Okay, thanks.

Okay, we're live.

And if we could call roll, please.

Catch you, Alan.

Hi, sir.

Scott Reis here.

Here.

Angela Rosman.

Here.

Reddy Registered.

Here.

And Deep Single.

And John Tinchan.

Thanks.

All right.

Do we have four?

Yeah, we have four of us.

Okay.

Yep.

So we have one attendee.

So if you would like to speak, uh raise your hand.

Or okay, we actually have a few more attendees.

They just hadn't popped populated yet.

But if anyone would like to speak, now would be the time to raise your hand.

Um, otherwise, if we could get started, Scott, with the um personal delivery devices.

Yeah, we'll go ahead and share my screen here.

This is a public hearing angle.

I said open the public hearing.

Yes, and yes, we can open the public hearing and then have Scott started.

Okay.

Okay.

Sorry, I was opening up the agenda as I was talking.

So okay, here we go.

All right.

Can everyone see my screen?

Yes.

Okay.

I'm gonna move my windows around every time I open up something and this it just seems to populate someplace else.

All right, so good evening.

I'm here to provide a presentation on staff's proposed uh regulations for autonomous personal delivery devices.

Um, tonight's agenda is to receive a presentation from staff and conduct a public hearing to receive public comment and then close the close the public comment and deliberate on recommendation to city council.

A little bit of background here in 2019, the state of Washington um developed uh regulations uh for the minimum operation uh parameters for APDDs in the state of Washington.

Uh in 2021, the city received uh four APDs APDD applications uh at sites uh where they would place their dispensers.

Um staff did not have the tools to uh review these new technology, so city council adopted a moratorium in January this year.

Um the goals of the moratorium were to identify the basic facts about the technology, address concerns over the safety and its privacy uh with the technology, identify public benefits, uh, and study other cities regulating the system technology.

Well, so we did take this to you before, as well as the public and the transportation commission.

And um we received pretty universal uh feedback.

Uh the commission's input at the last meeting was pretty much shared by the home community council of transportation commission and all of the public that we know had uh couldn't uh receive comment from so the commission was very concerned about the potential impacts of this unproven technology, uh especially on vulnerable populations or concerned about idle devices and on sidewalks in particular.

Um they did uh uh the commission uh thought that the first step might uh seems more likely to be uh to allow these on private property than within the rights of way.

Um and that there needs to be a clear story and how these devices benefit the community, and that any benefit should be quantified so that the benefit justifies the risk.

So staff took um shared all the thoughts and concerns uh from the public and the governing bodies with the city uh with city council um and provided a uh potential regulatory framework, which consisted of three options.

These options uh were uh to not allow, allow on private property and allow uh limited use in the right of way.

Um tonight's hearing is on option two to allow on private property.

Public work staff is briefing city council on the status of creating regulations of option three at their upcoming um July 5th council meeting.

I should note here real quick that I kind of neglected to say that council weighed in on all of these options and chose option two and option three and ask staff to come back with uh regular uh regulatory um regulation draft regulations on both these options.

All right, so this is just kind of like a highlight of what you received in your packet, which is the proposed zoning amendments.

They kind of cover the topics of where and where they are allowed in the in the city, um, how uh the decision process, how we're going to make a decision, some basic noticing uh to the public, uh where the uh devices will operate, uh some basic performance standards, dispenser standards, uh liability requirements, hold harmless noticing and licensing requirements.

Um just real quickly going over this uh the allowed locations are pretty just generally broad within commercial umice uh industrial and institutional zones, and namely the two zones where Northwest University and Lake Washington Institute of Technology is.

Um the regulations adopted the you know the definitions established under the RCWs to kind of align itself up with um how those regulations um uh describe the technology and the and their minimum operating principles, and then kind of develops a little bit of a framework on how we're making the decision.

Um these are going to be it's gonna be a director, plan director decision that has the that will um be issued and has an appeal um uh opportunity that is established under a process one um appeal process.