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The regular meeting of the Planning and Community Development Committee was held January 26,
2004 in Conference Room 1. Those members in attendance were as follows:
MEMBERS PRESENT: Lynn Norman, Nancy Backus and Bill Peloza
STAFF PRESENT: Paul Krauss, Daryl Faber, David Osaki, Shirley Aird, Eric Hagen, Duane Huskey,
Chris Thorn and Patti Zook
ALSO PRESENT: Mayor Lewis, Roy Bennion, Dini Duclos, Catherine Johnson
The meeting was called to order by Councilmember Lynn Norman at 5:00 p.m.
ACTION
1. Approval of Minutes of January 12, 2004 Meeting
Councilmember Backus made a motion, seconded by Councilmember Peloza to approve the minutes.
Ordinance No. 5802 - Amending Chapter 2.06 of Auburn City Code Titled "City Council" and
Approving Rules of Procedure (from January 12 meeting)
Councilmember Peloza commented that the ordinance incorporates changes from the Municipal
Services Committee. Councilmember Backus made a motion, seconded by Councilmember Peloza to
approve the minutes.
DISCUSSION
1. City of Auburn Stormwater Monitoring and Inspection Program
Planning and Community Development Director Krauss gave a brief overview and said this topic was
somewhat controversial a few years back. This should enable the City to respond to needs such as
environmental remediation, fish habitat and grants support.
Water Quality Program Coordinator Thorn commented that staff worked together on a variety of drafts
with input from various departments. This is a good program and speaks to operating procedures to be
in place. Councilmember Peloza asked how this connects with regional stormwater and Water Quality
Program Coordinator Thorn said it supports the City's efforts to regulate activities. He said that Federal
regulations don't talk about monitoring and talk about implementing programs. He spoke about using
best management practices.
Planning and Community Development Director Krauss said the program will help in targeting
remediation and to make sure basins function the way they are supposed to and ways to monitor for
private facilities.
Councilmember Norman referred to page 3 regarding private storm facilities and asked about
enforcement. Water Quality Program Coordinator Thorn said that a lot of this is already being inspected.
Staff will check for maintenance. This documents what the City already does and how to improve.
Assistant City Engineer/Utilities Huskey said that staff visits 500 community sites each year. There are
100 private maintenance agreements. Planning and Community Development Director Krauss gave an
example, that when a development gets approval they must maintain the facility permanently and City
asks for and then has to use code enforcement to require maintenance. This is an obligation that goes
with the property.
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Councilmember Norman applauded the efforts of the straightforward document.
2. City of Kent's One-Stop Human Services Center
Catherine Johnson, Housing and Human Services Manager for City of Kent, provided background on the
center which was initiated by Mayor White who was concerned about the accessibility of human services
to Iow income clients. It is hard for clients to get from one service provider to another due to
transportation issues. Kent City Council approved funds for studies and a consultant worked with key
agencies.
Dini Duclos, CEO of Multi Service Center of Federal Way, distributed a summary document describing
the project name, project address, project description, agencies involved, proposed facility, and proposed
budget. She showed a picture of the building and spoke about what improvements are needed. It's
estimated the project will help 200,000 clients each year.
Councilmember Backus asked about any concerns of adjacent neighbors about having this kind of
facility. Ms. Duclos said the building is in a semi-industrial area. There is the potential of a homeless
men's' shelter in the evening. A conditional use permit for the entire project is applied for.
Councilmember Backus believes the project is a wonderful idea and will be time efficiency.
Ms. Johnson advised there is the possibility of requesting from Auburn CDBG capital funding in 2005.
4. Auburn's Response to Proposed King County Comp Plan Amendments
Planning and Community Development Director Krauss advised Committee to read the entire text on
King County's web site. This is an issue in which a number of cities and the Suburban Cities Association
are concerned. King County acts as a regional government and is creating policies with regional
implications in the Comprehensive Plan. The Cities have no chance to review or comment on the Plan
amendments. King County proposes to lower the LOS for traffic in areas they administer and in fact
make the situation worse. He mentioned the development moratorium in some parts of King County and
this would blow the moratorium open. King County has not had any discussion with affected cities and is
now asking cities to annex land in their PAAs as soon as possible. Cities are concerned about the
language referencing hiring sheriff deputies. The Boundary Review Board is a King County agency and
staffed with King County employees and King County attorney. Renton and Federal Way have
responded and are concerned. The King County Planning Directors and interjurisctional team have
attempted to raise issues.
