I'd like to call the order to order the February 18th Planning Commission meeting.

First item on the agenda is roll call.

Could you help us with that in the vote from?

Yes, thank you.

Commissioner Callahan.

Yeah.

Commissioner Balista.

Thank you.

Commissioner Minn.

Thank you, Vice Chair Mallet.

Chair Moore.

Commissioner Woman Sunday.

Thank you.

And Commissioner Sanger.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda.

Are there any changes anybody would like to make?

Hearing none.

The next item is approval of minutes from January 20th, the special joint meeting draft minutes.

Are there any changes that would like to be made to those?

Moving on to the next item is general public comment.

Has anybody signed up for general public comment?

I have some people that are going to be speaking, but I believe it's under the 6A agenda item regarding the enhanced status.

So I is that's the next item.

So if there's no general public comment, then could we go to public comment regarding item 6A?

Well let's maybe do that after the presentation and after your clarifying questions.

Okay, this one is that works, right?

Okay.

Hi, Nora Gurloff.

I'm the planning manager here with Shoreline, and I'm here to talk to you about our agenda then tonight.

So let me share my screen.

Okay, so we're here to talk about some zoning code changes to uh enhance shelters in Shoreline.

This is just a study session, and then we'll come back later for a hearing.

So I'd like to just give you some general background on this project, talk about the code changes.

We'll kind of walk through all of those things and then talk a little bit about the next steps.

So for some background, um at the end of 2019, council had you know, council has um various action goals, and they talked about asking staff to begin working with um our neighboring cities and creating some partnerships around citing a 24-7 shelter to serve home to single adults in North King County.

So this was a gap that had been identified in the social services that there were shelters in Seattle and in South King County, but North King County really didn't have options for single adults.

And so what also came into play was the city does a um a resident survey every two years, and they talk about what are all the different things that the city could be working on and trying to identify what are the priorities for our residents so that we can you know align what we're working on with the priorities of the community.

And the top item from that survey result, you know, and by kind of a uh a large margin was overall response to homelessness, and then the second item in that survey was overall quality of human services.

So the takeaway from that was that the city in coordination with of course state and county uh levels of government um to really prioritize how we were responding to the homelessness situation in our region.

And so this is also part of that survey talking about satisfaction rating and talking about what was important to people.

And again, under this very high priority category was overall response to homelessness and overall quality of human services, talking about support for people in times of need offered by the city.

And our whole polling company had identified that as the two top opportunities for improvement in city services.

So that's sort of the context for what happened last June.

This is the Oak site that was the subject of the neighborhood meeting that is currently under a rezone proposal, and which Lucy Affron had discussed earlier.

And so this is a picture of that site.

So it's the southwest corner of 165th in Aurora.

The existing building is a one-story building with a basement.

You can see that the main portion of the building that's along Aurora is zoned R48, and that's kind of lag off to the west is zoned R18.

And the city's current proposal that's taking through the rezoning process is for this entire parcel to be zoned mixed business or NB.

You know, seeing that in the context, and as Mr.

Zapper had pointed out, all of the properties along Aurora and Shoreline, except for one other condominium building, are zoned or this kind of regional commercial type use, either MB or TC for town center.

And so this is a bit of an anomaly here, and the underlying comprehensive plan supports the MB or regional commercial type of use.

So what kind of got into motion in last June when the city was asked to partner, was that we looked at our current regulations, and our current regulations do allow homework shelters in the regional commercial zones of the city.

But there's what was being proposed on this site and the conditions of the grant were a slightly different model than the way homeless shelter was currently defined in our zoning code.

So that's why we developed a new definition for enhanced shelter, and given the time limitations on the grant funding.

So the case that we're working on right now is to go kind of concurrently with the proposed rezone to NB was to adopt permanent regulations that would allow for enhanced shelters in the NB zone.

So I thought I was going to walk through the proposal, and you know, what's being proposed now is very similar to the interim ordinance.

There's been some words mapping, and there's also been a few new regulations that we're proposing based on kind of feedback, and as we work through the issues a little more.