City Council - Regular Meeting

So I'll call the meeting to order. Clerk, will you please take the roll call?

Deputy Mayor Winkler?

Present.

Councilmember Elliot? Here. Councilmember Gassick?

Here.

Councilmember Wargo? Here. Councilmember Barrow?

Here.

And Councilmember Walton and Councilmember Thakor have asked to be excused.

Councilmember Elliott.

I make a motion to excuse Councilmember Walton and Councilmember Thacker.

Councilmember Wargo.

I second the motion.

It's been a motion and second. Is there any discussion? Hearing no discussion, all in favor say aye. Aye. None opposed. Motion passes. And now please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of

The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

And now we're up to the public comment session, which has everything except new business and our two public hearings. So this is the opportunity for public to make comments on issues other than those two, and we'll have a special session for those. Please remember to keep your comments to three minutes and that you are addressing the council. Has anyone called in or is anybody online?

I don't have a name. I have a last three digits of a phone number.

That is probably Patrick Kelly from HBL. Just listening in on the comp plan.

Patrick, is your last three digits 640 Yes,

that's correct.

Okay. Thank you.

Yes, that's correct. Thank you. Okay. So is there anybody in the audience that would like to talk? And again, anything other than new business or the comp plan? Okay? We all have a special session for those. Hearing that, then we'll move on to the next item, which is the approval of the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? Councilmember Barrow?

I make a motion to approve the agenda.

Councilmember Elliott?

I second.

Is there any discussion? Hearing no discussion, all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? And no opposition, the motion passes. We're now up to a proclamation. I'm honored to read this proclamation on behalf of Mayor Frederick. Whereas every year, National Black History Month is an occasion to celebrate the contributions of so many black American patriots who have shaped our nation's history. This country was established upon the profound simple idea that all people are created equal and should be treated equally throughout their lives. And whereas Black History Month grew out of the Negro History Week initiated in February 1926 by Carter G.

Woodson and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, which was selected because it included the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and federal Doug Frederick Douglass, two key figures in the history of black Americans. Whereas, National Black History Month serves as both a celebration and a powerful reminder that black history is American history, black culture is American culture, and black stories are essential to the ongoing story of America, our thoughts, our struggles, our progress, and our aspirations. And whereas the city of DuPont is proud to honor and take time to celebrate the immeasurable contributions of black Americans, honor the legacies and achievements of generations past, reckon with centuries of injustice, and confront those injustices that exist today. Now, therefore, I, Ronald j Frederick, mayor of the city of DuPont, Washington, do hereby proclaim February 2026 to be Black History Month, and I encourage all citizens to celebrate our diverse heritage and culture and continue our efforts to create a world that is more just, peaceful, and prosperous for all. Okay.

Thank you. And now we're moving up to our first public hearing. And we're gonna have two public hearings this evening. This first one will be on the Let me get caught up. On an ordinance. It'd be the first reading of an ordinance which will follow the public hearing on the comprehensive plan. And I open the public hearing at 06:04 p. M. Before continuing, is there any council member that has conflict that may keep them from voting on the proposed comprehensive plan update? The order of the presentation will be a presentation by Director Kincaid followed by an opportunity for public comment.

We'll do Director Kincaid. We'll see if you have a presentation first, and if not, we'll go right into public comment.

I do. And I'm just going to really race through this. Okay. It is stuff that you have already heard, and it's 46 slides, but we're not going to do the last slides. I'll tell you when we're done. But we're here tonight. You have an ordinance before you, city council, about adopting the comprehensive plan update. That's a periodic update that we've talked about is required under the growth management act, the state statute RCW 3670A. Next slide, Carrie. And just briefly, so this proposal, what you have in your packet is the record, so to speak.

So you've got the Planning Commission's transmittal recommending the adoption. You have the staff report that goes over the criteria and then you have the actual draft plan itself. So this is a proposal to amend the comprehensive plan. And it's a process that we followed in accordance with 20 five-one 170 in our GMC, and it's required, as I stated. Next slide, please.

