Okay, calling to order the planning commission regular meeting for Thursday, December 11th, 2025.

We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the Sequamish, people of clear salt water, expert fishermen, canoe builders, and basket weavers.

The Sequamish live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington's Central Salish Sea, as they have for thousands of years.

Here the Sequamish live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855.

Has everyone had a chance to review the agenda.

I move to approve the agenda as presented.

Second.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously.

Any conflicts of interest to disclose?

All right, seeing none.

Uh we'll move on to the approval of planning commission meeting minutes.

We have a motion.

Move approval of the planning commission minutes from October 23rd, 2025.

Second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously.

Move approval of the planning commission special meeting from December 4th, 2025.

Second.

Motion and a second for December 4th, 2025.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously.

Moving on to public comment.

Member members of the public are encouraged to submit written public comment to the planning commission at any time by emailing PCD at BainbridgeWa.gov.

Members of the public who wish to provide public comment in person at a planning commission meeting should sign up to speak on the sign-in sheet by the chamber doors.

The planning commission chair will call the people signed up on the sign-in sheet, and speakers will have up to three minutes to speak from the podium.

Please speak directly into the microphone, which is adjustable.

A timer on the screen will indicate when three minutes or such other time set by the chair has elapsed.

Orderly behavior and civility and remarks is expected with no clapping or booing and no yielding of one person's time to another person.

Guidelines for public comment are provided.

Remote public comment is allowed with advanced notice to the planning and community development department by noon on the date of the meeting at PCD at Bainbridge WA.gov, provided that all remote commenters shall be required to display their true name and to keep their camera turned on to show their true uncovered face while delivering their comments.

Public comment is not accepted during the balance of the planning commission meeting unless a public hearing or public participation meeting is on the agenda.

Henry Zimmerman is the first uh speaker.

Will the only speaker signed up?

Can I begin?

Thanks.

Good evening.

My name is Henry Zimmerman.

I'm an architect that has been working with my client Hagar Scribner properties on providing a legacy project on their parcels since 2017.

I'm here to represent my client and as a concerned citizen and professional.

Let me be clear.

We are for affordable housing and have been trying to develop a project on my client site in Winslow with an affordable housing component since 2017.

Our objections to the city's 625 project and the work to fast track code updates are made because they are being done hastily outside of the comprehensive plan update and Winslow sub-area plan update process without proper impact studies and while ignoring red flags such as parking, overwhelming public objection, and proper process per the code.

The code is being designed backwards from the 625 project up, not from the codified public process of the comprehensive plan downwards.

This is not professional, and you will end up harming the community for generations to come if you continue to ignore this.

In the spirit of following the correct process, the focus today should not be on development regulations or parking standards, but on the comprehensive plan and Winslow sub-area plan updates.

However, the exact extent of that geographic area should be determined by the city.

This area includes the following characteristics.

It acts as a crossroads for pedestrian traffic in Winslow, a collection of open space and pedestrian pathways that should be preserved and enhanced.

It acts as a civic and cultural center of Winslow and the island.

It holds the potential for a second pedestrian main street in the alley running east-west behind the businesses abutting the north side of Winslow Way, much like post alley at Pike Place Market in Seattle, providing a second front door for businesses and space for new businesses.

Its topography and change in grade from north to south is approximately a one-story parking garage, allowing parking entrances at grade from the aforementioned alley that could be below buildings at the level of the Winslow Green.

These characteristics highlight important features that could be highlighted and targeted in the goals and policies of the comp plan as proposed by our CPA, namely below grade parking to address Winslow's current lack of parking, increased open space and porosity at the ground plane to provide pocket parks and pedestrian connections, dense multifamily housing with an affordable housing component, missing middle housing, and aging in place housing in the heart of Winslow to ensure the vitality and evolution of our historic Winslow Town Center.

Increased density to afford below building parking and increased public amenity and a maximum of building height to allow that density to be pushed off the ground plane to preserve open space for pocket parks and pedestrian connections.