You could poll roll, please.

Margaret Bunyal.

Here.

Aaron Jacobson.

Here.

Gina Matea.

Here.

Julia Nolan.

Here.

Here.

Angela Rasman.

Here.

Rodney Rutherford absent.

So it is time for items from the audience.

If anyone has anything to say this evening before we get started.

Either it doesn't look like online or in person.

So I think if we could get started with the um first staff report.

And hello, I am chairing tonight.

Rodney is not here.

Great.

Thanks, Acting Chair Rosman.

Yeah, so the first item tonight is just an update on the housing dashboard.

This is something that we launched a couple of years ago to make our efforts surrounding housing policy a little more transparent to the community and to help us make better policy decisions around housing as well.

And with that, I will hand it over to our senior planner, Scott Guter for the presentation.

Oh, thank you for um hold up.

Um Liz, did you want to call it your okay?

Great.

Um good.

So this is a um long overdue update to the housing dashboard.

Um this was originally um managed by um another another person that was at the city for several years, but um had left the city uh and we needed to find somebody to start updating it.

I just happened to be the bad person.

So I have worked for several months here just trying to figure out what was being up what was being put on this housing dashboard and how it was being updated.

I gave you a brief brief overview of some key uh data points that we were that we use here.

Um generally they come from uh reporting requirement uh uh reporting requirements of the Office of Financial Management for uh population estimates and um and then our coordination with uh King County and um and the affordable housing that we're tracking with Arch as well as uh some um King County assessor information.

This dashboard also contains some kind of um legacy data that's coming from um coming from Esri and the uh and some of the information that they were pulling from um the census data, but it has you know that's still probably some stuff that it will need to work on updating if we want to continue to uh showcase that that information in the future.

Really what they're you're seeing here is um you know uh what we've been able to gather uh up to certain uh reporting periods.

Uh these range in between you know 2024 to 2025 based on the when the information comes into the city.

Um so some of the uh information is again being tracked by Arch, some of the information we're scrubbing from you know the King County assessors, and some of this information is coming from us uh as well as we're tracking uh permits uh that are being filed in our in our city.

Uh starting on the left side, you see this a general like total number of of units uh that we have in the city as of uh 2024 and 2024.

Um most probably the couple of features that most people would look at is um the housing supply by major our major housing development projects.

This is actually probably the most the the one feature that actually gets updated the most or should be updated the most.

This tracks uh permits that are running through the um running through the city.

Um most probably the couple of features that most people would look at is um the housing supply by major our major housing development projects this is actually probably the most the the one feature that actually gets updated the most or should be updated the most this tracks uh permits that are running through the um running through the city um that might be um let me see if I can actually get a that are in review or being issued or have been identified as regulated affordable housing so you'll see information on specific uh properties that we have here where you can track existing permits that are in review that um might have a total number of units a affordable housing requirement that it's you know it's projected to um supply some additional affordable housing um the dashboard also like uh collects larger um pieces of information related to a neighborhood how many uh units that are in the in the uh um in the neighborhood what type of units there are how many affordable um total affordable housing units that we have in the city or in this in this particular neighborhood and it just kind of gives you a a sense of performance level um we've updated this uh affordable housing target uh is to start reflecting the the new housing um our new uh affordable housing targets out to 20 uh 2044 this is really interesting that it's it's showcasing this but it I guess it must it does yeah I'll expand it here I got a cramp that looks crazy um so this is just kind of showing like where our our affordable housing targets are this is just tracking you know our regulated affordable housing um and you can um see that we've selected we've been tracking this since uh 20 uh 2019 which actually is the first um first uh this is the first that's the first year uh that we start tracking under the new uh um new um housing targets that are allocated to uh the city of Kirkland I imagine this is going to be updated um in the in the coming years to kind of reflect a little bit more granulary the granule granular um detail that the county wants to track us uh track our affordable housing targets based on um income segments so this is just a more of a global kind of this is what we're regulating we're not telling you at what income levels are each of these units in some of them are uh below um 50 percent into 30 percent AMI and some of them are all the way up to a hundred percent AMI um so we'll start probably thinking about tracking that a little bit differently um this is probably the most the middle housing permits that we that we are we uh are um tracking is probably the one that seems to get the the most um attention on this dashboard uh because it really was tracking you know how well our our um new codes uh are are working since their enactment in 2020 you can kind of see that there is indeed a lot more metal housing permits that we've been uh that we've been permitting since the uh adoption of our rules in 2020 so this is just kind of showing you what this data can kind of show us related to the performance level this too will probably be updated because now we have many more types of middle housing typologies that we're gonna be allowing so we're gonna try to start tracking a little that a little bit more with with a lot more refinement in that um the rest of this is kind of showing you know percent of housing um and this is just really broad broad brush what is single family what is multifamily the way this kind of works is um everything that has been identified as single family or single family with an accessory dwelling unit goes into the single family bucket everything else is going into the multifamily bucket so that it does include our our middle housing so it's not really tracking that per se we're working on seeing if we can tease out that a little bit more in our in our um housing data but this gives you a kind of a broad broad brush of like how each of our neighborhoods are are working we might want to think about even looking at other areas where we've directed a lot of housing policies per like maybe tracking you know our urban growth centers in the same manner maybe our neighborhood centers where we've we've talked about we have housing and land use policies around that and then finally this is just these are just you know big numbers that we're throwing out which just reflects all the same information that's being tracked in these other tables the last feature here is the total housing permits issued this is this is reflecting

