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[00:00:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3s Okay. Are we good, Emily? Okay, very good.
[00:00:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=8s Okay, welcome everybody to Wednesday, September 9 regular meeting Spokane Plan
[00:00:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=12s Commission. Emily, will you please take roll?
[00:00:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=16s President Bank?
[00:00:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=16s Here.
[00:00:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=17s Vice President Patterson?
[00:00:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=18s Here.
[00:00:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=19s Commissioner Lenhart?
[00:00:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=20s Here.
[00:00:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=21s Commissioner Madsen?
[00:00:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=22s Here.
[00:00:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=22s Commissioner Rasmind?
[00:00:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=24s Here.
[00:00:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=25s Commissioner Tausch?
[00:00:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=26s Here.
[00:00:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=27s Commissioner Williams?
[00:00:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=28s He's absent.
[00:00:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=29s Commissioner Yachtz?
[00:00:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=32s Also absent.
[00:00:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=35s We do have a quorum, and then Council Member Katinkski is absent.
[00:00:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=40s And Community Assembly liaison, Linda Carroll?
[00:00:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=42s Present.
[00:00:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=43s Good to go.
[00:00:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=43s Very good. Thank you. Okay, before we get into the agenda, we want to open up the
[00:00:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=47s floor for any folks that would like to make any comment on items not on today's
[00:00:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=51s agenda. Do we have anyone in the room?
[00:00:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=55s Seeing no one, is there anyone online?
[00:00:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=58s Okay, with that, we'll go ahead and close the public comment and move on to
[00:01:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=61s approval of the August 26, 2026, meeting minutes. Can I get a motion, please?
[00:01:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=66s So moved.
[00:01:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=67s Second.
[00:01:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=67s Motion and a second. Is there any discussion?
[00:01:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=71s Hearing none, all those in favor say aye.
[00:01:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=73s Aye.
[00:01:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=74s Those opposed, nay.
[00:01:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=76s Okay, minutes are passed. We will skip over the council liaison report and move on
[00:01:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=81s to community assembly liaison report with Linda.
[00:01:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=83s Okay. At the September 3rd Community Assembly meeting, I encouraged all of the
[00:01:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=88s representatives to work with their neighborhood councils on their response to the
[00:01:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=93s future land use map. I provided basic information about resources and how to enter
[00:01:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=97s a public comment and reminded the assembly that the public comment period will
[00:01:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=101s close on October 2nd. Friday. I also
[00:01:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=107s note that Commission President Bank's characterization of certain public comments
[00:01:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=112s made at our last meeting and recorded in the minutes is thereby made available to
[00:01:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=116s the public, who, however, will not be in a position to assess that characterization
[00:02:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=121s until the comments are made public, which unless I'm misinformed, has not yet
[00:02:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=125s happened. If I'm mistaken, please let me know.
[00:02:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=130s Is that the conclusion?
[00:02:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=133s Yep. That's it.
[00:02:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=134s Okay. And if I could ask just a clarifying question, you're asking by made public,
[00:02:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=138s in other words, the meeting video being posted online?
[00:02:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=141s The meeting video and the minutes, yeah, which will be in the packet.
[00:02:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=144s Okay. Very good.
[00:02:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=147s Okay, moving on to president report.
[00:02:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=151s I would just echo
[00:02:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=153s what community assembly liaison just mentioned, that comment period is open.
[00:02:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=158s We've received quite a lot of, I think, really good comment.
[00:02:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=162s We have received at least one neighborhood's official comment, I'm imagining based
[00:02:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=167s on some of those meetings that came out of community assembly.
[00:02:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=171s So, again, for the public, we are reading all of those.
[00:02:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=175s I at least am reading all of those. I suspect my fellow commissioners are as well.
[00:03:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=180s So please do keep it coming. I think it's really good quality feedback and
[00:03:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=186s at least some of them have caused me to ask some interesting questions and think of
[00:03:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=191s some interesting things. So, with that, we will move on to secretary report with
[00:03:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=195s Spencer.
[00:03:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=197s Yeah. Can I just ask a question, Linda, if you...
[00:03:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=201s Are you talking about the video from the last workshop?
[00:03:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=205s I'm talking about video from, I believe it was
[00:03:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=210s in the early part of the meeting of the Plan Commission.
[00:03:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=215s But in any case, they're memorialized in the minutes.
[00:03:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=218s Yeah, but you're talking about the
[00:03:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=221s most recent workshop. I just checked. That is online.
[00:03:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=225s So if you look at the Plan Commission website, there's a link that says view
[00:03:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=229s meeting videos. That is-
[00:03:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=231s Comments that have been characterized by the commission president are not available
[00:03:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=235s to the public.
[00:03:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=236s Oh, so you're not talking about comments from a member of this body, you're talking
[00:03:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=239s about comments from the public being made publicly available?
[00:04:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=243s No. Well, what I'm saying is the president of the Plan Commission characterized
[00:04:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=248s certain public comments in the meeting, and that's memorialized in written form in
[00:04:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=252s the minutes. But the public who has access to the meeting recording and will
[00:04:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=258s eventually have access to the minutes, as far as I know, unless I'm mistaken, and
[00:04:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=262s please correct me if I am mistaken, that public cannot assess the statements
[00:04:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=268s made by reading the original documents because the original documents are not yet
[00:04:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=272s available to the public. Is that a correct statement?
[00:04:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=274s So I think I understand now. We generally put all the comments in the hearing
[00:04:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=278s packet, which we'll prepare in advance of the actual hearing.
[00:04:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=281s Okay. But currently, the public may view that video and may, within two weeks, read
[00:04:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=285s those minutes and have that characterization available but will not have the
[00:04:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=289s original documents that are being characterized available for, whatever, another
[00:04:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=294s month or so.
[00:04:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=294s Yeah, those will be included in the hearing packet.
[00:04:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=296s Okay.
[00:04:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=298s Okay, thanks. I just wanted to make sure I understood.
[00:05:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=301s I wanted to introduce Ryan Roller.
[00:05:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=304s He is a new legal intern for us, so he's going to sit in on our meetings.
[00:05:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=308s You want to just tell us a little bit about yourself?
[00:05:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=310s Yeah, I'm Ryan Roller. I'm a 3L at Gonzaga, which is like the last year of law
[00:05:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=314s school. But I'm working for the city attorney's office right now, the city, and I'm
[00:05:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=318s really looking forward to working with you guys more and hopefully making the
[00:05:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=321s community a better place. So yeah.
[00:05:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=322s Thank you. Welcome.
[00:05:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=323s Thank you.
[00:05:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=325s Lastly, some of you, if you've been watching city council agendas, like everyone
[00:05:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=331s does here, I'm sure,
[00:05:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=334s Lauren Pangborn has been nominated as a Plan Commission member.
[00:05:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=339s I expect council will take action on that tonight, so I don't see her in the room,
[00:05:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=343s but-
[00:05:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=344s She was at our last meeting.
[00:05:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=345s Okay.
[00:05:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=346s She did come to the last meeting and sat in the audience.
[00:05:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=348s It's on the agenda for tonight, so I expect action to be taken.
[00:05:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=352s So she'll be sitting on Plan Commission for our next meeting,
[00:05:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=357s and I think that covers everything I have.
[00:05:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=359s Very good.
[00:06:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=360s Okay. Moving on to Transportation Commission liaison.
[00:06:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=365s Oh, sorry. We didn't have one this month.
[00:06:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=367s Very good. Okay. We are hustling through the pre-meeting stuff here. Okay.
[00:06:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=372s With that, we will move on to approval of current agenda.
[00:06:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=375s Can I have a motion, please?
[00:06:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=376s Motion.
[00:06:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=377s Second.
[00:06:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=377s Motion and a second. Is there any discussion?
[00:06:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=381s All those in favor say aye.
[00:06:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=383s Aye.
[00:06:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=383s Those opposed, nay. Okay, we have a current agenda, and we'll move on then directly
[00:06:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=387s to a Build Spokane update with Tim.
[00:06:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=394s We're
[00:07:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=434s getting there.
[00:07:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=462s Okay, Tim, we're at your service.
[00:07:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=463s It's good.
[00:07:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=463s It has worked in the past.
[00:07:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=464s Okay. Let's see here.
[00:07:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=464s I
[00:07:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=464s like
[00:08:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=488s the way that all the T's intersect. It's cute.
[00:08:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=493s Yeah, I see them.
[00:08:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=496s So good afternoon. Here to talk a little bit about the Build Spokane code
[00:08:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=501s modernization. Don't have a lot to update on today.
[00:08:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=508s Just going to change how to think of this now.
[00:08:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=516s Okay. So here, again, project calendar. We're in the drafting phase.
[00:08:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=523s The drafting's probably going to take a little bit longer.
[00:08:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=526s As you know, I think we've done module one partially.
[00:08:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=530s We've kind of hit a place where we need to move forward in the project in order to
[00:08:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=535s come back to the process and procedure section and really hone in on that.
[00:09:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=541s And so the consultant has moved on to module two.
[00:09:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=544s Right now, internally, we have a draft of the zoning districts
[00:09:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=550s And then probably within the next week or so, I anticipate getting the second part
[00:09:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=555s of module two, which is actually the use table itself and the list of uses with a
[00:09:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=561s consolidated use table. Obviously, with the fires last month,
[00:09:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=568s our priorities had to shift, and so we got a little bit away from this project.
[00:09:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=575s And so we're probably targeting at least,
[00:09:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=580s probably not adopting before February of next year.
[00:09:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=584s But certainly, we're still targeting quarter one.
[00:09:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=590s Again, module one was administration and procedures.
[00:09:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=594s The module two was zone districts and uses, and then we'll shift on to development
[00:09:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=599s and design standards. But what I wanted to talk about today was development
[00:10:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=605s review and the development review process in particular because I think it's
[00:10:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=609s important that we
[00:10:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=615s have a unique opportunity here. So development review is the city's system for
[00:10:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=618s moving a project from vision to reality.
[00:10:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=621s So somebody comes in with a concept to, they have a CBO, and they're able to occupy
[00:10:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=627s the building. And I've bolded two words here, system and outcome, because that's
[00:10:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=632s really what we're talking about here, system and outcome.
[00:10:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=635s The end goal here is not necessarily a building permit. That's a means to an end.
[00:10:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=639s We're really focused on what is the outcome that we're trying to achieve more
[00:10:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=642s holistically.
[00:10:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=645s But the process brings together the regulations, the people, information,
[00:10:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=649s decisions, and the processes involved in those land use technical review,
[00:10:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=654s permitting construction inspections.
[00:11:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=660s Okay. So I mentioned we have a unique opportunity here.
[00:11:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=662s We're in the midst of doing our comprehensive plan update.
[00:11:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=665s We're obviously doing the Build Spokane code modernization.
[00:11:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=668s We're also updating our permitting software. We're going from Acella to Llama.
[00:11:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=672s We've also initiated a conversation with the Washington State Auditor's Office.
[00:11:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=678s They have
[00:11:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=680s a division that does lean processing review and so we've engaged with those
[00:11:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=685s folks, and it looks like they're going to come here and do some process mapping for
[00:11:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=689s us. So this really gives us an opportunity to be more deliberate in how the system
[00:11:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=693s works, how it supports staff, and how it serves our customers, because it should do
[00:11:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=697s both.
[00:11:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=698s Okay.
[00:11:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=701s So to what, I guess, what is the chronology of those inputs there?
[00:11:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=706s Because it seems like
[00:11:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=708s the last two should probably be in place before Build is
[00:11:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=714s adopted, or ideally Build should react to those last two,
[00:11:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=719s be able to at least.
[00:12:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=720s Yes, I think you're probably right in that regard.
[00:12:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=724s So obviously comprehensive plan has got to come first and then we can follow with
[00:12:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=727s the code. I think the hope and the intent here is that the lean process will help
[00:12:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=733s us to inform,
[00:12:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=736s not necessarily the code, but how we administer the code.
[00:12:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=741s So, the processes within the code, so if we just pick conditional use permit, for
[00:12:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=746s example,
[00:12:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=748s is defined in the code. These are the steps that you would take, and then the
[00:12:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=753s overall system and process we would actually build.
[00:12:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=758s And then the Llama, the permit system should be implemented, hopefully, I think by
[00:12:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=764s the end of the year, I think is where we're at on that.
[00:12:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=768s So that's coming.
[00:12:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=772s So development review is complex, but structure matters.
[00:12:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=776s So having a structured system truly matters.
[00:13:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=781s It talks about purpose, it explains the roles, it sets expectation.
[00:13:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=786s There's a sequence, there's decision points, and then where those handoffs occur.
[00:13:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=791s So it creates that common framework that allows different projects to move through
[00:13:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=795s the system in a consistent and understandable way.
[00:13:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=797s And I'm going to tie this all together at the end because I think this really comes
[00:13:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=800s back to some of the overarching themes that we've heard through the Build Spokane
[00:13:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=804s process from many of our stakeholders.
[00:13:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=809s Systems produce outcomes. So I'm going to use my washing machine analogy here.
[00:13:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=813s I've been testing this out for the last week and if you're wondering, yes, I do my
[00:13:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=817s own laundry too, but so when we think about a washing machine,
[00:13:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=823s the input is dirty clothes and the expected output is clean clothes, and that's
[00:13:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=830s what we expect out of that system. Within that system, within the washing machine,
[00:13:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=834s there are different processes. You've got fill, you've got wash, drain, rinse,
[00:13:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=839s all sequenced accordingly, right?
[00:14:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=842s And then in some cases, maybe you add a little fabric softener in there, and that
[00:14:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=845s happens at the rinse cycle. So there's some things that may happen concurrently
[00:14:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=849s too. And our development review process should really be no different.
[00:14:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=854s There is a sequence of events that must occur, but some of those events can occur
[00:14:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=859s simultaneously.
[00:14:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=862s And again, the outcome of the project is vision to reality.
[00:14:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=865s We want clean clothes at the end of the day.
[00:14:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=869s And if any of those processes within the washing machine fail, it impacts whether
[00:14:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=874s we have clean clothes or not.
[00:14:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=877s So it's important that all of those processes work together.
[00:14:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=884s Again, every process has a purpose. Why does it exist?
[00:14:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=887s What are we trying to accomplish? What information is needed?
[00:14:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=890s Who needs to be involved? What should come out of it? What happens next?
[00:14:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=894s This is really our opportunity to ask ourselves, why are we doing what we're doing?
[00:14:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=898s Is there a different way? Is there another way? Is there a better way?
[00:15:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=903s What can we do, again, to achieve that desired outcome?
[00:15:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=910s Can I-
[00:15:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=911s Sure.
[00:15:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=911s Can I just call attention to that piece at the very bottom in bold there?
[00:15:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=915s Yeah.
[00:15:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=916s I'm assuming, and I maybe just want to point this out in case it's not, that
[00:15:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=922s there's some mechanism that's being built in, some sort of feedback loop mechanism
[00:15:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=926s that's being built into this opportunity to memorialize that because I think
[00:15:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=931s that's where we potentially have run into trouble in the past is it's just been
[00:15:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=937s the way that we do it, and we sort of add a little patch on because of this thing
[00:15:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=942s changed, then another patch, and then we have this agglomeration of patches with a
[00:15:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=947s process from 20 years ago somewhere in the middle.
[00:15:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=950s And I don't see at least a mandate somewhere to be
[00:15:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=956s evaluating those things and asking those questions that you're rightly pointing out
[00:16:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=962s there.
[00:16:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=963s I think what you're describing is part of that process of change management, and I
[00:16:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=968s believe that will be an outcome of the lean process because really what we're
[00:16:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=974s talking about is continual process improvement here, and that should be an outcome
[00:16:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=978s of the lean process.
[00:16:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=980s I just want to add to that, because I think that is a concern.
[00:16:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=984s But in my observation, as I've been here and from
[00:16:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=990s before I was here as well, I think one of the challenges is that we pay a lot of
[00:16:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=995s attention to the standards within a code, what you can build, where you can build
[00:16:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=999s it. We have not historically paid a lot of attention to the process.
[00:16:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1004s And so it's, in a way, it's easier for us to reform height limits or
[00:16:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1010s building coverage or some of those things because they're visible and it's easy to
[00:16:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1014s get the public engaged and excited about it.
[00:16:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1017s But when we talk about our development review process, it's largely internal and
[00:17:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1021s the stakeholders tend to be professionals who can figure out how to work within the
[00:17:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1027s system well enough, even though it isn't optimally designed.
[00:17:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1032s And so it just isn't some of those things that's screaming out for constant
[00:17:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1036s attention.
[00:17:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1037s And that's a great segue here because our process should really be designed for our
[00:17:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1043s customers. We talk a lot about public engagement and meeting people where they are.
[00:17:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1049s And I think our process has to do that same thing.
[00:17:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1052s We can't expect all of these varied stakeholders to come to us.
[00:17:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1056s They have different levels of experience, resources, familiarity with
[00:17:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1061s city processes. You have a homeowner versus contractor, developer.
[00:17:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1068s We have to figure out how we establish a process that
[00:17:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1074s is designed for all of those folks.
[00:17:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1076s And so
[00:17:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1078s again, the system should be designed to support that range of customers while also
[00:18:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1082s working effectively for us. So
[00:18:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1085s my view of how we do things now is we've established a process, and now we expect
[00:18:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1091s people to follow our process. And that doesn't always work well.
[00:18:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1096s So this is our opportunity to maybe take a step back a little bit and say, "Hey,
[00:18:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1100s how can we maybe better serve the customer, be more responsive to the customer,
[00:18:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1104s while still serving our own needs?"
[00:18:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1108s So we have to understand who our customers are and what their needs are.
[00:18:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1114s So we have to make clear what's required, why is it required, what is the customer
[00:18:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1118s expected to do, what will the city do, and then again, that handoff of what happens
[00:18:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1122s next.
[00:18:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1124s Something that I think we're going to hear more of is this phrase of, "Go slow to
[00:18:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1128s go fast." This was something that came up in our conversations with the state and
[00:18:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1133s the lean folks.
[00:18:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1136s It's not all about speed. Certainly we want to process permits faster.
[00:19:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1142s There's no question that that's what we want to achieve.
[00:19:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1145s But there are also some other benefits to having a more defined and established
[00:19:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1150s process.
[00:19:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1153s So, the idea here is that we spend more time upfront identifying and addressing
[00:19:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1158s issues so that on the backside, things go much more smoothly, and we can get that
[00:19:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1163s permit out the door quickly. When somebody comes in and submits a building permit,
[00:19:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1167s that project, in my view, is real. They're ready to go. They want their permit.
[00:19:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1172s That's not the time to start debating whether or not they meet zoning requirements
[00:19:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1176s or not. We should have dealt with that ahead of time.
[00:19:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1180s And so we want to focus on the building permit being the technical review of the
[00:19:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1184s standards, which could include zoning standards.
[00:19:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1186s Obviously, we want to make sure they meet setbacks, et cetera.
[00:19:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1189s But it's more of a validation stage than a truly in-depth
[00:19:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1194s review.
[00:19:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1198s So again, better structure upfront will also make projects easier for staff to
[00:20:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1201s manage throughout the review. We also want to make the system visible.
[00:20:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1205s A well-defined development review system should be documented and understood.
[00:20:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1210s It should show processes, how they connect, who's involved, where decisions occur.
[00:20:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1215s To my knowledge, we don't even have a flowchart of our development review process.
[00:20:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1221s So we've contacted that Washington State Auditor's Office, Center for Government
[00:20:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1226s Innovation, and they are the folks that specialize in lean.
[00:20:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1230s They've done projects like this all across the state.
[00:20:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1233s We've had a couple conversations with them so far.
[00:20:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1235s They're really excited to come and to help.
[00:20:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1240s So we've set up an initial workshop meeting, probably the end of October is
[00:20:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1246s what we're looking at. And then hopefully what will follow is the process mapping
[00:20:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1251s to occur, I would guess, December, January timeframe, so that we can
[00:20:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1257s document what the process looks like today and really start to define what we want
[00:21:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1262s it to look like in the future.
[00:21:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1265s Again, this is really an opportunity for us.
[00:21:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1272s So tying this all back together, what is it that we're trying to achieve?
[00:21:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1276s Well, we want to develop a review system that's clear, predictable, consistent,
[00:21:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1279s responsive, efficient, coordinated, adaptable.
[00:21:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1282s Similar to what we've talked about with Build Spokane and the code modernization.
[00:21:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1286s We want a code that's clear, consistent, predictable, enforceable,
[00:21:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1292s a code that we can administer.
[00:21:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1296s So we're really just trying to tie it all back together.
[00:21:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1299s The process is an extremely important part of the overall
[00:21:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1305s development review system, the ecosystem.
[00:21:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1309s You've heard me talk about the ecosystem, really creating that
[00:21:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1313s place where people want to come here and want to develop.
[00:21:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1317s And we've created an environment that encourages that.
[00:22:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1320s We're fair, we're reasonable, we're equitable.
[00:22:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1324s Our codes are clear and consistent, and people know what to expect.
[00:22:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1329s I would venture to guess that most developers are going to want to take the path of
[00:22:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1332s least resistance, and we should provide that to them.
[00:22:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1336s That does not mean that we're going to waver on standards.
[00:22:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1339s We still need to establish a minimum bar.
[00:22:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1341s And I would also suggest that most developers, whether the bar is way up here or
[00:22:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1346s down here, they just want to know where it is, and then let them determine whether
[00:22:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1351s they want to achieve it or not, or perhaps go elsewhere.
[00:22:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1356s I would say, as long as people know where it is, they'll likely do it.
[00:22:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1361s So again, the goal is a better outcome, not simply a
[00:22:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1367s faster process.
[00:22:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1370s So really, where do we go from here?
[00:22:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1374s My hope in presenting this to you is just to maybe have a little brief discussion,
[00:22:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1379s solicit some feedback. Are we on the right track?
[00:23:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1382s Are we approaching this through the right lens?
[00:23:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1386s What are we missing? Are there other opportunities?
[00:23:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1388s So with that, I'll open it up to you all.
[00:23:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1392s Okay, thank you, Tim. Questions? Go.
[00:23:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1394s I think it's great. I think everything so far, a lot of what you touched on are
[00:23:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1397s things I hear from developers and builders in what I do.
[00:23:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1401s So, especially knowing where it's at.
[00:23:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1404s They want to know where the baseline is and everything. So I think that's awesome.
[00:23:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1408s And the slowest, smoothest, fastest is pretty much it's on point.
[00:23:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1413s That's where it needs to be.
[00:23:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1415s Yeah.
[00:23:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1416s Great.
[00:23:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1418s Oh, did I hear you say you used a consultant during your process of some sort?
[00:23:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1423s So, well, we have two consultants.
[00:23:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1424s We have a consultant that's helping us with the code update, code modernization,
[00:23:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1428s that's Clarion Associates and Kimley-Horn.
[00:23:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1431s And then, we're working with the state auditor's office, who provides consulting
[00:23:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1436s services to local governments for free. Of course, nothing's free.
[00:24:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1440s That's why they say it's a free lunch.
[00:24:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1442s So-
[00:24:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1443s An additional cost
[00:24:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1443s ... so they're going to be helping us with that process mapping.
[00:24:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1446s And who gives them the direction that they should look at or what your overall
[00:24:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1451s goals are for doing? I mean, it's a review-
[00:24:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1453s Our staff is. So yeah, they have a process where we have
[00:24:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1458s to create a charter document that we'll give them, which establishes what
[00:24:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1464s our goals are and what we hope to achieve.
[00:24:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1468s The initial conversations have been very positive, very good. They're very excited.
[00:24:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1473s The person that's been assigned to us actually lives in Moscow, so she comes to
[00:24:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1479s Spokane quite frequently and is familiar with our community.
[00:24:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1482s So she was really excited to have an opportunity to work here.
[00:24:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1486s Thanks.
[00:24:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1489s Two comments. One was just,
[00:24:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1492s I think this is probably clear to everybody, but just perceptions are
[00:24:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1499s more important than reality sometimes especially when it comes to how people choose
[00:25:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1503s to develop land. And so,
[00:25:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1507s I think that in a lot of ways, I think over the past 10 years,
[00:25:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1511s that it is much easier to...
[00:25:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1516s I think the city's been very predictable.
[00:25:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1518s And the perceptions lag after that, right?
[00:25:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1524s I can talk about more about that in other jurisdictions anyway.
[00:25:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1529s But the other thing that I wanted to ask is,
[00:25:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1534s what methods are there, I guess, to
[00:25:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1540s improve processes or look at processes that involve
[00:25:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1547s other departments, and maybe potentially where there are conflicts between
[00:25:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1553s different departments and how they function?
[00:25:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1555s I guess I just think about fire, water, and engineering services and what ability,
[00:26:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1560s I guess, do we have here to be able to
[00:26:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1564s negotiate those processes with those departments?
[00:26:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1568s I think the best answer that I can give is we are currently coordinating with some
[00:26:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1574s of those outside departments and I think trying to understand what their needs
[00:26:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1579s are. And
[00:26:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1582s I think by establishing a process, we're not only setting an expectation for a
[00:26:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1587s developer, but for ourselves internally as well.
[00:26:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1591s So in my view, the process could be such that
[00:26:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1596s somebody comes in with an idea, they go through a pre-development meeting, which
[00:26:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1601s really talks about the high level, "Hey, the use is permitted.
[00:26:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1604s This is the process that you'll have to go through in order to get approval, and
[00:26:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1608s then you can move on to building permit," and really walk them through that.
[00:26:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1612s They come in with conditional use permit, site development permit.
[00:26:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1616s That's our opportunity to take a very big picture, holistic view of the
[00:27:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1621s project. It's an opportunity for us to share that with some of those outside
[00:27:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1626s departments and outside agencies, solicit their feedback, and then we have an
[00:27:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1630s opportunity to condition that approval.
[00:27:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1633s "Hey, when you submit for a building permit, make sure that you've addressed..."
[00:27:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1638s These building code issues or these fire code issues, or if the state comes back,
[00:27:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1643s if Wash Dot comes back and says, "We need some traffic improvements," there's an
[00:27:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1647s opportunity to condition that at that point in time. Now it's a known, right?
[00:27:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1652s That's not being dropped on a developer after they submit a building permit.
[00:27:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1655s It becomes a known now. And if we can do that across the board to fire and
[00:27:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1660s utilities as well, I think people will start to feel more comfortable that they're
[00:27:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1665s being heard and that the applicants at the end of the day are complying with
[00:27:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1671s the requirements and the requests because there's some factual basis, there's a
[00:27:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1675s consistent process that was followed, and there are no surprises at the end of the
[00:28:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1680s day. Right? So now they know that the next step in their process, which is the
[00:28:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1685s design phase and ultimately submitting for a building permit, they now should have
[00:28:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1689s a much, much better, clearer idea of what they have to do in order to get their
[00:28:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1694s permit because that for them, they want that permit so that we can
[00:28:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1700s both achieve that ultimate outcome, which is the construction of that project.
[00:28:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1705s So I think that's what we're shooting for.
[00:28:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1708s I think this process could help in that by, again, really establishing those
[00:28:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1713s expectations for not just developers but for ourselves.
[00:28:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1719s Accountability is, I think what really comes to mind here, is really trying to hold
[00:28:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1724s ourselves accountable and each other accountable.
[00:28:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1729s The thoughts...
[00:28:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1732s Well, I just want to jump in, first of all saying, bravo.
[00:28:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1736s I do think those are the right outcomes and the right principles.
