Planning Policy Commission · Thursday, June 10, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Commission Membership

packet pp.3

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Staff report:

PLANNING POLICY COMMISSION Staff Liaison Christen Leeson, Senior About Planner Created in 1983, this commission serves as a Email policy advisory body to the Mayor and provides guidance and direction for Issaquah's future Regular Members growth through continued review and 2022 – Joy Lewis improvement to the City's Comprehensive Land 2022 – Matt Monahan Use Plan and related land use documents. 2022 – Jason Voiss 2022 – Vacant Membership 2023 – Nina Milligan The Planning Policy Commission is comprised of 2024 – Ron Faul seven regular members, with four-year terms; 2024 – Sara Bader and several alternates, with two-year terms. All members are appointed by the Mayor and Alternate Members subject to confirmation by the City Council. 2022 - Richard Zaragoza Terms expire April 30 of the year listed. For 2023 - Vacant more information, see IMC 18.03 and Rules & Regulations. Meetings Unless…

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of May 27, 2021

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 05-27-21 Planning Policy Commission Minutes Page [0000]

3. REGULAR BUSINESS

Olde Town

Discussion · Christen Leeson, Senior Planner · packet pp.11–18

Topics: Land Use

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Staff report:

The purpose of the June 10th meeting is to review and discuss the proposed amendments Olde Town Action Program and Implementation Chart. No

Redesignations and Rezones

Discussion · Christen Leeson, Senior Planner · packet pp.19–38

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Staff report:

The purpose of the June 10th meeting is to review and discuss the proposed redesignation and rezone requests for nine parcels. No

Public Facilities

Discussion · Christen Leeson, Senior Planner · packet pp.39–41

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Staff report:

The purpose of the June 10th meeting is to review and discuss the proposed amendments to the Public Facilities Map. No

4. REPORTS

Council Updates

Christen Leeson, Senior Planner

6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Upcoming Schedule

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Staff report:

FEBRUARY AUGUST 2/11/21 Cancelled 8/12/21  2021 Comprhensive Plan Amendments: Land Use Element: Climate Change policies 2/25/21 Cancelled 8/26/21 Joint meeting with Park Board  Title 18: Education MARCH SEPTEMBER 3/11/21  Public Hearing: Electric Vehicle Charging 9/9/21 Joint meeting with Development Commission Stations  Title 18: Education  CPPs and Growth Targets Presentation (Informational) 3/25/21  PPC/EVC Joint Meeting: Title 18: Signs 9/23/21  Public Hearing: 2021 Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map Amendments APRIL OCTOBER 4/8/21 Cancelled 10/14/21  Public Hearing: 2021 Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map Amendments (continued) 4/22/21  Public Hearing: Signs Amendments 10/28/21 Joint meeting with Development Commission  CIP/TIP

