Good evening and welcome to the November the study of how we need commission learning.

It's imminent meeting at the commission and all the trade.

It's an opportunity for us to think back on the past year and look forward to the coming year.

Like our other meetings, it's how we have a hybrid format with both in-person and virtual options.

Yes, yeah.

Tonight there's an opportunity for public coming during the oral communication portion of the agenda.

All written comments that have been submitted by 11 a.m.

today when they November 5th will be summarizing for the report.

Our agenda item, we only have one item, which is annual retreat, but there are several components that we will have some opening remarks from the deputy mayor.

There will be an opportunity for um to honor Commissioner Ferrett.

Um at this uh as her last meeting.

Um, we will have the fun game highlighting our accomplishments, and uh following that we will hear about development trends that strategy can shape this.

Our closing presentation tonight will be by city chief um double grafford, who will give us the presentation on the demographic trends in volume.

Now let us forward with the role call.

Here, Commissioner Ferris here, Commissioner Geppo here, Commissioner Melodessa, here Commissioner Kennedy, uh Commissioner Ninja.

Um Council Liaison did the mayor and I'm um Chair Fondu.

Can I make a motion to approve tonight's agenda?

I believe tonight.

Is there a second?

Second any discussion.

All in favor, say I can imagine.

Yeah, would you like to make any remarks?

Yes, thank you, Chair.

It would be very short.

Uh I kind of will start every meeting with this, and I'm going to do the same thing here.

I am incredibly thankful to you all for everything you do for our city.

I'm busy or I'm biased, but I think this is the best learning commission.

This is the best commission among all of our commission.

And this is the best school we ever had.

And you individually come to every meeting super prepped.

I can work prep in any uh group that I've ever seen.

Come with great questions.

Don't agree with each other, it's also in my opinion.

Uh but listen to each other, very respectful.

So I'm really curious curious to know what is the team or how we can even work well more well together.

I don't even know what is that level looks like because to me is already replacement.

We have a lot of new members that they are coming.

The culture is so good that when now is like a like on the train is already running very well, and everyone calm, they understand the culture, they adjust and the work is amazing.

I'm just thankful and looking forward to next year and the additional stuff that we can do.

Completment, Wilberton, and Middle Housing was they were the biggest three things that I have been involved.

Commissioner and Council, and you guys did great job in all of the trees.

They came to the uh to us and Mayor Robinson, and it's interesting because we changed some of the issues recommendations, but she always says to me that this is the planning commission that is when the stuff comes from them.

We don't discuss any long hours.

We really trust them, and she repeats that to me all the time.

This is a great group when they recommend something to us.

We are not to be going back after so that shows how amazing your work is listening to all of these stakeholders, listening to the public and making the conversation.

So I'm just thankful and appreciate you all.

That's it, sir.

Thank you.

Um, now we can go to director Emil King.

Uh, would you like to make any remarks about the commission?

Sure, yeah, thank you, yeah, Chair.

Um so this is the first full year that I haven't been to every single uh commission meeting.

I can I can tell because they did away with my comment, and now I have a light longer.

And I just I really appreciate everybody's uh hard work on the commission.

Um change has occurred over the over the past year.

We've had uh uh Commissioner Collade, um Commissioner Arbaba, uh, and then we'll be able to thank Commissioner Affairs as well.

But as change occurred, I it's just great to have new members come on, and you can tell by the complexity of the projects and the rigor that you that you get into discussing those and kind of debating the policy parts, it really strengthen the commission.

So I've been able to listen into most of all uh commissions.

I'm on the I'm on the phone listening in now instead of uh being in person.

Um I just couldn't be happier with the way the commission is jailed and your rigor you're putting into the the sometimes real tough policy and face and they have um I do go to all the council meetings, especially one's uh where we have some my department or uh if own services is presenting and the the way that the transmittals have occurred have just been studied.

I'm just very pleased by the preparations done by the the uh commissioners, the the chair, vice chair, and then staff just getting all of the notes together and they often say the presentation is the easy part of the council is the questions right that they ask and the way that the um uh commission representatives have been able to clearly answer the questions that come from the council is just been great uh estimation.

Um the things that really I'm noting is we can see the commitment from all of you.

This does take a lot of time, so just really appreciate the your putting in the time at the meetings and the homework to get ready uh for the meetings that really does show um at your meetings, your preparation to put in.

And um, above all, it's the passion you all have for both people making all the rubric to look for pointing with play and vocaling new people who are gonna be coming here in the future years.

So uh just gonna be happier.

Um all of the detail accomplishments.

I know that's gonna be in the the uh icebreaker exercise, so I'm not gonna like give away any hints or anything on that one.

Um, but as we go through uh the rest of the the evening, you'll be able to hone in like county meetings, hearings, a little details about what we've been doing with some years.

So thank you for letting me have a documents, Chair.

Thank you for joining us.

Um now we go to staff ways on Kate Ness.

Would you like to provide any updates for us?

All right, just want to make one comment on the calendar.

I wanted to let you know that I'm working with managers and staff across the city to identify the agenda topics for the upcoming year, weekend six.

Um there's an opportunity to address some of the topics that are were brought up in the survey.

So um when we get to that portion of the program, I'd like to talk with you about some of the things that you would like to dig into deeper, a little deeper.

Um agenda for 2026.

Thank you.

If you can um now go to the communication from the public case, didn't you have any um public comments that you receive?

There was one written comment received since your last meeting.

Um that comment was asking for more information about comments received regarding the critical areas ordinance.

I responded to the email and I included my response when I forwarded uh that comment to you today.

Um, but that was the only comment.

Um we'll leave to the oral communication.

Um do we have anyone signed up without that communication?

Uh no, and there's nobody online and nobody present here.

So the thing that I need to read.

Great.

Okay, we're gonna go start with the study session.

Yay.

Um I would like to start the retreat with the appreciation for the Commissioner Ferris service.

I would like to share um the certification uh of recognition of you, and I will have some remarks, and then I will ask Ibody Mayor for his remarks, and following that with that, I will ask some of the commissioner who would like to um share their remarks about uh Commissioner Ferris and no pressure if you just want to pass.

I would turn down because it's easier for me when I'm getting emotional and I don't think something um I don't have noticing the name.

I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Um it has been such a joy and privilege to serve with you on the planning commission, your kindness, your calm presence, and your genuine care for people having a real two friends here.

You always showed up um ready to listen.

Um, that's real.

I really appreciate that.

I've learned a lot from watching you leave with the humility and strength.

You brought great and grounded business to every conversation, and you never lost sight of the people behind a policies.

Bellby is a better place because of your service, and I'm a better person because serving alongside um as your next step to the whole thing.

I'm so excited.

What is ahead?

They're really incredibly lucky to have you, and I know you're gonna continue lifting the families and our community, and I'm sure I'm gonna go keep watching you and sharing right now.

Sorry, no, I don't measure quiet.

I can I know it's well said, thank you, it was really written down by me and some edited by Gemini.

What about the chat GPT?

I just fired oh, because of your new job, I see that means the her computer is being blocked to access by Google Cybersecurity system.

Okay, that makes sense.

Yeah, no, but uh this is what I have been telling you from the second we met.

I think you make everyone around you by your presence, uh, by your kindness, the way that you think about the stuff, and you are you care about everyone.

Uh like if all of the human beings would be like you, I think we would live in much better uh place.

We are very caring.

People ask me what is the one quality of the create planning commission for cash on this.

My number one is uh just be an independent team care, and because we are all going to be in police, and it's very important that we hear everyone's all of the stakeholders, but at the end of the day, we just think independently and say what we need the best for well view.

I think in that regard, you are 10 out of 10.

Uh and it's very interesting because sometimes you for some reason, maybe because of your husband's role or your goal, some of the non-profits, you don't have the perception, and whoever challenged me when I say this uh idea of you.

I said, okay, just look at her uh votes, look at her whole six and a half almost seven years.

Uh how she conducted herself, and I think the proof is in all of the public recording.

Um very proud of you.

Uh to me, you are the most qualified learning from I have ever seen my vote.

You're good.

Your full package, your client, you you know the topic very well, you study, you study, you listen very well, and you'll always have this um presence of calmness, and then you deliver your and you change your mind, like many many times you start with being here, and then you listen to all of the commissioner or public, and then I saw the gradual shape, and so you say, Okay, now I listen to people, I listen to my colleagues, and now my vote is changed on some.

I think that's exactly the process that you should look like.

Um, never seen uh anyone respect the whole process moving you, so again, just appreciate you.

Uh I'm really happy for hoping.

I think all of the systems people know you to be elevated and really happy that you are uh until you volunteering your time to give your cause like voting, and everyone should know that you offer you talk a lot and you offer to inventor next uh land uh commission because when we start people lost, I'm sure maybe you will join in commissioner Kennedy is the only one who's all lost, she's so smart, she gets everything so fast.

