The Kirkland City Council held a study session at 5:30 p.m. and a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. on February 7, 2023. The agenda covered a Lake Street promenade feasibility study, neighborhood traffic calming policy revisions, a Black History Month proclamation, a presentation on the Houghton Village near-term strategy, action on a Carillon Point apartment master plan amendment, updates to the special events program and state legislative priorities, and selection of a board interview committee. Council took votes on the consent calendar and the Carillon Point resolution, and provided direction on several items.
I'd like to call towards 2020. Councilmember Nixon. Here. Council Member Black. Here. Council Member Curtis. Here. Councilmember Falcone. Councilmember Falcon will not be able to look at any. Councilmember you can get home. So moved. Second. Councilmember Vickson. Your mic isn't. Please continue with the roll. Councilmember Pascal. Here. Deputy Mayor Arnold. Here. Mayor Sweet. Here. Thank you. Our study session tonight is on two subjects. The first is a Lake Street South and Lake Washington Boulevard Promenade and Concept Development Study. The second study session subject relates to the neighborhood traffic control program policy revisions. If we finish the study session early, we may go into executive session to discuss possible litigation and or the performance of a public employee. In any event, we will we do expect to reconvene our regular meeting at approximately 7 30 p.m. City Manager. Okay, thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. So tonight we want to present both of those topics and to provide those presentations. Our transportation manager Joel Funt and our transportation planner, Victoria Kovacs will be making the presentations. We'll be starting with the Lake Street South discussion, and we're just looking for council feedback on the various options that have been identified, and there'll be some recommended next steps during the presentation. Great. Welcome, Joel. Victoria. Great. Thank you, City Manager, and thank you, Mayor. We do have a short presentation to share with you. And hopefully you can see my screen. Yes. Great. So Joel and I are both excited to be here to share with you the results of the Lake Washington Boulevard Promenade study. And we'll review the study background and kind of the purpose for why we did the study, as well as some of the existing conditions and data analysis that we had done. We'll review the four corridor options as outlined in the memo, as well as some other recommendations that can be done, regardless of which option the council might be interested in. We'll recap some of the evaluation criteria we looked at and uh we'll conclude with the discussion and next steps. So consideration of a promenade on Lake Washington Boulevard has been considered for quite some time. I pulled out some policies from the 2015 comprehensive plan, specifically in the shoreline area and the transportation master plan. And the transportation master plan does have a specific action to consider developing a master plan for a lakefront promenade. More recently, the active transportation plan adopted last year, also highlights to enhance pedestrian and bicycle facilities on the Lake Washington waterfront. And it was uh council asked as part of the June budget process to conduct data gathering and analysis and design concepts to address the issues and needs in the corridor.