Planning 2017-10-26 Minutes - Accessory Dwelling Unit ‎(ADU)

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City of Tukwila Planning Commission PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES Date: October 26, 2017 Time: 6:30 PM Location: Council Chambers Present: Chair, Miguel Maestas; Vice Chair, Nhan Nguyen; Commissioners, Mike Hansen, Brooke Alford, Sharon Mann, Louise Strander, and Dennis Martinez Staff: Nora Gierloff, Deputy Director; Minnie Dhaliwal, Planning Supervisor; and Wynetta Bivens, Planning Commission Secretary Chair, Maestas called the public hearing to order at 6:37 PM. AdoptionCommissioner Strander made a motion to adopt the 9/28/17 minutes ofMinutes:Commissioner Martinez seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. Chair Maestas swore in those wishing to provide testimony and opened the public hearing. PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEW I.STAFF PRESENTATION Nora Gierloff, Deputy Director, gave the presentation for staff. She provided background, requirements, and information on the housing action policy list, the summer outreach, survey response, and gave an overview of staff’s seven policy recommendations and alternatives. She said, the Commission’s recommendations to staff will be translated into an ordinance, which they will bring back to the Commission for their review, before taking it to the City Council. Staff also addressed questions for the Commission. II.PUBLIC TESTIMONY Margaret Bratcher , citizen, was supportive of all three ADU options. She said she is glad the City has taken this on and she appreciates the work the Commission has put into this. Roger Lorenzen , citizen, said the lot size and the height restriction is a huge problem. Further, square foot restrictions would almost eliminate any possibility for older homes to incorporate all the restrictions, and water run off needs, as well as the need to add sprinklers. He suggested a process utilizing architectural review for the non-conforming projects. He said, if the process is too restrictive it doesn’t make sense to do any of this.