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Home My WebLink AboutITEM III-BC ~ DRAFT PLANNING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE * ~HIG~"OI June 28, 2010 MINUTES I. CALL TO ORDER Chair Lynn Norman called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. in Annex Conference Room 1 located on the second floor of One Main Building, 1 East Main Street, Auburn, WA. Committee members present were: Vice Chair Nancy Backus and Member Rich Wagner. Committee member excused was Chair Lynn Norman. Staff members present included: Mayor Pete Lewis, Director Kevin Snyder, Planning Manager Elizabeth Chamberlain, Principal Planner Jeff Dixon, Park Director Daryl Faber, Development Engineer Monty Bakken, Fire Marshal Jeff Stottlemyre, Building Official Rick Hopkins. II. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND AGENDA MODIFICATIONS Agenda modification included addition of Resolution No. 4612 - GRCC 124T" Ave Improvements Easement as Requested under Item IV. B. of these minutes. III. CONSENT AGENDA A. Minutes -June 14, 2010 Member Wagner moved and Member Backus seconded to approve the Consent Agenda as presented. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY 2-0 IV. ACTION A. Acceptance of a 4Culture Grant for $17,000.00 Director of Parks, Arts and Recreation Director Daryl Faber briefed the Committee about the acceptance of a 4Cutures grant in the amount of $17,000.00. Mr. Faber stated last year the grant was used for the 25t"Anniversary of the Arts Commission's various events and activities in addition to passing a portion through. Mr. Faber stated the grant funds will be used for ArtRageous. King County has informed the City they expect the next years grant award to be one third of this years award so the City will need to look at what was funded by this grant and make changes as needed. Planning and Community Development Committee Minutes Date, 200 Member Wagner moved to recommend that City Council adopt resolution 4610 and Vice Chair Backus concurred. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY 2-0 B. Agenda Modification Resolution No. 4612 GRCC 124T" Ave Improvements Easement requested by PSE on Parks Property Development Engineer Bakken distributed a handout to Committee and briefed the Committee explaining Green River Community College is working with the City on improvements to 124t" Avenue. Part of the improvement involves a land swap between the City and Green River Community College and funds are available to improve 124tH Aven ue f ro m 324t" to 316tH Public utilities from Puget Sound Energy need to be moved from the public right of way to private property. The City owns the public property. Overhead and underground utilities need to be relocated requiring easements for both to be relocated. Green River Community College needs to quickly complete these improvements before the new school years starts and this creates a very tight timeline. Member Wagner moved to recommend that City Council adopt resolution 4612 and Vice Chair Backus concurred. MOTION CARRIED 2-0 V. DISCUSSION A. Ordinance No. 6310 Building Manager Hopkins briefed Committee on Ordinance No. 6310, the adoption of the international code base. Mr. Hopkins stated Title 15 is being amended to adopt by reference the 2009 International Codes, staff provided the following points as part of the presentation: • Mr. Hopkins stated that Text stricken within the document is considered redundant; it is provided in the International Building Codes and is not needed within the text of City Code; • The removal of text eliminates vagueness and confusion in the current Title; • Title 15 amendments provide for limited minor local amendments to the International Codes; • The removal of redundancy makes it easierfor local architects and engineers since they will no longer reference multiple documents and assume what may or may not be in our code but in the International Building Codes eliminating confusion. Mr. Snyder informed the Committee a public meeting was held before the Planning Commission on the Title 15 amendments June 8. Commission had no parties in Page 2 Planning and Community Development Committee Minutes Date, 200 attendance that spoke for or against the amendments, being duly advertised. Planning Commission voted to recommend bringing Title 15 Amendments before Council for approval. Committee and staff discussed page 12, Time Limitations of Applications, and clarified the time limit was changed and because of the economy and allowed for an extension every six months. If the owner or contractor of the project requests an extension the City would approve the extension. Committee and staff discussed the adoption of the Washington State Energy Code by reference as shown on page 3 of 37. Mr. Hopkins explained the strikeouts on page 15, Phased Approval, are all contained within the International Building Codes. Fire Marshal Stottlemyre explained that by striking out major portions of page 24, adopting chapter 5 and the appropriate appendices the City will still be defining fire access roads. Committee recommends bringing this before council in three weeks. B. Ordinance No. 6317 Mr. Snyder informed the Committee Ordinance No. 6317 was discussed at a previous meeting where Committee was verbally notified that the State had passed legislation extending the validity period of both preliminary plats and final plats and the zoning validity associated with those final plats from 5 - 7 years. To be consistent with Statute City Attorney advised through ordinance action to amend City Code. Mr. Snyder informed the Committee the Planning Commission held a public meeting on the Title 17 amendments on June 8, Commission had no parties in attendance that spoke for or against the amendments, being duly advertised. Planning Commission voted to recommend bringing Title 17 Amendments before Council for approval. Committee recommends bringing this before council in three weeks. Recess was taken for executive session at 5:17 p.m. Meeting resumed at 5:26 p.m. C. 2010 Annual Comprehensive Plan Amendment Principal Planner Jeff Dixon provided an updated 2010 Comprehensive Plan Amendment Docket to replace the original which was provided to Committee with the packet. Jeff provided the following updates and information to the Comprehensive Plan Amendments: • 2010 Comprehensive Plan Amendment Docket includes updates by the City and private applications; • Page 1,City-Initiated Text Amendments, includes the four school district's capital facilities plan incorporated into our comp plan; Page 3 Planning and Community Development Committee Minutes Date, 200 • Standard updates to the capital facilities plan are shown in P/T5, page 2; • Clean up actions affecting policies within chapter nine of the environmental chapter, P1T6 through P1T11, will be done; • Appendix B would add a City prepared document referencing Greenhouse Gas Inventory; • Page 3 and 4, chapters 2, 3 and 5 are all changes to private text amendments. The City will continue to evaluate those requests to identify the pros and cons to make a staff recommendation; • Maps depicting the annexation of Mary Olson Farm would be revised making them current to the Auburn City boundaries. Members expressed concern for the text changes request by Mosby Farms on the CN zoning district. Mr. Dixon informed Committee that CN is our neighborhood zoning commercial district and City has not made a determination for the changes. Staff will continue to evaluate this change before taking it back to both the Planning Commission and the Planning and Community Development Committee. D. PCDC Status Matrix Mr. Snyder directed Committee's attention to page 1 on the PCDC Work Plan Matrix. He informed Committee, under item 2, Environmental Park District, staff will be working to bring back additional thoughts and considerations as they review the Environmental Park District. He informed Committee group members attending the WSU joint meeting with the City referenced items the Committee had discussed about the Environmental Park District and they were very pleased with the progress. VI. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to come before the Planning and Community Development Committee, Chair Norman adjourned the meeting at 5:37 p.m. APPROVED THIS DAY OF Lynn Norman, Chair Tina Kriss, Administration Support Clerk Page 4