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Thursday, May 9, 2019

6:30 PM · 3h 10m · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
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 2020 – Ron Faul land use documents. 2020 – Joan Probala 2022 – Joy Lewis Membership 2022 – Janice Carle The Planning Policy Commission is comprised of 2022 – Bill Rinehart seven regular members, with four-year terms; and 2022 – Jason Voiss several alternates, with two-year terms. All 2023 – Randy Harrison 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 – Tom Haskins see IMC 18.03. 2020 – Robin Beukers 2020 – Vacant 2020 – Vacant
1b
Welcome New Commission Members
packet pp.5
Staff report:
CALL TO ORDER c) DEVELOPMENT SERVICES 1775 12 Ave NW Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
1c
Election of Chair and Vice Chair
Topics: Elections
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Minutes of March 28, 2019
packet pp.7–10
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 03-28-19 Planning Policy Commission Minutes Page [0000]
3. REGULAR BUSINESS
3b
Commission Training
Information · Trish Heinonen, Policy Planning Manager Christen Leeson, Senior Planner Emily Arteche, Senior Planner · packet pp.81–94
Staff report:
REGULAR BUSINESS b) Bylaws Revised 5/16/2018 Final Draft reviewed by City Clerk’s Office
3c
2018 Housing Report Card
Information · Christen Leeson, Senior Planner · packet pp.95–147
Topics: Housing
Staff report:
Adopted September 19, 2017 Resolution 2017-14 Appreciation… The City would like to thank the residents, property owners and businesses that participated in this effort. Also, the Planning Policy Commission, the Human Services Commission and the Economic Vitality Commission for the numerous hours spent discussing housing needs and what our city wants to be in the future. The participants have a general belief that Issaquah is a great place to call “home”, yet there is a growing concern over housing affordability and homelessness that may impact the diversity and vitality of this community. Finally, this Housing Strategy Work Plan could not have been completed without the vast assistance from ARCH.
4. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS
4a
Upcoming Schedule
packet pp.149
0:13 - the main ninth meeting of the planning
0:15 policy Commission tonight we have a fun
0:19 meeting planned in introducing the new
0:23 members of our commission but first I
0:27 would like to get permission from the
0:30 Commission to change the agenda so that
0:34 the election of the chair and vice-chair
0:36 will be at the end of the meeting if
0:38 that's okay with you then that's what
0:40 we'll do
0:40 okay with that I need a motion to
0:44 approve the minutes of March 28th I'd
0:47 like to make a motion to approve the
0:49 minutes of March 28 2019 second a second
0:54 any questions discussions changes is our
0:58 scribe just absolutely perfect and needs
1:00 no no changing
1:04 so with that I'll call for the question
1:05 all those in favor say aye aye all
1:08 opposed
1:09 hearing none the motion passes
1:12 before we get into our program I'd like
1:16 to introduce our two new members and
1:19 normally we just have the new members
1:22 say something about you know how long
1:25 they've been in see half a second of
1:28 what their plans are and why they're
1:30 here
1:30 but I kind of since you guys don't know
1:33 us I think we should be included in
1:36 updating the community of who we are as
1:40 old members here on the Commission and
1:42 just kind of you know saying a few words
1:45 of why we're here and how long we've
1:47 been here so with that I would start
1:49 with me and I was actually up for
1:52 renewal this year and I just wanted to
1:56 say I've been on the commission for a
1:58 while I'm in a chair for a while I have
2:02 a long history in Issaquah like 35 years
2:07 I think I've lived here and so I've
2:08 watched it grow I've enjoyed being part
2:11 of that making some of those decisions
2:14 and I also think that even with all the
2:19 background that I have I still think I
2:21 can think out of the box and seem more
2:23 creative ways maybe
2:26 doing things so with that bond
2:29 oh I'm John Provo go Oh Ron fall I've
2:33 been on PPC for three years and I think
2:39 it's the greatest thing since sliced
2:41 bread and I welcome you guys PPC and
2:45 it's a great stepping stone to City
2:48 Council as well the City Council is
2:51 already taking two of our people oh they
2:54 just stole them from us but we won't get
2:57 into that come down with ya and just
2:59 taken back up in the Green Monster and
3:06 Robin Robin boo Cruz I've lived in this
3:08 graph for roughly 20 years it involved
3:13 the Chamber of Commerce on off and on
3:15 for most of that time and I've expressed
3:19 being the position of expression my
3:21 concerns about what I see happening with
3:22 as this work grows for some time they
3:25 thought that would be useful for me and
3:29 hopefully for the city to add whatever
3:30 background I have to ask questions and
3:33 if some direction to the growth of city
3:36 going forward so thanks very much I'm
3:39 Tom Haskins I'm a new PVC member I live
3:42 in Issaquah for two years I've been in
3:46 the Pacific Northwest for four years
3:48 went to u-dub which is how I ended up
3:50 out here from New York and it's akua's
3:53 the only place that's really felt like
3:55 home since I moved out here which is why
3:57 I wanted to serve on this mission bill
4:03 Rennert been in town for about nine
4:06 years now I really enjoyed being on pbc
4:10 being able to assist the city represent
4:13 the people of this COIs love the small
4:14 hometown feel like being able to be a
4:17 part of the planning process rather than
4:20 sitting on the sidelines really kind of
4:22 jumping in and and open the city grow in
4:25 a responsible manner I'm joy Lewis and
4:29 I've been in Issaquah for about six and
4:31 a half years and I actually live just
4:33 outside of City Limits and enjoy looking
4:35 at Tiger Mountain those
4:37 so I have been a big advocate of how we
4:40 want to integrate green spaces into our
4:43 growth and I'm really privileged to be
4:46 able to volunteer and help make this any
4:47 better those there are two members that
4:53 new members that I haven't where I've
4:56 been out of town so they're not here so
4:57 the next meeting they can do the same
5:00 thing and introduce themselves to the
5:02 hundreds and millions of people that are
5:04 out there watching this this committee
5:06 so thank you for signing up all of you
5:10 and I'm looking for robust discussions
5:14 this year from all of you and I think
5:17 knowing you at least some of you
5:19 personally I know I'm going to get that
5:22 so tonight on the agenda we're going to
5:25 have two presentations by the city the
5:29 first one is an update our yearly update
5:32 on the TI P the transportation
5:34 improvement plan and after that we are
5:39 going to have a housing report card
5:44 where we are in the way is our city
5:47 doing the right thing are we coming up
5:48 to provide the right kind of housing for
5:52 every facet of our community so but with
5:55 but first we're going to start talk
5:57 about the transportation our favorite
5:59 subject and it's going to be presented
6:01 by the engineering manager the city Curt
6:05 Siemens so Curt you're on
6:18 okay thank you very much Kurt seaman
6:21 transportation manager here at the city
6:22 of Issaquah I've got a few slides here
6:26 very happy to be here to share with you
6:29 our I guess we'll call this the draft
6:33 transportation plan for 2020 2025 this
6:37 has not been through the council
6:39 adoption process that's happening later
6:42 this year in June July timeframe I think
6:45 it actually goes for final adoption in
6:48 early July July 1st yeah so along with
6:53 our overall capital improvement plan so
6:57 it's really briefly why we do at EIP
7:01 there's a whole bunch of reasons but the
7:04 - I guess legal reasons are as required
7:08 by the RCW that every city town
7:12 jurisdiction in the state have a updated
7:16 t IP we do this once a year every year
7:19 for the six years going forward and then
7:23 important to us important to the city is
7:26 it does help with funding eligibility so
7:29 PSR c TI b other funding agencies when
7:33 they're looking at cities requests for
7:37 funding for grants and that kind of
7:38 thing are looking at their TI P so
7:41 that's those and then we'll talk about
7:44 the other reasons that we do it that are
7:46 helpful to our to our city but those are
7:50 the the big-picture reasons and so a
7:53 little confusing with all these initials
7:56 I know so we have this thing called the
8:01 CIP and that's our capital improvement
8:03 plan and that is what is the guidance
8:08 for how the city spends capital this is
8:11 what will be adopted by council in July
8:14 and and within that capital improvement
8:16 plan there's all these different on my
8:18 mouse here there's all these different
8:20 pieces so there's technology capital
8:22 equipment missable facilities trails
8:25 parks
8:26 stormwater water and sewer all of those
8:31 are pieces of the capital plan the CIP
8:34 so it's this bigger this bigger piece
8:37 and what we're talking about tonight is
8:40 a a subset of that is I don't know if
8:43 it's this big and relative to the whole
8:47 plan but just to illustrate where it is
8:49 in the overall picture so you know it's
8:55 confusing so a lot of initials flying
8:57 around out there so what is it when we
9:00 talk about a capital project in
9:02 transportation just real briefly what
9:06 are we talking about and what are the
9:07 what are the steps usually that we go
9:09 through we usually start with a
9:11 feasibility process that has a heavy
9:14 planning component to it to see if what
9:19 we're talking about is a feasible
9:21 valuable project supporting the
9:23 community goals once we move past that
9:26 we do a schematic design sometimes we
9:30 call that maybe if I have 10% planning
9:35 level design estimate that gives us some
9:37 idea of what the project might look like
9:40 in design and then also a better idea of
9:43 how much it would cost which then leads
9:46 us to the next step here which is
9:49 funding and getting funding at least
9:51 funding to get started on the project as
9:54 you'll see here in a moment we don't
9:55 necessarily have funding to take
9:56 projects all the way through to
9:58 construction but funding is certainly
10:01 always a key and difficult component of
10:04 any project and then we move towards
10:08 sometimes funding and final design are
10:10 happening at the same time on projects
10:13 but we do need to do a final design
10:15 those that is preparing their
10:17 construction plans that we then go out
10:20 to bid the project and have it
10:22 constructed by a contractor so that's
10:24 the overall picture and this is if this
10:28 looks blurry it's not your eyes this is
10:30 intentionally blurry because we don't at
10:33 this point I just want to show you what
10:35 a TI
10:35 P plan looks like
10:39 if I if we showed you all the details
10:41 we'd probably get in the details and we
10:42 certainly certainly happy to do that as
10:45 soon as I get through the rest of this
10:46 but this is just meant to show you what
10:48 the TI P looks like in the big picture
10:51 it has all it has sort of two components
10:55 the way we've structured it we call it
10:57 the projects above the line above the
10:59 double line which are these projects
11:01 here and as you can see this is these
11:03 are the first six years these projects
11:05 have funding associated with them
11:07 through the first six years and are the
11:09 core of the TI P and then there's a
11:11 whole bunch of other projects here that
11:14 as you can see in these first six years
11:16 have no funding associated with them and
11:18 those the funding is all what we call
11:20 the out ears beyond the first six years
11:23 so again not trying to hide anything
11:26 from anybody but I would don't want to
11:28 go into the details quite yet until I
11:29 can share a couple other slides with you
11:32 so we can come back to the details of
11:34 this and you have this the detailed list
11:38 of projects and all and this list it in
11:42 a way you can see it in your packet I
11:44 believe it's also online in the packet
11:46 so trying to hide anything here it's
11:49 available both the citizens that look at
11:51 this packet online and to you all so we
11:56 have divided this what I call the
11:58 above-the-line projects into four
12:01 project types and I want to talk briefly
12:03 about what those project types are and
12:07 the projects that are the above-the-line
12:09 projects that fit into those four
12:11 project types so there's corridor
12:14 enhancements those are either enhance
12:17 existing corridors or construct new
12:19 corridors same idea with intersections
12:21 those can be improvements to an
12:23 intersection or construction
12:25 constructing new intersection
12:27 improvements pedestrian projects are can
12:31 do more than one thing with their
12:33 primary focus is to enhance pedestrian
12:36 safety and enhance pedestrian
12:37 connectivity and then maintenance is
12:40 pretty self-explanatory it's maintaining
12:44 our our existing infrastructure which
12:46 sometimes in some people's minds is not
12:48 as exciting as building new stuff but
12:51 it's
12:52 really if you can't maintain what you
12:54 build then it's sort of pointless to
12:56 keep building new projects and if you
12:58 can't maintain it what you what you have
13:02 so can I ask you a question certainly so
13:05 if you go back to the blurry of course
13:09 could you explain to the new
13:12 commissioners there's amounts of money
13:15 all the way in different different
13:18 shirts and how you come up with those
13:20 kinds of yeah and I this might think we
13:26 can I can maybe in a general way I can I
13:31 like them because they're gonna ask
13:33 questions specifically that and I
13:34 because we can look at the more the the
13:37 one that's more focused or you can look
13:39 at the one in your packet but these are
13:41 the projects the above-the-line projects
13:43 that I'm going to talk about tonight
13:44 these are the years starting with 2020
13:48 because this is the 2020 through 21 to
13:52 five those six years and so these are
13:56 each of the years and we have money as
13:58 you can see for these projects set aside
14:01 for each of the years I'm starting next
14:04 year through 2025 and that's does some
14:08 portion of the project you can see by
14:10 the money out here in these what we call
14:13 the out years there's still money
14:15 necessary to complete the project that
14:18 doesn't that doesn't get funded in the
14:20 first six years so it's a little
14:22 confusing I think at first if you're not
14:24 used to looking at this you've got these
14:25 projects but you don't have them
14:27 completely funded but yet you're working
14:29 on them anyway and I I don't know how to
14:31 explain that exactly except that that's
14:33 the process and that's that's if we wait
14:37 it I guess the one way to think about is
14:39 if we wait until we had a complete
14:40 funding for every project we would never
14:43 get started with anything because it's
14:45 rare that you would have complete
14:47 funding for especially the larger
14:49 project some of these projects are 30 40
14:52 50 million dollars does that help you
14:55 with what you're okay just a follow up
14:58 question sure so my first the numbers
15:00 that I see here in the first five years
15:01 are they
15:02 are those amounts the total amount you
15:06 estimate to be spent in that year on
15:08 that project or is that net of the
15:11 amount that a grant or federal funding
15:14 or state whatever it this is the total
15:18 this is this includes this would this is
15:21 the total amount meant to be spent in
15:24 each year and includes it's the total
15:29 amount we're playing to spend on the
15:30 project in those years so it may be a
15:32 hundred percent funded in those five it
15:34 may not be yeah I'm not sure there's a
15:38 case where any of this is a hundred
15:39 percent funded so but there may be some
15:41 there may be a funding component to
15:43 these numbers I guess it's a better way
15:45 to say it so one last question sure so I
15:50 understand the answer but again those
15:54 are estimates where you think that you
15:57 might get funding you haven't secured
16:01 actually secured that funding in the
16:04 next six years right so again back to
16:07 the previous question it's a mixed some
16:10 of the projects so let's take the to
16:14 Newport Way projects which are big
16:15 projects they're both in them ends of
16:18 millions of dollars and they have in our
16:21 design for those projects which is where
16:24 we're at now we have some money acquired
16:27 already set aside from grants for those
16:30 projects so some of the money that we're
16:32 spending is is how our money matching
16:36 grants some of some of the money we're
16:38 spending as grant money so we can get
16:41 into more details I think it's I think
16:43 hopefully it's a little more I know that
16:47 it's it's more clearly spelled out in
16:49 the funding sheets that accompanies each
16:52 of these projects I don't know that they
16:54 get the just the project descriptions
16:56 and the funding that the 60 pages okay I
17:00 think those are just the descriptions
17:02 there's a there's an accompanying piece
17:04 if you're really interested I don't know
17:07 how much you want to get into the
17:08 details here there is a I'm going to get
17:11 into that kind of a deep
17:12 yeah I just want to be specific because
17:15 this question comes up every year in
17:18 four years you have this long list of
17:21 funds that you think that you're going
17:23 to expect to spend correct so is that
17:27 automatically going into the budget or
17:29 is it
17:30 they are possible funds that you can go
17:32 out and acquire from other entities
17:35 these are the these are the costs that
17:39 we expect to spend on the projects over
17:42 the next six years some of them are
17:44 already we have grants secured for some
17:47 of the money some of the projects in
17:49 here let's just pick in a project like
17:51 Providence point for example that's
17:53 about an eight million dollar project
17:55 that currently as we speak tonight no
17:58 council is going to be talking about
18:00 this more I think next Monday we still
18:03 don't have that project officially
18:05 funded so it's on the list it's an eight
18:09 million dollar project the money spent
18:11 over the next few we're showing the
18:13 money spent over the next few years both
18:15 for design and construction of that
18:17 project but we don't have eight million
18:20 dollars today I don't think you're
18:24 getting to the gist of my question but
18:27 continue okay I can try again if you
18:31 know you know I know that you have to go
18:35 out and and talk to various entities
18:39 that supply money to the county to this
18:42 or whatever and I'm assuming that you
18:45 know you don't know completely where
18:49 you're going to get all the money in the
18:51 next six years yes that's correct that's
18:53 the only answer that I want that's
18:56 correct
18:56 these projects are not as we as I prison
19:01 as we talk about them tonight there may
19:03 be a few in here but for the most part
19:05 they are not fully funded projects okay
19:11 happy to come back to this if you like
19:13 no thank you
19:15 so again if four we talked briefly about
19:18 the four types of projects so I'm
19:20 digging deeper a little bit into what
19:23 the corridor projects are in these and
19:25 these
19:25 projects that are above the line that I
19:27 talked about there's six of them that
19:30 are corridor projects the to Newport Way
19:33 projects which we've for the new members
19:36 you can be less familiar with those but
19:38 there's there's a portion of Newport
19:40 that is west of night SR 902 54th a long
19:46 were that were the new projects the
19:48 apartments are that you see a lot along
19:51 the freeway and then there's the other
19:52 Newport project which goes through the
19:55 central part of Issaquah from maple to
19:57 sunset through our basically through the
19:59 valley floor so those are again as I
20:02 mentioned those are big projects
20:04 partially funded with grant funding and
20:07 and we have enough money funded
20:11 currently for design and we're working
20:13 to get a package together that would
20:15 both be both design and rightaway
20:18 acquisition but beyond that the
20:20 construction which is the big big
20:22 dollars we don't have that figured out
20:25 yet so Gilman Boulevard is a is a
20:28 preliminary design we started last year
20:32 asking Issaquah residents and businesses
20:37 what Gilman should look like in the
20:38 future we didn't have it we didn't start
20:41 with the design we started with a
20:43 question so this work that we're doing
20:46 now is the Phase two of that and it's
20:48 moving towards the preliminary design
20:50 that would include cross sections that
20:52 that's helpful both for us any projects
20:57 going forward and also for development
20:59 as it comes in along that corridor we
21:02 can more accurately conditioned
21:05 development on the kinds of improvements
21:07 they need to construct along Gilman if
21:09 we have a design for that which we
21:11 currently do not so the i-90 crossing is
21:15 a huge big project that we think is
21:17 really going to be very beneficial to
21:20 the city going forward and I've got
21:23 these on a map here I'll show you just a
21:25 second but that's a crossing of i-90
21:28 probably going underneath the freeway
21:30 would act we would actually raise the
21:31 freeway in that area and
21:34 that our crossing would be at grade
21:36 going underneath i-90 and that would
21:38 connect the two both the north and south
21:41 side of Issaquah so a really important
21:44 project for connectivity Tibbets Valley
21:47 Park frontage is the companion part I
21:51 guess you would say to the Tibbets
21:53 Valley Park project that the parks
21:55 department has worked on and then Front
21:58 Street streetscape is the next phase of
22:00 the work that we're doing on Front
22:02 Street to complete those streetscape