So we have the following elements or chapters in the comprehensive background, context, land use, economic development, natural environment, historic cultural resources, parks and rec, housing transportation, capital facilities and the old Fort Lake sub area plan. So each one of these chapters has a narrative with goals and policies. Next slide. So history and background, as we've already said multiple times throughout the time that we've been working on this, is that it's a Growth Management Act requirement that every ten years cities and counties must review and if needed update their comprehensive plans. So this is our ten year cycle to do this.

We are able to amend every single year as we say fit, but that is not a recommend I mean, that is not a requirement. That is something that we do as local government if we feel that we need to do some amendment on an annual basis. It also offers the opportunity for a community member to make a request or an application for an amendment to the comprehensive plan. So we had a lot of new legislation from 'twenty one to 'twenty three that we had to really focus on in this periodic update. The house bills are listed there, but things like STEP housing for emergency shelters, transitional housing, the middle housing, affordable housing, accessory dwellings and then permitting timeline requirements.

So we had to start out with this checklist that Commerce and also the Puget Sound Regional Council issues for us to go through and audit our own work to really use as our framework for what we needed to change and update to be compliant with the new legislation. Then we also looked at what things we wanted to do that were not tied to legislation. Next slide, please. So we've had we had a kickoff meeting in January 2025. We held open houses in November.

We had approximately 20 meetings that were public meetings with the Planning Commission and discussed went through all of these elements and had time for public comment and input during those meetings. We did the SEPA, which is a requirement for the State Environmental Protection Act and that was done in August. We issued a determination of non significance October 31. I will say that the SEPA has its own comment period and we received nothing that was of concern or we would have addressed that in the plan. So that was very positive.

Planning Commission held their public hearing November 17 and they made their recommendation to City Council December 8. Next slide. So next steps here are listed, but we've already submitted for the Department of Commerce to review. They have to have a sixty day review time, and they have given us some comments. We've also have sent to the Puget Sound Regional Council.

So both Puget Sound Regional Council and Commerce have review authority. The Puget Sound Regional Council must certify our comprehensive plan. And as I said, we have had comments back that we're sorting through. And after we hear testimony, public testimony and input from the city council tonight, our second reader, you will see some of these changes and revisions based on those comments and anything that we've heard or discussed this evening. We have let's see, that's okay.

So now we're here. Next slide, please. So I'm not going to go through these at great length. I just want to make sure that the record reflects that we had a very general discussion here to present that you've got Chapter one is where you see your vision statement and your guiding principles. Next slide.

Chapter two houses the background and context. And so this is where it's very data heavy and this is something that we it sets the stage for those goals and policies as we update the data and we analyze the data and then determine what trends there may be and what do we need to do in changing the actual goals and policies to fit those trends that we see. Next slide. So here's some of the examples of the data, the ethnic profile. We know that we have a majority of white people in the city.

We do have strong representation of other ethnic groups. Next slide. We have an employment profile that we created as we were looking at the data and doing the analysis. We've got a range of professions, a lot of that being in the education and healthcare followed by public administration. So the number of jobs have grown and that's good.

And then in it's okay, you can go to the next slide. You could see that down below. In the overview, most of our housing is single family detached. And you can see that pie chart that shows that distribution of housing types. And this is, of course, it's important for us to be able to understand what our housing stock looks like, not only the type of housing, but the age of the housing and distribution of the housing so that we could look at whether or not we needed to make any changes to the land use designations.

Next slide. Chapter three has the overall land use policy direction. So land use is the intent, the policy wording is what we did there. Just kind of I wouldn't say that we made a lot of big changes, but again, it's the ideal of making sure that we're promoting public health, safety and welfare, ensuring that development enhances the city neighborhood and the environment and the historic village that's all ties into our vision, providing a street system for all modes of transportation. The multimodal transportation is something that staff and planning commission embedded into this plan that was not there.

So that's new. We had just pretty much focused in years past on just a transportation network that supported automobiles. But now we've got pedestrian, bicyclists in all forms. So and then the community, the equity and culture and enhancing the environment. So equity and culture is something that we're relatively new.

It was part of some of this legislation that passed to make sure that we were looking at our goals and policies through that equity lens, and we did do that. Next slide. So there is the famous housing and employment growth target numbers we've discussed before that we have that we're working with. So we know that we've got this population growth of 5,184 to accommodate for a total of 15,000 plus people in 2044. That's the projection that we received to work with.