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0:58 ↗ p.m

0:59 ↗ due to the virtual format of today's

1:01 ↗ meeting i'd like to start by providing

1:02 ↗ some guidelines

1:04 ↗ we have participants attending by

1:06 ↗ computer and others who may be attending

1:08 ↗ by phone

1:09 ↗ for all meeting attendees please speak

1:11 ↗ clearly and

1:12 ↗ pause frequently state your name each

1:15 ↗ time before speaking

1:17 ↗ mutual microphone when not speaking if

1:20 ↗ having technical issues

1:22 ↗ try joining the meeting using a

1:24 ↗ different device such as a smartphone or

1:26 ↗ tablet

1:28 ↗ use the call-in information in the

1:30 ↗ meeting invite

1:31 ↗ into the meeting an overview

1:35 ↗ tonight's meeting will be discussing

1:37 ↗ three proposed 2021 comprehensive plan

1:40 ↗ and zoning

1:41 ↗ map amendments it's not a hearing so we

1:43 ↗ will not be

1:45 ↗ taking any voting and now we're going to

1:48 ↗ go

1:49 ↗ into attendance kristin will you please

1:51 ↗ call the role

1:53 ↗ yes i will note that commissioners lewis

1:55 ↗ and voice are have excused absences

1:57 ↗ tonight

1:59 ↗ so commissioner bader

2:03 ↗ mr milligan here

2:07 ↗ mr monahan here

2:10 ↗ commissioner zaragoza here

2:13 ↗ thank you mr fall president

2:19 ↗ okay and now we move into the approval

2:21 ↗ of the minutes uh are there any

2:22 ↗ corrections to the

2:23 ↗ may 27th 2021 minutes

2:27 ↗ yeah just one um i don't know don't need

2:29 ↗ to type this commented or can i just say

2:31 ↗ it um

2:32 ↗ that in the list of commissioners

2:34 ↗ there's no h

2:35 ↗ on my name oh that's a big typo

2:44 ↗ okay so including that change there

2:48 ↗ we'll go ahead and approve the meeting

2:49 ↗ minutes

2:53 ↗ now we're going to move into regular

2:54 ↗ business and part of that is the

2:56 ↗ discussion of the 2021 comprehensive

2:59 ↗ plan and zoning amendments

3:01 ↗ for the old town redesignation and

3:04 ↗ rezones

3:05 ↗ and public facilities map tonight

3:07 ↗ kristin is going to be

3:09 ↗ kristin leeson our senior planner will

3:11 ↗ be

3:12 ↗ will present three of the proposed

3:14 ↗ amendments from the 2021 docket

3:16 ↗ of proposed comprehensive planet zoning

3:19 ↗ map

3:19 ↗ amendments that's a

3:23 ↗ lot uh commissioners if you have any

3:26 ↗ questions or comments

3:27 ↗ please indicate so in the chat by typing

3:29 ↗ question or comment

3:31 ↗ we will address those uh after her

3:33 ↗ presentation

3:35 ↗ we will have uh after her presentation

3:37 ↗ we will have a

3:38 ↗ focused um questions for

3:42 ↗ from the commissioners for

3:43 ↗ clarifications then we will move into

3:45 ↗ public

3:46 ↗ comments and then after the public

3:48 ↗ comments we'll open it up to

3:49 ↗ regular questions

3:53 ↗ go ahead christian floor is yours all

3:56 ↗ right can you all see my screen

4:01 ↗ yes all right thank you um

4:04 ↗ so yes tonight we are kicking off our

4:07 ↗ first reviews

4:08 ↗ of the comprehensive plan and zoning map

4:11 ↗ amendments for 2021

4:13 ↗ and a lot of you are new so what we do

4:16 ↗ is that

4:17 ↗ we begin the amendments we start showing

4:19 ↗ them to you in june you see them

4:21 ↗ once and then unless there are big

4:22 ↗ issues which is why we present them to

4:24 ↗ you the first time

4:25 ↗ um you see them once and then they come

4:26 ↗ back for public hearing

4:28 ↗ you might see them once and there are

4:29 ↗ lots of issues and we'll bring them back

4:31 ↗ again

4:32 ↗ before taking it to public hearing so

4:33 ↗ that's why we do this process

4:36 ↗ tonight we're going to review discuss

4:39 ↗ and you all are going to ask any

4:40 ↗ questions um

4:42 ↗ old town plan amendments community

4:45 ↗ facilities designation rezones

4:47 ↗ and the public facilities map

4:50 ↗ before we start i would like to

4:52 ↗ apologize because

4:53 ↗ i don't know what happened but they were

4:55 ↗ there were some typos but um

4:57 ↗ with the old town i did not realize when

4:59 ↗ this converted to pdf

5:01 ↗ that the track changes went away so i

5:03 ↗ apologize for that i did send it out

5:05 ↗ this afternoon

5:06 ↗ and i will have them repost it on the

5:07 ↗ website as well but i've i've included

5:09 ↗ the track changes here

5:11 ↗ i didn't know that that happened so

5:13 ↗ starting with old town

5:14 ↗ there are a few proposed policy changes

5:17 ↗ our new senior

5:18 ↗ we got a new senior transportation

5:20 ↗ planner since

5:21 ↗ the old town plan was written and he

5:23 ↗ went through this and just wanted to

5:24 ↗ change a couple of things

5:26 ↗ one is facilitate mobility options such

5:29 ↗ as the

5:29 ↗ shopping shuttle to improve mobility

5:32 ↗ options for

5:33 ↗ old town

5:36 ↗ one he didn't want to be fights but so

5:38 ↗ specific and two the shopping shuttle

5:40 ↗ has been private so that's not something

5:42 ↗ that the city has

5:43 ↗ control over so he just wanted to change

5:45 ↗ it to facilitate mobility options to

5:48 ↗ improve

5:48 ↗ access for old town which is the goal we

5:50 ↗ want to improve access down there

5:55 ↗ the second one we said strive for the

5:57 ↗ mobility master plan

5:59 ↗ it's actually now implement since the

6:00 ↗ mobility master plan has been

6:02 ↗ implemented

6:05 ↗ any any comments so far

6:09 ↗ and commissioner fall i can't see when

6:11 ↗ i'm presenting i can't see the comments

6:13 ↗ section so if you could track those that

6:14 ↗ would be

6:15 ↗ great okay okay

6:18 ↗ so part of the old town submarine plan

6:23 ↗ we adopted an action program which is

6:25 ↗ not something we have done at other

6:26 ↗ plans

6:27 ↗ this was adopted in 2018. in 2019 the

6:31 ↗ city council asked us to include

6:33 ↗ a status just let us see how we're doing

6:35 ↗ so status was included last year's

6:37 ↗ appendix a

6:38 ↗ which now duplicates the action program

6:41 ↗ so we're proposing to just

6:43 ↗ make it all one and not have an appendix

6:45 ↗ a and this is what the action program

6:47 ↗ will look like

6:48 ↗ so the updates here just things that you

6:50 ↗ know i was thinking about it and despite

6:53 ↗ a pandemic and some reduction in staff

6:57 ↗ i think we were pretty productive so um

7:00 ↗ the architectural standards were

7:01 ↗ completed they were in progress last

7:02 ↗ year and were completed this year

7:06 ↗ we still need to do some code revisions

7:07 ↗ to impervious surface and

7:09 ↗ landscape standards the landscape

7:11 ↗ standards are going to be done with the

7:12 ↗ title 18

7:14 ↗ changes and in the impervious we're

7:16 ↗ going to have to revisit

7:17 ↗ how that's going to work once the storm

7:20 ↗ and surface water master plan

7:21 ↗ is done the rest were all completed in

7:24 ↗ 2020.

