCP SRC
1:15:31 takes into account or not there's just a
1:15:36 city of Islamic the decision on which
1:15:37 the whole turn
1:15:38 to plan by we give our comments to P SRC
1:15:42 by the end of April I think what did I
1:15:44 say April 29th and then the the PSR
1:15:48 seaboard of which one of our council
1:15:50 members is on the board they do their
1:15:53 deliberations based on all the impact
1:15:55 input they have and they'll choose one
1:15:57 and then we'll we have to abide by that
1:16:00 alternative and then then they'll go
1:16:02 through and write the final version of
1:16:03 vision 2050 using that alternative and
1:16:07 then come back to the city yeah because
1:16:10 then the politic they're supposed to
1:16:12 have the policies drafted by the early
1:16:16 summer I thought that timeline was and
1:16:18 so if and all of the policies should be
1:16:21 out by then not just the three chapters
1:16:23 and so we're not sure if the council
1:16:25 will want to go through those as well
1:16:26 and want us to go through those as well
1:16:28 but we thought the alternatives are so
1:16:32 you know so high up that we thought
1:16:35 bringing the policies to you just as a
1:16:37 teaser to for you to recognize why some
1:16:40 of them we don't understand what they
1:16:42 mean to us it seems like more of a
1:16:45 conversation that would matter to
1:16:47 Issaquah more than just the alternatives
1:16:55 so if you can't be here on April 1st if
1:16:58 you've got April Fool's Day things going
1:17:00 on already you can always watch it on TV
1:17:03 afterwards to see what the PS are see
1:17:06 staff person says with popcorn and
1:17:09 myelogenous know where I can hit the
1:17:14 pause button any other go to the Oh the
1:17:23 other thing I learned tonight we were
1:17:25 doing interviews for more PBC members
1:17:28 and I learned tonight that the new
1:17:30 members aren't starting till June June
1:17:33 and in you're on the back of your page I
1:17:36 always give you the new calendar the new
1:17:38 and improved I've always thought that
1:17:39 the new members start beginning of May
1:17:41 they used to I'm not sure exactly when
1:17:45 it changed but I noticed it on the
1:17:47 interview notes today so I have to
1:17:51 change the whole calendar around now
1:17:52 that we have a month there's a month off
1:17:54 or a month different and so thank you
1:17:57 for being our quorum yet again I know
1:17:59 we're kind of limping along now that
1:18:00 Lindsay's gone and Troy's gone so thank
1:18:03 you very much for being our quorum I
1:18:06 appreciate it very much
1:18:08 any applicants do we have there are 14
1:18:12 that have applied for either PPC or DC
1:18:15 and we're interviewing them all together
1:18:19 in the hopes that we will be able to
1:18:22 fill all that do you see openings and
1:18:24 PPC openings with this group of 14
1:18:27 that's the hope the only did half of
1:18:31 them today though so I'll let you know
1:18:33 next week how we did let us know if
1:18:37 there were any standouts - today there
1:18:40 are a couple of them that were just yes
1:18:42 they're sitting on either side of you
1:18:47 okay so any other any other words of
1:18:50 wisdom don't have for me anything any
1:18:54 updates and I'm going to close the
1:18:57 meeting at 7:51
1:19:03 right

Attendance

Council / Members (7)
Administration/Staff: Joan Probala
Trish Heinonen
Policy Planning Manager Joy Lewis Jean Lin
Senior Planner Bill Rinehart Lesan Gouge
Neighborhood Engage- Jason Voiss
Alt. (voting as regular member) ment Coordinator Commissioners Not Present (Excused): Ron Faul
Vice Chair