Employment numbers, we've got in 2020 anyway, we had the 5,809 and we need to grow eleven seventy seven more jobs for a total target number of that 6,486 housing units. That was something that was discussed at length as well. You see the 2020 housing numbers and our target number outlined there at 2,096 additional housing units to reach. While we don't build housing and we don't create jobs, the whole idea is that we are and local government is required to create capacity for these to happen. So a total of 5,887 housing units in 2044 is what we are required to have to take our fair share based on the region's population growth.

Next slide. So we did a housing capacity and we had to look at not just affordable housing, middle housing, but we also were tasked with through the statute legislative statutes that passed to look at supportive housing. So permanent supportive housing or non permanent supportive housing extremely low, very low, low and moderate. So these bands, these income bands of housing of need, we also looked at that. And so the good news is that in our analysis that we are still having conversations with housing or with the housing Department of Commerce, we believe that we have the capacity to be able to for the siting of housing to accommodate these income bands.

Next slide. The future land use map. So you see the goals and policies in the land use, that's the text. A lot of this is a lot of text. But then the really the key element is the map itself, the future land use map, which is one set of maps and then that translates into the official zoning map, which is part of the DuPont Municipal Code.

But this flum, we call it, is the aspiration of what would be what you're setting the stage for and then your zoning to make that fit your future land use map. So we didn't do a lot of land use changes in the flum. We did create a new designation for civic uses. Right now, we don't have that. And where you see things like water towers and schools, it's got like residential zoning or zones that really kind of make it difficult for a city to be able to do what it needs to do with an asset basically because you don't treat a residential district the same as you treat something that has a water tower on it.

So we did create that and we identified those parcels and designated those to be civic. Parks and recreation and open space, these are other land use categories that are teased out in the Flum. And then what we did with the residential in this one is the if you were to compare this map, this draft map we're proposing with the adopted flum map in the comp plan, you'd see that we've got instead of the calling out the R4, R5, R12, we condensed them into residential categories, broad categories that still fit within those zones. So we've got that residential reserve that stayed the same. But the low medium density residential or LDR on this map, it sucks in those the residential four, five, etcetera.

And then we created this high density multifamily residential, which is just the R 12. Mixed use, we had two mixed use one and two, let's call them mixed use, commercial, manufacturing research park, industrial. The reason why we believed it was important to go this way is because you this makes room for the zones that are embedded in these categories. So if, for example, someone we determined or someone made a request to change the residential zone, maybe they want to up zone or down zone it, if it fits in that category, we do not have to amend our comp plan. We go through the process for the zoning map amendment.

So it just makes it a little more streamlined and it helps us to understand really the overall intent on this future land use map. Next slide, please. So if we were going to talk about the actual changes because what I just described didn't really change anything. There's just this land that's off of the Manchester Place. We did some housekeeping too because there were some map errors.

So when you see this map here and down where there is a number two. So the left side is what exists. The right side is what we're proposing a change. Off of Manchester Place, there's a little two circle. It is right now designated and zoned for Manufacturing Resource Research Park, MRP.

And we felt that because of the limitations and constraints due to the wetland buffer and all of the protected trees there, it really made more sense to make that into a high density residential because then it would be more likely that you could fit a smaller footprint for an apartment building and still protect the trees and the wetland buffer. So we really that's the change. The other things we're mapping errors or things that we just didn't fix our map when we changed zoning. So next slide please. Again, this is showing you just sort of the detail of mixed mixed uses, mixed two, now is all mixed.

It's all the same color purple. That's just sort of what I described earlier. And this just shows you graphically if you're interested in looking at that close-up, that's what we're talking about doing. So changing the civic parcels, it's calling each single parcel out, changing the high density residential. In the Patriots Landing master plan, it was an R5 underlying.

But when we approved that when that master plan was approved, it created that overlay of a high density residential to accommodate those apartments. Next slide, please. So residential to civic, the water tower that's more of that same thing, but again just showing you the details. Next slide, Carrie. So the economic, that's the land use chapter.

