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Thursday, March 14, 2024

6:30 PM · 47m 30s · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
Topics tracked across meetings:
Proposed Amendments to Title 18 for Emergency Shelters and Supportive Housing AB 8821 1/4
Recommendation on Proposed Updates of the Issaquah Municipal Code, Title 18, (A) ID 1225 9/10
Section
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Minutes of Jan. 11, 2024
packet pp.3–9
Staff report:
MINUTES SPECIAL JOINT MEETING PLANNING POLICY COMMISSION & ECONOMIC VITALITY COMMISSION 6:30 p.m. – Thursday, January 11, 2024
2b
Minutes of Jan. 25, 2024
packet pp.11–14
Staff report:
MINUTES PLANNING POLICY COMMISSION 6:30 p.m. – Thursday, January 25, 2024
4. REGULAR BUSINESS
4a
House Bill 1220: Emergency Shelters and Supportive Housing, (D)
90 min · Christen Leeson, Senior Planner · packet pp.15–22
Topics: HousingPublic Safety
Staff report:
The purpose of the March 14
5. REPORTS
5a
Council Update
Stephen Padua, Long Range Planning Manager
6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS
6a
Upcoming Schedule
packet pp.23–25
Staff report:
▪ Middle Housing Standards Update ▪ Housing Analysis
0:07 okay good evening I would like to call
0:09 the March 14th planning policy
0:11 Commission meeting to order at 6:35
0:15 p.m. um today's meeting is a hybrid
0:18 meeting uh the planning policy
0:20 commission is in person but staff or
0:22 members of the public may be attending
0:23 virtually or in person hopefully those
0:26 of you are attending virtually are
0:27 outside um on this beautiful evening
0:30 um so staff do we have a quorum
0:33 tonight yes we do perfect okay moving
0:38 right along our first item of business
0:40 is to take action to approve the minutes
0:42 for the January 11th and January 25th
0:44 PPC meetings are there any corrections
0:48 to the draft January 11th 2024 minutes
0:51 provided in the agenda
0:54 packet hearing none those minutes are
0:58 approved um are there any question CS to
1:00 the draft January 25th 2024 minutes
1:03 provided in the agenda
1:06 packet also hearing none those minutes
1:08 are approved so our next item of
1:11 business is public
1:13 comments so we'll hold public comment at
1:15 this time um has anyone signed up to
1:17 make public
1:19 comment there's no one in the room that
1:21 has asked for public
1:24 comment we do have one person online um
1:28 Mr kveld do you would you would you like
1:33 speak I'm not hearing anything so
1:39 no okay fastest first three agenda items
1:43 ever um so we'll move on then to regular
1:46 business um and so we only have one item
1:48 under regular business tonight and it's
1:50 House Bill 1220 Emergency Shelters and
1:53 Supportive
1:54 Housing so Kristen Lon senior planner
1:56 will be presenting tonight so Kristen go
1:59 ahead
2:09 all right thank you very much yes I'm
2:11 Kristen Leon senior
2:13 planner tonight we're going to talk
2:15 about amendments for House Bill
2:19 1220 which is in regards to Emergency
2:23 Shelters emergency housing permanent
2:26 Supportive Housing and transitional
2:28 housing so our our protocol for tonight
2:33 is to uh review and provide feedback on
2:35 the proposed
2:37 amendments any directions needed is that
2:39 are there any additional regulations
2:41 that be should be considered uh in the
2:43 ordinance to address public health and
2:45 safety for these
2:49 uses I'll bring that up again at the end
2:52 so you may remember this we use it
2:54 whenever we talk about housing but it's
2:55 the housing Continuum sort of our length
2:58 of or our different types of housing and
3:00 usually these are covering the last two
3:03 the affordable rental ownership and
3:05 market rate rental and ownership but
3:07 these are addressing unsheltered
3:09 homeless emergency sheltered
3:10 transitional Supportive Housing and
3:13 subsidized housing that is what um these
3:15 amendments will help
3:17 address so House Bill 1220 became
3:20 effective in September of
3:22 2021 as I noted it requires that
3:24 jurisdictions allow Emergency Shelters
3:27 emergency housing permanent support of
3:28 Housing and transitional housing within
3:30 their
3:31 jurisdictions you may regulate for
3:34 reasonable occupancy spacing and
3:36 intensity of use as long as it doesn't
3:39 prohibit that use within your city and
3:42 may means don't have to it's an option
3:45 and there's not really any guidance on
3:47 how to do
3:48 that so it
3:51 also house bill is much larger that I'm
3:54 talking about here but everything else
3:56 that's required is required in the
3:58 comprehensive plan so it's keep an
4:00 inventory um make sure that you're
4:02 providing for all affordable housing and
4:04 so we've addressed those policies and
4:05 one that's new this year is to allow for
4:08 I'm not going to list them all again but
4:09 all of these uses um within designated
4:13 areas our structure is to address
4:16 emergency shelters in one section
4:18 because they're a little different and
4:20 then address the Supportive Housing
4:22 which are the emergency permanent
4:24 supportive and transitional um in
4:26 another section so that's how we've
4:28 structured it
4:30 the Emergency Shelters and I've actually
4:32 given a heads up to commissioner
4:34 commissioner altimore that she may be my
4:36 phona friend for tonight because she is
4:38 um very educated in this area she's an
4:41 expert so um Emergency Shelters um the
4:45 state requirements and definitions of
4:47 these is that they are temporary shelter
4:49 for those who are currently homeless you
4:52 cannot require a lease or an occup
4:55 occupancy agreement for these uses they
4:58 may include day and warming Center so if
5:01 it's really really hot in the summer
5:03 it's a place for people to go cool off
5:04 maybe get some food and in the winter if
5:06 it's really cold that's also a place to
5:08 go and these the state requires that
5:10 these must be allowed where hotels are
