The Kirkland City Council convened on April 15, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. for a study session and at 7:30 p.m. for the regular meeting. The meeting included a study session on transportation impact fees and an update on the Iceplex and Community Center proposal, followed by a regular meeting with proclamations, public comments, a public hearing, consent calendar, and several business items. All votes were unanimous (7-0) unless noted.
I'd like to call to order the city council meeting of April 15, 2025. Welcome to spring, everyone. What a glorious day. Before the roll is called, I'd like to note that Councilmember Black is joining us remotely this evening. City Clerk, will you please call the roll? Councilmember Tim Chism. Councilmember Black. Here. Councilmember Sweet. Here. Councilmember Falcone. Here. Councilmember Pascal. Here. Deputy Mayor Arnold. Here. Mayor Curtis. Here. Our study session tonight is on two items. First, we'll have a briefing on the preliminary results of the transportation impact fee study. Second, we'll receive an update on the IcePlex and Community Center proposal. We expect to reconvene our regular meeting at 7 30. City manager. Okay, thank you, Madam Mayor. So as you mentioned, uh the first item is the discussion of our transportation impact fees. This is our first check-in on this. There's a business item later tonight on fire and park impact fees for discussion. I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to our financial planning manager, Kevin Pelstring, who's going to walk you through it and introduce our special guests. Good evening, Madam Mayor. Uh Deputy Mayor, City Council. Thank you, City Manager. So tonight we have uh like City Manager mentioned, we have the uh preliminary results of the third of our trilogy of impact fees, the transportation impact fees. Uh we have uh two different impact fee related um items on the agenda tonight. We have first the study session specifically on the transportation results, uh, and then later on the on the regular business agenda we have um a update and draft code language for the fire and park impact fees where we'll bring forward some um some options for how to handle uh ADUs as well as an update on some of the calculations for the fire maximum fees. Um so we tonight or for the study session we have our uh expert crew of um of consultants um from FCS group uh which is a Bowman company. Uh so we have John Gilladucci, uh Doug Gabbard, and we have Luke um Luke Nelson here tonight. Um so we have about 20, 25 slides to go through um on the study session, and I'll pass it off to them to start and we're happy to answer any questions along the way. Great. Thank you, and welcome everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Um I will go through the background. You can go to the next slide, please. Uh the background fairly quickly so we can get right into a summary of the analysis, and Doug will be doing that uh heavy lifting, but we'll touch on the key characteristics of impact fees, the statutory basis, then the calculation and resulting fee schedule. We'll talk about scaling as we did with parks and fire, and then we've got some uh comparables for you to look at as well. So as you are well familiar, impact fees are the one-time fees paid at the time of new development by new development, uh in some cases redevelopment when it is intensifying its use and demand or impact on your systems. They are available for streets, parks, uh, fire, and schools. Uh they can be used only for capital projects, and we calculate them based on the cost of capital projects. They are intended to represent a share of system facilities and not specific project related facilities. Next slide, please.