Chapter three, those are the highlights. Very little changed. Again, housekeeping other than just making sure that that Manchester property maybe had a more fitting future land use designation and making sure that we are noting our civic land uses on the map. So the economic development chapter and Chapter four, that's we didn't do as much with this as I think that we, what I would like to do. And so I'm hoping that that can become more of a priority for us.

But if you'll remember back when we first kicked this off is that we had very little time and resource to get this done. We are a year late and that we were really going to just stay focused on what we needed to do to get compliant. And so therefore, some of these things that would really are needed, we had to put off to next year potentially to get that done. So next slide. So policy direction that we really tried to embed in here without doing a whole lot of extra work on SWOT analysis and all of the things that you might want to do in your economic development world.

We just wanted to make sure that the policies were supporting this idea that we're going to balance the equity, economic development, environmental health. So we strengthened those goals and policies as well as the diversity of the commercial and industrial development projects, integrating regional transportation infrastructure improvements and encouraging a variety of marketing and tourism efforts to build on our assets. So those are kind of the high points of the policy direction that this chapter takes in this update. Next slide. That's just telling you about the source of revenue, sales tax and property tax, which we can go past that.

Economic assets gives us, again, more data that we analyzed and some of that was done in prior years. But these were things that we were able to look at as we were updating this particular chapter. So what are our assets? We know that transportation and warehousing is an asset, an economic asset as is the home course, the sub area as being a potential future development site and that commuter rail like we don't see it all and some people may not think of it as a good thing, but we do want to consider that as an economic asset and talk to conversations about whether we want to leverage that in the future. Next slide.

So Chapter five is your natural environment chapter and that's where we have the inventory of critical areas and all of that. And that's a of text in natural environment because you go through all of these different types of critical areas and discuss the policies for conservation of all of them. And so the policy direction that we hope is very clearly stated is to strengthen the environmental protection and improve and protect our tree canopy. Now tree canopy is huge and important and it's not something that was really brought out in the previous comp plan. So we've embedded that and are working on making sure that, that is rising to the level of an important asset, our tree canopy and how do we make sure that we don't lose tree canopy and where would might it be appropriate or what steps can we take to increase it with new development areas or at least protect what we have.

Next slide. So Chapter six, historic and cultural resources. We did our we really did want to do more with this one also. I think there's room. There's always room to improve this, and that's why it's helpful to think about these annual amendments and what do we want to docket each year.

But that is all about the history of the city and just the new policies that we added here were really to try to do a better job of strengthening the cultural and historic resources and protecting and preserving them, even identifying them through local education, tourism and then also, like I said, identifying what those assets are because we need to be able to have some kind of programming that works towards that because that's going to help us actually be able to figure out how to protect them. What are we protecting is what I'm saying. We need to work more on that. Next slide, please. So Chapter seven, Parks and Recreation Element, it is really referenced and incorporated.

Your PROs plan was adopted. And that's where you see we didn't, in this chapter, need to redo the PROs plan. So it is included as an appendix. It's referenced and incorporated. But what we needed to do in the actual Chapter seven of our comp plan is to have the six year capital improvement program.

So updating what the projects would be and for six years anyway with budgets. And then we wanted to make sure that we had goals and policies and some budgeting discussion in the capital facilities chapter. Next slide. Housing was a big one. So a lot of changes in the housing.

You do have the strike through underlying goals and policies and then the clean copy. So I'm sure you probably noticed there was a lot of revisions in Chapter eight housing and that is all due to the legislation that I've described that we needed to make sure that we were complying with. So yes, the discussion of the alignment of the legislative goals, affordable housing from the bills, accommodating planning and accommodating all income levels, that's really the lion's share of the housing element and making sure that we talk about preserving and improving not just development of new housing, but also preserving what we have in the housing stock. Next slide. We can go past that Slide two.

And this is the housing capacity that was shown to you earlier. Let's go past that. So Chapter nine, transportation element. That's where I talked earlier about the multimodal for our system. So this is where you get into transportation conditions, existing conditions, forecasts, future transportation, level of service standards, analyzing all of that and coming up with the goals and policies that are based on that recent data.

So some of the new applicable requirements are requiring that regional and state planning requirements are described as well as conditions for the multimodal all travel modes in our network. Next slide. There is more here, but it goes on and on. But the goals, again, the big picture is what how do we relate this mobility to the transportation policies. And so we recognize we've got to continue to transportation is bigger than just the walls of DuPont.