5:13 allowed now we are also supp proposing
5:16 some additional regulations so we are
5:19 also proposing to allow these in
5:21 existing religious and public
5:24 facilities they must be at least a half
5:26 a mile from each other they should be
5:28 limited to 50 residents per facility and
5:31 how here's we came up with that because
5:33 right now we have some emergency housing
5:35 that's in over in Motel 6 and generally
5:38 they get between 29 and 34 in the past
5:40 few years people that they've helped
5:43 that they've housed there so we kind of
5:45 looked at a 35 number 40 would be nice
5:48 to have the that but the city's going to
5:50 grow area is going to grow things change
5:52 so 50 would be a nice buffer okay so we
5:56 said 50 per 50 residents per per
5:59 facility
6:00 an operational plan must be provided and
6:02 the and submitted to the city and
6:05 updated annually or if there are
6:07 significant changes during the year that
6:08 needs to be submitted to the city it
6:10 would include Safety and Security plans
6:12 code of conduct for the residents and
6:14 community relations plan and then notice
6:17 for Emergency Shelters notice can be
6:19 waved in response to state county or
6:21 local emergency like flooding fires that
6:24 kind of
6:25 thing so this is where the state
6:27 requires them they require them where
6:28 hotels are allowed and these are the
6:30 zones shown on the
6:32 map we are also proposing to allow these
6:35 in religious and public facilities which
6:37 would include all the single family and
6:39 multif family zones and mixed use
6:41 residential and uh our Human Services
6:45 folks are working with religious
6:48 facilities right now and potentially
6:50 other public facilities such as the
6:52 library to see if we can use those to
6:54 get agreements to see if we can use
6:56 those as emergency facilities if needed
6:58 so that's why we added
7:01 that and then if you look at all of it
7:04 if we allow where hotels are allowed as
7:06 well as uh religious facilities and um
7:10 public facilities these are all the
7:11 zones where they'd be
7:15 allowed so before I moved on to the
7:17 other one do you all have any questions
7:19 far yes commissioner crass hello um so
7:24 this is where they're allowed the
7:26 question is is there you need to
7:31 this is not going to come off great but
7:33 do we need to allow it everywhere is
7:35 there is there a shortage of areas to
7:38 have these or does it make sense to keep
7:40 it as you mentioned in areas where
7:43 there's hotels public
7:45 facilities um and religious facilities
7:48 versus single family well so the state
7:50 requires that we allow them in h
7:53 wherever hotels are allowed and whatever
7:55 zon those are allowed we're proposing to
7:57 allow them in these zones but this is
8:00 because this is where religious
8:02 facilities and public facilities so the
8:04 religious are in single family areas
8:06 it's not like these will be in in single
8:08 family residences these will be in okay
8:11 right and and so you know there are a
8:13 lot of churches that are loc located say
8:15 in single family Suburban yeah and we'll
8:17 need those
8:21 sites uh commissioner SM yeah and I
8:24 guess the question if you could pull up
8:26 the slide for the hotels the
8:29 areas that are zoned for hotels okay
8:32 good yeah so I see that it's not too
8:34 many areas you look not yeah and that's
8:37 probably why the proposal is to add
8:40 those additional areas as well okay
8:43 thank you you're welcome and then I
8:45 think commissioner
8:46 Milligan thank you okay and then the
8:49 next slide that has the
8:52 additional the one that has all of
8:54 them thank you uh so are you saying that
8:58 every area that has has any color in it
9:02 is the zoning area that where it would
9:04 be allowed yes but only in an existing
9:07 church or an existing public facility so
9:10 that would be City Hall yeah that would
9:12 be not necessarily in the whole so I
9:15 know um close to close to City Hall
9:18 there is a church that is a single
9:20 family zone so it would be allowed in
9:22 that church but not
9:24 in you can't tear down homes or take
9:29 homes and build a shelter there it just
9:32 has to go within the existing church or
9:34 the existing facility thank you yeah and
9:36 that's it was looking for clarification
9:38 because it went too fast for me and then
9:40 that's noted in the permitted uses table
9:42 too in the draft that we have and then
9:44 the second thing was that you um just
9:46 use the word
9:48 existing um does that mean that no new
9:52 churches could take on emergency shelter
9:56 use no I just mean existing at the time
9:58 of the
9:59 emergency so yeah at the time of the
10:04 emergency right okay
10:10 right Mr Kennedy oh sorry I
10:14 should sorry hey we're playing tugar
10:18 over here um couple questions one can
10:21 you provide some context on the basis
10:22 for establishing the half mile spacing
10:25 um because some of the examples you
10:27 brought up like what if it's a city hall
10:28 in the commity Community Center um how
10:31 how does that work with the spacing
10:33 requirement yeah good point um we do
10:36 need to do some measurements
10:38 yeah
10:40 um yeah most cities have used a half a
10:43 mile um that's I'm I'm gonna look into
10:47 that one I had thought about those two
10:48 particular I've thought about other ones
10:50 but not those two I that's very specific
10:51 but good point um the other thing I was
10:54 curious about is and let me know if I'm
10:56 jumping ahead here but looking at the
10:57 actual um uh draft of the the code on
11:02 the Emergency Shelters it mentions
11:03 permitting and I'm curious how that
11:06 works is it like a designation thing
11:07 where you're like a permitted space in
11:10 the event of an emergency versus like
11:12 I'm assuming if an emergency happens
11:14 we're not going to you know go through a
11:15 permitting process In the Heat of the