[00:29:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1740s I think the process mapping thing is going to be a really, really interesting
[00:29:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1744s exercise and there's going to have to be a lot of navel-gazing there and saying,
[00:29:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1749s "Is this the right process or not?" And if it's not the right process, what is the
[00:29:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1755s right process and how can we improve things?
[00:29:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1758s I would still love to see some sort of mandated feedback loop or something like
[00:29:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1764s that in there that
[00:29:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1768s puts in place something that says, thou shalt make sure you're constantly
[00:29:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1773s monitoring effectiveness of these programs by some mechanism or something along
[00:29:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1778s those lines, because I think it's too easy, given all of the complexity and
[00:29:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1782s everything that you just discussed, it's too easy to be like, "There, we fixed it.
[00:29:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1786s Done. Moving on."
[00:29:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1789s And I think we lose this opportunity or the magnitude of the
[00:29:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1794s opportunity bleeds away over time if we do that.
[00:30:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1800s So I'd like to point that out, one, and two, call special attention to clarity.
[00:30:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1805s I'm dealing with one issue in Title 17 right now that is
[00:30:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1811s just not written. It's just not written in the language.
[00:30:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1814s It's just an interpretation and it's fundamentally different than what's written in
[00:30:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1819s the language, and my argument has been how is the average person who's reading
[00:30:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1825s this supposed to understand that that's the interpretation when the language says
[00:30:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1828s it's over here? And I think finding those things, I think part of that will come
[00:30:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1833s out of the process conversation, but also just as part of the larger Title 17,
[00:30:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1839s trying to find those phantom code and phantom process moments in
[00:30:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1844s there that are making people crazy in their...
[00:30:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1848s I know personally of at least four projects that that one specific issue is
[00:30:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1852s killing.
[00:30:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1854s And that's not nothing that we want to see.
[00:30:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1858s I'd love to know what that is.
[00:30:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1859s Yeah, me too. More than happy to talk about it.
[00:31:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1862s Pavement makers.
[00:31:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1862s Let's just say pavement makers.
[00:31:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1864s Oh. Yeah. And then, just to be clear, my expectation of this system itself,
[00:31:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1870s it doesn't live in the code, it's an administrative process that we follow.
[00:31:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1876s It should be clear and consistent, it should be visual.
[00:31:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1878s We should be able to provide that to folks, but that's not something that I think
[00:31:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1881s really lives in the code.
[00:31:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1883s Yeah.
[00:31:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1883s The processes that make up the system live in the code.
[00:31:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1889s Is the vision that that,
[00:31:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1892s whatever memorializes that process or processes, whatever, is that
[00:31:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1898s something that will be publicly available also?
[00:31:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1902s Because I think that that's something that would really back to the point about
[00:31:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1906s perception, and I think here's what you can expect.
[00:31:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1910s This is our own roadmap that we're holding ourselves to, so if it doesn't go that
[00:31:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1915s way, let us know. Yeah.
[00:31:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1917s Yes, and I think that really speaks to expectations.
[00:32:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1920s So as I said, the process today isn't really on paper.
[00:32:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1924s It's institutional knowledge and this is how we do it.
[00:32:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1929s But, to my knowledge, there's no flowchart, or at least there's no
[00:32:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1936s robust flowchart that shows you what the process is.
[00:32:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1941s I think maybe folks think it's intuitive. I don't know.
[00:32:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1945s When you're dealing with a wide range of customers, you need to be able to provide
[00:32:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1949s something because that really sets and establishes the expectation.
[00:32:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1953s I think anything we can do to keep that process consistent, regardless
[00:32:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1959s of what the application type is, up to a point, and then you have
[00:32:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1965s decision points where things may go a different direction.
[00:32:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1968s But anything we can do to standardize that will really help establish that
[00:32:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1973s expectation of what people can expect.
[00:32:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1976s The state has given us the shop clock, which
[00:33:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1981s in 120, 160 days, we should have no
[00:33:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1986s problem achieving that, and I would like to do so good that we
[00:33:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1992s don't even get remotely close to any of those time frames because I think we can.
[00:33:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=1997s If we do it systematically, I think we can get to that point.
[00:33:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2001s And I really want to commend your, the consultant's approach with all of this.
[00:33:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2005s I think from what I've seen at least, this has been a really systematic approach to
[00:33:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2010s it, and so I want to commend you all for doing this.
[00:33:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2013s This is big and complicated and I think the way that you all have chosen to eat the
[00:33:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2019s proverbial elephant here is really logical and ordered and methodical, and
[00:33:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2025s that's what it's going to take to do this well and capture the opportunity that you
[00:33:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2029s started with.
[00:33:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2031s I appreciate that. Thank you. Okay. Anything else?
[00:33:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2035s All right. Just real quick, I'll do the last
[00:33:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2039s few slides. I'll be back soon. I don't want to be too committal, but
[00:34:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2045s I'll be back soon. Got a QR code. Always happy to hear feedback
[00:34:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2051s from folks and anything that's really been eating at you or anything from the
[00:34:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2056s zoning standpoint that you want to talk about or make us aware of, I'm happy to
[00:34:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2061s take those comments.
[00:34:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2063s Great. Well, thanks so much, Tim. Appreciate it.
[00:34:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2065s Thank you.
[00:34:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2067s Okay, so we'll let Tim clear out and we'll move on to a discussion of the flume
[00:34:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2072s with at least Brandon. I don't see Tyrrell anywhere.
[00:34:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2075s Tyrrell's out.
[00:34:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2077s Tyrrell's out. Okay, so we go to Kevin.
[00:34:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2079s So you get me.
[00:34:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2080s Beauty. We haven't had you in a while, Kevin.
[00:34:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2083s What's that?
[00:34:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2083s We haven't had you in a while.
[00:34:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2087s This way I get to make more snotty jokes about how I do this.
[00:34:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2093s That column is the worst.
[00:34:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2096s I'm just steering the map today since it's a Brandon show.
[00:34:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2099s Okay.
[00:35:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2100s Yep. So Brandon Whitmarsh, preferred alternative.
[00:35:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2104s I'm going to do a presentation quickly covering some of the common themes we've
[00:35:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2108s heard from comments so far. Some of these are coming from the interactive map, some
[00:35:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2114s of these are coming from the packet that you guys received directly, really
[00:35:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2118s focusing on some of the ones that we've heard multiple comments on.
[00:35:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2121s And then there'll be time for open discussion on things that you guys would like to
[00:35:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2125s talk about as well. Kevin's here with the interactive map.
[00:35:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2128s We can bounce back and forth with the presentation slides and that as well.
[00:35:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2133s Just want to highlight,
[00:35:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2137s always the question of whether it's hard or not.
[00:35:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2140s Again, the preferred alternative is the basis for a lot of this decision-making,
[00:35:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2146s and again, focusing today's presentation on comments and things related to
[00:35:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2151s areas of change within that preferred alternative.
[00:35:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2154s There are comments on the interactive map online, there are comments that we've
[00:35:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2157s received that are outside of those areas.
[00:36:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2160s Today's presentation is largely focused on these areas.
[00:36:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2163s Can you just refresh our memory? So I know the preferred alternative was adopted in
[00:36:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2169s May, but when were those drafts originally discussed?
[00:36:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2174s When did that conversation start?
[00:36:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2176s The draft of-
[00:36:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2178s The preferred alternative
[00:36:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2179s ... mapping from this stage to the-
[00:36:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2183s When did we first see preferred alternative maps?
[00:36:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2186s We had the two options there originally.
[00:36:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2189s Oh.
[00:36:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2189s That's a good question
[00:36:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2191s I feel like it was-
[00:36:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2192s Yeah.
[00:36:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2193s To clarify, May is council.
[00:36:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2195s Correct. That's what I'm saying. So like, when did we start talking?
[00:36:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2198s A month before that. Because like we-
[00:36:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2199s We've been having conversations since January.
[00:36:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2201s Okay.
[00:36:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2201s So about a year.
[00:36:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2202s Yeah.
[00:36:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2203s That feels like a really important data point.
[00:36:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2205s Yeah.
[00:36:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2205s And the Preferred Alternative itself, is the end product of a lot of discussions.
[00:36:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2210s Because we had one through three, and then this is four.
[00:36:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2213s Right. Multiple workshops, and multiple public events, and then winnowing it down
[00:36:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2218s with Burk Consulting, a consultant on this project, to get to that final version
[00:37:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2223s that you see was, yeah, at least a year's work.
[00:37:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2226s Okay. Thank you. I think that's a really important data point, because I'm hearing
[00:37:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2229s a lot about, "Oh, the flume is just being dropped at the last minute," and those
[00:37:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2235s sorts of things. And it's, as I understand it at least, is a parcel by parcel
[00:37:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2240s translation of the Preferred Alternative, which, as we just discussed, has been
[00:37:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2244s being discussed for over a year.
[00:37:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2246s Yeah. You might recall when we announced the first complete draft flume, we brought
[00:37:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2252s that exhibit, and I can bring that poster back. Oh, thanks.
[00:37:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2255s I added it to the-
[00:37:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2255s You added it.
[00:37:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2256s It's on the slide now.
[00:37:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2258s You know. You can kind of see, the colors you see on that right-hand map...
[00:37:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2262s I'm stealing your slide, I'm sorry.
[00:37:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2264s The colors you see on that right-hand map, those are where the flume kind of
[00:37:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2268s changed from that baseline conversion.
[00:37:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2270s The old system converted to the new system, and then to implement the alternative,
[00:37:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2276s there were some areas that were changed.
[00:37:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2278s The colored areas on the right, you see, are the ones that changed.
[00:38:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2281s And then if you look at that against what the Preferred Alternative is, it's very
[00:38:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2285s close. There are some differences.
[00:38:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2289s The Preferred Alternative, it's hard sometimes for folks to look at that because it
[00:38:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2292s was not even the goal, in the sense of the amount of change shown.
[00:38:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2297s It was the maximum possible areas that we might look at for that change.
[00:38:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2302s But ultimately, the change that you see now, the colors that you see now, are
[00:38:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2307s targeted towards that projected population, that projected housing need, and then
[00:38:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2312s of course, the other needs that were identified through the visioning processes.
[00:38:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2317s I'll stop doing your presentation for you.
[00:38:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2320s Thank you for that.
[00:38:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2321s Any other questions on this before we hop into specifics?
[00:38:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2325s Well, I guess there's one more slide before we get into specifics.
[00:38:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2329s We've talked a number of times about open space.
[00:38:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2332s Last Planning Commission workshop, I mentioned that when we did the conversion of,
[00:38:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2338s or when we designated all city parks as open space, as well as the river, and some
[00:39:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2343s additional strategic locations of open space, it increased the city's open space by
[00:39:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2348s 16%. We're continuing to look at city-owned property at the moment.
[00:39:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2354s What are either parks properties that isn't designated a park, those kinds of
[00:39:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2359s things, to consider where there are additional opportunities.
[00:39:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2363s An example is up on the South Hill, the wastewater facility.
[00:39:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2368s It has walking paths. It operates as open space.
[00:39:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2372s It is a long-term non-developable site.
[00:39:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2376s Potentially, that's an opportunity to be considered open space.
[00:39:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2379s So, we will be working with those departments and ensuring that we're not proposing
[00:39:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2384s open space for land that isn't necessarily long-term city property.
[00:39:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2389s And then we'll bring forward kind of a full suite of...
[00:39:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2394s Sorry, you had a question first.
[00:39:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2395s More just a, is there a way, this is one of those like we write all the paragraphs,
[00:40:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2401s do people read the paragraphs? Of making sure that it's clear that open space
[00:40:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2407s is city-owned property, that it is for public lands,
[00:40:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2414s as opposed to private land that is currently not developed.
[00:40:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2420s So, oh.
[00:40:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2421s Go ahead.
[00:40:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2422s Oh, I was going to say, so the open space land use is not intended to only be
[00:40:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2427s publicly-
[00:40:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2428s Okay
[00:40:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2429s ... owned land. I believe as it's written, it's already more expansive than that.
[00:40:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2434s Because we wouldn't want to prevent Spokane County's conservation futures
[00:40:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2440s from owning property-
[00:40:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2441s Yes
[00:40:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2441s ... that they would like to own in perpetuity as open space,
[00:40:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2447s that isn't owned necessarily by the city.
[00:40:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2449s No.
[00:40:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2449s So those kinds of things. And then I think the distinction you're kind of getting
[00:40:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2452s at will likely come at the Build Spokane level in more than one zone
[00:40:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2458s related to open space.
[00:40:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2459s Okay.
[00:40:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2459s Can I answer that a little bit?
[00:41:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2461s Yeah.
[00:41:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2462s So, going back to the beginnings of our discussion about open space, probably late
[00:41:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2465s last year, to this date, we have an open space land use designation in our
[00:41:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2470s comprehensive plan, but we don't have an open space zone.
[00:41:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2474s And it's made it a little difficult where protection is the goal rather than open
[00:41:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2478s use and public use to... It's just another layer to like, okay, but the zoning also
[00:41:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2484s makes it clear this is an area of conservation.
[00:41:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2486s Yeah.
[00:41:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2487s So from the beginning, the discussions of Build Spokane has been to have a
[00:41:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2491s conservation kind of open space type of zone. Now that zoning, this is land use.
[00:41:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2496s Right. I know. It's hard because we have to wait, and they are separate.
[00:41:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2500s Yes.
[00:41:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2501s And they are going to be more different than they used to be.
[00:41:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2505s So for the flume development, and why this is a topic, we don't always
[00:41:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2510s know everywhere that people have purchased for conservation purposes.
[00:41:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2514s Like finding that non-city-owned or non-government-owned open space is difficult.
[00:41:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2519s Mm-hmm.
[00:42:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2520s And so what Brandon's talking about was when we built the flume, we translated it
[00:42:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2525s from the old system to the new system.
[00:42:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2528s We just selected all of the parks on a layer of city parks.
[00:42:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2533s But that, what Brandon has identified and is looking into, is there's a number of
[00:42:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2539s properties that are really open space, but they're not actually park parks.
[00:42:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2542s Yeah.
[00:42:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2543s And so this is a refinement of that.
[00:42:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2545s This doesn't mean that there isn't room to talk about another parcel that maybe a
[00:42:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2550s property owner wants to be private.
[00:42:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2553s Also, you'll recall the Excelsior Wellness Comp Plan amendment a couple years ago.
[00:42:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2557s Part of their property was part of that amendment that's now being implemented, was
[00:42:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2563s to put part of their property as open space. That'll be open space on here.
[00:42:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2566s Even though it's privately owned, it's privately protected.
[00:42:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2570s It's also publicly protected, but it's owned by Excelsior.
[00:42:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2574s In addition to that, there have been several public comments,
[00:43:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2580s either alluding to, implicitly or explicitly, that there should be
[00:43:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2584s property that is privately owned,
[00:43:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2587s that it be designated as open space because it's in the community's interest, but
[00:43:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2591s not necessarily the property owner's interest.
[00:43:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2593s Mm-hmm.
[00:43:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2594s And my question is just
[00:43:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2600s that's maybe a bigger question. But,
[00:43:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2604s obviously there may be properties that are ecologically important
[00:43:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2610s or part of habitat corridors, but they have historically not been zoned to be
[00:43:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2615s protected. They're currently owned by a property owner who could do whatever the
[00:43:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2620s zoning allows.
[00:43:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2622s And it seems like there's a lot of
[00:43:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2628s interest in that one property.
[00:43:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2630s Mm-hmm.
[00:43:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2632s And the property owner's interests can't be discounted.
[00:43:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2636s Right.
[00:43:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2638s Because they in fact do own the property.
[00:44:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2641s And so I guess my question is like, how do we balance...
[00:44:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2645s Well, I don't know if we have an answer, but how do you balance the different
[00:44:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2649s competing priorities?
[00:44:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2651s There is an example that, in the presentation slides, of private property open
[00:44:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2655s space.
[00:44:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2656s I'm sure there is then.
[00:44:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2658s I think the only other, and I'm trying to remember what it's called now, something
[00:44:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2664s east of...
[00:44:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2668s Stormwater one?
[00:44:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2669s No, no.
[00:44:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2670s Hazels Creek?
[00:44:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2670s Thank you.
[00:44:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2672s You got there.
[00:44:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2672s I was like, I know a few-
[00:44:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2673s It's like Stormwater slash-
[00:44:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2675s ... particular locations where private property was designated open space as part
[00:44:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2680s of the initial draft.
[00:44:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2681s There-
[00:44:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2681s So I'll put it that way. Yeah
[00:44:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2682s ... there is such a thing as private property rights.
[00:44:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2684s Yeah.
[00:44:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2684s And guests have rights to certain things. It's not impossible.
[00:44:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2689s I'm not saying there's no path towards maybe identifying some land for that.
[00:44:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2694s But we have to do it very carefully, and we have to do it systematically.
[00:44:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2697s We cannot do it on a spot, like yard by grid.
[00:45:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2700s Especially if it's like, "We don't like this guy.
[00:45:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2702s He shouldn't be allowed to own." That's not possible.
[00:45:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2706s One of the more common routes for a comprehensive plan, and this comprehensive plan
[00:45:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2710s does this as well, is to identify areas of higher sensitivity.
[00:45:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2715s Areas where movement corridors are known to occur, or where there is existing
[00:45:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2720s habitat. And then through the process of through Build Spokane or other city
[00:45:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2726s programs and policies, you can
[00:45:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2730s work to help that property owner see there might be a better use.
[00:45:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2734s But as far as-
[00:45:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2736s deciding the community deciding so-and-so shouldn't be allowed to build this
[00:45:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2739s property, that's incredibly touchy, and we'd want to be very careful how we have
[00:45:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2745s those conversations.
[00:45:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2746s Hazel's pretty good. The example is the, we designated the wetland open space.
[00:45:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2752s So, it comes from maybe a mapping change, but not necessarily a
[00:45:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2757s physical on the ground change. Development code would already prevent them from
[00:46:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2761s likely building in that critical area.
[00:46:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2763s But acknowledging on these larger scale areas of private property where that
[00:46:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2769s development would not occur, we might as well acknowledge that they are what they
[00:46:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2773s are, which is open space. But getting to Ryan's point,
[00:46:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2777s that doesn't necessarily mean it's public property.
[00:46:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2781s So, open space is not inherently public access for
[00:46:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2786s something. Yeah.
[00:46:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2788s I guess I just wondered, is there a process for getting something designated as
[00:46:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2794s open space? And then because then the city and/or people could point to,
[00:46:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2800s this is the process if you want to talk to the property owner and get-
[00:46:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2804s Outside of this process-
[00:46:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2806s Outside of the process, yeah
[00:46:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2807s ... that would definitely be comp plan amendment land.
[00:46:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2809s Okay.
[00:46:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2810s And we've done those. We've had property owners who've wanted to say, "This is
[00:46:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2814s going to be in conservation, and we'd like to make sure that that's clear to
[00:46:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2819s everybody." That's absolutely a normal comp plan amendment process.
[00:47:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2824s So, I might be stepping on your toes with a future slide, but this is why that
[00:47:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2829s distinction between land use and zoning is so helpful.
[00:47:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2831s Yeah.
[00:47:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2832s Because,
[00:47:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2834s generally the closer you get to having actionable restrictions on somebody's
[00:47:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2839s ability to develop, the more concerned you need to be about infringing on their
[00:47:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2843s rights. Designating something as open space does not inherently
[00:47:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2848s establish a limitation on what you can build.
[00:47:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2851s It's pointing the direction for what the zoning should be.
[00:47:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2854s To answer your question, you could imagine a strategic property that the public
[00:47:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2859s identifies as of particular value for conservation, that's privately owned, that we
[00:47:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2864s could apply an open space land use designation, but leave the zoning in place so
[00:47:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2869s that the current property owner has not lost any rights to develop their land.
[00:47:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2873s But it's identifying that as a priority for future conservation.
[00:47:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2879s So, that could be a strategy that could make sense.
[00:48:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2882s I think we wouldn't want to just do that willy-nilly.
[00:48:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2885s Yeah.
[00:48:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2885s I think you'd want to do that cautiously.
[00:48:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2888s But it allows us to signal those intended future uses.
[00:48:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2892s That's why it's called a future land use map.
[00:48:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2894s And I think some of those distinctions are really important, especially in light of
[00:48:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2897s a lot of public comment that we have received is, "Yes, we hear you.
[00:48:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2901s These are important things. But yes, there are also private property rights that
[00:48:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2904s are considerations here." The one question that I wanted to ask with this, and I
[00:48:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2910s think I know the answer, but I want to be clear, is I know that once something is
[00:48:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2915s dedicated to park land, it's very difficult to un-dedicate it.
[00:48:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2922s That is not the case here, correct?
[00:48:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2924s This is not dedicating it as parks, so it doesn't run into that charter restriction
[00:48:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2929s for parks and later selling or surplusing or transfer or whatever.
[00:48:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2936s Parks are part of open space. They are not equivalent to open space.
[00:49:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2941s In fact, that's one distinction that we wanted to make clear.
[00:49:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2944s That's why the language in chapter three is this, is that open space doesn't equal
[00:49:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2950s hiking trails and public access. It might be protection, it might be the other two.
[00:49:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2955s So...
[00:49:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2955s Okay.
[00:49:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2957s I guess I do think it would be important, before obviously we have a public hearing
[00:49:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2963s on this, just for us to really understand the process.
[00:49:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2966s If we were to designate a privately owned property as open space in a comprehensive
[00:49:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2972s plan, what are the ramifications of that?
[00:49:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2975s What is the process for going about identifying those potential properties?
[00:49:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2980s Mm-hmm.
[00:49:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2981s And what are the
[00:49:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2984s property rights ramifications of that?
[00:49:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2987s Because I definitely know there has been substantial public comment related to
[00:49:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2990s that, and I fear that it'd be easy to ignore that public comment and/or brush it
[00:49:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2995s aside.
[00:49:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2997s But I take that ...
[00:50:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3000s Well, I know I've been in a lot of places in the city a lot of times.
[00:50:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3003s I don't live in every neighborhood, and I don't know.
[00:50:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3005s I'm not walking through the woods on, I'm not trespassing through the woods on
[00:50:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3008s private properties, walking my dog just because it's been vacant for 50 years.
[00:50:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3012s Not in their neighborhood at least. So.
[00:50:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3014s About to be-
[00:50:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3015s No, go ahead.
[00:50:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3016s I'll just offer, I think we've actually been talking about this.
[00:50:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3020s We do have a couple new planning commission members, and with one more coming on.
[00:50:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3025s We try on an annual basis to do a short training on property rights, and there's a
[00:50:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3030s letter from the State Attorney General's office that we'd like to review that kind
[00:50:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3033s of helps everybody understand that.
[00:50:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3036s We could set up some time for our legal department to do a short training on that,
[00:50:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3041s preferably before the hearing, so that you guys feel like you have some confidence
[00:50:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3045s there. So, I'll add that to the calendar if everybody's amenable to that.
[00:50:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3050s That'd be great.
[00:50:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3051s Mm-hmm.
[00:50:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3051s And then I know we have many more examples we want to talk about.
[00:50:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3055s Yeah.
[00:50:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3056s Yeah.
[00:50:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3056s I think the key thing we wanted to focus on here is we're really just talking about
[00:51:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3061s city-owned property at this point for conservation or for open space.
[00:51:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3065s Because previously it wasn't designated open space.
[00:51:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3067s Because, yeah, it hadn't been designated previously, and I think for our purposes,
[00:51:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3072s what would be helpful to know is, is the planning commission generally comfortable
[00:51:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3077s with us preparing those changes and giving them to you
[00:51:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3083s as just sort of a package in a spreadsheet or something, rather than having to go
[00:51:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3087s through one by one and identify each property?
[00:51:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3089s Yes.
[00:51:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3090s It didn't feel like a great use of time for us to go through every single property
[00:51:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3094s owner.
[00:51:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3094s Yeah.
[00:51:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3094s So, I hope that's great.
[00:51:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3096s Sure. Okay. And we can go back through it on the process.
[00:51:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3100s That's okay. Yeah.
[00:51:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3102s Okay. So one of the elements of the preferred alternative was additional
[00:51:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3109s mixed use and housing in Vinegar Flats along Inland Empire Way.
[00:51:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3114s So, on the left is the existing land use map, highlighting on the east side of
[00:51:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3119s Inland Empire Way along Latok Creek, the agriculture, and then
[00:52:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3125s residential low as being the primary land use in that area with a few mixed
[00:52:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3131s use properties. On the right is the draft land use map, the staff identification
[00:52:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3137s of how to implement that preferred alternative, looking at essentially
[00:52:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3142s combining the
[00:52:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3145s existing mixed use properties, and supporting that with residential high around it,
[00:52:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3150s as well as to the north of that mixed use and shortly west of Inland Empire Way,
[00:52:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3155s and I guess use my cursor potentially.
[00:52:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3158s You can see additional agriculture applied to existing agricultural
[00:52:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3164s operations.
[00:52:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3166s We have received a number of public comments asking for additional
[00:52:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3172s and/or different locations within this area for mixed use.
[00:52:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3177s The properties on the north side, I don't know if I can get-
[00:53:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3181s Extending up that cultural-
[00:53:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3183s Go down to the laser pointer and it'll highlight it.
[00:53:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3186s Here we go. There are requests up here for these existing agricultural properties
[00:53:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3191s to be designated mixed use, as well as separate property owners requesting
[00:53:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3198s mixed use along Inland Empire Way, further north than what we had originally
[00:53:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3202s proposed. So, given that some of those properties are existing
[00:53:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3208s agriculture properties and the community desire, CRSP
[00:53:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3214s also had a desire, planning commission defined agriculture confidently as
[00:53:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3219s agriculture with some housing, not housing with agriculture.
[00:53:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3222s So given all of those layers, wanted to bring this forward as a question of,
[00:53:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3230s do we reconsider the as proposed given
[00:53:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3235s the multiple requests we've received in this area? Do we go as proposed?
[00:54:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3240s We just wanted to have a conversation with you about this area, and if it means
[00:54:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3246s coming back at the next meeting and with time to think about it, then coming back,
[00:54:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3250s that's also an opportunity.
[00:54:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3251s Are there existing properties being used as business properties
[00:54:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3257s within there? That's the issue, right?
[00:54:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3259s The current use of those properties is-
[00:54:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3266s So, some of them, yeah. Some of them are operations related to agriculture.
[00:54:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3271s Some are just large buildings.
[00:54:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3272s Right. Yeah.
[00:54:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3274s The ones that we're being requested to add are those northern
[00:54:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3280s parcels. They want it to be the mix.
[00:54:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3283s They're not as clearly... It's hard to say.
[00:54:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3286s It's-
[00:54:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3287s I think there is no current business operation
[00:54:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3289s ... I don't believe there's a business there, but-
[00:54:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3290s All of the-
[00:54:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3291s Buildings, but not businesses
[00:54:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3292s ... all of the requests that we're getting are not about creating conformity with
[00:54:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3297s existing development.
[00:54:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3298s Yeah.
[00:54:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3298s That's what that one is.
[00:54:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3299s That's coming from property owners. Yes.
[00:55:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3302s Yeah. At least the one related to the northern portion.
[00:55:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3305s These, the current owner of what was an agriculture operation, but it's
[00:55:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3311s not anymore, it's permanently closed.
[00:55:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3316s That is a request for mixed use, and then there's a separate request for
[00:55:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3319s considering more mixed use just along Inland Empire Way between that and the
[00:55:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3324s existing location of the other buildings.
[00:55:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3327s Just to give you some context, we do have two small mobile home parks in the
[00:55:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3333s residential low that you see on the west side just south of 20.
