Present.

Chair Sager.

Here.

Thank you.

Commissioner Galuska and Commissioner Lynn are absent with notice.

Thank you.

Next item is approval of the agenda.

Does anybody wish to make any changes to the agenda?

Seeing none.

Next is approval of the minutes from February 2nd, 2023.

Anyone have any changes to those minutes?

Great.

All right.

At this point, we are at general public comment.

Ms.

Hoaxma, do we have anybody signed up for general public comment?

Yes.

Kathleen Russell has indicated she'd like to speak.

And Miss Russell, I you are unmuted.

Kathleen Russell, resident of Shoreline.

Safe Shoreline Trees values the opportunity to participate in local government.

Prior to your meeting on February 2nd, we provided information to the planning commission regarding cottage housing regulations and the protection of trees.

In our letter dated January 30th, we referenced ordinance 975 in effect as of November 28, 2022, residential land use five, in which the city council directs develop regulations to maintain and increase Shoreline's urban tree canopy with the goal of encouraging tree retention and protection while also increasing housing opportunities and choice.

Currently there is a separate tree code for the seven multifamily business development zones.

All the trees can be cut down.

To balance this tree code to maintain Shoreline's tree canopy, we asked the planning commission to ask staff to provide a separate and reasonable tree code for residential zones.

Tree retention incentives were suggested by staff, but are developers truly interested in these incentives?

As far as we know, no developers have taken advantage of the incentives to retain trees on the MUR seventy sites.

That is all for this evening.

Thank you.

That brings us to our study items.

The first one being the 2024 comprehensive plan update.

Yeah.

All right, thank you.

Um so the purpose of tonight's presentation is to share with the planning commission the public participation plan.

Um for the 2024 comprehensive plan update.

So as you might recall, uh at the December 1st meeting, the planning commission provided input uh after hearing um a the presentation on the comp plan scope and um some information from the city's communications consultant Stepherson and associates we added in attendance at that meeting.

Um so tonight I'll walk you through the the civil technically in draft form um the participation plan which will set the roadmap for the engagement and participation for the comp plan update.

So real quickly, just as reminder for anyone new who may be viewing this, the comprehensive plan illustrated here kind of fits within this regional framework of planning.

So we have the Growth Management Act at the state level, and then the Vision 2050 at sort of the regional level and then the countywide planning policies.

All of those provide the framework for the city's planning efforts at the local level, and then on the right, the comp plan is kind of the overarching plan for the city within which the functional plans and development regulations fit within.

And then the COM plan itself consists of several of the different goals and policies within there.

So the plan, of course, is informed by several different factors, including current data like demographics and job data, the growth targets we have to work within, the legislative requirements as well feed into the plan coming down from the state and any changes through the Growth Management Act.

And then also input from the community, which is a key piece, obviously.

And so really the kind of the purpose of tonight's discussion is how we engage and get participation from the community to inform the plan.

The council, as you know, adopted the scope and the key themes or lenses for the comprehensive plan back on November 7th.

And so those three themes are really the focus point of which we hope to filter or apply that lens to all of the goals and policies as we think about the update for the 2024 plan.

And so those three themes are, of course, housing, equity and social justice, and climate.

And again, with the within the plan, really focusing on equity and social justice and having a framework around those ideas, which can be used throughout the process to ensure that we're advancing some of the primary goals within the participation framework.

And maybe those groups or individuals that have been negatively impacted by past policy decisions.

So the participation plan itself calls out five principles or five kind of overarching public participation principles.

We've spent a lot of time and thought and getting input from different groups such as the planning commission to think about how we engage and anticipate how we're going to do so throughout the process.

Fourth, we have outreach that should build partnerships and leverage existing relationships.

Our efforts shouldn't be one way.

But something that we hope to build upon with future planning efforts.

And then last number five here is to outreach the outreach needs to include following up with the community so that people know how their input was used and what the next steps are, kind of developing that feedback loop so that we're not only engaging and having those conversations with the community, but we're also following up with them and informing them how that input and how those conversations have been woven into the plan update.

And so with those principles in mind, there's three overarching goals within the plan.

And so I'll step quickly through these as well.

But these are really to define the project aspirations and the aspirations of our participation strategy.

So each goal here has a series of different outcomes.