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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Committees - Public Works/Planning - 05/19/1993 J, PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MAY 191 1993 PRESENT: DON WICKSTROM JIM BENNETT ED WHITE PAUL MANN JOHN BOND CHARLIE KIEFER TIM LaPORTE WILLIAM JOY TONY McCARTHY BILL CARLETON TOM BRUBAKER PEGGY HANIS JIM WHITE MR. & MRS. RUST 272nd/277th Corridor - 116th Ave/Lindental Meadows agreement 116th Ave/Julie's Addition Agreement Wickstrom stated that approximately a month ago , the City had executed an agreement with the Plat of Lindental, on the east side of 116th Avenue SE. He noted that the two plats being discussed tonight were on the west side across the street from Lindental. Essentially, the agreement is that they pay their' share of what they would have had to pay under the County Design Standards in building the road. Committee voted 2-0 to authorize the Public Works Director to sign the 116th Avenue/Lindental Meadows Agreement and the 116th Avenue/Julie' s Addition Agreement after the final details are completed and after signature by the owners of each respective plat. (Mann voted no. ) Rotary Sign (No one was in attendance from Rotary, so Councilman Jim White attempted to explain the facts and/or requests as best he could. ) White stated that Rotary wanted to place the traditional "Rotary" wheel and a sign indicating the day and place where their meetings are to be held. No locations were available, however, White recalled there were three or four different locations in mind. White mentioned that if the City allowed this request to one service club and the rest of the service clubs followed, that maybe the City could create something the clubs could put„ their emblems on. Ed White noted that John Bond had been working on several different structures that have small roofs on them and areas where several organizations could post signs or information on. Jim White stated that he would not want to see this request end up being a huge project, but wondered if there was any value in 1 contacting the service clubs and seeing if they really wanted to do this. Bond remarked that there, were six clubs agreeable to the idea. Councilman White noted that most of the service clubs buy pre-made out-of-a-catalogue signs, and requested that Bond make this a top priority. Brubaker questioned the fact that perhaps undesirable clubs may choose to be included and thought maybe we should think generically about how we could restrict the use. He inquired whether the Rotary Club was a complete non-profit organization. White concurred and added it was also a non-sectarian service club. Councilman White suggested Ed White and Tom Brubaker get together and work out the details and to check with the service clubs with where and when they meet. Kent Cornucopia Days Ordinance Brubaker noted that this was a new standard street use ordinance for all street closures. Ed White explained that in the past, Cornucopia was normally covered as an ordinance action in that we knew every year it was going to happen. However, there are other organizations requesting to use the streets for other functions. As a result, the City has come up with a standard ordinance and a standard Street Occupation Permit for Street Closures. All action, still has to go to Public Works Committee and through Council. Once approved, they would apply for the permit. Committee unanimously agreed to recommend adoption of the Kent Cornucopia Days Ordinance. Everson Annexation (60% Petition Annexation) Wickstrom noted the location of the annexation area to be by S 218th Street, roughly in the middle of the City on the eastern boundary and that the city has received and verified the 60% petition for same. The next step would be for council to accept it and authorize staff to file the "Notice of Intent" with the Boundary Review Board. However,, prior to council's action, the SEPA process must be complete. Because of the time element, he requested that the committee recommend that upon completion of the SEPA process and subject to a DNS being issued, Council accept the annexation petition and direct staff to file a "Notice of Intent" . Jim White stated that the City was getting pockets (60 acres) of people wanting to annex to the City and in that area it is happening because of septic systems. Wickstrom noted that he believed this was happening because of the County' s permit process and the inability to get action from the County. Mrs. Rust inquired about people iranting to be annexed to the City and recalled that former Councilman Steve Dowell had said that annexations do not benefit the City financially because we do not 2 get any revenues from them. Mrs. Rust questioner�t her the City had the right to refuse if it was going to cost itiy ' in fire and police protection. Councilman White stated the cnAlysis that was done was a push. He went on to say that it was not that we didn't get any revenue (Wickstrom interjected it was about,$,500) , but that it was a minus when you annex housing, warehousing '6nd industrial is a push, and when you annex retail it' s a plus'. Mrs. Rust commented she heard you always had to halve 60% of the people in the area, but she never hears City' representatives debating whether they want it. Jim White noted his feelings were that when we do not annex, especially to the east,,,the City gets the brunt. . .the down side of everything without the pluses, which includes the traffic impacts and we are generally furnishing the utilities. Most of those people are utilizing serviOes in the City and we are getting nothing