[00:55:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3336s There you go, right there. Which is why they were left, that's why we left it
[00:55:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3339s alone. Also, when we were originally discussing this with you and internally, we
[00:55:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3345s tried to be very light with any de-designation of agriculture because there
[00:55:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3351s just isn't that much.
[00:55:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3354s And in this case, there were enough comments from folks about food access and
[00:55:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3359s local food production and local agriculture, that we tried to be very careful.
[00:56:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3365s But that's not your limitation, that was ours.
[00:56:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3367s So that's why we're coming to you to get some input as to what you think as far as
[00:56:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3373s expansion or movement or change.
[00:56:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3377s We have similar concerns that we do further down the
[00:56:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3382s 195 corridor about egress and utility sufficiency and
[00:56:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3388s some of those challenges here. Or is it because we've got that out to the north,
[00:56:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3393s it's less-
[00:56:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3394s Yes.
[00:56:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3395s Yeah.
[00:56:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3396s In this case, this area as a mixed use, and some
[00:56:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3400s RH, is really predicated on that Inland Empire Way connection being restored, which
[00:56:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3406s is in the plan. That's in the comp plan as well, is to restore that connection.
[00:56:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3411s Without that connection, even from a market standpoint, we're not entirely sure
[00:56:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3416s that you could do what this is showing.
[00:56:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3418s Yeah.
[00:57:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3420s It all works together to make this successful.
[00:57:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3422s It's better to have throughput, and at this time, Inland Empire Way ends.
[00:57:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3428s Yeah, so.
[00:57:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3429s I'll just add, as far as 195 operations goes, that connection from
[00:57:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3434s 195 or the through connection of Inland Empire Way is one of the strategies that's
[00:57:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3439s been adopted regionally to address those 195 issues.
[00:57:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3443s So the fact that this is further north on Inland Empire Way, I would say is
[00:57:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3446s consistent with that solution.
[00:57:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3449s Yeah, I just think we want to be, in addition to the points that you mentioned, to
[00:57:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3454s be careful about de-designating agriculture.
[00:57:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3459s But I think we want to just be really, really cognizant down there about not adding
[00:57:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3464s to the problem.
[00:57:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3467s But point well taken if that's what property owners are looking for. Yeah.
[00:57:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3475s But at the same
[00:58:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3481s time, it feels a little...
[00:58:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3483s I know we're not doing zoning here-
[00:58:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3484s Yeah
[00:58:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3484s ... but it feels a little spot zoning-y to just do that parcel and...
[00:58:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3492s I think what might help your thinking, it might maybe focus, I think what if you
[00:58:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3497s consider it is, the question that we're really considering on our end too is, is
[00:58:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3503s it taking this mixed use node and moving it north?
[00:58:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3508s Is it stretching it out along the entire length, or is it having two nodes, a small
[00:58:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3512s node at the north? If you have feelings on those, on which of those you prefer, we
[00:58:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3518s can look at it and come back. We do have one more workshop in two weeks, so
[00:58:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3524s that would help us as well. We're not expecting you to know every detail about
[00:58:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3528s these properties. We'll have to go look at them no matter what.
[00:58:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3531s But that would help as well if you have some feelings on shape.
[00:58:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3535s Just from my perspective, narrowing it and stretching it seems the most logical,
[00:59:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3540s but I don't want to get into the fallacy of looking at something in a plan drawing
[00:59:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3545s and assuming that that's the best reality on the ground.
[00:59:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3548s And I don't know if those are one parcel deep, and that's what's generated that
[00:59:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3551s width in the purple right there. I would assume it is.
[00:59:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3553s They are one parcel, but they're larger than a single-family home parcel.
[00:59:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3556s Oh, sure. Yeah. Sure. So, if that's the case, then they're skinnying it up.
[00:59:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3562s Is it really possible? So-
[00:59:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3564s We would end up with cross designations if we-
[00:59:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3566s Yeah, and we don't want to do that, and so you would be dragging this really fat
[00:59:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3571s line up through, which runs into de-designating a lot of the agriculture, which I
[00:59:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3577s think runs some issues down there.
[00:59:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3581s So I guess given all of that, maybe it's not the end of the world to have a sort of
[00:59:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3586s a split area.
[00:59:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3591s Yeah.
[00:59:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3593s We could come up with an alternative to show you next time that's got a little
[00:59:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3597s smaller node up at the top, up along just south of the park and
[01:00:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3603s avoiding the conservation area.
[01:00:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3605s That's worth considering.
[01:00:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3607s We can look into that. I do think in total, just conceptually, if these properties
[01:00:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3612s were to be designated or portions of them, recognizing that we also
[01:00:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3618s added additional agriculture land use,
[01:00:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3622s the total land use might be about even in the end.
[01:00:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3627s I guess that's something I'd be curious to know as well, is what percentage of the
[01:00:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3630s agricultural land use in this area would we be reducing?
[01:00:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3637s Okay. Between 5% versus 30%, there's a very much difference.
[01:00:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3643s The math's really easy because it's the only place we have RA, agriculture, so.
[01:00:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3647s It's also difficult, though, because it's the only place in the city.
[01:00:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3650s We'll give you some summary statistics on that.
[01:00:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3652s We can look into how to do that north node and see maybe there's an extent to that
[01:00:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3656s that makes sense. So I'm just trying to think, what number does that look like?
[01:01:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3660s So if we report current acreage of ag designated versus proposed acreage-
[01:01:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3665s Yeah
[01:01:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3666s ... under whatever scenarios we bring forward. Yeah. And there'd be two scenarios.
[01:01:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3669s There'd be this draft map that everyone's seen, and then with the changes that
[01:01:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3674s we've discussed here. So we can give you those three to look at.
[01:01:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3678s Here's a weird question. Can you do agriculture and mixed use?
[01:01:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3685s Certain uses would, I think not be, would be prohibited. Yes.
[01:01:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3690s Things like animal husbandry. Yeah. It would limit the choice.
[01:01:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3694s Also, just from the description of what the ag designation is,
[01:01:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3700s it doesn't make it very clear the ag value of that property, whereas designating it
[01:01:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3706s mixed, it could be anything. Yeah.
[01:01:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3708s There's no ag mix, nor would I suggest we have an ag mix.
[01:01:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3712s I'm just picturing in my head some-
[01:01:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3715s There are some things-
[01:01:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3716s ... outcomes like the thing in Davis that's got gardens weaved around through the
[01:02:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3720s middle of it, and it's this bucolic thing that everyone loves and is- We have an
[01:02:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3725s urban agriculture ordinance already.
[01:02:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3727s Mm-hmm.
[01:02:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3727s That would be those compatible uses, but we should actually be protecting farmland
[01:02:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3732s from non-conforming uses because otherwise they get subject to nuisance lawsuits.
[01:02:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3738s So that's why we have the Farmland Protection Act in Washington, but it's not very
[01:02:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3742s strong.
[01:02:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3744s In general, we consider mixed to be more intense/dense.
[01:02:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3749s So by putting more mixed in this location, we could be bringing more people in that
[01:02:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3754s we could cause additional conflicts with the operations of the existing ag.
[01:02:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3759s Yeah.
[01:02:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3760s Those are the kind of things-
[01:02:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3762s Place, one of the two.
[01:02:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3764s These are the fun things we get to ask you guys because they're the great
[01:02:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3766s questions, so.
[01:02:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3767s Yeah. I acknowledge that it was a weird question, but-
[01:02:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3770s No, it's-
[01:02:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3770s ... I thought I'd ask it anyway.
[01:02:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3771s I thought of it a few minutes ago, and I was kind of chewing on it too, so it's not
[01:02:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3775s unreasonable. But what we'll do is we'll come back with a two-node
[01:03:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3781s approach with some summary statistics just to give you an idea of what you're
[01:03:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3784s talking about, and we'll give it to you next time.
[01:03:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3787s Okay.
[01:03:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3788s Okay.
[01:03:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3788s Moving on.
[01:03:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3790s This is a request both from the neighborhood, Anderson-Griffith neighborhood and
[01:03:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3794s Historic Preservation, to consider removal of residential high on the
[01:03:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3800s east side of Corbin Park. So the top picture being the existing land use,
[01:03:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3807s bottom being the draft land use, where there's that buffer off of division of
[01:03:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3811s residential high. The black box shows the historic district around Corbin Park, and
[01:03:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3817s just a request of essentially three half blocks to be removed
[01:03:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3822s from that residential high designation.
[01:03:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3830s I hear the concern, certainly. Part of me asks the
[01:03:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3836s question, I see Bill's got your hand up.
[01:04:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3842s Because this is a local district- Are there not standards in place
[01:04:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3848s that prevent--
[01:04:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3850s I see you, Jill, is before you, and then we can come to you.
[01:04:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3853s Are there not standards that would prevent out-of-scale development from
[01:04:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3859s occurring through the historic code rather than through this code?
[01:04:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3864s I believe what was brought before you most recently was the 150% of existing
[01:04:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3869s structure is the maximum size of the new structure.
[01:04:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3872s And design review-
[01:04:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3873s Still require review and all of that.
[01:04:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3875s So it wouldn't outright prohibit development at this-
[01:04:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3878s No, certainly not, but it would prohibit-
[01:04:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3881s Yeah
[01:04:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3881s ... five-story high rises. So I guess that maybe
[01:04:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3887s begs the question in my mind of is it even really necessary, but, Jill, go ahead.
[01:04:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3894s Hey, guys. Thank you. I was just wondering, first of all, is there a new slide?
[01:04:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3899s Oh, there it is. I really wanted to see that.
[01:05:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3902s Oh, it was taking a while, wasn't it?
[01:05:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3905s It was.
[01:05:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3905s Sorry about that.
[01:05:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3906s It was.
[01:05:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3907s It was.
[01:05:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3907s And
[01:05:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3910s so now that I'm seeing it, I wanted to make sure I was looking at it accurately.
[01:05:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3914s And I just think it's so important that we
[01:05:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3918s don't focus exclusively on that corridor, because that doesn't make for a
[01:05:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3923s walkable, and engaged community.
[01:05:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3926s You have to have
[01:05:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3928s the bubbles, like what we've been talking about, the nodes and stuff.
[01:05:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3933s And there is a lot of protection
[01:05:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3936s already involved. So anyways, thank you. I was really talking about the slide.
[01:05:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3941s Okay. So you
[01:05:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3943s should see Corbin Park on your slide now, Jill. Do you?
[01:05:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3946s I see it now. Thank you.
[01:05:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3947s Okay.
[01:05:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3948s Yeah.
[01:05:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3948s Perfect. Just making sure.
[01:05:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3949s Mm-hmm.
[01:05:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3950s Yep. We're good. Okay. Linda, did you have a comment?
[01:05:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3953s Yeah, I just wanted to note that Corbin Park Historic District is on the National
[01:05:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3958s Register and on the state register.
[01:06:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3960s Is it on the-
[01:06:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3960s And on the local
[01:06:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3961s ... it's the local, because the local one is the one with teeth.
[01:06:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3964s Right. But the thing is, it started at the national.
[01:06:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3966s It first got recognition at the national level, and then it worked its way down.
[01:06:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3969s Okay. Yeah.
[01:06:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3970s And it's also recognized for urban planning and for architectural planning as
[01:06:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3976s well as the architecture itself.
[01:06:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3980s I do see we have Megan Duvall on here, and Megan, if you're busy, you don't
[01:06:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3985s need to jump in, but maybe if you are available, you could comment just quickly on
[01:06:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3992s the historic district designation and how that interplays with development
[01:06:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3996s proposals. And I can fill in for her if she's busy, because she may just be
[01:06:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4001s listening in while she works on other things.
[01:06:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4004s Appreciate that.
[01:06:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4006s I am listening.
[01:06:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4008s Appreciate it. That's great.
[01:06:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4010s Sure.
[01:06:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4014s I'm sorry, Spencer. Basically just weigh in on that.
[01:06:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4017s So yeah, so underlying zoning doesn't change in terms of
[01:07:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4024s what can be built. But for us, we sort of looked at it and said, "Well, why bother
[01:07:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4030s upzoning that particular area?" Because all it does is it creates an untenable for
[01:07:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4035s us, somebody buys a property and says, "Well, the zoning says this."
[01:07:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4040s And then we're left to be like, "Well, yeah, it does say that you can build five
[01:07:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4044s stories, but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the neighborhood." So it'd be
[01:07:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4050s easier for us if that part was removed.
[01:07:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4053s We do have
[01:07:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4055s design review of new construction, and we also have design review over
[01:07:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4062s demolitions, so we can deny demolitions to contributing properties in historic
[01:07:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4067s districts. But anyway, I think that was our thought.
[01:07:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4071s I don't know if Logan's also listening.
[01:07:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4073s I don't know if you had anything else to add, Logan.
[01:08:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4081s Well, sorry to put you on the spot.
[01:08:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4084s No, that's okay.
[01:08:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4086s Thank you.
[01:08:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4086s He must not. Okay.
[01:08:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4088s I guess just echoing Megan's comment, in some ways
[01:08:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4093s by leaving that area within the historic district
[01:08:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4099s designated as residential high, it creates a conflict between
[01:08:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4106s the historic district's overlay and the land use map, and could lead to
[01:08:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4113s conflict, whereas leaving it designated as residential, or within the
[01:08:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4118s district
[01:08:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4121s puts the land use map in alignment with the historic district.
[01:08:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4124s And I don't think that being designated residential low would prevent any
[01:08:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4128s development that is 150% of what's already there.
[01:08:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4132s Because you'd be able to, anything that's a residential low, you can do a sixplex.
[01:08:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4135s You know, you could do all sorts of stuff that's going to be well beyond 150%.
[01:09:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4140s And I don't think anything that would be like RMF would, I don't think-
[01:09:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4145s Or you could never get it, yeah.
[01:09:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4148s Yeah. I would just say as far as
[01:09:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4152s for transparency and ease of use, it probably would make it
[01:09:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4158s easier for people that they don't have to check three different layers.
[01:09:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4164s So I do agree that carving that chunk out would probably help
[01:09:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4170s with that process. I do still have some conflict just on the
[01:09:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4176s concept of carving out specific parcels.
[01:09:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4182s But
[01:09:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4185s from this point of view,
[01:09:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4188s and for the fact that it's already on the edge, it does seem to make sense.
[01:09:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4193s It's just the blocks abutting the park.
[01:09:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4197s Yeah. It's just the half black line.
[01:09:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4199s Yeah. So the historic district are the half blocks facing the park, and then on the
[01:10:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4203s east end, it's the whole block on the east end.
[01:10:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4207s So we could just trim the RH off of those, and then the historic district would be
[01:10:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4213s consistent. The flow would be consistent with the historic district.
[01:10:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4217s Yeah, I just wanted to confirm that. So because initially I was misunderstanding.
[01:10:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4222s Sure.
[01:10:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4223s What is being requested is only within that black boundary-
[01:10:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4227s Yeah
[01:10:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4227s ... which would leave some of the residential high designation around division.
[01:10:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4232s Yeah.
[01:10:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4233s Are we all understanding that? Okay.
[01:10:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4237s Yeah.
[01:10:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4237s Got it.
[01:10:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4237s Yeah. I agree. I think it's such a small change that it doesn't...
[01:10:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4240s I do have concerns about opening the floodgates for,
[01:10:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4246s well, my neighborhood should be excluded for this reason, and my neighborhood
[01:10:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4249s should be excluded for this reason, but this is in fact a documented set of codes
[01:10:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4254s that's underlying this-
[01:10:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4256s Mm-hmm
[01:10:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4256s ... and not a subjective, I don't like-
[01:10:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4259s Not saying all situations are equal.
[01:11:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4261s Yeah.
[01:11:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4262s In this situation, you support.
[01:11:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4264s Yes.
[01:11:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4264s It's already hard enough trying to delve into what's allowed where.
[01:11:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4270s Yeah. And back to Tim's conversation about predictability and clarity and all of
[01:11:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4274s that, it probably does make sense.
[01:11:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4276s Thank you.
[01:11:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4277s Great.
[01:11:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4278s Okay, so another point of comments was questions about Hamilton Street.
[01:11:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4284s So in the draft proposal, there are no
[01:11:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4289s changes proposed between Indiana on Hamilton.
[01:11:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4291s I guess I should just give a quick context.
[01:11:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4293s Hamilton, down in the bottom left, that blue is Gonzaga's campus to the west.
[01:11:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4298s Ruby/Division is along the west side of this picture.
[01:11:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4303s There was no draft proposed changes between Indiana
[01:11:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4308s and Marietta, so just south of North Foothills in that area,
[01:11:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4314s along that corridor. Recently we had South Logan TOD plan, which had that
[01:11:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4319s northern-most boundary of Indiana, so there was a lot of changes to the south of
[01:12:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4324s that area. And that along with...
[01:12:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4328s Mainly that was the reason that we, as staff, had not put additional
[01:12:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4334s mixed use or residential high along this route.
[01:12:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4337s However, a number of public comments have asked what makes this any different than
[01:12:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4342s North Monroe or East Frank or some of the other things where we have done a
[01:12:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4346s treatment of a full block on each side of the main street of mixed use followed by
[01:12:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4352s another block or two of residential high.
[01:12:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4354s So just asking, should it receive similar treatment?
[01:12:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4359s There's been questions about that further north.
[01:12:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4362s Yeah.
[01:12:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4362s That was
[01:12:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4364s removed from the preferred alternative when we were having those discussions for
[01:12:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4367s displacement concerns. So this is truly the bounds of that conversation on
[01:12:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4371s Hamilton. It wouldn't be continuing up all the way throughout the city.
[01:12:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4375s But in this particular area,
[01:12:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4379s we would like your feedback on whether it should remain as proposed or potentially
[01:13:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4384s see additional changes based on treatment similarity.
[01:13:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4389s I do agree that it should be treated similarly to Sprague and Monroe in that
[01:13:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4396s otherwise we're going to run into the same problems that we've been bumping up into
[01:13:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4399s already with our centers and corridors of people who have properties that face the
[01:13:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4403s street, and it's just this hard, tight, little boundary.
[01:13:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4409s And the rest of that corridor is already a kind of mix of
[01:13:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4414s residential, school, business, along that entire corridor,
[01:13:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4420s and keeping that hard corridor, I think will be problematic over the
[01:13:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4426s next 20 years.
[01:13:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4428s I do say though, the displacement concerns in that area
[01:13:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4434s don't, to me, feel fundamentally different than north of Foothills.
[01:13:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4438s Within the low-intensity residential on either side, I would have that
[01:14:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4444s same... I wouldn't feel differently about this area than I would feel about that
[01:14:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4449s issue north of Foothills. I travel this corridor a lot.
[01:14:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4454s So just with all the construction and everything-
[01:14:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4456s Yeah
[01:14:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4456s ... coming through here way too much right now.
[01:14:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4459s And yeah, it feels a little bit different-
[01:14:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4462s Yeah
[01:14:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4462s ... relative to, say, it feels like a more minor
[01:14:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4466s sort of arterial than some of those other bigger ones do.
[01:14:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4469s But your point is also well taken about having some elbow room and some
[01:14:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4475s flexibility. My feeling though, is that most of that activity is south
[01:14:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4480s of Illinois or Indiana, whatever.
[01:14:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4486s I always get those two mixed up for some reason.
[01:14:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4488s You know where that obvious stoplight is.
[01:14:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4489s Yeah. Totally.
[01:14:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4492s So yeah, I
[01:14:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4496s don't strong feeling either way on any like that. Linda?
[01:15:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4501s Having grown up in what was then known as St.
[01:15:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4503s Albans Parish and not Logan, I'd share the questions about displacement.
[01:15:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4508s I think there's still a certain number of more or less affordable homes
[01:15:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4514s there, and I'm a little concerned about if we start moving out too far from
[01:15:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4519s Hamilton,
[01:15:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4522s that some of those homes with some of those...
[01:15:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4525s Maybe, to my opinion, too many folks might face displacement there.
[01:15:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4531s I don't know. Those are kind of big family homes that I went to St. Albans School.
[01:15:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4535s Their kids lived there and what...
[01:15:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4537s Anyway, maybe I'm just being a little too sentimental, but.
[01:15:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4542s They're not real big on Nevada.
[01:15:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4546s Those houses are clearly one-family
[01:15:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4552s houses. I grew up in that area as well.
[01:15:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4555s There's always been businesses along the corridor.
[01:16:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4561s So acknowledging that-
[01:16:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4562s The heck that you just did is what we all do. It goes both ways.
[01:16:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4568s Is there a balance where we're not necessarily widening the mixed use zoning, but
[01:16:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4571s we're creating a buffer, a residential high?
[01:16:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4574s We leave the narrow mixed use, we have a-
[01:16:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4576s I think that's-
[01:16:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4576s ... residential-
[01:16:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4577s Yeah
[01:16:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4577s ... potentially completing the block, if you will, on each side-
[01:16:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4580s That's-
[01:16:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4580s ... with a residential high, but not going as-
[01:16:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4583s That's essentially what we did in the Flume on Monroe.
[01:16:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4586s Yeah.
[01:16:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4587s Was not to extend the mix so much as it was to allow that RH on either side.
[01:16:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4594s Perfect.
[01:16:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4594s I'm just imagining from a developer's perspective as well, that they might be
[01:16:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4598s buying three or four properties that are adjacent, and they might still be able to
[01:16:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4602s do their mixed-use project even if the adjacent parcel is residential high because
[01:16:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4606s part of the property is multifamily and part of it is mixed use, and the mixed use
[01:16:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4610s portion is more likely to be facing into the corridor.
[01:16:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4613s Are we talking one lot line deep, though?
[01:16:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4616s Because we are running into barriers to neighborhood grocery.
[01:16:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4619s Yes.
[01:16:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4619s I think we're talking a block deep. Yeah.
[01:17:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4621s Okay, great.
[01:17:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4622s Yeah.
[01:17:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4623s Well-
[01:17:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4623s Yeah, the one lot line thing is really terribly... Yeah.
[01:17:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4628s Scale, is that correct?
[01:17:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4629s That's the alley.
[01:17:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4629s Okay. Because this is a little complex-
[01:17:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4633s They don't really have them right there
[01:17:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4634s ... I'm going to pull up the zoomable map of how this looks here for a second.
[01:17:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4639s Yeah.
[01:17:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4640s Yeah. That's okay. I was going to ask you those questions because I can't see.
[01:17:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4642s No, it's fine. That's why we have this.
[01:17:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4645s We do need to be mindful of time here because we had a bunch of extra time and
[01:17:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4649s we've been using it.
[01:17:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4649s I mean, we're just all talking about open space.
[01:17:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4653s So,
[01:17:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4655s hopefully what you can see... Yeah, you can see it. All right.
[01:17:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4658s So right now, what is along the corridor here is a single parcel.
[01:17:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4663s On the west side, if you wanted to just complete the block, Cincinnati does provide
[01:17:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4669s a nice boundary on the west side. What that means is that you could, on Cincinnati,
[01:17:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4674s have a multifamily across the street from single family.
[01:17:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4678s It's not the end of the world. I'm just saying that's the line.
[01:18:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4682s On the east side, obviously, we would want to be sensitive about Logan Elementary,
[01:18:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4686s but this northern bit, Nevada is just like Cincinnati. It would complete the block.
[01:18:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4692s As you get further south, of course, the streetcar blocks all rotate 90 degrees.
[01:18:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4697s You could talk about maybe half of that.
[01:18:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4700s We could pick a line, approximately the alignment of Nevada.
[01:18:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4705s That would be here, where my mouse is. I don't know if you guys can see it.
[01:18:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4710s So if we continue the line of Nevada, it would add three to four properties on the
[01:18:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4715s east side of the mixed zone. As you get further down here, it's more like three
[01:18:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4720s properties each. It provides that additional depth.
[01:18:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4723s It does give you a little bit of buffering.
[01:18:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4725s What you do get on the east side, and this just happens, is you have a
[01:18:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4731s multifamily next to a single family, but Bill Spokan is supposed to be looking at
[01:18:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4736s those transitions as well to try to help that.
[01:18:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4737s We already have that angled transition-
[01:19:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4740s Yeah, our current code has that now, where that last lot's height might be limited
[01:19:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4744s in order to provide a transition.
[01:19:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4746s Yeah.
[01:19:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4746s What we want to avoid is the wall. We have this, and then there's a house next
[01:19:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4751s door. And so anyway, my rapid suggestion would be
[01:19:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4756s maybe Cincinnati on the east would be a very limited expansion. Nevada on the...
[01:19:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4762s Or I'm sorry, Cincinnati on the west, Nevada on the east, and then we'll attempt to
[01:19:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4766s continue that line southward until we hit the rest of the RMH at India.
[01:19:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4772s If you're okay with that, we can draw that.
[01:19:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4774s And you probably want to deal with the split designation of the Logan Elementary
[01:19:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4779s site.
[01:19:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4780s Oh, yeah.
[01:19:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4780s Yeah.
[01:19:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4780s Just whatever the school-
[01:19:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4782s Just to-
[01:19:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4783s Cool.
[01:19:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4783s Yeah. And potentially that gets left as residential low, a number of the other
[01:19:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4786s schools that-
[01:19:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4787s Yeah, just move out the high school.
[01:19:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4789s Yeah.
[01:19:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4789s But yeah.
[01:19:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4790s That's how we've done-
[01:19:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4791s Something to be consistent there.
[01:19:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4793s All the way to Hamilton, take the RL all the way to Hamilton.
[01:19:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4798s Because right now the western little bit of their schoolyard is mixed.
[01:20:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4802s Yeah.
[01:20:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4803s I would, yeah. Carve that out.
[01:20:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4805s Yeah.
[01:20:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4805s Yeah. That's possible. I'm seeing nods. I'm not hearing.
[01:20:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4808s I just want to make sure-
[01:20:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4809s Yeah
[01:20:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4809s ... because this is kind of consensus, so.
[01:20:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4811s Awesome.
[01:20:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4811s All right. We will do that. I'll give you back your presentation as soon as you're
[01:20:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4816s ready.
[01:20:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4819s Okay. And then...
[01:20:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4822s And I got to use my map. I've had this map for five meetings, and we just haven't
[01:20:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4827s had a need for it yet, so.
[01:20:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4829s Good.
[01:20:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4829s Okay, so the next few slides are in either direction, South Hill
[01:20:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4835s questions related to residential high.
[01:20:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4837s So in some respect, the first two are going to be requests to potentially expand
[01:20:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4842s residential high compared to what was put into the
[01:20:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4846s draft land use map, and then it'll be followed by a number of
[01:20:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4851s requests
[01:20:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4855s from the Comstock neighborhood, sorry, had to get the neighborhoods mixed,
[01:21:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4860s to potentially reduce some of what was proposed.
[01:21:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4863s So, the first one being in the Perry District, the existing land use map
[01:21:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4868s has residential high on the north half of this map.
[01:21:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4874s The staff proposed expansions are to the east and west of the Perry District
[01:21:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4879s itself, including a few additional properties designated mixed use to, again,
[01:21:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4885s talking about the large enough to have that developable parcel without being that
[01:21:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4891s single parcel deep. The requests for comments have
[01:21:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4896s asked us to consider
[01:21:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4900s wrapping that residential high around the entirety of the Perry District.
[01:21:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4904s And so that is-
[01:21:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4904s I was just going to say, what's the southern boundary of the purple on the-
[01:21:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4908s 12th Avenue.
[01:21:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4909s 12th Avenue.
[01:21:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4910s Yeah. Which is right now where the businesses stop right now.
[01:21:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4913s Yes. That is the last of the Perry District as it's developed.
[01:21:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4917s The pie always is showing through there thinking, "Wow, wouldn't it be great if
[01:22:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4920s this could just continue?"