include our our middle housing so it's not really tracking that per se um we're working on seeing if we can tease out that a little bit more in our in our um housing data but this gives you a kind of a broad broad brush of like how each of our neighborhoods are are working we might want to think about even looking at other areas where we've directed a lot of housing policies per s uh like maybe tracking you know our urban growth centers in the same manner um maybe our neighborhood centers where we've we've talked about we have housing and land use policies around that um and then finally this is just these are just you know big numbers that we're throwing out which is reflects all the same information that's being tracked in these other tables the last feature here is the total housing permits issued this is this is reflecting information uh every year back to twenty seventeen and these rule this profile right here will change um as you maybe I can toggle this as we permit I don't know if I'm I can't see it here I think it's a screen anyway um this this shows you how um in 20 in the in the uh permit uh the the years that we've we've been um um tracking uh permits filed sorry from april twenty uh twenty four to april twenty twenty five this shows you the kind of mix of housing that's been permitted um and that's what that's kind of showing and there's a toggle on a different I I'm assuming this is what we're seeing here is we're seeing something that is that is being shrunk down and um I'm not able to see the toggle but there should be a toggle back down here on the bottom and you can track you know what is our what type of permits are actually being any given year since 2020 uh 2017 and so that's kind of interesting to see you know what are we actually permitting in those any given year so um that's pretty much the the tour of this um if you have any qu any questions or have any suggestions as to what you would like to maybe see in an update to the housing dashboard that'd be great.

Commissioner Rice I just had a question on uh the numbers right below your map where it says 221k single family 218 K multifamily what are those numbers representing so again that's the kind of um the the in our housing trends this is you know um looking at total number of single family again in the bucket of single family homes plus anything that's also made easy is that existing or what you're produced that's existing okay these are existing so this these numbers right here all add up to that 43.9 K, which is actually this total right here across the side and then our any numbers that you're seeing inside of our of our housing um let's say in the affordable housing targets um in our affordable housing uh page right here and also in the existing housing supply percent by neighborhood also reflect that that total of this 1600 um affordable housing units that we have in our city right now that were regulated and it would break down those by neighborhood at that point like which neighborhoods actually supplying the affordable housing so yeah Commissioner Bunio I think we had already chatted about this earlier um you know I used to do the massing the permit data for the population estimates every year and I was always amazed at the number of demos that happen in Kirkland and so I'm a little bit kind of wondering about that 718 units is that include demos how many I and I'm not sure if that's if it's such a big number anymore but between you know 1988 and when I left in 2005 there were hundreds of demo permits every year that we'd significantly lower the number of units added to Kirklinet and I think it's important that the public sees that and I'm always curious as to how many demos are happening out there.

We do actually um at the at least the highest level we track it.

You as you're well aware, we give uh permit information over to the Office of Financial Management, right?

And so we track that information.

We would just need to tease out um a little bit more from uh like understanding what what the what was being demolished at the at any given point we can pull that information out.

Yeah.

Can we make a note to have you come back and share that with us when you have because I I think that's a really good question.

Yeah, it would it would definitely start we'd start tracking, you know, a little bit.

I think we're gonna track a lot more detail.

Uh King County has already asked us to start tracking a lot more information for their for their tracking purposes as well.

So we should be able to net new housing per year would be a really interesting one.

Yeah.

Uh Commissioner Medea, thank you.

And sort of similar um to that.

Is there a way to track like in which instances something under one lot split um or unit lot subdivision and then new housing was put on it, even if the first step was demoing, so we can sort of see how some of these new housing policies are impacting net new um middle housing or other types of units?

Yeah, we can definitely we can definitely track um different uh permit typologies, right?