22:04 improvements and here's here's where
22:08 they are on the map
22:09 the Newport Way 900 project as I
22:12 mentioned is that portion west of west
22:18 of ideas call it doesn't go all the way
22:20 to the city limits and it's a it's a
22:22 it's a it's a pretty big chunk of that
22:24 of that corridor Tibbets alley park
22:27 fringe is right on the other side of 900
22:30 right in this area the i-90 Crossing is
22:32 purposely a big oval there because we
22:36 don't know exactly where that crossing
22:38 should go we've got it in our plan here
22:42 because we know that getting me started
22:44 on that is important so that we can
22:47 decide if we know where that crossings
22:50 going that can really help us as
22:52 development comes in also we know it's a
22:54 while it's a ways out but we know that
22:58 light rail is coming too so qua likely
23:01 down the i-90 corridor so it's going to
23:03 be coming in this way and it's although
23:06 we haven't gotten to this point we know
23:08 there's going to be a station to stop in
23:10 Issaquah and it may be in this area as
23:12 well so the more we understand what we
23:14 want in this area the better for
23:16 development that comes in as it comes in
23:19 the better for Sound Transit is it as it
23:21 moves forward there's a bunch of
23:22 benefits this is the other Newport Way
23:26 project basically like I said through
23:29 the central core of our of our central
23:33 Issaquah the Gilman Boulevard project
23:36 which is in a much earlier stage at this
23:39 point extends basically from Front
23:41 Street to 900 and Front Street
23:44 streetscape you know you all know where
23:46 that is but
23:47 is there's several pieces to that
23:49 project this is the piece that south of
23:52 alder and North and sunset the the core
23:56 of Front Street now intersection
24:01 projects there's four of them in our in
24:03 our top part of our list
24:05 there's the 12th Avenue in SR 900
24:11 Central Park Lane traffic signal 43rd
24:14 which was has been known as Providence
24:16 point signal and then southeast 51st and
24:22 I think it may be easier for these if we
24:25 just go to the map and show you where
24:26 they are and I can talk a little bit
24:28 more about them Providence point here is
24:30 is on 43rd Providence point is on both
24:33 sides of 43rd and this project would
24:36 align that intersection which is
24:37 currently skewed there's one side ones
24:40 one side of the Providence point enters
24:43 43rd in one location and then the other
24:46 side enters in a in a different location
24:48 and they're offset this would build a
24:50 signal at Providence point two to align
24:55 that intersection the 51st Street
24:58 project is a fairly minor project that
25:00 is we're piggybacking actually it's a
25:03 small project to add a turn lane
25:06 we're piggybacking on some utility work
25:07 that's going to be done there so we
25:09 figured well we've got that Street torn
25:11 up for utility work it would be a good
25:13 time to complete that project it's not
25:16 it doesn't it's not a huge huge project
25:20 for us to quad but it's a project on our
25:22 list and trying to take advantage of
25:24 opportunities as they present themselves
25:27 north 12th Avenue North West and SR 900
25:31 is if you're familiar this is the part
25:34 of town where I work in this
25:35 intersection is where the Tully's used
25:38 to be and there's a hot tub store and
25:40 the market is over here it's a fairly
25:44 it's one of our most largest volume
25:48 intersections and it and it certainly
25:50 would benefit we believe from some
25:54 improvements to that intersection and
25:56 then Central Park is way over up on the
25:59 he'll up in up in the highlands and that
26:02 is on Central Park as traffic signal on
26:07 Park Drive College Drive potentially
26:10 around about there potentially looking
26:13 at additional crossing so it's not just
26:16 we don't we haven't scoped this project
26:19 entirely we think it's more than just a
26:21 signal here is probably improvements in
26:24 this larger vicinity along Park Drive
26:29 pedestrian projects there they have
26:35 benefits I suppose you could say for for
26:37 other modes of travel besides
26:39 pedestrians but they there focus on
26:42 their main reason for us doing them is
26:44 to support pedestrian non motorized non
26:48 motorized mode so I think I'll do the
26:50 same thing I did last time and go
26:53 directly to the map and talk about them
26:55 so this is Northwest Sammamish Road this
26:58 is what we've called you may have heard
27:02 it referred to as the pinch point so the
27:05 pinch point is this area right here
27:06 where you're pinched between the i-90
27:09 and and the lake and there's a if you
27:12 familiar this area at all there's barely
27:15 lanes for traffic and that's it and so
27:20 there's no really for non motorized uses
27:23 bicycles and pedestrians that kind of
27:25 thing there's really no difficult to get
27:29 through let's let's say that so that the
27:31 state washed out has a plan to add an
27:34 auxilary lane to improve capacity on at
27:38 least for this portion of i-90 they're
27:41 going to be doing some work all along
27:43 here all the way to East Gate basically
27:45 from here to East Gate and when they do
27:47 that they're going we're going to be
27:49 getting enough right away in the
27:51 construction of their project that will
27:53 allow us to build bicycle lanes and
27:57 sidewalks to this pinch point which
27:58 allows all the people living here and
28:01 Points West to get to the park and
28:03 points east which will be a huge
28:05 improvement for non-motorized users and
28:08 so that it's rigid was originally scoped
28:11 and conceived as
28:12 focused in this area the pinch point but
28:14 we've since expanded it because we know
28:17 this whole piece here that we show in
28:18 green really could benefit from
28:21 pedestrian and bicycle non motorized
28:24 improvements so there's another project
28:27 here it's if you want to think of it as
28:29 a subset of the Newport project I was
28:31 talking about earlier
28:32 it's a raised intersection at the King
28:37 County trailhead which if I can describe
28:41 that exactly but there's a king county
28:43 trail here they're going to be
28:44 developing the trailhead providing a
28:46 parking lot here there's some new
28:49 condominiums townhouses over here on the
28:51 other side of the street called Riva
28:53 that are getting built now and this is a
28:55 project that has been always been in
28:59 this bigger project for Newport Corridor
29:02 but we're pushing it forward because
29:05 these townhomes are getting completed
29:07 the park project is moving forward we
29:11 have plans to build a raised
29:12 intersection here with flashing lights
29:15 rapid flashing beacons and so that's
29:18 going to be an important like I
29:20 mentioned earlier for pedestrian
29:22 connectivity and for pedestrian safety
29:24 so that's why it's there the three
29:26 trails crossing as a project that would
29:30 complete this work that has been started
29:32 by the developers you probably know
29:34 there's a development on the north side
29:36 of Gilman here that's making some of the
29:38 improvements for this intersection but
29:41 they're not making the improvements on
29:42 the south side so we know we need to we
29:44 the city needs to make some improvements
29:46 to complete that that area so that's
29:48 what the three trails crossing project
29:50 is and the second Avenue project is a is
29:54 a is my time I thought that's what the
29:58 the buzzer always means is a is a
30:02 relatively minor project but it
30:04 completes the it adds a connectivity
30:08 here at the south side of the high
30:12 school middle school area so that's
30:14 those are the pedestrian projects and
30:17 then maintenance projects are there
30:23 they're both programs and projects so we
30:26 have a citywide overlay program which is
30:29 to maintain our existing roadway system
30:32 there's a way that we can measure the
30:35 quality quality the condition of the
30:37 pavement and depending on the condition
30:40 is how we decide where we want to do our
30:43 overlays that you're at that project
30:45 also has associated with it a da ramps
30:49 because when you overlay a roadway you
30:51 also need to bring the a da ramps into
30:53 compliance CY i ts cameraupdate is a
30:57 fairly minor thing but it's important we
31:00 have a system of intelligent cameras
31:03 around the city and they're about I
31:06 think 10 or more years old and so we
31:09 need to do some updates and get some new
31:10 cameras that's fairly minor but
31:12 important 66 bridge I will show you on
31:16 the map where that is that's a bridge
31:18 that's in in dire need of it's in it's
31:22 in pretty bad disrepair and needs some
31:25 maintenance improvements and black
31:27 nugget road retaining wall for those of
31:31 you that drive along black nugget I have
31:33 a pretty familiar with what that looks
31:35 like this whole portion along here and
31:40 this is not to be clear this is not
31:43 rebuilding black nugget road retaining
31:46 wall or anything like that it's just
31:47 keeping it safe so that the making the
31:50 minor improvements they - to keep it in
31:54 the condition that it's in there is some
31:57 talk potentially about a development
31:59 happening along this roadway and we're
32:01 hopeful if that were to move forward
32:02 that would solve a lot of the black
32:05 nugget retaining wall issues but at the
32:08 meantime we are just maintaining that
32:11 wall for safety and here's where the 66
32:15 bridge is not a big project but again a
32:18 safety and maintenance project that
32:20 those things are always it's always in
32:23 our best interest to keep our
32:25 infrastructure in good repair as much
32:27 always much cheaper than building new so
32:30 that I now I'm happy to go back to any
32:36 of this
32:36 and talk to you more or more detail
32:39 about projects or go into this list
32:42 that's difficult to see I think we can
32:44 pull that up um I might need a little
32:48 help on that if we want to look at that
32:49 list I know there's a in the agenda I
32:54 know that this is in the agenda in the
32:57 packet in your packet but if we want to
33:00 pull that onto the screen I might not
33:02 know how to do that but I would go for
33:12 it do questions then first to forgive me
33:17 on the first question if you've already
33:19 been asked to something dozen times
33:21 before I look at this list and my
33:24 understanding is you're presenting that
33:26 you bring this forward as your preferred
33:28 how are these various projects filtered
33:31 so they arrive at above the line and
33:34 below the line that's question number
33:36 one so again if you've answered that 15
33:38 times before just make it a two second
33:40 answer the other one is do you have full
33:42 funding for maintenance each year that's
33:48 how those are both really good questions
33:50 I should retract them then position the
33:53 I would say you had our public work
33:58 operation folks in here they would
34:00 answer they would say no not maintaining
34:04 we don't we haven't looked at all of our
34:06 bridges and all our roadways
34:07 comprehensively to see what our total
34:10 maintenance needs are we know that
34:12 that's something with it we we're
34:14 starting to do that much more
34:15 comprehensible much more comprehensively
34:18 than we ever have for example just to
34:22 give you an idea we don't know but our
34:26 sidewalk maintenance needs are
34:29 we haven't until recently but then in
34:32 our operations guy has just had it just
34:35 recently how does crews go out and
34:36 actually visually inspect every mile
34:41 every every every foot of all our
34:45 sidewalks take pictures document what
34:47 the condition is is a
34:49 Hauser's and breaking of heart or trees
34:51 pushing it up so which is great
34:54 we need to do more of that I think to
34:56 really get a handle on so that at least
35:01 we know to picking on sidewalks because
35:03 that's that's one part of it that's an
35:05 obviously there's more to transportation
35:07 transportation infrastructure than that
35:09 but now we're starting to get an
35:10 understanding now of what those
35:12 maintenance needs are for sidewalks and
35:16 then the next question the big question
35:17 of course is and what's that cost and
35:20 what's the what's the appropriate way to
35:22 address that out she do you have a
35:24 sidewalks maintenance program where you
35:27 go out and maintain its funded of some
35:29 amount a million dollars a year you go
35:31 out and maintain sidewalks and you
35:34 prioritize that maintenance by how how
35:37 bad the sidewalks are and you somehow I
35:39 mean we have it to be clear we don't
35:42 have that in place now but we recognize
35:45 the need for it we are working on it so
35:48 does that answer that how do these
35:53 projects arrive above the line here
35:55 that's a great question and I there's a
35:58 I can answer that and then I can answer
36:01 that question I can also tell you what
36:04 we're doing in transportation which may
36:07 be long term even a better answer these
36:10 projects have come to this list in a
36:15 variety of ways so I've been at the city
36:16 for a little over three years or about
36:18 three years and so these projects have
36:21 always been there and that's it sounds a
36:24 little lame but it they've been but but
36:26 they've the reason they've arrived on
36:27 this list is a variety of ways over over
36:31 the years they've been council
36:32 priorities they've been community
36:34 priorities they've made on to the list
36:35 because we need to address concurrency
36:39 for example make sure that we're
36:42 building a transportation system that's
36:44 concurrent with development so some of
36:45 the projects on this list are addressing
36:48 those needs they come they come to the
36:50 list from a variety of they come into
36:53 the list in a variety of ways so that's
36:56 sort of how that's sort of how they've
36:59 historically how we've done it and
37:01 that's how it the list
37:03 looking at here is that's what it is the
37:08 great news is the good news I think is
37:09 that we are embarking on a
37:12 transportation master plan a master
37:14 mobility plan we're just getting started
37:16 on and that's looking comprehensively at
37:19 all modes of travel and how we want to
37:21 prioritize our transportation how we
37:25 want to prioritize transportation as
37:27 well so that will clearly that will when
37:32 we get to the end of that plan which
37:34 we're hoping to be done with that by the
37:36 middle of next year that will clearly
37:38 give us a lot more insight into at which
37:41 projects are or should be on this list
37:44 which shouldn't be I'd love to come to
37:47 you and say well the reason that these
37:48 projects are here is we have a
37:50 transportation master plan just adopted
37:52 by the council and it suggests that we
37:54 work in these areas and these projects
37:56 support that and they all fit together
37:57 and we're not there yet but we're
38:00 working that way thank you correct me if
38:04 I'm wrong but part of how a project gets
38:06 above the line is really funding so we
38:10 can prioritize something as much as
38:11 possible but if there is no funding
38:13 foreseen then it doesn't really make it
38:15 up above the line is that we do yes
38:19 that's pretty accurate the and to be
38:22 totally clear that some of these
38:24 projects even above the line are not
38:26 fully funded right so I think that's
38:27 part of address is kind of like how
38:29 these got separated into the order that
38:30 they are to kind of to help you so we
38:34 could take it the ones below the line
38:36 have there's been no consideration of
38:39 funding or new dollars and cents PS
38:42 that's I think that that's and we say
38:45 that this the other thing just to make
38:47 it a little more confusing perhaps as we
38:51 say these are it's not a prioritized
38:54 list so now we have I think you could
39:00 argue that the projects above this line
39:01 of projects I've talked to about tonight
39:04 that have some degree of funding
39:06 associated with them are our priority
39:08 they are on our six-year plan going
39:10 forward you can see that they have
39:12 funding laid out over the next six years
39:14 as you said the
39:16 below that line have have we haven't
39:19 started to have those conversations yet
39:21 but but just to is to reiterate those
39:25 projects all the projects we say this is
39:30 not a prioritized list although when we
39:34 complete the master plan that may help
39:37 us have more a better prioritized
39:41 approach to these projects so I wanted
39:46 to say thank you for the project
39:47 descriptions and past years sometimes
39:49 you've only gotten the spreadsheet and
39:50 that's led to a lot more questions from
39:52 us and so always more information is
39:54 better so I appreciated that this year
39:56 but we have requested in previous years
39:59 that it would be nice to see where the
40:01 money is coming from so it sounds like
40:02 there we've heard heard mentioned that
40:04 there is documentation about that so
40:06 it's nice to know what percent of this
40:08 is coming from a grant what is coming
40:10 from the city what portion of it is
40:12 funded so that nitty-gritty isn't given
40:14 to us this year or past years but again
40:17 I want to put in that request that next
40:19 year that we include that document
40:21 that's always nice to see and kind of
40:23 understand that breakdown as we're going
40:25 through details and yeah and we actually
40:28 I don't know process wise how that works
40:32 exactly but we have that so these the
40:35 sheets that you have the description in
40:37 other projects each for each project
40:39 that in this list as a description with
40:42 it there's a second sheet actually three
40:45 sheets tip for most of these projects
40:47 there's a description I think we've
40:49 tried to put in a map of where the
40:51 project is as much as possible and then
40:55 there is another sheet a a budget sheet
40:59 that I think gets to what you're asking
41:01 about so just again just a purse like
41:04 it's a personal note next year would
41:06 love to have that additional piece of
41:08 information when we're going through it
41:10 we're not scared of big packets here so
41:12 they'll carry that feel free to add on
41:13 to us I have a couple questions about
41:16 the specific projects if you're ready
41:18 for those last year the camera system
41:21 was recommended to be funded clearly it
41:24 didn't get funded and now we're not
41:25 showing any funding for it yet it's
41:27 above the line I was
41:29 curious where we're at on the camera
41:30 system why maybe it didn't get funded
41:32 last year and then now it's kind of a
41:33 no-man's land there I understand the
41:38 need but I'm curious what the realistic
41:40 why it's kind of above the line right I
41:42 think it's well it's important that we
41:44 upgrade the cameras first of all I think
41:46 the reason that we're not showing
41:47 funding in our transportation I'd have
41:50 to double check on this but I my
41:52 understanding is that's being funded
41:53 through the pwo through the operations
41:56 budget it's not that's what we were told
42:00 last year and then I'm surprised to
42:02 still see it I guess well let me let me
42:04 follow up on that one specifically I'll
42:06 get that information to the two projects
42:11 that you mentioned that go along the
42:13 lake corridor one that we're gaining
42:15 from that from that pinch of redesigning
42:18 on the ninety and one is specifically
42:21 regarding our development agreement with
42:22 Costco for that intersection I remember
42:25 when we did our tour talking about how
42:27 that was a big need in our city and how
42:29 we were kind of holding off because the
42:31 state was looking at moving the location
42:33 for the park and trying to decide the
42:36 relocation of the fields and how that
42:38 was all going to come together and so it
42:40 was kind of a pause I was curious now
42:42 that we're seeing these two projects on
42:44 if we're moving forward anticipating
42:46 that it'll all get drugged up in the
42:48 next decade when they it's redesigned or
42:50 if there's been movement on that problem
42:51 right the e is for the Sammamish State
42:55 Park is starting to happen now and so I
42:59 think that I'll talk about at least I
43:01 haven't heard that it's not talking
43:02 about the entrance anymore all those
43:04 pieces so so while that's moving forward
43:08 I think Kurt's projects aren't starting
43:10 immediately either so those are sort of
43:13 together okay so that so that you don't
43:16 have to do something over again but the
43:18 EIS I know we've been in discussions
43:20 with the State Park to start the EIS on
43:22 all that right so this is you're all
43:24 these pieces are all kind of becoming
43:26 this ball moving and name rolling
43:29 together rather than again us doing
43:31 something that's just gonna have to get
43:32 ripped out actually yeah we're actually
43:34 like Trish says we're actually we're
43:37 continue to work I know the directors
43:39 disc we're down Olympia a couple weeks
43:41 ago talking
43:42 about the part portion of this so and I
43:46 know we've had discontinued discussions
43:49 with Costco on the intersection
43:51 improvement and we're having continued
43:54 discussions with the state on the pinch
43:56 point area so it's a lot it doesn't
43:59 really it doesn't really come out in
44:00 this right it's a lot of pieces but I
44:03 just I love the idea that it's all you
44:05 know keeping those discussions going
44:06 rather than it kind of butting heads
44:08 with each other and that in that area
44:10 my other question too was about the
44:12 Gilman Boulevard improvements is this
44:14 something separate from the presentation
44:17 that we had got from the consulting firm
44:19 about the redesign of Gilman oh it's the
44:21 same thing the same so obviously this
44:24 figure of this proposed is micro so is
44:27 this about as sew-on Gilman Boulevard is
44:29 this starting that whole redesign of
44:34 Gilman Boulevard is that really where
44:36 this is that we're now starting that