[01:22:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4921s I know. There's supposed to be a-
[01:22:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4924s Around the corner.
[01:22:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4924s Yeah.
[01:22:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4926s Right.
[01:22:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4928s So, Grant Park, Grant Elementary,
[01:22:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4932s that's right here. Again, this is a case where residential high, even though it's
[01:22:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4937s just about conforming-
[01:22:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4938s Yeah
[01:22:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4939s ... with what's around it, not necessarily saying that it'll develop.
[01:22:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4941s Understood.
[01:22:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4942s So this is the north side with the greenhouse-
[01:22:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4946s Okay
[01:22:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4948s The gas station, Zurich Way, a few of the different businesses and restaurants are
[01:22:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4952s kind of in this core area, and then down to Odyssey Food at the end.
[01:22:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4958s All right.
[01:22:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4958s Dentist.
[01:22:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4961s Our aerial's a couple years old. We're a couple months from getting the new ones
[01:22:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4964s in.
[01:22:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4964s But questions about whether
[01:22:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4968s you would consider expanding the residential high to surround the entirety of that
[01:22:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4972s business district.
[01:22:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4972s I think if it's that area, yes, definitely.
[01:22:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4975s That's such a logical node and such an appealing place, that
[01:23:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4981s that's one of those places that we want to, I would think, if we're being-
[01:23:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4985s Yeah, if we're doing this, we're talking about the north end
[01:23:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4988s ... consistent with the things that we're talking about.
[01:23:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4989s Well, and if we're talking about identifying nodes where people want to be, and
[01:23:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4993s they want to gather, and there's things that they want to do, and there's transit,
[01:23:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4997s we ought to be allowing more intensity there.
[01:23:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5001s Yeah. And the transit runs directly up-
[01:23:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5003s Yeah
[01:23:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5004s ... Perry there.
[01:23:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5005s That's a sort of a no-brainer to me.
[01:23:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5007s With that in mind, sorry to cut you off, but
[01:23:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5011s what would be a boundary that you would-
[01:23:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5014s I think right
[01:23:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5015s ... just along the block each?
[01:23:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5017s Yeah.
[01:23:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5018s Okay.
[01:23:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5018s So Ivory's that north-south that goes right through the middle of the park, like it
[01:23:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5022s used to, one day.
[01:23:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5023s Yeah. It used to, but they-
[01:23:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5024s It was actually a little closer
[01:23:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5025s Yeah.
[01:23:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5025s Trust me, I like the park. Don't get me wrong.
[01:23:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5028s So that Ivory would be the west, then the east, we just continue down Helena, and
[01:23:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5034s then we just take it down a block to 13th, if that's okay?
[01:23:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5037s Yeah. What would the north be? There's not like a street there.
[01:24:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5042s 11th along the park, down
[01:24:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5046s Ivory, across 13th, which is one block south of the end of the business district,
[01:24:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5052s and then east to
[01:24:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5055s Helena.
[01:24:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5056s That's south.
[01:24:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5057s All in a range. South is one block south of what is the existing end of the
[01:24:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5061s business district, so on 13th.
[01:24:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5063s So there's a street. 13th is straight.
[01:24:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5066s Yeah.
[01:24:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5067s Yeah. It's very-
[01:24:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5068s It's 14th, it breaks.
[01:24:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5070s Yeah. 14th that has the stairs that they were supposed to redo that-
[01:24:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5073s Yeah. 14th has a weird little thing in it, and I think it's like a third section.
[01:24:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5079s Because yesterday I walked that.
[01:24:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5079s Well, yeah, it's like an alley now, but it's technically a street. But anyway.
[01:24:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5083s Thank you.
[01:24:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5083s That helps us because we can wrap that, and we'll show that on the next one.
[01:24:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5087s Similar questions about expansion.
[01:24:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5089s So this is the South Hill end of Grand, if you will, as it almost
[01:24:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5095s gets to High Drive but is not there. So it's 37th and Grand.
[01:24:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5099s The 29th and Grand
[01:25:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5103s mixed use has been expanded up along Grand, which was part of that preferred
[01:25:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5107s alternative. And questions about whether to go any further south with the
[01:25:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5111s residential high.
[01:25:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5114s The staff decision to wrap the mixed use at the level that it was, was based off of
[01:25:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5120s the existing transit access and those kinds of things.
[01:25:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5123s So a decision to go further than that, while still, as you can see in the preferred
[01:25:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5128s alternative, generally, we would kind of want that to be directed by-
[01:25:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5132s Starbucks is on the corner.
[01:25:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5134s Is that 13th? That's 13th? Okay.
[01:25:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5136s The school on the northwest corner, Starbuck's, and a few on the other side.
[01:25:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5141s Yeah. Is in that-
[01:25:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5142s What will be now a new fitness center.
[01:25:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5144s Nope, they decided-
[01:25:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5146s They backed out.
[01:25:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5147s They officially canceled that front end.
[01:25:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5149s Sorry about that. I'm a little behind.
[01:25:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5153s But that's what that parking lot is.
[01:25:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5154s And the big issue-
[01:25:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5155s We haven't focused on it for a while, too
[01:25:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5157s ... the concern from staff perspective is there is no frequent transit when they're
[01:26:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5161s down here.
[01:26:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5161s Yeah.
[01:26:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5161s Right.
[01:26:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5161s And so we didn't feel like we should expand it further south.
[01:26:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5165s Agreed.
[01:26:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5166s Yeah.
[01:26:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5167s And the current character of it fundamentally changes south of that intersection.
[01:26:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5173s Yeah. The decades of development switch.
[01:26:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5175s And the just the character of Grand Boulevard itself changes dramatically south of
[01:26:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5179s that intersection. It's like, could you take it to High Drive?
[01:26:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5185s Yeah, maybe. But
[01:26:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5188s Do happen to know, where is the southernmost transit stop on
[01:26:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5192s that sheet there?
[01:26:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5193s The frequent transit is actually the number four at the intersection of 29th and
[01:26:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5197s Grand. So that's actually-
[01:26:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5198s So none of the transit goes past 29th.
[01:26:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5199s No north of this picture.
[01:26:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5201s Yeah.
[01:26:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5201s So the transit does not continue along this way.
[01:26:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5205s There's no transit there?
[01:26:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5206s Correct.
[01:26:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5207s I think there's a low frequency line that goes down there, if I remember right.
[01:26:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5211s There's one that goes east to west along 37th.
[01:26:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5214s Yeah, that one, definitely.
[01:26:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5216s There's no line as far as I'm aware.
[01:26:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5218s Mike, chances are there might be a better answer on that.
[01:27:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5221s Yes. Jonathan's here. Yes, Mike, please, go ahead. Help us out.
[01:27:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5224s Yeah. You're mostly correct. The high frequency transit is the 4 on 29th.
[01:27:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5230s The 43, which is every half hour, is on 37th, and it runs on the weekend as well,
[01:27:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5236s on hourly. And then,
[01:27:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5240s the 144 is on
[01:27:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5245s part of Grand there.
[01:27:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5248s But that is only during peak hours, and those hours are getting smaller.
[01:27:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5253s So for all intents and purposes,
[01:27:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5256s there's half-hourly service on 37th, and then there's 15-minute service on 29th.
[01:27:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5261s And there's
[01:27:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5263s no consistent, as sponsors say, no consistent transit service on Grand.
[01:27:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5272s So that was a staff concern.
[01:27:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5273s Yeah. And the half hour is normal historically for Spokane, so I still think
[01:27:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5279s it is sufficient to have what is currently mapped.
[01:28:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5283s But I don't think justified.
[01:28:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5285s But not to extend it.
[01:28:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5285s Not to extend it, yeah. Before I had a car, I had French lessons up there and it
[01:28:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5290s was a nightmare.
[01:28:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5292s A half-hour service coming from the plaza, having transferred already. Ugh.
[01:28:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5298s Yeah. Thank you.
[01:28:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5301s Yeah.
[01:28:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5301s Okay, so now asking the question in the opposite direction, the left
[01:28:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5307s image being the existing land use along Grand, just further north, along Manito
[01:28:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5313s Park. So at the bottom of this is 29th, and then Grand going down to the 14th and
[01:28:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5318s Grand
[01:28:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5320s mixed use area down there. The current draft future land use map
[01:28:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5327s shows a lot of what is east and on the south side west of Grand
[01:28:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5332s being a residential high. This was based off of the frequent transit along Grand
[01:28:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5338s in this location, as well as the fairly level lots that exist to the east of Manito
[01:29:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5343s Park, allowing for larger
[01:29:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5347s residential development, as well as there's pockets of mixed use throughout that
[01:29:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5352s are existing businesses. So those were the decisions that led to the
[01:29:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5358s current draft of the future land use map.
[01:29:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5361s There have been a number of requests that were in your packet already, as well as a
[01:29:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5365s formal request now that will be in your next packet of comments,
[01:29:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5371s to consider reducing that level of residential high,
[01:29:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5376s especially as you get off of Grand.
[01:29:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5379s How did the high get over that far in the first place?
[01:29:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5387s Again, the ability-
[01:29:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5389s And elevation changes
[01:29:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5391s ... the lack of land elevation changes certainly provided an opportunity that
[01:29:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5397s existed far less frequently on the South Hill to provide residential high.
[01:30:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5401s Yeah, totally. Okay.
[01:30:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5404s And again, being a place that does have that frequent service with the 4 compared
[01:30:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5409s to other places on the South Hill, this was-
[01:30:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5411s Yeah. I love the idea of densifying along Grand substantially.
[01:30:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5416s I'm just questioning, this is my neighborhood, so I know this area really, really
[01:30:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5421s well, but that further in, out to the east, I guess there.
[01:30:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5427s Yeah. I'll just say from the staff side, we were trying to be consistent in the
[01:30:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5433s distance from those frequent transit lines that we were trying to draw, the higher
[01:30:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5438s density or the higher intensity land use designations.
[01:30:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5444s Where you have the Grand going at a slight angle-
[01:30:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5447s Yeah. Pixel
[01:30:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5447s ... you get this kind of pixel effect, where we were trying to use whole blocks.
[01:30:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5452s Yeah.
[01:30:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5452s So to some extent, there's a judgment call there, and yeah, I don't know that
[01:30:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5457s we would have concerns about peeling off some of the blocks at the edge that are
[01:31:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5462s part of that angle.
[01:31:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5463s Yeah, I just wonder if it can't sort of step down a little bit.
[01:31:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5469s I'm not terribly bothered by it. I think it is a good place to
[01:31:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5474s think about added people.
[01:31:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5478s Mm-hmm.
[01:31:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5479s There's services there, there's the park there, there's transit there, there's all
[01:31:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5483s those things.
[01:31:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5485s But I can understand how
[01:31:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5488s That's quite a distance away from those elements that the zone has carried
[01:31:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5494s right now.
[01:31:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5496s I know, and to end this up real quick, if you want,
[01:31:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5501s further south, Hatch is one block, and then it steps in here to Sherman.
[01:31:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5506s Those are areas if you really wanted to start adjusting, you could pull some of
[01:31:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5511s these between Sherman and Hatch out, and restore them to R.
[01:31:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5516s Yeah.
[01:31:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5516s Like a step onto this thing.
[01:31:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5519s Yeah, like step over, what is that, 19th?
[01:32:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5522s And, I just wonder if there's some opportunity to sort of surgically step it in
[01:32:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5527s there a little bit.
[01:32:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5528s Okay. All right.
[01:32:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5530s It is just like two or three blocks though, right?
[01:32:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5532s Yeah. It is. It feels very-
[01:32:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5534s If you want to be like a bus stop.
[01:32:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5535s That's how I... Yeah.
[01:32:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5536s Maximum depth is like two and a half blocks, yeah.
[01:32:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5539s Yeah.
[01:32:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5540s That's not very far.
[01:32:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5540s It's not very far, because I always come up on that east side on my bike and then
[01:32:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5543s go west to get places.
[01:32:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5546s Yeah.
[01:32:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5548s So, Linda, you had a question.
[01:32:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5549s Yeah, my question is,
[01:32:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5553s have these density proposals been reevaluated in terms of evacuation
[01:32:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5559s routes? I'm not as familiar with this part of Spokane, but it strikes me that,
[01:32:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5565s what are the alternatives for evacuation?
[01:32:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5568s Are you putting an awful lot of people on a major thoroughfare that's going to
[01:32:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5574s be the only, or one of the very, very few evacuation routes, especially next to a
[01:33:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5580s park full of ponderosa pines? And we all know now what ponderosa pines can do.
[01:33:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5586s So, I mean, that's the whole South Hill though .
[01:33:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5589s Yeah, but it has a grid. There's quite a few routes.
[01:33:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5593s Yeah, there's plenty of ways out.
[01:33:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5595s You can just sort of pinch routes, like all the way out at Latou or-
[01:33:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5597s Yeah. Exactly. Having just looked at that very issue in this immediate area of
[01:33:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5603s preceding the 1st of August, there's an awful lot of ways out here.
[01:33:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5609s Yeah, I'll just add, I think, yes, we are considering evacuation
[01:33:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5615s as
[01:33:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5618s something that needs to be looked at as we're making these decisions.
[01:33:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5622s Yes, there's a great grid here, so I think there's less concern about evacuation
[01:33:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5626s routes. And I guess I would just say,
[01:33:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5630s that exact issue, I think is one rationale for ensuring that development can occur
[01:33:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5635s along these places.
[01:33:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5637s Yeah.
[01:33:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5637s Because if it doesn't occur here, then we're saying it needs to occur out in areas
[01:34:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5640s that have less connectivity-
[01:34:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5642s Yep
[01:34:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5642s ... and would have, I think, heightened concerns.
[01:34:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5645s Yep.
[01:34:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5646s Just for fun, so what I've done here is I just cut at 16th and brought it over,
[01:34:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5653s what is this? To Sherman. The reason I'm suggesting you might consider leaving this
[01:34:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5658s is just because of Rockwood Bakery and this little mixed area is actually rather
[01:34:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5662s active, and could benefit from more customers, to be honest.
[01:34:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5667s You could do something like this, and that would take a little bit out.
[01:34:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5670s You could bring this here, and come down at any point if you wanted to bring some
[01:34:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5676s more blocks out. This would take about six blocks of RH out.
[01:34:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5681s It's a half a dozen in one way, and six another. It's a tough call.
[01:34:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5688s Yeah.
[01:34:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5688s It's part of why we wrestled with it when kind of converting into the preferred
[01:34:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5692s alternative.
[01:34:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5693s Yeah. It is.
[01:34:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5694s There's just some good opportunity in here.
[01:34:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5696s Yeah.
[01:34:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5696s Also, keep in mind too, that none of this is compelling redevelopment.
[01:35:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5701s It's only creating the opportunity for if they want to.
[01:35:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5705s There are a number of beautiful properties in here that are well-managed, that are
[01:35:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5710s taken care of.
[01:35:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5712s Probably not going to redevelop.
[01:35:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5713s Probably not going to redevelop.
[01:35:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5714s Yeah.
[01:35:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5714s And so, I do recall when we were kind of working on this configuration, we tried
[01:35:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5720s to err a little bit on the side of a little extra space.
[01:35:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5723s It's only because we wanted to capture as much opportunity, but there's just a lot
[01:35:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5727s that won't redevelop.
[01:35:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5729s Well, yeah, and it's functionally unlikely-
[01:35:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5730s That's fine
[01:35:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5731s ... mostly that it will-
[01:35:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5732s Yeah
[01:35:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5732s ... just due to the cost.
[01:35:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5734s Yeah.
[01:35:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5734s Well, that's just a reason to keep it larger.
[01:35:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5737s I do want to be mindful of our two remaining items.
[01:35:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5740s That's why I got it.
[01:35:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5742s Yeah.
[01:35:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5742s Give me one second.
[01:35:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5743s Okay.
[01:35:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5743s I
[01:35:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5745s want to hit the last two slides. Well, I'll just jump
[01:35:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5751s past the majority of this.
[01:35:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5754s It's tough. There's so much to talk about.
[01:35:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5756s Just the briefest of comments. In Northeast Spokane, so this is
[01:36:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5762s Nevada and Lincoln,
[01:36:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5765s just we've had a number of comments specifically
[01:36:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5769s from community members upset about industrial being proposed in their neighborhood.
[01:36:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5775s So just wanting to highlight that-
[01:36:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5777s It's already industrial
[01:36:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5779s ... it's already industrial, and this was actually a removal of some industrial,
[01:36:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5781s and an implementation of mixed use
[01:36:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5784s and open space.
[01:36:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5785s And open space.
[01:36:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5785s Yeah.
[01:36:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5785s And additional possible park.
[01:36:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5788s So you did give that reply, right?
[01:36:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5790s So that's the right now, unless there's questions, we are not actively replying to
[01:36:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5796s a lot of the public comment because that's part of the overarching response.
[01:36:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5801s So that's why some of it comes at this scale, and then some of it comes at a larger
[01:36:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5806s scale later.
[01:36:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5808s It has to be the done fun along the way as well.
[01:36:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5812s That's fine.
[01:36:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5814s Just wanted to highlight that.
[01:36:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5815s This is not new industrial.
[01:36:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5817s Not new industrial.
[01:36:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5818s But it's open, half open space, half...
[01:37:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5821s Yeah.
[01:37:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5822s Okay. Then I will just quickly jump to my concluding slides. We'll later.
[01:37:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5828s Okay, so as was mentioned at the beginning of the meeting, the public comment
[01:37:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5831s period is open, has an official ending now, based off of the conversations at the
[01:37:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5836s last bike commission meeting of October 2nd.
[01:37:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5839s People can continue to comment by sending an email to planSpokane@spokanecity.org,
[01:37:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5845s or using the online interactive map.
[01:37:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5848s And then finally,
[01:37:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5851s we will have another conversation very similar to this at your next planning
[01:37:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5854s commission meeting, but that will be your last opportunity for us to have workshop
[01:37:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5858s time to discuss changes that will go into that draft hearing version of the land
[01:37:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5863s use map. Because that has to come out before your hearing, weeks in advance.
[01:37:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5868s Even though there's a month between that next workshop and when you have your
[01:37:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5871s hearing, those conversations won't be happening at the workshop level.
[01:37:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5876s So if there's changes after that next meeting, those will be happening after the
[01:38:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5880s hearing on the IS.
[01:38:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5881s Yeah, that's-
[01:38:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5882s And then moving towards your hearing in November.
[01:38:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5884s That's an important distinction.
[01:38:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5885s Just like with every content amendment, you have the ability to make
[01:38:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5889s recommendations at the end. We just would prefer not, because it gets very complex.
[01:38:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5894s It would.
[01:38:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5895s It is possible.
[01:38:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5895s Parcell from the data skills?
[01:38:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5898s Okay.
[01:38:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5900s Go ahead.
[01:38:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5900s One quick thing to add. We did receive some comments that were outside of the scope
[01:38:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5904s of the preferred alternative.
[01:38:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5906s Yeah.
[01:38:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5906s Those are on the table if somebody wants us to take a look at those.
[01:38:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5909s We've generally not brought them forward just because they're not part of the
[01:38:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5913s preferred alternative. But if there's something you see in the comments that you
[01:38:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5916s would like us to consider, be prepared to bring that up at the workshop and we can
[01:38:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5921s take a look at.
[01:38:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5921s Let's make sure we schedule enough time for that one.
[01:38:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5924s That's a major discussion point. I want to make sure we've got enough time to get
[01:38:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5930s through all that.
[01:38:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5931s Yeah.
[01:38:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5932s All right.
[01:38:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5933s Thank you.
[01:38:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5933s Thank you both. Okay.
[01:38:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5934s You're welcome.
[01:38:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5935s So then, moving on to planned Spokane draft policies related to wildfires and
[01:39:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5940s emergency management with not here also.
[01:39:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5943s Martin.
[01:39:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5944s Martin. Okay.
[01:39:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5944s I just realized, I was like, "Who's doing that?"
[01:39:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5947s I'll get out of your way, Martin. Sorry.
[01:39:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5949s Are you?
[01:39:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5949s It's not me.
[01:39:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5950s Martin did the slides.
[01:39:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5951s I think I'll open this up. Do we want to do this? I love it.
[01:39:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5956s We could move it to next time if-
[01:39:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5958s I'm sorry.
[01:39:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5958s I mean, there's no-
[01:39:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5959s No, you're the other one
[01:39:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5960s ... traditional policy.
[01:39:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5962s Yeah, you.
[01:39:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5962s Yeah, you're the other one, Spencer.
[01:39:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5963s I think my item can be really quick. I don't anticipate there being any concerns.
[01:39:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5968s Okay.
[01:39:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5969s So-
[01:39:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5970s Okay
[01:39:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5970s ... if you can leave me five minutes, I bet that's enough time.
[01:39:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5973s Okay. I'll also, the slides weren't provided in advance, but we can send them
[01:39:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5979s out. I'm not going to go over the policies.
[01:39:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5981s I think I'll just go through the context, and then we can send out the
[01:39:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5987s actual policies. Okay, so I'm filling in for Tyrrell.
[01:39:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5994s My understanding of the workshop is to share how the draft
[01:40:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6001s plans Spokane 2046 addresses wildfire and emergency management considerations.
[01:40:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6007s So pulling out policies that are already in the draft plan, but just kind of
[01:40:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6012s highlighting them so that there's some awareness of the conversations
[01:40:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6018s and
[01:40:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6020s the policies that would be coming forward with the adoption of the final plan.
[01:40:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6024s So Martin, just to clarify, these are not new proposed policies in reaction to the
[01:40:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6029s fires-
[01:40:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6030s No
[01:40:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6030s ... these are just the new ones that are-
[01:40:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6032s I think, yeah. We've been talking about wildfire for years-
[01:40:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6035s Sure
[01:40:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6035s ... in the climate planning, and so part of the benefit of having the new
[01:40:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6040s comprehensive plan is the integration of some of these more climate
[01:40:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6046s resilience policies that will hopefully help us prepare better in the future.
[01:40:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6052s Good.
[01:40:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6053s So yeah, this is based on the content that was published in the
[01:40:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6059s August 2026 version.
[01:41:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6063s So, did this myself.
[01:41:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6066s Okay. So,
[01:41:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6070s yeah, this is coming from climate planning.
[01:41:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6072s I won't go into this too much, but we do have all the materials online.
[01:41:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6077s We've had a number of workshops over the two years that we did this, but
[01:41:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6081s essentially, through community engagement, staff discussions, and then working with
[01:41:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6087s the Climate Resilience and Sustainability Board, we presented a
[01:41:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6092s package of policies addressing climate resilience and greenhouse gas emission
[01:41:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6097s reductions. And, that was approved
[01:41:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6103s or recommended by the CRSB in February, came to Plan Commission, and then
[01:41:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6109s integrated into the comprehensive plan.
[01:41:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6110s So, these are already in the comprehensive plan or the draft plan now.
[01:41:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6116s But
[01:41:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6118s just highlighting that focus. And I guess just for understanding, climate
[01:42:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6123s resilience as a whole is about anticipating, preparing for, and adapting to changes
[01:42:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6128s in climate to minimize negative impacts to our natural systems, infrastructure, and
[01:42:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6132s communities. So it really is the whole process of when
[01:42:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6137s a hazard happens, how we've prepared for it, how are we responding to it, and how
[01:42:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6143s we can adapt to things going forward.
[01:42:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6145s So when we're thinking about wildfires in the future, everything before that,
[01:42:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6150s during, and after is part of that resilience process.
[01:42:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6157s Some materials that we had, the climate risk and vulnerability assessment provided
[01:42:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6162s that foundational framework. So again, these are materials that are available
[01:42:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6166s online.
[01:42:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6169s And then we do have the draft policies already integrated into the comprehensive
[01:42:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6174s plan. So a few that I'm just going to click through.
[01:42:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6179s They're spread throughout all chapters.
[01:43:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6182s Again, sort of the recognition that climate resilience impacts
[01:43:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6188s all factors of our community and all of our policies.
[01:43:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6193s So we have them integrated throughout, and then we'll have a matrix as well that
[01:43:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6199s presents an easier way to look through that. I'm not sure.
[01:43:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6202s Is that in the comprehensive plan right now or will that be at the end?
[01:43:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6204s I see presented on the online tool, so I think-
[01:43:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6207s Oh, yeah. Exactly. So you can see that.
[01:43:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6210s So ones that highlighting as far as wildfire and emergency management, so we have
[01:43:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6215s some in the growth strategy, that's what GS stands for, and then some in this one,
[01:43:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6220s leasing capital facilities. So looking at the natural environment, water
[01:43:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6224s conservation.
[01:43:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6229s The big one on resilient land use. I think we had a lot of discussion at the Plan
[01:43:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6234s Commission around how land use interfaces with climate.
[01:44:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6240s So we have a policy in here on
[01:44:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6244s resilient land use and
[01:44:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6248s also climate consideration. So a lot of these are, again, integrating what we
[01:44:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6253s talked about from the climate planning process and the CRSB, and then bringing in
[01:44:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6258s concepts around environmental justice, different climate resilience, how it
[01:44:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6264s interacts with development patterns, siting, replacing, looking at community assets
[01:44:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6269s and impacts there. Another big topic
[01:44:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6275s around wild and urban interface, so looking at some standards and outreach as well.
[01:44:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6281s We heard a lot about the impacts of the WUI through our climate planning and sort
[01:44:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6287s of the extent that it comes into the city, and then the need to engage and have
[01:44:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6291s conversations with that at city level, neighborhood level, individual homeowner
[01:44:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6296s levels. So the fire department is doing a lot of work there, so kind of reflecting
[01:45:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6300s that work throughout with some policy considerations.
[01:45:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6308s Community health chapter has a lot of discussions around emergency management,
[01:45:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6314s ideas around resilience hubs, so specific spots within the community, and then
[01:45:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6320s looking at ways that we can be resilient around wildfire as well.
[01:45:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6327s Discussion around evacuation strategies.
[01:45:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6336s We had quite a few here. And one of the interesting informed
[01:45:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6342s discussions was around tribal planning, and I mean, we had some specific
[01:45:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6347s conversations around tribal planning and tribal
[01:45:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6352s emergency coordination, but just the idea of culturally relevant
[01:45:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6358s communication and responding to that.
[01:46:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6360s So, that was one aspect that came out of our tribal coordination.
[01:46:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6365s But also considering, of course, coordination throughout many different of our
[01:46:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6370s cultural communities in Spokane, and how that can be coordinated.
[01:46:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6384s Transportation, looking at connecting evacuation routes.
[01:46:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6387s So I think that's been one discussion that's certainly come out of the wildfires,
[01:46:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6393s and there's a lot of success around evacuating 60,000 people
[01:46:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6399s in North Spokane, and then lessons learned about future considerations
[01:46:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6404s and how that might go elsewhere. So, at least some policies recognizing how
[01:46:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6410s the infrastructure around that interplays with evacuation.
[01:46:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6416s So that's the very high level. I guess I did it in a lot shorter.
[01:47:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6422s Might be a little bit lot more time, but I think the intent was to just show the
[01:47:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6426s ways that the comprehensive plan is
[01:47:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6430s thinking about wildfire, emergency management, evacuation.
[01:47:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6434s Again, these are not in response to the recent wildfires, but will hopefully help
[01:47:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6439s us consider, over the next 20 years, better planning and policy around that.
[01:47:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6446s And just that a lot of those, if not all of those policies are new in this version
[01:47:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6450s of the comprehensive plan and don't exist in the prior version.