But me, Johnny or she are we were all guessing.

It's like that we were all lost.

Like, what are we doing here?

What is what are this language lingual and everything else?

So you are really volunteer.

You said more we should you should do a system structure for volunteer.

Uh I think that's beautiful, and I'm going to make a happen.

And I'm going to make a talk and sort of don't uh conversation with Charmaine uh to see the people like you who have done served two terms, or for some reason they are not finishing their second terms, but they still want to give back.

Okay, how can we have structured mentorship program for the new people is the learning curve resistance?

If someone can hand hold them, thank you.

I'm going to be your life if you want to not have the phone.

So we are able to be thank you someone for everything.

Now it's open and anyone else wants to have something.

So appreciate everything that you've done.

Even before I started my commission were re and so bringing me along and starting public training that I still need more of.

Really appreciate a lot of that.

When I first started paying attention to that commission, you were shared.

And so I'd say like my first formative memory of commission was uh you gabbling Alexander and I think that memory has just forever established itself in my role.

Uh so no, I just think it's been so great to have you on the commission.

I think he you embody so much of what we strive for.

Uh you are looking for your formal opinion on things, or you've listened to MP change that opinion, and you're so efficient with the time that you're getting lost.

I appreciate that looking things on you.

Just that's the time as a space.

So I'd like to say she's been always built in shirt as well.

But uh seriously, there's a lot to say.

There's you're very insightful, good listener.

But I want to thank you for your boss too.

Always with a smile, always constructive, always positive, always getting every people to know you were talking about culture, and uh when I started, I was lost, very lost.

So and Kara was very supportive.

I think that permitted some forms and all we all were to do.

So you're gonna be missed.

I would say good luck with the morning.

Um stay in touch.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I was just gonna say I I really appreciate the opportunity to serve with you on the planning commission.

I mean, in a lot of ways, it reminds me a lot of uh my oldest son when he was uh playing violin in uh in the orchestra.

He uh he played right next to um his his best friend, um who was really good violinist, and um, I mean, we thought he my wife and I thought he did really well actually that year, but we found out like many years later that he was actually like air violet.

Um he wasn't actually playing at all, you know.

Um he was just next to somebody who was extremely talented.

That's kind of like especially what I started.

That's that's how I felt so um, you know, and uh you know you you you bring smarts, you you and and I'd say just really good in purpose, you know, for the the benefit of the city felt.

I I really appreciate that.

I I've learned a lot from you.

Thank you.

Well, I would as the first at the show on your list.

We're always happy.

I I it's been an absolute pleasure getting this server's mission.

I think there's to look at some of the other commissioners.

Council members move that easily if you are using um with shape or uh the culture that we learned as long as the meaning your legacy will be on the cool, and we can talk to people in the chat, you're missing.

I really want to thank you for being so welcoming.

The commission, but all of you guys incredibly welcome and great resources.

I definitely can say that throughout all the meetings, you in particular.

Um, I hear your comments, I hear your questions, and it's really useful for me to hear them because they're really brown conversations.

We can kind of reoriate things in a way that I has been really helped for me to uh understand the issue and change my mind on something that you bring such a level of uh care and thoughtfulness to to everything that you say and everything that you've done on the commissions.

You know, it's only been a short time that we've been on commission together, but I'm I'm really thankful to have had uh that time to serve with you and see for the community and try to try to pick up informal.

Yeah, I just uh see.

I've had we've had quite the career with Hal, and then you being on the on the commission has just been uh great having him on the commission.

Me led before uh so you've been doing great things before you became a commissioner, and I've just been always impressed by your spitting for us, um, asking great questions kind of totally should have been your core values or you can tell what your core values are, and while you are talking about other options there, you do have your opinion to bring for what your core values are, and you know, the key things about having uh a community that values equity was very nothing that you're doing, and you know, your work before the commission was about a desire to have stable housing for everybody to have this show through and a lot of different things that you do on the commission, but that's I mean that's your your thing for looking at, and um again we'll be interacting a lot uh uh poster uh commission career.

We'll probably call you commissioner paris for a little bit, yeah.

After that, uh but just yeah, you're gonna be a great part of the the community going forward, and I just it could have spelled your um I a lot of wonderful things, uh, and I definitely uh relate to a lot of the comments in the firm.

Um we've been uh working together since I started it that review, and so we really were helpful in understanding the dynamics of commission.

Uh maybe you were the first chair of meeting second, second who started, and those were really interesting times because we had to hit it during the pandemic and to figure out how this commission function really virtually and it was a while to make quite a pet also not here anymore.

And I've just been struck.

I think others have said this too already, but just been struck with my teacher and how you bring that to all conversations.

Um, you definitely have bringing up passion, which is how it's a long year in that.

Um, but you also find really good balance and balance all the other issues that are important, and uh maybe we've got I feel like as that this is the help with you in DR.

Yeah, and I I think very similarly, I always thought that you did a wonderful job of being passionate about particular issues and being very mindful and trying very hard to remain objective and to not ever come across as if you were pushing an agenda or trying to direct a conversation, and then it becomes more of a subject matter expertise, which is exactly why you want different planning commissioners from different backgrounds, bring and I know I know that you had to purposefully try to do that, and I always really appreciated watching you do that because I thought you struck such a really good balance between processing compliment amendments or my news code amendments that touched on subject matter that you felt very strongly about, but always wanting to be balanced that you have to follow you all through.

And then the other thing um for the time that I've been the uh legal support for the commission, we've had quite a few different lawyers, which is kind of a blessing that occurs.

We probably have more lawyers now than we've ever had on the on the planning presentation.

But but um, I I I also I also appreciated that.

I thought that you did a really good job of bringing some of your expertise from from your your background and also your career when needed, if I without ever being heavy-handed or using it in the way, which is right shape before trying to write the conversation.

So those are two things that I always notice.

I think always appreciated that's part part of the big loss that you'll know.

Um readness, uh Wilderness too.

I've enjoyed working with the you um a lot of what's been said.

I wholeheartedly agree that incredibly sharp have a really uh good way of getting to the issue and asking the right questions and keep getting to the I guess a really productive point of process.

So it's a staff person that's appreciated.

So it really does help kind of more efficiency front and to really serve as like one of the things we should be requesting.

So it's always helpful.

Um very very kind or just a very um yeah, giving personal time too.

So very much this was great.

Um I'll just um close this out.

Um I think the first planning commission meeting that I came to was um retreat in 2019, which um I was thinking was maybe your first commission meeting, but now that I do the math, and that's not that kind of um I remember that when you guys um but I'll just you everybody has commented on all of your wonderful professional qualities, and I'll just say personally I really enjoyed working with you.

Wonderful person outside of all of your qualities as well.

Thank you.

Well, I don't want to belabor this.

This has been wonderful.

I've loved every single moment.

But I also have to say I have learned so much from every one of you, or you know, the current commissioner's staff.

I come back all even fasting night and almost always the first thing I say is just I mean which really and again I could point to join you guys.

Um again, I just every single one of you brings such gifts to this work, and I just really really appreciate every single one.

And it is definitely with mixed emotions that I leave as I will miss every one of you so much.

Um so no, I'm not gonna go away.

I will still cluster, still have people still numbers, and I am excited about trying to do some sort of an interpreter.

I would have loved to have something like that when I was joined because it's we pointed out when you first come in.

It's pretty overall.

Um so anyway, I would just I have to have that.

Thank you.

Uh service recognition from the council, which just would be done here, but I'm gonna give it to you for now.

Yeah, okay.

And then this is a card that's all it wishing on the staff sign, and you can read it and cry by yourself.

Yeah, I think I have I will say thank great.

Now we can go um to the fun activity highlighting the accomplishment of the accomplishments of the commission in 2025.

Pete, can you meet us in the activity?

And there's a pride involved, yeah.

Yes.

Seriously what we're talking about.

No, I'm not there is seriously you have our same jobs.

These are prizes, okay.

Yeah, yes.

If you can uh find anybody in that card at all.

Find your bingo card.

This is finally commissioned a bingo.

Um we are going to be transported to uh a podcast inside the PC, the podcast.

Um, and as we read it, you will hear words that are on your bingo card, and you can take a poker chip and put it over the word that you hear, and uh when you have a blackout, so all of your all nine squares, you yell bingo, and Matt is going to deliver a prize to you.

So this is gonna take a lot of skill then, clearly.

Yeah, it's a friendly way.

All right, are there any questions about being made with Jim and I would so I I asked, I asked um one of them.

Uh I don't recall what I should do for for the icebreaker, and they it's said bingo.

So do we have to wait for the entire word or is the acronym okay?

Like CPA.

Like, yeah, do we have to say yeah, use code amendment or is it that okay?

Um both of those will be appearing.

So uh I yeah, all right.

Either one question is all things.

Any other questions before we test the voice and who's in here?

All right.

Put your headphones on.

