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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-14-2005 - MinutesMEDINA CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING MINUTES February 14, 2005 7:00 pm CALL TO ORDER Medina City Hall 501 Evergreen Point Road Mayor Odermat called the February 14, 2005, meeting of the Medina City Council to order, 7:08 pm. ROLL CALL Present: Mayor Mary Odermat, Deputy Mayor Todd Nunn Council members Miles Adam, Drew Blazey, Katie Phelps, Bob Rudolph, and Pete Vall-Spinosa City Staff Present: Douglas Schulze, City Manager; Wayne Tanaka, City Attorney; Jeff Chen, Chief of Police; Joseph Gellings, Director of Development Services, Joe Willis, Interim Director of Public Works; and Rachel Baker, Administrative Assistant Consultants: Dan Nickel, The Watershed Company APPROVAL OF MEETING AGENDA MOTION VALL-SPINOSA, SECOND RUDOLPH TO APPROVE MEETING AGENDA, MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 7:12 PM. ANNOUNCEMENTS Mayor (7: 92 pm) Odermat announced: • Reagan Dunn sworn in as new Metropolitan King County Councilman representing District 8, replacing Rob McKenna, who is serving in the Attorney General's Office. Dunn will serve until the fall election and must rerun for the seat. • Odermat was appointed to the Association of Washington Cities Small City Advisory Committee and will attend the first of two annual meetings, this Wednesday, February 16t" in Olympia. • During the Small Cities Advisory, Board of Director meeting on January 26t", appointments were confirmed for nine regional boards and committees for 2005. • Small Cities Advisory networking dinner scheduled for Wednesday, February 23rd at the Embassy Suites in Tukwila, 5:30 to 8:30 pm. Contact city clerk for reservations. • Association of Washington Cities will be sponsoring a workshop entitled "Holding Successful Elections", March 10t" at Embassy Suites in Lynnwood. Contact city clerk for registration. • Water Resource Inventory Area 8 (WRIA 8) steering committee approved the submittal of the Chinook Salmon Conversation Plan to forum for review and will go to the WRIA 8 forum on February 25t". The forum has 90-days to approve or remand the plan back to the steering committee for changes. Once forum approves the plan, 27 local governments, including Medina, will be asked to ratify the plan. The next forum meeting will be Thursday, March 17t", 3:30 to 5:30 pm, at Heritage Hall in Kirkland. • Medina Emergency Committee meeting has been rescheduled from March 16t" to Wednesday, April 271", and will be held at 4:00 pm in City Hall. • ABC World News Tonight, tonight at 6 pm, broadcasted a story on overly congested areas in the country, which included SR-520. • AAA, through the SR-520 project, has requested citizens write letters to congress in Washington DC to approve the pending transportation bill. Council None Staff (7:16 pm) Schulze introduced Joe Willis, Interim Director of Public Works, and noted he has been contracted through The McAndrews Group, and previously served the Towns of Hunt's Point and Yarrow Point. Schulze stated the City is currently negotiating an agreement to share services of this position among the three communities. CONSENT AGENDA MOTION PHELPS, SECOND NUNN TO APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA, MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY, 7:17 PM. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Mark Nelson, 1233 Evergreen Point Road, Medina (7:18 pm) Sunday's Seattle Post Intelligencer referenced website, www.betterbridge .org, in an article on the SR-520 bridge project regarding alternative bridge design in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle. City Council Minutes February 14, 2005 Page 2 REPORTS Police Department (7:20 pm) Schulze answered council questioning regarding police vehicles, as Chief Chen was responding to a call and unable to answer council inquiries. Development Services (7:21 pm) No discussion. Public Works Department (7: 2 1 pm) Willis conveyed the newly installed Duratherm crosswalks are holding up well. Emergency Preparedness Committee (7:22 pm) No discussion. City Manage (7:23 pm) Adam requested greater detail in the next quarterly newsletter regarding the City's tax identification number. Odermat suggested including the information on the city's website. Civil Service Annual Report (7:23 pm) No discussion. OTHER BUSINESS ARCH 2O05 Budget and Work Plan (7:24 pm) Odermat welcomed Art Sullivan from ARCH. Sullivan directed Council's attention to the 2005 Work Program and Budget, included in the meeting packet and summarized ARCH's 2005 projects. Sullivan announced ARCH