[01:47:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6454s Yeah. There are some, I think, some edits to ideas
[01:47:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6460s previously around wildfire, but fire was mostly discussed about siting
[01:47:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6466s facilities and
[01:47:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6470s more just about the references to historic fires.
[01:47:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6474s But yes, this one is looking at wildfires, wildfire smoke, and those
[01:48:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6480s hazards as they could continue to get worse, and then responding to that with new
[01:48:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6484s policy.
[01:48:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6486s There's one other aspect that we didn't highlight here, but you'll see on the
[01:48:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6491s arterial map that we also are putting in some arterial connections in areas.
[01:48:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6497s One example that came up in the context of the fires is Barnes Road, in the far
[01:48:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6503s northwest. Currently does not connect down to Nine Mile.
[01:48:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6507s The arterial map includes a potential connection down there.
[01:48:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6510s Now, showing the connection on the map does not build a connection, but we have to
[01:48:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6513s start with having it on a map. So, I know there's also some connections down in
[01:48:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6518s Latah Valley that are shown on the arterial map.
[01:48:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6521s Those are steps that we need to take now in order to eventually build those
[01:48:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6525s connections. But it doesn't show up in the policy language, and that shows up in a
[01:48:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6529s map that we didn't really highlight here.
[01:48:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6531s Yeah.
[01:48:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6532s Yeah, I guess that's what I would just say with all of that is I think we've got a
[01:48:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6536s real unfortunate opportunity, but an opportunity to learn from what happened, and I
[01:49:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6541s guess I would love to see some reaction in the code rather than, like, "See, this
[01:49:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6547s is all stuff that we did. That's right, and I'm not faulting you for that,
[01:49:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6550s Margaret."
[01:49:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6550s Yeah.
[01:49:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6552s It feels a little bit sort of self-congratulatory that like, "Here's all the things
[01:49:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6556s that we did," and I would love to see some learnings from that along the lines of
[01:49:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6561s what you were talking about, including those things, and what did we miss and going
[01:49:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6566s back through some of those things, I still think we're way too light on WUI
[01:49:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6572s stuff in the comp plan. That whole piece about WUI outreach makes me crazy, but
[01:49:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6578s that's another conversation for another day.
[01:49:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6581s So yeah, I would still love to see some more learnings out of that and some more
[01:49:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6587s advancement while we've got sort of the hood open, quote, unquote.
[01:49:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6590s So again, not an indictment of you.
[01:49:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6592s Yeah. There was nothing previously, so-
[01:49:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6594s Yeah. Absolutely
[01:49:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6595s ... the fact that this does help set up those conversations, but absolutely the-
[01:49:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6599s That's a good point
[01:50:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6600s ... the need to go deeper. I mean, these are just policies, and they're writ
[01:50:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6604s broadly for the intent of being a policy level.
[01:50:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6609s But yes, the implementation of that and carrying that forward is certainly the
[01:50:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6615s next steps.
[01:50:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6616s It's going to be hugely important to see how that translates into code and capital
[01:50:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6620s facilities planning.
[01:50:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6621s Yeah.
[01:50:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6621s You show that Barnes Road to Five Mile and Indian Trail, and they're going to fart.
[01:50:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6627s That's been on the map forever. We've never built it, and there's a steep ravine
[01:50:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6632s there. There's private property concerns.
[01:50:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6635s There's all that stuff, and we've never bothered to conquer any of those
[01:50:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6638s challenges. So that's just not an answer.
[01:50:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6643s Unless you've got something in the capital facilities plan to actually fund that.
[01:50:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6647s And they're also just livid that development didn't pay for this in the first
[01:50:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6651s place. I heard the dreamy concept of, be still
[01:50:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6657s my heart, why don't we build the infrastructure first before the growth goes in?
[01:51:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6662s It's like, lady, you're preaching to the choir.
[01:51:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6665s Yeah.
[01:51:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6666s But, we have to find a balance there.
[01:51:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6668s I know we can't build this infrastructure before the growth goes in, but this is a
[01:51:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6672s ridiculous lag, and it was not a successful evacuation to have people watching
[01:51:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6677s flames beside their cars, sitting there for three hours, texting their council
[01:51:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6682s members, "We still haven't moved," every 15 minutes for three hours.
[01:51:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6687s And me texting Chief Hall again every 15 minutes for three hours, "My people still
[01:51:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6693s haven't moved." And then on the other side, on Five Mile, texting back and forth
[01:51:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6697s with Marcus Riccelli as he's trying to evacuate, and they finally got that cleared
[01:51:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6702s up. That took civilian ground guides, which is super dangerous.
[01:51:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6706s And then on the Indian Trail side, it was just bumper to bumper, not moving.
[01:51:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6710s There was nothing anybody could do, including the police.
[01:51:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6712s People were getting out of their cars and walking up and down and knocking on each
[01:51:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6716s other's windows and saying, "Have you heard anything?
[01:51:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6717s Have you heard anything?" Everybody was being very polite. They couldn't move.
[01:52:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6723s It was insane that we didn't have mass panic there.
[01:52:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6727s But luckily, Indian Trail, a little calmer, a little more polite than Five Mile.
[01:52:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6732s They stuck it out, and they survived.
[01:52:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6734s There were people who didn't evacuate because they looked and saw that there was
[01:52:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6738s nowhere to go. I hosted a family whose plan was to go through the dump site because
[01:52:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6744s they knew there was an easement, and then they looked out and the dump site was on
[01:52:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6747s fire, and they're like, "Never mind." And then their other friends had to convince
[01:52:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6751s them. It was a nightmare. We are so lucky nobody died.
[01:52:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6756s That was the skin of our teeth. That was not something we can claim was successful.
[01:52:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6762s And I think the firefighters and the police did the best they could.
[01:52:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6766s I'm not blaming anybody on the ground.
[01:52:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6768s But having fought some of those developments up there for the last 20 years with
[01:52:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6773s this same argument and having nothing have happened except some connectivity at the
[01:52:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6777s top of Five Mile with Barnes Road and Strong Road,
[01:53:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6782s I can't help but also be livid for these people.
[01:53:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6784s And I don't know if any of you have gone up yet, but even though it's been a month
[01:53:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6789s now, it's still... I was just at Indian Trail Neighborhood Council last night.
[01:53:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6792s Driving by those sites, it's really shocking and visceral,
[01:53:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6798s especially when you've been up there working with those people, trying to prevent
[01:53:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6803s this exact scenario from happening for 20 years.
[01:53:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6809s I guess I'm curious as to how do we address...
[01:53:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6812s Some of those developments are within the last 20 years, but some of them are more
[01:53:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6815s than 60 years old. So how do we address infrastructure street-level
[01:53:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6821s issues on existing-
[01:53:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6825s Well, there's a county element, too.
[01:53:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6827s Yeah.
[01:53:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6828s Some of the stuff that contributed to the congestion isn't even in the city of
[01:53:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6831s Spokane.
[01:53:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6832s Right.
[01:53:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6833s And we've got three massive developments proposed up there right now.
[01:53:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6838s So people are also livid that those permitting processes are going through, and
[01:54:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6842s we're not even necessarily requiring easements through those properties, let alone
[01:54:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6846s roads be built. And one of them is at the county level.
[01:54:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6850s And so I feel like we need a regional discussion and a
[01:54:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6856s joint planning capital facilities plan to address these things and
[01:54:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6862s possibly revenue source, possibly bonding.
[01:54:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6866s And unless there's political will, hopefully, this committee can be helpful with
[01:54:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6872s making the case on that. And your WUI concerns are very well taken.
[01:54:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6877s Firewise training is for rural areas. It's not for a city.
[01:54:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6882s Yeah.
[01:54:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6884s Yeah. To me, it's always struck me as sort of going to a drunk driver and
[01:54:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6888s explaining to them how to not kill people while driving drunk, and then tossing
[01:54:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6892s them the keys and saying, "Good luck out there."
[01:54:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6893s Yeah. Homes are sold in that place, and it was in the city limits.
[01:54:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6896s They're not thinking about-
[01:54:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6898s Yeah
[01:54:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6898s ... defensive space.
[01:55:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6900s And that's my question is, we've got the hood up on this, the county's got the hood
[01:55:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6904s up on theirs.
[01:55:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6907s How do we learn? What do we learn?
[01:55:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6908s So I think there needs to be some reflection in the development regulations that we
[01:55:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6913s propose and the capital facilities plan of how to deal with this, even if we know
[01:55:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6918s it's going to be a heavy lift.
[01:55:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6919s And a policy-level direction.
[01:55:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6921s Because aspirational stuff address concerns, unless that's in the capital
[01:55:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6926s facilities plan, it's not addressed,
[01:55:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6929s period.
[01:55:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6930s Yeah. I think
[01:55:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6932s we could, at a policy level, specifically address Five Mile, Indian Trail, and
[01:55:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6938s Eagle Ridge. To me, those are the three areas that stick out of all the areas we
[01:55:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6942s built in the last 30 years, but, that are the most dangerous in terms of-
[01:55:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6947s Grandview Thorp, Laker.
[01:55:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6949s Sure. Yeah.
[01:55:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6949s Just because they haven't burned yet. Even West Central.
[01:55:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6952s We've had so many fires, and-
[01:55:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6954s I mean, I-
[01:55:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6954s ... we've got civilians out there tamping them down because we know.
[01:55:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6958s And that I don't recommend. But it could've been so much worse without vigilante
[01:56:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6962s firefighting that happens during these fires, even though I keep telling people-
[01:56:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6967s I'm talking about-
[01:56:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6967s ... don't do it. They did it anyway.
[01:56:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6969s Talking about the South Hill, and doing the same thing. Yeah.
[01:56:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6972s We're in a really bad place, and I got in trouble my first year on
[01:56:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6978s council for saying these exact same things to this committee.
[01:56:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6982s So I
[01:56:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6984s was describing conditions as they exist. I wasn't making crazy speculations.
[01:56:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6988s It happened, and we're lucky no one died.
[01:56:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6993s It seems like room for potentially an additional policy or two or three.
[01:56:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6998s Or a reflection exercise.
[01:56:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7000s The neighborhoods won't ask for it until-
[01:56:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7000s Yeah.
[01:56:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7001s Yeah
[01:56:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7001s ... until we figure it out and punch some roots through.
[01:56:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7004s Yeah.
[01:56:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7005s It's going to be pretty hard to go out there and tell them no.
[01:56:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7008s So what does that process look like in terms of our learning trajectory for the
[01:56:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7012s adoption of the capital facilities plan?
[01:56:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7018s I don't know. I guess I have a question specifically about the concerns related to
[01:57:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7023s WUI.
[01:57:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7028s We hear a lot about WUI code,
[01:57:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7030s but specifically the building code, because the WUI code is a building code.
[01:57:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7035s Mm-hmm.
[01:57:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7037s I guess, in your mind, what does it look like for a zoning
[01:57:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7042s code to address WUI concerns? Are you talking about significantly restricting what
[01:57:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7048s people can build?
[01:57:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7049s Yeah.
[01:57:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7050s Is that potentially-
[01:57:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7051s Potentially
[01:57:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7051s ... actually what you're-
[01:57:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7051s Yeah
[01:57:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7052s ... interested in?
[01:57:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7052s In those high-hazard areas, yeah.
[01:57:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7054s Impact fees, requirements, or connectivity.
[01:57:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7058s Or even something that runs with the land that says, "You accept the
[01:57:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7064s risks of living out here, and if something happens, fire is going to have to
[01:57:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7069s prioritize the area where there's more people."
[01:57:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7074s And locked gates.
[01:57:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7075s And then best of luck getting insurance on that.
[01:57:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7078s Yeah.
[01:57:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7078s Yeah. On the street design, can we have more intense requirements for street
[01:58:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7083s level grid style?
[01:58:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7086s Requirements. If there's a large plat coming in, it's required that it contributes
[01:58:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7091s to the evacuation routes in some sort of measurable way or something.
[01:58:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7095s We need the county to do the same thing.
[01:58:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7097s Yeah.
[01:58:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7097s Yeah. 10 years ago, I ran a connectivity ordinance at the county, and it passed
[01:58:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7101s eventually, but they slowly eroded it, and it's pretty much gone now.
[01:58:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7105s Okay. I don't want to cut this conversation off.
[01:58:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7108s Maybe we can revisit at the next workshop, because your point is well taken.
[01:58:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7114s We're tight here, and we've got to figure out what we need to do to get through it,
[01:58:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7117s but I think there's at least a short session on-
[01:58:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7121s There's still public comment-
[01:58:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7123s Yeah
[01:58:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7124s ... through October 2nd on policy, so if there is gaps, I guess I'm
[01:58:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7130s not sure what discussions have gone back to the CRSB about reflection on wildfire,
[01:58:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7134s but
[01:58:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7136s these have been in the draft for a number of months, so if there's ways to
[01:59:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7143s take a new lens at them, I'm super down.
[01:59:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7146s Yeah. Let's plan to put some workshop time next time in two weeks.
[01:59:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7149s Yeah. That'd be great.
[01:59:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7150s Continue the discussion.
[01:59:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7151s That'd be great. Okay. Sorry, Samantha. You were right.
[01:59:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7154s That's okay. We can be really fast and-
[01:59:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7157s I think you all saw the draft letter in the packet.
[01:59:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7161s There's no specific proposal involved.
[01:59:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7163s It's really just
[01:59:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7165s staff. We have been working on some emergency legislation that we expect to bring
[01:59:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7170s forward to council,
[01:59:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7172s and that legislation would grant authority to address some concerns about how to
[01:59:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7178s rebuild. And so the two specific concerns are highlighted in the letter, and that's
[01:59:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7183s first, people want to rebuild their houses. These were built under previous codes.
[01:59:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7189s And so, is there some way that we can grant them exemptions from some of the
[01:59:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7195s standards? For example, design standards that could be difficult
[02:00:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7201s if you're trying to replace what you have there.
[02:00:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7203s Your garage maybe doesn't meet our current standards.
[02:00:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7206s And so the ability for the planning director to waive those.
[02:00:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7211s And then the second part is specifically related to accessory dwelling units,
[02:00:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7214s people looking to build back who may want to inhabit an accessory dwelling unit
[02:00:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7218s before they build the main house. Insurance doesn't allow that.
[02:00:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7222s This would grant them special dispensation. So those are the two topics.
[02:00:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7226s Specifically, again, we're bringing this forward to council, so our thought was it
[02:00:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7230s might be helpful for Plan Commission to just understand what
[02:00:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7235s some of those issues are, and then provide a letter of support, essentially, to
[02:00:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7239s city council.
[02:00:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7240s So what are we looking for out of this? Do we want to take this to a hearing?
[02:00:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7243s Do we want to just approve?
[02:00:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7244s There's no need for a hearing. I think the idea was if Plan Commission chooses,
[02:00:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7248s they could just approve the letter, and then I would forward that to city council
[02:00:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7252s so they have it.
[02:00:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7253s Okay.
[02:00:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7254s So I would look for a motion then to approve the letter.
[02:00:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7258s Moved.
[02:00:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7259s Second.
[02:01:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7262s Got a motion and a second. Is there any discussion?
[02:01:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7266s I just want to say thank you. I think these things are great and perfectly logical.
[02:01:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7271s Absent any other discussion, all those in favor say aye.
[02:01:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7274s Aye.
[02:01:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7275s Those opposed, nay.
[02:01:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7277s Aye.
[02:01:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7277s Okay. Motion passes.
[02:01:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7278s Thank you. I will get it to council.
[02:01:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7280s Yeah.
[02:01:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7282s Okay.
[02:01:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7283s I know we're over time.
[02:01:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7284s Yeah.
[02:01:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7284s Can I ask some questions related to the policy related to wildfire?
[02:01:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7290s The two thoughts that I have are,
[02:01:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7293s one, it would be really helpful if in the workshop where we discuss this,
[02:01:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7298s maybe we are able to pull up the city evacuation map and
[02:01:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7303s show the arterials that are applied.
[02:01:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7307s What is the traffic count of those different arterials and what is the capacity
[02:01:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7313s versus the actual number-
[02:01:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7314s Service, yeah
[02:01:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7315s ... evacuation level service, yeah.
[02:01:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7317s Because doing it off of vibes is not part of this mission.
[02:02:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7322s An additional question I think that I have is,
[02:02:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7327s I think that there needs probably more focus and attention.
[02:02:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7331s And so does it make sense to... I guess there's three options.
[02:02:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7336s It's like we scramble something together in order to adopt the
[02:02:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7342s comprehensive plan at the end of the year, or we delay the adoption of the
[02:02:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7347s comprehensive plan in order to more adequately address this, or we accept that it's
[02:02:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7351s not going to be adequately addressed in the adopted comprehensive plan in terms of
[02:02:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7354s comprehensive plan, but that we're already going with the plan.
[02:02:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7359s And I just want to consider those options if that makes sense.
[02:02:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7364s And to be able to inform the public in some way that-
[02:02:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7367s Yeah
[02:02:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7368s ... it's not being ignored.
[02:02:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7369s Yeah.
[02:02:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7372s Okay, anything else for the good of the order? Okay, then we're journeyed.
[02:02:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7376s Take care.
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Okay. Are we good, Emily? Okay, very good.
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Okay, welcome everybody to Wednesday, September 9 regular meeting Spokane Plan
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Commission. Emily, will you please take roll?
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President Bank?
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Here.
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Vice President Patterson?
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Here.
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Commissioner Lenhart?
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Here.
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Commissioner Madsen?
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Here.
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Commissioner Rasmind?
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Here.
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Commissioner Tausch?
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Here.
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Commissioner Williams?
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He's absent.
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Commissioner Yachtz?
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Also absent.
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We do have a quorum, and then Council Member Katinkski is absent.
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And Community Assembly liaison, Linda Carroll?
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Present.
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Good to go.
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Very good. Thank you. Okay, before we get into the agenda, we want to open up the
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floor for any folks that would like to make any comment on items not on today's
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agenda. Do we have anyone in the room?
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Seeing no one, is there anyone online?
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Okay, with that, we'll go ahead and close the public comment and move on to
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approval of the August 26, 2026, meeting minutes. Can I get a motion, please?
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So moved.
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Second.
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Motion and a second. Is there any discussion?
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Hearing none, all those in favor say aye.
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Aye.
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Aye.
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Those opposed, nay.
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Okay, minutes are passed. We will skip over the council liaison report and move on
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to community assembly liaison report with Linda.
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Okay. At the September 3rd Community Assembly meeting, I encouraged all of the
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representatives to work with their neighborhood councils on their response to the
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future land use map. I provided basic information about resources and how to enter
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a public comment and reminded the assembly that the public comment period will
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close on October 2nd. Friday. I also
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note that Commission President Bank's characterization of certain public comments
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made at our last meeting and recorded in the minutes is thereby made available to
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the public, who, however, will not be in a position to assess that characterization
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until the comments are made public, which unless I'm misinformed, has not yet
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happened. If I'm mistaken, please let me know.
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Is that the conclusion?
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Yep. That's it.
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Okay. And if I could ask just a clarifying question, you're asking by made public,
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in other words, the meeting video being posted online?
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The meeting video and the minutes, yeah, which will be in the packet.
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Okay. Very good.
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Okay, moving on to president report.
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I would just echo
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what community assembly liaison just mentioned, that comment period is open.
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We've received quite a lot of, I think, really good comment.
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We have received at least one neighborhood's official comment, I'm imagining based
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on some of those meetings that came out of community assembly.
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So, again, for the public, we are reading all of those.
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I at least am reading all of those. I suspect my fellow commissioners are as well.
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So please do keep it coming. I think it's really good quality feedback and
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at least some of them have caused me to ask some interesting questions and think of
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some interesting things. So, with that, we will move on to secretary report with
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Spencer.
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Yeah. Can I just ask a question, Linda, if you...
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Are you talking about the video from the last workshop?
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I'm talking about video from, I believe it was
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in the early part of the meeting of the Plan Commission.
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But in any case, they're memorialized in the minutes.
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Yeah, but you're talking about the
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most recent workshop. I just checked. That is online.
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So if you look at the Plan Commission website, there's a link that says view
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meeting videos. That is-
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Comments that have been characterized by the commission president are not available
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to the public.
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Oh, so you're not talking about comments from a member of this body, you're talking
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about comments from the public being made publicly available?
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No. Well, what I'm saying is the president of the Plan Commission characterized
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certain public comments in the meeting, and that's memorialized in written form in
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the minutes. But the public who has access to the meeting recording and will
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eventually have access to the minutes, as far as I know, unless I'm mistaken, and
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please correct me if I am mistaken, that public cannot assess the statements
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made by reading the original documents because the original documents are not yet
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available to the public. Is that a correct statement?
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So I think I understand now. We generally put all the comments in the hearing
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packet, which we'll prepare in advance of the actual hearing.
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Okay. But currently, the public may view that video and may, within two weeks, read
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those minutes and have that characterization available but will not have the
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original documents that are being characterized available for, whatever, another
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month or so.
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Yeah, those will be included in the hearing packet.
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Okay.
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Okay, thanks. I just wanted to make sure I understood.
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I wanted to introduce Ryan Roller.
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He is a new legal intern for us, so he's going to sit in on our meetings.
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You want to just tell us a little bit about yourself?
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Yeah, I'm Ryan Roller. I'm a 3L at Gonzaga, which is like the last year of law
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school. But I'm working for the city attorney's office right now, the city, and I'm
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really looking forward to working with you guys more and hopefully making the
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community a better place. So yeah.
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Thank you. Welcome.
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Thank you.
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Lastly, some of you, if you've been watching city council agendas, like everyone
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does here, I'm sure,
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Lauren Pangborn has been nominated as a Plan Commission member.
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I expect council will take action on that tonight, so I don't see her in the room,
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but-
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She was at our last meeting.
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Okay.
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She did come to the last meeting and sat in the audience.
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It's on the agenda for tonight, so I expect action to be taken.
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So she'll be sitting on Plan Commission for our next meeting,
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and I think that covers everything I have.
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Very good.
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Okay. Moving on to Transportation Commission liaison.
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Oh, sorry. We didn't have one this month.
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Very good. Okay. We are hustling through the pre-meeting stuff here. Okay.
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With that, we will move on to approval of current agenda.
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Can I have a motion, please?
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Motion.
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Second.
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Motion and a second. Is there any discussion?
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All those in favor say aye.
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Aye.
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Those opposed, nay. Okay, we have a current agenda, and we'll move on then directly
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to a Build Spokane update with Tim.
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We're
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getting there.
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Okay, Tim, we're at your service.
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It's good.
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It has worked in the past.
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Okay. Let's see here.
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I
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like
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the way that all the T's intersect. It's cute.
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Yeah, I see them.
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So good afternoon. Here to talk a little bit about the Build Spokane code
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modernization. Don't have a lot to update on today.
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Just going to change how to think of this now.
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Okay. So here, again, project calendar. We're in the drafting phase.
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The drafting's probably going to take a little bit longer.
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As you know, I think we've done module one partially.
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We've kind of hit a place where we need to move forward in the project in order to
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come back to the process and procedure section and really hone in on that.
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And so the consultant has moved on to module two.
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Right now, internally, we have a draft of the zoning districts
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And then probably within the next week or so, I anticipate getting the second part
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of module two, which is actually the use table itself and the list of uses with a
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consolidated use table. Obviously, with the fires last month,
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our priorities had to shift, and so we got a little bit away from this project.
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And so we're probably targeting at least,
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probably not adopting before February of next year.
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But certainly, we're still targeting quarter one.
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Again, module one was administration and procedures.
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The module two was zone districts and uses, and then we'll shift on to development
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and design standards. But what I wanted to talk about today was development
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review and the development review process in particular because I think it's
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important that we
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have a unique opportunity here. So development review is the city's system for
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moving a project from vision to reality.
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So somebody comes in with a concept to, they have a CBO, and they're able to occupy
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the building. And I've bolded two words here, system and outcome, because that's
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really what we're talking about here, system and outcome.
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The end goal here is not necessarily a building permit. That's a means to an end.
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We're really focused on what is the outcome that we're trying to achieve more
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holistically.
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But the process brings together the regulations, the people, information,
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decisions, and the processes involved in those land use technical review,
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permitting construction inspections.
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Okay. So I mentioned we have a unique opportunity here.
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We're in the midst of doing our comprehensive plan update.
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We're obviously doing the Build Spokane code modernization.
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We're also updating our permitting software. We're going from Acella to Llama.
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We've also initiated a conversation with the Washington State Auditor's Office.
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They have
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a division that does lean processing review and so we've engaged with those
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folks, and it looks like they're going to come here and do some process mapping for
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us. So this really gives us an opportunity to be more deliberate in how the system
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works, how it supports staff, and how it serves our customers, because it should do
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both.
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Okay.
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So to what, I guess, what is the chronology of those inputs there?
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Because it seems like
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the last two should probably be in place before Build is
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adopted, or ideally Build should react to those last two,
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be able to at least.
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Yes, I think you're probably right in that regard.
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So obviously comprehensive plan has got to come first and then we can follow with
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the code. I think the hope and the intent here is that the lean process will help
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us to inform,
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not necessarily the code, but how we administer the code.
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So, the processes within the code, so if we just pick conditional use permit, for
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example,
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is defined in the code. These are the steps that you would take, and then the
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overall system and process we would actually build.
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And then the Llama, the permit system should be implemented, hopefully, I think by
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the end of the year, I think is where we're at on that.
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So that's coming.
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So development review is complex, but structure matters.
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So having a structured system truly matters.
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It talks about purpose, it explains the roles, it sets expectation.
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There's a sequence, there's decision points, and then where those handoffs occur.
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So it creates that common framework that allows different projects to move through
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the system in a consistent and understandable way.
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And I'm going to tie this all together at the end because I think this really comes
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back to some of the overarching themes that we've heard through the Build Spokane
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process from many of our stakeholders.
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Systems produce outcomes. So I'm going to use my washing machine analogy here.
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I've been testing this out for the last week and if you're wondering, yes, I do my
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own laundry too, but so when we think about a washing machine,
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the input is dirty clothes and the expected output is clean clothes, and that's
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what we expect out of that system. Within that system, within the washing machine,
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there are different processes. You've got fill, you've got wash, drain, rinse,
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all sequenced accordingly, right?
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And then in some cases, maybe you add a little fabric softener in there, and that
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happens at the rinse cycle. So there's some things that may happen concurrently
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too. And our development review process should really be no different.
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There is a sequence of events that must occur, but some of those events can occur
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simultaneously.
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And again, the outcome of the project is vision to reality.
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We want clean clothes at the end of the day.
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And if any of those processes within the washing machine fail, it impacts whether
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we have clean clothes or not.
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So it's important that all of those processes work together.
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Again, every process has a purpose. Why does it exist?
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What are we trying to accomplish? What information is needed?
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Who needs to be involved? What should come out of it? What happens next?
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This is really our opportunity to ask ourselves, why are we doing what we're doing?
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Is there a different way? Is there another way? Is there a better way?
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What can we do, again, to achieve that desired outcome?
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Can I-
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Sure.
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Can I just call attention to that piece at the very bottom in bold there?
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Yeah.
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I'm assuming, and I maybe just want to point this out in case it's not, that
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there's some mechanism that's being built in, some sort of feedback loop mechanism
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that's being built into this opportunity to memorialize that because I think
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that's where we potentially have run into trouble in the past is it's just been
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the way that we do it, and we sort of add a little patch on because of this thing
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changed, then another patch, and then we have this agglomeration of patches with a
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process from 20 years ago somewhere in the middle.
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And I don't see at least a mandate somewhere to be
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evaluating those things and asking those questions that you're rightly pointing out
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there.