44:38 project but we're just starting from one
44:40 end and kind of what we already have
44:43 seen so what we've done so far is we
44:46 have worked with a community to come up
44:49 with some guidelines some some ideas of
44:54 what the character I would say of Gilman
44:57 should be going forward and we haven't
45:00 started design on that because well for
45:03 variety reasons one being that the
45:05 community and council was pretty clear
45:08 they don't don't come in with some
45:09 design and share that with us let us be
45:11 part of that whole process so that's
45:14 what we've done so far the next phase is
45:15 to start the preliminary design which is
45:18 still you know back to my slider this
45:22 may be I think I just jumped back here
45:23 really quick maybe might help a little
45:27 bit
45:31 don't look at the blurry sign so so this
45:36 is sort of you know we're in this area
45:38 here the schematic
45:41 you know sort of what's feasible to do
45:43 on Gillman what's early design look like
45:46 so we're in that portion of on that
45:48 project we're way back in this area so
45:51 and we don't know we don't necessarily
45:54 we have not decided that we're going to
45:57 have a cat a capital project that
45:59 rebuilds Gillman from one end to the
46:01 other
46:02 it may be that ultimate use of this
46:06 Gillman work will be to like I said
46:10 earlier to condition development as it
46:12 comes in
46:12 so QFC are that whole area redevelops
46:16 that redevelopment builds that portion
46:18 of Gillman let's say and then something
46:22 else further down the street builds a
46:23 little bit more on the other side sort
46:25 of like Atlas did and that you know I in
46:27 an ideal world we have a mixture of a
46:31 city city improvements working with
46:36 private development to build the
46:38 corridor so that we wouldn't necessarily
46:40 be because it would for the city to
46:42 build in the capital project called
46:44 Gillman would be another mega project
46:47 that we couldn't do but I in an ideal
46:49 world developers would build a good
46:52 portion of that corridor then we would
46:54 fill in we would update a signal
46:56 intersection improvements or whatever
46:58 that would be to complete the all the
47:01 whole corridor okay sounds like a Gilman
47:04 product is roughly where we last left
47:06 off it's still brewing kind of my last
47:12 point is about the retaining wall
47:14 maintenance I would love to have that
47:16 moved up and funding done this year for
47:21 the record I'd like to make a
47:22 recommendation to Council for that I
47:24 think it's very important and while I
47:27 recognize that we're again just
47:29 maintaining now rebuilding I think that
47:31 that needs to be a priority in our
47:32 budget a little scary when you drive up
47:36 yes yes yes the water coming down
47:41 through the
47:42 we do annual evaluations we have a
47:45 geotechnical engineer look at it every
47:47 year and evaluate it so it it's it's a
47:53 big wall yes and so Kurt I have two
47:58 questions actually a comment joy here
48:04 had mentioned about the funding
48:06 component it would be nice to like she
48:08 said it would be nice to understand what
48:11 portion of these projects has some
48:16 component of funny like grant funding or
48:18 something like that because they know
48:19 what helped us prioritize ease if one
48:21 project does say is three million
48:23 dollars and we're looking I thinking wow
48:26 that's a lot but oh it's 80% funded by
48:29 grant then that makes our decision much
48:31 easier so I'd like to comment that I
48:35 support choice initiative there to the
48:41 11th to 12th Avenue I 90 crossing which
48:46 to be seems very low at 2.5 million
48:50 I assume that's only a pedestrian
48:52 crossing and not a motorized crossing so
48:55 that's not this is it right this is the
49:03 project to to go under the freeway and
49:06 it's I think it's it's probably ten
49:10 times that number if not more this this
49:12 work here to build that crossing this
49:15 work here is to get started with again
49:18 using this diagram here at budget that
49:22 that dollar that budget is to do this
49:24 work in here to see what's feasible what
49:27 we could possibly do there what going
49:30 over or under the freeway might look
49:32 like we think under and and start with
49:35 schematic design that's what that work
49:37 is so we're it's not it's it's not we're
49:39 not anywhere near this portion here
49:42 which would be a substantial big number
49:46 the one again following this little
49:49 simple layout what doing some work here
49:53 does help you with this box
49:55 here it does help you with a funding
49:57 part if you can the more you know about
50:00 what you want to do the more you can get
50:02 partners especially if sound transit
50:05 starts moving forward with you know we
50:08 don't know where they are exactly we
50:09 know that light rail is coming disick
50:12 while in 2041 i think is a date that
50:14 we're using now but the more that we can
50:17 better that we can define what we want
50:20 in that area that more likely we are to
50:22 get partners either the state and/or
50:26 Sound Transit and others to move that
50:29 project forward so that this is not what
50:32 you're seeing here is not the
50:37 construction of that project which it
50:39 would be you you identify that correctly
50:41 it'd be way more than what you're seeing
50:43 here now are we actually trying to fund
50:49 this too soon because if Sound Transit's
50:52 coming in around 2040 2035 it seems like
50:57 we could use this money for other
50:59 projects that are more immediate like
51:02 for instance the Providence point
51:04 intersection which is not funded yet and
51:08 this intersection may or this pedestrian
51:13 crossing may actually become a component
51:15 of sound tray of st3 because we don't
51:18 even know where st 3 is going to be
51:20 right so those are all valid I think
51:23 those are very valid comments and that's
51:25 that's one way you can look at it I
51:29 think when we're when we're talking
51:30 about here the way we're looking at it
51:33 is that you know all this work that
51:36 we're doing on Gilman and we know that
51:38 Gilman is likely to redevelop sooner
51:41 than later
51:42 you know that sound trance is likely
51:46 coming in on i-90 and likely you know
51:49 got the Transit Center right down here
51:51 it's likely have a station area
51:54 somewhere in this in this vicinity
51:56 we know from house and transits worked
51:59 in other communities like on the east
52:01 side especially that the more clarity
52:05 the jurisdiction can bring to the sound
52:07 transit
52:08 table the more likely we are to get
52:11 closer to what we want so if it's one
52:15 way to think about it is that Sound
52:16 Transit's building a rail system that's
52:20 their primary you know they're
52:21 connecting communities and then they
52:23 have a station so I think they have
52:27 ideas about where that should be and
52:28 what they need certainly but I think
52:31 that worse it's our community it's the
52:32 quad that they're serving so I think the
52:35 more that we can provide guidance and
52:37 clarity to Sound Transit let's say the
52:41 better off we are so you can say you
52:44 know it's too soon I mean that's a
52:47 that's a you can argue the point about
52:50 when it's appropriate to start that work
52:52 you're basically what your point you're
52:56 getting to it it's money in the bank
52:58 right now so if we spend the money now
53:00 to research this out then we may not
53:03 have to pay for this crossing because
53:06 we'll be able to say hey so in transit
53:08 we know exactly what we want and this is
53:10 the expectation and I think we'll just
53:14 be better prepared is really what it is
53:16 because right now we're still
53:17 entertaining a lot of ideas and so like
53:20 Kurt was saying in these early
53:21 preliminary discussions I mean it's easy
53:23 to keep kick the can every year because
53:25 there's obviously so many things that we
53:26 need to do but I think the idea is to
53:28 start small and start figuring out what
53:31 ends up working best for us long range
53:33 the thing I wanted to just mention is I
53:36 remember if that ended up in the final
53:38 strategic planning up I know it was
53:40 discussed a lot it is in the final so
53:44 that's an that's a it's a key core idea
53:50 in our strategic plan which we which
53:52 council just adopted is to is to
53:55 understand where light rail is going to
53:57 be in Issaquah right and just to add a
54:01 footnote to that it's also that projects
54:03 in the central plan which was adopted
54:06 back in 2013 so we've been talking about
54:10 a crossing whether it's over-and-under
54:12 crossing of 90 since then and so it's
54:15 just building on it and now we finally
54:17 are putting some money aside to start
54:18 looking at it which I think it's pretty
54:20 exciting well
54:21 and this just isn't that helpful to say
54:25 that it's this that I mean it we need to
54:27 know we need to understand that better
54:29 and that's so this is honestly this is
54:31 about where we're at right now and
54:33 that's this is the money that we're
54:35 talking about is meant to help narrow
54:38 this down and better define it okay
54:41 and I just curious on why we're having
54:45 that conversation of now but now that I
54:47 understand it I agree my other comment
54:50 here about the black nugget road
54:52 retaining wall how much of that is
54:55 actually coming from other sources and
54:58 shouldn't we be pushing back on King
55:01 County for that for building an inferior
55:03 product well you know I think you're
55:06 getting into an area that's sort of
55:08 outside of my area a bit but that's
55:10 certainly something to I'll talk to talk
55:13 to the direct my director about that I I
55:17 don't know what our when we took over
55:19 that part of town and that was
55:22 constructed you're absolutely right by
55:23 King County I don't know what all the
55:25 what all went along with that if they
55:28 ever left when we took that over it all
55:30 just became ours and they wash their
55:33 hands of it or what I don't know but I I
55:35 do know that it's artists now to
55:37 maintain you know for better for worse
55:39 and I do know it's a it's a something we
55:44 want to be very careful that we maintain
55:45 that in a safe way I just think we
55:49 shouldn't necessarily get stuck with a
55:51 bill if they went to the lowest bidder
55:53 on the head I understand exactly when I
55:56 see water falling out of that thing
55:59 yeah it's made out of wood which kind of
56:01 scares me we do we grade the retaining
56:05 wall like with great bridges as far as a
56:08 through I guess d-minus
56:11 yeah I don't know if we have I don't
56:13 think we have a rating system for walls
56:15 that I'm aware of we do like I mentioned
56:18 earlier who we do have a geotech
56:20 engineer that that we work with that I
56:22 believe every year we go out and
56:24 evaluate the safety of that wall so we
56:28 have a pretty good idea of what it's
56:31 doing it I mean it
56:32 I'll agree with you that it doesn't look
56:35 good but is that if we do or we're not
56:38 blind of the fact that it said that it's
56:41 a big wall that is made out of timber so
56:44 we're very conscious of evaluating
56:46 whether geotech every year for safety
56:52 just had one quick question so um so on
56:55 the projects where so like when we're
56:59 looking at the SR 900 is South East 54th
57:03 can you explain kind of how we structure
57:05 the funding we think we'll need when we
57:08 see you know maybe we have upfront
57:11 funding and then we have two years where
57:12 there's no funding attached to it at all
57:14 is that bill is that because you believe
57:16 with the designs get take longer than a
57:18 year or on that one I think give you an
57:25 accurate answer um I know our plan on
57:29 that one on specifically on the Newport
57:31 900 to 54th is to get through design
57:35 we're now we're currently at about 60%
57:38 design we need to get to 90% design
57:42 before we're really ready to have a bid
57:44 package and then once you have 90%
57:46 design you can also accurately determine
57:49 what your rightaway needs are down that
57:50 whole corridor so our plan is to get
57:54 that project to 90% design get our
57:58 rightaway acquired and then see where
58:00 we're at and that's actually our plan
58:02 vote for both Newports and the
58:05 construction funding is that is the neck
58:10 is the big step for the the good news so
58:13 some of these estimates are our more
58:17 higher level I would say than than
58:20 others the good news on this Newport
58:23 project we have a very good idea of what
58:25 it will cost because we have 60% design
58:28 now so we have a pretty good detailed
58:30 cost estimates we just went through a
58:32 value engineering analysis so we're
58:34 really dialing in on the costs for that
58:37 project but they're big costs they're
58:39 you know somewhat some not quite 50
58:42 million dollars but approaching that
58:45 it's a big number
58:46 and I'd like to make one request this is
58:48 a great data for next chair if it's
58:50 possible if we can kind of code these to
58:54 what phase they are on the project
58:56 that'll give us a better idea of where
58:59 do we think the city is getting you know
59:00 where does the design how long does it
59:02 is I'm going to go as you just mentioned
59:05 kind of as you go down the deeper the
59:07 funnel you have your final design your
59:10 cost estimates get much better right so
59:13 if we could see you know something
59:15 that's in maybe a final phase or a next
59:17 to final phase versus something that's
59:18 kind of in ideation that'll help us
59:22 better understand how accurate the
59:23 numbers look are down the rabbit hole we
59:27 are on a project that is a great idea
59:29 because because you're right when you
59:31 look at the list either the list or the
59:33 map for that matter can't it's
59:35 impossible I know ninety percent really
59:38 tell all 16 years we don't we wouldn't
59:40 know I think this council needs to know
59:45 that before they go through this and
59:47 know that's it that's a very helpful
59:49 comment yeah that's something that's
59:51 important I am really looking forward to
59:54 the master plan but I hope that it's not
59:58 just putting these particular projects
1:00:03 and itemizing them and worrying about
1:00:06 them but actually looking at the city as
1:00:09 a whole and seeing where even though you
1:00:14 don't have any money to do at least you
1:00:16 know where certain roads are going so
1:00:18 whatever so I'm I'm looking at the whole
1:00:21 thing the other thing that I would like
1:00:27 is you know the city the people who the
1:00:31 community can look at this and say well
1:00:33 what have you been doing if all of this
1:00:36 stuff still needs to be done why is it
1:00:38 my project on and it would be really
1:00:41 nice to take what you showed us last
1:00:44 year and kind of give us some idea of
1:00:48 what actually has been done I think
1:00:51 that's really important not just for the
1:00:54 for this commission but for the
1:00:56 community
1:00:57 to have that record and why how much
1:01:02 money has gone to it is was it on the
1:01:04 list and it looked like it was fully
1:01:08 funded and it's not where it's gone I
1:01:11 think that's really important
1:01:15 anything else are there any of these
1:01:19 projects above the line of which there's
1:01:23 a time certain after which money falls
1:01:29 off the table I'm thinking of an
1:01:31 equivalent of the bypass for a front
1:01:33 street of ten years ago overspent I mean
1:01:35 yeah so are there ain't because one of
1:01:37 these descriptions I thought said
1:01:39 something about the money's got to be
1:01:40 spent or something's got to happen
1:01:42 within ten years
1:01:43 so are there any other projects where we
1:01:45 said no it's not on this year it's next
1:01:47 year or for some reason nothing's
1:01:49 happening we're in danger of Cersei we
1:01:52 said whatever we've spent has just gone
1:01:54 waste I think the answer is yes and I
1:01:58 don't know if I'm gonna be able to tell
1:02:00 you that all projects that that applies
1:02:03 for I know that there are some time
1:02:05 constraints for some funding on the on
1:02:08 the new port from April the sunset
1:02:10 project is we're currently working on
1:02:12 that right now
1:02:13 so we're very we're all over the one
1:02:16 thing I can guarantee you that we're not
1:02:18 gonna get back or give away lose any of
1:02:21 grant any grant money that has already
1:02:23 been secured by the city so we're very
1:02:25 diligent on that so the short answer is
1:02:28 yes there are some projects like that
1:02:30 Newport to maple and it's not that all
1:02:33 the funding is some portion of the grant
1:02:35 funding so there are some time
1:02:38 constraints on some of these dollars we
1:02:41 anyway that will be helpful to know we
1:02:43 just in terms of trying to prioritize
1:02:45 these so I've made around an outlier
1:02:47 here then forget it that if there's
1:02:50 agreement then that would be helpful
1:02:51 information
1:02:55 thank you I think the city is gonna
1:02:58 prioritize them we're just supposed to
1:03:00 ask questions and get to the yeah what
1:03:03 what maybe things that you haven't
1:03:06 thought about and things that we think
1:03:09 are more important doors understanding
1:03:12 how we're going to get to where we
1:03:14 should be now you're asking great
1:03:15 questions yeah well we try very hard so
1:03:22 do you have any other updates
1:03:24 I have nothing so in addition I you know
1:03:28 if there's there's things that come up
1:03:30 and you have further questions we can
1:03:31 certainly we'll certainly do our best to
1:03:33 answer the nice probably the best way is
1:03:35 to work through trash and do you need a
1:03:38 recommendation do you need a letter from
1:03:39 DC I can't remember what we've done in
1:03:43 past year is that food because usually
1:03:46 we do but I know now with a different
1:03:48 process I don't know if you need a
1:03:50 letter I don't know a letter from the
1:03:54 Commission is no never a bad thing I
1:03:57 don't think so sure I don't know just to
1:04:02 if we want to talk about process briefly
1:04:05 it's a in the past for those of you that
1:04:08 were involved us in past years until I
1:04:11 think last year there was this process
1:04:14 called the T IP which is what I'm
1:04:16 talking about with you tonight
1:04:18 and that went through a process coming
1:04:20 to you talking about projects and
1:04:21 getting adopted by by the council and
1:04:25 then sent off to the state and so what
1:04:28 we're doing a little differently this
1:04:30 year we're still doing that but it's
1:04:32 it's within this it's within this
1:04:35 broader umbrella of the it's within this
1:04:41 broader an umbrella of the CIP adoption
1:04:45 so and I I don't know like right now
1:04:49 we're still talking about how that's all
1:04:51 gonna work with it the council and the
1:04:53 adoption my understanding is that that
1:04:56 in July when the capital improvement
1:04:59 plan is adopted that will also be the
1:05:02 adoption of the T IP so it's the reason
1:05:06 I'm not to add to the confuse
1:05:08 but in the past this was that this guy
1:05:10 was over here himself sort of
1:05:13 independent of the the capital
1:05:16 improvement plan but now it's all it's
1:05:18 all rolled into one
1:05:21 I'm not sure if we could write a letter
1:05:25 that letter would only be we heard a
1:05:29 great great presentation we understand
1:05:31 the process and go and fix everything so
1:05:36 I'm not sure the only specific
1:05:38 recommendation I heard was joy wanting
1:05:40 to move up the wall but that's the only
1:05:43 change that I heard but I don't know if
1:05:45 everyone agrees with that as a
1:05:47 recommendation or if you want to talk
1:05:49 about that or that's your thing other
1:05:52 thing is I think that as soon as
1:05:55 possible we should have a master plan
1:05:58 for the city I think that's critical in
1:06:02 the development of the city before some
1:06:05 30-story building is built in the middle
1:06:07 of the best way to put some
1:06:09 transportation through the city so those
1:06:13 are the two things that besides that you
1:06:17 know if you feel or if any of you feel
1:06:20 it's necessary to forward any kind of a
1:06:23 letter to council I think that's it for
1:06:29 council I think our only other comments
1:06:30 that we had were specifically for staff
1:06:32 about next year when we get to have our
1:06:35 joys of going through this a kind of yes
1:06:37 right and that wouldn't have to go to
1:06:39 council that's just for us right this
1:06:41 council have to have a recommendation
1:06:43 from us that we've they don't have to as
1:06:46 Kurt said because now it's part of the
1:06:48 whole capital plan versus transportation
1:06:51 so it's only if it's part of it's in the
1:06:55 memorandum right so I'm sure that every
1:06:58 member of the City Council will watch
1:07:01 this meeting and listen to all the
1:07:03 questions we've had and hopefully they
1:07:05 will have some more to make the process
1:07:08 even better so so so no letter no okay
1:07:15 so thank you for your time work and just
1:07:20 make it all happen
1:07:21 yeah thank you and thanks for the
1:07:23 opportunity thanks for the great
1:07:24 question it's a really good comment so
1:07:26 thank you very much thank you
1:07:28 so we're gonna move right into a
1:07:32 presentation by Kristin where the
1:07:37 housing market is in Issaquah what the
1:07:39 city is doing what they plan to do how
1:07:44 we're accomplishing our goals or we can
1:07:51 watch NC is well really really quickly I
1:07:53 thought I would pull up the housing the
1:07:55 housing report card as well just in case
1:07:57 we want to
1:08:10 but training a little dude down at the
1:08:11 table so jumping up and down
1:08:33 there we go hi my name is Kristen Lisa
1:08:36 and I am a senior planner with the
1:08:39 development services department long
1:08:40 range planning division and I work with
1:08:42 Trish I've been here since about 2001 -
1:08:45 two years but you will see a lot of me
1:08:47 welcome to the new commissioners so the
