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rBURI V December 10, 2012 - 5 00 PM
WASHINGTON Annex Conference Room 2
f MINUTES
I CALL TO ORDER
Chair Nancy Backus called the meeting to order at 5*00 p m. in annex
Conference Room 2 located on the second floor of One Main Professional
Plaza, One East Main Street, Auburn, Washington.
A. Roll Call
Chair Nancy Backus, Vice-Chair John Partridge, and Member John
Holman were present. Also present were Mayor Pete Lewis, Planning
and Development Director Kevin Snyder; Economic Development
Manager Doug Lein, Public Works Director Dennis Dowdy;
Engineering Aide Amber Mund, Planning Manager Elizabeth
Chamberlain, Principal Planner Jeff Dixon, Senior Planner Stuart
Wagner; and Planning Clerk Bobbie Hodgkinson
Members of the audience present were Scott Pondeleck, Eli Berman,
Skyline Properties, Inc., Andy McAndrews, CHS Consultants, Bob
Kenworthy, Auburn School District; Tanya Nascimento, Federal Way
School District; Gwen Escher-Derdowski, Kent School District; Robert
Whale, Auburn Reporter; and Nancy Wyatt and Brian Benerd, Auburn
Chamber of Commerce.
B. Announcements
There were no announcements.
C Agenda Modifications
There were no agenda modifications.
II CONSENT AGENDA
A. Minutes - November 26, 2012 (Snyder)
Vice-Chair Partridge moved and Member Holman seconded to
approve the November 26, 2012 minutes as written
Motion carried unanimously 3-0
III ACTION
Ordinance No 6442 (Wagner)
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A. Request Committee motion action to recommend to full City Council
approval of Ordinance No 6442.
Senior Planner Stuart Wagner briefly summarized the proposed staff-
initiated code amendments in Phase 2, Group 2 to relocate the
Hearing Examiner chapter including some additions and administrative
changes. Following a brief discussion and clarification of certain
changes to the code, the Committee concurred to take action on this
item.
Vice-Chair Partridge moved and Member Holman seconded to forward
Ordinance No 6442 to full City Council for review and approval.
Motion carried unanimously 3-0
B Ordinance No 6440 - 2012 Comprehensive Plan Amendments
(Dixon)
Request for Committee motion action to recommend to full City
Council approval of Ordinance No 6440
Principal Planner Jeff Dixon provided background on the 2012
Comprehensive Plan Amendments brought back before the
Committee for review Principal Planner Dixon stated that at the last
meeting the Committee reviewed all of the amendments as well as the
Planning Commission's recommendations. He summarized the
amendments, as detailed in the staff report. Principal Planner Dixon
noted that new in the Comprehensive Plan notebook, before the
Environmental Review tab, are the verbatim minutes from the Planning
Commissions' last hearing that were not available during the last
meeting He further added that other items highlighted in the staff
report and are new additions to the notebook is a minor change to the
City's Capital Facilities Plan to recognize an adjustment of moving
some funds from one of the City Hall remodel projects to another City
Hall remodel project and only affects one page in the document. The
other change is at the Public Works Committee meeting on the
changes to the City's Comprehensive Transportation Plan with a minor
wording change to a policy within Chapter 5, specifically Policy T28
recommending the word "all" be removed
The Committee invited representatives from the school districts to
come to the table to present information in connection with their
Capital Facilities Plans in relationship to their impact fees. Bob
Kenworthy, Auburn School District; Tanya Nascimento, Federal Way
Public Schools, and Gwenn Escher-Derdowski, Kent School
District presented the Committee with information in support of their
School District submittal. A representative from Derringer School
District was not present to comment.
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Member Holman moved and Vice-Chair Partridge seconded to forward
Ordinance No. 6440 to full City Counsil for review and approval.
Motion carried unanimously 3-0
IV DISCUSSION ITEMS
A. Resolution No. 4881 (Mund)
A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Auburn, Washington,
authorizing the renewal of PWA 99-02 and amending the terms of the
agreement between the Olympic Pipeline Company and the City of
Auburn.
Engineering Aide Amber Mund briefly described Ordinance No
4881 , presented to the Committee for discussion. Engineering Aide
Mund stated the resolution renews Olympic Pipeline's Public-Way
Agreement for an additional 5 years and added there were no changes
to the agreement with the exception of the term. Ms. Mund confirmed
that there were no complications or concerns generated in the past
five years with Olympic Pipeline Public Works staff clarified for the
Committee that notices of public hearings about an increase in
pipeline size and a new line coming in through Auburn were not in
connection with Olympic Pipeline but rather announcements made by
Williams. There were no further questions from the Committee
B Ordinance No. 6445 - School Impact Fees (Dixon)
Request for Committee review and discussion of the proposed 2013
school impact fees for Auburn School District, Dieringer School
District, Federal Way School District and Kent School District.