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I think what you're describing is part of that process of change management, and I
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believe that will be an outcome of the lean process because really what we're
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talking about is continual process improvement here, and that should be an outcome
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of the lean process.
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I just want to add to that, because I think that is a concern.
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But in my observation, as I've been here and from
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before I was here as well, I think one of the challenges is that we pay a lot of
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attention to the standards within a code, what you can build, where you can build
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it. We have not historically paid a lot of attention to the process.
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And so it's, in a way, it's easier for us to reform height limits or
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building coverage or some of those things because they're visible and it's easy to
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get the public engaged and excited about it.
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But when we talk about our development review process, it's largely internal and
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the stakeholders tend to be professionals who can figure out how to work within the
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system well enough, even though it isn't optimally designed.
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And so it just isn't some of those things that's screaming out for constant
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attention.
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And that's a great segue here because our process should really be designed for our
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customers. We talk a lot about public engagement and meeting people where they are.
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And I think our process has to do that same thing.
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We can't expect all of these varied stakeholders to come to us.
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They have different levels of experience, resources, familiarity with
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city processes. You have a homeowner versus contractor, developer.
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We have to figure out how we establish a process that
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is designed for all of those folks.
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And so
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again, the system should be designed to support that range of customers while also
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working effectively for us. So
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my view of how we do things now is we've established a process, and now we expect
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people to follow our process. And that doesn't always work well.
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So this is our opportunity to maybe take a step back a little bit and say, "Hey,
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how can we maybe better serve the customer, be more responsive to the customer,
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while still serving our own needs?"
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So we have to understand who our customers are and what their needs are.
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So we have to make clear what's required, why is it required, what is the customer
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expected to do, what will the city do, and then again, that handoff of what happens
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next.
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Something that I think we're going to hear more of is this phrase of, "Go slow to
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go fast." This was something that came up in our conversations with the state and
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the lean folks.
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It's not all about speed. Certainly we want to process permits faster.
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There's no question that that's what we want to achieve.
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But there are also some other benefits to having a more defined and established
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process.
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So, the idea here is that we spend more time upfront identifying and addressing
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issues so that on the backside, things go much more smoothly, and we can get that
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permit out the door quickly. When somebody comes in and submits a building permit,
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that project, in my view, is real. They're ready to go. They want their permit.
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That's not the time to start debating whether or not they meet zoning requirements
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or not. We should have dealt with that ahead of time.
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And so we want to focus on the building permit being the technical review of the
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standards, which could include zoning standards.
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Obviously, we want to make sure they meet setbacks, et cetera.
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But it's more of a validation stage than a truly in-depth
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review.
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So again, better structure upfront will also make projects easier for staff to
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manage throughout the review. We also want to make the system visible.
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A well-defined development review system should be documented and understood.
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It should show processes, how they connect, who's involved, where decisions occur.
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To my knowledge, we don't even have a flowchart of our development review process.
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So we've contacted that Washington State Auditor's Office, Center for Government
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Innovation, and they are the folks that specialize in lean.
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They've done projects like this all across the state.
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We've had a couple conversations with them so far.
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They're really excited to come and to help.
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So we've set up an initial workshop meeting, probably the end of October is
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what we're looking at. And then hopefully what will follow is the process mapping
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to occur, I would guess, December, January timeframe, so that we can
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document what the process looks like today and really start to define what we want
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it to look like in the future.
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Again, this is really an opportunity for us.
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So tying this all back together, what is it that we're trying to achieve?
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Well, we want to develop a review system that's clear, predictable, consistent,
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responsive, efficient, coordinated, adaptable.
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Similar to what we've talked about with Build Spokane and the code modernization.
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We want a code that's clear, consistent, predictable, enforceable,
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a code that we can administer.
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So we're really just trying to tie it all back together.
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The process is an extremely important part of the overall
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development review system, the ecosystem.
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You've heard me talk about the ecosystem, really creating that
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place where people want to come here and want to develop.
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And we've created an environment that encourages that.
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We're fair, we're reasonable, we're equitable.
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Our codes are clear and consistent, and people know what to expect.
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I would venture to guess that most developers are going to want to take the path of
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least resistance, and we should provide that to them.
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That does not mean that we're going to waver on standards.
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We still need to establish a minimum bar.
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And I would also suggest that most developers, whether the bar is way up here or
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down here, they just want to know where it is, and then let them determine whether
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they want to achieve it or not, or perhaps go elsewhere.
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I would say, as long as people know where it is, they'll likely do it.
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So again, the goal is a better outcome, not simply a
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faster process.
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So really, where do we go from here?
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My hope in presenting this to you is just to maybe have a little brief discussion,
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solicit some feedback. Are we on the right track?
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Are we approaching this through the right lens?
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What are we missing? Are there other opportunities?
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So with that, I'll open it up to you all.
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Okay, thank you, Tim. Questions? Go.
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I think it's great. I think everything so far, a lot of what you touched on are
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things I hear from developers and builders in what I do.
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So, especially knowing where it's at.
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They want to know where the baseline is and everything. So I think that's awesome.
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And the slowest, smoothest, fastest is pretty much it's on point.
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That's where it needs to be.
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Yeah.
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Great.
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Oh, did I hear you say you used a consultant during your process of some sort?
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So, well, we have two consultants.
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We have a consultant that's helping us with the code update, code modernization,
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that's Clarion Associates and Kimley-Horn.
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And then, we're working with the state auditor's office, who provides consulting
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services to local governments for free. Of course, nothing's free.
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That's why they say it's a free lunch.
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So-
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An additional cost
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... so they're going to be helping us with that process mapping.
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And who gives them the direction that they should look at or what your overall
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goals are for doing? I mean, it's a review-
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Our staff is. So yeah, they have a process where we have
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to create a charter document that we'll give them, which establishes what
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our goals are and what we hope to achieve.
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The initial conversations have been very positive, very good. They're very excited.
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The person that's been assigned to us actually lives in Moscow, so she comes to
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Spokane quite frequently and is familiar with our community.
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So she was really excited to have an opportunity to work here.
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Thanks.
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Two comments. One was just,
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I think this is probably clear to everybody, but just perceptions are
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more important than reality sometimes especially when it comes to how people choose
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to develop land. And so,
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I think that in a lot of ways, I think over the past 10 years,
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that it is much easier to...
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I think the city's been very predictable.
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And the perceptions lag after that, right?
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I can talk about more about that in other jurisdictions anyway.
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But the other thing that I wanted to ask is,
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what methods are there, I guess, to
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improve processes or look at processes that involve
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other departments, and maybe potentially where there are conflicts between
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different departments and how they function?
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I guess I just think about fire, water, and engineering services and what ability,
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I guess, do we have here to be able to
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negotiate those processes with those departments?
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I think the best answer that I can give is we are currently coordinating with some
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of those outside departments and I think trying to understand what their needs
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are. And
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I think by establishing a process, we're not only setting an expectation for a
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developer, but for ourselves internally as well.
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So in my view, the process could be such that
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somebody comes in with an idea, they go through a pre-development meeting, which
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really talks about the high level, "Hey, the use is permitted.
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This is the process that you'll have to go through in order to get approval, and
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then you can move on to building permit," and really walk them through that.
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They come in with conditional use permit, site development permit.
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That's our opportunity to take a very big picture, holistic view of the
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project. It's an opportunity for us to share that with some of those outside
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departments and outside agencies, solicit their feedback, and then we have an
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opportunity to condition that approval.
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"Hey, when you submit for a building permit, make sure that you've addressed..."
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These building code issues or these fire code issues, or if the state comes back,
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if Wash Dot comes back and says, "We need some traffic improvements," there's an
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opportunity to condition that at that point in time. Now it's a known, right?
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That's not being dropped on a developer after they submit a building permit.
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It becomes a known now. And if we can do that across the board to fire and
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utilities as well, I think people will start to feel more comfortable that they're
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being heard and that the applicants at the end of the day are complying with
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the requirements and the requests because there's some factual basis, there's a
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consistent process that was followed, and there are no surprises at the end of the
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day. Right? So now they know that the next step in their process, which is the
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design phase and ultimately submitting for a building permit, they now should have
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a much, much better, clearer idea of what they have to do in order to get their
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permit because that for them, they want that permit so that we can
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both achieve that ultimate outcome, which is the construction of that project.
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So I think that's what we're shooting for.
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I think this process could help in that by, again, really establishing those
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expectations for not just developers but for ourselves.
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Accountability is, I think what really comes to mind here, is really trying to hold
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ourselves accountable and each other accountable.
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The thoughts...
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Well, I just want to jump in, first of all saying, bravo.
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I do think those are the right outcomes and the right principles.
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I think the process mapping thing is going to be a really, really interesting
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exercise and there's going to have to be a lot of navel-gazing there and saying,
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"Is this the right process or not?" And if it's not the right process, what is the
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right process and how can we improve things?
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I would still love to see some sort of mandated feedback loop or something like
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that in there that
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puts in place something that says, thou shalt make sure you're constantly
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monitoring effectiveness of these programs by some mechanism or something along
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those lines, because I think it's too easy, given all of the complexity and
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everything that you just discussed, it's too easy to be like, "There, we fixed it.
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Done. Moving on."
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And I think we lose this opportunity or the magnitude of the
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opportunity bleeds away over time if we do that.
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So I'd like to point that out, one, and two, call special attention to clarity.
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I'm dealing with one issue in Title 17 right now that is
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just not written. It's just not written in the language.
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It's just an interpretation and it's fundamentally different than what's written in
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the language, and my argument has been how is the average person who's reading
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this supposed to understand that that's the interpretation when the language says
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it's over here? And I think finding those things, I think part of that will come
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out of the process conversation, but also just as part of the larger Title 17,
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trying to find those phantom code and phantom process moments in
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there that are making people crazy in their...
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I know personally of at least four projects that that one specific issue is
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killing.
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And that's not nothing that we want to see.
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I'd love to know what that is.
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Yeah, me too. More than happy to talk about it.
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Pavement makers.
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Let's just say pavement makers.
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Oh. Yeah. And then, just to be clear, my expectation of this system itself,
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it doesn't live in the code, it's an administrative process that we follow.
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It should be clear and consistent, it should be visual.
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We should be able to provide that to folks, but that's not something that I think
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really lives in the code.
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Yeah.
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The processes that make up the system live in the code.
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Is the vision that that,
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whatever memorializes that process or processes, whatever, is that
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something that will be publicly available also?
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Because I think that that's something that would really back to the point about
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perception, and I think here's what you can expect.
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This is our own roadmap that we're holding ourselves to, so if it doesn't go that
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way, let us know. Yeah.
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Yes, and I think that really speaks to expectations.
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So as I said, the process today isn't really on paper.
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It's institutional knowledge and this is how we do it.
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But, to my knowledge, there's no flowchart, or at least there's no
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robust flowchart that shows you what the process is.
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I think maybe folks think it's intuitive. I don't know.
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When you're dealing with a wide range of customers, you need to be able to provide
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something because that really sets and establishes the expectation.
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I think anything we can do to keep that process consistent, regardless
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of what the application type is, up to a point, and then you have
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decision points where things may go a different direction.
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But anything we can do to standardize that will really help establish that
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expectation of what people can expect.
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The state has given us the shop clock, which
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in 120, 160 days, we should have no
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problem achieving that, and I would like to do so good that we
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don't even get remotely close to any of those time frames because I think we can.
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If we do it systematically, I think we can get to that point.
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And I really want to commend your, the consultant's approach with all of this.
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I think from what I've seen at least, this has been a really systematic approach to
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it, and so I want to commend you all for doing this.
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This is big and complicated and I think the way that you all have chosen to eat the
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proverbial elephant here is really logical and ordered and methodical, and
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that's what it's going to take to do this well and capture the opportunity that you
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started with.
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I appreciate that. Thank you. Okay. Anything else?
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All right. Just real quick, I'll do the last
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few slides. I'll be back soon. I don't want to be too committal, but
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I'll be back soon. Got a QR code. Always happy to hear feedback
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from folks and anything that's really been eating at you or anything from the
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zoning standpoint that you want to talk about or make us aware of, I'm happy to
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take those comments.
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Great. Well, thanks so much, Tim. Appreciate it.
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Thank you.
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Okay, so we'll let Tim clear out and we'll move on to a discussion of the flume
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with at least Brandon. I don't see Tyrrell anywhere.
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Tyrrell's out.
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Tyrrell's out. Okay, so we go to Kevin.
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So you get me.
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Beauty. We haven't had you in a while, Kevin.
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What's that?
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We haven't had you in a while.
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This way I get to make more snotty jokes about how I do this.
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That column is the worst.
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I'm just steering the map today since it's a Brandon show.
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Okay.
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Yep. So Brandon Whitmarsh, preferred alternative.
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I'm going to do a presentation quickly covering some of the common themes we've
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heard from comments so far. Some of these are coming from the interactive map, some
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of these are coming from the packet that you guys received directly, really
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focusing on some of the ones that we've heard multiple comments on.
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And then there'll be time for open discussion on things that you guys would like to
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talk about as well. Kevin's here with the interactive map.
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We can bounce back and forth with the presentation slides and that as well.
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Just want to highlight,
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always the question of whether it's hard or not.
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Again, the preferred alternative is the basis for a lot of this decision-making,
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and again, focusing today's presentation on comments and things related to
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areas of change within that preferred alternative.
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There are comments on the interactive map online, there are comments that we've
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received that are outside of those areas.
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Today's presentation is largely focused on these areas.
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Can you just refresh our memory? So I know the preferred alternative was adopted in
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May, but when were those drafts originally discussed?
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When did that conversation start?
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The draft of-
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The preferred alternative
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... mapping from this stage to the-
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When did we first see preferred alternative maps?
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We had the two options there originally.
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Oh.
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That's a good question
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I feel like it was-
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Yeah.
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To clarify, May is council.
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Correct. That's what I'm saying. So like, when did we start talking?
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A month before that. Because like we-
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We've been having conversations since January.
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Okay.
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So about a year.
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Yeah.
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That feels like a really important data point.
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Yeah.
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And the Preferred Alternative itself, is the end product of a lot of discussions.
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Because we had one through three, and then this is four.
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Right. Multiple workshops, and multiple public events, and then winnowing it down
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with Burk Consulting, a consultant on this project, to get to that final version
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that you see was, yeah, at least a year's work.
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Okay. Thank you. I think that's a really important data point, because I'm hearing
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a lot about, "Oh, the flume is just being dropped at the last minute," and those
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sorts of things. And it's, as I understand it at least, is a parcel by parcel
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translation of the Preferred Alternative, which, as we just discussed, has been
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being discussed for over a year.
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Yeah. You might recall when we announced the first complete draft flume, we brought
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that exhibit, and I can bring that poster back. Oh, thanks.
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I added it to the-
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You added it.
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It's on the slide now.
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You know. You can kind of see, the colors you see on that right-hand map...
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I'm stealing your slide, I'm sorry.
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The colors you see on that right-hand map, those are where the flume kind of
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changed from that baseline conversion.
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The old system converted to the new system, and then to implement the alternative,
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there were some areas that were changed.
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The colored areas on the right, you see, are the ones that changed.
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And then if you look at that against what the Preferred Alternative is, it's very
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close. There are some differences.
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The Preferred Alternative, it's hard sometimes for folks to look at that because it
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was not even the goal, in the sense of the amount of change shown.
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It was the maximum possible areas that we might look at for that change.
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But ultimately, the change that you see now, the colors that you see now, are
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targeted towards that projected population, that projected housing need, and then
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of course, the other needs that were identified through the visioning processes.
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I'll stop doing your presentation for you.
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Thank you for that.
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Any other questions on this before we hop into specifics?
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Well, I guess there's one more slide before we get into specifics.
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We've talked a number of times about open space.
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Last Planning Commission workshop, I mentioned that when we did the conversion of,
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or when we designated all city parks as open space, as well as the river, and some
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additional strategic locations of open space, it increased the city's open space by
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16%. We're continuing to look at city-owned property at the moment.
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What are either parks properties that isn't designated a park, those kinds of
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things, to consider where there are additional opportunities.
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An example is up on the South Hill, the wastewater facility.
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It has walking paths. It operates as open space.
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It is a long-term non-developable site.
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Potentially, that's an opportunity to be considered open space.
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So, we will be working with those departments and ensuring that we're not proposing
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open space for land that isn't necessarily long-term city property.
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And then we'll bring forward kind of a full suite of...
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Sorry, you had a question first.
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More just a, is there a way, this is one of those like we write all the paragraphs,
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do people read the paragraphs? Of making sure that it's clear that open space
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is city-owned property, that it is for public lands,
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as opposed to private land that is currently not developed.
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So, oh.
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Go ahead.
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Oh, I was going to say, so the open space land use is not intended to only be
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publicly-
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Okay
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... owned land. I believe as it's written, it's already more expansive than that.
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Because we wouldn't want to prevent Spokane County's conservation futures
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from owning property-
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Yes
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... that they would like to own in perpetuity as open space,
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that isn't owned necessarily by the city.
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No.
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So those kinds of things. And then I think the distinction you're kind of getting
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at will likely come at the Build Spokane level in more than one zone
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related to open space.
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Okay.
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Can I answer that a little bit?
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Yeah.
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So, going back to the beginnings of our discussion about open space, probably late
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last year, to this date, we have an open space land use designation in our
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comprehensive plan, but we don't have an open space zone.
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And it's made it a little difficult where protection is the goal rather than open
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use and public use to... It's just another layer to like, okay, but the zoning also
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makes it clear this is an area of conservation.
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Yeah.
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So from the beginning, the discussions of Build Spokane has been to have a
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conservation kind of open space type of zone. Now that zoning, this is land use.
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Right. I know. It's hard because we have to wait, and they are separate.
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Yes.
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And they are going to be more different than they used to be.
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So for the flume development, and why this is a topic, we don't always
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know everywhere that people have purchased for conservation purposes.
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Like finding that non-city-owned or non-government-owned open space is difficult.
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Mm-hmm.
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And so what Brandon's talking about was when we built the flume, we translated it
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from the old system to the new system.
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We just selected all of the parks on a layer of city parks.
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But that, what Brandon has identified and is looking into, is there's a number of
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properties that are really open space, but they're not actually park parks.
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Yeah.
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And so this is a refinement of that.
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This doesn't mean that there isn't room to talk about another parcel that maybe a
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property owner wants to be private.
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Also, you'll recall the Excelsior Wellness Comp Plan amendment a couple years ago.
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Part of their property was part of that amendment that's now being implemented, was
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to put part of their property as open space. That'll be open space on here.
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Even though it's privately owned, it's privately protected.
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It's also publicly protected, but it's owned by Excelsior.
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In addition to that, there have been several public comments,
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either alluding to, implicitly or explicitly, that there should be
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property that is privately owned,
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that it be designated as open space because it's in the community's interest, but
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not necessarily the property owner's interest.
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Mm-hmm.
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And my question is just
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that's maybe a bigger question. But,
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obviously there may be properties that are ecologically important
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or part of habitat corridors, but they have historically not been zoned to be
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protected. They're currently owned by a property owner who could do whatever the
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zoning allows.
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And it seems like there's a lot of
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interest in that one property.
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Mm-hmm.
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And the property owner's interests can't be discounted.
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Right.
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Because they in fact do own the property.
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And so I guess my question is like, how do we balance...
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Well, I don't know if we have an answer, but how do you balance the different
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competing priorities?
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There is an example that, in the presentation slides, of private property open
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space.
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I'm sure there is then.
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I think the only other, and I'm trying to remember what it's called now, something
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east of...
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Stormwater one?
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No, no.
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Hazels Creek?
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Thank you.
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You got there.
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I was like, I know a few-
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It's like Stormwater slash-
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... particular locations where private property was designated open space as part
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of the initial draft.
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There-
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So I'll put it that way. Yeah
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... there is such a thing as private property rights.
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Yeah.
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And guests have rights to certain things. It's not impossible.
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I'm not saying there's no path towards maybe identifying some land for that.
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But we have to do it very carefully, and we have to do it systematically.
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We cannot do it on a spot, like yard by grid.
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Especially if it's like, "We don't like this guy.
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He shouldn't be allowed to own." That's not possible.
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One of the more common routes for a comprehensive plan, and this comprehensive plan
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does this as well, is to identify areas of higher sensitivity.
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Areas where movement corridors are known to occur, or where there is existing
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habitat. And then through the process of through Build Spokane or other city
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programs and policies, you can
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work to help that property owner see there might be a better use.
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But as far as-
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deciding the community deciding so-and-so shouldn't be allowed to build this
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property, that's incredibly touchy, and we'd want to be very careful how we have
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those conversations.
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Hazel's pretty good. The example is the, we designated the wetland open space.
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So, it comes from maybe a mapping change, but not necessarily a
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physical on the ground change. Development code would already prevent them from
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likely building in that critical area.
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But acknowledging on these larger scale areas of private property where that
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development would not occur, we might as well acknowledge that they are what they
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are, which is open space. But getting to Ryan's point,
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that doesn't necessarily mean it's public property.
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So, open space is not inherently public access for
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something. Yeah.
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I guess I just wondered, is there a process for getting something designated as
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open space? And then because then the city and/or people could point to,
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this is the process if you want to talk to the property owner and get-
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Outside of this process-
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Outside of the process, yeah
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... that would definitely be comp plan amendment land.
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Okay.
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And we've done those. We've had property owners who've wanted to say, "This is
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going to be in conservation, and we'd like to make sure that that's clear to
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everybody." That's absolutely a normal comp plan amendment process.
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So, I might be stepping on your toes with a future slide, but this is why that
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distinction between land use and zoning is so helpful.
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Yeah.
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Because,
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generally the closer you get to having actionable restrictions on somebody's
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ability to develop, the more concerned you need to be about infringing on their
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rights. Designating something as open space does not inherently
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establish a limitation on what you can build.
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It's pointing the direction for what the zoning should be.
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To answer your question, you could imagine a strategic property that the public
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identifies as of particular value for conservation, that's privately owned, that we
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could apply an open space land use designation, but leave the zoning in place so
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that the current property owner has not lost any rights to develop their land.
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But it's identifying that as a priority for future conservation.
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So, that could be a strategy that could make sense.
[00:48:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=2882s
I think we wouldn't want to just do that willy-nilly.
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Yeah.
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I think you'd want to do that cautiously.
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But it allows us to signal those intended future uses.
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That's why it's called a future land use map.
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And I think some of those distinctions are really important, especially in light of
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a lot of public comment that we have received is, "Yes, we hear you.
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These are important things. But yes, there are also private property rights that
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are considerations here." The one question that I wanted to ask with this, and I
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think I know the answer, but I want to be clear, is I know that once something is
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dedicated to park land, it's very difficult to un-dedicate it.
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That is not the case here, correct?
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This is not dedicating it as parks, so it doesn't run into that charter restriction
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for parks and later selling or surplusing or transfer or whatever.
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Parks are part of open space. They are not equivalent to open space.
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In fact, that's one distinction that we wanted to make clear.
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That's why the language in chapter three is this, is that open space doesn't equal
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hiking trails and public access. It might be protection, it might be the other two.
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So...
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Okay.
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I guess I do think it would be important, before obviously we have a public hearing
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on this, just for us to really understand the process.
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If we were to designate a privately owned property as open space in a comprehensive
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plan, what are the ramifications of that?
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What is the process for going about identifying those potential properties?
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Mm-hmm.
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And what are the
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property rights ramifications of that?
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Because I definitely know there has been substantial public comment related to
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that, and I fear that it'd be easy to ignore that public comment and/or brush it
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aside.
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But I take that ...
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Well, I know I've been in a lot of places in the city a lot of times.
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I don't live in every neighborhood, and I don't know.
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I'm not walking through the woods on, I'm not trespassing through the woods on
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private properties, walking my dog just because it's been vacant for 50 years.
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Not in their neighborhood at least. So.
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About to be-
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No, go ahead.
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I'll just offer, I think we've actually been talking about this.
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We do have a couple new planning commission members, and with one more coming on.
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We try on an annual basis to do a short training on property rights, and there's a
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letter from the State Attorney General's office that we'd like to review that kind
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of helps everybody understand that.
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We could set up some time for our legal department to do a short training on that,
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preferably before the hearing, so that you guys feel like you have some confidence
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there. So, I'll add that to the calendar if everybody's amenable to that.
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That'd be great.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then I know we have many more examples we want to talk about.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think the key thing we wanted to focus on here is we're really just talking about
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city-owned property at this point for conservation or for open space.
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Because previously it wasn't designated open space.
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Because, yeah, it hadn't been designated previously, and I think for our purposes,
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what would be helpful to know is, is the planning commission generally comfortable
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with us preparing those changes and giving them to you
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as just sort of a package in a spreadsheet or something, rather than having to go
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through one by one and identify each property?
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Yes.
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It didn't feel like a great use of time for us to go through every single property
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owner.
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Yeah.
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So, I hope that's great.
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Sure. Okay. And we can go back through it on the process.
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That's okay. Yeah.
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Okay. So one of the elements of the preferred alternative was additional
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mixed use and housing in Vinegar Flats along Inland Empire Way.
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So, on the left is the existing land use map, highlighting on the east side of
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Inland Empire Way along Latok Creek, the agriculture, and then
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residential low as being the primary land use in that area with a few mixed
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use properties. On the right is the draft land use map, the staff identification
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of how to implement that preferred alternative, looking at essentially
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combining the
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existing mixed use properties, and supporting that with residential high around it,
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as well as to the north of that mixed use and shortly west of Inland Empire Way,
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and I guess use my cursor potentially.
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You can see additional agriculture applied to existing agricultural
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operations.
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We have received a number of public comments asking for additional
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and/or different locations within this area for mixed use.
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The properties on the north side, I don't know if I can get-
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Extending up that cultural-
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Go down to the laser pointer and it'll highlight it.
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Here we go. There are requests up here for these existing agricultural properties
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to be designated mixed use, as well as separate property owners requesting
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mixed use along Inland Empire Way, further north than what we had originally
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proposed. So, given that some of those properties are existing
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agriculture properties and the community desire, CRSP
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also had a desire, planning commission defined agriculture confidently as
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agriculture with some housing, not housing with agriculture.
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So given all of those layers, wanted to bring this forward as a question of,
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do we reconsider the as proposed given
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the multiple requests we've received in this area? Do we go as proposed?
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We just wanted to have a conversation with you about this area, and if it means
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coming back at the next meeting and with time to think about it, then coming back,
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that's also an opportunity.
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Are there existing properties being used as business properties
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within there? That's the issue, right?
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The current use of those properties is-
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So, some of them, yeah. Some of them are operations related to agriculture.
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Some are just large buildings.
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Right. Yeah.
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The ones that we're being requested to add are those northern
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parcels. They want it to be the mix.
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They're not as clearly... It's hard to say.
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It's-
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I think there is no current business operation
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... I don't believe there's a business there, but-
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All of the-
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Buildings, but not businesses
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... all of the requests that we're getting are not about creating conformity with
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existing development.
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Yeah.
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That's what that one is.
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That's coming from property owners. Yes.
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Yeah. At least the one related to the northern portion.
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These, the current owner of what was an agriculture operation, but it's
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not anymore, it's permanently closed.
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That is a request for mixed use, and then there's a separate request for
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considering more mixed use just along Inland Empire Way between that and the
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existing location of the other buildings.
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Just to give you some context, we do have two small mobile home parks in the
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residential low that you see on the west side just south of 20.
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There you go, right there. Which is why they were left, that's why we left it
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alone. Also, when we were originally discussing this with you and internally, we
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tried to be very light with any de-designation of agriculture because there
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just isn't that much.
