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February 10, 2014 - 5:00 PM
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MINUTES
I. CALL TO ORDER
Chair John Holman called the meeting.to order at 7:00 p.m. in Annex
Conference Room 2 located on'the second floor of One Main Professional
Plaza, One East Main Street, Aubum, Washington.
A. Roll Call ' ; =
ChairJohn Holman, Vice-Chair Largo Wales, and Member Yolanda
Trout were present. Also presenfwere'Mayor Nancy'Backus, Director
of Community Development & Public Wocks Kevin Snyder, Assistant
Director of Community Development Services JeffTate, Planning
Services Manager Elizabefh Chamberlain, Planner Gary Yao,
Economic Development Manager poug Lein, and Planning Secretary
Tina Kriss.
Members of the public present were: Aubum Downtown Association
Executive Director Laura Westerguard and Robert Whale of the
Aubum Reporter.
B. Announcements
C. Agenda Modifications
II. CONSENT AGENDA
A. Minutes - January 27, 2014 (Tate)
Member Trout moved and Vice-Chair Wales seconded to approve the
January27, 2014 Planning and Community Development Committee
minutes as written.
Motion carried unanimously. 3-0
III. ACTION
A. Ordinance No. 6501 -Temporary Signs (Yao)
Planner Gary Yao presented the staff report on Ordinance No. 6501, .
an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Auburn, Washington,
amending Chapter 18.56 of the Aubum Ciry Code and Ordinance No.
6403 as to the effective dates of said,ordinance amendments to
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Chapter 18.56 of the Aubum City Code relating to temporary signs.
Planner Yao explained, staff discussed the potential extension of the
temporary sign provisions with the Planning and Community
Development Committee as the lead action committee at its January
27, 2014 regular meeting. The Gommittee expressed support for the
extension of the Ordinance for 2 years to continue supporting local
businesses through increased allowances for portable and temporary
signs.
Staff discussed the potential extension of the temporary sign
provisions with the Public 1Norks Committee on February 3, 2014. The
Committee had no major concems or issues with the possible
extension and concurred with the recommendation of the Planning
and Community Development Committee.
Per proposed Ordinance No. 6501, the temporary sign provisions
would be extended to March 15, 2016. If the Committee issupportive
of the Ordinance, Ordinance No. 6501 will be submitted forpotential
City Council action on February 18, 2014. The Committee was
supportive of Ordinance No. 6501.
Member Trout moved and Vice-Chair Wales seconded to recommend
City Council adopt Ordinance No. 6501.
Motion carried unanimously. 3-0
IV. DISCUSSION ITEMS
A. Imagine Aubum Update (Chamberlain)
Planning Senrices ManagenElizabeth Chamberlain provided the staff
report to update the Committee on the Comprehensive Plan update
status.
The City is required to update its Comprehensive Plan by June 30,
2015. After staff had analyzed our current plan, with the Committee's
concurrence, it was determined a major overhaul was needed,
including a visioning effort. MIG; Inc was selected as a consultant to
assist the City with the Visioning work per a consultant agreement
approved by City Council on November 4, 2013.
To date, the following work has been completed:
• Stakeholder interviews have been conducted;
• An online-questionnaire has been developed and posted to
the Ciry's webpage;
e A spec�c webpage for the Imagine Aubum visioning work
can be located at www.aubumwa:gov/imagineaubum.
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• An invitation has been sent to the City's GovDelivery list
serve about a neighborhood hosting a visioning workshop or
invitation to have City staff attend a HOA meeting; and,
• Facebook and Twitter updates have been posted
referencing "Imagine Aubum"..
Ms. Chamberlain also reviewed the visioning work schedule with the
Committee and explained staff is currently on time with the
timeline. In March, staff will provide a presentetion to the Committee
of the Whole on the draft vision. An additional community outreach
meeting will be conducted to share.the vision based on the gathered
information from the community.. ln May, once a final vision summary
report has been completed, staff will begin the Comprehensive Plan
update.
The Committee and staff reviewed the Imagine Auburn webpage and
questionnaire. The Gommittee expressed their appreciation
for coordination by staff with MIG, Inc. to complete the visioning work
to date and create the logo. The Committee thought the logo sent a
positive message for fhe future of Aubum.
B. Director's Report (Tate)
Jeff Tate, Assistant Director of Community Development Services,
provided the following updates to the Committee:
Green River Community College has been issued the building permit
for the 56,000 S.F. Student Life building. tndianNictory Motorcycle of
Auburn has been issued a building permit; they will begin construction
of a store located off of West Valley Hwy S next to the Hinshaw
MotorcycleStore, An O'ReillyAuto Pa.rts store has been issued their
permit to begin construction off of A Street SE.
At the February 24, 2014 meeting, staff will be providing a briefing on
the floodplain regulations. The City is required to update our
regulations this year, there will be a series of discussions on this
item. Staff will also be providing an overview of the Department
Organization.
The Committee and staff discussed the commercial real estate
vacancies and status of those sites. The Committee asked if staff
could provide a report showing commercial real estate vacancy
statistics and any updates. Economic Development Manager poug
Lein provided an status update on some of the vacancies and stated a
report can be provided to the Committee.
C. PCDC Matrix (Tate)
The Committee and staff reviewed the matrix. No changes were
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recommended. Staff reported that they will be bringing forward a
discussion on Pedestrian Kiosks at a future meeting.
V. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come 6efore the Planning and
Community Development Committee, the meeting was adjourned at 5:35
p.m. _
DATED THIS �� � day;of �7�"��"�-`�, 2014.
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" Holman - Chair
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Tina Kriss - annmg ecretary
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