1:08:51 housing report card I'm that's what I'm
1:08:53 supposed to talk about and I'm going to
1:08:55 but I want to take a step back for a
1:08:57 minute and talk about how we got there
1:08:59 with our housing strategy work plan so
1:09:04 this is actually the first we saw our
1:09:07 first report card was in 2015 it was
1:09:09 supposed to be only an affordable
1:09:11 housing report card and then in 20 2015
1:09:14 the state mandated that cities establish
1:09:17 housing strategies so we started that
1:09:20 process in 2016 and then the moratorium
1:09:23 came up so while which said the city
1:09:25 needs more affordable housing so during
1:09:27 all this we didn't do housing report
1:09:28 cards because we were reporting so much
1:09:30 information for the report card that we
1:09:32 didn't have it so once the strategy work
1:09:34 plan was done it said we want a housing
1:09:37 report card not just affordable housing
1:09:38 so this is the first of its kind so
1:09:40 there may need to be some tweaks that
1:09:42 you all may want to recommend and we'll
1:09:44 see how that goes the the report card
1:09:49 follows the work plan strategy work plan
1:09:51 and it's a key problem areas which are
1:09:54 the evolving housing market
1:09:56 archeologists evolving housing market
1:09:58 growth affordability and vulnerable
1:10:01 residents we'll get into that in just a
1:10:03 minute the work plan to establish it we
1:10:09 worked for over a year
1:10:10 first with focus groups which included
1:10:13 large businesses local businesses
1:10:15 service industry seniors the school
1:10:18 district Realtors we talked to all those
1:10:20 different groups to find out from their
1:10:21 perspectives what the housing issues
1:10:23 problems were we also then took these
1:10:26 two we had joint meetings three of them
1:10:28 with the Planning Policy Commission the
1:10:29 Human Services Commission and the
1:10:31 Economic Development Commission those
1:10:33 were really interesting meetings we
1:10:34 brought everything that the public had
1:10:36 said and the focus groups had said and
1:10:38 the conversation from these three very
1:10:40 different groups
1:10:41 I think produced a really good housing
1:10:43 twenty-five of those oh excuse me we had
1:10:46 five not three yeah the joint meetings
1:10:48 they were big they were very big so what
1:10:52 we came up with what they came up with
1:10:53 were three problem statements with
1:10:56 housing one is that the overall
1:10:58 affordability housing in Issaquah in in
1:11:00 the region has decreased at all levels
1:11:02 so people couldn't afford to live here
1:11:03 anymore
1:11:04 individuals and families can't afford to
1:11:06 choose to live and to work in Issaquah
1:11:09 so maybe they worked here but they
1:11:10 couldn't afford to live here and then
1:11:13 housing types weren't meeting a
1:11:15 diversity there was a whole missing
1:11:17 group of houses housing types that we
1:11:19 needed so in order to address these we
1:11:24 came up with nine different strategies
1:11:26 and the first one is to remove barriers
1:11:29 to facilitate the construction of
1:11:31 accessory dwelling units and those are
1:11:33 like mother-in-law units things that
1:11:35 might go over garages or might go in
1:11:36 your basement they're smaller units
1:11:38 they're not duplexes they're different
1:11:39 than that so number two is to provide a
1:11:42 variety of approaches to limit and
1:11:44 mitigate tear downs because what often
1:11:46 happens is a house will be torn a an
1:11:49 affordable house market rate house might
1:11:51 be torn down and a much larger house is
1:11:53 put in its place or new several new
1:11:56 houses that are more expensive were put
1:11:58 in that place
1:11:59 seek out affordable multifamily projects
1:12:01 for retention as affordable housing
1:12:03 options so go out and inventory see what
1:12:06 see what multifamily projects we have
1:12:08 out there and what can we actually
1:12:09 preserve and possibly convert into
1:12:11 affordable housing with covenants
1:12:13 identify additional funding options for
1:12:16 affordable housing facilitate the
1:12:17 development of a transit oriented
1:12:19 development increase the developer
1:12:22 provided affordable housing in central
1:12:24 Issaquah mitigate the deterrents to
1:12:28 condominium developments incorporate
1:12:30 code provisions that increase potential
1:12:32 diversity in housing types and support
1:12:35 housing options and services to assist
1:12:36 those people experiencing insecurity and
1:12:39 homelessness so in 2018 we actually
1:12:43 implemented quite a few of these the
1:12:45 first one was the accessory dwelling
1:12:46 units we amended the code to make it
1:12:49 less costly for people to build
1:12:51 accessory dwelling units we improved and
1:12:54 sped up sort of the permitting
1:12:56 process by eliminating some of the
1:12:57 permits that were required and we
1:12:59 simplified it clarified for people
1:13:01 what's actually required in the code to
1:13:03 build an accessory dwelling unit this is
1:13:05 a doozy to use have their own separate
1:13:07 address or they fall out of it they do
1:13:09 have you know they do have a separate
1:13:10 address they're required to another one
1:13:15 that we oh well another one that we did
1:13:16 was facilitate the emphasis iLET eight
1:13:19 the development of a transit-oriented
1:13:21 development and this is now called
1:13:23 trailhead it is proposed to be located
1:13:25 right next to the transit center
1:13:27 over on newport across from Tibbets
1:13:29 valley park we the council voted to
1:13:32 approve a multifamily tax exemption
1:13:34 would help which helped to increase the
1:13:36 workforce housing that we get that they
1:13:37 could actually build there what this
1:13:39 means is that it for a certain number of
1:13:41 years the project is not required to pay
1:13:43 taxes on those affordable units not all
1:13:46 yeah and numbers we did number six
1:13:51 increased developer provided affordable
1:13:53 housing and central Issaquah we amended
1:13:55 the code to require it's called
1:13:56 inclusionary zoning and it requires that
1:13:59 with any of with any development that is
1:14:01 constructed that contains or is fully
1:14:03 residential they are required to have a
1:14:05 certain percentage of those units be
1:14:07 affordable and that was that applied in
1:14:11 the urban core zone and in the mixed use
1:14:13 zone which is all within central
1:14:15 Issaquah so now we have more to do we're
1:14:19 not done so in 2019 on our work plan we
1:14:22 have to continue the ad you work and we
1:14:25 are working with a regional coalition
1:14:26 for housing which is our affordable
1:14:28 house and we call them our housing
1:14:29 planners we are working that they have
1:14:31 14 different jurisdictions and the King
1:14:33 County which are all member cities and
1:14:35 we're working with those member cities
1:14:36 to improve marketing and informational
1:14:39 materials to help people understand how
1:14:41 to build a to use and answer all their
1:14:44 questions ahead of time strategy three
1:14:46 is to seek out the multifamily projects
1:14:48 for retention is affordable housing
1:14:50 strategy five is another one to
1:14:53 facilitate the development of the Tod
1:14:55 transit oriented development so we're
1:14:57 still working with them on design and
1:14:59 making sure that this can happen we're
1:15:02 also working on number eight which is to
1:15:03 incorporate a incorporate code
1:15:05 provisions into the code to get a bigger
1:15:07 diversity of housing such as cottage
1:15:09 housing
1:15:09 single residents single resident
1:15:12 occupancies and micro housing and
1:15:15 strategy 9 to support housing options
1:15:18 and services to assist those
1:15:20 experiencing housing insecurity that's
1:15:24 what we're working on this year so all
1:15:30 that we and had to come up with our
1:15:33 housing report card which the this
1:15:35 housing strategy work plan said you have
1:15:37 to do the housing report card and we
1:15:39 decided to follow the format of that and
1:15:41 address the key challenges that we have
1:15:43 so the first one is the evolving housing
1:15:45 market we have traditionally been
1:15:47 primarily single-family housing about 63
1:15:50 percent of our housing is single-family
1:15:51 housing about 61 percent of our housing
1:15:58 is made up of one to two person
1:16:00 households so your standard standard
1:16:02 three bedroom two bath or four-bedroom
1:16:04 three-bath house single-family house
1:16:05 it's probably too big and more than one
1:16:08 or two people can afford so there's this
1:16:10 whole missing middle group where the
1:16:12 diversity piece comes in where you need
1:16:13 things like condominiums that we've
1:16:15 tried to lobby for and to change the
1:16:17 legislation and SROs and micro units
1:16:21 that kind of housing that's needed it
1:16:23 was called calling it our missing middle
1:16:24 that we're gonna try and get in there
1:16:26 and also you know things like our
1:16:30 ownership has has decreased from 66
1:16:33 percent to 61 percent which in turn
1:16:35 means that our rentals have increased
1:16:37 from 33 percent 39% so there's been a
1:16:40 shift in who's who can own and who can
1:16:41 rent here - we'd like for more people to
1:16:43 be able to own if they want to current
1:16:45 how current is that data most of it is
1:16:48 most this goes to 2017 they look through
1:16:52 the package and it's 2014 2016 right
1:16:57 this this one I think is 2026 this one's
1:16:59 twenties most of its around 2017 the
1:17:02 housing report card right because when
1:17:04 we did it was a the housing strategy was
1:17:06 adopted in 17 but we were putting it
1:17:08 together starting in 15 and so that we
1:17:10 had the data that we had at the time it
1:17:12 just took a while to get adapted and
1:17:14 that and we've gone out and tried to
1:17:16 collect Archie actually collects a lot
1:17:17 of housing information for us just
1:17:19 regularly but everything lags behind
1:17:20 about a year
1:17:22 I wish it didn't but it does and the
1:17:27 next key challenge is growth we're
1:17:30 changing we're expected to grow a lot
1:17:32 over the next few years we're averaging
1:17:34 about 360 additional housing units per
1:17:36 year we have and you'll I'm going to
1:17:40 tell you this because it's going to be
1:17:41 part of your training later we have
1:17:43 something called state adopted targets
1:17:46 and we have one for housing and one for
1:17:48 jobs our housing target
1:17:51 it goes from 2006 to 2013
1:17:55 our housing target is that we are
1:17:57 supposed to accommodate for 5750
1:18:01 addition 2006 to 2012 thirty-one and we
1:18:06 are by next year 2021 we'll hit that
1:18:09 we've grown really quickly part of
1:18:12 that's the villages and central Issaquah
1:18:16 you've got it you know everything going
1:18:17 in on Newport so we've grown really
1:18:19 quickly
1:18:21 yet we've gone from nine thousand four
1:18:22 hundred eighteen units to over almost
1:18:24 seventeen thousand units so with all of
1:18:27 this coming we need to keep track of
1:18:29 this because then you have to have all
1:18:31 the facilities and services that go with
1:18:32 this so you need your parks you need
1:18:33 your fire your level of service is going
1:18:35 to change for these so that's why we
1:18:37 need to keep track
1:18:39 so this is where housing was constructed
1:18:43 or being constructed in 2019 I mean I'm
1:18:46 sorry 2018 and then this is where it's
1:18:53 expected to come in 2019 this came from
1:18:57 the budget that we need to prepare to do
1:18:59 projections for financing for the budget
1:19:01 and with the exception of the two new
1:19:03 port projects those were in twenty two
1:19:07 thousand eighteen s budget but they
1:19:08 hadn't been started construction yet so
1:19:10 put him here a key challenge
1:19:14 affordability so um the region the city
1:19:19 like I said earlier where we can't
1:19:21 afford to live here now a lot of people
1:19:22 can't afford to live here anymore and we
1:19:24 would like to change that so we are
1:19:26 trying to input an emphasis on building
1:19:29 affordable housing right now we have so
1:19:32 we consider in this
1:19:33 County considers affordable housing to
1:19:36 be anything at 80% of the King County
1:19:40 median income area median income and
1:19:42 below and then we also have housing
1:19:46 that's more workforce housing that goes
1:19:48 from 80% and up I think technically
1:19:51 workforce housing is 70 to 110 but
1:19:53 that's going to confuse things so but we
1:19:55 track our ad we track our affordable
1:19:58 housing at 80 percent in below because
1:19:59 that counts towards our targets of what
1:20:01 we're supposed to reach we have eight
1:20:04 hundred and forty six of those units in
1:20:06 the city right now most of those are
1:20:08 located in in the villages or I have I
1:20:12 think 350 in the highlands and a hundred
1:20:15 and Talis and then the rest are
1:20:20 dispersed throughout the city a lot of
1:20:21 the old town area and then we have 192
1:20:24 units that go from 80 above eighty
1:20:26 percent really they're you know a
1:20:27 hundred percent to 120 percent is what
1:20:29 we have and those are all located in the
1:20:30 highlands 60 are under review or under
1:20:34 construction 49 up in West Ridge in the
1:20:36 highlands and 11 are over at the Vale
1:20:39 project it was just close to Safeway and
1:20:42 Atlas the apartments over there 15
1:20:46 percent of our residents are currently
1:20:49 severely cost burdened which means that
1:20:51 more than 50% of their income goes
1:20:54 towards rent and utilities and we'd like
1:20:56 to change that this is it's kind of hard
1:21:01 to see but this is the location of our
1:21:02 affordable housing and 80 percent in
1:21:04 below these is our location of our
1:21:09 accessory dwelling units which count as
1:21:11 80 percent units we they don't have
1:21:13 covenants attached to them but they
1:21:14 still count towards our affordable
1:21:15 housing we have 52 units and this is
1:21:19 where our affordable housing you can see
1:21:21 it's all in Issaquah Highlands at
1:21:22 anywhere from 100 to 120 percent is
1:21:25 located last words of vulnerable
1:21:28 residents and I will be the first to
1:21:30 admit we don't have enough information
1:21:31 here and part of our 2019 work plan is
1:21:35 to gather more information about
1:21:37 services that need to be provided to our
1:21:39 residents we need to do an inventory of
1:21:41 what we provide and figure out the gaps
1:21:43 and what we can what we can do so what
1:21:45 we know right now is that we
1:21:47 do have some assisted living facilities
1:21:48 that have been added we have the
1:21:50 fieldstone memory care Timber Ridge
1:21:52 Phase two we have two new Leo houses
1:21:55 which are smaller group homes which hold
1:21:57 about six adults for disabled adults we
1:22:02 have in our last count we had 393
1:22:04 homeless individuals within East County
1:22:06 East King County that's not broken down
1:22:08 by city I don't know exactly how many we
1:22:10 have there but 172 we have in the
1:22:14 Issaquah School District
1:22:15 one hundred and seventy two homeless
1:22:17 children now those boundaries extend
1:22:19 outside of Issaquah so again I can't
1:22:21 tell you exactly where that is but
1:22:22 that's a lot and it's going it's gone up
1:22:25 I just want to make that point too for
1:22:27 people who haven't seen those numbers
1:22:28 but that number hat is increasing right
1:22:30 now yeah we didn't have the counts for
1:22:34 2018-2019 school year so but yeah I'm
1:22:36 sure because it I think last year they
1:22:38 were at 100 or 2015-16 they were 117 I
1:22:41 think so it does keep going up and then
1:22:43 we have not provided any services or any
1:22:46 any housing for the homeless in Issaquah
1:22:49 um that's that's what I have you all
1:22:52 have any questions for me well we'll do
1:22:53 this annually hopefully we will have
1:22:55 more information to provide each year so
1:22:59 what's the plan for homeless to at least
1:23:01 gauge what the potential problem is
1:23:03 right like even counts I noticed I think
1:23:07 three weeks ago I saw the first set of
1:23:09 tents on the honor ramp that exit 17 or
1:23:16 17 on i-90 right beside the highway so
1:23:20 I'm just I'm curious how quickly we're
1:23:22 gonna get to the point where we have
1:23:24 housing that will help circumvent that
1:23:27 so we don't turn into a Seattle and I
1:23:30 think that's part of our our housing
1:23:32 strategy number nine that we're gonna
1:23:34 try and address this year and what what
1:23:35 can we do what's missing and what can we
1:23:37 do I have a question go ahead Robin have
1:23:43 you a study done on the the missing the
1:23:48 population of people that would work
1:23:50 here if they could but can't you the
1:23:55 whole thesis behind the affordable
1:23:56 housing he's part of it he
1:23:57 I can't live in play here so yeah
1:24:01 that was part of our focused group
1:24:03 discussion we talked to the school
1:24:04 district and we talked to the hospitals
1:24:06 and we talked to Costco and we talked to
1:24:08 local businesses who you know a great a
1:24:11 very large portion of our city is retail
1:24:14 which doesn't are not among the highest
1:24:17 and salaries and and they said so so
1:24:20 we've we've tried we haven't talked to
1:24:22 individually we hear from people every
1:24:24 so often who say I work there and I'd
1:24:26 love to live there but we haven't we
1:24:29 didn't go out and talk to individual
1:24:30 people just ask you in part because it's
1:24:32 fine to speaking his next developer I
1:24:34 mean and I look at a project and some
1:24:37 percentage it's supposed to be
1:24:39 affordable housing defined in whatever
1:24:40 way you want first question is how do I
1:24:44 know that if I build it they'll come and
1:24:45 then of course there's all the dollars
1:24:48 and cents which is all the developer
1:24:49 really cares about so that kind of
1:24:52 information if we can provide it or
1:24:56 can't provide it is would be very it's
1:24:59 helpful I think for developers to
1:25:01 attract yeah so to answer part of that
1:25:04 is a regional coalition for Housing arch
1:25:07 has a waiting list of people who are
1:25:12 looking for affordable housing but can't
1:25:13 yet get in so whenever a new development
1:25:16 comes up that information is pushed out
1:25:20 to the people at the top of the waiting
1:25:22 list and they are offered these units
1:25:23 and if they turn it down then they move
1:25:26 down a little bit so there is a waiting
1:25:28 list and they will come they fill up
1:25:30 quickly our Housing Strategy to Robin
1:25:37 was to do a survey because we always
1:25:39 hear from the people that live here and
1:25:41 so a lot of them don't think there's a
1:25:43 problem because they have their place
1:25:45 and so we were trying to get to the
1:25:47 businesses to the folks that don't live
1:25:48 here that would like to live here so
1:25:49 that we had that data in the survey and
1:25:52 the strategy as well that's a good
1:25:54 question a neighbor of mine is a
1:25:59 elementary school teacher and we
1:26:01 actually had an interesting conversation
1:26:02 a couple days ago a third of her
1:26:04 classroom are
1:26:06 low-income children and she says it
1:26:09 consumes about three-quarters of her
1:26:11 budget be able to manage those kids with
1:26:16 many of them come in with behavioral
1:26:18 issues and so on and she says it's it's
1:26:20 causing problems for the or her to be
1:26:25 able to be effective because there isn't
1:26:26 enough money for her to use her
1:26:29 classroom materials so are we having a
1:26:32 discussion also with the teachers in
1:26:34 terms of feedback of what the impact of
1:26:37 these children are on our schools and
1:26:41 the children you know they said I think
1:26:47 the school district has that discussion
1:26:49 with their teachers and there because
1:26:51 that's sort of their world is how the
1:26:54 schools perform we're trying to get
1:26:57 folks to have housing but you're right
1:26:59 there's it has so many different rolling
1:27:02 issues that come with home issues that
1:27:05 that that would be one of them for the
1:27:06 school district teachers during the
1:27:08 strategic plan update or development we
1:27:11 talked to the school district and we
1:27:13 were talking to council about our
1:27:14 discussions but it had also come up that
1:27:17 that oftentimes when they're lower
1:27:18 income they have to move more often and
1:27:20 that interrupts the classroom as well so
1:27:22 just the idea of getting housing you
1:27:25 know better housing for people so that
1:27:26 they can stay here and then be less
1:27:29 disruptive have stability it's it's for
1:27:32 both anyway for the classrooms sure and
1:27:34 I agree with all of that but my concern
1:27:38 is that the information at the church
1:27:40 that they the teachers have isn't
1:27:43 necessarily rolling up to the district
1:27:45 to maybe communicate to those of us who
1:27:49 actually help make some of the policies
1:27:51 and maybe think aspirationally about how
1:27:54 do we secure more money because if we
1:27:56 have all these low income children
1:27:59 coming into our school district and they
1:28:01 require more money maybe we should be
1:28:03 looking out ways to get grant money to
1:28:06 pay for these services that these this
1:28:10 populations it's in other words there's
1:28:13 a higher tax burden how do we acquire
1:28:16 the resources necessary to be effective
1:28:18 but no one is left behind or no one is
1:28:21 education is diminished because of it
1:28:23 right well again I think that's
1:28:26 something that we'd partner with the
1:28:27 school district to try to help solve is
1:28:30 you know their their role as the
1:28:32 academics and the teachers and the kids
1:28:36 in the classroom and ours is to try and
1:28:38 make sure that to help them build enough
1:28:40 schools so that you know there's not so
1:28:42 many portables and whatnot in to try and
1:28:44 help house folks that that don't have
1:28:47 housing in the city but that are you
1:28:49 know it's certainly going to school or
