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CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE MINUTES
u�®ne��� January 17, 1995 4 : 00 PM
Committee Members Present City Attorney' s Office
Leona Orr, Chair Roger Lubovich
Jon Johnson
Tim Clark
Planning Staff Other City Staff
Margaret Porter May Miller
Fred Satterstrom
Jim Harris
Other Guests
INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN KENT AND FEDERAL WAY - (J. Harris)
Planning Director Jim Harris reviewed the final draft of the
Interlocal Agreement between Kent and Federal Way that was included
in the agenda packet . This interlocal agreement will officially
establish the Potential Annexation Area (PAA) boundary between the
two cities and will fulfill the intent of the City Council and the
County-wide Planning Policies . Mr. Harris addressed a few minor
changes : 1) On page 3 , No. 6 , the addendum was not currently
available so the City' s Law Department changed the wording to be
able to create an addendum within one year of the effective date;
2) Page 5, No. 10, relating to indemnification, the City' s Law
Department recommended this shorter version and stated this is all
that is needed. Jim reported Federal Way' s City Council has
approved this agreement . Also, a better map was prepared.
Councilmember Johnson MOVED and Councilmember Clark SECONDED a
motion to approve the Interlocal Agreement between Kent and Federal
Way and for this item to put on the consent calendar on February 7,
1995 . Motion carried.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT UPDATE - (F. Satterstrom)
Planning Manager Fred Satterstrom reminded the Committee that a
City Council Workshop will be held later this day on the
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Comprehensive Plan. All departments will be attending and
participating in the presentation.
Mr. Satterstrom reported the Planning Department has received two
letters from the State in the first two weeks of 1995 . He briefly
reported the first letter was about the three consequences for
failure to adopt a comprehensive plan on time, which is April 21,
1995 :
1 . Loss of authority to collect impact fees .
2 . The ineligibility to apply for grant funding under the Public
Works Trust Fund.
3 . The ineligibility to apply for grant funding under the
Centennial Clean Water Fund.
Fred stated that out of 300 jurisdictions that have to plan under
GMA, the City of Kent is one of 100 jurisdictions that have
submitted their Plan to DCTED (Department of Community, Trade sand
Economic Development) .
The second letter enclosed a 17-page matrix document that needs to
be filled out by the Planning Department as to how the City of Kent
plans to implement their Plan.
Fred reported that on February 7, 1995 the City Council will be
receiving the Comprehensive Plan. He had heard the Council plans
on making a motion to refer the Comprehensive Plan to the Council
Planning Committee. The Planning Committee can hold a public
meeting for additional public comments followed by deliberations
and then present a recommendation to the full Council .
1995 PLANNING SERVICES DIVISION WORK PROGRAM - (F. Satterstrom)
Mr. Satterstrom presented the work program for current planning and
long-range planning for the Planning Services Division. He
explained that one full-time equivalent (FTE) employee is equal to
1, 824 hours . There are 3 . 6 FTE' s in current planning and 3 . 2 FTE' s
in long-range planning, a total of 6 . 8 FTE' s . The biggest number
of hours in current planning is 2, 032 hours for public
inf ormat ion/counter coverage, which is covered by one planner each
day on a rotating basis . There is also development plan review,
subdivision administration, land use permits, environmental review
or SEPA, and time set aside for special projects, including the
Regional Justice Center. Development plan review consists of plan
review of minor development, major development and design review.
Subdivision administration consists of lot line adjustments, short
plats, and preliminary/final plats . Fred stated a lot of
preliminary and final plats have come in from King County because
of the number of annexations over the last year that has impacted
the workload.
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Long-range planning includes a number of items : the Comprehensive
Plan, Comprehensive Plan Implementation, Annexation Planning and
Zoning, Special projects, Geographic Information System (GIS) ,
Downtown Vitalization, and the Transit Area Planning/Commuter Rail
Project . In long-range planning, the number of hours put on each
item is dependent upon the order of priority. He stated that the
annexation planning/zoning projects will not be able to be fully
done by existing staff . They will have to involve additional
professional services provided through either grant funds, budgeted
consulting services, or other funding mechanisms .
Mr. Jim Harris, Planning Director, mentioned new projects do affect
the current planning work program, which is driven by customers .
For example, the RJC is expecting a permit on April 15th, the Kent
School District wants a permit on April 15th for a new elementary
school, and Dan Ivanoff and Birtcher Frank tells Jim that by the
end of 1995 they would have built out their whole project . Jim
said there can be some flexibility in long-range planning but not
in current planning when customers want their permits .
MERIDIAN ANNEXATION RESOLUTION - (J. Harris)
Mr. Harris reported this is a resolution to let the citizens in the
Meridian Annexation area that it will be a policy to retain
predominately single family residential character upon annexation
into the City of Kent .
Mr. Satterstrom stated that a more specific plan will be brought to
the Planning Committee sometime during deliberations of some
updated recommendations because no one knew a year ago that this
area would be potentially annexed to the City.
Councilmember Johnson MOVED and Clark SECONDED a motion to approve
the Meridian Annexation Resolution. Motion carried.
ADDED ITEMS:
Chair Orr received a letter dated January 4 , 1995 from Hugh Leiper.
The Committee concurred they do not have the available time to deal
with this issue right now and Chair Orr stated she would call Mr.
Leiper.
Also, Chair Orr asked Roger Lubovich if he had received anything
from the Kent School District yet on impact fees . He stated he had
received a packet last Friday, January 13 , 1995 .
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 4 : 55 p.m.
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