Welcome to the planning commission recap episode of the Inside VC podcast, the minute by minute review of the minutes.

I'm Katie Nets.

And I'm Brian Tackle now.

I have to say this was quite a year for the planning commission.

You said it, Brian.

Let's go through some of the stats.

The commission held 19 meetings in 2025.

That includes tonight's meeting and the meeting scheduled in December, right?

Of course.

You have to include those two in the stats.

You know, Katie, it would have been an even 20 if it weren't for the bond cycle and the knockout power process.

Do you remember that?

I sure do.

The meeting was canceled, but staff called the commissioners and community members registered to give comments to make sure they stayed safe at home.

The clan the planning commission is important, but not worth risking your life to attend.

They held six countdowns six public hearings already.

Wow.

That's what I call cooking the guests.

Those hearings were about some pretty weighty stuff.

Right in February with a public hearing on the Wilberton Vision employee case in the Luca.

Man, I have to say the commissioners worked hard for that recommendation.

Oh yes, it was the culmination of many study sessions evaluating how to balance all of the priorities and implementing the Wilburton vision.

They were carrying the forward the vision that they set in 2024.

And Brian, boy, was it a nail bitter?

There were 20 people who commented during the public hearing, and that does not include the hundreds.

I mean hundreds of pages of written comments that they read or all the testimony that at the previous study sessions.

That was a late night of transit-oriented developments, not the latest.

Oh no.

Nope.

The longest was April 23rd, clocking in at a walk in 234 minutes.

Ah, yes, that was the meeting.

Our current chair was elected as vice chair.

Congratulations twice over, Chair Coffle.

He was later elected to chair.

But to get back to the meeting, it was so long because of the planning commission's careful consideration of the middle housing Luca.

The public hearing was actually held on April 9th, but they extended their discussion to a second meeting.

They issued a recommendation on the middle housing Luca that night and props to cancel for adopting it before the June deadline.

They certainly do put in the hours to make sure they are making the best recommendations possible.

If we're if we're going through the highlights, we have to mention the great neighborhood race.

You know what my favorite part of those plans was?

Tell me.

I love how engaged the community was with the creation of the plans.

There were throngs of people at all the meetings, and they made a lot of comments about contents of the plans when they were on the agenda.

The community was an integral part of those plans for sure.

The commission even delayed making a recommendation on one in order to hear more from the community.

And I said it before, I'll say it again.

And the Bellevue supporters turn out for the PC meetings.

So you said there were six public hearings, and so far you've mentioned four.

What are the other ones?

Well, Brian, the PC made recommendations on the downtown sub-area plan, CPA, and the objective design.

Wait, does it mail get it?

Does the mail?

We got lots of them.

I don't have to count.

I mean I don't count.

I don't know.

Do you want me to check them so they're not cheating?

No.

Thank you.

No, very good.

That was good.

Yeah, it's going on.

The downtown sub-area plan CPA and the objective design move were smaller changes to the land use code and the comprehensive plan, but important to stay current with state law and regional guidance guidance.

And when they hold the hearing on housing opportunities in mixed use areas and fiction have full mob with me because the whole one in ours was delayed for the lady.

Yeah, this is a parallel for actual commission will hold is the thing that delays for it.

Hola is the thing that's a little bit.

Oh yeah, look at two yeah.

That's great.

All right, that's right.

This to seven public hearings.

Almost for seven.

Whoa.

You know what?

We haven't talked about yet a roster.

Boy, oh boy, the changing roster sure kept the deputy mayor Malikutian busy with appointments.

We had three resignations this year.

Commissioner Louisa Khaled, Commissioner Vishall Bargava, and Commissioner Carolyn Ferris.

What an impact all three of panel.

This doesn't show how much their service on the commission is at a hand, Katie Bell.

No kidding.

Service on the planning commission is demanding, but their impact is big.

I'm so glad to see our new commissioners, Commissioner Mariah Kennedy and Commissioner Arshia Nilchian step stepping up and already contributing to the commission's recommendations to council.

I can't wait for the public hearing at the December meetings.

You know, I congratulated Chair Fong Lou, but I would mention what a great job the former chair Commissioner Keppel did during his tenure.

He managed meetings with some significant discussion.

He did it properly.

Yes, we have been blessed with great leadership on this squad.

Congratulations to Vice Chair Lou as well, who was elected in July.

Well, Katie, that's a wrap our recap of the 2025 season.

I'll raise my glass to an action pack 2026.

You're here.

Yeah, so anybody did not get a mug because you have words.

I'm sure she was giving it a little bit more.

I have some in the world.

Okay.

Congratulations to all the winners.

I told Peyton Tara, I hate competition.

I'm glad this is win-win for everybody.

Well, the museum participated two years ago competition.

Okay, Kate.

Um planning uh commissioners have the Abound of providing overview problems.

Uh the feedback should we see at the survey off the commission member um this past month.

If we already great, so uh six commissioners responded to the survey, and there were lots of ideas, enough to spend another study session on these topics um in next year.

So as I said, um uh after the presentation, I'd like to have a conversation about what you'd like to dig into a little bit more.

Um so three areas where the commission uh functions well.

Um there was a lot of um consensus on this.

Uh people really appreciated the respectful and collaborative relationships on the on the um commission.

Um they enjoy a lot of the dialogue that happens during the meetings and um really appreciate how uh well new members have integrated into those discussions.

Um uh folks also said they appreciated all of the preparation that uh their fellow commissioners put into uh each of the meetings.

Everybody seems to come uh very well prepared and demonstrate that their knowledge.

Um overall the meetings are well structured and transparent, and um uh the there's appreciation for um the presentations from staff comments that they were are clear and high quality presentations.

Um and uh um folks appreciated it also um how sort of outcome oriented the the discussions are that um when people are contributing to the discussion, they're looking at moving the issue forward and um uh in a collaborative way.

Um there are a few areas where the fun the commission could function better.

Um overall people like the structure and efficiency of the meeting, but um suggested that I think in general they would like shorter meetings and so um um focusing uh uh presentations on key decision points and then uh making sure that uh commissioners' comments are are brief and people use the first one.

Um as far as staff memos and presentations, um folks wanted to um ensure that questions asked at previous meetings are answered at that meeting.

This came up many times that the briefings are very much appreciated.

And wanted to ensure that we have initial study sessions before we just jump right into.

And then a suggestion to help the public comment effectively at the commission meetings.

Not that it's uh this is not collegial.

Um I think in general folks think that it is very collegial, um, but uh some suggestions that uh a mentorship program could be helpful.

Um that um folks mentioned a number of different training opportunities for just meeting process.

Um, and then um you guys all wanted to get to know each other better.

Uh yeah.

Um, in terms of the agenda memos, presentations and briefings, there were a lot of um like individual suggestions, um, but sort of the high level, making sure that um the the memos and the presentations are are clear and include the context for the decision, like the scope that's uh council identified and the reasoning um for the staff recommendations.

Some suggestions to use um more summaries, tables, maps to digest some of the key concepts and a lot of support for more um more briefings before the meetings.

Um in terms of staff support, there was a suggestion or some suggestions to um that staff can help the commission um focus on council scope and their role in that process during the meeting.

Um, and then uh the reasoning for staff recommendations.

Uh there was some a desire for staff to um when the commission has ideas to make sure that staff are applying their expertise to those ideas and responding to those from um from their expertise.

Uh community interactions.

Um I think there was appreciation for how the uh critical areas ordinance tracked the community uh input and how that um could be applied to other controversial topics.

Um there was suggestions to um attend more community events and different ways that we could encourage commissioners to do that.

Um there's also a suggestion of spacing projects to reduce community confusion.

I know some folks had some confusion over what HOMA was and what some of the other projects were um and then uh finding ways to share events more widely with the community and in more languages.

In terms of future topics, uh some suggestions were um implications from the state legislative changes uh for the planning commission, so any legislation that might end out of that planning commission.

Uh there was an interest in learning more about the staff and the areas of expert their areas of expertise, um uh learning more about the community engagement process, like generally, um, and then uh interest in training on procedural topics.

And so um so I'm going to end there and I'll open it up for um discussion for the next 10 minutes before Rebecca joins us.

Can we go to the first slide of the recommendation?

This was the very first one.

This uh lovely group that wanted to be.

Okay.

Can you please explain what the all three years of engagement process?

Yeah, so um just making sure that the uh I think this was more generally um to make sure that the community understands when they can engage in the project projects and how they can be effective.

So when to engage with um planning commission, when to engage with staff, um, and how to um have effective comment at uh the clear public engagement process for follows for the public.

No decision.

The one-on-one briefings.

Is there stuff do you have any comments on this?

Like I'm wondering that we can um we haven't discussed it as a staff, so I I don't want to um related question because you have staff that same survey.

Yeah, and is what kind of input the staff?

Um I would say in general, the staff uh feedback was pretty similar.