11:17 Moment so exact help me understand that
11:19 that piece right and I'll I'll double
11:21 check it I thought the language was in
11:22 there but in in case of emergency I
11:24 believe that no they do not have to go
11:25 through that
11:28 process
11:30 commissioner
11:33 Kennedy so is there a comprehensive list
11:36 of the public or religious spaces that
11:41 would be part of this broader zoning I'm
11:46 thinking of um the city has turn that
11:50 off the city has a comp obviously we
11:53 have a comprehensive list of our
11:55 facilities and Human Services is working
11:57 with churches well and
12:00 so a definition of churches meaning a
12:01 building or not not just churches
12:03 religious facilities I apologize okay
12:05 meaning a building that is built solely
12:07 for religious purposes because I think
12:09 of examples like leley Hall which I
12:11 believe is private the Highland but is
12:13 used on Sundays as a
12:15 church so just when you're defining
12:18 things someone might be like oh that's
12:19 my church I go to Blakeley hall and then
12:21 it's a private facility MH just so that
12:25 we're clear as to what we're defining as
12:27 the spaces to be used for these purposes
12:30 if we're throwing around terms like
12:32 churches right and Blakeley Hall is cons
12:36 it's sort of the Isco Highland's
12:37 Community Center but it's not public
12:39 correct yeah but it's used as a church I
12:41 would consider it a community facility
12:43 because it has more uses than just a
12:45 church I mean the primary use of that
12:48 facility is not church it's not a temple
12:51 it's not anything like that that's not
12:52 the primary use it's not so that's a
12:55 good point so we may need to clarify and
12:57 say where the primary use is a Rel
12:59 religious facility that was my point
13:01 that we we very clear about what we're
13:03 defining as those spaces yeah that's a
13:05 good point yes commissioner crass oh
13:08 sorry oh sorry I'll be quick um I
13:12 think what we're all kind of getting to
13:14 is like it may be better to look at a
13:16 map without the areas but just very
13:19 specific where all the places where
13:21 these could be like the churches the
13:25 public facilities and you could see
13:28 those dots on on a map would be more
13:30 representative than the entire city
13:33 that's colored because this is like the
13:35 entire city that's colored so that
13:36 doesn't that that doesn't give any real
13:39 guidance so is that a possible thing to
13:40 have only look at that because then you
13:43 can see where they're going to be
13:46 concentrated we can yeah absolutely we
13:49 can map that out for next time but also
13:51 remember that a state of emergency I
13:53 mean the city of isqua could flood and
13:57 you have thousands of people who need a
13:59 place to stay so you don't necessarily
14:01 want to limit it too much I'm not saying
14:03 limit it but at least people understand
14:04 because right now if you showed this to
14:06 the public they're going to think just
14:07 like we just had a 10-minute
14:08 conversation these are going to be
14:10 everywhere in every house across the
14:12 city where that's just a much clearer
14:14 way of
14:15 representing the full stack of where
14:19 they can end it okay that's just
14:22 Clarity okay we can show that on a map
14:24 next
14:26 time yeah I think um a little bit
14:29 digressing but do you point about the
14:32 half a mile distance I believe that's
14:34 actually based on if it's an emergency
14:36 and somebody actually shows up in one
14:39 shelter and I believe these shelters
14:41 have capacity um limits so if it's
14:44 closed to receiving new
14:46 people half a mile is a distance but
14:49 it's better than going a mile to the
14:51 next shelter basically and so I believe
14:54 that's the parameters around why it's
14:56 half a mile I mean could be less or it
14:58 could be
14:59 more per
15:00 se yeah no I'm just saying in general
15:04 like could it be less an know but of
15:06 course it's also going to depend on the
15:08 geography and the locations of where um
15:12 those facilities can be placed we will
15:14 we will definitely check out the
15:15 distance thank
15:19 you yeah I have a clarifying question on
15:22 like what emergency means because my
15:24 first interpretation was is that was it
15:27 like if an individual is experiencing an
15:29 emergency you know like a domestic
15:31 violence situation right that this is a
15:33 place where they can go and so it's not
15:35 something that's only open when like
15:37 there's a flood or you know a really hot
15:39 day or something like that and so I
15:41 guess like are these permanent
15:43 facilities for individuals experiencing
15:44 emergencies or is it like if there's a
15:46 community emergency um I'm probably
15:49 going to phone a friend but um my
15:52 understanding is is that these would be
15:54 temporary facilities for emergencies
15:56 because there are when you get into
15:57 emergency housing that would be more of
15:59 a domestic violence
16:00 situation yeah
16:05 friend so I was actually wondering
16:08 excuse me the same thing and I know that
16:11 uh what used to be called congregations
16:13 for the homeless porch light has been in
16:14 the esab boundaries and that would be
16:18 colloquially called an emergency shelter
16:20 and so what code was that under before
16:23 that that was allowed here it
16:26 wasn't but it was because it was on
16:28 faith community l land that they to do
16:30 that and going back then to the faith
16:33 community piece too I would specify
16:36 ownership so is the property owned owned
16:39 by a faith community so not just
16:40 necessarily primary use but owned by the
16:42 Faith by because then it's it's
16:45 clearer okay
16:48 great great yeah commissioner migan uh
16:52 thank you so can we go back to um Vice
16:54 chair Bader's question does this
16:57 category include individuals seeking