1:28:50 trying to go to school here so it's it
1:28:52 would sort of be a partnership right and
1:28:55 I agree I just worried because she was
1:28:57 extraordinarily frustrated because it
1:28:59 seems like she's not being heard and so
1:29:02 I know that the I won't get into the
1:29:06 politics of it but I want to make sure
1:29:09 that we're not blind to the needs of the
1:29:13 district versus the needs of the
1:29:15 children and the teachers and the
1:29:17 parents right the building off of the
1:29:20 school concept this is a report card but
1:29:22 I'm not seeing any grades it seems to me
1:29:26 as somebody who participated in the
1:29:28 joint commissions
1:29:29 we're not doing so well on some issues
1:29:32 and I appreciated highlighting these but
1:29:35 it would be nice to see maybe a little
1:29:37 more action strategy of how to come even
1:29:42 if it's just a pass failing concept to
1:29:45 me there was too glaring things and one
1:29:47 was that we have done a really good job
1:29:49 at addressing affordable housing or at
1:29:52 least making really big steps in the
1:29:54 last like three years not so much on
1:29:56 that middle you know we talked a lot
1:29:58 about the changing demographics in
1:29:59 Issaquah and having that be these single
1:30:02 and double person families and that is
1:30:04 aquires changing and it's not that
1:30:06 traditional multi-family needing larger
1:30:10 houses that we seem to have a glut of in
1:30:12 Issaquah and we haven't really made any
1:30:14 progress on that in the last few years
1:30:16 they've two things is one this is our
1:30:18 this is our first report crack so we
1:30:20 didn't have a whole lot to base it on so
1:30:22 I think we'll have a better opportunity
1:30:23 to grade ourselves on these specific
1:30:26 issues next year as far as the missing
1:30:28 middle goes that is on our work plan
1:30:30 this year and we've started it
1:30:31 so there is initiative there to do it
1:30:34 there's initiative I like that it's
1:30:36 mentioned because it's something that we
1:30:38 talked a lot about over the years I'm
1:30:39 curious to hear as we as we build and
1:30:44 move forward to say this is how we're
1:30:46 going to address it this is our heart
1:30:47 target of them to be able to say
1:30:48 especially because you know over the
1:30:50 years we've had residents come in and
1:30:51 talk about hey I see all this housing
1:30:54 being built I'm not seeing the same
1:30:55 thing with jobs I'm worried about
1:30:57 services I'm worried about we're
1:30:59 outpacing what are even our targets were
1:31:00 from the city which seemed really big
1:31:02 initially when we got those targets and
1:31:04 we're blowing them out of the water on
1:31:05 housing so how do we direct and say this
1:31:10 is exactly what we want and if we're not
1:31:11 getting what we want then we're going to
1:31:13 shut down and not keep going down a path
1:31:16 that gives us again housing that out out
1:31:20 prices people and that really limits the
1:31:22 amount of uses that we can do with it so
1:31:25 it would be nice to see a little more
1:31:27 concrete of this is what we this is
1:31:29 exactly how we're going to achieve that
1:31:31 goal and I think that that goes to not
1:31:33 only in the middle but also to the
1:31:35 homelessness issue you know so
1:31:37 communities around us have been dealing
1:31:39 with it
1:31:40 Bellevue's try to you know have been
1:31:41 grappling with how to actually provide
1:31:43 an option and when you start talking
1:31:45 about encampments and things like that I
1:31:48 know I was on a trail today and saw
1:31:50 evidence that somebody was sleeping and
1:31:51 just off with the trail not in the
1:31:54 actual designated area so you have to
1:31:56 give people an option you we can't just
1:31:58 I think continue to not address this big
1:32:03 gap it makes you feel better not to get
1:32:05 way into the weeds we do have
1:32:07 implementation plans for each of these
1:32:08 good yes so I just I love the way you
1:32:11 want didn't wanna you didn't I didn't
1:32:14 bring it along but we do have
1:32:15 implementation plans for each one of
1:32:16 these and in fact we were working on
1:32:18 revising one of those the other day so
1:32:20 that would be I think really cool as far
1:32:22 as the report card concept she even just
1:32:24 say these are our goals this is how
1:32:27 we're going to achieve them and so that
1:32:30 we know the next year hey how did that
1:32:32 fall out does that make sense right and
1:32:34 as a reminder to to add what Kristin
1:32:36 said is in 2617 we we've figured out
1:32:40 nine strategies so there were nine to do
1:32:42 in three years and so this is
1:32:45 so we did ad use inclusion Aries will
1:32:47 you help do ad use inclusionary zoning
1:32:50 we got the multifamily tax exemption for
1:32:52 that transit oriented development and we
1:32:56 did I'm sorry did we use transit
1:33:00 oriented development are you talking
1:33:02 about last year in Arizona and and then
1:33:05 this year we started we're starting the
1:33:09 missing middle which is a we're starting
1:33:11 the homeless services which is nine and
1:33:14 we're starting the inventory so you know
1:33:15 for for the people that you see in this
1:33:18 room that are your staff on this I think
1:33:21 we're we're going gangbusters on some
1:33:23 really tough issues so um so so trying
1:33:26 to be too harsh that we don't have
1:33:27 results yet because we're plotting along
1:33:29 in our three-year plan as fast as as the
1:33:32 two names and like I said our big piece
1:33:34 about affordable housing I really feel
1:33:36 like we're making a good dent like as
1:33:37 far as like we addressed an issue we
1:33:40 came up with strategies and we're
1:33:42 implementing them you know and so I just
1:33:43 I as we still have these other areas
1:33:46 that aren't being addressed it's so
1:33:48 again it's more of a comment and like a
1:33:49 question of saying like how do we have
1:33:52 communicate a target and how do we have
1:33:55 a reach that goal I think that was a
1:33:56 good suggestion I've got that down for
1:33:58 next year thank you so just kind of
1:34:00 following on that this seems like a
1:34:03 something that the city really needs to
1:34:07 get their arms around and really look at
1:34:09 constantly and it would be nice to have
1:34:13 somebody that's actually dedicated to
1:34:15 making sure that you know things are
1:34:19 going along the way they're supposed to
1:34:21 I know you're in 50 different areas and
1:34:24 there's sometimes not enough time to do
1:34:27 a lot of this stuff and it would be
1:34:28 really nice to have someone I know it's
1:34:31 budgetary and all that but it would be
1:34:33 really nice to have somebody that's
1:34:35 actually looking at this day to day
1:34:37 looking at the problems and going out
1:34:39 meeting people and and doing stuff the
1:34:42 second thing I want to say now that
1:34:43 legislation is passed on condos it would
1:34:49 be really nice to have some type of
1:34:53 initiative or encouragement for
1:34:57 Builders to build condos because that's
1:35:00 one way that people can develop wealth
1:35:04 and they feel that they belong to the
1:35:08 city and are more interested in getting
1:35:11 involved in the city so I think that
1:35:14 that's a big part of what we need to do
1:35:18 we got a lot of apartments but now we
1:35:20 need condos so we have choices for
1:35:24 people to to do this and build their
1:35:28 their wealth through that well and the
1:35:32 downsizing as well I mean it kind of
1:35:34 goes from both ends of that spectrum you
1:35:36 know I know but y'all you have to have
1:35:38 everything you have to happy if we want
1:35:41 to have a vibrant city everybody is
1:35:44 going to have to have the opportunity to
1:35:46 find something that they want besides
1:35:48 cost yeah to to make this a livable and
1:35:52 inclusionary place to live and I just
1:35:56 think condos are extremely important to
1:35:59 to the city and I think every through
1:36:03 the legislation that what was it a a
1:36:06 gazillion to zero that passed this
1:36:08 legislation that you know there are
1:36:12 definitely reasons why this needs to be
1:36:14 done and all the cities are working on
1:36:16 it so they're all right I'm concerned I
1:36:19 don't I just don't want apartments I
1:36:21 would I want condos that people can
1:36:23 afford so that they can feel like they
1:36:26 are part of the community but for those
1:36:28 for those who don't know back in 2009
1:36:31 so prior to 2009 when people were
1:36:34 building condominiums particular there
1:36:37 were lots of issues with water leakage
1:36:39 and other things that came up and for
1:36:41 that reason and it just wasn't quality
1:36:43 construction and so for that reason the
1:36:46 state passed a bill it's making it
1:36:49 easier for condominium owners to sue
1:36:53 developers to fix those problems that
1:36:56 they were having and over the years it
1:36:59 just became easier there were it just be
1:37:01 it opened up a little bit so condo
1:37:04 owners were able to sue for many more
1:37:06 things than they could initially
1:37:08 that it was initially intended for and
1:37:09 that then developer said I'm not going
1:37:12 to do condos anymore and because of this
1:37:15 legislation so that is what happened and
1:37:17 that is what we they just quit and they
1:37:19 became townhomes instead or apartments
1:37:21 instead and then you have that missing
1:37:23 middle because you don't have condos as
1:37:24 a part of it and so that is what we put
1:37:27 in our strategic plan to lobby for this
1:37:30 year was to amend that bill to get rid
1:37:35 of those deterrents so that people would
1:37:37 start to build condos again so actually
1:37:40 to John's point is there any checks and
1:37:44 balances between apartment ratios versus
1:37:46 condos at the city level the city level
1:37:51 no well a little bit when we do our yes
1:37:56 RC is the Puget Sound Regional Council
1:37:58 and every year we submit housing counts
1:38:00 to them and part of that we're supposed
1:38:01 to identify which of those are
1:38:02 condominiums in which of those are well
1:38:05 just which of those are condominiums
1:38:06 well there is a poor ratio there's no
1:38:09 Kappa ratio but we are we are required
1:38:11 with tracking note which ones are condos
1:38:13 and they count townhomes as condos would
1:38:16 it be wise for us to put some sort of
1:38:18 throttle in there to say we don't want a
1:38:20 hundred percent of apartments we wanted
1:38:22 what are you or sixty percent of the
1:38:24 economy diems well this is when I wish I
1:38:26 had a Meramec development hand because
1:38:28 really it's the market and it drives
1:38:29 that we want to have options for them
1:38:32 and we want to we want to kind of not be
1:38:34 able to know them in the way that we
1:38:36 want to but it's hard for the city to
1:38:38 rule the market because we don't build
1:38:40 houses we try to set the tone so the
1:38:43 right stuff will come and and sometimes
1:38:46 we need to tweak it with our regulations
1:38:48 that's why there was a moratorium we
1:38:50 tweaked a lot of the regulations for
1:38:52 housing to get the more of the kinds
1:38:54 that the council wanted the community
1:38:56 wanted right honey goes back to like the
1:38:59 things we've worked on a code like where
1:39:01 we've said that we can do storage where
1:39:04 you know what I mean like it's actually
1:39:05 we we have the tools that we have we
1:39:07 have our toolbox to be able to encourage
1:39:11 what we want to see right I'm more
1:39:14 concerned with encouraging where to
1:39:17 place them
1:39:18 and necessarily what kind of housing
1:39:23 goes in there I just want the city to
1:39:26 design the city and not willy-nilly do
1:39:30 whatever any developer once can do I
1:39:34 just want you guys to have your
1:39:37 long-range plan and said the city is
1:39:39 going to look like this and it's going
1:39:40 to be great and we're going to have this
1:39:42 here and this there and and it
1:39:46 automatically appears I think I follow
1:39:51 up on page 27 just go through your what
1:39:54 you call your actions Chris and just
1:39:55 done so I understand where we are in
1:39:57 each one of these actions there's five
1:39:58 of them so therefore I'm not going to
1:40:00 read them out because everybody can read
1:40:01 them so are you saying that there are
1:40:04 implementation plans yes there are well
1:40:08 they're at which page actually he's
1:40:10 talking about the packet and I went
1:40:11 straight to them not to the report card
1:40:12 but he's talking about the packet we do
1:40:14 have an implementation it's a it's a
1:40:16 table a big table that has each one its
1:40:19 topic in there and then the steps that
1:40:21 we it's not in there Trisha no okay so
1:40:25 is that getting at your comment in that
1:40:27 part of those implementation plans are
1:40:29 we already moving towards a checklist oh
1:40:32 right we have we have it's just it's an
1:40:34 internal checklist it's a sort of a
1:40:36 table for each one of these and what
1:40:38 exactly needs to be done and which
1:40:39 departments going to do that and you
1:40:41 know do any consultants or is that
1:40:43 something we can do in-house and that
1:40:45 that kind of thing that's what we have
1:40:46 it'll be overkill to send up to give us
1:40:48 that then is that the because we're I
1:40:51 think your idea of a check how we're
1:40:52 doing progress is is a great one going
1:40:54 so is there some modification of that
1:40:57 that in future sessions could be
1:40:59 provided us I think we could clean it up
1:41:01 and perhaps just a question so I'm just
1:41:05 trying to track it are we talking about
1:41:06 missing middle no we're just talking
1:41:08 about this the nine strategies and how
1:41:10 we have the implementation tables
1:41:12 oh we've worked on for each of those and
1:41:14 what needs to be done and who's going to
1:41:16 do that right that's what they're
1:41:18 talking about is what we have in-house
1:41:20 we yeah we could clean it I don't want
1:41:26 to make them work it's not the idea it's
1:41:28 back to the checklist of progress and it
1:41:30 sounds like
1:41:31 yeah I thought it was a good idea so I
1:41:32 thought we could include that next year
1:41:34 so that's number what about number two
1:41:37 Poly policy considerations require
1:41:38 additional analysis provide white papers
1:41:40 and you've got some dates truly eighteen
1:41:42 to nineteen is that where are we on that
1:41:46 are you looking at country no that's
1:41:49 actually in the strategy and we the
1:41:52 white papers it turned out were actually
1:41:55 it's at the end it's right before that
1:41:57 the original report cards actions on its
1:42:03 of the housing strategy its page twenty
1:42:06 seven but on the packet it's 121 it's
1:42:08 gonna say mines blank I'm so urgent
1:42:11 things 121 of 149 so we don't we didn't
1:42:16 do white papers as much as we come to
1:42:19 you all like with the accessory dwelling
1:42:22 units we came to you with the staff
1:42:23 report we let you know what the barriers
1:42:25 are where we let you know that code
1:42:27 amendments you know they shorten the
1:42:29 process it's less money now to have one
1:42:32 to develop one and so we share this not
1:42:35 as a white paper but as a staff report
1:42:37 on the code amendments and then you
1:42:39 voted to recommend approval to the
1:42:41 council so it's not as much a white
1:42:43 paper as we thought it might be number
1:42:46 form on our successful strategies and
1:42:49 provide the City Council with success
1:42:50 metrics this beginning December 2018
1:42:53 where are we on that
1:42:54 well that's would be the report card
1:42:56 that you're looking at eighteen and then
1:42:59 we crafted it into a report card a
1:43:02 little late but we had to figure out
1:43:03 what it was going to look like right
1:43:05 because the first first one and then
1:43:07 we'll update this and maybe we'll have
1:43:09 some of the nine maybe that we didn't
1:43:11 get through
1:43:12 or maybe there'll be nine new ones or
1:43:14 maybe five new ones or whatever but
1:43:15 we'll revisit the whole strategy in 2022
1:43:18 you chose that date because it gives you
1:43:21 time to go through the entire nine right
1:43:24 because we wanted to sort of an
1:43:26 accelerated we didn't want it to be a
1:43:29 20-year plan because we wanted to be
1:43:30 sure we hit the the big ones that we
1:43:32 wanted to hit as soon as we could so
1:43:34 that's why it's a shorter timeframe and
1:43:36 there were only nine I just I say only
1:43:39 there were nine to try to move the me
1:43:41 in that I think it's three or five years
1:43:44 we were trying to to really hit those
1:43:47 nine and maybe in 2022 we will have hit
1:43:50 eight out of nine really well and you
1:43:52 know who knows where we'll go with the
1:43:54 next one I love the idea of the report
1:43:57 card because you know we've talked a lot
1:43:59 about how the community is changing and
1:44:02 growing and everybody having different
1:44:05 opinions about it and I think it gives a
1:44:06 really concrete way for citizens to see
1:44:09 not just there's these giant buildings
1:44:11 coming up what are these changes were
1:44:13 able to actually see how these micro
1:44:15 changes kind of contribute to the whole
1:44:17 I'm curious if we're gonna be doing the
1:44:20 same thing with like a jobs economic
1:44:22 report card
1:44:23 I'll ask economic development if they're
1:44:26 gonna do that and then if they do they
1:44:27 can come present it will be coming
1:44:37 though sometime this summer with this
1:44:39 central Issaquah monitoring report that
1:44:40 we do see the process yes the other
1:44:44 question I have a question do we the
1:44:47 people that are already in affordable
1:44:48 housing do we know if they are not
1:44:51 spending more than 30% of their budgets
1:44:54 on that they are wired that they are
1:44:58 required when they go in to purchase or
1:45:00 to rent they have to prove what their
1:45:03 income is so we know that as they go in
1:45:05 there they are
1:45:06 as far as monitoring beyond that I know
1:45:09 that there's talk about doing some
1:45:11 additional monitoring annually I'm to
1:45:15 ensure that they still comply with it
1:45:16 for the when they purchase is there a
1:45:20 path on how the house appreciates or the
1:45:25 kind of appreciate there is there is a
1:45:27 formula oh and do it yesterday
1:45:31 arts usually does this for me but it's
1:45:33 it's based on the original purchase
1:45:34 price plus you look at market rate and
1:45:37 that how much that is increased in the
1:45:39 needed percentage add those two together
1:45:40 need a percentage of it or something
1:45:42 like that but there is if there is a
1:45:43 definite formula that is used and it's
1:45:46 in the D and I can market rate pardon me
1:45:48 it's in the deed if there is a covenant
1:45:49 that's attached to each one of these
1:45:51 units that is sold and rented
1:45:53 and that that's where it's defined thank
1:45:56 you we've talked about that too in terms
1:45:58 of one of our strategies of being able
1:46:00 to help people remodel homes and be able
1:46:04 to stay in place rather than having tear
1:46:07 downs and the idea too is to have some
1:46:09 sort of accountability so that taxpayers
1:46:11 aren't footing people to basically flip
1:46:13 a house and then sell it and be able to
1:46:15 take that profit it's specifically for
1:46:17 vulnerable members of the community to
1:46:18 be able to stay in homes that need to
1:46:20 have upgrades and things like that so
1:46:21 we've kind of talked about other things
1:46:23 related to them that's part of strategy
1:46:25 number nine anything else from you guys
1:46:31 yes so thank you good work having the
1:46:38 meetings with all the different
1:46:41 organizations I think did a really good
1:46:44 job of understanding where we are and
1:46:46 what we need to get there so and it was
1:46:49 interesting to be part of one of them so
1:46:54 as you notice so far tonight we have not
1:46:57 followed the agenda and so when you're a
1:47:02 chair you can basically you know they
1:47:05 look at you and say oh don't do that but
1:47:07 your chair so you can do what everyone
1:47:10 so at this point in time I would open it
1:47:14 up to audience comments but seeing
1:47:18 nobody here I think we're just going to
1:47:22 go through we move into training John
1:47:25 yeah we're gonna no we're gonna actually
1:47:28 what we're gonna do is have the election
1:47:32 for chair and vice-chair and so I would
1:47:35 like the chair would entertain any
1:47:39 motion - oh for anybody hang on the role
1:47:43 of the chair general over the hell you
1:47:45 want to go through that don't go through
1:47:46 long if we would have read our packet we
1:47:48 would have read it in the bylaws though
1:47:49 awesome you get a bonus points so
1:47:57 how people after listening to all the
1:48:00 comments tonight and the concern and
1:48:02 interest I think that everybody here has
1:48:04 read every word that word so I don't I
1:48:08 actually have read it but I forgot that
1:48:10 it was in there I just wanted to make
1:48:12 sure that everybody knew what what the
1:48:15 job can was and whatever so at that
1:48:18 point in time yes now you can now I can
1:48:21 open it up to recommendations or
1:48:23 nominations for and we're going to do
1:48:26 the chair first so does anybody have a
1:48:29 nomination I do I would like to nominate
1:48:32 Joan to be the chair as the second
1:48:35 longest-serving member of the Planning
1:48:36 Policy Commission I found her leadership
1:48:39 to be excellent I served on a couple
1:48:41 different Commission's and I'll tell you
1:48:43 that the chair really flavors how these
1:48:44 meetings go and I'm a big proponent of
1:48:47 how Joan runs our meetings and I look to
1:48:50 her to be our fearless leader both in
1:48:51 here and outside and I would nominate
1:48:53 Joan to continue in the role she would
1:48:55 accept it before anybody's seconds after
1:49:00 motion this is my last year on the
1:49:03 committee in two years right aren't you
1:49:05 one so your slot that you're filling is
1:49:08 only it just the way things worked
1:49:11 outside anyway this is my last last year
