A suburban Oregon where a developer who does uh workforce housing, so housing that's not as expensive, they wanted a variance from the city.

The city required two spots per housing unit.

They wanted to go to one point three.

They didn't want to go to zero, they want to go to one point three.

A parking space at grade level is three thousand dollars on average.

A parking space underground can be up to eighty thousand dollars per space.

A parking unit, a parking space above ground on a parking garage is between twenty and fifty thousand dollars per space.

This is all going on to the cost of the units.

I don't see anybody else in the audience, so is there there was no one on Zoom?

Perfect.

Okay.

Tonight we will have a study session on the 2044 comprehensive plan.

And we receive the packet and we'll receive an overview on the reports to initiate equitable and inclusive comprehensive and the comprehensive plan.

So staff reports.

Thank you, Vice Chair ICE.

So for this, we're gonna have our senior planner Janice Swinson presenting you with the presentation tonight and also walking you through the comprehensive plan update.

She is the project manager for the 2044 comprehensive plan update, and we'll be spending a lot of time with you over the next couple years on this one.

Just a moment here I'm trying to find my presentation.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thanks very much.

Here we are.

Good evening, uh Janice Swenson with uh the planning department.

And um now that we have our community engagement plan uh completed, uh we are off and running and ready to do our big media launch for the comprehensive plan update.

And we thought it would be a good time to brief you on what we've been up to since uh we last uh gave a briefing to you in April.

And um so we're not looking for decisions tonight.

We just like your feedback on the community engagement plan and also Eco Northwest um equity review of the comprehensive plan uh policies and some of their recommendations for text and policy changes.

And those are in your packet.

Uh we also um wanted to talk with you a little bit about what uh to expect uh for this uh next year and uh the following year.

Um as a reminder, all cities are required to update their comprehensive plans for changes to the Growth Management Act and for consistency with the revised regional and countywide planning policies and with the end date of December 2024.

Simultaneously, we're working closely with the Transportation Division and the Transsportation Commission to update the transportation master plan.

So that'll be a major effort.

And where feasible, we're coordinating these two tasks.

Um we've organized an interdepartmental staff teams to work on each element and and/or chapter of the comprehensive plan.

And the uh staff teams have conducted an initial scan of each chapter, looking for potential uh changes, policy changes, and we anticipate that they're minor to a moderate scope with uh more revisions likely to the housing and transportation um elements.

So this is the logo that uh we've uh designed with the city managers uh communications division, and we feel that it really uh strives to uh symbolize the several key themes of the comprehensive plan update in the future of Kirkland to strive for a sustainable, connected, and welcoming Kirkland where everyone feels they belong.

Just as a reminder, the key themes uh for the uh comprehensive plan update that will be interwoven throughout the plan and the policies.

You uh reviewed these in April, and the city council also has affirmed these uh key themes.

Advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, sustainability, housing options for all, and housing affordability, mobility connections to regional transit system and accessibility, resiliency, smart city initiatives, and to be consistent with the city council goals.

So as far as scope of changes, as I mentioned, the key major changes will be to the transportation master plan or the transportation element that will fold in the highlights and the priorities for the transportation master plan and the housing and human service elements to respond to House Bill 1220.

So those mainly affect what we're required to do for the housing element, and the focus is on planning to avoid racially desperate impacts, displacement, and exclusionary exclusion in housing.

So we'll need to dive closer into that and we'll bring you more information about that.

What that will require is really assessing data, demographic and racial and housing data and real estate you know data to determine what we need to do to address those requirements.

And much of that will be done with our update of our community profile.

Also we uh, depending on staff resources, we're planning on updating the Juanita and Kingsgate neighborhood plans, uh starting those in 2023 and completing those in uh 2024 with the rest of the comp plan update.

Um we will be uh assessing community amendment requests, and those applications are due December 30th.

And so those are requests from the community to change land use, uh rezones, uh zoning code amendments.

Uh so far we've received two uh submittals, but we anticipate more.

It's hard to know the level of those.

We'll bring those to you.

There's it's a two-phase process, uh, there's a two-step process.

Uh phase one is a reviewing those applications and recommending which ones should move forward, and city council also weighs into in on that.

So, as far as your role in this process, just a reminder that we will be giving you uh periodic briefings on the status of our community engagement activities, some of the feedback we've heard from the community and study issues related to each element.

So we'll be bringing you, you know, briefing you on that periodically this next year.

You will be receiving some public comments.

I think you've already received a few, so we'll uh try and bundle those up and bring those to you.

Um we'll want your feedback on uh any revisions to the vision statement and guiding principles that will set the course for the update.

Um we will want, of course, your feedback on any draft policies to the elements and you'll be reviewing suggested changes to the Juanita and Kingsgate neighborhoods, and then in 2024, uh you'll be conducting a public hearing on the draft plan, providing recommendations on the draft plan to city council, and then city council adopts the final plan.

So broad view planning consultants, they developed our community engagement plan that the city staff will implement.

And the goals of the engagement we worked with them on establishing these goals to increase involvement from priority populations, reach stakeholders who want to live in Kirkland but can't, and to make sure involvement is meaningful and resonant with the uh resonates with the participants' values, that people feel heard and understood how their input will be used, and that the community understands the role of local government in their lives.