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Date: <br />Time: <br />City of Tukwila <br />Planning Commission <br />Planning Commission Work Session Minutes <br />April 23, 2013 <br />6:30 PM to 8:50 PM <br />Location: City Hall Council Chambers <br />Present: Thomas McLeod - Chair, Louise Strander - Vice - Chair, Brooke Alford, <br />Mike Hansen, Sharon Mann, Cassandra Hunter and Miguel Maestes <br />Absent: None <br />Staff: <br />Nora Gierloff - Deputy DCD Director, Rebecca Fox - Senior Planner, Moira <br />Bradshaw - Senior Planner, Robin Tischmak - City Engineer, Mike Cusick <br />- Senior Water and Sewer Engineer, Ryan Larson - Senior Surface Water <br />Engineer <br />ISSUE Updates to the Comprehensive Plan Capital Facilities and Utilities <br />Elements <br />DISCUSSION <br />Rebecca Fox started the work session with an overview of the Comprehensive Plan <br />update process and schedule. The Elements considered in 2013 will include Utilities, <br />Capital Facilities, Transportation, Southcenter, Shoreline narrative and Natural <br />Environment. The main objectives of the plan are not expected to change but the Plan <br />needs to be updated to reflect regulatory changes, changed circumstances, growth and <br />development since the last update, revised growth forecasts and the guidance of the <br />Strategic Plan. In addition the Plan language will be simplified, the content consolidated <br />to reduce duplication and the format revised to work better online. <br />Capital Facilities <br />Moira Bradshaw continued with an overview of the capital facilities planning effort. <br />Washington State has specific requirements for a Capital Facilities Plan including an <br />inventory of facilities, forecast of future needs, proposed locations and capacities of <br />facilities, and a 6 year plan to fund needed improvements. See diagram below for the <br />relationship of the Comprehensive Plan to other City planning efforts. <br />The State Office of Financial Management (OFM) makes population projections by <br />County which are then allocated to individual jurisdictions which must ensure that they <br />have the zoned capacity to accommodate the growth. Tukwila's targets for 2030 are <br />4,850 new housing units and 17,550 new jobs, including our potential annexation areas. <br />Cities must periodically perform a Buildable Lands Analysis to determine if they can <br />Initials Page 1 of 4 05/17/2013 <br />Z: \DCD n Clerk's \PC Laserfiche Packet \05 -23 -13 PC Packet \ 4-23-13PC_WS_Minutes.doc <br />5 <br />