received the Innovations in American Government Award recognized by Fannie Mae and Harvard University for efforts made in the field of affordable housing. MOTION PHELPS, SECOND ADAM, TO APPROVE 2005 BUDGET AND ANNUAL WORK PLAN AND ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION, AS EXPLAINED IN SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS, MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY, 7:28 PM City Council Minutes - February 14, 2005 Page 3 Discussion of Citizen Survey (7:29 pm) Schulze requested Council consider and approve a request to advertise for qualifications for public opinion research. Following discussion, Council authorized Schulze to publish a request for qualifications and will discuss topic further at next Study Session. Comprehensive Plan and Critical Areas Regulations Updates (7:39 pm) Gellings provided a brief summary of the processes, requirements and mandates for the Comprehensive Plan and Critical Areas Ordinance. Odemat opened floor to public comment, 7:51 pm: Arthur Dietrich, 707 Overlake Drive East (7:52 pm) Dietrich stated zoning for three properties located between Overlake Drive East and Northeast Seventh Street are incorrectly labeled and requested it rectified. (Schulze conveyed he has spoken with Mr. Dietrich regarding issue and is currently attempting to recreate the record. Schulze acknowledged issue should be resolved, but indicated it is not necessary to address during the Comprehensive Plan and will follow up with Mr. Dietrich.) Ron Santi, 7842 Northeast Eighth Street (7:58 pm) Santi referenced "best available science" discussion, which took place during recent Planning Commission meeting and summarized points made by the Commission. Arnold Barer, 3217 Evergreen Point Road (8:08 pm) Barer claimed the ordinance is contradictory and suggested land planning return to the city and away from the state. Barer advised city against rushing into adopting ordinance and suggested council reconsider and find least restrictive compliance with Growth Management Act. Liz Odegard, 2039 — 79th Avenue Northeast (8:24 pm) Odegard stated City should review development regulations applied to properties, and claimed city representatives should work to protect property owners and their property rights. Steve Broback, 3225 Evergreen Point Road (8:26 pm) Broback stated property owners should own variance rights, city representatives should work to protect residents, and prevent state from encroaching on property rights. City Council Minutes February 14, 2005 Page 4 Julie Meyers, 16602 — 198t`' Avenue Northeast, Woodinville (8:28 pm) Meyers provided history of landslide mitigation performed to property owned on Evergreen Point Road. Meyers stated regulations are too restrictive and unfair to property owners. John Broback, 3223 Evergreen Point Road (8:32 pm) Broback added to Meyer's comments and asked Council consider their situation when adopting regulations, as current recommendations restrict development rights of his property. Odermat closed public comment period, 8:36 pm. During discussion, the following modifications to the Comprehensive Plan were addressed and agreed to by Council: • Element one: "It is important to the community that uses, such as the Post Office and the Medina Grocery Store, and facilities, such as City Hall, Clock Tower, and Water Tower be retained because of their functional, historic and cultural contribution to the City." (8:42 pm) • Element one: Leave in crossed out language: "The historical character of these buildings and structures, and appropriate use should be retained for future generations." (8:43 pm) • Element one: Cross out: "Historical buildings should be retained for future generations." (8:43 pm) • Goals and Policies, LUG-4; add "and uses" (8:48 pm) • LUP-5; separate St. Thomas Church and School (9:00 pm) • Page 21, line 54; verbiage should match page 23, policy CD-P3 ("with suitable trees") (9:05 pm) • Update page 22, line 10 with: "Parking is discouraged except where allowed by code." (9:11 pm) • Page 21, line 50; add policy to include specific phrase regarding historical view amenity of golf course and view corridors (9:19 pm) • Remove lines 70-75, page 22, add "discouraged" (9:25 pm) • Page 41-42, line 58, P6; change "should" to "may be" (9:35 pm) • Review and change "shall" to "should" throughout document, where appropriate. (9:37 pm) • Page 35, line 25; drop "in school" (9:39 pm) • Element 6, page 47, line 54; remove reference to sailing classes (9:41 pm) • Capital Facilities Element, page 5, update information regarding Medina Elementary School (9:47 pm) • Page 59, change "AT&T" to current provider (9:48 