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May 29, 2012 - 5:00 PM
wnsHirfcTOri Annex Conference Room 2
MINUTES
I. CALL TO ORDER
Chair Nancy Backus called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. in AnnexConference
Room 2 located on the second floor of the One Main Professional Plaza, One East
Main Street, Auburn Washington.
A. Roll Call
Chair Nancy Backus, �ce-Chair John Partridge, and Member John Holman were
present. Also present were Mayor Pete Lewis, Planningand Development
Director Kevin Snyder, Planning Manager EI"¢abeth.Chamberlain, Contract
Economic DevelopmenY Planner William Thomas, Economic Development
Manager poug Lein, City Attomey Dan Heid, Principai Planner Jeff Dixon,
Assistant'Police Chief Bob Kamofski, Police Chief Bob Lee, Development
Services Manager Jeff Tate, Transportation Planner Chris Nankins, Senior
Planner Hillary Taylor, and Planning Secretary Tina Kriss.
Members of the public were: Eric Robertson, Valley Regional Fire Authority
(VRFA) Administrato�;Scot Pondelick, Robert Whale of the Auburn Reporter,
Greg Fleser, General'Manager of the Aubum Supermall and Renee Bochnovich,
Gloria Taylor, Patrick.Taylor, and Joanne Martin.
B. Announcements
Greg Fleser, Auburn Supermall General Manager explained the The Supermall of
the Great Northwest would soon be experiencing a new rebranding and
renovation. It will soon be named as 'The Outlet Gollection ofiSeattle". As part of
a 30 to 35 million dollar renovation and rebranding effort; an acquisition of pure
outlet tenants has taken place.
New logos and signage will be introduced in addition to a redevelopment of the
interior and exterior to modemize the aesthetics and update the functional features
of the mall.
Committee thanked Mr. Fleser for this update and expressed their excitement the
changes to take place at the Supermall.
C. Agenda Modifications
The following item will be added under I.B. Announcements:
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1. Presentation -The Supermall Rebranding and Renovation Project.
A presentation by Greg Fleser, General Manager, The Aubum Supermali
Rebranding and RenoVation'Project.
II. CONSENT AGENDA
A. PCDC Draft May 14, 2012 Minutes (Snyder)
�ce-Chair Partridge moved and MemberNolman seconded to approve the May
14, 2012 meeting minutes aswritten.
Motion Carried Unanimously. 3-0
III. ACTION
A. Resolution No. 4470 (4823) - Physical Address Change
Recommendations (Tate)
Director Snyder stated the City Clerk has requested Resolution No. 4470 be
changed to Resolution No,. 4823 as the:formernumber has been retired. The
address changes were'identified as public safety concems that could result in
delayed or inaccurate public safety responses. The proposed address
changes were initially reviewed and recommended bytHe City's mulU-
departmental Addressing Committee. They were subsequently reviewed and
approved by the Department Directors induding 4he Police Chiefand the Valley
Regional Fire Authority Administrator Eric Robertson.
Staff will notify approximately over 100 entifies; agencies and organizaUons, antl
the post office on behalf of the property owners as partof any address
change. Staff submitted a review to the State AuditoPs office for an address
assistance progrem. The program could not be supported fram an audit standpoint
so therefore the City will not be able to provide the address assistance program.
Member Holman stated he could not agree more with the need for the changes to
take place; in searching a couple addresses through both Google and a Global
Positioning System (GPS) Member Holman was unable to get to the address.
�ce-Chair Partridge thanked�staff for theirwork on these changes. He further
expressed that some of the.changes appear to be minor and since the City will be
unable to provide assistance to the property owners transitioning their addresses
this decision becomes hardec Vice-Chair Partridge stated he has not been able to
fully embrace the addres"sing list changes and does not feel the same way about
the "level of urgency" in terms of public safety based on his training. It would be
good when this goes to full Council that Council has the Committee'sfull
recommendation; pulling this apart as a discussion item rather than an action this
evening so the Committee can make a solid recommendation.
Committee and staff discussed the"level of risk" and "level of need" as it relates to
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address changes in answer to a question tiy�ce-Chair Partridge. Chair Backus
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reminded the Committee of the comments by Administrator Robertson where he
stated "there is no level of risk that is acceptable" to a public safety officer,
regardless of changes to one or two numbers ora letter to a
number. Administrator Robertson reminded the Committee that 80% of all calis
are non fire related and that the level of risk increases depending on what the call
is relatedto. Administrator Robertson stated, "risk changes". Chair Backus stated
trying to assign a level of risk to any of these addresses I believe is doing an
injustice to every one of the people on this list
Chair Partridge asked if either police or fire have changed or added anything to
the list provided. Administrator Robertson stated "the list is unchanged in his
opinion", it is the same list that was previously provided.
After much discussion on level of risk by Committee and staff, Uce-Ghair
Partridge stated if the full list is not implemented, exempting certain addresses, the
Committee will have made a public safety decision. Committee determined this
would go against the recommendations of public safety officers and those
recommendations are important and Committee does not take tfiem lightly. Chair
Backus stated she will always eROr on the side of safety first as it could be a
crucial timing issue. '
Committee and staff discussed T street add�essing standards and determined any
future T street addressing policy could be handled in the same way the addressing
policy takes place for Cul-de-sacs. Committee and staff concurred, if future policy
changes take place for T aildressing within the City, the neighbofiood at 4th PL
NE would be excluded with no T street addressing policy modification. Director
Snyder emphasizedTstreets are not typical and rare in development today. Staff
discourages them within new developments.
