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CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMITTEE
February 5, 1991 4: 45 PM
Committee Members Present Planning Staff
Leona Orr Lin Ball
Jon Johnson, Chair Jim Harris
Christi Houser Margaret Porter
Fred Satterstrom
Other City Staff Other Guests
Carol Morris Lyle Price
HUMAN SERVICES ROUNDTABLE (L. Ball)
Senior Planner Lin Ball gave a brief update on the roundtable.' There was a
special meeting of the Roundtable last week that was called by County
Executive Tim Hill. The purpose of the meeting was to brief the members,
and get the members feedback and input on Mr. Hill's plans for a County
policy plan addressing children and families. The framework of his
proposed policy plan emphasizes the role of families in grappling with a
wide range of social problems. The County desires to promote public
discussion of family issues. One of the first things the County did was
conduct a public opinion survey on issues facing King County families. Ms.
Ball passed out the results of the Public opinion Survey Issues Facing King
County Families. They will be holding community forums and appoint a
task force to work on this with plans to present to the County Council as a
Policy Plan as part of the County' s 1992 budget.
Ms. Ball also updated the Planning Committee on the Regional Affordable
Housing Finance Plan. Planner Janet Shull is informally contacting Council
members to get some input for the Mayor' s response to County Executive, Tim
Hill, on this proposal of the plan. Ms. Ball said she was meeting with the
Mayor the evening of February 5th to discuss this. Tim Hill is taking
comments both from citizens and Cities at this time. The County has not
yet made the decision to put this forward as a levy.
Chair Jon Johnson addressed the City' s Emergency Shelter Program. He
stated that the money allocated to the program is not sufficient to provide
enough shelter for both single persons and families during the severe cold
weather periods. He feels the Council should look at doing a special
allocation of additional money this year to meet the need for the remainder
of this winter and perhaps into the spring. He is especially concerned
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about earmarking money for families with small children. Jon requested the
Planning Department take this to the Human Services Commission for their
review and to bring forward a proposal to the Planning Committee with a
recommendation on how best to address this issue.
It was clarified by Jon that he wants the Commission to bring forward a
recommendation for a special `allocation of additional money to shelter both
families and single persons for the remainder of the year during severe
weather. Chair Johnson suggested looking into using municipal buildings as
a temporary shelter. He also felt the City should look at the longer term
goal of purchasing a house or a duplex as a permanent shelter facility. He
feels it may be less expensive in the long term to purchase a shelter, or
give an agency money to purchase a facility then to always do motel
vouchering. This would address the longer term solution for families who
are homeless, rather than just a severe weather solution. People would be
able to use the shelter on a temporary basis until they are able to get on
their feet, get a job, and provide their own shelter. Councilmembers Leona
Orr and Christi Houser both concurred with Chairman Johnson' s request to
explore this issue and bring forward a proposal.
1991 DEPT. WORK PROGRAM (F. Satterstrom)
Planning Manager Fred Satterstrom briefly went over the 1991 Work Program
of the Kent Planning Department' s Strategic & Operational Planning Division
Departmental Projects and Programs. A copy of this was included in the
agenda packet.
The Planning Department is divided into three sections: Current Planning,
Community Development, and Long-Range Planning. All of these programs are
done with a small "pool" of planners.
The Current Planning Section is basically the permit process which is
headed up by Carol Proud. This is still the largest section in the office
in terms of what we do. This section has four (4) equivalent full-time
planners who work in permit processing. This includes the review of
building and land use permits, staff reports, Business License function,
Code Enforcement, and SEPA (environmental review) . Code updates including
the Shoreline Program, Sign Code, Fee Study, and Zoning Code Amendments are
the responsibility of the Current Planning Section. Committeechair Jon
Johnson asked what section the Interim Wetlands Guidelines is located?
Planning Director James Harris stated that in this interim period, wetland
guildelines will be administered through SEPA.
The Community Development Section headed by Lin Ball deals with Block
Grants, Human Services, and Housing. This section has 2 . 5 FTE planners
working in Community Development. This section also consists of Block
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Grant Administration for 1990 and 1991 Projects; Housing Repair Services
has one full-time person and two half-time persons doing housing repair;
Housing Implementation includes the Senior Housing Program, Low Income
Housing, Group Homes Monitoring, and Grantsmanship; and Human Services
Administration which includes Commission Support and Agency Monitoring.