17:01 shelter for their own emergencies no it
17:04 does not that would fall under emergency
17:06 housing which is next this is called
17:08 Emergency Shelters shelters and when I
17:11 was jotting down the different
17:14 categories were going to be emergency
17:16 transitional and supportive or you're
17:19 saying there's an additional one called
17:21 emergency housing correct there's
17:23 Emergency Shelters there are Emergency
17:25 Shelters and then there are emergency
17:27 housing and permanent supportive in
17:29 transition got it thank you can I ask
17:31 one more question uh is the um the
17:34 number
17:35 50 I don't know if I care that much I
17:37 was thinking of proportionality um to
17:40 the city our size and you had a range
17:43 that you were looking at and you decide
17:45 to go with a higher range in this draft
17:47 is there are there other cities our size
17:50 that are doing 50 this is just based on
17:53 what we there are some that go bigger
17:55 BBY goes bigger I think they're
17:57 100
17:59 pardon me yeah well and I think their
18:02 number is bigger I think their number is
18:03 100 per
18:04 facility um we just yeah this is just
18:07 based on what we've experienced in the
18:09 past and allows for a buffer for the
18:16 future I think I have a better question
18:18 about the permitting piece I was looking
18:20 a little closer at the code um letter A
18:24 in the emergency shelter talks about a
18:25 temporary use permit for emergency
18:28 shelter and then Le D talks about more
18:30 of the U what you were referring to of
18:33 it not being required in an emergency I
18:35 think it might contradict a little bit
18:38 that my understanding is not clear okay
18:42 I'm going to check that one out the
18:44 permitting all
18:47 right I'm not a current planner so I
18:50 need to do a little research on that
18:52 one any other
18:55 questions Ken are schools included
19:02 no that's not what we were considering
19:08 no but they but but that doesn't mean
19:10 that they can't be I mean we can look
19:11 into it we just said public when we were
19:14 said public facilities and we were
19:15 thinking city-owned public facilities
19:18 but we can
19:22 certainly so you all so you all would
19:25 like to include schools
19:27 potentially l of
19:34 nodding I mean I think if if we're
19:36 talking about you know emergencies it's
19:39 really cold or it's really hot we need
19:41 to give several people shelter from that
19:45 and potentially some
19:47 food I mean during the week obviously
19:50 during the school year it doesn't work
19:51 very well but on the weekends or the
19:52 evenings or whatever I mean they do have
19:56 big common areas and kitchens
19:59 okay
20:02 okay I mean is there like a a more of a
20:06 clarification like like you said during
20:08 the school year ISS are going to be
20:10 going to school so is it something more
20:13 so if like a a flood happens or an
20:16 earthquake happens then that's the place
20:19 everyone goes to as opposed to if
20:21 somebody in that emergency situation is
20:25 losing their home and they're going to
20:26 be homeless I'm not sure if that a
20:29 school would apply in that end at Le
20:32 school year so if someone's going to be
20:33 losing their is at risk of becoming
20:35 homeless yeah then that's more of an
20:37 emergency housing situation or a
20:38 permanent Supportive Housing situation
20:41 or transitional any of those um the
20:44 other one could apply but it could
20:45 happen during the school say it's really
20:46 really hot one day and people who are
20:49 homeless need a place to go cool off and
20:51 stay safe and get food that would be a
20:54 state of emergency which in case in
20:57 which case no a school might not be used
20:58 if it's in
21:00 September so yeah that's where I was
21:02 looking at the clarification or even
21:04 some boundaries on that end on where to
21:07 pick depending on the emergency event
21:11 per
21:13 se I'm looking at the definition of
21:15 emergency shelter too and kind of what
21:18 we're talking about is like right if
21:19 there's heat wave and people don't have
21:21 air conditioning and they're not
21:23 homeless right they it's just their
21:25 homes are inadequate for that moment yet
21:28 the definition says it's for individuals
21:30 or families who are currently homeless
21:32 right I know and I don't okay so we just
21:35 need to fix that one well and you know
21:37 we talked about it because you do have
21:38 emergencies where you have flooding
21:40 especially you know around here perhaps
21:42 with the squad Creek and then people
21:43 need places to go so yeah and that's for
21:46 temporary shelter right clearly that one
21:50 needs to be fixed so yeah I will um
21:53 we'll work on that
21:55 one okay yeah commissioner Patterson
21:59 um one other distinction I wanted to ask
22:02 about was the big uh word I saw in
22:05 emergency shelter was no overnight
22:09 versus emergency housing which as I
22:11 understand would mean more overnight you
22:14 know stays how does that pertain I'm
22:17 thinking again like the situation of
22:18 like say a 100 people are displaced due
22:21 to an emergency like
22:22 flooding and they can't go to their
22:25 homes you can do it overnight it just
22:28 says it that yeah it just says that it
22:29 may also include day shelter and warming
22:33 centers okay yeah so they can stay there
22:36 overnight I think okay commissioner
22:41 Kennedy um not to rat Hol us but now I'm
22:45 thinking
22:48 Staffing because like it's Community
22:50 Center there's usually staff there but
22:52 say we do go down the road of schools
22:54 and it's the middle of summer and it's
22:55 really hot and no one's there to
22:59 actually let anyone in and staff it and
23:02 do what needs to be done in that
23:03 building because it's fairly closed
23:06 during the
23:07 summer just as we think through what
23:09 this List look like list looks like and