for it, so to his way of thinking, he felt the City should be annexing much further east. White stated that the City was responsible in some respects for planning, and Growth Management indicated the same for those people that impact us. White mentioned that 60 to 70% of the people involved with our Senior Center and Parks proirams are County residences; 85% of those traveling through the .C�,ty is County traffic. He said in effect, our citizens are held hostage by what happens around us and we have no control over land use in those 4 areas. Developers can go outside the City, build, apartments and we get all the impacts which is why the moratorium woo ,instituted a couple of years ago to shut off utilities outside,'-the City. 11 1 Committee unanimously recommended that upon complet40n' of the SEPA process and subject to a DAIS being issued, Councll accept the annexation petition and direct staff to file a "Not ,ce' of Intent" . Guardrail Along Green River Ed White stated at the Public Works Committee's equest, staff surveyed the area from Meeker Street to S 212th Street on Frager Road. White noted that the areas in blue (on th!�' , *aap displayed) were where guardrails already existed; no color at' *k1 denoted that no guardrails were needed, where there was suf,fidie,nt shoulder width or where the river meandered away from thq ,4oad; and the areas in red denoted where the guardrails need to ,bp installed. White said the total cost for all the areas in red 'is $68, 000 @ $14 per In ft and $400 for each end treatments. White,. 4tated that the Committee could go for the more selective areas gist mark where accidents have occurred, or do all the areas, or ,'prioritize them and put them on a work schedule so that maybe ovor a course of years we would replace all the guardrails. Councilman White questioned what it would do to pe4str�an traffic by restricting the path. Ed White said in these area+ there is not much of a shoulder anyway, so chances are if there3are pedestrians or cyclists out there they are using the roadway. White also added 3 that just by installing guardrails, the number of accidents may not be reduced but the severity of the accidents would be. Bennett inquired where we would get the money from. Wickstrom stated there was some unincumbered money in the Street Capital Improvement Fund or the Council could allocate some money from the 1994 budget process. McCarthy questioned whether this would have to be brought before the Budget Committee. Councilman White remarked that he felt more comfortable having staff figure out the best way to handle the budget side of it to move the project along. Bennett commented that he had the same public safety concerns that Mann did, but felt that there were more areas that required a lot more attention than this particular area, partly due to the fact that there is a 25 mph speed limit and it is a bicycle recreational corridor. Bennett noted that he wasn't 100% sure that it was his responsibility to gamble with City money and felt that James Street and other heavily-traveled areas were more critical as far as safety is concerned. He continued that there were only so many dollars to spend, and he would spend it elsewhere. Mann approached Bennett and inquired whether he would be in favor of installing guardrails on the most dangerous areas. Bennett agreed and Mann amended his motion to direct staff to install guardrails on the installment plan in the more critical areas and ultimately doing the rest at some point in the future. McCarthy questioned if the projt was done in increments, was it a small enough project where it would come out of the operating budget opposed to budgeting $68',000 for capital improvements and whether the project would be done one piece at time or if we needed a budget. Ed White stated the desire for a budget process to get the project done as quickly as possible, but admitted he was looking at what was more financially feasible. Committee unanimously agreed to authorize Public Works to install guardrails in the more critical areas. Parking Restrigtion Resolution Brubaker explained that he had revised the draft for the Parking Restriction Resolution to include some policy statements that overflow offsite parking constitutes an adverse environmental impact. sections 2 & 4 were also added with minor modifications and all four sections essentially state that City streets should be free of overflow parking and also reiterates the fact that it causes an adverse environmental impact that should be discouraged. Brubaker continued that when reviewing the Environmental Checklist, the City's responsible SEPA Official should consider the adverse environmental impact caused to City right-of-ways if the potential for overflow offsite parking on City streets exists as a consequence of the proposed devOlopment. 