Mr. Satterstrom added that the RFP for Senior Housing has been issued by
Administration. The City is holding a Question-and-Answer Session on
February 6th for applicants who are interested in making proposals in
response to Administration' s RFP.
The involvement with the Human Services Roundtable has grown tremendously
over the last several years. Also, Fred said he personally feels that this
Section is one thing that separates this City' s Planning Department from
other municipal Planning Departments in the Puget Sound region. Kent's
Planning Department emphasizes not only the physical development of the
City, but the human element as well.
The Long-Range Planning Section headed up by Lauri Anderson deals with
Policy Development and the Comprehensive Plan. This section has 3 . 0 FTE
including a GIS person. This section consists of a Comprehensive Plan
Program which relates to the tasks mandated in the Growth Management Act,
such as Interjurisdictional Coordination, Citizen Participation, Plan
Development, and CIP Integration. The Wetlands Management Plan is being
worked on now. Downtown Revitalization is still the Council's number two
high priority and under this is the MainStreet Program, Plan
Implementation, and the Incentives Program. Also in this section is
Historic Preservation, Soos Creek Plan Coordination, Census Estimate,
Environmental Task Force, Multifamily Design Process, Park
Dedications/Subdivisions and the Growth Management Committee are priority
projects to be worked on during 1991.
Director Harris added comments regarding the CIP Integration.
Traditionally on the CIP, the Council has gone out and received input from
the public as a popularity thing as to what projects we want to do.
Beginning this year, Mr. Harris said he was meeting with Tony McCarthy to
set up the framework for 1991 and begin to get the CIP hooked into
Comprehensive Land Use Planning. In this manner there is a rationale as to
why we need it, how we are going to pay for it, when we are going to pay
for it, and what funds will be used.
FEDERAL WAY PLAN AND UPDATE INFORMATION (F. Satterstrom)
Planning Manager Fred Satterstrom brought to the Committee for information
only and explained the King County proposal for designating urban growth
boundaries in the Federal Way community planning area. He said King County
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would like to enter negotiations with Kent and other cities on urban growth
boundaries for unincorporated lands in the Federal Way area. The County's
intended process for accomplishing this was outlined in King County
Ordinance #9751 which was attached in the agenda packet. This ordinance
was passed in December 1990 and the County' s schedule is for cities (i.e.
Des Moines, Kent, Federal Way, Auburn, Pacific, Algona and Milton) to all
agree on potential annexation' areas within the Federal Way planning area,
within a very tight time frame. Paul Barden and Greg Nichels are
sponsoring a meeting on February 12th with elected officials and top
administrative officials from the affected cities to discuss this.
Committeechair Jon Johnson agreed to attend the meeting.
Mr. Harris stated that Kent is vulnerable because we are surrounded by the
County, Renton, Tukwila, Sea Tac, Federal Way, and Auburn. He said a
smooth, well-worked-out framework is necessary from the County to be put in
place between now and June or July.
ADDED ITEM - SCHOOL IMPACT FEES - (J. Johnson)
The Planning staff and the Attorney staff are working together in coming up
with a framework and parameters on moving forward on this item. This will
be brought back to the Committee in a couple of weeks to go over the
framework and out this framework would come out an ordinance. Attorney
Carol Morris is doing some research on this.
Attorney Carol Morris prepared a substitute draft Resolution supporting the
action of the King County Council to override the Executive Veto of King
County School Adequacy Ordinance No. 9767 and to enact an amendatory
ordinance which does not impose the school impact fees on cities.
ORDINANCE PROHIBITING OUTSIDE SEWER AND WATER CONNECTIONS (L. Orr)
Councilmember Leona Orr passed out a copy of a draft Resolution prohibiting
the extension of sewer and water to King County. Jim White proposed this
Resolution on February 5th at the Public Works Committee as an information
item and brought it to City Council the same night for information. This
item was first discussed at the January 15, 1991 meeting.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 5:45 p.m.
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was distributed to the Committee. It is proposed to include this
information in the City' s utility billing. The Local Hazardous
Waste Management Plan which the City has adopted indicated that
there would be a rate increase associated with implementation of
the Hazardous Waste Program. The program will be implemented by
the Seattle/King County Public Health Department who will be
adopting a rate ordinance. The City's solid waste haulers will
have to either absorb the rate or pass it on to their customers.
If they choose to pass it on to the customers, they will have to
come before City Council to approve the rates.
