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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Committees - Planning and Economic Development Committee - 03/05/1991 (3) r Planning Department City Council Planning Committee March 5, 1991 accomplished. Mr. Satterstrom proposed to the Committee that as a first step the City invite the Federal Way, Kent, Renton and Highline school districts to the next Planning Committee meeting on March 19, 1991. Each district could tell the Committee what is going on in their district and how each district looks at the King County Ordinance. This would be educational to the Committee. A follow-up Committee meeting could be done on the explanation as to what is exactly in the King County Ordinance. There was much discussion by the Committee members. Councilmember Leona Orr liked the idea but did not want to see this item take months and months. Councilmember Christi Houser and Chairman Johnson were also in favor of inviting the school districts at the March 19, 1991 meeting. ADDED ITEM - RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING MAP & ZONING TEXT TO IMPLEMENT THE DOWNTOWN PLAN (L. Anderson) Senior Planner Lauri Anderson brought this to the Committee as an added item and she passed out a memo to the Committee members. Ms. Anderson stated that the Planning Department has been working for several months on the zoning code amendments proposal for implementing the Downtown Plan, which the City Council approved in 1989. These amendments are almost ready to go forward into Hearing. In other situations where there have been area-wide zoning changes, i.e. the Agricultural Lands Study, the Gateway Commercial Study, and the Housing Study, rather than take those zoning changes through on individual properties before the Hearing Examiner, the Planning Department has taken them into hearing before the Planning Commission. This request today would be for the Planning Committee to authorize the Planning Department to have a resolution developed to go to the full Council on March 19, 1991 requesting that the hearings on the Downtown amendments be heard before the Planning Commission in lieu of the Hearing Examiner. Councilmember Leona Orr made the MOTION to the above and Councilmember Christi Houser SECONDED it. MOTION carried. ADDED ITEM - RESOLUTION PROHIBITING OUTSIDE SEWER & WATER CONNECTIONS (Jon Johnson) Chair Jon Johnson asked about the status on this item. Councilmember Leona Orr mentioned that this had been approved by the Public Works Committee and the Planning Committee. Councilmember Leona Orr made the MOTION and Councilmember Christi Houser SECONDED it to adopt the resolution and to go to full Council on March 19, 1991. MOTION carried. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 5: 15 p.m. MP:C:PCO305.MIN 2 cry oFWenk _ CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE March 5, 1991 4 :45 PM Committee Members Present Planning Staff Leona Orr Lauri Anderson Jon Johnson, Chair Jim Harris Christi Houser Margaret Porter Fred Satterstrom Other City Staff Other Guests Ed Chow Lyle Price Jim Huntington Carol Morris HUMAN SERVICES ROUNDTABLE UPDATE (Lin Ball) .inior Planner Ball did not have an update at this meeting. SCHOOL IMPACT FEES UPDATE (F. Satterstrom_) Planning Manager Fred Satterstrom reminded the Committee members that on January 15, 1991 the Committee generally endorsed the concept of school impact fees. At this same time, the King County Council passed Ordinance No. 9767 which sets up a process to impose school impact fees in unincorporated King County. City of Kent staff have had meetings with the Kent School District and Federal Way School District, and they both indicated they would like to have the City of Kent adopt an ordinance similar to that of King County. Mr. Satterstrom mentioned that King County had a clause in their ordinance that cities could adopt it by reference and then enter into an interlocal agreement with the County. At the school district meeting mentioned above, there was some discussion of this and they felt they could endorse the notion of impact fees but not the notion of adopting the County's ordinance. Mr. Satterstrom talked to the Planning Committee about a process by which the City of Kent could go about developing a school impact fee ordinance. Even though at the Planning Committee meeting on January 15 it was decided that the Planning and Law Department would work together in developing the ordinance, Mr. Satterstrom stated it was not quite that simple. He said sere is some education that needs to be done before this can be 1 tanning Department -ity Council Planning Committee March 5, 1991 accomplished. Mr. Satterstrom proposed to the Committee that as a first step the City invite the Federal Way, Kent, Renton and Highline school districts to the next Planning Committee meeting on March 19, 1991. Each district could tell the Committee what is going on in their district and how each district looks at the King County Ordinance. This would be educational to the Committee. A follow-up Committee meeting could be done on the explanation as to what is exactly in the King County Ordinance. There was much discussion by the Committee members. Councilmember Leona Orr liked the idea but did not want to see this item take months and months. Councilmember Christi Houser and Chairman Johnson were also in favor of inviting the school districts at the March 19, 1991 meeting. ADDED ITEM - RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING MAP & ZONING TEXT TO IMPLEMENT THE DOWNTOWN PLAN (L. Anderson) Senior Planner Lauri Anderson brought this to the Committee as an added item and she passed out a memo to the Committee members. Ms. Anderson stated that the Planning Department has been working for several months on the zoning code amendments proposal for implementing the Downtown Plan, which the City Council approved in 1989. These amendments are almost ready o go forward into Hearing. In other situations where there have been area-wide zoning changes, i.e. the Agricultural Lands Study, the Gateway Commercial Study, and the Housing Study, rather than take those zoning changes through on individual properties before the Hearing Examiner, the Planning Department has taken them into hearing before the Planning Commission. This request today would be for the Planning Committee to authorize the Planning Department to have a resolution developed to go to the full Council on March 19, 1991 requesting that the hearings on the Downtown amendments be heard before the Planning Commission in lieu of the Hearing Examiner. Councilmember Leona Orr made the MOTION to the above and Councilmember Christi Houser SECONDED it. MOTION carried. ADDED ITEM - RESOLUTION PROHIBITING OUTSIDE SEWER & WATER CONNECTIONS (Jon Johnson) Chair Jon Johnson asked about the status on this item. Councilmember Leona Orr mentioned that this had been approved by the Public Works Committee and the Planning Committee. Councilmember Leona Orr made the MOTION and Councilmember Christi Houser SECONDED it to adopt the resolution and to go to full Council on March 19, 1991. MOTION carried. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 5: 15 p.m. `4P:C:PCO305.MIN 2