Council MIN 04-15-1993 Special
Federal Way City Council
study Session
Federal Way Regional Library
April 15, 1993 - 7:00 P.M.
council:
staff:
All present except Ray Tomlinson
Brent McFall, City Manager; Ken Nyberg and steve
Anderson, Assistant city Managers; Philip Keightley,
Public Works Director; Larry Springer, Planning Manager,
and John Owen (Contractor).
Meeting convened at 7:05 pm.
Larry Springer briefed the City Council on the status of the
CityShape project. He described the four land use alternatives
that have been prepared. Alternative A is the base line
alternative for EIS purposes. It assumes that Federal Way will
continue to grow as a bedroom community with a regional retail
economic base. Alternative B assumes a more aggressive growth
forecast including basic office employment and features a city
center with a mix of retail, office and residential land uses.
Alternative C is the most aggressive growth scenario particularly
in the office and manufacturing sectors, features a mixed land use
city center and significant growth in West Campus-like development.
Alternative D has the same growth rate as alternative C, but
features two centers. One is in the SW 320th st area and includes
retail and residential land uses. The other center is between
336th and 348th and features residential and business park uses.
Philip Keightley presented the first output from the City's EMME2
transportation planning model. He briefly described how the model
works and then presented several EMME2 maps. The first described
the existing traffic volumes on the city's arterials and the level
of congestion during the PM peak hour. The second graphic
illustrated the anticipated traffic volumes on arterials in the
year 2010 assuming Alternative A land use patterns. The level of
congestion in 2010 is projected to be significantly higher. The
third map showed that widening SW 356th street and up-grading 16th
Ave S will have little impact on the level of congestion in 2010.
The fourth map showed that building a frontage road on the west
side of 15 does little to reduce congestion in 2010. Map five
showed the number of lane miles that would have to be added to our
existing arterials to maintain the 1992 level of traffic
congestion. SR 99 for example would have to be eleven lanes wide.
John Owen presented two of the city Center Alternatives that staff
are currently working on as examples of what is coming next. The
first example describes a city center that would be compatible with
Alternative A land use. The second is compatible with alternative
B and includes a light rail station and right of way. John also
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presented a reconfiguration of the Lakota Shopping Plaza as an
illustration of how good urban design can improve the city.
Several council members stated that they thought the project was
going very well and were pleased with the progress that has been
made.
The meeting adjourned at 9:45 p