1:49:14 and so I don't know if you would want
1:49:16 somebody else to take over I mean I
1:49:19 certainly I enjoy being there I just I
1:49:24 do but it's up to you who you want to be
1:49:30 chair of understanding that this is my
1:49:32 last year I don't know if you know you
1:49:35 want to groom somebody else you want I
1:49:37 don't know what you want to do so does
1:49:39 anybody else have a recommendation does
1:49:43 anybody else want to be sure I would I
1:49:49 think there several of us would be happy
1:49:51 to share that
1:49:54 that role if you were not inclined to I
1:49:57 don't think then that chair would sit
1:49:58 empty but I would again state that I
1:50:00 think that your leadership is wonderful
1:50:03 and so maybe that puts more pressure on
1:50:05 vice-chair well that's you know it's
1:50:10 it's up to you guys what you want to do
1:50:12 and so I will do whatever you want to do
1:50:19 so again I will ask if anybody else have
1:50:24 any so I have a question for Trish yes I
1:50:29 can't be the chair I'm kidding
1:50:31 answer your question why I like I second
1:50:36 the motion for Joan but if Joan doesn't
1:50:40 want to do it or if she wants to kind of
1:50:43 maybe groom someone else can we put
1:50:45 these positions and are rotating so
1:50:48 they're not locked in for a year or so
1:50:50 in other words we can be sure that
1:50:52 bylaws say you have to have a chair in a
1:50:54 vice chair and I think we talked about
1:50:56 it at another time and we can certainly
1:51:00 have people do those kinds of duties but
1:51:03 there has to be a chair and a vice chair
1:51:05 and they have to be the same for the
1:51:06 whole year
1:51:07 understood so there are several people
1:51:09 that are not here right there are two
1:51:12 members one person that has moved on
1:51:15 from the Development Commission has been
1:51:18 on the development condition for a long
1:51:20 time and two other two other two new
1:51:26 people to new people did but hello Jason
1:51:29 got moved to regular from being an
1:51:31 alternate oh you're right Brandi that's
1:51:34 a saint that is that's yes Randy I
1:51:37 didn't see that connection when I was
1:51:39 reading the names what Randy yeah yeah
1:51:42 he's coming over so so are you proposing
1:51:50 that we hold off until we have a full I
1:51:52 know I'm just I'm just wondering if
1:51:55 maybe there's somebody that is in here
1:51:57 that you might want to consider at least
1:52:03 breather either one of the
1:52:07 [Laughter]
1:52:10 okay you got a fan club gonna own I lost
1:52:13 eight the vote happens on the first day
1:52:15 of the first of the new term something
1:52:25 like that I will second the motion to
1:52:30 have Joan as our chair since you are
1:52:36 technically the vice chairman that you
1:52:38 called or call that okay so all those in
1:52:42 favor aye aye those substained climb
1:52:47 nope motion passes
1:52:49 Joan you are our new chair ah a new old
1:52:53 chair very nice
1:52:57 there you go okay so you need a vice
1:52:59 chair you can continue on you can what
1:53:05 is your pleasure to you continue on
1:53:09 I nominate somebody last year so if
1:53:15 somebody's turned to nominate somebody
1:53:18 so no need you actually like to nominate
1:53:21 joy well no as our Vice Chair do not
1:53:26 want to be vice chair anymore I'd love
1:53:28 to be our vice chair
1:53:29 well I also want to share the role which
1:53:31 means I actually got to do it a whole
1:53:33 two times well if you could one steer
1:53:35 into the future would you like to be
1:53:38 groomed for chair I think you would yeah
1:53:42 so I would be happy to nominate to
1:53:47 nominate you to be continued to be our
1:53:48 Vice Chair I think you've done a
1:53:49 wonderful job in the last year and I
1:53:52 think you enjoy it and right now like
1:53:54 we've talked before I mean really
1:53:55 knowing Robert's Rules of Order and
1:53:57 having a flow of it is really the clutch
1:54:01 the position so if something happened
1:54:04 and we were without both of you in a
1:54:06 year I think that the positions would
1:54:08 continue on just fine so I would love to
1:54:11 have the status quo go on I have no
1:54:13 problem with that whatsoever as long as
1:54:14 you want that
1:54:15 yeah like the honored I've got our to
1:54:18 take your vote okay okay so it's I can
1:54:21 moved in second it so all those in favor
1:54:24 of having our illustrious run be Vice
1:54:28 Chair if we say Ives I oppose Austria's
1:54:33 okay hooray that's alright
1:54:37 so with that we are going to move on to
1:54:40 the fun section but very fun of this and
1:54:43 I think we're gonna move down to right
1:54:46 but quick question how does this differ
1:54:48 from the training occurring on the toei
1:54:49 ninth on the way think i'm the 29th is
1:54:52 going to be legal training about things
1:54:57 that you can and can't do the Open
1:55:00 Meetings Act you know can three of you
1:55:03 go meet somewhere and talk about policy
1:55:05 issues those kinds of things that I
1:55:07 usually sort of skim over and then I
1:55:09 have you watch a video but the attorney
1:55:11 and the clerk actually wanted to give
1:55:13 you that training in person so it would
1:55:15 be you and that Development Commission
1:55:17 and it should be a lot of fun to have
1:55:20 them here and and staff will be here too
1:55:22 because we always learn new things and
1:55:24 then of course you can ask them all the
1:55:25 questions that you want well years ago
1:55:28 that every year because of litigation
1:55:32 you know just to keep ourselves
1:55:34 protected on what we can and can't do in
1:55:36 meetings years ago used to set out
1:55:38 emails about when trainings were around
1:55:40 the area and while we weren't required
1:55:42 to go to them I remember I went to one
1:55:45 up in Mill Creek so various that's the
1:55:48 state training that right with
1:55:49 management in that but this is what Bill
1:55:51 is talking about is our attorney and our
1:55:53 city clerk are talking about Issaquah
1:55:55 issues right so Wednesday will just be
1:55:58 for us it's not going to be something
1:55:59 that's attended it's not going to be a
1:56:00 state thing correct and I'll still send
1:56:02 you those when they're available when
1:56:03 they're in our area because those are
1:56:05 super good trainings so the question
1:56:07 comes up that everybody cannot appear on
1:56:11 the 29th so what are the right then if
1:56:15 you cannot be there on the 29th you need
1:56:18 to watch the video and you need to sign
1:56:20 something that says that you've watched
1:56:22 it and that you're aware of the things
1:56:24 that you can and cannot do
1:56:26 so that the city is protected and that
1:56:29 you all are protected if something
1:56:32 should happen that's something that
1:56:34 somebody does doesn't follow the rules
1:56:37 and there's an issue so we're trying to
1:56:40 keep all of us protected at the things
1:56:42 you can and can't do when you're doing
1:56:44 City volunteer business and so you just
1:56:47 need you know we'd give you a few weeks
1:56:48 to watch the video sign the form and
1:56:51 then we're all good to go
1:56:52 does that sound ok if you can't actually
1:56:55 be there okay so you'd have to watch the
1:56:59 video but you could have popcorn and
1:57:01 heckle the screen I mean it might be
1:57:03 kind of fun to watch it instead of doing
1:57:06 there's no popcorn on the Wednesday I
1:57:07 mean but you can heckle anybody possibly
1:57:19 all of it yeah that was the trish
1:57:21 training I always bring but you might
1:57:27 maybe sit down with fish for a few
1:57:30 minutes or somebody for just if you have
1:57:32 any questions after you've even the
1:57:34 video sure just understand because you
1:57:38 don't want to get into trouble with some
1:57:43 of the things that we do and say yes
1:57:45 okay so with that I won't be here you
1:57:49 know okay you have to watch the video
1:57:53 and watch my video okay I will
1:57:54 definitely watch the video I will sign
1:57:56 my paperwork okay I'll ask you any
1:57:58 question that I have that yes please
1:58:00 stop and answer the last few years
1:58:03 sure with that we're gonna do yes we're
1:58:06 gonna move down towards cozier and the
1:58:09 TV audience just hang on while we all
1:58:10 move to our RSI and what we're gonna try
1:58:13 and do before I leave the microphone
1:58:15 Oh for those of you that are new to the
1:58:17 microphones if you're not speaking right
1:58:18 into them the our wonderful guy up in
1:58:21 the booth will flash the red light that
1:58:24 means that the world out that's
1:58:25 listening to us can't hear you so try to
1:58:27 you know be close to the mic but we'd
1:58:31 like you to sit on
1:58:33 it sort of in teams if you with some
1:58:35 veterans and some new folks on each team
1:58:38 so that you all can help each other with
1:58:40 some of the questions that we'll be
1:58:42 asking should we be taking notes or some
1:59:06 and again this isn't there won't be a
1:59:09 test at the end on you know who gets an
1:59:11 A and who doesn't get any answers right
1:59:13 because truthfully is we were putting
1:59:15 the PowerPoint together
1:59:16 I had trouble remembering some of them
1:59:18 and that was really bad and then our
1:59:22 staff our illustrious staff Kristin and
1:59:24 Emily will each beyond helping a team to
1:59:27 sort of giving you clues and trying to
1:59:30 help you remember because we know that
1:59:31 you know most all of the answers yeah
1:59:37 it's similar it's similar but we because
1:59:42 we're on camera I can't be throwing
1:59:43 candy like I have in the past which is
1:59:46 really sad because that was one of my
1:59:47 favorite parts but I all the years I've
1:59:51 been doing this I used to just be and
1:59:53 just to be super great yeah when they
1:59:56 had a right answer they got candy here
1:59:59 that works for you yeah so let's see we
2:00:03 have some new and some veterans and some
2:00:06 new and some veterans awesome
2:00:12 and again those that are veterans um you
2:00:17 don't have to answer immediately try to
2:00:19 help you know this is for training even
2:00:21 though it supposed to be fun training
2:00:22 and it's to help your team understand
2:00:25 what's being asked and what we're
2:00:27 talking about and again this isn't the
2:00:29 only training will ever have it's just
2:00:31 sort of diving into all the big things
2:00:34 that we do and then when we actually
2:00:36 come back and amend things or have
2:00:38 specific meetings on certain topics
2:00:40 we'll dig deeper into the topic but this
2:00:43 is sort of you know to dive off the
2:00:45 diving board into the deep end of all
2:00:46 the things that planning policy
2:00:48 Commission does so don't feel
2:00:50 overwhelmed it's supposed to be training
2:00:51 who are you pointing in oh oh okay
2:01:03 I'm oh and you need you're getting
2:01:04 blinked at Emily you want to introduce
2:01:07 yourself to the members most of the
2:01:09 members know you but Tom and Robyn
2:01:11 probably don't yes I introduced myself
2:01:14 to Tom and Robyn before the meeting but
2:01:16 for the record my name is Emily or
2:01:19 Tiffany I'm the Senior Planner here at
2:01:21 the city of Issaquah I'm relatively new
2:01:23 I've been here for about nine months and
2:01:26 I'm happy to meet you and she's on this
2:01:29 team and that the dividing line is is
2:01:31 Ron and Emily okay and no cheating no
2:01:36 there is no such thing as cheating but
2:01:39 again that the spirit of this is to help
2:01:41 folks understand what we do and how we
2:01:44 do it and when we do it and so well I
2:01:48 think we're gonna go to group by group
2:01:52 these are all the topics that we'll talk
2:01:55 about tonight but again we won't dive
2:01:57 deep into all of them but we'll just
2:01:58 sort of skim over them many many topics
2:02:01 and again the real training the legal
2:02:04 training is the twenty-ninth so you
2:02:07 already know this so team a joy team
2:02:12 know do you have a name joy team what is
2:02:22 pp C's May
2:02:23 main reason for existence you gave you
2:02:26 some clues in some little letters there
2:02:28 you serve as a PA be to the mayor and
2:02:33 you provide G and D or its akua's F and
2:02:37 G through continued review to the city's
2:02:41 CEP with a star notice there's a star by
2:02:44 the yellow CP and christen you have to
2:02:46 quit laughter don't related luc with
2:02:50 another stars so joy team you get can
2:02:55 you talk amongst yourselves of what some
2:02:57 of the letters might be and Emily
2:02:58 remember you're just giving clues you
2:03:00 can't give answers I could see I could
2:03:02 see what was happening there I had a
2:03:06 sense and remember there's some bonus
2:03:08 points to with asterisks
2:03:36 if tom has questions
2:03:38 Tom feel free to ask those veterans what
2:03:40 they're talking about it okay cool
2:03:43 well that's why we chose you because we
2:03:45 knew you'd just be a crackerjack at this
2:03:47 awesome
2:03:49 what let me know when you're let me know
2:03:54 when you're ready to if you need to
2:03:59 phone a friend you can phone a friend on
2:04:00 the other team bet they are they're
2:04:03 awesome that's why they were chosen no
2:04:07 you need to wait for this team to answer
2:04:12 be patient grasshopper what's your
2:04:18 what's this team name you guys are the
2:04:20 what but the whole team okay hang on sir
2:04:27 you need to be the polite build team and
2:04:29 respectful bill team you ready to go oh
2:04:37 you're not you've got a B you're Mike
2:04:39 you're getting blinked and also Jones a
2:04:45 lot of the mics aren't on they need to
2:04:46 be read the joy joy is going the joy is
2:04:59 a policy Advisory Board is our first
2:05:02 line answers and we provide guidance and
2:05:04 direction for is akua's future growth
2:05:07 you're the continued review and
2:05:08 implementation to the cities the comp
2:05:12 plan grants a plan and related land use
2:05:17 code you heard our answers Jack we gotta
2:05:24 work on your attitude over there sir
2:05:26 so well done joy team well done and how
2:05:34 about the asterisks you get any bonus
2:05:35 points
2:05:37 the yellow what would can you name one
2:05:40 of the asterisks that were using the
2:05:43 yellow or the red ones
2:05:53 because if you said that the yellow was
2:05:55 the comprehensive plan can you name any
2:05:58 of those it would fit the category of
2:06:02 the comprehensive plan maybe a smaller
2:06:07 part of the comprehensive plan you
2:06:10 mentioned it earlier that also might
2:06:12 start with a similar letter as the
2:06:14 comprehensive plan that was what I was
2:06:21 looking for any others okay that was
2:06:28 just when I was right and maybe they
2:06:31 would you could throw them a bone and
2:06:33 see if they could name another of them
2:06:53 oh I know I know I can do this one old
2:06:58 town doing this and how about the red
2:07:08 asterisks love it's the heartland
2:07:12 Unicode so would be about like you know
2:07:20 the amount of like permeable space in
2:07:23 centralism own are there are like
2:07:27 Harker's now are there certain are there
2:07:29 different perhaps land use coats that
2:07:32 you know we do have we have different
2:07:34 land use codes depending on where you
2:07:35 are in the city so our central isn't law
2:07:37 is going to be different than being
2:07:39 greater and are there any well ban you
2:07:42 that you're right Jones gonna say we
2:07:43 only needed a say one so yes you get the
2:07:45 bonus points but are there any others
2:07:47 that you all know of any other land use
2:07:49 coats we're willing to share
2:07:54 look at the attitude over there we
2:08:07 hoping for some trash talk at the next
2:08:10 one okay so can we move on does anyone
2:08:12 have any questions about how cool it is
2:08:15 that PPC gets to do oh one more bonus
2:08:19 point for all of you
2:08:21 how many name the times when planning
2:08:25 policy actually makes a decision here
2:08:30 zero Adam zero you are an advisory board
2:08:35 you don't ever get to make decisions
2:08:39 it's so important though because there's
2:08:42 so many things that you cannot get in
2:08:44 trouble for if you're an advisory group
2:08:46 versus quasi yeah so that in some ways
2:08:50 that's that's a real bonus for us yes
2:08:55 yes it is so cool so here it is with all
2:09:01 the bonus ones in there I'm policy does
2:09:05 so many amazing things I think that's
2:09:07 one of the reasons many of our fearless
2:09:11 PPC members have made it to Council over
2:09:13 the years because the training here is
2:09:15 from land use to policy to funding kinds
2:09:20 of questions that we get in this
2:09:21 comprehensive plan it's just a really
2:09:24 great all-around training so the build
2:09:27 team are you ready for the next question
2:09:29 this is working well they're people
2:09:31 learning things film in those nodding
2:09:36 thank you but off okay
2:09:38 the build team Oh see and Randy's not
2:09:41 here to be the ringer on this the
2:09:43 development Commission this is so you
2:09:45 understand why you're different than
2:09:47 your brothers and sisters on the
2:09:48 development commission a review land-use
2:09:53 actions requiring a level 3 review and
2:09:56 some of you might remember we just
2:09:57 amended some pieces of the level 3 or
2:09:59 you J is not in her head she came
2:10:01 prepared for this guys just so you know
2:10:03 joy isn't ready and it's described in
2:10:07 the luc and the CID and D s and you the
2:10:13 bill team name not only give me all the
2:10:17 alphabet soup there but what are two
2:10:19 actions that the Development Commission
2:10:22 recently reviewed and they also serve as
2:10:27 an AE to the City Council on land-use
2:10:31 actions which ones have they advised the
2:10:36 council on that's the second part so how
2:10:40 are we doing I see oh now only bill is
2:10:42 doing this okay that's good yeah land
2:10:55 use code I centralist law development
2:10:59 lion standards yes yes and two actions
2:11:04 advisory board well they're so bullet
2:11:08 though that what's the first bullet can
2:11:09 you name two actions that DC recently
2:11:12 reviewed as a level three meaning they
2:11:17 actually do hear something across my
2:11:18 arms okay that's perfect I think it
2:11:21 helps the it helps them
2:11:22 so two things that they actually
2:11:34 well I always have it in there because
2:11:36 some people don't know what the
2:11:37 difference between DC that DC actually
2:11:39 looks at projects and you all look at
2:11:41 big picture work pieces right but some
2:11:47 people have trouble with you know they
2:11:49 seem like they're similar but they're so
2:11:50 different really and what they do and
2:11:53 how they so how are the Ponder's doing
2:12:13 see you guys could get like disgruntled
2:12:16 at them they're taking so long
2:12:21 how's it going over there
2:12:29 miss Li well it's a level three reviews
2:12:32 I'm thinking as an action a proposed to
2:12:34 action but which level three reviews has
2:12:39 DC recently reviewed or ever reviewed if
2:12:41 you're having troubles I take one at
2:12:51 this moment okay I believe they did look
2:12:57 at in this one they did look at that one
2:13:03 the IBM vote not the at Elizabeth Alice
2:13:06 yeah okay and so the second part is
2:13:09 there also an a/b to the City Council
2:13:12 it's requiring notice legally
2:13:14 I'll give you the clue requiring council
2:13:17 approval so that helps you know what the
2:13:21 a B stands for eyes regard god yes yes
2:13:25 do you know two of those or one that
2:13:28 they advise the council on we did the
2:13:33 yes we did
2:13:42 you need a this is why we shouldn't be
2:13:49 on camera you do understand that you're
2:13:51 not trying to be my diploma that's a
2:13:59 plan you didn't get the club history
2:14:05 since the story of my life you need to
2:14:23 phone a friend
2:14:32 lame disagreements did the land use
2:14:35 agreements bellman yeah the development
2:14:48 Lanie's okay are they ready to say a lot
2:14:52 they said and so when it's the a be said
2:14:56 it's a what was the a B stand for
2:14:58 advisor report okay and what's something
2:15:01 that they've reviewed that way
2:15:02 development code development agreements
2:15:05 right aren't any projects what they
2:15:08 would have reviewed they just don't make
2:15:11 me a master site plan they reduce ager
2:15:13 then we do the talus land land use
2:15:16 agreement terminating development
2:15:18 agreement right development agreement
2:15:19 and then we
2:15:20 to the development agreement for yeah
2:15:26 they do well we'll take those and then
2:15:29 and then the bonus is how is DC
2:15:32 different than PPC we're better well I'm
2:15:38 not going to say that I can't we are an
2:15:39 advisory board and they're a hearing
2:15:42 right but were they listening joy did
2:15:52 Bill get it yeah we do policy they deal
2:15:54 with could and so but what is the what
2:15:57 is the key though that one of you all
2:15:59 can do and the other one never does so
2:16:08 what does that mean so DC actually makes
2:16:10 land-use decisions
2:16:13 that's what's different that's what's
2:16:15 that's the big difference between the
2:16:16 two groups if DC actually made the
2:16:22 decision it was not council that made
2:16:24 the decision on anthology which is
2:16:26 gateway in Newport Way and rebel and
2:16:29 Atlas the blue building and the the
2:16:32 first one that went through the central
2:16:34 standards was Taco Time on one on two
2:16:36 21st so those all were totally
2:16:38 Development Commission council did not
2:16:40 not approve you know they did not make a
2:16:43 decision on that but the ones that they
2:16:45 only advised city councilor master site
2:16:47 plans on where the school so I was
2:16:49 trying this was my mortar board hat for
2:16:51 graduating but I can tell it was
2:16:53 completely lost but they do master site
2:16:56 plans they also did confluence park the
2:16:58 Development Commission just advised so
2:17:01 very good are you ready joy team
2:17:04 what is GMA hoping you've all heard
2:17:08 about it at least in passing over these
2:17:10 many years
2:17:11 when was it enacted it's the state
2:17:13 growth Management Act that's that's a
2:17:16 clue right there that's what GMA stands
