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Home My WebLink AboutLUTC MINS 04-01-2002G:\LUTC\LUTC Agendas and Summaries 2002\April 1, 2002, LUTC Minutes.doc MEETING SUMMARY In attendance: Committee members Eric Faison, Chair, Deputy Mayor Dean McColgan, and Mike Park; Mayor Jeanne Burbidge; Councilmember Linda Kochmar; Director of Community Development Services Kathy McClung; Assistant City Attorney Karen Kirkpatrick; Parks Director Jenny Schroder; Management Services Director Iwen Wang; Senior Planner Margaret Clark; Deputy Public Works Director Ken Miller; Traffic Engineer Rick Perez; Assistant Traffic Engineer Raid Tirhi; Administrative Assistant Sandy Lyle. 1. CALL TO ORDER Chair Faison called the meeting to order at 5:35 pm. 2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The summary of the March 18, 2002, meeting was approved as presented. 3. PUBLIC COMMENT There was no public comment on any item not included in the agenda. 4. BUSINESS ITEMS A. Green Gables 2001 Neighborhood Traffic Safety Project – Residents along 342nd Avenue SW in the vicinity of 35th Street SW have requested the installation of traffic calming devices in that area based on concerns of high traffic speeds and cut-through traffic. Currently adopted Neighborhood Traffic Safety (NTS) installation criteria are based on a point system. Installation criteria are met if the total number of severity points is equal to or greater than 3.0. A traffic study indicated that the subject location would receive 1.0 point for traffic volume, 3 points for traffic speed, and 0.5 points for accident history. Therefore, the total number of points is 4.5, which meets the 3.0-point minimum to qualify for speed hump installation. In accordance with NTS policies, staff sent ballots to property owners and occupants within 600 feet of the speed hump installation locations. Installation criteria require a 50% majority of the returned ballots. All locations met the balloting criteria at 86% and 100% in favor. Residents of 35th Avenue SW in the vicinity of 342nd Street SW, have also requested the installation of traffic calming devices. Using identical criteria as previously discussed, including a favorable ballot vote of 93% and 67%, speed tables were proposed for 35th Avenue SW. Speed tables were selected over speed humps for easier maneuvering by school busses and fire equipment. The Committee m/s/c approval of the Green Gables Neighborhood Traffic Safety Projects and recommended that the City Council approve at the April 16, 2002, meeting. B. Rainier View 2001 Neighborhood Traffic Safety Project – In The Rainier View Neighborhood in the vicinity of 20th Avenue South between 333rd and 336th Streets, residents have requested traffic calming devices. Concerns and criteria are identical to the circumstances listed above. Favorable ballot votes were 97% and 83%. The Committee m/s/c approval of the Rainier View Neighborhood Traffic Safety Project and recommended that the City Council approve at the April 16, 2002, meeting. C. Mirror Lake 2001 Neighborhood Traffic Safety Project – In the Mirror Lake Neighborhood between South 320th Street and south 312th Street, residents have requested traffic calming devices. Concerns and criteria are identical to the circumstances listed above. Favorable ballot votes were 86% and 68%. The Committee m/s/c approval of the Mirror Lake Neighborhood Traffic Safety Project and recommended that the City Council approve at the April 16, 2002, meeting. D. 2002 Comprehensive Plan Selection Presentation – The City updates the Comprehensive Plan once a year, starting September 30th of each year. This year the City will be reviewing the Comprehensive Plan to ensure that the plan complies with the key requirements made to the Growth Management Act (GMA) between 1995 and 2001. Other changes which are housekeeping in nature are intended to be made to either update existing information (i.e., census information) or to comply with changes in the GMA. A policy is proposed to be added to both Chapters 6 and 9 pertaining to use of the Hylebos Basin. Four site-specific requests were received in September for review for the 2002 Comprehensive Plan Update; a request from a previous update was delayed to this update cycle; and a request to City of Federal Way City Council Land Use/Transportation Committee April 1, 2002 City Hall 5:30 pm Council Chambers G:\LUTC\LUTC Agendas and Summaries 2002\April 1, 2002, LUTC Minutes.doc amend Map III of the Comprehensive Plan was received. Following a staff presentation, the Committee recommended to staff to go forward on further analysis of composite map changes and zoning changes related to 1) the request from