Planning and Community Development Director Krauss commented that if enough cities raise issues
King County would be hard pressed to ignore the cities' concerns. If necessary there could be a way to
appeal to the GMPC due to King County violating regional policies. This matter right now is
informational for Council.
5. Northeast Auburn Special Plan Area
Senior Planner Dixon spoke with the Committee about a year ago. The Comprehensive Plan identifies a
number of special plan areas. He pointed out the location of the Plan area and zoning in the area.
There were discussions in the past with several property owners and no agreement was reached about
how to proceed in developing the area. The property owner for the drive in theater approached the City
about developing a project on their property. Robertson Properties, owner, signed an agreement for
development of special area plan to include an ElS. The area is unique and bounded by three different
arterials. Some right of way has been obtained. The plan area is 85 acres, and Robertson properties is
about 55 acres of this total. He talked about the proposed I Street extension and the ElS will study
access points to 277th Street. An adjacent property owner wants to develop property to the east of this
plan area as residential. The ElS will look at different alignments for I Street.
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Senior Planner Dixon mentioned what is studied in an ElS. There was a kick off meeting in November
2002 (attended by approximately 20 people) to embark on the ElS process. In January, 2003 staff put
out the official ElS scoping notice and held a public scoping meeting (attended by approximately 12
people) to take comments about what to study in the ElS. The consultant has been conducting an
analysis of these issues, traffic and stormwater and is nearing completion. Developer is pursuing three
different development options and he explained them. ElS is also required to analyze a no action
alternative. He showed overheads of possible project configurations for the three alternatives. He said
that for this project the City of Auburn may come up with a new zoning designation such as previously
done for Terrace View and Lea Hill. The designation could be similar to C-3, Heavy Commercial uses
and development standards, but may have greater pedestrian orientation requirements. The concept is
for unique zoning designation for this area and different than current zoning classifications; perhaps a
new zone or an overlay. There is not currently an existing zoning designation that allows a mix of uses
that the property owner wants.
Senior Planner Dixon said development square footage numbers are supposed to be the maximum
allowed. There could be a blend of the three alternatives such as residential, office and commercial.
The site will require significant infrastructure improvements.
Councilmember Norman wondered about an opportunity for a joint venture on I Street and Planning and
Community Development Director Krauss spoke about the major obligation for infrastructure by the
developer and possibility of funding from the Port.
6. Outdoor Storage in M-l, Light Industrial
Community Development Administrator Osaki continued this discussion from the last meeting and follow
up. Staff looked at other jurisdictions to see how they regulate outdoor storage and excerpts are in the
agenda packet. He referred to a letter from Roy Bennion (in packet) that speaks to container storage.
When this was initially discussed, issue was contractors' yards. All jurisdictions have screening
requirements - usually fencing, typically landscaping. Councilmember Norman suggested looking at
combination of lot size and building size. Some cities have additional performance standards, some
cities have height limits, some cities have processes for administratively waiving screening
requirements. Auburn is a bit more limiting in the M-1 area.
Councilmember Backus thinks the City should continue to look at the issue of outdoor storage for
businesses coming to Auburn because this would be conducive to being a good business partner.
Councilmember Norman thanked Mr. Bennion for his letter. When based on size of a building versus
size of a lot, her concern is there a way to figure or an equation for an allowable number.
Councilmember Norman remarked that screening is important and talked about importance that M-1
zoned property be near the transportation corridor. Community Development Administrator Osaki
suggested that staff come back with a list of questions for the Committee. He will develop a formula for
discussion purposes. He said that by virtue of definition outdoor storage does not include licensed
vehicle, but rather backhoes or heavy equipment.
Councilmember Backus wondered about a community committee of interested parties of those using
outside storage and seek their input. Mayor wants to let staff develop a checklist of questions and then
come back to the Committee because it is still early in the process. There are new Councilmembers on
the Committee and staff will seek their opinions.
7. Les Gove Water Spray Pool
Parks and Recreation Director Faber provided background on the project and showed a diagram. He
spoke of the expected water conservation and cost savings with the spray pool. 90 percent of users of
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the pool wanted a spray pool. He furnished information on the funding sources for the pool. He spoke of
contributions to the project that will be provided by the Rotary Club. He is now preparing the bid
documents.
Councilmember Peloza announced that the Rotary Club is putting together a marketing team to sell the
pool apparatus 'toys' to different businesses and service clubs with a plaque of who sponsored the
apparatus.
With no further items to come before the Committee, the meeting was adjourned at 6:30 p.m.
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