Recording in progress.

All right, if we could call, please.

Angela Rasman.

Here.

Scott Rooser.

Scott, you're on mute.

I apologize.

I am here.

John Tim Tizen.

Tim Gizen.

Katya Allen.

Here.

Rodney Rutherford.

Sandy Sengal.

Here.

Bria Heiser.

Thank you.

So I just wanted to start tonight, just for those in the audience.

This is a continuation of last Thursday evening's meeting.

So basically treat this as the second half of the meeting we already had, which was the public hearing for the part one of the station area plan.

We heard a whole lot of public comment on Thursday evening.

And because we got a lot of emailed written comment the day of and the day before, we adjourned last Thursday to give us time to review all of the comments that the community sent us in order to really get a sense of where folks were feeling.

And then tonight is a continuation of that with our deliberation.

So I don't know, Jeremy, you want to, or Allie, if you want to tee up just a list of questions that we reviewed, and I'd like us to just pop right in.

Thanks, Chair Rosman.

I do have the questions that we presented you at the end of the public hearing last week teed up that I'm happy to share with you quickly.

Um just to remind everyone what we're looking for recommendations on tonight.

So again, the the items under consideration tonight are the comprehensive plan chapter.

So that's a new sub-area chapter for the station area, the design guidelines for the full station area, and then the form-based code and parcel rezones for the commercial mixed use district.

So again, the comprehensive plan sub-area chapter, the design guidelines, the parcel rezones, the form-based code for the commercial mixed use district.

And we have uh these questions teed up for you.

So these would be the four areas uh where planning commission would be discussing recommendations to city council.

And I'm happy to keep them up on the screen for you, Chair Rasman, or I think that's a good place to start at least.

And then I do just want to comment to everyone who is listening at home that one of the common themes that I was hearing from a lot of uh the community members is that you know they are very passionate about our city.

And I just want to remind everyone that everyone on the planning commission is a Kirkland resident, and we understand and feel the way you do about Kirkland.

It's the reason we have given up so many hours of our lives to um volunteering for the planning commission.

This is an unpaid position.

It's just that the seven of us really truly care about our city deeply, and that's why we're all here, and that's why we put so much effort into getting it as right as we can.

I grew up in Kirkland, I was born in Evergreen Hospital, and my son was born at Evergreen Hospital.

I absolutely adore this city, and the reason why we are taking so much time and spending so much time to deliberate these questions is because this is a really big piece for Kirkland's future.

So with that, um, I think if anyone has any specific burning comment you want to start with, we can start there, or we can start with the comprehensive plan section of this.

Okay, so if no one has a burning comment they want to start with, if we could skip back to the comp plan page for us to start there to look.

Okay, so this is the comprehensive plan amendments.

We're overlaying the six existing neighborhoods, doesn't change neighborhood boundaries, establishes the station area goals and policies, and we're looking, you know, this schedule adoption very soon.

So if anyone wants to make comments about specifically the comp plan for the station area, this would be the time to discuss that.

Or if we want to just get into some of the meatier stuff and we can always come back to Compline.

Since everyone is quiet this evening, well, I'll suggest that we start off with commissioners' overall concerns about the station area plan without getting into minutiae quite yet.

I mean, I think we have ultimately take a vote of whether it's for the station area plan or not, right?

Well, I mean, the four pieces of it, and we can give recommendations that are um amended with specific uh separate recommendations.

It doesn't all have to, it's not an all or nothing.

Um, but I was going to say, John, though, that I know that you would love to say your piece on schools.

So I'm going to pick on you and say, let's start there because I know you have a lot to say.

Well, I've I've touched on school capacity a number of times and school capacity within the station area plan.

We first had the superintendent of um Lake Washington public schools come and talk to us on August 12th, 2021.

On page two and three of the packet is listed all of the meetings that uh were related to the station area plan.

And this this pack this meeting was not listed.

Um the superintendent of Lake Washington schools had the opinion that we do need a school within the station area plan.

Um he was never um wavered on that, and he gave us a straightforward opinion that we do need a school within the station area plan, and at minimum uh K through five school.

Uh when the superintendent spoke to us, he suggested that it was a bad idea to send buses into the station area plan to put 40 kids a bus on all these school buses and then bust those kids out of the station area plan to outlying areas.

Um he said it was a bad idea both logistically and because the outlying schools didn't have the capacity uh for those students, and then we get this packet, and this packet uh has a mitigation plan, which is upzoning the surrounding schools and sending buses into them, which is exactly I think what the superintendent of the Lake Washington School District told us not to do, and exactly what the super assistant superintendent of the facilities told us not to do.