So working with regional partners is important. Restoring local transit services is going to be really key as we build out and if we indeed reach those trends or those projection numbers and making sure that we're doing what we can do to maintain our current level of service and that if it drops, we've got a plan to make sure that those level of service standards are brought up to what they need to be and so that we're not creating these gaps in service based on the projected growth. So next slide please. There we go. Okay.

So transportation element, again, is just Chapter nine, the strategic investments, supporting the land use, collaborating with regional, just kind of what I summarized before and maintaining and improving that network. Next slide, please. And this is just showing you a little more about where multimodal the deficiencies were and this is part of what we are looked at when in the next discussion we have about the transportation impact fees. So those deficiencies are in the automobile network, pedestrian and bike network. You see there's 28, nine and six.

And so we have those mapped. We have those identified. We have those mapped and we have some strategies for what is needed to make sure that those deficiencies are addressed at some point in time. Next slide. And that's just simply the twenty year horizon where you're seeing all of those projects and we can go on to the next slide.

So the last chapter is the capital facilities and utilities element. And so that's again inventory showing locations of facilities, providing for goals and policies that these facilities are going to be able to support the growth and maintain that again more level of service that is appropriate and what we have adopted. It also includes these six year plans. This is a part of the GMA requirement. You're identifying the six year projects that need to be done to keep up with the growth and any deficiencies that you see and that you have a finance strategy and funding.

So that's what you see in Chapter 10. And our policy direction is that we want to make sure that growth is paying for growth and that we're maintaining our level of service standards to support the current population so that they're not experiencing impacts from growth and that future growth is also supported for healthy and strong community. And I believe, yes, so the decisional criteria, we can cut that. So that's just a high level of what you have in front of you. And we not going to do any more slides.

Thank you. So the decisional criteria is something that we work through at the staff level. It's in the staff report as it is also summarized in the Planning Commission's recommendation. The Planning Commission voted unanimously to pass this recommendation, the document you have before you with that ordinance, or to consider the adoption of it. And that is the end of my presentation. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Before we open up to council comments, this is the opportunity for citizens to address the proposed comprehensive plan update. Please keep your comments specifically to the comprehensive plan. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to make public comment? And I have Portland Williams, and I have your address. But go ahead for the record state your address for it's a public hearing. It's a little more formal. Okay? Push the button off to the side there.

There we go.

Yes. Green light. My name is Portland Williams, 3097 Hoffman Hill Boulevard. I am actually speaking today from the perspective of the DuPont Chamber of Commerce, which I'm the President and CEO of Chamber of Commerce. I understand that this comprehensive plan needs to get finalized and needs to get approved.

And I also, at the same time, I'm watching the Chamber of Commerce, which is a brand new chamber, grow and get some footing and start to embrace a little bit more thought leadership around the business community and they're asking the members are asking lots of questions and things. We just need some time. The chamber needs a little bit of time to become a little more cohesive in a plan approach. Right now, we have lots of members that have lots of thoughts, but we need a little bit of time to become cohesive. So what I'm requesting is really just to add something to this comprehensive plan for Chapter four, the economic development section that reminds the city and reminds us to collaborate with and work with the Chamber of Commerce now that we have one and it's growing and it's doing well to amend and update this plan throughout the next year.

I would never ask to hold off and wait to approve it until we're ready. But we are a new chamber, so I just need a little bit of time to pull us together. And so we can start offering some support and some recommendations and some insights to how the business community feels about the economic development and what the business community sees as priority, which may or may not actually be included in this comprehensive plan so far. So just some sort of a mandate, I don't know if that's the right word, statement or some sort of comment that says that going forward, we will touch base maybe yearly with the chamber, with the businesses. We'll pull the business community together to be able to weigh in from the business perspective.

Thank you. Is there anybody else in the audience that would like to address the console? Remember to keep it on the comprehensive plan and please keep it to three minutes. And remember to state your name and your address.