After discussion, the Committee stated although they are sensitive to the impact of
the address changes on the property owners these changes are necessary due to
the impact of safety. �ce-Chair Partridge stated ff there is nothing else this
Committee can do he would be personally willing to let full Council decide if they
want to approve these address changes; if there is no other relevant discussion
that would occur as a result ofkeeping it as a discussion item, if the
remaining Committee members do not agree, than I just need to make my
decision then I can have a discussion at City Council. Member Holman felt it was
time to move forward and Chair Backus stated she would entertain a motion.
Vice-Chair Fartridge moved and Member Holman seconded to forward to full City
Council Resolution No. 4823.
Motion Carried Unanimously. 3-0
Chair Backus stated thiswill be brought forward to the City Council agenda June
4, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. The�e will be an oppor3unityforpublic comment atthe
beginning of the City Council meeting (threeminutes per individual). The agenda
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will be posted on the City website by Friday.
B. Resolution No. 4818 (Hankins)
7ransportation Planner Chris Hankins explained 4he City has been awarded a
grant from the Washington State Department of Transportation for$400,000.00
with no City match. This will require an amendment to the 2012-2017
Transportation ImprovementProgram (TIP). The amendmentto the 2012-2017
TIP would require a public hearing to be set to make the revision.
vice-Chair Partridge moved and Member Holman seconded to recommend City
Council to set the date for a publichearing on a proposed amendment to the
2012-2017 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP).
Motion Carried Unanimously. 3-0
IV. DISCUSSION ITEMS
A. Resolution No. 4819 (Hankins)
Transportation Planner Ghris Hankins explained the City was awarded a
$400,000.00 grant 4uith no match by the Washington State Department of
Transportation to improve 5afety at various intersections throughout the City. The
project inciudes flashing yellow arrows, auxiliary signal heads, new vehicle
detection, and LED signal head lamps.
As part of the award the City is required to add the project to the 2012-2017
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and the Washington State
Improvement Program (STIP) in order to be eligible to o6ligate the awarded
federaf funds. Resolution Na 4819 assists the Ci4y in making that addition to the
TIP.
Committee and staff discussed the improvemen4s and Committee was
encouraged by the opportunity to receive the grant toward the improvements.
B. ZOAl2-0002 - Cannabis Collective Garden Moratorium Expiration
(Taylor)
Senior Planner Hillary Taylor and City Attomey Dan.Heid provided background
infarmation on Resolution No. 4739; a moratorium on collective gardens due to
expire August 15, 2012. Gommittee and staff discussed the Federal conflict
with State Law since cannabis is a Scheduled I drug. Classifying cannabis as a
drug having high potential for abuse, no medical use, and not safe to use under
medical supecvision. This makes the use of the drug illegal on a Federal level.
Member Holman stated he is in favor of limiting anything which limits staff time
dedicated to working on something that is illegal underthe Federal law.
Committee discussed the option of continuing the:six{6) month moratorium;
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extending Resolution No. 4739 allowing staff more time to address the items
identified within the work plan of the resolution or adopting an ordinance that will
state that the City will not allow anything in the zoning code that violates State or
Federal Law.
City Attomey Heid stated if the City adopted an ordinance that said the City will not
allow anything in the City code that violates State or Federal law the City at any
time has the option of amending the ordinance.
Chair Backus shared her concem that if the moratorium is in place and the City
has no code in place the Gity could be placed in difficult circumstances. Director
Snyder stated the exposure rate for the City without fiaving any code in place
is high.
Committee determined they would recommend moving this forvvard to the
Planning Commission with the recommendation to pass an ordinance much like
the Cities of Woodinville and Pasco and if changes occur an amendment can be
made.
C. Proposed Amendment of the Interlocal Agreement between the City
and Port of-Seattle (Dixon)
Staff seeks to prepare an amendment of the previous 1998 InteMocal Agreement
between the City and Ehe Port of Seattle. After proceeding with the 1998
agreement the Port identified several issues that were not sufficierrtly addressed in
the original agreement.
Staff and the Port worked to address these issues. The amendment modifies
Section 6.2 of the agreement to address the issues of floodplain storage capacity;
clarifies that the Port or its successor has rights to 17% of the flaodplain storage
capacity on the weUand mitigation sight and the City or its successor have the
right to he remaining 83%. Other items relating to floodplain storage capacity will
be clarified within 4he amendment.
Committee and staff discussed what these amendments would mean to the
City. Committee was in favor ofithese amendments to the 1998 Interlocal
Agreement between the Gity and the Port of Seattle.
D. Director's Report (Snyder)
Director Snyder stated Coastal Farm and Ranch is open for business and will be
having their grand opening on June 8, 2012. The Gity is experiencing an increase
in single family construction permits; 132 permits from January 1 to May 25, 2012.
The permit center is worlcing hard to keep the review period short to move these
forward. The City is averaging 50 inspections'a day. In most cases the incentives
passed by the City haye been utilized.
E. PCDC Matrix (Snyder)
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Committee had no changes or additions to make to the matrix.
V. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come before the Committee, the meeting was
adjoumed at 7:02 p.m.
DATED THIS /� 7� day of �� ' - ; 2012.
ancyBa s Chair Tina ss-:Pla nin ecretary
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