Okay, I would like to call to order the December 14th planning commission meeting.

And we will begin with roll call.

Caught you, Alan.

Yes.

Bria Heiser.

Here.

Scott Ricer.

Here.

Angela Rosman.

Here.

Rodney Rutherford.

Here.

Sandy Single.

He is here.

John Tim Chisholm.

Here.

Okay.

We would like to start with comments from the audience.

And is there anybody online?

I don't see anyone online, Chair Racer.

Perfect.

Uh tonight we have a study session on the uh twenty forty-four comprehensive plan update on utilities, public services, and capital facilities.

And then we will have a uh staff report on the twenty twenty-three to twenty-five work program.

All right.

So um tonight to go over the utilities public services and capital facilities elements.

We have senior planners Scott Guter and Lindsay Levine.

Um just a little bit of an overview of this.

This is one of your last sort of introduction briefings into the comp plan.

We've been bringing these to you element by element.

Um the focus on on this, these are three elements that probably don't have as many big policy choices or discussion in it for the planning commission.

And so what Scott and Lindsay are gonna do is try to help you focus in on the areas of these elements where there will be some policy questions, and other than that, these ones have a lot of kind of administrative and required um updates to them.

So they're gonna both walk you through the difference between those in terms of what where the study issues fall.

Um so this is your intro briefing to that.

The last intro briefing will be to the economic development element coming to you in January.

And then our next round with you will start to be actual draft policies.

Um the community engagement we've accomplished to date.

Um and uh the study issues um that we are looking at with and with the update.

And lastly, we'll um we'll just uh discuss next next steps and open it up for discussion.

Uh let's see here.

Well there it goes, cool.

Aligned.

For a majority of the 2020 uh of 2023 staff has been engaging uh the community.

We are now shifting our focus on drafting goals and policies and our aim are aiming to have a draft goals and policies published for review early next year.

Uh Planning Commission will continue to have briefings and is tentatively scheduled to hold public hearings in spring of 2024.

Final adoption of the comprehensive plan update is scheduled to go to council at the end of 2024.

Um, as part of the comp plan um engagement and outreach process, the city continuously strives to reach uh reach participants who reflect diversity of Kirkland, reaching individuals, organizations that have not been well presented in the uh well represented in the past in the community conversations that we've been having.

All these are priority populations.

Um this includes reaching out to black indigenous people of color, people who identify as LGBTQIA plus seniors, uh, low-income households, uh, people experiencing homelessness, youth renters, and people with disabilities or access accessibility challenges, um, migrant uh communities and people facing language barriers.

We have been working closely with the city manager's office and the diversity uh equity inclusion and belonging manager on this to make sure that we are going about this in the right way.

Uh city staff has been conducting community engagement uh for for over a year now.

Um the slide shows some of the various actions we have taken uh to engage with the public.

While there has been no specific outreach on uh utilities, public services, and capital facility elements, primarily because anticipated updates to these elements are expected to be consistent, uh consist of like housekeeping items and ensuring consistency with the remaining comp plan updates.

Uh staff did receive comments on these elements during our public engagement for land use, housing, sustainability, and the human services element.

Uh with that um I'm gonna pass this over to Lindsay to provide a briefing on the utilities elements.

Okay, so the utilities element goals and policies address water, sewer, surface water, electric power, natural gas, telecommunications, and petroleum pipelines.

The city provides water and sewer service to most residents.

North Shore Utility District provides water and sewer service to the northern portions of the city.

Woodenville Water District provides water service to the northeast portion of the city and sewer service to only a few single family homes in that same area.

City maintains stormwater pipes and water quality treatment systems and public streets and flow control and water quality treatment facilities that serve most single family homes.

Um PSC provides natural gas and generates, transmits, and distributes electricity in the region.