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Home My WebLink AboutTIC 2019-03-05 Item 3B - SCATBd - 1/15/19 Meeting Summary / 2/19/19 Meeting AgendaSOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD MEETING SUMMARY — JANUARY 15, 2019 1. December meeting summary: approved. 2. Reports and Communications: • Reports: Pleased that Hwy 18 was added to SCATBd's 2019 Legislative Agenda. • King County Regional Transit Committee Update: Metro system evaluation looking at route by route transit service. Metro Connects update from 2019/20 budget. • Auburn: Suggested another addition to the legislative agenda. • SeaTac Council appointed Stanley Tooms, longtime resident and business owner and on the Planning Commission to be sworn in next week. 3. Metro Paid Parking Permit Program — Tristan Cook, King County Metro, Connecting to Transit Group. King County is implementing a paid parking permit program and is seeking public comment during the public rule consideration period. The program would offer $20 per month permits to ORCA users and allow for a dedicated parking space at Metro owned and operated park and ride lots. The dedicated spot would be made available until 10 a.m. to allow for more flexible schedules. Permits for single occupancy vehicles would cost between $60-120 per month — far less than the cost of parking in downtown Seattle. The program hopes to begin selling permits in June and begin operations in July. Questions: How is METRO going to enforce that permit holders must ride transit an average of 3x/week to maintain their permit? We will check ORCA ridership to verb. How much revenue will program generate? Not intended to be a revenue generating program but will most likely yield $IMthat will be used on improvements to access to transit. Council has required a report on intent to use those revenues. Up to 50% of the stalls permitted? Carpools, ORCA Lift — do they know the % breakouts? 50% is the highest % of allocated parking spots. The actual % will be tailored to actual # of stalls and need. Enforcement — how is that going to work? Work with our vendor to review hang tags that look different every month. Verging through records and license plates. In regards to the parking fee, in SeaTac we have a local parking tax. Will the parking fee Metro is charging be subject to local parking taxes? If you are not parking in the same spot everytime, it is subject to sales tax. METRO will follow up on this. (See follow-up questions/answers document) What about the lot in Federal Way? This only applies to METRO lots at 90% capacity. (Federal Way lot is a WSDOT owned lot). For people that have handicap parking permit, can they use this? Always have handicap available. Adjust when we hear that it is full. 4. WSDOT'SR 518 Study Update: Thomas Noyes, WSDOT Regional Planning. Thanks to the Port of Seattle that agreed to contribute an additional $400k for more enhanced, modeling work. Variety of growth, construction, transit and other factors have led to the need for this study that will perform traffic analysis, conduct community and stakeholder engagement, develop corridor alternatives, document study findings and collect data related to peak period intersection counts, truck flows, transit service. The study will also compare local Comprehensive Plans and other planning documents 59 toward developing alternatives. Several important fish passage barriers in this corridor that need to be replaced. Schedule: Kick off summer/fall 2018, future baseline conditions December 2018-March 2019. Alternatives Development / Analysis (Feb -May 2018) Stakeholder Committee: Burien, Des Moines, SeaTac, Tukwila, Port of Seattle, King County METRO, Puget Sound Regional Council, Sound Transit, Tribes, WSDOT Headquarters, WSDOT NW Region. Which tribes? Muckelshoots and 4 other tribes are participating / in consultation. Web Survey: 1500 web survey responses generated. Using communications tools to coordinate w partners, including social media and direct e-mail distribution. The Web survey yielded that 94% indicated use of private vehicles. Higher percentages of users from Burien zip codes. Most thought that managing safety, congestion and improving travel reliability should be the focus of the study. Most thought that the section of 518 at the 4054-5 interchange was problematic. Many different projects being built surrounding the SR518 corridor. South airport access is a question we are struggling with as it may affect performance. The airports has 66M annual passengers and we are considering its relationship to 518. Traffic models show Int'l Blvd and other support roads grind to a halt in August as passenger #'s grow and exceed projections. Regional traffic modeling suggests that even with south airport access, 77% access the airport from the north and I-5 access point. There is an opportunity to increase mode share here. Questions: Clarify expected changes to 518 as a result of the 405 BRT project? Whatever BRT project components may be moving forward will be documented and funded in our study. And, may be built by 2030. Maybe an additional lane or widen shoulder to offer a dedicated bus lane in the corridor that are still being worked out with Sound Transit. Is there a count of actual airport traffic entering SR518? Yes. 5. 2019 SCATBd Legislative Agenda — CM Kathy Hougardy Received additional changes from Auburn we are looking for approval today with amendments. Susan will send it out today to all of you electronically. AWC meets on Feb 13 and 14 so we can distribute this as well. Transportation priorities are important. On siting 2nd regional airport the Port of Seattle is neutral. SCATBd members approved the final, 2019 Legislative Agenda. 6. 2019 SCATBd Leadership — Susan Honda sent an email to secure 2019 leadership. Linda Johnson has agreed to be chair and Peter Kwon has agreed to be vice chair. CM Peloza nominated Austin Bell from Burien as Vice Chair. SCATBd members voted unanimously to have Linda Johnson as the 2019 SCATBd Chair. Peter Kwon & Austin Bell provided overviews of their work as candidates for SCATBd Vice Chair. Paper ballots were distributed and counted. Results: 8 votes for Austin Bell and 6 for Peter Kwon. SCATBd members voted to approve CM Austin Bell as 2019 SCATBd Vice Chair. 7. Public Comment: Debbie Wagner: Commented on the SR518 constraints associated with speeders and the dedicated lane to the airport. Problem area at intersection to I-5 and 405. Resources should be getting funding from the Port of Seattle to offer roadway improvements. The public shouldn't pay for a benefit to a single industry. Meeting adjourned at 10:25 a.m. 60 SOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD (SCATBd) MEETING AGENDA Tuesday February 19, 2019 9:00 — 10:30 a.m. SeaTac City Hall 4800 South 188th Street SeaTac 1. Open Meeting (Breakfast treats provided by the City of Black Diamond) • Introductions • Approve January SCATBd Meeting Summary Action 9:00 a.m. 2. Reports and Communications • Chair or Vice Chair • Participant Updates (from RTC and Other Regional Committees) Report and Discussion 9:05 a.m. 3. Vision 2050 Update Paul Inghram Director of Growth Management Puget Sound Regional Council Discussion 9:10 a.m. 4. WSDOT's SR 410 Study Update Dennis Engel Multimodal Planning Manager, WSDOT Discussion and Possible Action 9:40 a.m. 5. 2019 dues & appointments update Action 10:10 a.m. 6. • Public Comment • Next SCATBd Meeting: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 > Breakfast treats will be provided by the City of Covington (Burien provided treats earlier) Discussion 10:15 a.m. Link to the: 2019 SCATBd Meeting Materials 61