Water and Sewer Service to Property Outside City Limits
Leona stated that the Planning Committee had discussed the
possibility of developing an ordinance that would limit the amount
of water and sewer service provided to property outside the City
limits. She asked if this item should be brought through the
Public Works Committee, through Planning Committee or perhaps
simultaneously through both. White distributed copies of a
proposed resolution he was planning to present to Council on this
subject. Wickstrom stated he would be concerned this action could
possibly jeopardize the review and approval of the City' s
Comprehensive Water System Plan by King County. White indicated
his proposed action is to declare a moratorium on the City's
extension of any more sewer and water services to property located
outside of its incorporated limits. He indicated it was his intent
that this moratorium would continue until the urban growth areas
are designated by the County. White stated that by extending
service outside the City we are compounding and contributing to the
problem of growth outside our boundaries which impacts the City and
over which we have no control . Leona added that under the growth
management act the County has to approve the urban growth
boundaries. Wickstrom stated that the County actually establishes
the urban growth boundaries. Brubaker added that when -a City
extends utility services outside their City limits, the courts have
ruled that they do so in the role of a business proprietor. We owe
no special obligation to provide utility service to property owners
outside the city limits so we can choose to provide the service or
not. White indicated he would be asking that the Council direct
this proposed resolution for review by the Planning Committee.
Canyon Drive
White asked about the status of the Canyon Drive project. Gill
stated that we are in condemnation on the last six parcels and in
the process of setting the court dates. If we can get the right of
entry from the home owners then we can bid the project this spring.
February 5, 1991
FINANCE auditing by the Operations Committee at its meet-
ing at 4 :30 p.m. on February 12 , 1991.
Approval of checks issued for vouchers:
Date Check Numbers Amount
1/2-1/11/91 100254-100293 $ 310, 336. 24
1/14/91 100297-100682 954 , 452 . 34
$1,264 , 788.58
1/15/91 1006867100733 $1, 160, 643 . 06
1/15-1/28/91 100734-100765 $ 445, 311.99
1/30/91 100769-101235 644 , 457. 04
$1, 089, 769 . 03
1/31/91 101239-101451 270, 103 .87
Approval of checks issued for payroll:
Date Check Numbers Amount
1/18/91 1149346-1150003 $634,441. 46
2/ 5/91 1150004-1150690 615, 310.79
REPORTS (REPORTS - ITEM 7A)
President's Report. Woods noted that the AWC
conference will be held on February 21 and 22 in
Olympia and asked that Councilmembers make their
arrangements soon. She also noted that Suburban
Cities will meet on February 13 in Kirkland and
that reservations should be made through Christi
Ryan by February 8.
(REPORTS - ITEM 7C)
Public Works Committee. White distributed copies
of a resolution declaring a moratorium on the
City' s extension of sewer and water services to
property located outside of its incorporated lim-
its. He asked that the resolution be referred to
the Planning Committee and that they make a recom-
mendation to the Council within four weeks. John-
son suggested that the resolution also be referred
to the Public Works Committee and White agreed.
(REPORTS - ITEM 7G)
Administrative Reports. City Administrator Chow
noted that Public Works has proposed to award bids
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OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
R7P.+rDATE: February 11, 1991 _-
TO: Planning Committee
FROM: Roger Lubovich, City Attorne
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION RE: EXTENSION OF CITY UTILITIES OUTSIDE
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INCORPORATED AREAS
The City of Kent, pursuant to state statute, has the authority to
extend water and sewer systems to property located outside its
incorporated areas. By City ordinance, the City may extend water
and sewer to properties outside the city limits in areas the City
is interested in annexing. Under the recently adopted Growth
Management Act, King County, after consulting with the City of
Kent, will designate the City 's urban growth areas beyond which
annexation by the City may not occur. Since the urban growth
areas have yet to be defined, it is difficult for the City to
establish areas of interest for annexation. As a consequence,
and at the request of Councilmember Jim White, a resolution
establishing a moratorium on the City' s extension of sewer and
water services to property located outside of its incorporated
limits is being presented to the Planning and Public Works
Committees for consideration.
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CITY OF KENT
_ PLANNING DEPARTMENT
(206) 859-3390
cC� MEMORANDUM
February 12, 1991
MEMO TO: MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE
JON JOHNSON, CHAIR
CHRISTI HOUSER '
LEONO ORR
FROM: JAMES P. HARRIS,. PLANNING DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: EXTENSION OF CITY UTILITIES
At its meeting of February 5, 1991 the City Council referred a
proposed Resolution concerning extension of City utilities outside
of the City, to the Planning Committee. This Resolution comes to
the Committee via the Council ' s Public Works Committee. A draft
was circulated at the February 5th Planning Committee meeting.