7:26 ↗ these are just changes i'm not going to

7:28 ↗ go through all of them but we continue

7:29 ↗ to work with key county metro and sound

7:31 ↗ transit to get more transit downtown

7:34 ↗ we did complete in 2020 the improvements

7:37 ↗ to discourage some cut through traffic

7:39 ↗ we are working with dia to provide them

7:42 ↗ funding and marketing

7:45 ↗ um the inventory of missing pedestrian

7:47 ↗ bicycle facilities

7:49 ↗ uh the actual facilities uh the bike

7:52 ↗ lanes

7:53 ↗ those were inventoried but things like

7:55 ↗ bike racks

7:57 ↗ those were not inventoried and lighting

7:58 ↗ so that'll be done later

8:00 ↗ so we split those up and then

8:04 ↗ the phase one of the we have something

8:06 ↗ called the downtown

8:09 ↗ streetscape conceptual plan and it's

8:12 ↗ improvements to front street that was

8:14 ↗ adopted back in 2017 and so when we're

8:16 ↗ talking about the studs those are the

8:17 ↗ improvements that we're talking about

8:19 ↗ phase one phase two phase three and then

8:21 ↗ the remainder

8:22 ↗ uh those are going to take some of

8:23 ↗ that's taken place but that'll that's

8:25 ↗ all getting moved down a little bit

8:28 ↗ i'm going major challenges with reducing

8:33 ↗ parking requirements um council did not

8:36 ↗ approve this

8:37 ↗ um some of the incentives that was back

8:39 ↗ in 2019

8:40 ↗ uh you all had asked to review the

8:43 ↗ boundaries within 12 months of adoption

8:44 ↗ of the new architectural standards and

8:46 ↗ design guidelines but only part of

8:47 ↗ that's been adopted

8:49 ↗ we did the single-family duplex but the

8:51 ↗ cbd and mf still need to be done

8:52 ↗ multi-family still need to be done

8:54 ↗ so once those are done i think we start

8:57 ↗ up

8:57 ↗ then and that will be either in 2020

9:00 ↗ probably in 2022.

9:04 ↗ we have had to put on hold some of the

9:06 ↗ pedestrian lighting

9:08 ↗ and that's it short-term actions

9:12 ↗ 2021-2022

9:13 ↗ things that got started this year we're

9:15 ↗ continuing to work with dia

9:18 ↗ we have done the inventory

9:23 ↗ um let's see

9:26 ↗ yeah so pretty good there

9:29 ↗ old town engagement program we need to

9:31 ↗ work on getting that going and the

9:32 ↗ neighborhood redevelopment and field

9:34 ↗ toolkit that's

9:35 ↗ those didn't get started this year

9:36 ↗ neither did the old town community

9:38 ↗ garden and that is also not in the

9:40 ↗ capital improvement plan right now

9:42 ↗ i don't know when that will come up and

9:44 ↗ then the streamline process to allow old

9:46 ↗ town street closures we've done that

9:48 ↗ we did that sort of uh with covid

9:52 ↗ and opening things up but we don't have

9:54 ↗ a formal process to do that so that

9:56 ↗ needs to start

9:59 ↗ longer term actions we've actually

10:00 ↗ gotten started on some of them

10:02 ↗ so the park strategic plan they're

10:04 ↗ planning right now to do master planning

10:06 ↗ for the crete corridor and the veterans

10:07 ↗ memorial field

10:09 ↗ and continuing work with dia and

10:12 ↗ we have actually completed work to

10:14 ↗ improve access and views of issaquah

10:16 ↗ creek in the east fork and a lot of

10:17 ↗ that's been done through the property

10:19 ↗ purchases that we've done

10:20 ↗ along front street where we've

10:21 ↗ demolished the buildings there are not

10:23 ↗ formal views but there are views of the

10:25 ↗ creek

10:27 ↗ and then you can see here we had to move

10:29 ↗ down some of the phase 2

10:31 ↗ work for the front street improvements

10:33 ↗ and the implementation of the bicycle

10:35 ↗ improvements

10:37 ↗ so any questions on those

10:42 ↗ okay redesignations and reasons

10:48 ↗ when things when the city acquires

10:50 ↗ property or when other public entities

10:52 ↗ such as the school district or the

10:53 ↗ county acquire properties

10:55 ↗ we like to rezone them to community

10:57 ↗ facilities

10:59 ↗ and give them a community facilities

11:00 ↗ designation

11:02 ↗ this identifies them as publicly owned

11:04 ↗ properties intended for public purpose

11:07 ↗ and there are three different community

11:08 ↗ facilities zones we have

11:11 ↗ many facilities facilities recreation

11:14 ↗ and open space and there's nothing

11:15 ↗ proposed for facilities right now but

11:17 ↗ things like our shop office any of our

11:20 ↗ city hall buildings would go there you

11:21 ↗ can put

11:22 ↗ streets there but

11:26 ↗ we are only proposing recreation which

11:27 ↗ is for things like parks and

11:29 ↗ community centers some smaller buildings

11:32 ↗ and then we're proposing open space

11:33 ↗ which really doesn't allow for any

11:35 ↗ development at all

11:37 ↗ so the first one is blackberry park we

11:39 ↗ acquired this from king county in 2016.