Good evening, Deputy Mayor Winkler and counselors and staff. My name is Anthony Hempstead of Hempstead Consulting. Address is 130 Sherman Street Northwest in Olympia. And I'm here today representing two clients, Northpointe Development and Albatross, who are the landholder and developer of 102 acres out around Old Fort Lake. And really just here to say or to recognize the hard work that the Planning Commission and staff, especially Barb and consultants put in on comp plans.

The state layers a lot of requirements on cities and I know it's a huge amount of work and it's not an easy lift. But certainly going forward in implementing the comp plan, North Point and Albatross look forward to working with the city. But again, this is just recognizing the very hard work that your staff and volunteers have put in on this. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to address the council on the comprehensive plan? Hearing nobody else in the council or in the chambers, is there anybody online? Is there any written comments? Do any council members have any questions for director Kincaid?

Councilmember Elliot?

I have to pull them up.

So

sorry. And actually, emailed these earlier to Barb, so she has them, but everybody else. So I applaud the work that the Planning Commission has done because it was a lot of work, and I think the document's looking pretty good. But I do have a few recommendations that I'd like you to consider. And the first one is when you were talking earlier about the natural environment and the importance of doing of our tree canopy, well, I would like us to change the word from aspire to conduct a country a canopy analysis to just conduct the analysis because how can we protect something if we don't know what we have?

So that's one recommendation I would have. And then I also think it's more appropriate to have the trees under the natural environment rather than parks and recreation. Just keep all the elements is same. It's same. It's It's same. Next the the

over opportunities. So it's

And similar, but I'll at least it's something in there. Another question I have was when the museum was built. From my understanding, I think it was built in 1912 as a meat market. And then it's been renovated a few times, and then it actually became a museum in 1977. So and I think in the plan it says 1965.

So might want to look at that. And I have two more, and that's it. And under the public facilities or capital facilities where it says public facilities should be located away. Well, we used to say shall be, and I think shall is a stronger word than should. So I would recommend we keep the word shall.

And lastly is have just a quick question about the build I looked at the buildable lands report today. And on table 2.4, it says that DuPont's going to have 5,936 units. And I think I just saw up there it said 5,880 some odd units. So just want to make sure everything's the same. And in the mixed use two, which I know is the State Farm and the tracks and the Clock Tower apartments, How did we come up with the 2,346 number of units?

Was that just how did we come up with that?

So the method that we used when we did the land capacity analysis, sort of our own buildable lands really was to look at the several the methodology looked at the how much lander was or is deducted for infrastructure, came up with a net acreage total, and then looked at what with lot sizes, what would be possible to put on there. Not saying that would happen, but what could be achievable.

Okay. Kind of formula based.

Yeah. Formula based. Okay.

That's all I have. And thank you for all your work. And I hope we consider those recommend those what I've just talked about.

Is there any other council members before? I only have a couple questions myself. Again, everyone's hard work. Just in reference to page three-eleven, it's talking about the May, it uses the possibility of connecting Mounts Road and Hoffman Hill. I just know there's a lot of concerns and some interest in it.

I just want to make sure if that sentence stays in there, it's not implying that that will happen. I know that citizens are concerned about that. And I just want to make sure that that is not should the plan pass with that sentence in there, we're not implying that we concur with that, that a lot more study will be done. Is that correct?

Yeah. That is correct. I mean, it isn't. It's just stated in a way that we recognize that is something that we could look at in the future. And the reason why you do want that statement in there, not to say that you are going to do it, but if it were determined in the future that that's something that you're interested in and maybe you wanted to apply for grant monies to do it, it's already stated that you were thinking about maybe analyzing that as an option.

Okay. I just I know there's a lot of citizen concerns on that one, so I want to make sure it's realized that we will have a lot more public input. The other one is I, like many people, are very excited about the potential elementary school on McNeil, but I'm also very well aware of all the traffic concerns on McNeil, and I'm very personally aware of that we had to do some adjustments around Chloe to include making a two way stop, a four way stop, and they're still back up there. But what's good about Palisade, there's so many different ways to exit and go out of there without having to stay on it. It's a little bit different on McNeil.

There's you come down McNeil or you come down McNeil. And so there's not much of an option. So my question is, when we did the Old Fort Lake sub area plan, we specifically, I believe, looked at the DMC for parking. And when will we see an updated parking requirement that the council will be able to address that concern? Because there's I there's a lot of support for the school, but equally a lot of concern about McNeil not being blocked.