This subject was also discussed at the Planning Committee meeting
held on January 15th. A quote from the minutes of that meeting are
as follows:
Chair Jon Johnson brought up the possibility of
adopting a resolution that would prohibit outside
sewer and water connections until the County
addresses the road issue. Perhaps this could be a
possible bargaining chip for the 277th corridor, in
that the City would not allow any more hookups
until the County addresses this. Chair Johnson
would like this item to be brought back to the next
committee meeting with a recommendation from
Planning and Public Works as well as the legality
of the proposed resolution.
At its meeting held on February 5th the Public Works Committee
supported the Resolution with no formal recommendation. The next
step is for this to go to the Planning Committee and Public Works
Committee meetings on February 19 , 1991 for recommendation of
approval to forward to the City Council.
The Planning Department supports this proposed resolution.
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CITY OF KENT
PLANNING DEPARTMENT
(206) 859-3390
�dviCCA MEMORANDUM
February 12 , 1991
MEMO TO: JON JOHNSON, CHAIR, AND MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE
FROM: LAURI ANDERSON, SENIOR PLANNER
SUBJECT: WETLANDS EDUCATION GRANT
Last spring the Planning Department completed Phase I of a wetlands
inventory with partial funding from the Washington State Department
of Ecology (Ecology) . Additional Ecology funding has been received
and approved by the City Council and Mayor to complete Phase II of
the inventory and develop a wetlands management plan by June 15 of
this year.
Last fall, the Planning Department applied for a supplemental
wetlands grant to conduct a public education campaign during the
development of the wetlands management plan. Unfortunately, we
were the first project below Ecology' s cutoff line for funding.
On January 28 , Ecology notified us that they could, after all,
provide $8000 matching (to a City share of .$1200) for the wetlands
education program (see attached memo) . The grant would allow for
development and compilation of wetlands education materials,
creation of a movable display board on Kent' s wetlands (to be
rotated through public facilities and Kent schools) , and a minimum
of five public workshops to educate citizens and decisionmakers on
key wetlands issues.
As the Planning Department's matching funds would come from already
appropriated monies for the wetlands project, we anticipate no
additional fiscal impact. A report from IBC will be presented at
your meeting.
Requested action from the Planning Committee is a recommendation to
the full Council to approve acceptance of the $8000 public
education grant from Ecology.
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Enclosure
RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the
City of Kent, Washington, declaring a
moratorium on the City's extension of sewer and
water servicep to property for development
purposes located outside of its incorporated
limits.
WHEREAS, the City of Kent has the option, pursuant to RCW
35.92 . 170 and 35. 67 . 310, to extend its water and sewer systems and
service to property located outside of its incorporated limits; and
WHEREAS, the City has set a policy in Ordinance 2767,
codified at Kent City Code 4 . 22 . 010, to provide these services
only to properties within its primary sphere of interest for
annexation purposes; and
WHEREAS, under the newly adopted Growth Management Act,
King County must consult with the City of Kent and eventually
designate the location of the City's "urban growth area, " beyond
which annexation by the City may not occur (RCW 36. 70A. 110) ; and
WHEREAS, since the process is still in its early stages,
the urban growth areas and hence the City's potential annexation
areas are as yet undefined; and
WHEREAS, without clear direction on the boundaries of the
urban growth areas, the City is unable to implement its policy
which would allow the extension of water and sewer services only
to areas which can be annexed in the future; NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Effective immediately, the city of Kent shall
not accept applications from any property owner for the extensions ,
of water and/or sewer service to any property located outside of
the City's incorporated limits.
Section 2 . The moratorium imposed on these services by
this Resolution shall continue until such time as the "urban
growth areas" are designated by the County, and any appeals of the
City therefrom are resolved, pursuant to RCW 36.70A. 110.
Passed at a regular meeting of the city Council of the
city of Kent, Washington this day of 1991. .
Concurred in by the Mayor of the city of Kent, this
day of , 1991.
DAN KELLEHER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
MARIE JENSEN, CITY CLERK"
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ROGER A. LUBOVICH, CITY ATTORNEY
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
Resolution No. , passed by the City Council of the City of
Kent, Washington, the day of , 1991.
(SEAL)
MARIE JENSEN, CITY CLERK
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