2016, 05-03 Special Joint with PC MINUTES
City of Spokane Valley Special Joint Meeting
Spokane Valley City Council and
Spokane Valley Planning Commission
Tuesday,May 3,2016
Attendance:
Councilmembers: Staff:
Rod Higgins, Mayor Mark Calhoun, Deputy City Manager
Arne Woodard, Deputy Mayor Cary Driskell, City Attorney
Ed Pace, Councilmember Erik Lamb, Deputy City Attorney
Sam Wood, Councilmember John Hohman, Comm&Eco. Dev Director
Bill Gothmann, Council Pro Tem Mike Basinger, Eco. Development Coordinator
Chaz Bates, Eco. Development Specialist
Planning Commissioners: Gabe Gallinger, Senior Engineer
Heather Graham, Chair Deanna Horton, Administrative Assistant
Joe Stoy, Vice-Chair Christine Bainbridge, City Clerk
Kevin Anderson, Commissioner
James Johnson,Commissioner Others in Attendance:
Timothy Kelley, Commissioner Doug McIntyre, Van Ness Feldman
Michael Phillips, Commissioner Elliot Weiss, Community Attributes,Inc.
Suzanne Stathos, Commissioner
Mayor Higgins called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. and welcomed everyone.
ROLL CALL: City Clerk Bainbridge called the City Council roll; all Councilmembers were present.
Commission Secretary Horton called the Commission roll; all Commissioners were present.
Agenda Topic: Comprehensive Plan Review
Purpose Statement:The City Council and Planning Commission will participate in an interactive discussion
concerning land use alternatives and goals and policies for the Comprehensive Plan Update. The input
being sought will help City staff and the consultant team refine the land use alternatives and the goal and
policy focus areas. Councilmembers and Commissioners will rotate around three stations, facilitated by
staff and consultants, to help determine proposed land use alternatives; they will be asked to consider the
options for City growth and record their input on a worksheet. The Councilmembers and Commissioners
were seated at three tables.
Community and Economic Development Director Hohman welcomed everyone to the meeting; said the
purpose of tonight's meeting is to discuss some specifics about goals and policies and land use; said the
public is welcome but there will not be any public participation; said we will be focusing on some work to
move forward to create a draft document and staff seeks input from the Council and Commissioners; that
input will be collected,processed,and built into future steps in this effort;said this project started November
2014 and quite a lot of work was accomplished this year including visioning and public meetings; said we
had to take some time out for technical information, but we now have a defensible, but not completely
official number for the population allocation and we will be using that to move forward to try to update the
plan, which must be completed prior to June 30, 2017. Mr. Hohman said Economic Development
Coordinator Basinger will be directing tonight's proceedings and taking the lead on this project, and our
consultants will be giving a presentation tonight as well.
Mr.Basinger explained that tonight's objective is to get some direction;that we heard from the community
during several workshops, and the information in tonight's exercises includes input from the community,
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and Council and Commissioners will be asked to rate those issues; said although our Comprehensive Plan
must meet the GMA(Growth Management Act)requirements,that is not the purpose of tonight's meeting.
Mr. Basinger said that tonight we will work on how we'd like our community to grow, the vision of the
community,what are the important things, and are we on the right track.
Mr. Doug McIntyre with Van Ness Feldman started the PowerPoint presentation explaining that once
completed,this Comp Plan will be the City's official statement of how it wants to grow over the next twenty
years; said the Plan is amended annually and there are GMA requirements to consider; said this detailed
review of the Plan is required every eight years which allows us to comply with changes in the GMA and
to respond to change in land use; said we want to determine what are the trends and how to address that in
the official policy document; said we are working to hit that June 30,2017 deadline while making progress
in the right manner.As shown in his PowerPoint,Mr. McIntyre mentioned some factors to consider as well
as SEPA (Sate Environmental Protection Act) requirements.
Mr. Elliot Weiss of Community Attributes, Inc., continued through the PowerPoint explaining the
connection to economic development, mentioned the Retail and Tourism Studies; said we have heard from
numerous stakeholders about economic development and community priorities, and tonight is a great
opportunity to splice in some of the work done for policy, infrastructure, image & identity, assets,centers,
and catalysts, as shown on the slide. He explained that he, Mr. Mclntrye and Mr. Basinger will be at one
of the three tables to facilitate conversation; said the worksheets are pretty clear; with the object to have
Council and Commissioners rate some ideas for focus areas within the Comp Plan, then move on to goals
and policies; then come back and determine what was done well and what needs more work; and that one
of the objectives for tonight is to help form options of what is most important.
Mr. Hohman said that we have been actively working on the Comp Plan and this is the twelfth visit since
the first of the year; that we talked about the Retail and Tourism studies, and about water districts;that the
Planning Commission is a little behind as they were working on marijuana issues; but the intent is to bring
all those presentations forward to them as well.
The three facilitators went to each table and the discussions began.After a designated time,members of the
tables rotated to a different table and further discussion ensued. Once everyone had been at each table,Mr.
Basinger thanked everyone for coming out tonight;and said the next steps include gathering the information
and compiling that into something to start the draft moving for the land use map and policies and goals.
It was moved by Deputy Mayor Woodard, seconded and unanimously agreed to adjourn. The meeting
adjourned at 8:20 p.m.