4 Ed White stated what he was looking for was a st4', ' ent from the City that allows staff to provide input to devei 'which, in a sense, would allow us to take a look at these d0ve$lopments and inform same that they may need more parking because ,of ' a potential overflow parking problem. White stated that if we kA6w, it's not in the Zoning Code, but there are some areas here that" we would like to look at, without having the backing from Council or a policy that basically says this, we're really lookitgI!at trying to convince them. White said that in terms of a policy/keeolution, it would give staff the ability to approach the situation in a more forceful manner when there are multi-families encroaching on single-family areas. White continued to say that the history on this problem came out of parking/site distance coming out onto 110th AvRenub SE from the multi-family development. He said the City was gettInq complaints about vehicles parking too close to the driveway and' the people exiting not having adequate site distance. Committee unanimously approved the adoption of the Parking Restriction Resolution. Ramsteadf Schneider Annexation. (City Properties Wickstrom recalled that back in October 1991, Council authorized;,;,, the circulation of a 60% petition for this aroa¢ Initially,' Wickstrom said it was started by Mrs. Ramstead A'nd.,:then later by, Schneider Homes who is actively pursuing the ahnexation securing signatures. Wickstrom stated that several propeiti,es are owned by' the City that were acquired by park purchases or thrbuoh the 277th Corridor right-of-way acquisition representing a,bout '1. 5 million dollars worth of assessed value. The 60o needed is not in, but at this point, the City is asking that Council auth6ri ' the Mayor to sign the petition for the properties that we in fact, own. Bennett inquired when it comes to a vote if it was Only, voted on by those people that own the 10%. Wickstrom stated that this was an annexation by 60% petition where the petitioners iee ','s .gnatures of property owners within the area who have 60% of th ' sessed value. Wickstrom noted that the City owns properties totaling! 1. 5 million assessed value in the area which represents about 2*1�,a�d the total area is about $40, 000, 000. Mann inquired whether this annexation was to move 'i,n' tfie direction of the 272th Corridor. Wickstrom stated that if the annexation were to occur, parts of the corridor would be in IQent, Mann then inquired if we were acting in accord and was thii th4 motivation for the action. Wickstrom stated that the motivation was that the developer and/or property owner is pushing the annexation and since the City has properties in the subject area, we would just sign the 60% petition annexation for those parcels; the developer is doing all the work. Mann further questioned whether that would be sufficient to sway the annexation. Wickstrom noted that it was not 5 because City-owned properties only make up 2% and 584 more would have to be secured. Charlie Kiefer inquired about the SEPA review, the responsible person involved, as well as the official name of the annexation. Jim White stated that the SEPA. Official was Jim Harris and the official name was East Hill Annexation. Kiefer was concerned that all those in the annexation area would not be notified. Wickstrom stated that the normal procedures are published in the newspapers. Bill Carleton commented that he lives near the Ramstead's property and also wanted to be notified. Kiefer inquired about the City's 2% and where we stand now. Wickstrom noted that we were in the 50 to 60% range, that we are not quite there because some of the signatures were beyond the 6- month period and we had to start over in some cases. Wickstrom noted that the 60% petition annexation was a State law requirement. William Joy questioned how this annexation fit in with Auburn. Wickstrom stated that it correlates with Auburn, however, they may have a concern with the tail off of one parcel, but it's within the interim potential annexation boundary that Council approved May 18th. Councilman White commented that a lot of this was being driven by the Growth Management Act which states that Cities should provide services because they are the mechanism established by law to provide them. As a result, White stated that the City was being forced to budget money to do plans that we would normally not do; plans must be completed by July 1994. White noted there was no great desire by Council or the Mayor to annex clear to Soos Creek or to SE 285th, but when we receive petitions for annexation we have to react to them and are almost forced to annex. Bill Carleton stated he had gone to a County meeting where they discussed eliminating an intersection on 116th Avenue SE and making it a major County arterial. Carleton stated, as a part of the official meeting, a representative of the City's Planning Department came in with books, EIS statements and counter statements which did not refer to 116th, but to the corridor. He said they did not object to the City doing that, but they did object to the fact that the corridor was an integral part of the spur and they were tied together. Carleton mentioned the County also discussed a 1, 000-home addition in the same vicinity and noted that people getting out of their areas would go to Kent-Kangley or they would get on the corridor and go all the way down to the freeway which is already overcrowded. In conclusion, Carleton suggested that the City of Kent could call itself the "Oasis City" and stated that if the City paved over everything out there, we were -, going to loose our sky and the properties would go down in value. Committee unanimously agreed to authorize the Mayor to sign the 60% Annexation Petition for City-owned properties. 6 F I Y / a Traffic Signal Remodel at 228th & 84th & SR167 $� Accentance Wickstrom noted that the original bid was below bid limits, so the City solicited for proposals from contractors. This contract is complete and is ready for final acceptance. Committee unanimously agreed to accept the project as complete. Downtown Infrastructure Due to the absence of Raul Ramos, Councilman White noted that he had read the information submitted and it was fine. Highway Paint Striper - Bid Accepted Committee unanimously recommended this bid be accepted and contract awarded to Municipal Machinery for $28 , 536. 00. Meeting adjourned at 6: 36 PM. 7