Um in terms of where things are functioning well, where it could improve.

Um very that was that um I think I haven't gone through the staff um results as much.

Um so I can yeah.

Review the staff uh input and sort of cross-check them, cross-check it, and yeah, I I think the staff input was more focused on kind of the mechanics of the land commission rather than she's let's say um just wanna add on um exactly, but this primarily something to take the shaman and staff then the ones taking the initiative in hands given the questions that would be expectation, and it's been I think it's been but I did for take the discussions.

Um I mean from the code policy team perspective, so we do all those people.

Our interest is kind of a successful productive meeting, and so if that were still in a certain time um with briefings if it's I believe we're open to feedback and more feedback on the way, so I think there's feedback given we'd love to see responses to our questions and memos.

Great, we can do that.

I believe up to because then great it's a kind of move things along.

That is our kind of trends from my team's perspective, they won't go in time, put in extra detail on the memo is do what happened.

I can't see um given we're working with the community, uh we're at the stakeholders.

We want to be able to bring them to also get through the board actually.

So uh kind of things will I would say type in some channels.

I think I had that experience during the Will Rich and then it was I had a question about FAR and uh CNUS going, I just I want to keep dive in this one, and then I think I came to uh just like 30 minutes all and just walk me through calculation because I wanted to know how it's working because uh just have more knowledge and key and remember who else was in the case where that uh just had 30 minutes all in the end explained to me.

And it was helpful for Kids.

I was kind of stuck in it.

I read it and read it, but I was just having someone to explain it to me while I should yeah, Matthew, uh rehaps and share in an email and says, hey, what's what's the story here?

We usually have a story uh so feel free to even do that.

We we're totally able to do that.

One thing I do want to chime in.

Um sometimes get these last minute suggestions from uh and sometimes adding you or at times have probably just ended to those.

Uh one thing that could be helpful is during the CNA is something I think it does a lot better, especially recently uh just saying that they had time to look at this.

And I think it does a lot better, especially recently.

Sometimes even saying this isn't really scope work, something that you can I mean we face this a little bit initially with Roswell's suggestion again.

We made a call then that we want to push your screen fly.

So I think even a bit of a reaction okay, can't talk about this, or it's not really screen plus from the last minutes.

And one of the things I learned when I'm in the chair was talking to Kent thought of that.

But I'm basically adding the scroll about just hope that it's hard to be defined by a council that basically I'm doing something that it's not supposed to do.

And that was like learning from you know, like I didn't know that I'm asking this question all the time.

And I appreciate this that tells me like, hey, to scroll down is the fine type.

We can take it back and consider it, but it's a point, it's not in the scroll off this.

It helps me a lot to just focus better.

So I just gonna add something on maps in particular.

Um I find that extremely helpful for some all city specialists that we have.

I mean, on middle housing or on you know, critical areas where we can visualize a little bit more what the policy decisions that we're working on and in terms of attachment on the city.

That that helps me in a big way because it makes it a lot more concrete about the uh the decisions and the trade-offs that we're working on.

So um, you know, maps or tables um really super helpful where that's possible to provide.

I think I thought like I encourage this technique to put a special context like the road day setup post the roles, but then we didn't have some calling here because I have to come up for someone who wasn't happily involved in the project work.

I thought that was a really coverage.

It sounds like it might be useful to spend uh a session um talking about um some of the uh tools or tactics that um you guys would find helpful for the um memos or for the presentations that some can I just uh ask one more time about this stuff.

I think it was touching that so can we have the structure way for one or one degree agreed with the two people if we can have an always more as in the staff, but for very complex thoughts of before before the actual meetings, can we have more to talk about we know we do that, but it's really not a structures that maybe these are one on one.

That's that's something that we can talk about.

That was one of the suggestions is to around like here's you know, we do briefings at least two times, and you can opt into one of those times.

Uh you're right right now.

What we do is more ad hoc.

Um I send out an email and say you want uh um a briefing before the summer, you know, and then I work with the staff schedules to set that up.

Um I can just not let you in if you're the fourth person.

Yeah, I mean, uh I I think I'll have to talk more with Anil and Tara about how that would work.

Um from a staff time perspective because you guys have very complex schedules, uh and um, you know, our schedules are also changing, and so I want to make sure that we accommodate as many folks as possible with the with the um with the briefings, but uh there is a lot of support for more briefings, and I think that it does help the meetings go more smoothly.

Um, and as Nick said that we have you know, staff that's what staff's told is to make these meetings as soon as possible.

So just trying to produce the most specific.

I feel like that's where everything is fun.

I feel like that's where everything is fun happens, and you hear that having a little bit of staying time doesn't need one.

Yeah, it makes it a little bit of crack.

Yeah, yeah, we we can talk about what that might work.

I have some suggestions for you guys.

I've had a really good thing that people can see your schedule that saying your schedule and schedule 30 minutes for you guys as I literally an option.

I can tell you guys to do that when to call intentional that I yeah, but they need to combine them sometimes a little more.

I designed um yeah, I was just gonna think another suggestion on if there are the two regularly scheduled options and um read options, but it's a but it's at a regularly scheduled time, yeah.

Yeah, it makes it a little bit better name number one when you grab it on the meeting.

This is the time you would just pre-book.

I'm gonna be at that one versus that one, and it is already booked up.

This is an area that I also thought we were cool.

So you weren't the only one.

I see that um and and then I did have a question on uh uh I didn't want to show I have one more to say while we were talking.

My concern is that after we I'm sitting model, but after we use uh commissioner fairies, we have basically five new commissioners here less than a year and a half if you if I'm well how long you have the year and a half year and a half, so two year and a half, two months.

Five or six months, one yeah, five months, so then you have another one that is brand brand new.

So I again I know you'll need to talk to the team, but I think those are done because we just on complex topic, I think we should be very careful with some topics that I mean that is going to be super super helpful for and again as we mentioned break Katie.

I think that you shouldn't listen to these time consuming for weeks team or your team horror's team, but I think the meetings will just meet out of this meeting chaos than if we don't have babies.

Yeah, that was another suggestion was to have um maybe a a little little bit of a longer onboarding um for new commissioners, but here are the topics that the commission are currently discussing, and here's where we're at in terms of those topics and the immediate especially when there are some subject that we are talking about for last like nine months.

I saw one walk into it.

I had that one with I had that experience with Philbert 10.

I walked into the comprehensive plan that people was working two years.

I read, I don't remember two thousand pages, four weeks.

I don't remember, it was so many pages, but it's really intense, right?

But like you guys can give it like a review of that, and I'm showing like two hours, but we took like 10 hours, yeah.

So more concerned people, yeah.

Yeah, we have almost funny like I don't remember what these full on stands for these housing opportunities.

Yeah, so sorry to go ahead.

I just wanted to add I I think Steph's a fantastic job too.

I mean um the presentations we put together and then thought the way you put together you know approaches to things.

I mean, I like the last one we voted on the critical areas workers.

I thought that was just an answer for that's really good in terms of the way all the different curves are coming up the subject that was kind of really you know, um productive and addressing you know comments that we have all done.

So I had made a suggestion, and I've never heard about it again, so it's probably a bad idea, but I would love to see a glossary and oh no, that's in here.

Okay, I just didn't put it on the slide.

So I was trying to do yes, and I'm I was kind of imagining something as you do the presentations, you can kind of do the glossary for that, and then over time you build it up to the point, and that becomes like a little maybe handbook for the commissioners.

I mean, there's a countless times that I'm going through whether it's a memo or a presentation or whatever, and I see an acronym and don't necessarily know what it means, and I can't I'm looking everywhere to try to figure anyway.

I can get my up, you know.

We'll be sharing the boss group that's all like around the perception programs and town hall and we just uh mentor specifically would really love to get all the background and then we have project descriptions.

Yeah, I think that would be anyone, but can you talk about that?

Yeah, but yeah, yeah, we can move on up.

I think we're gonna do that.

Um yeah, just a quick question on one of our schools.

Um what we can include in ability to have kind of tools and use it on the stability, but um one of the things that was great advice happening about the only those typical race minutes was then we'll see that all the different comments we saved, yeah and how those were done.

And I'm having that for all contents issues and having it really so helpful.

Um, I think it gets to be valued like um kind of saying that hey, we've heard that on it have been adjusted, it's been doubtless in the hopefully the term because it okay we have talked about it, it has been addressed.

Um I don't know, I can imagine the compensity um trying to have that together and then have anything to do it.

So don't want this reasonable.

I can imagine that we can um have a discussion about what you guys have found helpful, and then I can put together kind of a um uh uh document of tools that that people could use um for their projects and communicating with planning commission.

Um, and then they you know the project manager can choose the ones that are appropriate to that project.

So if it is a complex topic with lots of input, especially technical input, um that that is a really great it really helps because you have the red line, and you can go hey, this is presented because I would like thank you.

Okay, thank you, everybody.