23:12 really defining what these potential
23:14 facilities
23:16 are how we staff them if they're not
23:18 normally staffed at a time when we could
23:21 otherwise use them so one of the things
23:25 that we required is an operational plan
23:27 so if a site is identified ahead of time
23:29 they need to provide us with an
23:30 operational plan and say this is who you
23:33 know this is who gets to come in they
23:35 homeless they you know have to be out by
23:39 8 o'clock or if it's a daytime Center it
23:41 doesn't matter they have to be in by 8
23:43 o'clock at night um there are
23:45 operational plans that are in place for
23:46 those as well so if you're looking at
23:49 the unlikely case of flooding in
23:51 everybody it happened happened before
23:53 but you know a less likely case that
23:56 it's going to be everybody has has to
23:58 abandon their houses and go we need to
24:01 work on that situation but as far as you
24:03 know it was what this I think was
24:05 originally talking about was you need
24:07 shelters for people who need a place to
24:09 go during the day when it's hot then we
24:11 will
24:12 have there has to be staff in place
24:14 there have to be there has to be an
24:16 organization that knows how to manage
24:18 these that provide us with an
24:20 operational plan and contact people so
24:22 that would be in
24:25 place yeah commissioner
24:33 thank you uh emergency housing and
24:35 emergency shelter are those from the
24:37 state law or are those in our code State
24:40 okay makes no sense I know we've had a
24:43 TR we've had some trouble with it and
24:45 and even doing some research and looking
24:47 at other
24:48 codes um they're all very similar to
24:51 that they sort of adopted the states and
24:52 then you kind of look around and it does
24:54 it gets very confusing so so it's not
24:57 just me we need clar if yeah it is is
25:00 definitely not just but that that's the
25:02 states and it's it's not real clear yeah
25:04 okay because emergency housing saying
25:06 temporary indoor accommodation and then
25:08 emergency shelter facility that provides
25:10 temporary shelter for people who are
25:12 currently homeless there's so much
25:13 overlap in those two things yes um I
25:16 agree so I think it would is it seems
25:19 like isqua could then apply definitions
25:21 to these two things that would not run a
25:23 foul of this but would be provide
25:25 Clarity between the two yes yeah
25:29 okay I'm just
25:32 thinking yeah commissioner M thank you
25:35 so you could add to the definition that
25:38 it provides for those who currently
25:40 homeless and others in need of
25:43 shelter right okay uh and the other was
25:46 and thank you all for bringing your code
25:48 with you I I don't have my computer with
25:50 me the um two more questions uh the
25:55 emergency is it a declared state of
25:58 emergency how do we determine there is
26:00 an emergency yes and that's what it says
26:01 in the code it says a u a declared local
26:05 County or state local local K you know
26:07 all the government okay thankes and then
26:09 that brings me to my last question is
26:11 that if I understand correctly this is
26:13 about an allowed use in a use table with
26:17 these stipulations and so it doesn't
26:19 mean that it because it's allowed that
26:22 it is a shelter correct correct it's
26:25 allowed to be a shelter and so just
26:28 because you have a school when we
26:31 declare a state of emergency doesn't
26:32 mean that that school is an emergency
26:34 shelter no and that's why I said the
26:36 human human services staff is working
26:38 with these facilities to get agreements
26:40 because we just can't say you're a
26:41 shelter we have to have agreements with
26:43 these places before yes it can happen
26:45 good and okay yeah yes
26:50 okay anything
26:52 else we got through
26:54 it okay going once
27:00 okay so now
27:05 um there we go moving on to emergency
27:08 house so I'm going to talk about these
27:10 three so emergency housing these are all
27:12 going to fall under Supportive Housing
27:13 first one I'm going to talk about is
27:14 emergency housing so the
27:17 state the state requirements and
27:19 definitions a temporary shelter for
27:21 those who are homeless or at imminent
27:23 risk of becoming homeless okay so this
27:27 is what we have now now over at Motel 6
27:30 where people need a place to stay for a
27:33 few months help them get back on their
27:34 feet um they address the basic needs um
27:38 they may not again require a lease or an
27:41 occupancy agreement and they must be
27:43 allowed where hotels and residential
27:45 uses are allowed a
27:49 requirement permanent Supportive
27:52 Housing uh it is subsidized least
27:55 housing with no limit on the time of
27:58 today IT addresses again the basic needs
28:00 basic human needs and prioritizes people
28:03 who need comprehensive Support Services
28:05 to help retain tency so somebody's
28:08 struggling they've had an apartment
28:09 they're about to lose it they need help
28:11 on how to manage a budget so that they
28:13 can stay in that place those are some of
28:15 the support services continued voluntary
28:18 services are provided for those with
28:20 complex Behavioral or health behavioral
28:23 health or physical
28:25 issues um and they must be allowed where
28:29 hotels and residential uses are allowed
28:32 well so this is more very akin to say
28:36 Leo house where are you all familiar
28:39 with that where people maybe older
28:41 people with mental disabilities cannot
28:43 live on their own and they need
28:44 permanent support of hous they may be
28:46 able to transition out but it may be a
28:50 permanent transitional housing we
28:52 actually have right now about 100
28:54 transitional housing units in the city
28:56 these are already allowed um There Rose
28:58 Crest and the
29:00 YWCA Monty house yeah a few other places
29:04 we already have this here um it's
29:06 housing and supportive services to