11:43 ↗ it was already being used as a park but

11:45 ↗ needs to have some updates done to it

11:48 ↗ it's about half an acre it's currently

11:51 ↗ has a landry's designation of london

11:53 ↗ city residential and the zoning

11:55 ↗ of single-family small lot we are

11:58 ↗ proposing to

12:00 ↗ give it a laney's designation of

12:02 ↗ community facilities and the zoning

12:04 ↗ would be community facilities recreation

12:07 ↗ any questions this is required as part

12:11 ↗ of the deed that we had

12:13 ↗ to remain as recreation

12:16 ↗ and open to the public it cannot be a

12:18 ↗ private park

12:20 ↗ christian sorry we have a question

12:24 ↗ from nina okay thank you this is

12:27 ↗ commissioner nina milligan thank you

12:29 ↗ planner leeson

12:30 ↗ my question is has there been a

12:33 ↗ discussion

12:34 ↗ with a neighborhood and what can you

12:38 ↗ tell us about that if there has

12:40 ↗ they have started conversations with the

12:41 ↗ neighborhood about what they'd like to

12:43 ↗ see there there has not been a finalized

12:44 ↗ plan

12:46 ↗ yeah but they've started talking with

12:48 ↗ them

12:53 ↗ good and i've got a question from matt

12:59 ↗ yeah hi matt monahan um maybe a question

13:02 ↗ recommendation to you kristen

13:04 ↗ um would it be possible to include

13:06 ↗ photographs

13:07 ↗ of these properties i mean not extensive

13:09 ↗ photographs but maybe like a quick

13:11 ↗ snapshot just so we can get a look at

13:12 ↗ what it looks like

13:14 ↗ sure i think that would be helpful thank

13:17 ↗ you

13:18 ↗ that's it for me

13:23 ↗ okay that's all crescent

13:26 ↗ okay so this is the newport area

13:30 ↗ this area was dedicated as part of the

13:33 ↗ gateway development and the gateway

13:35 ↗ development

13:36 ↗ was all in here it has revel and

13:38 ↗ anthology apartments right here

13:41 ↗ and the developer actually received

13:43 ↗ credit for their impact fees for

13:44 ↗ dedicating this land to the city so it's

13:46 ↗ hard to see two different parcels

13:48 ↗ uh this is one right here this is the

13:51 ↗ other

13:52 ↗ so right now they're both known village

13:53 ↗ residential

13:55 ↗ and both have a multi-family residential

13:58 ↗ designation

13:59 ↗ oh my mouth disappeared the proposal is

14:03 ↗ this parcel right here which is 2.37

14:06 ↗ acres

14:07 ↗ would be community facilities recreation

14:10 ↗ and that there would be a park here

14:13 ↗ and the other piece over here would be

14:17 ↗ open space it's about four and a quarter

14:19 ↗ acres would be permanent open space

14:23 ↗ any questions on this one

14:26 ↗ um we've got a question from nina

14:30 ↗ commissioner milligan here yeah can you

14:32 ↗ just briefly um

14:33 ↗ tell me about wetlands in the area and

14:36 ↗ is there something about that there so

14:39 ↗ this entire parcel right here

14:41 ↗ is pretty much a wetland it is adjacent

14:43 ↗ to tibbetts creek

14:45 ↗ it comes over here um and the parcel to

14:48 ↗ the north is a wetland

14:49 ↗ and down here is also wetland and part

14:52 ↗ of this parcel is wetlands so this

14:54 ↗ entire area

14:55 ↗ will not be developed that help okay

15:00 ↗ thank you very much um and

15:03 ↗ kristen i do have a point or

15:06 ↗ clarification here

15:07 ↗ who will be maintaining these parcels

15:10 ↗ will be

15:11 ↗ the apartments or will it be the city

15:14 ↗ the reason for asking that is because

15:16 ↗ these almost look like

15:18 ↗ exclusive um parks

15:22 ↗ they are not they again are to be open

15:24 ↗ to the public and this one won't

15:26 ↗ really be used i don't think they're

15:27 ↗ even planning trails in this area

15:29 ↗ i mean it's it's a wetland um this one

15:33 ↗ it would be the city who maintains it

15:35 ↗ okay is there going to be parking

15:37 ↗ and is it going to be welcoming for our

15:38 ↗ city for

15:40 ↗ the general public like i said it almost

15:43 ↗ feels like it's going to be exclusive

15:45 ↗ and the city is going to be on the hook

15:47 ↗ for maintaining it

15:48 ↗ to their benefit there is going to be

15:51 ↗ parking there's seven spaces

15:52 ↗ in here and with one of those being a

15:54 ↗ handicap space

15:57 ↗ um as far as sort of marketing for this

16:00 ↗ park and making sure that people know

16:01 ↗ that it's open

16:02 ↗ i'm not sure what they're planning for

16:04 ↗ it i do know that

16:05 ↗ i tried to get parks here tonight but

16:07 ↗ they turned out to have another meeting

16:08 ↗ so i can

16:08 ↗ find out from them what any plans that

16:11 ↗ they might have

16:13 ↗ okay for that thank you that's it

16:22 ↗ good questions you guys right

16:27 ↗ harvey manning park extension so you all

16:30 ↗ most of you all many of you all will

16:32 ↗ recall

16:33 ↗ for a while this was going to be

16:34 ↗ developed

16:36 ↗ into very dense single-family housing

16:40 ↗ and then the city council denied the

16:42 ↗ road to go through this area

16:44 ↗ and a group of residents pushed for the

16:46 ↗ city to buy it and they actually

16:48 ↗ so they did with help from king county

16:51 ↗ uh

16:51 ↗ they actually purchased all seven of

16:53 ↗ these parcels right here

16:56 ↗ this one is owned by the county and was

16:57 ↗ rezoned to open space in 2019

17:01 ↗ these six parcels are owned by the city

17:04 ↗ and what we're talking this is harvey

17:05 ↗ manning park

17:06 ↗ right here so this is going to be called

17:08 ↗ the harvey manning park expansion

17:11 ↗ so right now these are zones

17:12 ↗ single-family estates these are zones

17:14 ↗ single-family suburban

17:16 ↗ it will all be um community facilities

17:20 ↗ open space just like this one

17:22 ↗ they are planning on trails through here

17:24 ↗ that will connect

17:25 ↗ up to this is king county uh property

17:28 ↗ and there are trails all through here

17:30 ↗ trails will come through here and hook

17:31 ↗ up

17:32 ↗ here and they will also connect to

17:34 ↗ harvey manning park

17:36 ↗ there may be some benches and some

17:37 ↗ overlooks but that's about all that's

17:39 ↗ going to go in there

17:41 ↗ any questions

17:44 ↗ again this one because it was purchased

17:46 ↗ by king county

17:47 ↗ i knew i'd forget the name of the funds

17:49 ↗ but it's a levy fund

17:51 ↗ and through a land trust and it is

17:53 ↗ required to remain

17:54 ↗ open space in perpetuity

17:58 ↗ any questions okay

18:02 ↗ all right public facilities map

18:06 ↗ oh that's the last one click facilities

18:08 ↗ map

18:09 ↗ when we were doing the map last year our

18:11 ↗ parks director

18:13 ↗ looked at this and said there are so

18:15 ↗ many pieces of city property that aren't

18:17 ↗ on here which

18:18 ↗ have been that way for years we hadn't

18:19 ↗ even noticed i don't know why so

