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Date: <br />Time: <br />Location: <br />Present: <br />Absent: <br />Staff: <br />City of Tukwila <br />Planning Commission <br />WORK SESSION MINUTES <br />May 21, 2015 <br />6:30 PM <br />Rainier Conference Room <br />Chair, Mike Hansen; Commissioners, Louise Strander, Brooke Alford, and Thomas <br />McLeod <br />Vice Chair, Sharon Mann; Commissioners Miguel Maestas and Nhan Nguyen <br />Nora Gierloff, Deputy Director; Lynn Miranda, Senior Planner, Rebecca Fox, Senior <br />Planner, Laura Benjamin, Assistant Planner and Wynetta Bivens, Planning <br />Commission Secretary <br />CASE NUMBER: PL13 -0051 - 2015 Comprehensive Plan Update <br />L13 -0060 - Transportation Corridors /Tukwila International Boulevard District <br />Element <br />APPLICANT: City of Tukwila <br />REQUEST: Proposed amendments to the Transportation Corridors /Tukwila International <br />Boulevard Element of the Comprehensive Plan as part of the periodic review and <br />update of the Plan required by the Washington Growth Management Act. <br />LOCATION: Vicinity of Tukwila International Boulevard district <br />Lynn Miranda, Senior Planner, Department of Community Development gave a broad overview of <br />the project. The existing Transportation Corridors Element is being removed and replaced by the <br />new Tukwila International Boulevard (TIB) District Element. She said that relevant goals and <br />policies from the old Transportation Corridors Element are included in the new TIB District Element. <br />The TIB District Element has "sidebar boxes" that contain supplemental information to the goals and <br />policies or interesting facts for the reader. She also said that there is not a lot of housing content in <br />this element; instead, housing issues, goals and policies will be addressed in the upcoming Housing <br />Element updates. The five main topics in the TIB District Element are landuse, Tukwila <br />International Boulevard as a "main street ", walkability and connectivity, community and character, <br />and public and private investment. The Planning Commission reviewed the draft TIB District <br />Element and following are their recommended revisions: <br />• Page 2 — Extend the TIB District boundary from 130th street to S 126th <br />• Page 12, last bullet — staff was asked for clarification RE: Village and TOD Nodes <br />• Page 13, 8.2.11 — Staff was asked to revise "labor intensive" to provide more clarifying <br />language <br />• Page 21, Implementation Strategies section — Per discussion staff will establish a southgate <br />connection <br />• Page 22, first line — replace "establish" with "encourage" <br />• Page 25, add language establishing code enforcement for policy 8.8.1 <br />Adjourned: 7:25 PM <br />Submitted by: Wynetta Bivens <br />Planning Commission Secretary <br />Adopted 6/25/15 <br />