Council MIN 09-10-1990 Plng & Transp Report PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT
Monday, September 10, 1990
Community Development staff presented a report on the status of the various
elements of the City's comprehensive plan (attached) . The meeting objective
was to assign priority for work on the comprehensive plan elements for the
next calendar year so that staff could prepare a detailed scope of work for the
high priority tasks. The committee recommends that the following rank order
tasks be assigned high priority:
POLICY PLAN' AND COMPREHENSIVE PLAN MAP - The committee
recommends that staff be directed to develop a program which provides the
public with significant opportunities to review and comment on the interim
comprehensive plan that was prepared for incorporation. This would include
a review of the goals and policies, issue statements, plan map, street
classification system, environmentally sensitive areas overlay and zoning
code. Staff should prepare a public involvement program, deliver it to the
community, and prepare a summary report to Council as soon as possible.
COMMUNITY PROFILE - The committee recommends that staff be
directed to retain a consultant and prepare a community profile. The profile
should include, among other things, an inventory of existing land use and
housing stock, wetlands and environmentally sensitive areas, projected land
use, housing, population and employment. The base data should be complied
and analyzed in an automated format compatible with the City's GIS/permit
tracking/computer system. The committee would like to have the project
initiated immediately with the inventory completed during first quarter 1991
and the community profile available in second quarter 1991 .
TRANSPORTATION PLAN - The committee recommends that staff be directed
to begin work on the transportation/arterial plan as soon as possible.
Specifically, the committee asks that interim level of service standards, SEPA
thresholds, and street development standards be developed, together with an
interim methodology/formula for the imposition of impact fees. Following the
completion of the automated data base, the committee recommends that the City
acquire a traffic/transportation model and begin developing a
transportation/arterial plan for the City.
URBAN GROWTH AREAS/ANNEXATION PLAN - Consistent with the
requirements of the growth management act, the committee recommends that
staff be directed to evaluate the feasibility and advisability of future
annexations, consider the ultimate city Limits that are most logical, and begin
discussing these issues at the staff level with our municipal neighbors. The
committee recognizes that Tung County has a July 1, 1991 deadline to begin
discussions with cities on the urban growth area designation.
FACILITIES PLANS - The committee recommends that staff be directed to work
with the Federal Way Water and Sewer District, fire district and school district
as they review and update their facilities plans. Specifically, staff should
ensure that growth projections, service areas, level of service standards, and
compatibility requirements of the growth management act have been
adequately addressed and are consistent with emerging City policy. The
committee recommends that upon completion of the fire and school facility
plans, staff will begin working with the districts to develop impact fees
ordinances to help implement the plans.
The committee recommends that the Council ask for detailed work programs
and schedules for the completion of the aforementioned tasks.
STATUS OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ELEMENTS
GENERAL
POLICY PLAN - The Policy Plan was completed as an interim document for the
purposes of incorporation. It gives us an excellent framework and guidance
for development of our comprehensive plan and should meet our needs for the
next few years.
NATURAL RESOURCE AND CRITICAL AREAS - The policy plan is strong in
this area as are the implementing regulations. In most cases the definitions,
inventory data, and mapping are also good. We do need to revisit the
inventory work for wetlands, however. It was completed at a very small
scale which overlooks many wetland areas and needs to be redone at a larger
scale.
INVENTORY AND DATA BASE - This is a high priority work item as it
represents input for most of the other plan elements. A scope of work has
been prepared and two sources of grant funds may be available to complete
this task. Constraint is that the data base becomes obsolete unless it is
maintained and we have not yet made our automation/permit
tracking/GIS/computer systems decisions.
GROWTH. PROJECTIONS - Most jurisdictions in the region use PSCOG
projection's of employment, housing, and population as the basis for thier
planning work. The Act give State Office of Financial Management new
authority in this area and PSCOG is going out of business. Projections are
necessary input data for must elements of the comprehensive plan. Should be
high priority work item.
LAND USE - A Land Use Plan Map was prepared for incorporation and
compatible Zoning is in place. There is very little background information,
rationale, or text available to support the plan, nor was there much time
available for citizen participation. My sense is that Council has assigned high
priority to completing Community Plans such as the City Center Plan, Panther
Lake Area Plan, 348th and Pac South Area Plan. These are expensive and
time comsuming elements. Need Council feedback/direction.
URBAN GROWTH AREA/ANNEXATIONS - The Act requires that we propose an
urban growth area boundary to the county and that these discussions begin
by July 1, 1991. Some analysis and discussion with our minicipal neighbors
needs to be completed prior to making any proposals to the county.
FACILITIES
MUNICIPAL FACILITIES - With the lease of our new office building, the City
has resolved its space needs for a year or two. However, there can be a 3
to 5 year lead time requirement to obtain space if it involves a bond issue
and new construction. Moreover, issues such as courts, jail, maintenance
facilities as well as our long term administrative space needs have yet to be
addressed. This element is probably high priority.
PARKS, RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE - The Parks Director is working
with a citizens advisory group and already has this plan element well
underway. They anticipate having a proposed plan and draft EIS available
before the end of the year and adoption public hearings during the early part
of 1991. The City could be developing and imposing impact fee ordinances in
the latter part of 1991.
FIRE - Federal Way Fire District has nearly completed their Fire Master Plan
update and expects to deliver it to the Commissioners for their consideration
in October. If approved, the City should also consider adopting in as an
element of the City's comprehensive plan and assist the District to implement
it with an impact fee ordinance.
POLICE -
SCHOOLS -
TRANSPORTATION/ART ERIALS
CHOOLS -TRANSPORTATION/ARTERIALS - The proposed data base and inventory
scope of work has been modified to include information necessary to
transportation planning. Staff recommends that the priority for the next year
be to acquire and setup a transportation model such as T Model or ME2 and
to begin
UTILITIES
SEWER - It is my understanding that the District will begin revising their
sewerage plan before the end of the year. The City has been invited to
participate in the update, to review the draft materials, growth projections,
assumptions, etc. to assure that they are consistent with city land use and
annexation policies.
WATER - The district is nearing completion of their revised Water Plan. It is
my understanding that the City has been participating in the revision
process.
STORMWATER DRAINAGE - King County Surface Water Management has
completed an inventory and anaylsis of the South Puget Sound Basin and the
Hylebos Basin. They are now working on basin plans including facility
requirements. When completed and if adopted by the City, these two basins
plan would satisfy the our stormwater drainage plan requirements and we
could begin implementing them.
SOLID WASTE - It is my understanding that the City has formed a citizens
committee to begin discussing solid waste issues including waste reduction and
recycling. A preliminary report is expected in October which should provide
significant direction for future work in this area.