Planning 2013-06-27 Item 4 H - Public Hearing: Advisory Committee Meeting Memos and Minutes

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Tukwila Tree and Environment Advisory Committee Meeting Notes state context for the local regulations (Federal Clean Water Act, Washington State Growth Management Act, Tukwila Comprehensive Plan goals and policies, SAO) purpose of the SAO, general standards and requirements, how the ordinance is working, and issues on which the committee might want to provide policy guidance. The powerpoint included photos of several mitigation project sites in the City and Sandra discussed the City's experiences with carrying out volunteer restoration projects in sensitive area buffers on public properties. 6. Key Natural Environment Topic Areas for the Natural Environment Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan: Committee consensus was that the list provided by staff captured the key natural environment concepts except that for wildlife habitat "and corridors" should be added to broaden this key topic area. 7. Natural Environment Chapter Goals: The Committee began to review the existing Natural Environment goals and discuss possible revisions to the goals. The committee provided the following direction: • The Committee recommended that the archaeological /paleontological goals and policies be moved to the Community Image chapter, to be grouped with the historic resource goals and policies, but include a cross reference in the Natural Environment chapter to recognize that many natural areas have archaeological and paleontological resources. A question was raised about whether there are policies on culturally significant resources (for example places important in Native American traditions, such as North Winds Weir), and if not, it was suggested that this topic be added to the Comprehensive Plan. Nora Gierloff clarified that the recently adopted regulations for historic resources apply to the built environment and not to other types of cultural resources. The Committee discussed whether a stewardship goal (referring to trained volunteers that work on restoration projects) was needed. It was decided that the proposed staff policies related to this topic would be evaluated and then a decision would be made about whether an additional goal was needed. • The Committee discussed whether there should be public access to public mitigation sites, where appropriate, (for example direct public access might not be appropriate if the goal of the mitigation was to enhance wildlife habitat, but some access feature like a viewing platform might be useful for educational purposes). Staff will come back with proposed language for a goal on this topic. • The Committee recommended revising the language of the goals to change the action verbs to "end statements" — i.e. statements of what outcomes we want to achieve . For example, the first goal initially read: "Restore and protect the quality of the City's air, land and water resources for future generations." The revised goal, based on Committee direction, would read "The City's air, land and water resources are restored and protected for future generations." The Committee continued review of the remaining goals and provided guidance on end statement wording. Staff will revise all the goal language for the Committee's review for the 12/19 meeting. CL Page 2 of 3 11/13/2012 4:58 PM W:\ \Long Range Projects \Urban Forestry\Advisory Committee Materials \Meeting Notes 11 -28 -12 104