2:17:18 for it was enacted in IE one year I'm
2:17:21 looking for the year as it plays into
2:17:24 the future education that we're gonna do
2:17:26 and it provides a framework for our
2:17:29 coordination
2:17:31 it requires si to adopt countywide
2:17:34 planning policies to guide cities plans
2:17:38 and it requires the establishment of a
2:17:42 you G a and the big hint is the arrow is
2:17:47 pointing to something near Issaquah that
2:17:50 is very near and dear to us provides
2:18:14 framework for regional coordination
2:18:26 requires cities to adopt citywide
2:18:29 planning policies to guide city plans
2:18:32 require the south establishment of a
2:18:33 group urban gross
2:18:43 well it's usually urban growth boundary
2:18:46 so I don't know what the a boundary Mary
2:18:50 yes Oh Don joy team came to work tonight
2:18:56 any questions on your answer what a hit
2:19:06 arrow is pointing to Issaquah it's not
2:19:09 quite updated because I couldn't find a
2:19:10 new map but the red line is the urban do
2:19:15 I have it on the next map
2:19:16 well I don't have the arrow but the
2:19:18 urban growth area that was set by the
2:19:21 state and the counties meant that no
2:19:23 urban services could go beyond that line
2:19:26 one of the tenants of the urban growth
2:19:29 GMA was that we weren't having sprawl
2:19:32 all over the place and all the rural
2:19:34 lands were getting developed and there
2:19:36 wasn't enough water and infrastructure
2:19:38 so they were trying to make urban growth
2:19:40 he efficiently done and so they drew
2:19:43 lines so that you couldn't grow he
2:19:45 couldn't add sewer and potable new water
2:19:48 and all that outside these lines to try
2:19:51 to keep the sprawl from happening and so
2:19:53 it's a quoi is lucky to have the urban
2:19:57 growth line as actually part of our
2:19:59 boundary and so we have the best of all
2:20:01 the worlds we have our urban world
2:20:03 inside the city and our rural wonderful
2:20:06 environmental world right outside our
2:20:08 city limits and part of it actually is
2:20:10 in the city limits that we've kept
2:20:11 preserved so the city's just in a
2:20:14 marvelous position as you can see from
2:20:15 the map all the green that's around
2:20:17 supplies is protected open space well
2:20:22 any questions on our illustrious UGA and
2:20:25 urban growth and GMA it's a fine thing
2:20:30 are you guys ready over there hmm
2:20:33 name five state growth Management Act
2:20:37 goals there are 14 and think of what
2:20:40 they were trying to solve
2:20:41 I gave many hints in just that quick
2:20:43 little and yet I did
2:20:47 sprawl there was problems good the new
2:20:59 guy good shot
2:21:04 so hey there's 13 mar 2 2014 for her hey
2:21:20 housing yep hey recitation while green
2:21:35 green years it seems big space space
2:21:45 [Music]
2:22:00 improve water use well I didn't think of
2:22:04 that with you guys but water retention
2:22:10 clean water that would work
2:22:13 what's a patient what can you add any of
2:22:17 the other class role how many are left
2:22:19 10 or nine eight I'll take any other
2:22:24 things what the state has been worried
2:22:25 about
2:22:33 Oh what goes on I
2:22:42 [Music]
2:22:46 forgiveness
2:22:56 [Music]
2:23:00 Brown who's talking yes
2:23:09 public participation big one super big
2:23:12 one I don't know why I got so excited
2:23:15 and you guys think it excited about that
2:23:17 one at all Wow I just got so excited of
2:23:25 your point these are the 14 and one of
2:23:32 them you're gonna see in two weeks
2:23:34 Charlie management program why is that
2:23:36 cold for us with our is a quad Creek in
2:23:38 the lake so that's going to be super fun
2:23:40 so these are the 14 state growth
2:23:45 management goals Wow
2:23:46 any questions permit processes Inga's in
2:23:51 there they wanted to be you know
2:23:53 efficient fair equitable that was a big
2:23:56 one back then property rights is a big
2:23:57 one natural resource to make sure that
2:24:01 all the good land for mining and timber
2:24:03 aren't turned into a residential
2:24:05 development that was a big one
2:24:07 they're all big hey what isn't really a
2:24:11 question this I wanted to put the actual
2:24:14 new half of our urban growth boundary
2:24:18 and we only have one potential
2:24:20 annexation area left of a city and
2:24:22 that's a small part of East Googler
2:24:24 Mountain you may remember those of you
2:24:26 that have been here a while we tried to
2:24:28 asking County to turn that area back
2:24:30 into rural because it's not of an urban
2:24:34 density it doesn't have sewer it would
2:24:36 be very hard to serve with urban
2:24:38 services and we don't need that area to
2:24:42 put our density in because it's so out
2:24:43 of the way I mean it's not near any good
2:24:45 transportation links or anything and so
2:24:47 we're still working with the county on
2:24:49 this little bit but any questions about
2:24:51 our city limits or our last potential
2:24:54 annexation area
2:25:07 you're getting blinked it's on the
2:25:10 docket this year to have a community
2:25:13 facilities rezone oh so we're trying to
2:25:16 figure out what what we want as a city
2:25:19 what we want it to be so that'll come
2:25:21 before you and not sure we keeps
2:25:23 changing the schedule and everything but
2:25:24 it later on in the year is safe to say
2:25:26 yes good question
2:25:28 the next man oh I love this one is it
2:25:32 back to the joy team number there have
2:25:41 been 18 annexation since 1990 which is
2:25:45 also what happened in 1990 growth
2:25:47 management yes part of the growth
2:25:51 management act you know drew the big
2:25:52 line and if you weren't in a city at
2:25:54 that time if you were in a potential
2:25:56 annexation area all the cities were
2:25:57 trying we're supposed to try to annex
2:25:59 those areas as soon as they could
2:26:02 provide services in an efficient way as
2:26:05 we move forward through our 20-year plan
2:26:07 and so since 1990 Issaquah has done 18
2:26:11 annexations that's a lot so joy team can
2:26:15 you name five hi Linda Highlands talents
2:26:32 how did you find keep going if you can
2:26:35 keep going State Park
2:26:48 yes see John gets me
2:26:52 that was one of the most recent ones if
2:26:57 you did super good and he that you
2:26:59 didn't that she didn't mention that
2:27:02 you're more fond of than others King
2:27:15 County shops I own that one which is
2:27:20 where the plant I was gonna say the park
2:27:22 which is where the land that you asked
2:27:23 about yeah listen King County shakhter
2:27:27 cool King County parcel ready for this
2:27:34 whole map are you still pondering man I
2:27:37 love this man these are the 18 some of
2:27:42 them are big some of them are little
2:27:44 they're all super important to how we've
2:27:47 grown since 1990 where we were just a
2:27:51 little town being consistent with at the
2:27:57 top Robins point enhanced Jensen purple
2:28:00 a lot of good memories in those any
2:28:06 questions on this accommodation this map
2:28:08 is also found in the comprehensive plan
2:28:10 which is Montreux you say Street of
2:28:20 Dreams that was a fun language or you
2:28:24 can we annexed it right before the
2:28:26 street actors have football players
2:28:28 mistreated dreams wait a year this is
2:28:33 even more exciting this is the
2:28:34 annexation history of the whole town
2:28:37 it's through the original little old
2:28:39 town area and then
2:28:41 groan all the way around but that of
2:28:43 course is way before growth Management
2:28:45 Act but just shows you that we've just
2:28:48 been growing and growing and getting
2:28:50 stronger and betters since we were just
2:28:53 little any questions on this one this is
2:28:55 also in the caverns flame
2:28:58 good question that brown box next to the
2:29:02 original Township west of the original
2:29:13 Township ok Brown 1955 I was not here
2:29:20 then amazingly enough I know the King
2:29:24 County Island is the one to the north of
2:29:26 bed that was in 66 it was called but the
2:29:38 ordinances are all there on the mantissa
2:29:40 now is 55 that's what that I need well
2:29:43 dive deep on the screen ok I was curious
2:29:46 exciting stuff he was right
2:29:49 hey whose turn is it okay the bill
2:29:53 teamwork growth targets Kristen talked
2:29:56 about this and remember she said you
2:29:57 should always remember what she was
2:29:59 saying because it's coming up again the
2:30:01 purpose of the state mandated growth
2:30:03 targets are to establish a B as to how
2:30:06 many new HU and J must be accommodated
2:30:10 through zoning within a certain time
2:30:12 frame gives the bonus for the targets
2:30:16 which Kristen gave you if any of you
2:30:23 have been taking notes when Kristen is
2:30:35 I just do you know what the B is it's
2:30:39 fine it's not it
2:30:41 hey you know the years I think to 2031
2:30:49 yes I'm not sure what the first two the
2:30:53 six yes well done yes and any guests are
2:30:58 you should any knowledge on the housing
2:31:00 targets cuz I don't know if you
2:31:02 mentioned jobs but you mentioned the
2:31:03 housing target you suck
2:31:06 Oh 751 or something like that you
2:31:13 certainly get that bonus point anyone
2:31:14 want to guess on the jobs cuz we did not
2:31:16 mention the jobs tonight in thousand
2:31:30 [Music]
2:31:38 5750 yeah you were you were right on
2:31:42 very good so this is what our is also in
2:31:49 the comprehensive plan and we update we
2:31:52 update how we're doing on the targets
2:31:55 every year last year was the first year
2:31:56 we actually had to figure out all the
2:31:59 job pieces this will be coming to you in
2:32:01 the compound minutes
2:32:02 Oh done group that was a tricky one oh
2:32:04 just about the jobs is that jobs of any
2:32:08 size shape or dimension or is that jobs
2:32:11 broken down to a certain strap it's new
2:32:13 it has to be new jobs but they're harder
2:32:15 to track because we have to get our
2:32:17 information from is it the state that we
2:32:19 get that it does not include it does not
2:32:28 include home occupations and it does not
2:32:31 include a certain level of employment so
2:32:33 like I think CEOs don't count they're
2:32:35 certain people that don't that are not
2:32:37 included but most of the jobs no Stratus
2:32:39 or a retail job is same job centers if
2:32:52 you will that if we said manufacturing
2:32:54 or we said it would be obvious that
2:32:57 they're the ones that have this many
2:32:58 jobs are like the hospital or something
2:33:00 like that and so they're kind of all
2:33:02 yeah they're sort of sensitized and kind
2:33:05 of in a bucket so we only get the number
2:33:07 we don't get that twenty or from this
2:33:10 venue and this venue and this venue
2:33:13 because it they're more private the
2:33:16 state keeps those more private than then
2:33:19 were able to get but we could achieve
2:33:21 twenty thousand retail
2:33:23 jobs and had satisfied that job target
2:33:26 or is it no it would don't have right we
2:33:29 don't have that we haven't hit that
2:33:30 we're not as close to the job target as
2:33:32 we are to the housing target right but
2:33:34 any kind of job would count except our
2:33:36 home occupation or some some other
2:33:38 really hold that don't fall into the
2:33:41 bucket
2:33:42 very cool any other questions on Johnson
2:33:45 housing you guys are doing really well
2:33:48 this is one if you know you can just
2:33:52 shout them out I didn't have it as well
2:33:55 but these are people that we deal with
2:33:57 and so we're like well who are these
2:33:59 people because you probably have heard
2:34:01 you know you read it in the news or seen
2:34:03 something you're like well who are those
2:34:05 folks and Duha why do we care who who's
2:34:08 cute King County and when would we ever
2:34:10 have to work with King County Metro just
2:34:12 throw it out there transportation good
2:34:17 what else they're there in one of the
2:34:25 there's further down but right that
2:34:28 would be transportation as well how
2:34:31 about Puget Sound regional council when
2:34:33 would we deal with the region two three
2:34:37 um maybe a little bit but I remember we
2:34:40 just oh we work with them on that we
2:34:44 just presented something
2:34:46 right power your growth right and I
2:34:49 think we just presented something to you
2:34:51 all not too long ago about the future
2:34:53 plan envision 2050 yeah
2:34:55 so we're working on that now so that's a
2:34:57 cool one
2:34:59 Kirsten talked about arch tonight
2:35:01 regional coalition for housing it was
2:35:04 that's a really good one we deal with
2:35:06 them we work with them a lot sound
2:35:08 cities Association
2:35:09 what would we work with them on
2:35:18 oh maybe I'm I think they used to have a
2:35:24 different name and I can't remember
2:35:26 suburban suburban cities doesn't ask but
2:35:28 so they have to change their letterhead
2:35:30 I believe this was one of the groups
2:35:33 that was lobbying for the condo right
2:35:36 and they have many many different groups
2:35:38 that work together and one is
2:35:39 transportation so most recently we had a
2:35:40 councilmember who sat on the
2:35:41 transportation group for them but they
2:35:44 make recommendations to the Puget Sound
2:35:46 Regional Council and the last one the
2:35:51 joint recommendations committee there
2:35:52 aren't any clues in that one but they
2:35:54 help with funding for housing adding
2:36:01 council in the planning board they're
2:36:03 part of the board I think is the higher
2:36:07 level that actually makes the decision
2:36:09 it goes to the board but the council I
2:36:12 think is the bigger group that's how I
2:36:14 understand it there's more cities
2:36:17 represented on the council there's fewer
2:36:21 board spots right
2:36:24 that's how sort of the whole big
2:36:27 enchilada of our region those are all
2:36:29 the different groups some of the
2:36:30 different groups that we work with any
2:36:32 questions on those this funding for
2:36:36 housing affordable housing or funding
2:36:38 for housing general I think it's mostly
2:36:41 affordable because that's what you need
2:36:42 the funding for the regular market
2:36:44 housing there's no there's really no
2:36:47 need to whose turn is it or do we just
2:36:52 CL amount is it Bilstein joy the joy
2:36:58 team okay the comprehensive plan one of
2:37:01 my favorite things in the world it
2:37:03 establishes an one of your favorite
2:37:05 things in the world I'm sure it
2:37:07 establishes that overarching VG and
2:37:11 for the way the city will G listen rose
2:37:15 and last one will grow grow dr. G
2:37:30 oh let's say overarching right and it's
2:38:06 in between there's getting the P this
2:38:10 guy knows it
2:38:11 do you own a phone a friend yeah tell us
2:38:15 no but there are nine elements in our
2:38:23 comprehensive plan nine a lot name five
2:38:37 it's transportation housing parts
2:38:43 invar economic
2:38:53 Oh Landon Shore but everything like land
2:39:00 oh and juice that's good and I heard one
2:39:08 was art but that it's really cultural
2:39:10 but that's the same so I'm giving you
2:39:13 that one - yeah so did we good find
2:39:16 yep okay can you name the other four and
2:39:21 here the fight that they have were you
2:39:23 not paying attention this economic
2:39:32 vitality versus
2:39:49 - atif yes CIP yes they're paying
2:40:02 attention I love it
2:40:16 versus yes Pez are the awesomest okay
2:40:22 the first letter is an eye tool and use
2:40:25 code blanks he adopted comprehensive
2:40:31 plan this was kind of a tricky - it's
2:40:33 hard to start the word with the letter
2:40:34 what does the land use code do in
2:40:37 relationship to the complan search with
2:40:42 an eye sometimes we have them listed at
2:40:47 the end of a chapter just one eye it's
2:41:00 plural so it's fun to act out so there
2:41:15 are 22 chapters in the land use code
2:41:19 which is we call Title 18 lovingly and
2:41:23 of course since Randy's not here I was
2:41:25 just throwing him a bone that he could
2:41:26 name all probably 22 I bet you could so
2:41:29 can you name five chapters in a Langevin
2:41:33 that wouldn't implement the
2:41:35 comprehensive plan
2:41:36 what word would be ways that we would
2:41:38 implement the comprehensive today ask
2:41:41 him for five out of 22
2:41:50 well chapter this is the code though
2:41:53 this is code so I think those would be
2:41:57 like parking yes yes parking design yeah
2:42:07 yeah yeah the design there's very proud
2:42:13 of its density coverage coverage will
2:42:27 take that the zones that hit that it
2:42:30 established a fit yeah the zoning
2:42:32 districts are a chapter that's more
2:42:39 public works but that's part of the will
2:42:42 take that as environmental sure will
2:42:44 give you that we've talked about it
2:42:53 tonight it's come up many how we're
2:42:54 doing different ones you'll remember
2:42:58 you'll think oh I know what chapters
2:43:00 she's on that's a good one landscaping
2:43:04 this chapter so yes well done which one
2:43:07 setbacks um that would be in development
2:43:10 standards chapter 7 yeah good you get
2:43:13 credit for that
2:43:20 don't be hate you remember like this
2:43:24 them are like this them are like this
2:43:30 I'm gonna just quit doing that
2:43:45 [Music]
2:43:48 any mind yep that's chamber 21 there's
2:43:56 so many of them this one with signs Oh
2:43:58 science and a free that's me and nobody
2:44:01 got any afraid sides but yes signs all
2:44:04 procedures side procedures in there yep
2:44:06 the processes one we did but yes there
2:44:11 are so many in this list will just
2:44:13 amazing this is the kind of plan and all
2:44:16 that the nine elements and then the
2:44:20 land-use code has just so many that it's
2:44:22 hard to oh why are list you could have
2:44:24 called that one out cuz you guys just
2:44:25 did that one - oh yeah so there's many
2:44:27 many there's many more codes than there
2:44:31 are policies because this is where the
2:44:34 teeth are this is where the teeth are
2:44:38 yes teeth are plural this is where the
2:44:41 plural these are any questions about the
2:44:44 codes one of your jobs is you help us
2:44:47 amend the codes and the comp plan so you
2:44:50 get to as Joe John says you guys get to
2:44:54 work on the rules and then the
2:44:56 Development Commission gets to force the
2:44:58 rules
2:44:58 Miranda is looking forward to actually
2:45:00 being on this side to help create the
2:45:02 rules or this other team - hey good to
2:45:10 read on here note that this is just a
2:45:12 sample of language that the comp plan
2:45:15 language is more aspirational it's and
2:45:18 goals and policies so we're talking
2:45:20 about what we want what we want to get
2:45:22 what we want
2:45:23 have as a community and oftentimes
2:45:26 you've been frustrated because you would
2:45:28 like to put the teeth in the policies
2:45:30 and and we're not supposed to put the
2:45:32 teeth in the policies even though we
2:45:34 would like to have teeth everywhere the
2:45:35 teeth have to go in the land use code
2:45:37 and so there's usually a lot of numbers
2:45:40 in the code whether it's minimum density
2:45:42 a setback percentage of landscaping
2:45:45 because those are what we use as teeth
2:45:48 to make the community turn out to be how
2:45:50 we want it to look and feel and are
2:45:53 there questions and again this is just
2:45:55 high-level hopefully when we actually
2:45:57 get into some of the amendments it'll
2:45:58 kind of come back to that we talked
2:46:00 about these things
2:46:01 questions sub areas this is all town
2:46:07 we're sitting in Old Town which is
2:46:09 pretty cool last year we had a tour of
2:46:12 Old Town those of you that were here and
2:46:14 that was a lot of fun to actually be out
2:46:16 on the road and be pointing to the
2:46:18 different boundaries and the different
2:46:19 kinds of housing and the different kinds
2:46:21 of retail stores
2:46:23 we've just revised it finally in 2018
2:46:28 and we're just now starting to work on
2:46:29 the standards the amendments to that
2:46:32 that you all put into place that we
2:46:34 would do this year and so that should be
2:46:35 coming to you in a while but this year
2:46:39 any questions are out old town great
2:46:43 plan by the way super short but a great
2:46:45 plan the City Council approve that going
2:46:49 past the creek we change that boundary
2:46:53 right you long as I know not to you all
2:46:55 are going to review the boundary 12
2:46:57 months after this standards are amended
2:46:59 that was in that plan done that's one of
2:47:02 the implementation because one of the
2:47:04 questions on here we just gave it away
2:47:11 of the update that you put in you PPC
2:47:15 were action programs which listed 19
2:47:19 that we're supposed to have done by 2020
2:47:21 and of course that's tons of time right
2:47:23 13 short term actions which we have
2:47:26 until 2022 these are not these are not
2:47:31 the same actions so there's 19 and then
2:47:32 there's 13 more and then there's four
2:47:34 that are longer term can anybody name
2:47:36 just five of all of those and one of the
2:47:42 gimme says the code amendments that
2:47:43 we're bringing forward to you this year
2:47:45 so I'll give you a boning and give you
2:47:48 that one already else you can remember
2:47:50 that you wanted to have done in the
2:47:52 these years weight finding I think is in
2:48:02 there no weight finding is in there but
2:48:08 shake them in it I don't think Oh sign
2:48:10 is just over yeah cuz it's not even the
2:48:14 code amendments know something about
2:48:25 your necklace there is an intermediate
2:48:28 action I believe with the parts today
2:48:31 talk some to identify intermediate uses
2:48:34 an interim uses for properties that we
2:48:38 purchased and figure out what to do with
2:48:39 them before they become more there's
2:48:40 also one up Joe I think that you've
2:48:42 helped you with the pea patch a--'s
2:48:44 though that you wanted a community
2:48:46 garden in Old Town that's in there okay
2:48:51 I'll tell you guys are getting tired no
2:48:53 I did well this is for the Old Town
2:48:57 Silverio plan so we did height through
2:48:59 dude that'll be the code amendments yeah
2:49:02 you want that does we talking about here
2:49:04 right okay right let's do another
