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Land Use and Planning Board
KENT Land Use Regular Meeting
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June 24, 2024
Date: June 24, 2024
Time: 6:03 p.m.
Place: Chambers
Members: Sandra Pereira Reynolds, Chair
Bryan Kesterson, Co-Chair
Shane Amodei,
Dione Dittmar,
Sally McDonough,
Justus Phelps,
Benjamin Reid
Agenda:
1. Call to Order 6:03 p.m.
Sandra Pereira-Reynolds opened the workshop at 6:03 pm. Land Use and
Planning Board members Shane Amodei, Sally McDonough, Bryan Kesterson
and Ben Reid were in Chambers in person. Justus Phelps and Dione Dittmar
joined via Zoom.
2. 2044 Comprehensive Plan: Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(DEIS) Workshop
At the LUPB Workshop staff provided a presentation update on recent work
for the 2044 Comprehensive Plan project, including:
Round 2 Community Engagement efforts; and
A summary of findings of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).
This agenda item had time for the public to provide written and verbal
comments for the record.
BACKGROUND AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) process fosters informed decision-
making by ensuring that environmental impacts and environmental values
are evaluated and given appropriate consideration during the City's long-
range planning efforts.
On June 14, 2024, the City published the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS) for review. This is an important project milestone! The
DEIS analyzes three potential growth scenarios to accommodate 10,200 new
housing units and 32,000 jobs through 2044. These three scenarios were
informed by last summer's Round 1 Community Engagement as well as
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ongoing presentations and feedback with LUPB and Council throughout Fall
2023.
At this time, the City has been evaluating all three growth alternatives and
has not selected a preferred growth alternative. The preferred growth
alternative can be one of the three alternatives studied, or a combination of
them. By the middle of summer City Council will need to select/confirm the
preferred alternative so that the project team can prepare the Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and 2044 Comprehensive Plan
update.
As we move through Round 2 Community Engagement, staff will be seeking
community input to help inform selection of the preferred growth alternative
and updated goals and policies. Round 2 Community Engagement and the
DEIS comment period end at 5 PM on Monday, July 15.
There was an opportunity for the public to provide written or verbal feedback
specifically on the DEIS and become parties of record.
PROJECT REPORTS AND MATERIALS:
The project website (Engage.KentWA.gov/FutureKent
<https://engage.kentwa.gov/futurekent>) includes useful information,
including the DEIS, a link to an online survey, a list of upcoming outreach
events, and other project updates.
Questions were raised by board members around the kind of housing needed
by affordability and type. Staff explained the AMI scale and where on the
scale housing was needed. Kent needs housing in the deeply affordable
category (0 - 30% of AMI), and the market rate category (80%+ of AMI).
The goal for the type of housing is to create more opportunities for
homeownership. Those types generally fall under the Middle Housing types.
There were no public comments.
3. Adjournment 7:05 p.m.
Ta4wya/KaV-4A I
Committee Secretary
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