18:21 ↗ we went back and we added them so we

18:23 ↗ added pickering barn

18:24 ↗ the julius bone pool the senior center

18:27 ↗ and the community

18:28 ↗ center which are all right down in this

18:29 ↗ area

18:31 ↗ and then council member t michelle is

18:33 ↗ very familiar with the school district

18:35 ↗ and caught us

18:35 ↗ in a few places there too apparently

18:39 ↗ the tiger mountain community high school

18:40 ↗ had been closed for six years

18:42 ↗ and we weren't aware of it and the

18:44 ↗ gibson eck high school moved in there so

18:45 ↗ that is why we were making that change

18:47 ↗ right there

18:48 ↗ and then we also separated they asked us

18:51 ↗ to separate this into two different

18:52 ↗ schools this is the providence

18:54 ↗ area providence sites area and this

18:58 ↗ is going to be the elementary school and

19:00 ↗ this will be the high school

19:01 ↗ they don't have names for those yet uh

19:04 ↗ but we

19:04 ↗ have to show where future future

19:05 ↗ facilities are going to be

19:07 ↗ so those are the changes to that map any

19:09 ↗ questions

19:14 ↗ do you have a question from commissioner

19:16 ↗ bader

19:20 ↗ yeah hi sorry i actually had a question

19:22 ↗ on the last one but i sent it to the

19:23 ↗ host instead of all panelists

19:25 ↗ um it's more of a curiosity than

19:28 ↗ anything and this doesn't reflect my

19:30 ↗ like personal views but is there any

19:32 ↗ like looking long

19:33 ↗ term um and i know that the king county

19:36 ↗ loan says open space in perpetuity but

19:38 ↗ of losing um you know a sizable chunk of

19:42 ↗ residential zone land

19:48 ↗ no i mean we have so the concern is

19:50 ↗ potentially losing

19:52 ↗ place for room for development for new

19:53 ↗ housing right is that yeah yeah and

19:55 ↗ it's just a curiosity so no i mean it

19:58 ↗ really really was very very difficult to

20:01 ↗ get

20:01 ↗ housing up here it is so steep and

20:03 ↗ that's where the photographs would come

20:04 ↗ in handy um it's very

20:06 ↗ it's very very steep and it it's hard to

20:10 ↗ get a road up there so there

20:12 ↗ it doesn't make sense to have a lot of

20:13 ↗ housing in there but the other thing is

20:16 ↗ is that we have central issaquah and i

20:17 ↗ just recently did the uh

20:20 ↗ growth capacity report for issaquah i

20:22 ↗ keep looking over here because that's my

20:23 ↗ screen

20:24 ↗ sorry um the growth capacity report or

20:27 ↗ issaquah and we have

20:29 ↗ capacity on vacant and redevelopable

20:31 ↗ land for over

20:32 ↗ 11 000 units and most of that is to be

20:36 ↗ in central issaquah

20:37 ↗ where we want our growth to go because

20:39 ↗ then it's next to transportation and

20:40 ↗ it's next to daily facilities so

20:43 ↗ it's so and we want to protect our

20:44 ↗ hillsides so this is okay

20:46 ↗ yeah yeah all right

20:52 ↗ um okay so that's it for the present

20:55 ↗ for the amendments tonight so as i

20:58 ↗ mentioned we're going to keep working on

21:00 ↗ these

21:00 ↗ um we'll bring these to you between now

21:02 ↗ and september

21:03 ↗ we'll hold a public hearing and

21:05 ↗ recommendation in september and october

21:09 ↗ and in on november november 9th it goes

21:11 ↗ to

21:12 ↗ a council study session and then on

21:13 ↗ december 6 they will make

21:15 ↗ they will take action on the proposed

21:17 ↗ amendments

21:19 ↗ our next meeting on july 9th we're going

21:20 ↗ to talk about land use tables i finally

21:22 ↗ got our numbers from the office of

21:24 ↗ financial management

21:25 ↗ which means that we can do population

21:26 ↗ estimates and look at

21:28 ↗ housing and where we are compared to

21:30 ↗ targets and then we'll also talk about a

21:32 ↗ private

21:33 ↗ reason request that we have which is the

21:35 ↗ milano redesignation and reason request

21:39 ↗ that's the end of my presentation

21:41 ↗ anytime

21:42 ↗ uh quick question before we jump to

21:46 ↗ public comment or clarification

21:47 ↗ questions you said july 9th is our next

21:50 ↗ meeting

21:51 ↗ i have down july 20 or june 24th does

21:54 ↗ that cancel

21:56 ↗ no you're right um so i'm trying to make

21:58 ↗ you you're right i'm

22:00 ↗ sorry the next time we talk about

22:01 ↗ comprehensive plan amendments that will

22:02 ↗ be it but you're right we have another

22:04 ↗ meeting on

22:05 ↗ june 20. i don't have my calendar from

22:07 ↗ me but in june yes

22:08 ↗ sure okay no worries uh okay so i'm

22:10 ↗ going to go ahead and open this up to

22:12 ↗ the commissioners for

22:13 ↗ clarification questions and then we will

22:16 ↗ close it to

22:17 ↗ uh public comments and then we'll open

22:20 ↗ it up to

22:20 ↗ uh general debate are there any other

22:25 ↗ clarification questions from the

22:26 ↗ commissioners tonight

22:29 ↗ seeing none

22:33 ↗ actually there's a question here from

22:36 ↗ commissioner zargoza right thanks

22:40 ↗ uh commissioner sargoza um so i don't

22:43 ↗ have any questions on what we just went

22:45 ↗ through but

22:46 ↗ when we first talked about these changes

22:48 ↗ there was a house

22:49 ↗ nearby anthology that was looking to be

22:53 ↗ redesignated whatever happened to that

22:55 ↗ that's the milano reza

22:57 ↗ that one's coming on july 9th

23:00 ↗ okay thank you you're welcome

23:05 ↗ okay so that is it for uh

23:11 ↗ commissioner questions at the moment uh

23:13 ↗ let's go ahead and open up to

23:14 ↗ public comment christian do we have any

23:16 ↗ um members of the public

23:19 ↗ waiting this won't open up for me we did

23:22 ↗ i can't get this to open up for me

23:24 ↗ um hello

23:30 ↗ here we go

23:37 ↗ well let me all attendees so i won't be

23:38 ↗ able to i'm struggling um

23:40 ↗ we do have one member of the public uh

23:43 ↗ julian

23:44 ↗ midlil yeah kristin uh this is minnie uh

23:47 ↗ julian is in the attendees list i can

23:49 ↗ see her

23:50 ↗ okay i can't unfortunately my attendees

23:52 ↗ list won't

23:54 ↗ open let me try when i say when i say

23:56 ↗ view all attendees it won't it won't

23:58 ↗ open

23:59 ↗ yeah she is in attendance so if you want

24:00 ↗ to give her

24:03 ↗ um you know what

24:07 ↗ julian if you would just like to unmute

24:09 ↗ yourself for a minute and let me know

24:14 ↗ or you could type in the chat if you

24:16 ↗ would like to speak

24:22 ↗ well there we go it went to my other

24:24 ↗ screen

24:28 ↗ there we go william would you like to

24:30 ↗ speak tonight no comment today

24:33 ↗ no comment thank you sorry that took so

24:35 ↗ long

24:38 ↗ okay so there is no one else there is no

24:40 ↗ one else um in attendance

24:42 ↗ all right so we're gonna go ahead and

24:43 ↗ close public comment at 6 56.

24:46 ↗ just to make a note we opened public

24:49 ↗ comment at 6 54.