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SPOKANE VALLEY
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE:
LAND USE OPTIONS AND GOAL
AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT
Si'okan
jUalley
Workshop Agenda
> Presentation on the Comprehensive Plan process and land use changes (6:00-6:15)
> Land use options activity (6:15-7:30)
> Break (7:30-7:40)
> Goals and policies activity (7:40-8:50)
> Next Steps
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Why update the Comprehensive Pan?
Growth Management Act
> Plan can be updated through an annual amendment process
> Must be thoroughly reviewed every eight years,known as the periodic update,to
ensure that the plan:
• Complies with changes to GMA requirements
• Responds to changes in land use and/or population growth
> Periodic update schedule set by the Washington State Legislature
> Deadline for Spokane County and its cities is June 30,2017
Other Factors
> Opportunity to revisit the City's vision and incorporate new priorities,such as those
identified by the community as well as through studies(e.g.retail and tourism)
> Opportunity to incorporate best practices
\iVhat has been done so far?
Already completed:
> The City initiated the periodic update process with a presentation to the City Council
in Fall 2014
> The Public Participation Program(PPP)guiding public involvement for the Comp
Plan update,was adopted in Winter 2014
> The City collected public input on the Comprehensive Plan between January and
April 2015,culminating in the issuance of the Community Vision Report in Spring
2015
> The City conducted a Policy Audit on the existing goals and policies in the
Comprehensive Plan between Summer 2015
> The Existing Conditions Report,analyzing current trends in Spokane Valley and the
region,was issued in Fall 2015
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Why consider changes to and use?
Factors to Consider
> Existing conditions assessment identified zones that were underperforming(i.e.
Office,Medium Density Residential and Mixed Use)and provided recommended
improvements
> The Comp Plan update provides a unique opportunity to identify and implement
community and economic development priorities,and to ensure that the land
use code supports these priorities
State Environmental Protection Act(SEPA)
> Requires analysis of reasonable land use alternatives in the Environmental Impact
Statement(EIS)process to assess the widest range of potential impacts.The City is
conducting an integrated EIS and Comp Plan process.
What's the connection to economic development?
> In addition to making land use changes that advance the City's economic
development goals,updating the Comp Plan's policy language to support these
priorities will provide high-level guidance for current and future efforts.
Retail and Tourism Studies
> Ongoing work in the economic development strategy has focused on improving the
character and quality of retail and supporting the tourism industry.The Comp Plan
can bolster these efforts.
POLICY INFRASTRUCTURE IMAGE S IDENTITY
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CRAFT POLICY TO PLAN AND BUILD STRENGTHEN SPOKANE
SUPPORT GOOD RETAIL IN INFRASTRUCTURE VALLEYS IMAGE AND
THE RIGHT PLACES TO SUPPORT RETAIL IDENTITY AS A RETAIL
DEVELOPMENT DESTINATION
ASSETS CENTERS CATALYSTS
<<The recently-completed Retail
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Improvement Strategy suggested
• • strategies focused on these six areas
LEVERAGE REGIONAL AND SUPPORT AND EXPAND SUPPORT CATALYTIC.
LOCAL ASSETS TO DRIVE EXISTING RETAIL CENTERS TRANSFORMATIVE OR
LOCAL COMMERCE INNOVATIVE RETAIL
PROJECTS IN SPOKANE
VALLEY
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What are our goals for today?
Land Use Options
> Feedback on land use options will be used to create a draft land use map
> After tonight's workshop,City staff will synthesize the input received for City Council
review and concurrence
Goals and Policies
> Feedback on specific goal/policy direction
> Edits to language
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LAND USE O ' • NS
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Welcome to the workshop!
This packet contains worksheets that provide you with an opportunity to prioritize
proposed land use changes and to give city staff and the cosultant team further direction
where necessary. Your feedback will be used to create a "preferred alternative" that is a
hybrid of the three scenarios (i.e. districts, corridors, neighborhoods) presented here. This
sheet provides an overview of each scenario and relates the proposed changes to the
city's vision and goals. Each subsequent worksheet pertains to a specific scenario. Please
ask us any questions as they arise, and thank you for your help!
:= �y ! Districts are hubs for economic activity. They offer
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t'. `� t > practices in calling for improved access to amenities,
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ADD NEW PROPOSALS
Use the space below to add anything you believe we missed or to suggest other
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believe that corridor to be. One star is lowest priority; five stars is highest priority.
Change CMU Designation Along Trent Ave.
Consolidate Office Designations (0 and GO)
Designate Open Spaces - Appleway Trail
Change Office to a Mixed-Use Designation
Designate Open Spaces - Appleway Trail ' '( ,* '(
Change MUC Designation Along Trent Ave.
Use the space below to share anything you believe we missed or to suggest other
refinements to the corridors concept.
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you believe that proposal to be. One star is lowest priority; five stars is highest priority.
Convert some MDR into LDR as appropriate ' * * '*
Convert some MDR into HDR as appropriate
Retain and Revise MDR as appropriate '* '-
Consolidate and Revise R-3 and R-4
Expand Existing NC Designation
Designate New NC Areas
Use the space below to share anything you believe we missed or to suggest other
refinements to the neighborhoods concept.
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