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LUTC MINS 11-07-2005G:\LUTC\LUTC Agendas and Summaries 2005\11-07-05 LUTC Minutes.doc City of Federal Way City Council Land Use/Transportation Committee November 7th, 2005 City Hall 5:30 pm Council Chambers MEETING MINUTES In attendance: Council Member Jack Dovey, Council Member Michael Park, Council Member Eric Faison, Mayor Dean McColgan; Assistant City Manager Derek Matheson; Public Works Director Cary Roe; Public Works Deputy Director Ken Miller; Surface Water Manager Paul Bucich; NPDES/ESA Coordinator Don Robinette; Street Systems Manager Marwan Salloum; City Traffic Engineer Rick Perez; Community Development Director Cathy McClung; Community Development Deputy Director Greg Fewins; Associate Planner Isaac Conlen; Deputy City Attorney Karen Kirkpatrick, Finance Manager Tho Kraus; and Administrative Assistant Marianne Stiles. A number of citizens also attended. 1. CALL TO ORDER Councilman Dovey called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm. 2. APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES The minutes of October 3rd, 2005, were approved. 3. PUBLIC COMMENT 4. BUSINESS ITEMS Councilman Park moved to change the status of item H (School Impact Fee) from Information to Action. Councilman Faison seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. A. Shoreline Master Program Grant Acceptance Isaac Conlen provided the background information. Cmte PASSED staff recommendation to fwd Option 1 to the November 15th Council Consent Agenda. MOVED by Councilman Park. SECONDED by Councilman Faison . PASSED Unanimously. B. Undergrounding Utilities on WSDOT Pacific Highway South Project Cary Roe provided the background information. Cmte forwarded Option 1 to the November 15th Council Consent Agenda. Staff will 1) seek an answer from WSDOT regarding the possibility of including undergrounding & street trees, 2) Look into reallocating city funds to meet these expenses. MOVED by Councilman Dovey. SECONDED by Councilman Faison. PASSED Unanimously. Councilman Park said that he supports the City policy but asked what WSDOT’s budget for the project is? Mr. Roe responded that their budget is tight, which is why they will not agree to the City’s requests. WSDOT delayed so long in denying the City’s requests that he is not sure it is possible to get the work done or not. Mayor McColgan asked what the advantages of undergrounding were. Mr. Roe answered that the advantages are aesthetics & reliability. The only segment of SR99 that is having problems undergrounding is this segment, between 276th & 284th, which was recently annexed into Federal Way. Chair Dovey asked if all other segments of 99 have had their utilities undergrounded and the answer is yes. The cities of Kent & Des Moines have undergrounded their portions has well. Councilman Park said his business is on SR99 in Kent and the city there is trying to get businesses to pay for the work; he does not support that; he supports the city doing it. Mayor McColgan asked if this work must be done now; Mr. Roe responded that the decision has to be made. The poles must be moved and it will be even tougher to do the work later. Mayor McColgan asked if this project was in the TIP; Roe replied that it was not (it was not part of the city at that time). Mayor McColgan then asked which projects would suffer if the City used unallocated funds to cover the cost. Mr. Roe responded that staff will look at trimming other projects and the decision of which projects to cut funds from would be made in conjunction with the decision to go forward with this one. Mr. Roe agreed to bring information on 1) whether WSDOT can even still include the undergrounding and street trees in this Land Use/Transportation Committee Page 2 August 1, 2005 G:\LUTC\LUTC Agendas and Summaries 2005\11-07-05 LUTC Minutes.doc project and 2) what projects will be trimmed to pay for it. Chair Dovey suggested moving this item forward to the Council and presenting the additional information at that time, given the shrinking window of opportunity to do this work. Council agreed to this suggestion. C. Amon Access on SR 509 Rick Perez provided the background information. Cmte PASSED staff recommendation to fwd Option 1A to the November 15th Council Consent Agenda. MOVED by Councilman Faison. SECONDED by Councilman Park. PASSED Unanimously. Mayor McColgan asked if the sight distance is poor, given that the proposed channel cut is at 220’ and city standard is 250’. Mr. Perez said it is not. Committee agreed that if there is a cost, in this case the business should pay it. If the business is willing, staff should see if the gap can be created, the cost of permitting and construction, and complete the project. D. Fencing of pond at 21st Ave SW & SW349th Pl Paul Bucich provided background information. Cmte PASSED staff recommendation to fwd Option 1 to the November 15th Council Consent Agenda. MOVED by Councilman Park. SECONDED by Councilman Faison. PASSED Unanimously Chair Dovey suggested LUTC look at how ponds are fenced. E. WRIA 9 Resolution to Adopt Habitat Plan Paul Bucich provided background information. Cmte PASSED staff recommendation to fwd Option 1 to the December 6th Council Consent Agenda. MOVED by Councilman Faison. SECONDED by Councilman Park. PASSED Unanimously. Council wanted to know if this would add more regulation; Mr. Bucich said it would not. F. Inter-Local Agreement for Water Resource Inventory Area 9 Paul Bucich provided background information. Cmte PASSED staff recommendation to fwd Option 1 to the December 6th Council Consent Agenda MOVED by Councilman Faison. SECONDED by Councilman Park. PASSED Unanimously. G. Triangle Project SR161 / SR18 / I-5 – Status Report Rick Perez provided background information. This item is INFORMATIONAL but cmte will fwd to the November 15th Council Consent Agenda INFORMATIONAL ONLY – forwarded to the November 15th Council Consent Agenda. . Councilman Faison said there did not seem to be much time savings in the proposed changes. Mr. Perez responded that there would be improvements for citizens in the afternoon commute, and especially on weekends at 348th & Enchanted. H. Federal Way Public Schools 2006 Capital Facilities Plan/School Impact Fee Tho Kraus provided background information. This item was changed from INFORMATIONAL to ACTION. The LUTC Committee moved to forward this item to the November 15th Council Consent Agenda MOVED by Councilman Faison. SECONDED by Councilman Park. PASSED Unanimously. Councilman Faison asked how much the City of Des Moines has benefited from this program by opting out (i.e. how much have the participating cities paid on their behalf). The school district representative agreed to look into this. 6. FUTURE MEETINGS The next scheduled meeting will be November 21st, 2005. 7. ADJOURN The meeting adjourned at 7:30 p.m.