29:07 homeless persons or families for up to
29:09 two years it may sometimes be extended
29:13 by the program that's running it but
29:15 it's usually about two years facilities
29:17 uh facilitates movement of homeless
29:19 persons to independent living and then
29:23 they again it must be allowed where
29:24 hotels and residential uses are allowed
29:27 you see they're all allowed they're all
29:28 required to be allowed in the same
29:29 spaces we group them together because
29:31 they're very
29:33 similar um so for the density for these
29:36 they are limited in the mixed use and
29:39 Commercial zones they're limited to 100
29:41 residents
29:42 [Music]
29:43 per um per facility and there's no
29:46 distance limitation on these and so we
29:50 did that because if you are
29:54 um say the urban core there is no
29:57 density requirement there and you could
29:58 have 500 units which um may get some
30:04 resistance to it we want these to be
30:05 welcome welcoming places um if you are
30:08 in a residential Zone any of the single
30:10 family or multif family zones those are
30:12 automatically limited uh they have
30:14 limited density so it's up to 29 units
30:17 per acre in U uh multif family high and
30:22 then you know single family Suburban is
30:23 four and a half units breaker so
30:25 whatever however many residents can fit
30:27 within those units per acre that's what
30:31 allowed they also must provide an
30:33 operational plan just like the shelters
30:36 and these will always have someone these
30:38 are typically facilities that will be
30:40 built or purchased by a program and they
30:43 will have people who nonprofits that run
30:47 these facilities they uh will have
30:49 Safety and Security plans just like the
30:51 others they will have a code of conduct
30:53 for residents and they are provided to
30:55 have a community repl relations plan
30:58 so this is all the zones where those are
31:01 required to be allowed by the
31:03 state all residential zones and all
31:05 zones where hotels are
31:09 allowed um before I go on any questions
31:11 about these three yeah Rich
31:14 CR I have three I'll start with the
31:17 easiest one okay um so the two years for
31:22 transitional um what what drove to seems
31:26 like a very long time or transitional
31:28 versus like one year one's the state one
31:31 is that I'm going to I assume this is
31:33 what typically transitional this is
31:35 typically what the programs offer or
31:37 what the nonprofits offer but my my I'm
31:39 going to guess that I have I have a
31:41 feeling that commissioner altimore is
31:42 going to jump in here too but that's
31:44 about how long it would take to help
31:46 somebody get back onto their feet but
31:48 commissioner
31:50 osore it's a HUD tribulation is it ah
31:53 thank you that that answer is that okay
31:55 okay yeah see I told you person was easy
31:57 learn something new every
31:58 um thank you the hund 100 residents like
32:02 we had the conversation about 50 earlier
32:03 where did the Hundred come from because
32:05 that seems that could be large also so
32:08 um or is that also mapped to
32:11 something and that's that's what most
32:14 most areas most cities have used is 100
32:17 yeah and then my harder question um
32:21 which was in some of the materials but
32:23 we didn't really talk about it except it
32:24 was one line of it's about code of
32:26 conduct what's allowed in these things
32:28 and the definition of what is actually
32:30 in code of conduct and for
32:33 example could there be a stipulation if
32:35 it's not already there that there's no
32:37 illegal drug use to be in these areas
32:40 yes and from what I've seen most of them
32:42 include it you are allowed to screen who
32:44 goes into these facilities but can you
32:47 be kicked out of these if you're doing
32:48 drugs in that um I mean they're illegal
32:53 so yes so um oh wait good thank you I
32:56 love my friend oh I'm just curious
32:58 what's actually in the conduct if that's
33:01 um so you're not for transitional
33:03 housing you have to have a lease and you
33:04 have to be under Fair Housing and the
33:06 landlord tenant act and so that lease in
33:10 any of your code of conduct or any uh
33:12 program agreement that you have cannot
33:14 supersede anything that is in landlord
33:16 tenant law or in uh fair fair tenant
33:19 rights and so for legal drug use you can
33:23 have what's called sober living but if
33:25 it is not a designated sober living
33:27 facility you cannot absolutely by
33:30 definition kick someone out for illegal
33:32 drug use for any of
33:35 these well unless it's just a nightly
33:37 shelter if it's somewhere where someone
33:39 uh can stay multiple nights that they're
33:41 moving into a unit or moving into a a
33:43 certain designated area you have to
33:45 follow landlord tenant law and so that
33:48 means can you actually go for an
33:51 eviction and they are very very
33:54 difficult again so go back to the Mot
33:57 six
33:58 exam can they be doing meth in those
34:01 rooms can
34:05 they so it depends if they are just
34:08 nightly where someone shows up at
34:10 whatever time and says I need a place to
34:12 stay and they're given a bed then if
34:15 they are found to be smoking meth then
34:17 the operators could say you have to
34:18 leave this is against our our code of
34:20 conduct if it is multiple nights where
34:23 there is an assumed living tency uh
34:26 agreement some sort of either real lease
34:28 or an assumed lease then no they would
34:30 have to actually go through an eviction
34:35 process yeah so if someone comes in and
34:38 stays for more than one night in Motel 6
34:41 considered a tenant and they can do
34:42 whatever they want and you can't get
34:43 them out is that I'm just trying to
34:46 understand where the lines are I know
34:48 I'm coming off as being very harsh on
34:49 this one but it's I think the clarity is
34:52 important I'll take I'll take the barbs