2:49:06 brilliant action plan nice we did you
2:49:13 remember the towers no
2:49:18 and actress outfit inside intersection
2:49:21 there's Sun so yeah the streetscape
2:49:24 remember you guys do the phase one and
2:49:26 Phase two and you wanted it funded so
2:49:28 that's in there is to get the funding
2:49:29 for phase one and phase two that was
2:49:32 very well that longer-term is early Wall
2:49:34 Street that wouldn't be as nessam we do
2:49:38 this not in old town retail zoning right
2:49:41 we talked about in Florida that's party
2:49:44 hood you guys are getting them what do
2:49:45 we call it oh we had a parking thing
2:49:47 council wanted to cut who had yeah so we
2:49:51 did a party analysis that was one of
2:49:52 them and then the retail Ron was
2:49:54 England's one is to allow retail on the
2:49:57 multifamily high along sunset and the
2:49:59 other one was to require ground-floor
2:50:00 retail on Front Street there wasn't
2:50:03 there another retailer it was out in
2:50:07 their homes candy we were talking about
2:50:10 a different retail classification for
2:50:13 that um
2:50:13 right but that didn't make em burn
2:50:15 changed the talked about putting it in
2:50:17 to Old Town but we decided to to change
2:50:20 the standards and then see reevaluate
2:50:22 the boundary right but those are all
2:50:24 really good and this is hot I mean this
2:50:27 is such squint she letters but now I can
2:50:30 send you the all town so very planner
2:50:32 you can see this is just the nineteen
2:50:34 that we're supposed to have done by next
2:50:35 year and there's many many many of them
2:50:40 Hecht I'll actually I was thinking of
2:50:43 sending you the PowerPoint but then
2:50:44 you'd have it for next year and we'd
2:50:45 have to change it for the training
2:50:49 thirteen that are then in the next
2:50:52 year's this is where the edges oh maybe
2:50:58 the community gardens at the end that's
2:51:01 your question I see something like
2:51:03 number four implement marking analysis
2:51:06 with record what is it word implement
2:51:09 meaning I understand no well we did a
2:51:11 parking we did a parking study we've
2:51:15 done several of them and one of the
2:51:16 recommendations in the parking study for
2:51:18 Old Town was that we monitor how we're
2:51:20 doing as to providing more
2:51:22 public parking and to provide wayfinding
2:51:25 signs so people know where they are like
2:51:28 there's a lot of parking behind Memorial
2:51:30 Field but it's not well-lit back there
2:51:32 so if I didn't know it was back there I
2:51:34 probably wouldn't venture back there to
2:51:36 find it and so the analysis talks about
2:51:39 those things and so what we wanted to do
2:51:41 in the second phase of Old Town is to
2:51:43 make sure that we're checking off that
2:51:45 we're actually implementing the things
2:51:46 that we've learned from the analysis and
2:51:52 then the last one there's only four for
2:51:54 the far out longer-term actions it's a
2:52:01 super good plan we did it
2:52:03 you all did a super good job on that and
2:52:07 Old Town Standards this isn't just a
2:52:09 picture of one of the pages that's what
2:52:12 we'll be starting to work on this year
2:52:13 but there's smaller heights and
2:52:16 different landscaping and those kinds of
2:52:18 things it'll be another fun piece well
2:52:20 we're kind of not sure everybody that
2:52:22 lives and has businesses here will want
2:52:24 to come in and help us so that's gonna
2:52:26 be really exciting they're a good group
2:52:30 most of you will remember the
2:52:32 development moratorium because we were
2:52:34 as busy as can be I think for a while we
2:52:37 were meeting every week and you guys
2:52:39 were awesome meeting every week because
2:52:41 of the six items that the council wanted
2:52:44 us to work on you worked on all six of
2:52:47 them and you worked on it hard and
2:52:49 strong and you were amazing can anybody
2:52:52 name three of the six what are the
2:52:58 moratorium items that we need to do well
2:53:00 what piece of the central is at Buffalo
2:53:02 housing yes right Housing Strategy Oh
2:53:05 Ron what new sibling in design standards
2:53:08 long service I keep asking what
2:53:16 you're not near your microphone side
2:53:18 just here muttering us that piece of the
2:53:22 central Issaquah plan the vine standards
2:53:27 we did a urban growth boundary neither
2:53:30 one of those as per the plan yeah and
2:53:32 would you like me what is the plan to do
2:53:34 it establishes the miss the moratorium
2:53:43 vision solutions wow that was fun well
2:53:48 thinking Felton by next year we'll have
2:53:57 it down hey there's I think three more
2:54:01 items although urban design is sort of
2:54:04 urban design and architectural those
2:54:05 kind of were blended so there'd be one
2:54:07 more there were 200 then I missed one
2:54:18 cuz I'll just set vertical mixed-use
2:54:21 yeah that's this one
2:54:22 oh is that with that money tell vertical
2:54:23 mixed juice and then um how's heart you
2:54:26 know under building garden and you
2:54:29 worked on all of those and it was quite
2:54:32 a year and finally in June of 2018 when
2:54:38 we finally finished the visions that was
2:54:40 quite a long process that's when the
2:54:42 moratorium got lifted so for a temporary
2:54:45 moratorium it lasted in our packet there
2:54:51 was like a chart that showed every
2:54:54 region and the tools that there you
2:54:57 think I love that I thought that was
2:54:58 really edgy are you talking about the
2:55:04 affordable housing stuff in in this yeah
2:55:06 and the strategy firm yes they put
2:55:09 housing yeah we're doing we do almost
2:55:12 all we do multi-family tax exemption I
2:55:14 think
2:55:15 not quite a bit yeah so those are them
2:55:19 those are those this is gonna begin
2:55:23 because you guys just learned everything
2:55:25 there was to know about the housing
2:55:26 strategy stakeholders the meetings oh my
2:55:32 gosh we had fun with this so you
2:55:36 probably can name three of the nine
2:55:38 strategies already because we talked
2:55:39 about all of them anybody just shout out
2:55:42 the 383 well the one you asked about joy
2:55:56 that why didn't we do it yet and yeah
2:56:04 that's three well done we did
2:56:07 inclusionary zoning was the other one
2:56:09 any other over there that you know just
2:56:13 trying to take credit because we did
2:56:14 that one I'm trying to take care of some
2:56:16 of the ones we already did Joan talked
2:56:19 about one at the state level yeah yeah
2:56:23 yeah very good and the one that John
2:56:26 mentioned that happened yes yes that's
2:56:29 so that one's at least been addressed
2:56:32 we'll have to see how it fits in
2:56:33 Issaquah but it sounds like that one we
2:56:36 can start figuring out how to get condos
2:56:38 back right it yet do I need to actually
2:56:40 read the legislation to see but well
2:56:45 done the Housing Strategy was a super
2:56:47 cool thing these are the nine just that
2:56:50 though the one-liners for all of them
2:56:51 but you've probably had enough housing
2:56:54 tonight but just know they're out there
2:56:55 and they're in your packet and it's a
2:56:57 Super Bowl and these are the ones we've
2:57:00 done are the ones with the little yellow
2:57:01 stars and we're starting all the other
2:57:05 ones a lot of the only one that we're
2:57:11 not quite
2:57:12 as to and/or but we'll get there look
2:57:16 good to all of them the exciting central
2:57:19 is another exciting place centrale is
2:57:22 where we wanted to take all the future
2:57:24 growth we didn't want it to go in
2:57:26 existing neighborhoods you know like
2:57:29 Spock Mountain or South Cove or oh
2:57:32 really didn't we wanted to preserve the
2:57:34 existing neighborhood so we wanted to
2:57:35 focus the new growth into area in an
2:57:38 area that wouldn't wouldn't hurt an
2:57:40 existing neighborhood so we thought all
2:57:42 the parking lots in central would be
2:57:44 great building sites to infill housing
2:57:47 and jobs so the central it's a plan was
2:57:52 invented a lot of help from you all yes
2:57:56 the Atmos development in the central
2:57:58 business it's in central is to quote the
2:58:02 central it's actually the CBD is the
2:58:05 cultural business district and that's
2:58:07 the little bottle on Front Street
2:58:09 but Atlas is in the central Issaquah is
2:58:12 in central the supply is in that area
2:58:14 that had the little man Atlas is in this
2:58:16 in that group so the design of the Atlas
2:58:20 was hired to be within the central
2:58:25 business plan vision I had been told by
2:58:27 something that in fact was out it
2:58:31 doesn't appear to be it's outside the
2:58:33 core central the central Issaquah sub
2:58:36 area plan has different zones and the
2:58:39 most dense zone that we have a regional
2:58:42 growth center designation or is called
2:58:45 the urban core and Atlas is just outside
2:58:48 the urban core so it didn't have to meet
2:58:51 like it didn't have to have affordable
2:58:52 housing it didn't have to have the
2:58:54 regulations that the urban core has
2:58:56 which is one of the reasons that the
2:58:58 council had the moratorium as they
2:59:00 wanted to sort of extend some of the
2:59:04 regulations in the urban core so that
2:59:05 the next time something goes in that
2:59:08 adjacent zone that they would have to do
2:59:10 affordable housing they would have to do
2:59:12 some under building parking we learned
2:59:14 we learned some things with the first
2:59:16 buildings and you had mentioned design
2:59:18 and that
2:59:18 so I think didn't quite meet their
2:59:22 vision of what it was going to look like
2:59:23 which is why we then adopted the
2:59:25 architectural design standards that are
2:59:27 now part of the plan I'm sorry I just
2:59:29 curious why that's next to it they're
2:59:31 just coming out next to Safeway is that
2:59:33 also in that it's in there it's not in
2:59:37 the urban core that veil and what's the
2:59:40 other one that's right there
2:59:41 Alice no ant listen then there's bail
2:59:44 and isn't there a third one in a sweater
2:59:46 and as what is on Newport but there's I
2:59:49 thought there was another one next to
2:59:50 bail but maybe there's one down the
2:59:53 street on Locust that's being proposed
2:59:54 but it's not okay those are also outside
2:59:56 the core we haven't gotten anything in
2:59:58 the core yet closed in the core because
3:00:00 the low the transit-oriented development
3:00:02 is inside the law right but the lawsuit
3:00:04 is is right the lofts are just outside
3:00:06 us are just outside well now they now
3:00:11 they will they're going now they will
3:00:18 good question we learned from that so
3:00:21 this is again the plan the central plan
3:00:24 versus the central standard so the plan
3:00:26 is aspirational and it has goals and
3:00:28 policies for all those things and the
3:00:31 standards actually had the teeth to
3:00:33 require the density the community space
3:00:36 the parking the signs the landscaping so
3:00:38 it's just shows you again same with the
3:00:40 comp plan in the land use code these are
3:00:42 the same pieces for the central Issaquah
3:00:44 there's the plan the sub area plan and
3:00:46 then their standards that are specific
3:00:48 to central is upon and then the again
3:00:52 the language that the plan is
3:00:54 aspirational what we want to see what we
3:00:57 want to have and then the standards
3:00:59 actually have the language that has the
3:01:00 teeth in it well you know that already
3:01:03 and these still from the central these
3:01:05 are some of my favorite drawings that we
3:01:07 used when we were creating central and
3:01:09 can you tell from the picture where this
3:01:12 would be
3:01:18 to help the important people know you
3:01:21 walk would what it could look like as
3:01:23 the way their zoning sees both a maple
3:01:25 did you get yes yes it because you can
3:01:28 see the the Maple Street office building
3:01:29 right there
3:01:30 awesome good good I and this one you can
3:01:38 cheat by looking at the little picture
3:01:40 in the corner mm-hmm and BIOS are 900
3:01:44 yeah and this one
3:01:53 you tell from the whole picture because
3:01:55 I forget the background little side in
3:01:57 the corner done we use those to help
3:02:14 people understand and kind of envision
3:02:16 what it would look like with the density
3:02:18 and the height and the setbacks and the
3:02:20 street requirements that kind of thing
3:02:21 it's so hard to imagine but we've tried
3:02:24 to help people do that so go back to
3:02:26 that picture that's only four stories
3:02:29 and that air is actually zoned out for
3:02:31 all stories right all right it's um 425
3:02:36 feet but oh actually that's rally so
3:02:38 it's actually can go up 225 or maybe
3:02:41 higher but these these were also done
3:02:43 before we had it adopted our standards
3:02:45 so it's just sort of aspirational II not
3:02:50 actually up to the in a typical year
3:02:56 this is what a typical year looks like
3:02:58 we're super busy and now that we have a
3:03:02 full house this is great we don't have
3:03:03 to always worry about getting it warm
3:03:06 you have questions about any of the
3:03:09 pieces and parts now that there's a
3:03:11 transportation Advisory Board I'm not
3:03:14 sure if we'll get to see that TI P next
3:03:18 year now that they have their own board
3:03:19 that does that kind of thing you'll
3:03:20 still see it in relationship because it
3:03:23 goes in the comprehensive plan so we'll
3:03:25 still have this discussion that we had
3:03:26 with whoever is our engineer but it
3:03:29 might be later on in the year to fit
3:03:32 with the comp plan it will have to talk
3:03:34 about that but now that they actually
3:03:36 have their own transportation board how
3:03:38 many of you were able to go to the
3:03:39 transportation meeting that they had are
3:03:42 you the only PPC there'll be another one
3:03:46 in the fall so maybe more of you can go
3:03:48 but they're actually working on the
3:03:50 mobility master plan which is really
3:03:52 exciting for the city so they're really
3:03:54 neat AJ who used to be on PPC got stolen
3:03:57 he's on that group he's a chair they'd
3:04:00 use the chair AJ's the chair well done
3:04:02 AJ nice job
3:04:05 see we're just the training ground for
3:04:07 it for everything and one thing about
3:04:10 meetings um you'll get a meeting notice
3:04:13 from Dominique who's one of our Super
3:04:15 Deluxe workers that helps us it's really
3:04:18 important that you RSVP whether you're
3:04:20 coming or not so that we know that we've
3:04:22 got a quorum and we can plan how many
3:04:24 folks are here because if we don't have
3:04:26 a quorum which i think is what four
3:04:27 people then we're not able to have a
3:04:29 meeting you will learn that in the legal
3:04:31 and we'll let you know Chris we don't
3:04:34 have a quorum we have to cancel the
3:04:35 meeting but just to let you know it's
3:04:37 not that we're just being nosey it's
3:04:38 just really important that we know and
3:04:40 complain on if there's a quorum or not
3:04:42 was there any cancellation this year
3:04:44 because we know many oh I know of at
3:04:50 least two times that I had to cancel
3:04:52 because we didn't have a quorum they
3:04:54 were I think at the end of last year one
3:04:56 of them was a public hearing which was
3:04:58 kind of a higher
3:04:59 so but it just happens when you there's
3:05:02 something not that many members because
3:05:04 we've just gotten both had left for
3:05:07 reasons so we didn't have enough people
3:05:09 are there any other questions
3:05:12 oh the docket that that was the last
3:05:15 slide the comprehensive plan docket are
3:05:19 the amendments that we do every year
3:05:20 you're allowed by state law to only
3:05:22 amend the comp plan once a year
3:05:24 so that you look at everything together
3:05:25 so the the docket happens is you can
3:05:28 tell it happens in the beginning of the
3:05:30 year we set the docket and then we work
3:05:33 all year on all the amendments that come
3:05:37 through and this year this is just a
3:05:38 little a little teaser of what the
3:05:40 docket looks like and there's only nine
3:05:43 to do this year some of them may be
3:05:47 rolled over into the next year we've
3:05:49 just found out that our stormwater plan
3:05:50 won't be done this year so we won't have
3:05:52 to incorporate the new plan into the
3:05:55 comp plan those usually come start to
3:05:58 come to you in the end of the year like
3:06:00 July August maybe the public hearing
3:06:03 might be in September we have we update
3:06:05 all the population information and it's
3:06:08 it's a really fun process and it's like
3:06:09 the big picture of the city that you get
3:06:11 to sort of play with so so that'll be
3:06:13 coming at only nine this year the
3:06:17 typical meeting you get a you get the
3:06:19 RSVP from Dominique and then you get a
3:06:22 packet from us the week before and
3:06:24 you've let me know if you don't want
3:06:26 paper or just the electronic and that's
3:06:28 super good
3:06:29 call us if you have any questions we're
3:06:31 happy to talk it through with you before
3:06:33 the meeting if you have questions or if
3:06:35 there's things that just don't make
3:06:36 sense or whatever it is we're happy to
3:06:38 help you before the meeting so we can
3:06:40 use our time here as efficiently as
3:06:42 possible and certainly let us know if
3:06:46 you can't be here and if there's if you
3:06:47 have some emergency right before try and
3:06:49 get ahold of one of us actually actually
3:06:52 give you my text so some some of you
3:06:54 text if you're stuck in traffic or
3:06:55 whatever and that's fine we just need to
3:06:57 know that
3:06:58 you're on your way or if you're not
3:07:00 showing so we'll know if they have a
3:07:02 quorum
3:07:02 today you did great you did the minutes
3:07:05 you did the presentations you heard
3:07:07 public comment
3:07:08 there wasn't any but everything went
3:07:11 well and then if you if you ever can't
3:07:16 remember what happened you can actually
3:07:17 review the video on channel 21 on our
3:07:20 website so you can relive the magic of
3:07:23 PPC by watching it again I'll tell you
3:07:26 there's council members that do watch us
3:07:28 again some of us watch some of them
3:07:30 watch the slide but some of them watch
3:07:31 us again you know or watch the depending
3:07:34 on the topic that they want to see it so
3:07:36 so people are watching so bring your
3:07:39 a-game and then what we try and help you
3:07:43 all do is follow the items that you've
3:07:45 recommended to let you know how they're
3:07:46 doing as they go through council
3:07:48 sometimes some things like the Old Town
3:07:50 sub area plan actually came back to you
3:07:52 because they weren't quite satisfied
3:07:53 with that we'd answered all their
3:07:55 questions so sometimes they they send
3:07:57 them back which is fine and we do a
3:07:59 super good job
3:08:01 any questions on meetings
3:08:03 [Music]
3:08:06 I'll send you the links for this but all
3:08:11 of our documents are online the comp
3:08:13 plan the codes all that good stuff and
3:08:15 then we also have a super cool feature
3:08:19 on the website you might already know
3:08:21 about that we don't deal with as much in
3:08:22 PPC because we're policy but that has
3:08:25 major projects so if you happen to be
3:08:27 driving by a site and it's got a sign
3:08:28 there that says coming sooner you can go
3:08:31 to our website and see where it is in
3:08:33 the review process and I use that a lot
3:08:36 because it's just neat to see you know
3:08:38 what's getting platted what's in the
3:08:39 process what's DC gonna be looking at so
3:08:42 I'll send you something about that
3:08:44 that's just super cool with the map and
3:08:46 everything there's also a place on the
3:08:48 city website where you can subscribe to
3:08:50 updates so if there's an update for
3:08:53 development review if there's an update
3:08:55 for you can have coffee with the mayor
3:08:57 if there's an update you can actually
3:08:59 sign all the different topics that you
3:09:03 want to be updated by by the city and
3:09:05 then the city sends you emails with
3:09:07 different news flashes of you know like
3:09:09 162nd the ribbon-cutting came there was
3:09:12 a news flash so you could all attend and
3:09:14 it's it's I get a lot of my City news
3:09:17 that way I think I'm subscribed to most
3:09:18 all and them just to know what all the
3:09:20 other departments and parts of the city
3:09:22 are doing how do you do that
3:09:24 I'll send you the link but it's called
3:09:26 if you go onto the website there's a big
3:09:28 thing that says notify me and you click
3:09:30 on that and it gives you all the
3:09:32 different things that you could ever
3:09:33 want to be notified about and you just
3:09:34 start clicking and you give him your
3:09:36 email and then they and you can
3:09:38 unsubscribe if you're getting too many
3:09:39 of you know one thing you could say well
3:09:42 maybe I don't want them all but it's
3:09:44 just it's a really neat function and
3:09:46 then I'll send you the the part where
3:09:48 you can watch PPC or you can watch a
3:09:50 council meeting again or you can watch
3:09:51 development commission it's just super
3:09:54 helpful and you can't always be at the
3:09:57 meeting watch it from later on any
3:10:01 questions and how you do to do
3:10:06 if you think of anything driving home or
3:10:09 tomorrow halt email we're here to help
3:10:12 because we all want to be successful
3:10:13 we're so happy that we have this new
3:10:15 team together this is gonna be really
3:10:17 awesome here anything else thank you
3:10:24 we're all set in two weeks you're gonna
3:10:26 be looking at the shoreline master
3:10:28 program that is going to be awesome
3:10:35 that's what this is late for us they
3:10:39 don't usually go this late the foot
3:10:41 we're so much

Attendance

Council / Members (9)
Administration/Staff: Joan Probala
Trish Heinonen
Policy Planning Manager Ron Faul
Christen Leeson
Senior Planner Joy Lewis Emily Arteche
Senior Planner Bill Rinehart Kurt Seemannn
Engineering Manager Robin Beukers
Alt. Tom Haskins
Alt. Commissioners Not Present (Excused): Janice Carle Randy Harrison Jason Voiss 1