24:52 ↗ okay uh and now we'll go ahead and open

24:55 ↗ up for general questions

24:57 ↗ of the commissioners any general

25:00 ↗ questions

25:05 ↗ not seen any questions

25:09 ↗ once twice should i call in names

25:14 ↗ okay so we'll go ahead and close

25:16 ↗ questions out

25:17 ↗ thank you very much christian for the

25:19 ↗ presentation tonight

25:20 ↗ uh and let's move on to reports uh let's

25:23 ↗ go ahead and go through city council

25:24 ↗ updates

25:26 ↗ so the only one that i have right now is

25:30 ↗ that the on monday night the city

25:32 ↗ council approved

25:34 ↗ the 2022 to 2027 capital improvement

25:37 ↗ plan

25:38 ↗ that you all looked at um i think you

25:40 ↗ all that was one of the first things you

25:42 ↗ all did as new members was look at that

25:43 ↗ so

25:44 ↗ they approved that on monday night many

25:46 ↗ do you have any other

25:48 ↗ council reports um yeah well um i can

25:50 ↗ give you a report and you'd um

25:53 ↗ got the pbrts thing approved by council

25:56 ↗ so kristin did a fabulous job of

25:58 ↗ presenting to council about another

26:00 ↗ piece of property

26:01 ↗ that uh is going through a king county

26:03 ↗ program for

26:05 ↗ getting break on their taxes for

26:06 ↗ preserving it as open space

26:08 ↗ so uh you know there was a public

26:10 ↗ hearing on that um

26:12 ↗ that got approved by our council uh king

26:14 ↗ county council has to take an action on

26:16 ↗ that it was very minimal tax

26:18 ↗ um issue for the city like 800

26:21 ↗ you know eight dollars or something um

26:23 ↗ but it was a long-term preservation of a

26:26 ↗ homeowner association that owned this

26:28 ↗ green space

26:29 ↗ for doing some restoration work and and

26:32 ↗ other things that they would get a

26:33 ↗ credit for

26:34 ↗ so that was that and then um i have a

26:36 ↗ report for title 18 ad hoc committee so

26:39 ↗ we met

26:39 ↗ uh this afternoon so that's the the

26:42 ↗ three council members that

26:43 ↗ um we work with for getting guidance and

26:47 ↗ an approval for title 18 update uh so

26:50 ↗ one of the things um

26:52 ↗ after your uh planning and policy

26:54 ↗ commission meeting on the title 18

26:56 ↗ update

26:56 ↗ the kickoff meeting that we had there

26:58 ↗ were a few questions

26:59 ↗ um that came up that we wanted their

27:02 ↗ direction from one was should we

27:06 ↗ have a discussion at the at your group

27:09 ↗ at ppc for goals and outcomes chart

27:13 ↗ because there was some um desire

27:15 ↗ expressed by

27:16 ↗ some of you at the last meeting to uh

27:19 ↗ take a

27:19 ↗ take a little bit larger view of what

27:22 ↗ those goals and outcomes are and see if

27:24 ↗ there were any gaps in there

27:26 ↗ and we advocated that that may be a good

27:28 ↗ use of your time as long as we

27:30 ↗ kind of keep moving forward and get this

27:32 ↗ done by next year

27:33 ↗ so um we propose that we spend the next

27:38 ↗ meeting half of the next meeting kind of

27:40 ↗ taking a look at the golden outcomes

27:42 ↗ chart

27:43 ↗ so we'll do that i will include that in

27:45 ↗ your agenda

27:47 ↗ um the other uh piece at the next

27:49 ↗ meeting for you guys

27:50 ↗ um we will launch for the educational

27:54 ↗ piece i think

27:54 ↗ there are some good key takeaways from

27:56 ↗ you to to keep it topic specific do it

27:59 ↗ when

27:59 ↗ when that comes dedicate one meeting

28:01 ↗ when you're actually going to be

28:02 ↗ debating on those topics

28:04 ↗ so we've relooked at our schedule to

28:07 ↗ accommodate some of those things

28:09 ↗ and not have two more than two board

28:10 ↗ meetings so we'll share that

28:12 ↗ and and then we'll get into some of the

28:15 ↗ substantive things

28:16 ↗ for one topic just a very small piece to

28:18 ↗ kind of see here's how we

28:20 ↗ um look at diving into it so that's just

28:22 ↗ what's to come at your next meeting

28:27 ↗ that's all i have i did as you guys were

28:29 ↗ all talking about it i was trying to

28:31 ↗ pull

28:32 ↗ some of these properties on google maps

28:33 ↗ so i can

28:35 ↗ share if that's of any use uh of some of

28:37 ↗ the properties if you want to take a

28:38 ↗ street view look at some of the

28:40 ↗ properties

28:42 ↗ now okay let me go ahead yes

28:45 ↗ yes okay so let me see if i can share my

28:49 ↗ screen

28:54 ↗ do i have the permission kristen it's

28:57 ↗ grayed out for me

28:58 ↗ oh that's right you need to be a

28:59 ↗ presenter let me do that

29:05 ↗ there you go

29:12 ↗ the first property that everyone was

29:15 ↗ looking at oops why is this in the way

