PC APPROVED Minutes 05-03-16 APPROVED 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 Tern 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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