34:54 on this one there was a situation uh
34:56 within our city a few years ago where
34:58 someone was squatting in a um a storage
35:03 unit and the owner of the storage unit
35:06 had to go through the courts for
35:07 eviction we are a state that has very uh
35:11 protective landlord tenants and so I
35:14 can't say at Motel 6 what their
35:16 situation is I just know that if there
35:17 is an assumed tency and you then you
35:21 would have to potentially go through the
35:22 court ultimately it comes down to the
35:24 city attorney and so whoever's operating
35:26 Motel Motel six would they would have to
35:30 call the cops and say I need you to
35:32 remove this person and the the isqua
35:34 police would then go by the rules that
35:36 they are told or go back and get an
35:38 opinion from the
35:40 city thanks I know was a hard subject
35:43 has this been an issue yet there or is
35:45 this all theoretical is this at Motel 6
35:48 I don't know not that I'm aware of okay
35:51 I just didn't wants to be the Haven for
35:54 some stay
35:55 in where other cities could be
35:59 it's it's really there's very little
36:01 that has anything to do with city
36:02 regulations landlord tenant law is is
36:05 State and it really there's there's just
36:07 not a lot of of leeway
36:11 there thank you commissioner alore
36:14 another question yeah
36:17 commission okay I have another question
36:19 but I'm just going to finish this up so
36:22 did anyone say that there could be a
36:25 rule that illegal drug use is not
36:28 allowed on these this property and if
36:31 you are caught doing it we'll put you
36:33 through the eviction process as long as
36:35 it's a propertywide rule somebody say
36:38 that or did I
36:43 misunderstand do in theory you can but
36:48 you have to go through the
36:50 courts in theory you can correct
36:54 M there is there is somewhat of a threat
36:58 yes but I also do want to say that there
37:00 isn't a necessary propensity of the
37:02 people who would be living in this house
37:04 not saying I think that um I am and and
37:07 and and maybe commissioner CR can speak
37:09 up too I think we're trying to glean
37:11 from what we've heard the public talk
37:13 about and and try to address what
37:14 concerns there might be especially since
37:16 nobody's speaking to us tonight and try
37:19 to um guess and ask those questions for
37:21 them yeah and then uh another question
37:28 uh you said that in the um Urban core or
37:31 wherever it was uh it was limited by
37:33 number of
37:35 people and then you said in the
37:38 residential areas it was limited by the
37:40 number of units but is there a limit in
37:45 a unit of how many people can live
37:49 there not anymore um the state the state
37:53 has said that you could no longer say
37:56 how many unrelated people can you live
37:58 in a unit together but not anymore so in
38:03 essence there's a limit in the urban
38:06 core and there is no limit in the
38:08 residential areas based on the
38:11 technicality of
38:13 that yes okay that seems like a problem
38:17 and and then um let me just wrap up with
38:19 that that these problems that you see um
38:23 some of them will need to be elevated
38:24 back to the state to clarify because
38:26 sometimes they're in best intentions
38:28 they wrote it this way and they didn't
38:29 realize oh shoot it's going to that
38:31 doesn't work so I hope that the city
38:33 will um not just uh take it on the chin
38:36 but Elevate and educate the state
38:40 um lawmakers
38:46 to thank you I just wanted to add that
38:49 uh most of the funding sources do come
38:52 with some limits on occupancy so for
38:54 instance if you have a Section 8 voucher
38:56 or a tenant base based uh either tenant
38:58 based or property based Section 8
39:00 voucher there's a two plus one rule so
39:02 you can have up to two people per
39:04 bedroom and one in a common of and so
39:06 there's lots of different funding
39:08 sources that do limit occupancy because
39:10 what they don't want is um inhume or
39:13 unsafe living situations and so there
39:16 are some Governors on that this really
39:18 came up around group home discussions
39:20 because a lot of cities were trying to
39:22 stop a group homes like Leo
39:26 house and there is a public safety
39:28 aspect to all of this that you have to
39:30 abide by the by the public safety you
39:32 know laws that are there
39:37 so and then I and to that you know I
39:40 know that a regional Coalition for a
39:41 regional Coalition for housing is us is
39:43 often one of the funders in our
39:46 local affordable housing units and they
39:48 always have conditions that are tied and
39:50 they they require operational plans as
39:55 well any other question
39:58 questions
40:00 p in regards to the U operational plan
40:05 is there any criteria for that besides
40:07 kind of those three sections that are
40:08 required like is there anything more
40:11 that they have to
40:12 supply within those sections I guess no
40:16 and you know a lot of cities are
40:17 requiring they're getting really really
40:19 specific on what what can be required or
40:21 what is required in the operational
40:23 plans
40:26 um but the thing is is that the state
40:28 doesn't mandate it so when we showed
40:31 this to our City attorney there can be a
40:33 lot of legal issues that come up if
40:34 you're requiring things but they already
40:37 require they're used to having to do it
40:38 you know organizations are used to
40:40 having to do operational plans and
40:41 they've kind of figured out what works
40:42 and what doesn't um it is going to sit
40:44 with the police department um so they
40:47 will they will have a copy of it so if
40:49 it gets if they're having trouble or
40:51 something they can refer to that but no
40:54 we we opted not to for legal reasons and
40:57 so is there any opportunity to like
40:59 approve or reject or is it basically
41:00 like check these boxes and it's you've