29:25 ↗ was this one so that's the

29:29 ↗ in that neighborhood one perk

29:32 ↗ um the second one was in the anthology

29:37 ↗ it's it's kind of hard to get the the

29:40 ↗ i need to get this out of the way so you

29:41 ↗ can actually see

29:43 ↗ um so this is that piece that

29:46 ↗ uh one of the parcels the other one kind

29:49 ↗ of follows through here but it's

29:51 ↗ hard to the google uh didn't show

29:55 ↗ some of the properties up here but do

29:57 ↗ you have a sense um

29:59 ↗ kristin is this am i showing the right

30:02 ↗ property here right this kind of stream

30:04 ↗ was one

30:05 ↗ right where he has yeah

30:09 ↗ and this is the other one with the the

30:11 ↗ stream but if i do a street view here

30:14 ↗ it really doesn't let me go in

30:17 ↗ to some of these places but might get a

30:20 ↗ little bit of a

30:22 ↗ view this was i think when google was

30:25 ↗ here they were

30:26 ↗ constructing you can't really see that

30:29 ↗ from

30:30 ↗ from that the third one the harvey

30:33 ↗ manning

30:34 ↗ uh park is

30:48 ↗ around

30:50 ↗ somewhere around here so you can kind of

30:51 ↗ see it's really trading

30:54 ↗ very steep but i can pull up the newport

30:59 ↗ street here so this is what it looks

31:02 ↗ like from

31:03 ↗ from the street view

31:09 ↗ oh yeah we can include the pictures and

31:12 ↗ stuff in the next packet but that kind

31:14 ↗ of gives you a little bit of

31:15 ↗ where things are on this

31:19 ↗ and if i go here so this is the tibbetts

31:23 ↗ creek i think that flows through

31:30 ↗ here

31:33 ↗ that goes all all everything flows

31:35 ↗ through here to the lake

31:37 ↗ but i think that's all i had

31:40 ↗ in terms of pictures now i can

31:43 ↗ i need to give you the screen back

31:54 ↗ we all know your community much better

31:56 ↗ than that you probably

31:58 ↗ driven past these places and know it

32:03 ↗ thank you manny uh okay so

32:08 ↗ we have yes kristen did you want to add

32:12 ↗ anything

32:12 ↗ to that before we move on to other

32:15 ↗ business

32:20 ↗ oh and we have a question from

32:23 ↗ commissioner milligan

32:26 ↗ well thank you this commissioner

32:27 ↗ milligan and uh

32:29 ↗ to follow up on um

32:32 ↗ director diwali's comment about us

32:35 ↗ knowing the neighborhood better

32:36 ↗ i will say that i don't live in

32:39 ↗ anthology and i love that bridge and the

32:41 ↗ connection to

32:43 ↗ formula brewing but also

32:47 ↗ the anticipated development in the rally

32:50 ↗ development agreement which is on the

32:51 ↗ other side of that property

32:53 ↗ is significant and will provide really

32:55 ↗ great

32:56 ↗ connectivity between the two

32:57 ↗ neighborhoods in the very long run

32:59 ↗ so the um i didn't have any concern

33:02 ↗ about

33:03 ↗ uh this being an

33:06 ↗ enclave or a you know private

33:09 ↗ amenity i think a great deal if it's

33:11 ↗ gonna be used by the public

33:14 ↗ okay thank you very much commissioner

33:16 ↗ milligan

33:18 ↗ any other additional questions

33:22 ↗ okay see none uh let's move on to

33:25 ↗ other business and announcements kristen

33:27 ↗ do you have any comments on the upcoming

33:29 ↗ schedule

33:30 ↗ i do first of all your schedule has

33:33 ↗ spilled out

33:35 ↗ so i've been working with the consultant

33:37 ↗ and many and we've been

33:38 ↗ talking through title 18 and everything

33:40 ↗ that comes up everything that comes with

33:42 ↗ that

33:43 ↗ we're going to add at least probably one

33:45 ↗ meeting in december

33:46 ↗ and then in 2022 uh we will add a couple

33:50 ↗ more there as well because title 18

33:52 ↗ takes it up and we still need to do

33:54 ↗ storm water

33:55 ↗ and a few other things comprehensive

33:58 ↗ plan some other things that are in there

34:00 ↗ so

34:00 ↗ it's filled up you'll see it in the next

34:02 ↗ packet

34:04 ↗ um the other thing is in november we

34:06 ↗ talked about this that november 11th is

34:08 ↗ a holiday

34:09 ↗ so there will be no meeting and the

34:10 ↗ other one is thanksgiving so there's no

34:11 ↗ meeting

34:12 ↗ but we do need to have a meeting in

34:13 ↗ there and i had asked you all to sort of

34:15 ↗ consider what might work

34:17 ↗ and i i'm gonna let our two dates our

34:20 ↗ two thursdays that might be available

34:22 ↗ would be november 4th

34:23 ↗ and november 18th so do you all have any

34:27 ↗ preferences there

34:32 ↗ no okay my thought is to potentially do

34:35 ↗ the fourth because it's further away

34:37 ↗ from thanksgiving

34:41 ↗ and i think that since october is a

34:43 ↗ longer month we'll have an extra week in

34:45 ↗ there

