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Pending Approval
Economic and Community
Development Committee
CC ECDC Regular Meeting
Minutes
June 13, 2022
Date: June 13, 2022
Time: 4:01 p.m.
Place: Chambers
Members: Toni Troutner, Committee Chair
Marli Larimer, Councilmember
Zandria Michaud, Councilmember
Agenda:
1. Call to Order 4:01 p.m.
Councilmember Troutner (Chair) called the meeting to order.
2. Roll Call
Attendee Name Title Status Arrived
Toni Troutner Committee Chair Present
Marli Larimer Councilmember Present
Zandria Michaud Councilmember Present
3. Agenda Approval
No changes.
4. Business
A. Approval of Minutes
Approval of Minutes dated May 9, 2022
MOTION: Move to approve the Minutes dated May 9, 2022
RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Marli Larimer, Councilmember
SECONDER: Zandria Michaud, Councilmember
AYES: Troutner, Larimer, Michaud
B. INFO ONLY: The Bridges
Economic and Community Development Deputy Director, Matt Gilbert
updated the Council on the Bridges annexation/deannexation.
Update on work with City of Auburn
So far, process with Auburn has focused on questions related to
infrastructure. They want as much information as possible before they
inherit the responsibility of caring for it, and staff have been very busy doing
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that research and getting them answers they need to feel comfortable
moving forward, but we are there, and feel confident that we can wrap this
up by the end of the year.
1. Met last week with Auburn to craft a plan for outreach and craft a plan for
next steps. After the Kent resolution goes to council on the 21, public
outreach efforts will begin. The strategies include engaging with residents
individually and formally establishing a dialog with the homeowners
association. In tandem with the City of Auburn, we will: and in tandem with
Auburn to provide the residents with all the information that they need
Publish website with FAQs and other information
Host a Community meeting with the HOA
Plan a National Night out event to engage with the community and
provide and an additional opportunity to ask questions and express concerns
Ask neighborhood if they want to be a part of Auburn
2. Working with King County Board of Adjustment on
annexation/deannexation - this is the body that makes the final
determination for all boundary adjustment and special service districts, etc.
and it is process too, beginning with an application.
Councilmember Larimer asks - didn't we already have a Resoltion on this? To
refresh, Matt Gilbert explains there was a Resolution to Council back in April
which officially authorized staff to engage in the evaluation process.
C. Ordinance Adopting the 2022-2027 Park and Open Space Plan -
Adopt
Parks, Planning and Development Manager, Terry Jungman gave a
presentation on the Kent Parks and Open Space Plan 2022, coming before
the ECDC committee for action prior to heading to full council for adoption
and inclusion in the comprehensive plan.
Provided recap of project timeline and the different data points that went into
development of the plan. Survey responses from residents were reviewed,
and Terry emphasized that there were more than 3K community touchpoints
that came in through various outreach methods to contribute to the final
result. Surveys focused primarily on amenities residents most wanted to see
prioritized in the plan.
Recreational value measurements have been refreshed, by adding more
nuance. Traditional level of service looks at number of acres dividied by the
population, but adding the performance measure of quality of amenities gives
a more complete picture of needs to consider in the plan.
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Jungman talked about the City's study of the parks system related to
benchmarking (comparing to similar sized cities), disbribution of services
across City regions and geospatial mapping taking into considering multiple
metrics in assessing deficiencies and defining needs
Goals and outcomes were detailed along with scoring of strategic projects.
Jungman detailed that current capital funding of 6 million dollars annually is
greatly improved from the prior decade and comes from very stable funding
sources. However, in order to maintain the existing system and implement
new capital projects, an additional $4 million/year of capital funding is
needed. Operations and Maintenance could use more too. Currently at
$7m/year, an additional $300k every other year is needed to implement all
existing projects.
The PSOP is near the end of its journey and will proceed out of this
committee to Council next week, and the RCO on the 24th.
MOTION: I move to adopt Ordinance No. 4433, amending the
Comprehensive Plan’s Parks and Recreation Element to incorporate the
2022 Park and Open Space Plan.
RESULT: MOTION PASSES [UNANIMOUS] Next: 6/21/2022 7:00 PM
MOVER: Zandria Michaud, Councilmember
SECONDER: Marli Larimer, Councilmember
AYES: Troutner, Larimer, Michaud
D. Dulay Property Comprehensive Plan Map Amendment Request - Deny
Senior Long Range Planner, Kaelene Nobis, provided a review of the
comprehensive plan process and presented the single proposal received for
the 2021 - 2022 Comprehensive Plan Amendments, the Dulay properties
amendment:
Two contiguous parcels North of the Sonic restaurant and the car wash on
116th Ave SE.
26026 116th Ave SE
26034 116th Ave SE
Proposal to change the Land use designation from Single Family 6 units per
acre (SF6) to Mixed Use (MU).
Staff responsibility is to review the land use, since no project has been
proposed, though the types of projects that would be allowed under the
designation should be taken into consideration when deciding if the change is
appropriate.
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LUPB asked to consider Medium density multifamily (MDMF) as a possible
scenario for future projects and one that would be consistent with the goals
of the comprehensive plan.
Reviewed Comprehensive plan goals and policies
A hearing was held at LUPB on May 23, 2022, after which the LUPB voted to
recommend approval of CPA-2021-7 as proposed by the applicant. At the
meeting, public comment was provided regarding safety and traffic concerns.
the result of that hearing was that the LUPB by a vote of 3-2 voted to to
recommend approval of the Dulay proposal.
However, it was discovered at the beginning of the meeting that there was
an error with the zoom link in the public notice that was mailed to the
properties within 500’ of the subject property. Therefore, staff sent an
additional public notice announcing an extended comment period for the
proposal and asked for comments to be submitted prior to June 10, 2022.
The additional comment period resulted in receipt of 3 additional public
comments.
These comments did shed further light on the less positive impacts
commercial development has had on its residential neighbors in that corridor.
Noting that the vote had been close, and that there is new information the
staff recommendation changed to recommending the CPA be denied.
MOTION: I move to deny the docketed comprehensive plan
amendment CPA-2021-7 as proposed by the applicant.
RESULT: MOTION PASSES [UNANIMOUS] Next: 6/21/2022 7:00 PM
MOVER: Marli Larimer, Councilmember
SECONDER: Zandria Michaud, Councilmember
AYES: Troutner, Larimer, Michaud
5. Adjournment 4:37 p.m.
Councilmember Troutner adjourned the meeting.
Rhonda Bylin
Committee Secretary