I think we are going to have on in 2026, our schedule is not as heavy as 2025.

That's what I heard.

I'm gonna go have one another discussion talk about this uh survey and the resolved.

Um Rebecca Horner Development Services Director and Nick uh Whipall, code and policy director at Thor Johnson, planning director will provide an update on uh building trends in the city and look forward for the future of changes.

Okay, can you hear me okay?

Hold on.

Um I tested this, but I did not see if I could all right.

Can you hear me?

We can hear you now.

However, okay, excellent.

Hello, I'm very glad to be here.

I wish it was in person.

Uh that there's a couple people haven't met yet, so hopefully I'll get to meet you soon.

My name is Rebecca Horner.

I'm the director of development services, and I love this meeting every year because we get to highlight a little bit of what we do and some of the accomplishments that we have successfully made together.

So next slide.

I wanted to talk a little bit about what we have been doing in the last year.

It's been a pretty monumental year for us.

We have a five-year strategic plan, and it was several years out of date.

So it was ripe for change in order to adopt a new strategic plan.

And so we started that process at the beginning of last year or this year, by actually it was last year, uh, by adopting a new vision statement, which is building the best bell view together and adopting a new mission statement, which is also listed here.

Uh, you know, develop services protects the quality, safety, and integrity of the built-in natural environment.

We partner to enhance an equitable, inclusive, and livable city for everyone.

And the insignificance of the new vision statement and mission statement is that it reflects partnership and working together, which is something that was not reflected in the vision and mission previously.

So we have developed an entire strategic plan with four primary areas.

We call it the balanced scorecard approach, but it incorporates all the different perspectives that we want to include in our strategic plan.

It's five-year, it helps us feed directly into our work plan and it we developed a customer perspective through many channels internally to gain customer feedback.

And our department is about almost 200 people.

So it can be challenging when you're trying to implement a vision like building the best Bellevue together through so many different team members who are individually doing their work every day.

So we made sure that as we were developing the strategic plan that we engaged every single one of our team members in development services.

And one of the primary criteria before we finalize the entire process was that every person in our department needed to understand or in our line of business, needed to understand how their work specifically connected to the vision, because it's not helpful if we don't have a hundred and ninety or two hundred people working toward the achievement of this vision.

So next slide.

There are some functions in development services that are not part of the service delivery in terms of applications.

Those would be code compliance officers, uh, also code and policy.

But for the most part, most of our department is delivering applic services through application review, helping people work through the development process, either the entitlement process or the actual construction process.

So we've got all the people listed here who help us do implement that.

Next slide.

So this demonstrates our seven divisions that we have implementing our entire line of business.

Those seven divisions represent four departments, as I've said, and all of our team members fold up under these.

So you'll see our land use division, our building division, our business services division, which helps us with a lot of technology and also centralizes some of our customer service and internal service delivery, the um fire inspection, fire marshal, the transportation utilities, and um code and policy, who you see most often when we have code amendments.

So moving to the next slide.

Oh, I one thing I do want to say about the prior slide.

The seven divisions are the permit services oversight committee, is what we call it's one of those crazy PSOC acronyms.

But essentially the seven, those are our seven assistant directors and development services that make up our leadership team.

And you might hear us refer to PSOC, you might not, but that's essentially our leadership team.

We are as four departments leading as one.

So on the next slide, you can see our development activity over the past several years.

And what this demonstrates is that except for a couple blips in 2020 and 2023, we have been on a tremendously strong development cycle.

So we've had a very high number of applications and permits.

And while we do have some slowing in specific types of applications and permit types, we still have maintained a very high level of activity where we would normally see more strong ebb and flow of activity.

We really haven't seen any ebb except for those two blips.

So you can see on the next slide where the changes have been occurring.

So the top of the bars are actually representing our major projects.

Those are the things that downtown you see, the cranes erecting, and you can see that over time we've had a reduction in major projects.

But what I think is particularly notable is if you look over the last few years, the bottom bars, uh blue and white hatch, the maroon, and then the solid blue, those are actually well, not the solid blue so much, but the red and below, those represent residential.

So you can see that there's actually been an increase in residential activity over time, especially with look at that lowest bar.

And I think that reflects the city council's emphasis and planning commission helping deliver on that emphasis of more housing.

On the next slide, we have some different ways that you can learn about our current development.

These are online.

We have a map viewer, we have major project lists, we have permit timeline dashboards that you can look at.

We have an open data portal.

Uh, you could subscribe to our weekly bulletin if you are not already.

Uh we have quarterly performance reports, and we do have a page on the Bell Vel Development Committee, which is our consolidated stakeholder committee that we meet with quarterly, and then sometimes more frequently if we have special need to engage with them, and we have recently because of all the code and policy projects.

So you can learn more about these on our website.

And then on the next slide, we dive a little bit into some of our major projects.

And what we have represented here are downtown major projects and Bell Red major projects.

Uh, you can see there's a number of projects that are in review under construction, and then a couple in a pre-application stage for both Bell Red and Downtown, which are major growth corridors, and where we're trying to focus a lot of the growth in the next 20 years.

On the next slide, there's a few pictures of projects that are in flight right now.

They represent over 6,000 units, dwelling units, and about two million square feet of office space.

Pinnacle North and South.

Uh, that's a pretty significant project that recently received entitlement.

Park Row, you may some of you may recall that it butts the downtown park.

It's they've um it's had its entitlement for a little while now.

And I'm I don't know if we know exactly when that's going to move to construction, but that is entitled.

Uh, and a couple other mixed-use buildings in the downtown area.

And then we have a similar slide in Bell Red on the next slide, where you can see a number of projects.

Bridge OMFE is an affordable housing project.

If you are in the Bell Red area, it's under construction right now.

I was recently out to the site last week, and they're doing some drainage installments now, but it's framed.

You can drive by and see that.

And there's also a micro apartment project that's um in review.

So a lot of exciting things happening.

Next slide.

So that is the end of mine.

I don't know if we're doing questions at the end or if you want to pause.

You let me know.

Perhaps we can pause so that we can question.

Yeah, sure.

Would you like us to ask that a question?

It's up to you.

It might be easy.

I think there's quite a few slides after this.

If there are any burning questions now, might be easier to remember them.

I just wanted to add Wilverton.

It's not on the major project list yet, because that's all of course new.

Um, but I think the commission would be interested to learn that we have two um complete allocations for uh two projects in Oregon.

Um that has actually burned through the phase one panelists provision.

And has started to uh eat to the base two hours provision.

So that's Frontstone East, which is on our 1240s.

Um just on that one.

And then the other one is KG.

So um together, it's over a thousand houses that are and then there are also I believe six applications for Wilkes.

A lot of interest in Wilberton and early interest since this was all just adopted by possible.

Seeing a lot of good progress and that is should be certain.

Um, yes, absolutely.

I don't know.

So I'm sure you're all important.

So if the six, oh sorry, if the six three of all these um have stats in place, but I believe they are all residential.

But I believe they are all residential.

So just curious.

Were they pursuing more fee and loo or uh units?

Do you get 40 uh on site and then over to somewhere around?

Don't look.

I think it's probably it's fine.

Just curious, yeah.

Yeah, so we can't.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

We can list it as a question from the commission, then we will respond to in our next year how it's uh question.

Go ahead.

It's a thousand sixty-seven little units that are now underneath the application.

Forty portable units, and then two dollars in for these two projects.

So we've out of two projects that available to 40 should be set performance cheaper.

It's okay.

That's good.

Thanks, sorry, Rebecca.

No, thank you for adding the Wilburton.

We didn't have any Wilburton slides in here, so thank you for adding that.

I guess we measure it now.

Is your question?

I actually can't hear the question.

The audio, I don't know if it's far away from a mic, so maybe somebody could repeat the question.

Slide all nice.

So anyway, or they can keep the the question is whether um the there's a relationship between this slide that shows all of the applications and the issued permits, and this slide that breaks out breaks it out um by the type of project.

Uh it's a just a different metric, actually.

So the other one is number of applications, and this is valuation of those applications.

So, like I said, we have uh quite a few applications.

They're just value, they have lower value, so they're not the major projects, but we have a lot of like home additions, renovations, smaller projects going on.

Um then uh this also includes other permit types, so we get a lot of tree removal permits.

That was some in the commission.

Um the council built on was to have a current requirement for every tree removed, so um that's also adding to some all the small cyber.

I think like a breakdown of this would be really quest to make decisions because you're seeing that's increasingly corporate resource shows us a little bit of like what our scale.

So uh I feel like it'd be a model SP to take it to it will also be helpful to track middle housing.

Yeah, we're gonna be uh launching a new semantic type for middle housing for some eager so that we can track that better.

Um we have had uh it was close to a testament for um so we are tracking that very analog way, but uh we will be updated.

I'm really feeling we may have to get both to get out of the ring.

Well, luckily you are up the up.