41:04 you've checked our box check the boxes
41:06 and you know they want to be they you
41:07 know they want to be good neighbors sure
41:09 so you know they want to stay there whe
41:17 they're sorry I promised to keep these
41:19 quick so those requirements generally
41:21 come with the service funding you have
41:23 to submit a really detailed plan of what
41:26 you're going to do and how you're going
41:27 to manage the facility Staffing numbers
41:29 Etc and you can't operate these
41:31 facilities without the money to operate
41:34 so the requirements do come just
41:36 generally not through the
41:41 code I have a really like
41:45 minor question comment the definitions
41:48 can be like slightly edited yes as long
41:52 as the intent isn't okay so I have a
41:53 slight edit that I would recommend is
41:55 just in the transitional housing in um
41:57 definition to use person first language
42:00 um so instead of homeless persons use
42:02 persons experiencing homelessness okay
42:10 okay yeah wait could you I'm sorry could
42:13 you say that again instead of homeless
42:15 persons it's like people experiencing
42:17 homelessness okay thank you homelessness
42:20 is not what defines them as a person
42:22 thank you thank you for that so I had
42:25 the same thing at that thank you for
42:26 bringing that up but um the permanent
42:29 Supportive Housing Hud's definition is
42:31 really clear and so I think it would be
42:33 worthwhile to go out and grab that um
42:35 because it's a lot clearer than the
42:36 states and you wouldn't be messing with
42:38 the state's
42:40 intent
42:44 okay anything
42:48 else very educational okay um timeline
42:53 so you all are doing the initial review
42:55 we are bringing back for a public
42:56 hearing at our meeting so we will bring
43:00 these proposed changes that you all have
43:01 recommended as long as a m along with
43:03 the map um we will reinvestigate the
43:06 half a mile distance um and several
43:09 other things that are here um and talk
43:12 with human services about who they're
43:15 talking with or how it's going really
43:18 probably not who they're talking with um
43:20 so the public hearing would be March
43:22 28th in theory the uh plan it would go
43:26 to the planning development and
43:28 environment committee on April 2nd for a
43:30 recommendation and then Council action
43:32 on May
43:35 6th so those those can change that's
43:37 tenative and then so I think we've
43:40 covered these but are there any other um
43:44 regulations that should be considered uh
43:47 regarding public health and safety that
43:49 should be included in the
43:55 ordinance anything else
43:59 going once going
44:03 twice got everything you need okay and
44:06 remember there's email too so if you all
44:08 think of anything between now and next
44:10 Thursday
44:13 yeah and that's all I have you Christen
44:17 thank you
44:18 Commissioners
44:20 um assuming you have everything you need
44:22 we can move on with our agenda to
44:25 reports are there any comments reports
44:28 so the only Council report that we have
44:30 is that
44:32 the Pioneer program went to the Council
44:36 of the whole on March 5th or 6th they
44:39 had a discussion it is going back on
44:41 March 18th uh for Council action and the
44:45 MF I think that the mfte went through
44:48 not to find that one out but the pro the
44:49 program itself is going back through on
44:52 the 18th for
44:56 action good and then um next up is other
44:59 business or announcements are there
45:01 updates to the calendar or other
45:02 business or announcement no updates to
45:05 the calendar right now um I do want to
45:07 introduce our intern Danielle salani
45:09 she's been working on our comprehensive
45:11 plan for us and on the transit um
45:14 actually why don't you tell
45:18 me hello yeah my name is Danielle um
45:21 I've been working with this group for I
45:24 think uh maybe nine months or so
45:27 roughly and I've had the chance to meet
45:28 I hand of you already so it's great to
45:30 see you guys again in person um yeah
45:32 I've had the chance to work on the
45:34 comprehensive Plan update and I've been
45:36 helping out Thomas with some of the
45:37 transit work um and yeah just helping
45:41 behind the scenes a little bit so it's
45:43 great to see everybody in person
45:45 today he thanks I guess it's a belated
45:47 welcome but um welcome and she's helping
45:51 me on the housing report card as well
45:53 which will come out at the end of March
45:55 and we'll send you all an email when
45:56 that's done
45:58 um otherwise that's it I would like to
46:00 thank you all for a very good
46:01 conversation and for commissioner
46:03 altimore for the education and the
46:05 extreme help that you provided tonight
46:07 thank
46:08 you okay so I think
46:14 yeah you can do it
46:16 now uh thank you uh I just wanted to
46:19 share that I got my dwell
46:21 magazine and it has an article about
46:25 it's a magazine
46:27 in print and one of the feature articles
46:30 is about the
46:35 um transitional housing at uh Eastgate
46:38 this one tell me shelter that's a
46:41 shelter thank you uh the one with a
46:43 mural at Eastgate uh housing for a 100
46:48 uh and it has for your operational plan
46:51 if you would read it you could maybe
46:53 find some inspiring ideas that uh
46:55 because this is pointing out how the
46:57 built environment truly helps people
46:59 move on from one condition to another
47:02 and I was really excited to read the
47:05 work about the work so that's the dwell
47:08 magazine that is
47:11 dated
47:13 April check it
47:17 out anything
47:18 else he so there being no further
47:22 business before the commission I will
47:24 adjourn this meeting at 7:22 p.m.
47:28 what

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Vice-Chair Bader
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Esemuede
Kennedy
Krass
Milligan
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