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And in this case, there were enough comments from folks about food access and
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local food production and local agriculture, that we tried to be very careful.
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But that's not your limitation, that was ours.
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So that's why we're coming to you to get some input as to what you think as far as
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expansion or movement or change.
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We have similar concerns that we do further down the
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195 corridor about egress and utility sufficiency and
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some of those challenges here. Or is it because we've got that out to the north,
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it's less-
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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In this case, this area as a mixed use, and some
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RH, is really predicated on that Inland Empire Way connection being restored, which
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is in the plan. That's in the comp plan as well, is to restore that connection.
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Without that connection, even from a market standpoint, we're not entirely sure
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that you could do what this is showing.
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Yeah.
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It all works together to make this successful.
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It's better to have throughput, and at this time, Inland Empire Way ends.
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Yeah, so.
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I'll just add, as far as 195 operations goes, that connection from
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195 or the through connection of Inland Empire Way is one of the strategies that's
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been adopted regionally to address those 195 issues.
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So the fact that this is further north on Inland Empire Way, I would say is
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consistent with that solution.
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Yeah, I just think we want to be, in addition to the points that you mentioned, to
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be careful about de-designating agriculture.
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But I think we want to just be really, really cognizant down there about not adding
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to the problem.
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But point well taken if that's what property owners are looking for. Yeah.
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But at the same
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time, it feels a little...
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I know we're not doing zoning here-
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Yeah
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... but it feels a little spot zoning-y to just do that parcel and...
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I think what might help your thinking, it might maybe focus, I think what if you
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consider it is, the question that we're really considering on our end too is, is
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it taking this mixed use node and moving it north?
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Is it stretching it out along the entire length, or is it having two nodes, a small
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node at the north? If you have feelings on those, on which of those you prefer, we
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can look at it and come back. We do have one more workshop in two weeks, so
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that would help us as well. We're not expecting you to know every detail about
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these properties. We'll have to go look at them no matter what.
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But that would help as well if you have some feelings on shape.
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Just from my perspective, narrowing it and stretching it seems the most logical,
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but I don't want to get into the fallacy of looking at something in a plan drawing
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and assuming that that's the best reality on the ground.
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And I don't know if those are one parcel deep, and that's what's generated that
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width in the purple right there. I would assume it is.
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They are one parcel, but they're larger than a single-family home parcel.
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Oh, sure. Yeah. Sure. So, if that's the case, then they're skinnying it up.
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Is it really possible? So-
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We would end up with cross designations if we-
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Yeah, and we don't want to do that, and so you would be dragging this really fat
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line up through, which runs into de-designating a lot of the agriculture, which I
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think runs some issues down there.
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So I guess given all of that, maybe it's not the end of the world to have a sort of
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a split area.
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Yeah.
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We could come up with an alternative to show you next time that's got a little
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smaller node up at the top, up along just south of the park and
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avoiding the conservation area.
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That's worth considering.
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We can look into that. I do think in total, just conceptually, if these properties
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were to be designated or portions of them, recognizing that we also
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added additional agriculture land use,
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the total land use might be about even in the end.
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I guess that's something I'd be curious to know as well, is what percentage of the
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agricultural land use in this area would we be reducing?
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Okay. Between 5% versus 30%, there's a very much difference.
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The math's really easy because it's the only place we have RA, agriculture, so.
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It's also difficult, though, because it's the only place in the city.
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We'll give you some summary statistics on that.
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We can look into how to do that north node and see maybe there's an extent to that
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that makes sense. So I'm just trying to think, what number does that look like?
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So if we report current acreage of ag designated versus proposed acreage-
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Yeah
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... under whatever scenarios we bring forward. Yeah. And there'd be two scenarios.
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There'd be this draft map that everyone's seen, and then with the changes that
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we've discussed here. So we can give you those three to look at.
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Here's a weird question. Can you do agriculture and mixed use?
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Certain uses would, I think not be, would be prohibited. Yes.
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Things like animal husbandry. Yeah. It would limit the choice.
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Also, just from the description of what the ag designation is,
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it doesn't make it very clear the ag value of that property, whereas designating it
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mixed, it could be anything. Yeah.
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There's no ag mix, nor would I suggest we have an ag mix.
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I'm just picturing in my head some-
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There are some things-
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... outcomes like the thing in Davis that's got gardens weaved around through the
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middle of it, and it's this bucolic thing that everyone loves and is- We have an
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urban agriculture ordinance already.
[01:02:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=3727s
Mm-hmm.
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That would be those compatible uses, but we should actually be protecting farmland
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from non-conforming uses because otherwise they get subject to nuisance lawsuits.
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So that's why we have the Farmland Protection Act in Washington, but it's not very
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strong.
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In general, we consider mixed to be more intense/dense.
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So by putting more mixed in this location, we could be bringing more people in that
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we could cause additional conflicts with the operations of the existing ag.
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Yeah.
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Those are the kind of things-
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Place, one of the two.
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These are the fun things we get to ask you guys because they're the great
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questions, so.
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Yeah. I acknowledge that it was a weird question, but-
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No, it's-
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... I thought I'd ask it anyway.
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I thought of it a few minutes ago, and I was kind of chewing on it too, so it's not
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unreasonable. But what we'll do is we'll come back with a two-node
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approach with some summary statistics just to give you an idea of what you're
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talking about, and we'll give it to you next time.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Moving on.
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This is a request both from the neighborhood, Anderson-Griffith neighborhood and
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Historic Preservation, to consider removal of residential high on the
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east side of Corbin Park. So the top picture being the existing land use,
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bottom being the draft land use, where there's that buffer off of division of
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residential high. The black box shows the historic district around Corbin Park, and
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just a request of essentially three half blocks to be removed
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from that residential high designation.
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I hear the concern, certainly. Part of me asks the
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question, I see Bill's got your hand up.
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Because this is a local district- Are there not standards in place
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that prevent--
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I see you, Jill, is before you, and then we can come to you.
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Are there not standards that would prevent out-of-scale development from
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occurring through the historic code rather than through this code?
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I believe what was brought before you most recently was the 150% of existing
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structure is the maximum size of the new structure.
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And design review-
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Still require review and all of that.
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So it wouldn't outright prohibit development at this-
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No, certainly not, but it would prohibit-
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Yeah
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... five-story high rises. So I guess that maybe
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begs the question in my mind of is it even really necessary, but, Jill, go ahead.
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Hey, guys. Thank you. I was just wondering, first of all, is there a new slide?
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Oh, there it is. I really wanted to see that.
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Oh, it was taking a while, wasn't it?
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It was.
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Sorry about that.
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It was.
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It was.
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And
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so now that I'm seeing it, I wanted to make sure I was looking at it accurately.
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And I just think it's so important that we
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don't focus exclusively on that corridor, because that doesn't make for a
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walkable, and engaged community.
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You have to have
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the bubbles, like what we've been talking about, the nodes and stuff.
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And there is a lot of protection
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already involved. So anyways, thank you. I was really talking about the slide.
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Okay. So you
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should see Corbin Park on your slide now, Jill. Do you?
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I see it now. Thank you.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Perfect. Just making sure.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yep. We're good. Okay. Linda, did you have a comment?
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Yeah, I just wanted to note that Corbin Park Historic District is on the National
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Register and on the state register.
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Is it on the-
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And on the local
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... it's the local, because the local one is the one with teeth.
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Right. But the thing is, it started at the national.
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It first got recognition at the national level, and then it worked its way down.
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Okay. Yeah.
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And it's also recognized for urban planning and for architectural planning as
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well as the architecture itself.
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I do see we have Megan Duvall on here, and Megan, if you're busy, you don't
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need to jump in, but maybe if you are available, you could comment just quickly on
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the historic district designation and how that interplays with development
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proposals. And I can fill in for her if she's busy, because she may just be
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listening in while she works on other things.
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Appreciate that.
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I am listening.
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Appreciate it. That's great.
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Sure.
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I'm sorry, Spencer. Basically just weigh in on that.
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So yeah, so underlying zoning doesn't change in terms of
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what can be built. But for us, we sort of looked at it and said, "Well, why bother
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upzoning that particular area?" Because all it does is it creates an untenable for
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us, somebody buys a property and says, "Well, the zoning says this."
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And then we're left to be like, "Well, yeah, it does say that you can build five
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stories, but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the neighborhood." So it'd be
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easier for us if that part was removed.
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We do have
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design review of new construction, and we also have design review over
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demolitions, so we can deny demolitions to contributing properties in historic
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districts. But anyway, I think that was our thought.
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I don't know if Logan's also listening.
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I don't know if you had anything else to add, Logan.
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Well, sorry to put you on the spot.
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No, that's okay.
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Thank you.
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He must not. Okay.
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I guess just echoing Megan's comment, in some ways
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by leaving that area within the historic district
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designated as residential high, it creates a conflict between
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the historic district's overlay and the land use map, and could lead to
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conflict, whereas leaving it designated as residential, or within the
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district
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puts the land use map in alignment with the historic district.
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And I don't think that being designated residential low would prevent any
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development that is 150% of what's already there.
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Because you'd be able to, anything that's a residential low, you can do a sixplex.
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You know, you could do all sorts of stuff that's going to be well beyond 150%.
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And I don't think anything that would be like RMF would, I don't think-
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Or you could never get it, yeah.
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Yeah. I would just say as far as
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for transparency and ease of use, it probably would make it
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easier for people that they don't have to check three different layers.
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So I do agree that carving that chunk out would probably help
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with that process. I do still have some conflict just on the
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concept of carving out specific parcels.
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But
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from this point of view,
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and for the fact that it's already on the edge, it does seem to make sense.
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It's just the blocks abutting the park.
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Yeah. It's just the half black line.
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Yeah. So the historic district are the half blocks facing the park, and then on the
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east end, it's the whole block on the east end.
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So we could just trim the RH off of those, and then the historic district would be
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consistent. The flow would be consistent with the historic district.
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Yeah, I just wanted to confirm that. So because initially I was misunderstanding.
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Sure.
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What is being requested is only within that black boundary-
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Yeah
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... which would leave some of the residential high designation around division.
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Yeah.
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Are we all understanding that? Okay.
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Yeah.
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Got it.
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Yeah. I agree. I think it's such a small change that it doesn't...
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I do have concerns about opening the floodgates for,
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well, my neighborhood should be excluded for this reason, and my neighborhood
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should be excluded for this reason, but this is in fact a documented set of codes
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that's underlying this-
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Mm-hmm
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... and not a subjective, I don't like-
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Not saying all situations are equal.
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Yeah.
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In this situation, you support.
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Yes.
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It's already hard enough trying to delve into what's allowed where.
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Yeah. And back to Tim's conversation about predictability and clarity and all of
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that, it probably does make sense.
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Thank you.
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Great.
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Okay, so another point of comments was questions about Hamilton Street.
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So in the draft proposal, there are no
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changes proposed between Indiana on Hamilton.
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I guess I should just give a quick context.
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Hamilton, down in the bottom left, that blue is Gonzaga's campus to the west.
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Ruby/Division is along the west side of this picture.
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There was no draft proposed changes between Indiana
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and Marietta, so just south of North Foothills in that area,
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along that corridor. Recently we had South Logan TOD plan, which had that
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northern-most boundary of Indiana, so there was a lot of changes to the south of
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that area. And that along with...
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Mainly that was the reason that we, as staff, had not put additional
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mixed use or residential high along this route.
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However, a number of public comments have asked what makes this any different than
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North Monroe or East Frank or some of the other things where we have done a
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treatment of a full block on each side of the main street of mixed use followed by
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another block or two of residential high.
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So just asking, should it receive similar treatment?
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There's been questions about that further north.
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Yeah.
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That was
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removed from the preferred alternative when we were having those discussions for
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displacement concerns. So this is truly the bounds of that conversation on
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Hamilton. It wouldn't be continuing up all the way throughout the city.
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But in this particular area,
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we would like your feedback on whether it should remain as proposed or potentially
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see additional changes based on treatment similarity.
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I do agree that it should be treated similarly to Sprague and Monroe in that
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otherwise we're going to run into the same problems that we've been bumping up into
[01:13:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4399s
already with our centers and corridors of people who have properties that face the
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street, and it's just this hard, tight, little boundary.
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And the rest of that corridor is already a kind of mix of
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residential, school, business, along that entire corridor,
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and keeping that hard corridor, I think will be problematic over the
[01:13:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=4426s
next 20 years.
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I do say though, the displacement concerns in that area
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don't, to me, feel fundamentally different than north of Foothills.
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Within the low-intensity residential on either side, I would have that
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same... I wouldn't feel differently about this area than I would feel about that
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issue north of Foothills. I travel this corridor a lot.
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So just with all the construction and everything-
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Yeah
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... coming through here way too much right now.
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And yeah, it feels a little bit different-
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Yeah
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... relative to, say, it feels like a more minor
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sort of arterial than some of those other bigger ones do.
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But your point is also well taken about having some elbow room and some
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flexibility. My feeling though, is that most of that activity is south
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of Illinois or Indiana, whatever.
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I always get those two mixed up for some reason.
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You know where that obvious stoplight is.
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Yeah. Totally.
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So yeah, I
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don't strong feeling either way on any like that. Linda?
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Having grown up in what was then known as St.
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Albans Parish and not Logan, I'd share the questions about displacement.
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I think there's still a certain number of more or less affordable homes
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there, and I'm a little concerned about if we start moving out too far from
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Hamilton,
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that some of those homes with some of those...
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Maybe, to my opinion, too many folks might face displacement there.
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I don't know. Those are kind of big family homes that I went to St. Albans School.
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Their kids lived there and what...
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Anyway, maybe I'm just being a little too sentimental, but.
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They're not real big on Nevada.
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Those houses are clearly one-family
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houses. I grew up in that area as well.
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There's always been businesses along the corridor.
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So acknowledging that-
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The heck that you just did is what we all do. It goes both ways.
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Is there a balance where we're not necessarily widening the mixed use zoning, but
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we're creating a buffer, a residential high?
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We leave the narrow mixed use, we have a-
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I think that's-
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... residential-
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Yeah
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... potentially completing the block, if you will, on each side-
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That's-
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... with a residential high, but not going as-
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That's essentially what we did in the Flume on Monroe.
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Yeah.
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Was not to extend the mix so much as it was to allow that RH on either side.
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Perfect.
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I'm just imagining from a developer's perspective as well, that they might be
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buying three or four properties that are adjacent, and they might still be able to
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do their mixed-use project even if the adjacent parcel is residential high because
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part of the property is multifamily and part of it is mixed use, and the mixed use
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portion is more likely to be facing into the corridor.
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Are we talking one lot line deep, though?
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Because we are running into barriers to neighborhood grocery.
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Yes.
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I think we're talking a block deep. Yeah.
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Okay, great.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well-
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Yeah, the one lot line thing is really terribly... Yeah.
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Scale, is that correct?
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That's the alley.
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Okay. Because this is a little complex-
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They don't really have them right there
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... I'm going to pull up the zoomable map of how this looks here for a second.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. That's okay. I was going to ask you those questions because I can't see.
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No, it's fine. That's why we have this.
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We do need to be mindful of time here because we had a bunch of extra time and
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we've been using it.
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I mean, we're just all talking about open space.
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So,
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hopefully what you can see... Yeah, you can see it. All right.
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So right now, what is along the corridor here is a single parcel.
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On the west side, if you wanted to just complete the block, Cincinnati does provide
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a nice boundary on the west side. What that means is that you could, on Cincinnati,
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have a multifamily across the street from single family.
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It's not the end of the world. I'm just saying that's the line.
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On the east side, obviously, we would want to be sensitive about Logan Elementary,
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but this northern bit, Nevada is just like Cincinnati. It would complete the block.
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As you get further south, of course, the streetcar blocks all rotate 90 degrees.
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You could talk about maybe half of that.
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We could pick a line, approximately the alignment of Nevada.
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That would be here, where my mouse is. I don't know if you guys can see it.
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So if we continue the line of Nevada, it would add three to four properties on the
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east side of the mixed zone. As you get further down here, it's more like three
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properties each. It provides that additional depth.
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It does give you a little bit of buffering.
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What you do get on the east side, and this just happens, is you have a
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multifamily next to a single family, but Bill Spokan is supposed to be looking at
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those transitions as well to try to help that.
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We already have that angled transition-
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Yeah, our current code has that now, where that last lot's height might be limited
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in order to provide a transition.
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Yeah.
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What we want to avoid is the wall. We have this, and then there's a house next
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door. And so anyway, my rapid suggestion would be
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maybe Cincinnati on the east would be a very limited expansion. Nevada on the...
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Or I'm sorry, Cincinnati on the west, Nevada on the east, and then we'll attempt to
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continue that line southward until we hit the rest of the RMH at India.
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If you're okay with that, we can draw that.
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And you probably want to deal with the split designation of the Logan Elementary
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site.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Just whatever the school-
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Just to-
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Cool.
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Yeah. And potentially that gets left as residential low, a number of the other
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schools that-
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Yeah, just move out the high school.
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Yeah.
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But yeah.
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That's how we've done-
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Something to be consistent there.
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All the way to Hamilton, take the RL all the way to Hamilton.
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Because right now the western little bit of their schoolyard is mixed.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I would, yeah. Carve that out.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. That's possible. I'm seeing nods. I'm not hearing.
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I just want to make sure-
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Yeah
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... because this is kind of consensus, so.
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Awesome.
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All right. We will do that. I'll give you back your presentation as soon as you're
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ready.
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Okay. And then...
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And I got to use my map. I've had this map for five meetings, and we just haven't
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had a need for it yet, so.
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Good.
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Okay, so the next few slides are in either direction, South Hill
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questions related to residential high.
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So in some respect, the first two are going to be requests to potentially expand
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residential high compared to what was put into the
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draft land use map, and then it'll be followed by a number of
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requests
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from the Comstock neighborhood, sorry, had to get the neighborhoods mixed,
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to potentially reduce some of what was proposed.
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So, the first one being in the Perry District, the existing land use map
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has residential high on the north half of this map.
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The staff proposed expansions are to the east and west of the Perry District
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itself, including a few additional properties designated mixed use to, again,
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talking about the large enough to have that developable parcel without being that
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single parcel deep. The requests for comments have
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asked us to consider
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wrapping that residential high around the entirety of the Perry District.
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And so that is-
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I was just going to say, what's the southern boundary of the purple on the-
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12th Avenue.
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12th Avenue.
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Yeah. Which is right now where the businesses stop right now.
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Yes. That is the last of the Perry District as it's developed.
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The pie always is showing through there thinking, "Wow, wouldn't it be great if
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this could just continue?"
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I know. There's supposed to be a-
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Around the corner.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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So, Grant Park, Grant Elementary,
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that's right here. Again, this is a case where residential high, even though it's
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just about conforming-
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Yeah
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... with what's around it, not necessarily saying that it'll develop.
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Understood.
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So this is the north side with the greenhouse-
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Okay
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The gas station, Zurich Way, a few of the different businesses and restaurants are
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kind of in this core area, and then down to Odyssey Food at the end.
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All right.
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Dentist.
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Our aerial's a couple years old. We're a couple months from getting the new ones
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in.
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But questions about whether
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you would consider expanding the residential high to surround the entirety of that
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business district.
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I think if it's that area, yes, definitely.
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That's such a logical node and such an appealing place, that
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that's one of those places that we want to, I would think, if we're being-
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Yeah, if we're doing this, we're talking about the north end
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... consistent with the things that we're talking about.
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Well, and if we're talking about identifying nodes where people want to be, and
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they want to gather, and there's things that they want to do, and there's transit,
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we ought to be allowing more intensity there.
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Yeah. And the transit runs directly up-
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Yeah
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... Perry there.
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That's a sort of a no-brainer to me.
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With that in mind, sorry to cut you off, but
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what would be a boundary that you would-
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I think right
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... just along the block each?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So Ivory's that north-south that goes right through the middle of the park, like it
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used to, one day.
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Yeah. It used to, but they-
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It was actually a little closer
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Yeah.
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Trust me, I like the park. Don't get me wrong.
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So that Ivory would be the west, then the east, we just continue down Helena, and
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then we just take it down a block to 13th, if that's okay?
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Yeah. What would the north be? There's not like a street there.
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11th along the park, down
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Ivory, across 13th, which is one block south of the end of the business district,
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and then east to
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Helena.
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That's south.
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All in a range. South is one block south of what is the existing end of the
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business district, so on 13th.
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So there's a street. 13th is straight.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. It's very-
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It's 14th, it breaks.
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Yeah. 14th that has the stairs that they were supposed to redo that-
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Yeah. 14th has a weird little thing in it, and I think it's like a third section.
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Because yesterday I walked that.
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Well, yeah, it's like an alley now, but it's technically a street. But anyway.
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Thank you.
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That helps us because we can wrap that, and we'll show that on the next one.
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Similar questions about expansion.
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So this is the South Hill end of Grand, if you will, as it almost
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gets to High Drive but is not there. So it's 37th and Grand.
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The 29th and Grand
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mixed use has been expanded up along Grand, which was part of that preferred
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alternative. And questions about whether to go any further south with the
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residential high.
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The staff decision to wrap the mixed use at the level that it was, was based off of
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the existing transit access and those kinds of things.
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So a decision to go further than that, while still, as you can see in the preferred
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alternative, generally, we would kind of want that to be directed by-
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Starbucks is on the corner.
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Is that 13th? That's 13th? Okay.
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The school on the northwest corner, Starbuck's, and a few on the other side.
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Yeah. Is in that-
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What will be now a new fitness center.
[01:25:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5144s
Nope, they decided-
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They backed out.
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They officially canceled that front end.
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Sorry about that. I'm a little behind.
[01:25:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5153s
But that's what that parking lot is.
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And the big issue-
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We haven't focused on it for a while, too
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... the concern from staff perspective is there is no frequent transit when they're
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down here.
[01:26:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5161s
Yeah.
[01:26:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5161s
Right.
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And so we didn't feel like we should expand it further south.
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Agreed.
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Yeah.
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And the current character of it fundamentally changes south of that intersection.
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Yeah. The decades of development switch.
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And the just the character of Grand Boulevard itself changes dramatically south of
[01:26:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5179s
that intersection. It's like, could you take it to High Drive?
[01:26:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5185s
Yeah, maybe. But
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Do happen to know, where is the southernmost transit stop on
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that sheet there?
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The frequent transit is actually the number four at the intersection of 29th and
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Grand. So that's actually-
[01:26:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5198s
So none of the transit goes past 29th.
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No north of this picture.
[01:26:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5201s
Yeah.
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So the transit does not continue along this way.
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There's no transit there?
[01:26:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5206s
Correct.
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I think there's a low frequency line that goes down there, if I remember right.
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There's one that goes east to west along 37th.
[01:26:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5214s
Yeah, that one, definitely.
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There's no line as far as I'm aware.
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Mike, chances are there might be a better answer on that.
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Yes. Jonathan's here. Yes, Mike, please, go ahead. Help us out.
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Yeah. You're mostly correct. The high frequency transit is the 4 on 29th.
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The 43, which is every half hour, is on 37th, and it runs on the weekend as well,
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on hourly. And then,
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the 144 is on
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part of Grand there.
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But that is only during peak hours, and those hours are getting smaller.
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So for all intents and purposes,
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there's half-hourly service on 37th, and then there's 15-minute service on 29th.
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And there's
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no consistent, as sponsors say, no consistent transit service on Grand.
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So that was a staff concern.
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Yeah. And the half hour is normal historically for Spokane, so I still think
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it is sufficient to have what is currently mapped.
[01:28:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5283s
But I don't think justified.
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But not to extend it.
[01:28:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5285s
Not to extend it, yeah. Before I had a car, I had French lessons up there and it
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was a nightmare.
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A half-hour service coming from the plaza, having transferred already. Ugh.
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Yeah. Thank you.
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Yeah.
[01:28:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5301s
Okay, so now asking the question in the opposite direction, the left
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image being the existing land use along Grand, just further north, along Manito
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Park. So at the bottom of this is 29th, and then Grand going down to the 14th and
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Grand
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mixed use area down there. The current draft future land use map
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shows a lot of what is east and on the south side west of Grand
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being a residential high. This was based off of the frequent transit along Grand
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in this location, as well as the fairly level lots that exist to the east of Manito
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Park, allowing for larger
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residential development, as well as there's pockets of mixed use throughout that
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are existing businesses. So those were the decisions that led to the
[01:29:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5358s
current draft of the future land use map.
[01:29:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5361s
There have been a number of requests that were in your packet already, as well as a
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formal request now that will be in your next packet of comments,
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to consider reducing that level of residential high,
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especially as you get off of Grand.
[01:29:39] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5379s
How did the high get over that far in the first place?
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Again, the ability-
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And elevation changes
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... the lack of land elevation changes certainly provided an opportunity that
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existed far less frequently on the South Hill to provide residential high.
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Yeah, totally. Okay.
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And again, being a place that does have that frequent service with the 4 compared
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to other places on the South Hill, this was-
[01:30:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5411s
Yeah. I love the idea of densifying along Grand substantially.
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I'm just questioning, this is my neighborhood, so I know this area really, really
[01:30:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5421s
well, but that further in, out to the east, I guess there.
[01:30:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5427s
Yeah. I'll just say from the staff side, we were trying to be consistent in the
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distance from those frequent transit lines that we were trying to draw, the higher
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density or the higher intensity land use designations.
[01:30:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5444s
Where you have the Grand going at a slight angle-
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Yeah. Pixel
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... you get this kind of pixel effect, where we were trying to use whole blocks.
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Yeah.
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So to some extent, there's a judgment call there, and yeah, I don't know that
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we would have concerns about peeling off some of the blocks at the edge that are
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part of that angle.
[01:31:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5463s
Yeah, I just wonder if it can't sort of step down a little bit.
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I'm not terribly bothered by it. I think it is a good place to
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think about added people.
[01:31:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5478s
Mm-hmm.
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There's services there, there's the park there, there's transit there, there's all
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those things.
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But I can understand how
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That's quite a distance away from those elements that the zone has carried
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right now.
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I know, and to end this up real quick, if you want,
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further south, Hatch is one block, and then it steps in here to Sherman.
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Those are areas if you really wanted to start adjusting, you could pull some of
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these between Sherman and Hatch out, and restore them to R.
[01:31:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5516s
Yeah.
[01:31:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5516s
Like a step onto this thing.
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Yeah, like step over, what is that, 19th?
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And, I just wonder if there's some opportunity to sort of surgically step it in
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there a little bit.
[01:32:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5528s
Okay. All right.
[01:32:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5530s
It is just like two or three blocks though, right?
[01:32:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5532s
Yeah. It is. It feels very-
[01:32:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5534s
If you want to be like a bus stop.
[01:32:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5535s
That's how I... Yeah.
[01:32:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5536s
Maximum depth is like two and a half blocks, yeah.
[01:32:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5539s
Yeah.
[01:32:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5540s
That's not very far.
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It's not very far, because I always come up on that east side on my bike and then
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go west to get places.
[01:32:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5546s
Yeah.
[01:32:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5548s
So, Linda, you had a question.
[01:32:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5549s
Yeah, my question is,
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have these density proposals been reevaluated in terms of evacuation
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routes? I'm not as familiar with this part of Spokane, but it strikes me that,
[01:32:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5565s
what are the alternatives for evacuation?
[01:32:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5568s
Are you putting an awful lot of people on a major thoroughfare that's going to
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be the only, or one of the very, very few evacuation routes, especially next to a
[01:33:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5580s
park full of ponderosa pines? And we all know now what ponderosa pines can do.
[01:33:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5586s
So, I mean, that's the whole South Hill though .