So should we move forward?

Sorry, I just want to be short on uh Rebecca.

Can you hear us again?

Okay.

I can I can hear you now.

Uh I think we can move forward.

I know you have a parap here.

I need to keep up on the schedule.

So we're moving into uh the next part.

So I think Nick and I are gonna folks hear me.

I'm having trouble hearing commissioners that are on that end that voices soft, so let me know here and I you can stand up.

Yeah.

Are you able to hear me though?

I can.

Yeah, you can slide.

Okay.

Um, so Nick and I'm gonna tag team.

I'll start off some of our um long-range planning work that's ahead, some of which will come forward to the commission, others uh other aspects will not, um, but we can always put mission on danger if there's an interest um as I think uh the chair said we're starting the year seats to be a little lighter for the commission in terms of more program.

So uh definitely the opportunities to learning and education issue.

Um so a little bit on community engagement, that's a big priority with the city, both city council obviously came up with your survey responses.

It's a big component of the discussion that you have.

And uh actually at the start of the year, council provided uh direction as well as the budget is for the last budget process to create a new community engagement team.

So that is part of the community development department.

Um actually we agree in the city council early uh in 2026.

So if that's of interest, it's good to really focus on what some of the focus areas are for that team and essentially to support community engagement to be uh consistent and cross-support citywide with all our biggest projects.

Um of course we're gonna continue on uh with our engagement uh to be part of great neighborhoods and all our planning activities um really uh are using on cultural outreach assistance because more opportunities to do that as well as the metrics, and that's gonna be uh big component of community engagement team and now survey analysis prices and big part of uh some of the most stations and this is going to be a big quick pad.

Um and then on the regional front, a lot of what happens at the state level uh and larger really trickles down the one that the planning commission does.

Um I know in the past has been an interesting learning uh about what uh some of the I guess some of the bills that have passed uh to the state legislature.

Um so staff uh of course are involved in reviewing the legislation at that down to uh work program that comes for the um so we're looking forward to 2026, and I'm sure that'll be a lot on housing based.

Um is also uh big focus on uh impact and sustainability that would be enough for this area.

We have our PSI team that tracks that post DMs uh going to be uh doing a lot of implementation there, um countywide centers, so that's been a big discussion with all of our um a lot of our community work and uh we'll be in Ontario and escape.

This is 2026 is a big year.

So this is the year when um the regional body is going to visually designate uh all values sectors and all the regions.

So a lot of more we put in a lot of work to submit our applications, and so very tracking that very sweet.

There's also opportunity for us to apply to the case of suite for another regional food center in addition to that.

So that's something we're gonna start uh writing ourselves for the next cycle will be in 278.

We'll start some of that.

Do we know where we're gonna there's been some conversation off bell red other platforms?

Um there's a lot of reaches in that web.

There should be something like downtown volume, right?

Yeah, it has to have a certain amount of density involves housing access to transit.

Maybe 160 under 30, 132nd and 130th.

So that was we'll have to figure out what the right boundaries are.

But I can and then there's um a lot of uh regional housing monitoring requirements uh as a result of possible 1220.

Um and so we've done a lot of that work next week's done a lot of that work with the code, and now uh the next stage is going to be tracking off that seeing how progress we made towards making our housing calls.

Um this or you know, so you see and factoria's already um where we uh talked the group about that launch from city council, so that will be moving forward um the POM plan amendment process in 2026, and then uh similar to what we did this year, we'll be doing that same thing with transfer launching lake hills and West based management to the next neighborhoods that we're gonna start uh updating the neighborhood support.

Um and then early in 2026, we'll be presenting on with one privately initiated comprehensive plan amendment.

It's been a while since the winning question has processed any without a periodic update going through our process, and then uh we have a couple city initiated CPAs that are going to be focused on making some changes, um, minor changes to uh every transportation development.

Um so uh all of that we talked more about in front of six.

We talked a little bit about Bell Red, and then um we also discussed this as part of the ESI uh the sustainable belly plan update.

Um that came up as a question about do we have enough capacity in our grid to uh support all uh values growth as well as our transition to electricity.

Um, and so council actually authorized a study um that looks on roaming and underway, and um so we're working on that.

Um I'm not sure that that will come forward to the planning commission, but we may be maybe looking at some point just by the source.

Um similar to the funding engagement team, council also provided direction and office of housing, and um, so there's been some movement um internally to create that um as an organizational study that's underway, and of course the affordable housing strategy that we've been very loose on um is moving forward that will potentially get adopted as a so that there's years in the next phase is how do we implement all those strategies and how we um and then of course um housing stability program funding, um, so that um do our annual round of uh providing funding for local housing projects, the MF to the code is underway, and then um mostly down to all that was not a so we can use the mandatory portal housing out and then to help that stuff um and then monitoring for the housing team has a lot of partnerships.

Um there are a number of different areas that our uh strategic planning team works on.

Um a number of these things do not forsake them come to the planning commission because they're not code code amendments or amendments to the phone plan, but touch on some of the policy work um that would be the foundation board, it's like urban door bars, um grand connection.

I think one of the writer retreats would be a whole focus area on the grand connection.

Um, and there has been a lot of work on what we call our city sites, which is uh metro site, we call it metro site, but it's about next fall.

Um so there's been a lot of uh work on that provisioning and what the speed months to realize on those properties and that ties in with the uh newly created uh newly creative office of grand finish.

So um and then uh the other way projects on things like aircraft and some of our other master plans for our various departs in the city.

Belgrade Park is another big big one that's um just picked up the master planning process and then uh some of our transportation funds.

Um and then PSI.

So we have moved forward to being very close to hopefully council adoption and sustainable validating plan, which is tension and moving forward on Fovemary 18th.

So very excited about that, and we have started work on these activities.

And so um at that work for seeds and progresses, uh properties of some opportunities for just and then we have our implementation um as a lot of implementation around the bassalions energy smart assigned program and of course we apply the several uh that ONC really help us implement our environmental actions.

I think that's the game.

I don't know.

A lot of work coming.

Okay, yeah, also we've been through in the last couple of years.

Come on.

Uh so just to move quickly through some of the code amendments that you can expect.

So, as uh you all are aware, um, the comprehensive plan was updated in 2024.

A lot of big changes happening as we're supposed to be bad.

So we'll be kicking off kind of another round of land use code amendments to implement have policy work.

So institutional zone, this relates to LV College specifically.

Um so we'll be bringing that forward to you all for discussion.

Uh safe parking.

This is relating to our portable housing strategy update and uh trying to uh formalize the process for state parking right now.

It's happening under very special uh so uh wanting to figure out a better path happening.

Uh Bell Red Luca, you've gotten the commission's gotten a briefing on this, um, will be uh we're driving towards a first draft next month, and then we'll touch point that you all January before we start diving into that.

Uh downtown of the bill with 2.0.

This is um we're probably in 2.0 is the first one I'm able to um in 2017.

So this is an opportunity to look at um any uh implementation gaps between the policy amendments that happened in 2017 and what we're seeing built over, and so uh that'll be a good uh item to just require downtown.

And then everyone's favorite acronym for the housing opportunities makes a series while we have a carry on out on December 10th.

Hoping to continue moving that along.

Um, we do have to get to other things, so let's keep that on within um and then the state requirement updates.

We have part of our form here because that's one of the bigger ones.

Um, but there are quite a few, uh, but we are going to likely package the state requirements in the bus we've got, where we're gonna address some cleanups, we're gonna address some minor state required updates that don't have a lot of state discussion around them, but we just have to do them.

Um there's I'm working on this, I think maybe TUP that are just safe or so.

And so that's something uh working with you all.

Oh well, then of course um you all have worked on uh the new uh work in all housing.

Um the next kind of evolution of that um alluded to this earlier.

We're gonna be establishing uh for these house cleans that facility for development of all housing, and then the council also has just one of the priorities, um, establishing a pre-approved PA view to detach this issue, and then at the end of the adopted package, um, there was a suggestion to add apologizing to as well.

Uh so looking at establishing a pre-approved program, just in streaming uh difficult okay, bell red uh this is just a little more detail um on bell red.

You will hear plenty about this, but uh the comprehensive plan was updated, so initially, and I think we'll work on this one too, but in 2009, um it was uh reimagined, and so um as part of the company like update in 2024, Bell Red policies were also updated.

Um, and the landing systems were updated as well.

So uh we're looking at greater density around some of the transit areas, just giving you most of all the properties that lived, um, looking at ways that we can better support housing and kind of keep up with some of the growth that we are planning for.

Um, and then we also have established an arts district, so the commission will have to wait on what does that look like in the bus code?

Um, and how we uh start to support some of the vision uh is really uh proud competent here.

So uh imagine Ford Alana parts and streets are probably gonna be your biggest areas of discussion.

Um so we are looking at uh working with stakeholders, we'll continue working with hoping the first year out kind of uh lingers in a good place um for you all to then make it working on true still.

