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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.