Vilma Taylor, et al; 2) the Klouzal request; 3) the Clerget Industries request; and 4) the STRS Associates request. Also recommended for further analysis were the West Side of Kitts corner through a development agreement and consideration of the John Lape request, also through a development agreement. The City Council will hold a public hearing on the 2002 Comprehensive Plan update prior to reviewing the changes and site-specific requests at a future meeting. In support of her zoning request change, Vilma Taylor added that the change to Community Business (BC) makes sense because the property will never be used for residential again due to the expansion of I-5. Steve Klouzal spoke on behalf of his father, Alex, who wishes to be able to build on his 11.95 acres, which, because of ealier rezones and new wetlands requirements only two portions of the property may be used. Rob Reuber, representing Clerget Industries, spoke to the uniqueness of the land encompassed in requests #3 and #4 (adjoining properties South of 356th and West of Enchanted Parkway South) and encouraged the change from Business Park to Community Business. In making plans for the future of the property, Mr. Reuber encouraged support of whatever creates less truck traffic. Dick Borsini spoke on behalf of the Kitts Corner comprehensive plan rezone request from Community Business to Multifamily designation RM2400, adding that he and his partners have studied the Village concept for many months and wish to create a development with clusters of four to six units that is both affordable and pedestrian friendly. Larry Draper discussed the importance of connectivity between his property and nearby shopping that is within easy walking distance. He urged more study of the site and its complicated issues and said that the easy properties are already developed; all that remains is the difficult ones. He said that the project has been delayed by frozen HUD funds E. Housing Targets Update – The 1990 Growth Management Act required cities and counties to plan for forecasted growth. The 20-year growth forecast is issued by the Office of Financial Management (OFM) every ten years. In 1992, the first growth forecast was allocated under the Growth Management act (GMA) to King County for distribution. Federal Way’s housing targets for 1992-2012 were 15,284, second only to Seattle. Federal Way had an early expectation of possible light rail service in exchange for accepting such large numbers of housing targets. In the years since, it has become increasingly difficult to expect that such a large housing unit target could be met. Recently, Planning Directors in King County and other interested individuals have been meeting to determine a recommended methodology for allocating housing targets through 2022 as well as to consider the reality of current development and to draw some parallels between the two. This working group developed a strategy to look at the county in sub-regions, allocate population forecasts by percentage of jobs forecasted and then factoring in the household size of the sub- region. This formula would eliminate the need for additional targets in South King County. Additionally, the South County group has a plan to apply surplus units to existing targets and have reached concurrence by other jurisdictions and the King County Planning Director. The result is likely to be a significant reduction in the number of housing units the City must target for construction in the next twenty years if GMPC adopts the recommendation. F. I-5/SR18/SR161 Triangle Study Update – The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is mananging a study to determine short and long-term solutions to congestion and safety issues in the vicinity of the I- 5/SR18/SR161 interchange. Project Advisory Committee participants include staff from WSDOT, Federal Way, Milton, King County and the Federal Highway Administration. Participants developed a number of concepts and have focused efforts on two concepts that include several potential sub-options, presented to the Land Use/Transportation Committee meeting. The Committee favored Option A. Remaining tasks include long and short term options, medi outreach, Council briefings (late May), and final recommendations and report in late June. I was noted that the statewide transportation bill includes $3 million to move this project into preliminary engineering and environmental stages. In order to position this project for the regional bill, it may be necessary to develop the design to a greater level of detail and develop a cost estimate. 5. FUTURE MEETINGS The next meeting will be April 15, 2002. 6. ADJOURN The meeting adjourned at 8:15 p.m.