You're thinking the first job only recently uh first owned not to the commission.

We're gonna be publishing the first track in these things that most of them have a countdown call going.

Um we'll be dropping people.

And then we'll come to commission.

All right, uh just give an overview.

We're not asking for anything for the hall yet, but we just want to get you up to speed because it's stable at the track.

Do you think there would be a local?

I think you know the your face and it all uh yeah, we're we're I mean, we're we're optimistic, we've been working pretty closely with the stakeholders.

Um, and we are very aware of the issues, and we are also very aware there are a lot of challenges in that the street created particularly out of their stairs.

So um reporting that's kind of clear that issue, I think.

Maybe one of those probably said we need some one.

Yes, for sure.

Sure.

No, let me get out of the question.

Okay, that's the question.

But can we have this PowerPoint by any chance?

Okay, I think it's sent out.

Oh, I didn't see that.

Sorry.

It was it was sent out at I think about one or two.

I missed that, sorry.

Okay, then you have it.

Okay, should I move no question?

Sorry, I didn't know that I didn't want to cut up any questions, but question.

Thank you so much.

Thanks.

Um we will go to the next app studying that we have it and names at Bell V by the numbers and by cycle from values sheep demographer, they'll provide the RBL than the city of Bell, which is amazing.

I thought about that.

So interesting.

Hey, right, Bang.

Hello, Bryce.

Um, great job in the pod yet.

Thank you.

I think I'm meeting most of you for the first time.

Uh C1's getting a little bit of a late start.

I recently gave a presentation of the style of a petcha kucha, which is 20 slides, no more than 20 seconds per slide.

I'm notoriously long-winded, but I'm gonna try to fly through these uh that way we'll get out of the screen.

So uh I'm just gonna show you a different a few different cuts of data about the Bell V community and how it's changed over the last several decades.

Um, something I think is a nice visualization are these dot density plots.

So, what I'm doing here is I'm taking the population of Bellevue, where they live, um, this based on census block data, and then coloring the dots uh based on the person's statement race and ethnicity.

So, what you can see here, you start about five residents that across the city, there's big pockets of what we think of as Bell V today that are blank, nobody's there, or at least no Bellview residents are there.

Um we'll talk a little bit more about that.

And the city is predominantly folks that are identifying as non-Hispanic white in 1990, so just you know 30 years ago.

Fast forward to 2000, that starts to change, some neighborhoods are getting a little more dense.

We start to see a few more colors pop out in 2010, and then finally in 2020, it looks very different.

Um kind of the two key takeaways are we're seeing some neighborhoods that are getting much more densely populated, so downtown, for instance.

Um, that's now one of the biggest neighborhoods in the city in terms of population, whereas 35 years ago, not so much.

Uh, and city as a whole is just getting much more diverse in terms of race, that's the key.

Uh one of the ways that is also showing up is it's not just the case that it's people of different race and ethnicities from the United States.

We're seeing that from 1960 or so uh until 1990.

Uh, there's this big growth in both the population people that were born inside of the US as well as orange born, which is a census bureau designation of people that are either born as non-citizens or born to non-US citizen parents.

The native born population is basically flat line for the last 40 years.

Washington State.

Washington State, double one, yeah.

That's a little bit of a trick question.

Moz on top of it.

China should have.

But moving down the list, we see some of the donor countries for a lot of the current residents that you might expect.

So India, China, a lot of places across the United States, the US South, where I moved here from.

It's very exciting.

More EU than China.

Slightly more.

And you know, these data are based on surveys, and these are also data that were collected from 2017 to 2021.

Or no, this is 2019 to 2023, sorry.

So you know there's a little bit of a recency loss of it might be the case that for like primarily in the last like three to four years, it's been more people moving through China rather than India.

But at least during this time window, uh it it was slightly more votes from uh India than China.

Like you agree, they don't even add in L State.

No, so this is where people were born.

So people that identify as being governed descent or something, that's going to be a literally different.

So kind of summarizing all that into three snappy little headlines.

Um Bellevue went from being this kind of sleepy little suburban city to Seattle to now being uh firmly majority minority, about three-fifths of the population identifying as something other than non-Hispanic white, nearly half of the population, and I suspect once new data get released, we're gonna see that um continue to creep up higher, um born outside of the US, and over half the population report primarily speak with the language other than English in their home.

Something that's kind of interesting uh to think about is you know the way that population that has grown into Bellevue and come here, um, the way that looks across the city.

So, in terms of total residents by neighborhood, uh, we can see there's a pretty vast variation in neighborhoods like Plain Hills, these huge geographic areas, Los Angeles, historic neighborhood, uh, versus a place like Bell Red that's primarily industrial.

There's only like a little household developments in Bellred.

Um, not I mean, not little, they account for lockdown, but um, not very many in terms of new numeracy.

Um but you know, a pretty wide variation across the 60 neighborhoods of Bellevue in terms of the number of residents.

Something that I think is kind of interesting between this slide and the next slide is if we look at total households, downtown creeks over Lake Hills because downtown has got a lot of like small number of people in the households, whereas Lake Hill might be more family households and things like that.

So there's more people in a household, but in terms of just the sheer number of total households, um, downtown is dwarfing all the other neighborhoods in the city, uh, versus some of the smaller geographic areas like Victoria, Bell Red again, uh considerably smaller in terms of these metrics.

And why are you highlighting those different colors?

Um, I was just kind of trying to point out breakout colors.

So we've got our high and our low, and then the neighborhoods that are either currently or on the docket for neighborhood area planning, and then all the other unimportant neighborhoods.

Uh and another one, this one uh I thought, you know, for downtown it it makes a lot of sense.

Uh I can't remember where downtown is specifically.

Yeah, so right there next to Bell Red, very low home ownership um in the downtown area versus maybe in some of the historically more single-family oriented neighborhoods, there's a lot more, a lot higher home ownership rates.

Something that I've actually had to double check is I was really surprised to see bridal trails way down here.

Um that's because a lot of that multifamily development kind of on the the eastern edge of bridal trims.

Uh that accounts for a lot more housing units.

So when you add that all up, that looks like it's a relatively low ownership rate.

Something where there's a little bit less variation, um, but still you know, meaningful across all the different neighborhoods, is in the the rate of folks that were born inside the state of Washington relative to elsewhere.

Uh again, you know, this is a little bit more uniform across the city, um, just because we're talking about you know they have the city's population, uh, but uh still some pretty interesting variation across concurrency.

Um I kind of talked about this briefly with the dot density plots, but I want to dive in a little deeper because this is something that me, as like a new resident to Washington and also like new to being like the oracle of things about Bellevue.

Um I didn't necessarily have it the picture in my head, but folks that have been in the region a lot longer probably this is a lot more um obvious for you.

But if we go back to the data incorporation, what was the city of Bellevue was basically downtown.

And then over time, Bellevue has really annexed a lot of unincorporated King County to take on the shape that we see today, and it really wasn't until uh 2011, 2012 when the last annexations that were done, and then Bellevue took on its full shape of its current form.

Do you think more is coming?

There is more coming.

Uh there's a small little section uh right down here that's gonna round out this little corner that is currently in the midst of discussion.

My understanding is that there's like maybe 10 more parcels along uh Lake Washington that are within our transition though.

It's no the those those parcels along with Lake Washington are not assigned to any jurisdiction right now.

They are also adjacent to Castle, so they could get it signed in Crescent right now.

They're correct.

Uh and then what about that little parcel down to the southeast in county or that?

So there's there are um I think it's 27 parcels in that area that Bryce was just pointing to that have uh sent a notice to council um of an intent to petition for an annexation, and so um we are working with those owners to um allow them to sign a petition, um, and then we'll bring that back to council.

Um is it currently though in King County that is a floor?

Um, so those so for the most part, all of the unincorporated area that's within the urban growth boundary um is assigned to some jurisdiction, and so those 27 parcels is about 50 acres, a little over 50 acres are assigned to us.

There is an incorporated area kind of along Lake Sammamish there.

Um that's assigned to Issiqua.

So we're not able to annex that um unless there's a change in the King County program.

What about that area?

Is that a connection to the direction of island is where uh that's Beaux Arts.

Uh uh Bozarts has no interest in the park, but they do have interest in building providing their sewer or five everything, yeah.

Like Clark Hill, like yeah, the Dinah, the place communities.

Um I think they're better than that.

Um, I wanted to dive into uh a couple neighborhoods specifically that you might notice are you know from this jump from 1985 to 2012, uh, are some of the newest neighborhoods to be a part of the city of Bellevue.

So going back to 1967, uh I've got the neighborhood area of Bactoria outlined in blue, and then these little red, reddish pink boxes are annexations that have occurred.

So that was the first annexation that overlapped with what the neighborhood boundary uh or Bactoria that we know it has today was 1986, there's a little bit more.