34:52 ↗ yes okay so november 4th

34:57 ↗ and and that is it and you may be

35:01 ↗ blown away when you see the schedule

35:02 ↗ next time minnie

35:05 ↗ so uh kristen on this uh i will

35:09 ↗ i may not be here on the 24th to 24th

35:13 ↗ and july 8th

35:19 ↗ don't have any dates when you may not be

35:20 ↗ there uh it would be

35:23 ↗ july 20 or june 24th and july 8th that's

35:26 ↗ somewhat questionable

35:27 ↗ um i've got plans but they're right now

35:30 ↗ they're tentative

35:31 ↗ and my decision is probably going to be

35:35 ↗ monday if anyone else

35:38 ↗ has any dates that you know of right now

35:40 ↗ if you could let me know

35:42 ↗ either email me or let me know now that

35:44 ↗ would be great thank you

35:49 ↗ okay that is it for

35:52 ↗ other business and announcements minnie

35:54 ↗ has a comment

35:56 ↗ uh i just wanted um thank you um

35:59 ↗ just wanted to run by you a a

36:02 ↗ strategy we were thinking of for

36:04 ↗ training

36:06 ↗ uh which was to go out in the site and

36:08 ↗ maybe do a tour

36:09 ↗ of some of the the bigger projects and

36:12 ↗ really look at how the code was applied

36:14 ↗ because i think one one of the things we

36:16 ↗ learned we heard last time was

36:18 ↗ uh training is important but you know it

36:20 ↗ could be a lot of words a lot of

36:22 ↗ reading you'll have to do but at the end

36:24 ↗ of the day it's like what what does it

36:25 ↗ mean on the ground

36:26 ↗ so i think in the past some um kristen

36:30 ↗ said that they it

36:31 ↗ has been useful for um doing a little

36:33 ↗ tour for three or four projects we can

36:36 ↗ hand pick which ones

36:37 ↗ would be good candidates we would give

36:39 ↗ you a one-page handout in on

36:41 ↗ all of those and then go out and

36:44 ↗ and um do a little tour um but wanted to

36:47 ↗ see you know one with covid

36:49 ↗ uh how you felt uh being outside and um

36:53 ↗ and going on on a tour and two if you

36:55 ↗ were fi if you

36:56 ↗ thought that was going to be a useful

36:58 ↗ exercise then

36:59 ↗ what date or what additional day uh

37:02 ↗ from availability and scheduling

37:04 ↗ standpoint that would be

37:06 ↗ a conversation we wanted to get some

37:07 ↗ feedback on

37:12 ↗ and director mini do you want us to

37:14 ↗ provide feedback now or

37:15 ↗ in private either way you can email us

37:18 ↗ or if you want to discuss as a group you

37:20 ↗ can

37:20 ↗ talk about it now

37:25 ↗ any additional questions from the

37:26 ↗ commissioners

37:30 ↗ i'm in favor of that i'll come out there

37:31 ↗ and say it um

37:33 ↗ evenings are you know during the day

37:35 ↗ it's hard to get away for a weekday

37:37 ↗ but you know early evenings on

37:39 ↗ weeknights or

37:40 ↗ i'd hate to ask you guys to come in on a

37:42 ↗ weekend but those are usually pretty

37:44 ↗ open too except for

37:45 ↗ soccer practice and like so i'm more

37:48 ↗ than happy to be flexible but i think

37:49 ↗ that's a fantastic idea thank you

37:54 ↗ and to that note i'm also vaccinated so

37:56 ↗ i'm good

38:00 ↗ same here sounds great yeah i'll just

38:03 ↗ chime in then if we can wear masks

38:05 ↗ kiddos are not eligible yet um to be

38:07 ↗ vaccinated so that would be my only

38:09 ↗ preference is that i'm happy to do it

38:10 ↗ for this request we still learn

38:14 ↗ yeah yeah i think the city policy is

38:16 ↗ still

38:17 ↗ for staff at least we we have we are

38:19 ↗ masking up so

38:20 ↗ regardless of the vaccination status we

38:22 ↗ will be with masks

38:26 ↗ excellent i think that's a great idea so

38:30 ↗ thank you director mini i'm sorry

38:34 ↗ well you could just call me minnie i

38:36 ↗ think it's a lot easier

38:38 ↗ all right i'm getting used to this chair

38:40 ↗ thing here uh okay so we're gonna move

38:42 ↗ on to the next thing which is

38:43 ↗ adjournment

38:44 ↗ wow i think this is the fastest meeting

38:47 ↗ ppc has

38:48 ↗ ever had this is

38:51 ↗ we've 40 minutes that's that's a record

38:54 ↗ okay so we're going to adjourn the

38:55 ↗ meeting at 7 10.

39:06 ↗ you

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Ron Faul

Sara Bader

Nina Milligan

Matt Monahan

Richard Zaragoza, Alternate (acting as voting member)

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Christen Leeson, Senior Planner

Minnie Dhaliwal, CP&D Director

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Joy Lewis

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a) Council Updates Presented by: Christen Leeson, Senior Planner Leeson reported that last Monday, the City Council approved the 2022-2027 Capital Improvement Plan.