[01:33:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5589s
Yeah, but it has a grid. There's quite a few routes.
[01:33:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5593s
Yeah, there's plenty of ways out.
[01:33:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5595s
You can just sort of pinch routes, like all the way out at Latou or-
[01:33:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5597s
Yeah. Exactly. Having just looked at that very issue in this immediate area of
[01:33:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5603s
preceding the 1st of August, there's an awful lot of ways out here.
[01:33:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5609s
Yeah, I'll just add, I think, yes, we are considering evacuation
[01:33:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5615s
as
[01:33:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5618s
something that needs to be looked at as we're making these decisions.
[01:33:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5622s
Yes, there's a great grid here, so I think there's less concern about evacuation
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routes. And I guess I would just say,
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that exact issue, I think is one rationale for ensuring that development can occur
[01:33:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5635s
along these places.
[01:33:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5637s
Yeah.
[01:33:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5637s
Because if it doesn't occur here, then we're saying it needs to occur out in areas
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that have less connectivity-
[01:34:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5642s
Yep
[01:34:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5642s
... and would have, I think, heightened concerns.
[01:34:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5645s
Yep.
[01:34:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5646s
Just for fun, so what I've done here is I just cut at 16th and brought it over,
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what is this? To Sherman. The reason I'm suggesting you might consider leaving this
[01:34:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5658s
is just because of Rockwood Bakery and this little mixed area is actually rather
[01:34:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5662s
active, and could benefit from more customers, to be honest.
[01:34:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5667s
You could do something like this, and that would take a little bit out.
[01:34:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5670s
You could bring this here, and come down at any point if you wanted to bring some
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more blocks out. This would take about six blocks of RH out.
[01:34:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5681s
It's a half a dozen in one way, and six another. It's a tough call.
[01:34:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5688s
Yeah.
[01:34:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5688s
It's part of why we wrestled with it when kind of converting into the preferred
[01:34:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5692s
alternative.
[01:34:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5693s
Yeah. It is.
[01:34:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5694s
There's just some good opportunity in here.
[01:34:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5696s
Yeah.
[01:34:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5696s
Also, keep in mind too, that none of this is compelling redevelopment.
[01:35:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5701s
It's only creating the opportunity for if they want to.
[01:35:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5705s
There are a number of beautiful properties in here that are well-managed, that are
[01:35:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5710s
taken care of.
[01:35:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5712s
Probably not going to redevelop.
[01:35:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5713s
Probably not going to redevelop.
[01:35:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5714s
Yeah.
[01:35:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5714s
And so, I do recall when we were kind of working on this configuration, we tried
[01:35:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5720s
to err a little bit on the side of a little extra space.
[01:35:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5723s
It's only because we wanted to capture as much opportunity, but there's just a lot
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that won't redevelop.
[01:35:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5729s
Well, yeah, and it's functionally unlikely-
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That's fine
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... mostly that it will-
[01:35:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5732s
Yeah
[01:35:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5732s
... just due to the cost.
[01:35:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5734s
Yeah.
[01:35:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5734s
Well, that's just a reason to keep it larger.
[01:35:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5737s
I do want to be mindful of our two remaining items.
[01:35:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5740s
That's why I got it.
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Yeah.
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Give me one second.
[01:35:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5743s
Okay.
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I
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want to hit the last two slides. Well, I'll just jump
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past the majority of this.
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It's tough. There's so much to talk about.
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Just the briefest of comments. In Northeast Spokane, so this is
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Nevada and Lincoln,
[01:36:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5765s
just we've had a number of comments specifically
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from community members upset about industrial being proposed in their neighborhood.
[01:36:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5775s
So just wanting to highlight that-
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It's already industrial
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... it's already industrial, and this was actually a removal of some industrial,
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and an implementation of mixed use
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and open space.
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And open space.
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Yeah.
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And additional possible park.
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So you did give that reply, right?
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So that's the right now, unless there's questions, we are not actively replying to
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a lot of the public comment because that's part of the overarching response.
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So that's why some of it comes at this scale, and then some of it comes at a larger
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scale later.
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It has to be the done fun along the way as well.
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That's fine.
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Just wanted to highlight that.
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This is not new industrial.
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Not new industrial.
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But it's open, half open space, half...
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay. Then I will just quickly jump to my concluding slides. We'll later.
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Okay, so as was mentioned at the beginning of the meeting, the public comment
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period is open, has an official ending now, based off of the conversations at the
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last bike commission meeting of October 2nd.
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People can continue to comment by sending an email to planSpokane@spokanecity.org,
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or using the online interactive map.
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And then finally,
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we will have another conversation very similar to this at your next planning
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commission meeting, but that will be your last opportunity for us to have workshop
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time to discuss changes that will go into that draft hearing version of the land
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use map. Because that has to come out before your hearing, weeks in advance.
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Even though there's a month between that next workshop and when you have your
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hearing, those conversations won't be happening at the workshop level.
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So if there's changes after that next meeting, those will be happening after the
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hearing on the IS.
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Yeah, that's-
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And then moving towards your hearing in November.
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That's an important distinction.
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Just like with every content amendment, you have the ability to make
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recommendations at the end. We just would prefer not, because it gets very complex.
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It would.
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It is possible.
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Parcell from the data skills?
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Okay.
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Go ahead.
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One quick thing to add. We did receive some comments that were outside of the scope
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of the preferred alternative.
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Yeah.
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Those are on the table if somebody wants us to take a look at those.
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We've generally not brought them forward just because they're not part of the
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preferred alternative. But if there's something you see in the comments that you
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would like us to consider, be prepared to bring that up at the workshop and we can
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take a look at.
[01:38:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5921s
Let's make sure we schedule enough time for that one.
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That's a major discussion point. I want to make sure we've got enough time to get
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through all that.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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Thank you.
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Thank you both. Okay.
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You're welcome.
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So then, moving on to planned Spokane draft policies related to wildfires and
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emergency management with not here also.
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Martin.
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Martin. Okay.
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I just realized, I was like, "Who's doing that?"
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I'll get out of your way, Martin. Sorry.
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Are you?
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It's not me.
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Martin did the slides.
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I think I'll open this up. Do we want to do this? I love it.
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We could move it to next time if-
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I'm sorry.
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I mean, there's no-
[01:39:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5959s
No, you're the other one
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... traditional policy.
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Yeah, you.
[01:39:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=5962s
Yeah, you're the other one, Spencer.
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I think my item can be really quick. I don't anticipate there being any concerns.
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Okay.
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So-
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Okay
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... if you can leave me five minutes, I bet that's enough time.
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Okay. I'll also, the slides weren't provided in advance, but we can send them
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out. I'm not going to go over the policies.
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I think I'll just go through the context, and then we can send out the
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actual policies. Okay, so I'm filling in for Tyrrell.
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My understanding of the workshop is to share how the draft
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plans Spokane 2046 addresses wildfire and emergency management considerations.
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So pulling out policies that are already in the draft plan, but just kind of
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highlighting them so that there's some awareness of the conversations
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and
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the policies that would be coming forward with the adoption of the final plan.
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So Martin, just to clarify, these are not new proposed policies in reaction to the
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fires-
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No
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... these are just the new ones that are-
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I think, yeah. We've been talking about wildfire for years-
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Sure
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... in the climate planning, and so part of the benefit of having the new
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comprehensive plan is the integration of some of these more climate
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resilience policies that will hopefully help us prepare better in the future.
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Good.
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So yeah, this is based on the content that was published in the
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August 2026 version.
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So, did this myself.
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Okay. So,
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yeah, this is coming from climate planning.
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I won't go into this too much, but we do have all the materials online.
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We've had a number of workshops over the two years that we did this, but
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essentially, through community engagement, staff discussions, and then working with
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the Climate Resilience and Sustainability Board, we presented a
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package of policies addressing climate resilience and greenhouse gas emission
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reductions. And, that was approved
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or recommended by the CRSB in February, came to Plan Commission, and then
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integrated into the comprehensive plan.
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So, these are already in the comprehensive plan or the draft plan now.
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But
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just highlighting that focus. And I guess just for understanding, climate
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resilience as a whole is about anticipating, preparing for, and adapting to changes
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in climate to minimize negative impacts to our natural systems, infrastructure, and
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communities. So it really is the whole process of when
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a hazard happens, how we've prepared for it, how are we responding to it, and how
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we can adapt to things going forward.
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So when we're thinking about wildfires in the future, everything before that,
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during, and after is part of that resilience process.
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Some materials that we had, the climate risk and vulnerability assessment provided
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that foundational framework. So again, these are materials that are available
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online.
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And then we do have the draft policies already integrated into the comprehensive
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plan. So a few that I'm just going to click through.
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They're spread throughout all chapters.
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Again, sort of the recognition that climate resilience impacts
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all factors of our community and all of our policies.
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So we have them integrated throughout, and then we'll have a matrix as well that
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presents an easier way to look through that. I'm not sure.
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Is that in the comprehensive plan right now or will that be at the end?
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I see presented on the online tool, so I think-
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Oh, yeah. Exactly. So you can see that.
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So ones that highlighting as far as wildfire and emergency management, so we have
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some in the growth strategy, that's what GS stands for, and then some in this one,
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leasing capital facilities. So looking at the natural environment, water
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conservation.
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The big one on resilient land use. I think we had a lot of discussion at the Plan
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Commission around how land use interfaces with climate.
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So we have a policy in here on
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resilient land use and
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also climate consideration. So a lot of these are, again, integrating what we
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talked about from the climate planning process and the CRSB, and then bringing in
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concepts around environmental justice, different climate resilience, how it
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interacts with development patterns, siting, replacing, looking at community assets
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and impacts there. Another big topic
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around wild and urban interface, so looking at some standards and outreach as well.
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We heard a lot about the impacts of the WUI through our climate planning and sort
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of the extent that it comes into the city, and then the need to engage and have
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conversations with that at city level, neighborhood level, individual homeowner
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levels. So the fire department is doing a lot of work there, so kind of reflecting
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that work throughout with some policy considerations.
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Community health chapter has a lot of discussions around emergency management,
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ideas around resilience hubs, so specific spots within the community, and then
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looking at ways that we can be resilient around wildfire as well.
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Discussion around evacuation strategies.
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We had quite a few here. And one of the interesting informed
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discussions was around tribal planning, and I mean, we had some specific
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conversations around tribal planning and tribal
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emergency coordination, but just the idea of culturally relevant
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communication and responding to that.
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So, that was one aspect that came out of our tribal coordination.
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But also considering, of course, coordination throughout many different of our
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cultural communities in Spokane, and how that can be coordinated.
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Transportation, looking at connecting evacuation routes.
[01:46:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6387s
So I think that's been one discussion that's certainly come out of the wildfires,
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and there's a lot of success around evacuating 60,000 people
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in North Spokane, and then lessons learned about future considerations
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and how that might go elsewhere. So, at least some policies recognizing how
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the infrastructure around that interplays with evacuation.
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So that's the very high level. I guess I did it in a lot shorter.
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Might be a little bit lot more time, but I think the intent was to just show the
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ways that the comprehensive plan is
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thinking about wildfire, emergency management, evacuation.
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Again, these are not in response to the recent wildfires, but will hopefully help
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us consider, over the next 20 years, better planning and policy around that.
[01:47:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6446s
And just that a lot of those, if not all of those policies are new in this version
[01:47:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6450s
of the comprehensive plan and don't exist in the prior version.
[01:47:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6454s
Yeah. There are some, I think, some edits to ideas
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previously around wildfire, but fire was mostly discussed about siting
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facilities and
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more just about the references to historic fires.
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But yes, this one is looking at wildfires, wildfire smoke, and those
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hazards as they could continue to get worse, and then responding to that with new
[01:48:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6484s
policy.
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There's one other aspect that we didn't highlight here, but you'll see on the
[01:48:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6491s
arterial map that we also are putting in some arterial connections in areas.
[01:48:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6497s
One example that came up in the context of the fires is Barnes Road, in the far
[01:48:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6503s
northwest. Currently does not connect down to Nine Mile.
[01:48:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6507s
The arterial map includes a potential connection down there.
[01:48:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6510s
Now, showing the connection on the map does not build a connection, but we have to
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start with having it on a map. So, I know there's also some connections down in
[01:48:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6518s
Latah Valley that are shown on the arterial map.
[01:48:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6521s
Those are steps that we need to take now in order to eventually build those
[01:48:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6525s
connections. But it doesn't show up in the policy language, and that shows up in a
[01:48:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6529s
map that we didn't really highlight here.
[01:48:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6531s
Yeah.
[01:48:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6532s
Yeah, I guess that's what I would just say with all of that is I think we've got a
[01:48:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6536s
real unfortunate opportunity, but an opportunity to learn from what happened, and I
[01:49:01] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6541s
guess I would love to see some reaction in the code rather than, like, "See, this
[01:49:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6547s
is all stuff that we did. That's right, and I'm not faulting you for that,
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Margaret."
[01:49:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6550s
Yeah.
[01:49:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6552s
It feels a little bit sort of self-congratulatory that like, "Here's all the things
[01:49:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6556s
that we did," and I would love to see some learnings from that along the lines of
[01:49:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6561s
what you were talking about, including those things, and what did we miss and going
[01:49:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6566s
back through some of those things, I still think we're way too light on WUI
[01:49:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6572s
stuff in the comp plan. That whole piece about WUI outreach makes me crazy, but
[01:49:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6578s
that's another conversation for another day.
[01:49:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6581s
So yeah, I would still love to see some more learnings out of that and some more
[01:49:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6587s
advancement while we've got sort of the hood open, quote, unquote.
[01:49:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6590s
So again, not an indictment of you.
[01:49:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6592s
Yeah. There was nothing previously, so-
[01:49:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6594s
Yeah. Absolutely
[01:49:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6595s
... the fact that this does help set up those conversations, but absolutely the-
[01:49:59] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6599s
That's a good point
[01:50:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6600s
... the need to go deeper. I mean, these are just policies, and they're writ
[01:50:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6604s
broadly for the intent of being a policy level.
[01:50:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6609s
But yes, the implementation of that and carrying that forward is certainly the
[01:50:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6615s
next steps.
[01:50:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6616s
It's going to be hugely important to see how that translates into code and capital
[01:50:20] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6620s
facilities planning.
[01:50:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6621s
Yeah.
[01:50:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6621s
You show that Barnes Road to Five Mile and Indian Trail, and they're going to fart.
[01:50:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6627s
That's been on the map forever. We've never built it, and there's a steep ravine
[01:50:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6632s
there. There's private property concerns.
[01:50:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6635s
There's all that stuff, and we've never bothered to conquer any of those
[01:50:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6638s
challenges. So that's just not an answer.
[01:50:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6643s
Unless you've got something in the capital facilities plan to actually fund that.
[01:50:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6647s
And they're also just livid that development didn't pay for this in the first
[01:50:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6651s
place. I heard the dreamy concept of, be still
[01:50:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6657s
my heart, why don't we build the infrastructure first before the growth goes in?
[01:51:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6662s
It's like, lady, you're preaching to the choir.
[01:51:05] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6665s
Yeah.
[01:51:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6666s
But, we have to find a balance there.
[01:51:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6668s
I know we can't build this infrastructure before the growth goes in, but this is a
[01:51:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6672s
ridiculous lag, and it was not a successful evacuation to have people watching
[01:51:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6677s
flames beside their cars, sitting there for three hours, texting their council
[01:51:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6682s
members, "We still haven't moved," every 15 minutes for three hours.
[01:51:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6687s
And me texting Chief Hall again every 15 minutes for three hours, "My people still
[01:51:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6693s
haven't moved." And then on the other side, on Five Mile, texting back and forth
[01:51:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6697s
with Marcus Riccelli as he's trying to evacuate, and they finally got that cleared
[01:51:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6702s
up. That took civilian ground guides, which is super dangerous.
[01:51:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6706s
And then on the Indian Trail side, it was just bumper to bumper, not moving.
[01:51:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6710s
There was nothing anybody could do, including the police.
[01:51:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6712s
People were getting out of their cars and walking up and down and knocking on each
[01:51:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6716s
other's windows and saying, "Have you heard anything?
[01:51:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6717s
Have you heard anything?" Everybody was being very polite. They couldn't move.
[01:52:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6723s
It was insane that we didn't have mass panic there.
[01:52:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6727s
But luckily, Indian Trail, a little calmer, a little more polite than Five Mile.
[01:52:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6732s
They stuck it out, and they survived.
[01:52:14] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6734s
There were people who didn't evacuate because they looked and saw that there was
[01:52:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6738s
nowhere to go. I hosted a family whose plan was to go through the dump site because
[01:52:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6744s
they knew there was an easement, and then they looked out and the dump site was on
[01:52:27] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6747s
fire, and they're like, "Never mind." And then their other friends had to convince
[01:52:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6751s
them. It was a nightmare. We are so lucky nobody died.
[01:52:36] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6756s
That was the skin of our teeth. That was not something we can claim was successful.
[01:52:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6762s
And I think the firefighters and the police did the best they could.
[01:52:46] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6766s
I'm not blaming anybody on the ground.
[01:52:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6768s
But having fought some of those developments up there for the last 20 years with
[01:52:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6773s
this same argument and having nothing have happened except some connectivity at the
[01:52:57] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6777s
top of Five Mile with Barnes Road and Strong Road,
[01:53:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6782s
I can't help but also be livid for these people.
[01:53:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6784s
And I don't know if any of you have gone up yet, but even though it's been a month
[01:53:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6789s
now, it's still... I was just at Indian Trail Neighborhood Council last night.
[01:53:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6792s
Driving by those sites, it's really shocking and visceral,
[01:53:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6798s
especially when you've been up there working with those people, trying to prevent
[01:53:23] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6803s
this exact scenario from happening for 20 years.
[01:53:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6809s
I guess I'm curious as to how do we address...
[01:53:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6812s
Some of those developments are within the last 20 years, but some of them are more
[01:53:35] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6815s
than 60 years old. So how do we address infrastructure street-level
[01:53:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6821s
issues on existing-
[01:53:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6825s
Well, there's a county element, too.
[01:53:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6827s
Yeah.
[01:53:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6828s
Some of the stuff that contributed to the congestion isn't even in the city of
[01:53:51] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6831s
Spokane.
[01:53:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6832s
Right.
[01:53:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6833s
And we've got three massive developments proposed up there right now.
[01:53:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6838s
So people are also livid that those permitting processes are going through, and
[01:54:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6842s
we're not even necessarily requiring easements through those properties, let alone
[01:54:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6846s
roads be built. And one of them is at the county level.
[01:54:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6850s
And so I feel like we need a regional discussion and a
[01:54:16] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6856s
joint planning capital facilities plan to address these things and
[01:54:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6862s
possibly revenue source, possibly bonding.
[01:54:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6866s
And unless there's political will, hopefully, this committee can be helpful with
[01:54:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6872s
making the case on that. And your WUI concerns are very well taken.
[01:54:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6877s
Firewise training is for rural areas. It's not for a city.
[01:54:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6882s
Yeah.
[01:54:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6884s
Yeah. To me, it's always struck me as sort of going to a drunk driver and
[01:54:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6888s
explaining to them how to not kill people while driving drunk, and then tossing
[01:54:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6892s
them the keys and saying, "Good luck out there."
[01:54:53] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6893s
Yeah. Homes are sold in that place, and it was in the city limits.
[01:54:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6896s
They're not thinking about-
[01:54:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6898s
Yeah
[01:54:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6898s
... defensive space.
[01:55:00] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6900s
And that's my question is, we've got the hood up on this, the county's got the hood
[01:55:04] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6904s
up on theirs.
[01:55:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6907s
How do we learn? What do we learn?
[01:55:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6908s
So I think there needs to be some reflection in the development regulations that we
[01:55:13] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6913s
propose and the capital facilities plan of how to deal with this, even if we know
[01:55:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6918s
it's going to be a heavy lift.
[01:55:19] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6919s
And a policy-level direction.
[01:55:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6921s
Because aspirational stuff address concerns, unless that's in the capital
[01:55:26] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6926s
facilities plan, it's not addressed,
[01:55:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6929s
period.
[01:55:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6930s
Yeah. I think
[01:55:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6932s
we could, at a policy level, specifically address Five Mile, Indian Trail, and
[01:55:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6938s
Eagle Ridge. To me, those are the three areas that stick out of all the areas we
[01:55:42] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6942s
built in the last 30 years, but, that are the most dangerous in terms of-
[01:55:47] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6947s
Grandview Thorp, Laker.
[01:55:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6949s
Sure. Yeah.
[01:55:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6949s
Just because they haven't burned yet. Even West Central.
[01:55:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6952s
We've had so many fires, and-
[01:55:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6954s
I mean, I-
[01:55:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6954s
... we've got civilians out there tamping them down because we know.
[01:55:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6958s
And that I don't recommend. But it could've been so much worse without vigilante
[01:56:02] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6962s
firefighting that happens during these fires, even though I keep telling people-
[01:56:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6967s
I'm talking about-
[01:56:07] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6967s
... don't do it. They did it anyway.
[01:56:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6969s
Talking about the South Hill, and doing the same thing. Yeah.
[01:56:12] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6972s
We're in a really bad place, and I got in trouble my first year on
[01:56:18] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6978s
council for saying these exact same things to this committee.
[01:56:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6982s
So I
[01:56:24] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6984s
was describing conditions as they exist. I wasn't making crazy speculations.
[01:56:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6988s
It happened, and we're lucky no one died.
[01:56:33] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6993s
It seems like room for potentially an additional policy or two or three.
[01:56:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=6998s
Or a reflection exercise.
[01:56:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7000s
The neighborhoods won't ask for it until-
[01:56:40] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7000s
Yeah.
[01:56:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7001s
Yeah
[01:56:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7001s
... until we figure it out and punch some roots through.
[01:56:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7004s
Yeah.
[01:56:45] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7005s
It's going to be pretty hard to go out there and tell them no.
[01:56:48] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7008s
So what does that process look like in terms of our learning trajectory for the
[01:56:52] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7012s
adoption of the capital facilities plan?
[01:56:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7018s
I don't know. I guess I have a question specifically about the concerns related to
[01:57:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7023s
WUI.
[01:57:08] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7028s
We hear a lot about WUI code,
[01:57:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7030s
but specifically the building code, because the WUI code is a building code.
[01:57:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7035s
Mm-hmm.
[01:57:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7037s
I guess, in your mind, what does it look like for a zoning
[01:57:22] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7042s
code to address WUI concerns? Are you talking about significantly restricting what
[01:57:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7048s
people can build?
[01:57:29] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7049s
Yeah.
[01:57:30] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7050s
Is that potentially-
[01:57:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7051s
Potentially
[01:57:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7051s
... actually what you're-
[01:57:31] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7051s
Yeah
[01:57:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7052s
... interested in?
[01:57:32] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7052s
In those high-hazard areas, yeah.
[01:57:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7054s
Impact fees, requirements, or connectivity.
[01:57:38] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7058s
Or even something that runs with the land that says, "You accept the
[01:57:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7064s
risks of living out here, and if something happens, fire is going to have to
[01:57:49] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7069s
prioritize the area where there's more people."
[01:57:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7074s
And locked gates.
[01:57:55] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7075s
And then best of luck getting insurance on that.
[01:57:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7078s
Yeah.
[01:57:58] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7078s
Yeah. On the street design, can we have more intense requirements for street
[01:58:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7083s
level grid style?
[01:58:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7086s
Requirements. If there's a large plat coming in, it's required that it contributes
[01:58:11] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7091s
to the evacuation routes in some sort of measurable way or something.
[01:58:15] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7095s
We need the county to do the same thing.
[01:58:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7097s
Yeah.
[01:58:17] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7097s
Yeah. 10 years ago, I ran a connectivity ordinance at the county, and it passed
[01:58:21] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7101s
eventually, but they slowly eroded it, and it's pretty much gone now.
[01:58:25] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7105s
Okay. I don't want to cut this conversation off.
[01:58:28] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7108s
Maybe we can revisit at the next workshop, because your point is well taken.
[01:58:34] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7114s
We're tight here, and we've got to figure out what we need to do to get through it,
[01:58:37] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7117s
but I think there's at least a short session on-
[01:58:41] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7121s
There's still public comment-
[01:58:43] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7123s
Yeah
[01:58:44] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7124s
... through October 2nd on policy, so if there is gaps, I guess I'm
[01:58:50] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7130s
not sure what discussions have gone back to the CRSB about reflection on wildfire,
[01:58:54] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7134s
but
[01:58:56] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7136s
these have been in the draft for a number of months, so if there's ways to
[01:59:03] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7143s
take a new lens at them, I'm super down.
[01:59:06] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7146s
Yeah. Let's plan to put some workshop time next time in two weeks.
[01:59:09] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7149s
Yeah. That'd be great.
[01:59:10] https://vimeo.com/1225443380#t=7150s
Continue the discussion.
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That'd be great. Okay. Sorry, Samantha. You were right.
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That's okay. We can be really fast and-
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I think you all saw the draft letter in the packet.
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There's no specific proposal involved.
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It's really just
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staff. We have been working on some emergency legislation that we expect to bring
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forward to council,
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and that legislation would grant authority to address some concerns about how to
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rebuild. And so the two specific concerns are highlighted in the letter, and that's
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first, people want to rebuild their houses. These were built under previous codes.
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And so, is there some way that we can grant them exemptions from some of the
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standards? For example, design standards that could be difficult
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if you're trying to replace what you have there.
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Your garage maybe doesn't meet our current standards.
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And so the ability for the planning director to waive those.
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And then the second part is specifically related to accessory dwelling units,
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people looking to build back who may want to inhabit an accessory dwelling unit
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before they build the main house. Insurance doesn't allow that.
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This would grant them special dispensation. So those are the two topics.
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Specifically, again, we're bringing this forward to council, so our thought was it
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might be helpful for Plan Commission to just understand what
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some of those issues are, and then provide a letter of support, essentially, to
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city council.
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So what are we looking for out of this? Do we want to take this to a hearing?
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Do we want to just approve?
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There's no need for a hearing. I think the idea was if Plan Commission chooses,
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they could just approve the letter, and then I would forward that to city council
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so they have it.
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Okay.
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So I would look for a motion then to approve the letter.
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Moved.
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Second.
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Got a motion and a second. Is there any discussion?
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I just want to say thank you. I think these things are great and perfectly logical.
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Absent any other discussion, all those in favor say aye.
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Aye.
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Those opposed, nay.
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Aye.
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Okay. Motion passes.
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Thank you. I will get it to council.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I know we're over time.
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Yeah.
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Can I ask some questions related to the policy related to wildfire?
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The two thoughts that I have are,
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one, it would be really helpful if in the workshop where we discuss this,
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maybe we are able to pull up the city evacuation map and
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show the arterials that are applied.
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What is the traffic count of those different arterials and what is the capacity
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versus the actual number-
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Service, yeah
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... evacuation level service, yeah.
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Because doing it off of vibes is not part of this mission.
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An additional question I think that I have is,
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I think that there needs probably more focus and attention.
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And so does it make sense to... I guess there's three options.
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It's like we scramble something together in order to adopt the
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comprehensive plan at the end of the year, or we delay the adoption of the
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comprehensive plan in order to more adequately address this, or we accept that it's
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not going to be adequately addressed in the adopted comprehensive plan in terms of
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comprehensive plan, but that we're already going with the plan.
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And I just want to consider those options if that makes sense.
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And to be able to inform the public in some way that-
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Yeah
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... it's not being ignored.
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Yeah.
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Okay, anything else for the good of the order? Okay, then we're journeyed.
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Take care.