pm) Odermat declared recess, 9:53 pm and called meeting back into session, 10:04 pm. City Council Minutes February 14, 2005 Page 5 Gellings summarized Critical Areas Ordinance and the means of application. Discussion followed. During discussion, Council requested: • Follow up regarding policy and development regulations of steep slopes • Information regarding Broback property its development status COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF TO MAKE RECOMMENDED MODIFICATIONS AND PROVIDE A REVISED DRAFT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR REVIEW DURING FEBRUARY 24, 2005 STUDY SESSION. COUNCIL SEPARATED REVIEW OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND CRITICAL AREAS ORDINANCE, AS FOLLOWS: • COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: REVIEW REVISED DRAFT DURING FEBRUARY 28, 2004 STUDY SESSION AND PLACE ON MARCH 14, 2005 CONSENT AGENDA • CRITICAL AREAS ORDINANCE: PUBLIC HEARING, MARCH 14, 2005 Nunn recused from sideyard setback regulations discussion and was absent from remainder of meeting (10:47 pm). Discussion of Planning Commission Recommendations for Sideyard Setback Regulations (10:47 pm) Gellings provided history of and summary for Planning Commission's sideyard setback regulations recommendations. Odermat opened floor to public comment, 11:00 pm. Ron Santi, 7842 Northeast e Street (11:01 pm) Santi referred to drawing he displayed, which identified lots affected by proposed regulations. Santi proposed formulas to consider, replacing Planning Commission's recommendations and suggested Council reconsider proposal. Santi stressed structures, rather than lot width should be employed in formulas. Liz Odegard, 2039 — 79th Avenue Northeast (11:12 pm) Odegard indicated she owns property, which would be adversely affected by proposed regulations.. Odegard complained about current permitting regulations in Medina and conveyed opposition to additional regulations. City Council !Minutes February 14, 2005 Page 6 Chuck Hotes, 8623 Northeast Tenth Street (11:14 pm) Hotes confirmed Santi's concerns previously addressed and indicated proposed ordinance would negatively affect his and surrounding properties. Hotes suggested proposed recommendations do not factor in future consequences and is unfair in nature. Tony Shapiro, 853 - 83rd Avenue Northeast (11:16 pm) Shapiro described property and intention to remodel existing residence in the future. Shapiro indicated proposed regulations would be impossible to conform with and will penalize him when remodeling. Bud Eschbach, 8247 Overlake Drive West (11:19 pm) Eschbach described property and raised concerns related to future sale or remodel of home. Eschbach suggested Council reconsider recommendations. Stephen Plowman, 8048 Northeast 8th Street (11:21 pm) Plowman conveyed proposed regulations are unnecessary and he would not favor recommendations. Plowman recommended council to reconsider issue from the least restrictive means and craft a better tool to address the problem. Council discussion followed. MOTION RUDOLPH, SECOND VALL-SPINOSA REMANDING SIDE YARD SETBACKS TO PLANNING COMMISSION FOR FURTHER STUDY, MOTION FAILED 2-4, ADAM, BLAZEY, PHELPS AND ODERMAT OPPOSED, 11:51 PM. MOTION BLAZEY, SECOND ADAM, RECOMMENDING SIDE YARD SETBACK DISCUSSION INDEFINITELY SHELVED, MOTION FAILED 3-3, PHELPS, RUDOLPH AND VALL-SPINOSA OPPOSED, 11:52 PM. Discussion of Proposal to Provide Contract Public Works Administration and Development Services Support to Town of Hunt's Point and Town of Yarrow Point (11:54 pm) Schulze defined draft contract proposal to temporarily provide Code Enforcement, Land Use Planning and Public Works Administration services to the Towns of Hunts Point and Yarrow Point. Discussion followed. City Council Minutes February 14, 2005 Page 7 COUNCIL EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR TEMPORARY AGREEMENT, WHICH WOULD BE REVIEWED AFTER 90-DAYS. CITY MANAGER OFFERED TO PROVIDE OPTIONS FOR LONG-TERM AGREEMENT FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION (12:31 PM). FY 2004 Year End Financial Report FY 2004 Year End financial report provided to City Council. No discussion. Council Agenda Calendar (12:32 pm) Discussion followed. ADJOURNMENT MOTION VALL-SPINOSA, SECOND PHELPS, TO ADJOURN FEBRUARY 14, 2005 REGULAR MEETING OF THE MEDINA CITY COUNCIL, MOTION PASSED WITH ALL IN FAVOR, 12:38 AM The February 14, 2005 regular meeting of the Medina City Council adjourned, 12:38 am. The Study Session of the Medina City Council will be held, Monday, February 28, 2005, 7pm in City Hall. Attest: qachel Baker, Administrative Assistant City Council Minutes February 14, 2005 Page 8