HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning 2015-05-21 Minutes - Work Session - 2015 Comprehensive Plan: Transportation Corridors / Tukwila International Bouelvard District ElementDate:
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City of Tukwila
Planning Commission
WORK SESSION MINUTES
May 21, 2015
6:30 PM
Rainier Conference Room
Chair, Mike Hansen; Commissioners, Louise Strander, Brooke Alford, and Thomas
McLeod
Vice Chair, Sharon Mann; Commissioners Miguel Maestas and Nhan Nguyen
Nora Gierloff, Deputy Director; Lynn Miranda, Senior Planner, Rebecca Fox, Senior
Planner, Laura Benjamin, Assistant Planner and Wynetta Bivens, Planning
Commission Secretary
CASE NUMBER: PL13 -0051 - 2015 Comprehensive Plan Update
L13 -0060 - Transportation Corridors /Tukwila International Boulevard District
Element
APPLICANT: City of Tukwila
REQUEST: Proposed amendments to the Transportation Corridors /Tukwila International
Boulevard Element of the Comprehensive Plan as part of the periodic review and
update of the Plan required by the Washington Growth Management Act.
LOCATION: Vicinity of Tukwila International Boulevard district
Lynn Miranda, Senior Planner, Department of Community Development gave a broad overview of
the project. The existing Transportation Corridors Element is being removed and replaced by the
new Tukwila International Boulevard (TIB) District Element. She said that relevant goals and
policies from the old Transportation Corridors Element are included in the new TIB District Element.
The TIB District Element has "sidebar boxes" that contain supplemental information to the goals and
policies or interesting facts for the reader. She also said that there is not a lot of housing content in
this element; instead, housing issues, goals and policies will be addressed in the upcoming Housing
Element updates. The five main topics in the TIB District Element are landuse, Tukwila
International Boulevard as a "main street ", walkability and connectivity, community and character,
and public and private investment. The Planning Commission reviewed the draft TIB District
Element and following are their recommended revisions:
• Page 2 — Extend the TIB District boundary from 130th street to S 126th
• Page 12, last bullet — staff was asked for clarification RE: Village and TOD Nodes
• Page 13, 8.2.11 — Staff was asked to revise "labor intensive" to provide more clarifying
language
• Page 21, Implementation Strategies section — Per discussion staff will establish a southgate
connection
• Page 22, first line — replace "establish" with "encourage"
• Page 25, add language establishing code enforcement for policy 8.8.1
Adjourned: 7:25 PM
Submitted by: Wynetta Bivens
Planning Commission Secretary
Adopted 6/25/15