Planning Director Snyder asked if the Committee would be
comfortable with making this item an action item. Upon consideration,
the Committee unanimously agreed to staffs proposal.
Principal Planner Dixon noted that the members of the school districts
talked about their Capital Facilities Plan and the relationship to their
impact fees. Principal Planner Dixon explained that the Committee
has seen the Capital Facilities Plans as part of the Comprehensive
Plan Amendments because if we adopt their Capital Facilities Plans
this becomes part of our Chapter 5 and our capital facilities element of
the City's Comprehensive Plan Principal Planner Dixon further added
that by specific separate ordinance and as a separate action, Chapter
19 02 is actually amended, which is the City's School Impact Fee
ordinance. Each of the school districts have prepared their Capital
Facilities Plan using the formulas provided in the Auburn City Code for
the calculation of their impact fees, which includes a discount, to come
up with a proposed figure In the case of the Derringer School District,
Planner Dixon stated there was a difference between the fee that was
proposed for Pierce County impact fee for the same school district.
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The proposal was drafted to keep that school impact fee
commensurate with that passed by Pierce County, which is lower and
typically applied to all the school districts within their jurisdiction
Planner Dixon clarified that the Table does not reflect that deduction to
the Pierce County level; however, the ordinance does. Staff confirmed
for Derringer School District for single family was going down to
$3,005 00 from $3,500 00
Vice-Chair Partridge moved and Member Holman seconded to move
to full City Council for review and approval.
Motion carried unanimously 3-0
C Review Arterial Street Needs (Dowdy)
Public Works Director Dennis Dowdy stated that this subject was
presented before the Committee several weeks ago and when it went
to Public Works they requested to share with other Council members
the attached maps that illustrate what the current requirement would
be if we looked at arterial streets today with additional funding versus
the requirement if we stay with current revenues for a period of up to 5
years and what it would look like 5 years from now Director Dowdy
stated that the condition of some of the roadways would continue to
deteriorate and you would be looking at an increase in price in current
dollars from $69 Million to $89 million over a period of 5 years waiting
and using existing revenues, which currently is approximately $1 5
Million per year to repair the arterial street system. Director Dowdy
added that currently out of the $1 5 Million there is about $100,000 in
crack sealing each year; several hundred thousand in deep
patching, Public Works is not currently doing any overlays due to the
limited funds available He further added that once funds become
available, everything that has been deep patched should immediately
be overlayed so the whole street is protected Director Dowdy added
this is the first year of chip sealing arterials but additional resources
are needed to catch up
D Director's Report (Snyder)
Planning Director Snyder provided the Committee with a copy of
the notice that we received grant funding for the Fenster Setback
Levee on the Green River We received $327,353 which makes our
project of $1 .2 Million whole and includes six other funding
sources. Director Snyder acknowledged Chris Andersen and Jamie
Kelly for their efforts in making this grant a priority to the Salmon
Recovery Funding Board The Committee asked Director Snyder to
pass along their appreciation to Chris and Jamie and anyone else who
worked on this application Director Snyder noted as we come to the
end of 2012, we are fast approaching 400 new single family home
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building permits issued, which is the best year since 2004 and there is
the potential to see those same numbers or better next year
depending on external and other impact factors. Also, Director Snyder
stated we have a number of plats that have come back on line
Director Snyder stated that we are roughly $800,000 ahead of revenue
projections for building permits.
On behalf of all of the members of the Planning and Development
Department, Director Snyder thanked the Committee, the Mayor, and
other departments that Planning worked with throughout the year
making this a very successful year The Committee echoed the same
sentiments to the Planning Department for outstanding work and for
making the citizens of Auburn welcome with an efficient and effective
process.
E. PCDC Matrix (Snyder)
In connection with parking, Director Snyder confirmed that staff will
come back to the Committee in the January and February of next year
with another draft.
V ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come before the Planning and
Community Development Committee, the meeting was adjourned at 5 42
pm
DATED THIS /yt _ day of 11-�l , 2012.
ancy 16kus - Chair
Bobbie Hodgkinson,�Planning Clerk
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