1995, nearly all of the neighborhood was a part of the city, and it wasn't until 2002 that the last annexation that filled out the neighborhood boundary uh occurred.

Eastgate's even a little uh wilder in part because it's a larger neighborhood.

Uh, but the first annexation occurred in 1964, there's kind of a flurry in the 70s into 89, getting around the perimeter of it, 2000, and there's still this huge swath in the middle that finally in one of 12 teams um became fully a part of the city of Bellevue.

So something that's kind of interesting to think about is like when when people talk about the urban fabric of the neighborhood or what Bellevue has done to like build infrastructure or bike connections.

I mean, these are places that are very literally new parts of the city.

So the opportunity to do those things is considerably less than some of the other things, but it's across to me that have been part of the city for at least 60 cents.

Um as I finished, I was like, I'm gonna have 10 bullet points talking about the percentage of jobs that fall into those areas that's gonna look really small on the projector.

But at that point, there was a sunk cost of like building the map.

But the idea was to highlight, you know, we have this overall trend line of jobs in Bellevue.

So Bellevue, as everybody knows, regional jobs hub, um, increasingly starting to step out of the little brother shadow of Seattle, kind of have its own identity as a job tub for the region under itself.

Um, and that's been steadily increasing over time, but trying to show the ways in which you know those jobs have been highly uh, you know, there's jobs all over the city, but there's specific portions of the city that are absorbing a lot of those jobs.

So downtown obviously is about 40% of all the jobs in the city.

Uh this I-90 corridor historically was a big part of that, but uh with Boeing moving out, and a lot of the tech buildings that are there are currently mostly vacant.

Uh, that has actually shifted a lot.

Uh, and I was really surprised actually to look uh at the we get we help PSRC develop their jobs estimates for Bellevue, and then eventually they go through like a validation process that uh kicks out their their finalized numbers.

Uh and we just got the total employment numbers for Bellevue for 2024 for them, and there was a pretty significant job uh drop in that 990 corridor.

Uh that's kind of shocking.

It made this area look a lot more like any other scenario.

Uh pretty wide.

Yeah, retail, but all the those like huge Amazon towers and auto tech jobs down there.

Uh so yeah, it's a mix and the you know the thing about this uh that is not really capturing the complexity is these are jobs based on where people's assigned work location is.

So in you know, 2025, the year around the world where there's so much like work from home and mixed forms of office life.

Um this isn't necessarily reflecting like people that are going into the office five days a week.

Uh it's just where people are assigned to work.

So it's a little bit complex.

Thinking about uh the top 10 places that Bellevue workers live.

So this is people that are working in Bellevue where they're coming from.

Uh the biggest uh donors are folks from Seattle.

So you could have got meal over here, cell commuting into the city, uh helping to you know trying to do our best.

Uh but uh, you know, some other big areas, Nahomas County, I was kind of surprised to see, but maybe shouldn't have been okay right here.

Uh a lot of other east side cities.

So this is you know, like Kirkland, Redmond, and Savannah, Chicago, uh, and then a lot from Kate County, Bellevue, obviously.

Uh, but something that I thought was kind of interesting is zooming in to Eastgate specifically, uh, Clark County.

Wow.

Um is the ninth largest donor of uh employers, and this is our employees, and this is part of what I was saying with like the the work from home sort of thing.

I I sincerely hope there aren't 300 people that are driving from Clark County, Washington to Bellevue five days a week.

Oddly enough, I do have a friend that lives in Vancouver that works for a Valve company that had offices in Bellevue.

So maybe maybe that's what it is.

Um interesting.

Um Factoria, it looks a lot like Bellevue as a whole.

Um, something that I think is kind of interesting is the way that the different places jump around across the neighborhood.

So you can see Pierce County is kind of floating around a little bit.

Um North King County kind of fluctuates slightly, but generally across the neighborhoods, it's it's looking like a fairly similar story.

Um, so not like the case that there's some pocket, it's completely different sort of employment.

Um then something that I think is like a nice way to marry kind of the discussion about jobs and people commuting into the city and a large proportion of the workers in Bellevue coming from outside of Bellevue, along with the way the housing has changed, housing has grown over time, is thinking about uh the way we can look at the median income.

So median household income in Bellevue is quite high, it's one of the highest in the nation.

Um, and when we think about what that means relative to the supply of households at different economic thresholds in the region, uh the typical household in King County as well as the Seattle Topoma Bellevue region, so that whole stretch from like Tacoma up to Seattle and Bellevue uh is considerably lower than the Bellevue household.

So the supply of folks that live in the area and need to live somewhere uh is considerably lower than those that are able to access housing in Bellevue, which said a lot of things about the availability of housing where uh jobs that are close to where people work, things like that.

And then kind of zooming in to several different east side cities.

We can see even within the east side, there's kind of a tale of two stories here where some of the South King County, east side cities can't rent in a lot like the surrounding area versus you know what are commonly thought of as a lot of the more uh like cat happy centers of of the east side are a lot more higher households.

So uh tell us tell us the story.

This is based on 2024 data.

So surveys that were collected from residents over the course of 2014.

Some Mammoths has uh the very highest uh costal income in the United States.

It also has I think it needs to be said the very highest gender pay gap in the United States.

There's about a 100,000 dollar difference between full-time employed men and full-time employed women in Savannah.

Um so you know, not all like litters.

I don't know.

I really am like fascinated by these data, and now I've looked at it over the course of like three different years, and it does change like the number because there's surveys.

Um, but Saman is just terribly number one over and over and over again.

So I don't know.

I would be interested to dig into the data a little bit.

I suspect that there's probably like a couple uber wealthy households um where you know it's just the case that you know the the male and the household is earning a lot of money doing something, and I don't know, it's pretty interesting.

What's kind of wild though is if you peel even further underneath the hood and you look within industries, that that gender pay gap holds across all industries.

Uh so it's not the case that it's like you know, men are attending for work in one industry of women and the other, it's even within the same industry.

You see this persistent uh gender gig app pretty well.

So to kind of wrap up uh my fasterized petchicucia.

Um I tried to find a few over uh overlooked video uh photos from around the clover leaf downtown over time and just kind of see visually what all of this growth has is meant in terms of what people see when they come to Bellevue.

And we can see that you know, by the 19 uh A's, there starts to be some of those Microsoft towers that go up downtown.

Uh late 2000s, we can see either a coastal haze or a fog.

You can you can choose your reventure there.

Uh and then finally into the late 2010s, the the skyline that uh looks considerably more like the Bell.

Uh so close it out, which is some photos from my favorite places in Bellevue, and one place that's not currently in Bellevue.

Um I think uh I'm happy to take questions.

I left precious little time for them, which is you know intentionally strategic.

Uh the left one process, right?

It is, yeah, yeah.

Uh something that hopefully you know about, but if you don't, I maintain the city's community data page.

So if you internet search Bell V community data, uh I have five different data dashboards on there.

I just checked there's 61 different data visualizations covering 92 different topics.

Um less you count tables, I don't know, data tables count as data visualization, but if that counts, that's how more.

Um but yeah, there's there's a lot of stuff on there.

Hopefully they're they're interesting.

Hopefully they can be helpful to learn stuff.

Uh if you ever have questions, reach out to me.

If you ever say, hey, your dashboards need to have this, let me know.

I'm happy to have it as long as the data exists and the federal government allows me to access them.

Uh yeah, this is great.

Thank you.

I love it.

But any questions?

Where are the photos?

Well, so we've got we've got the the lovely Mercer Slow here.

Um, I spend uh that's probably where I spend the second most amount of my time inside of the city of Bellevue.

Uh love the Mercer Street.

Um this is over in the botanical gardens.

Uh little little bridge there.

Uh that's downtown park.

This is technically not Bellevue.

Uh that's that's Bridal Trail State Park.

However, Bridgetrail State Park is unimportant.

So I don't know.

It might be a good idea.

Maybe, you know, they might it is outside the urban growth round.

Right.

But yeah, whatever.

Uh and this is this is my little Easter egg.

My challenge to you if is if you have if you haven't seen that, you don't know where it is, find.

Challenge except it's a little bit soon.

Yeah.

And it is in Bellview.

It's in Bellevue.

Yeah.

I know where it is that I'm not on time to go find it.

Um more question.

Okay, thank you so much.

I love the dashboards that you are making.

I'm in that page sometime, but I'm gonna be there.

Um I think I'm not gonna go close with any remarks because I already talk about all the remarks and I want to have a motion to approve different of September towards all of them if you have let's let's do this.

Okay.

I would like to prove that we turn our meeting.

Can we approve then minutes of minutes of approving?

All in favor?

Aye.

And um now moment.

I would like to motion we can turn the meeting.

Any second?

Any discussion?

Oh, discuss.

All in favor.

Thank you, everyone for being seen here.

Um I I have this discard, you guys are email.

My account to get cut off on a couple side, so I can't just