Yes. And you have just touched on the next big wave of work that's coming at us, and that is the update of the DuPont Municipal Code. So what you have in front of you right now is the policy document. Once that policy document gets passed, then we have already started auditing the DMC for what needs to be updated. So transportation and parking, parking in particular, that chapter is on my radar for looking at updating it and making it a better code.

It's not very easy to work with right now. So that is something that we are launching the work on. And so you would be part of this more broad discussion about the code amendments and then should an application so you've got your policy document they're working on now, you've got the regulatory code that you'll be working on next. So as those are going through, you also have that piece of development proposal. So development proposal that comes in for a school would have to go through that different layer, although we're going to be using whatever code is in place at the time.

So time is, I think, very critical for us to get on that, the code amendments.

You hit the key point. It would go under the old code, and I think that's probably a little too loose. I'll just use that word. It might not be the right word. I'm in that group that would love to see a school there sooner than later, but at the same token, I totally understand the concern of the citizens about traffic coming down McNeil and being backed up.

And I think we have to find that balance. So I just want to voice that concern as we move forward with the request that we see that in the near future, thinking that within not that many years from now, the district will have to ask again to build a school there, and I want to give them the best opportunity for success. But other than that, thanks for all that you've done on it. I greatly appreciate it. And let's see if anybody else has any questions. If there are no other questions, we'll close the public hearing at 06:46. Alright? And now I'm going to turn right back to you for the first reading of the ordinance. Do you have any additional comments you would like to add?

No. I would just ask that you place the staff presentation into the record.

Okay. Thank you. And I wanted to share one final thought here. I want to remind my peers up here, we're scheduled to vote on the comp plan in our next meeting. It's exciting to keep it on schedule.

If you do wish to propose any changes at the time of the vote, please have written out in the form of an amendment any change you want. Mr. Carr is standing by to assist if you need help in writing that amendment, and I will ask the mayor to use the same format that we did with the Old Fort Lake sub area plan, that is to ask for the amendments first and then vote on the plan. But it really helps that if you have it written out so that our planning team can look at what you're proposing, Mr. Carr has had a chance to look at it and make sure it's legal, Then the council is also your peers up here are aware of whatever changes you want.

And that's what we did for the Old Fort Lake sub area plan. All right. With that in mind, we're moving to another public hearing. This one is on the transportation impact fee. And then following that, we'll do the first reading of an ordinance on it, and I will open this public hearing at 06:48. Before continuing, is there any council member that has a conflict that may keep them from voting on the proposed transportation impact fees? The order will be a presentation by Director Kincaid, followed by the opportunity for public comment. Director Kincaid.

Thank you very much. So the transportation impact fee ordinance, or the TIF as we call it, your packet includes the draft ordinance. Attached to that is the transportation fee assessment and new chapter of code, brand new chapter of code entitled 26, which is chapter 2,606 titled transportation impact fees. So those are the three pieces that you have. The transportation, the fee assessment, that is where you actually see the work that was done by our consultant, Farrand Pears.

They it lays out the methodology for this multimodal transportation and finds which projects are eligible. We remember that transportation impact fees are authorized under the state statute in 08/2050 that we can impose and collect impact fees for transportation on new development. So what's important here in this to make a legal ordinance in play is to make sure that we've carefully done that methodology to identify what percent which projects, what percent of those projects are eligible projects and listing those out. So that's what you see in that transportation fee assessment document. And so then really the existing deficiencies, what that means is the project cost of all I talked earlier in the comp plan presentation about these level of service standards and if there's deficiencies or gaps.

Transportation impact fees cannot be collected to pay for anything that's presently deficient in our system. And so that's very important and that you will see that language of this percentage of growth, the fair share of what we can lawfully collect from a new developer. And then it ends up with this basically very long fee schedule. So then Title 26, it is the implementation for how do we use that fee assessment. And so we're it's a very standard ordinance and chapter of code that talks about how assess and collect and what do we do with those fees and are there any carve outs for credits or exemptions and how to basically just the whole procedure of collecting impact fees.

As you know, that it isn't our money necessarily just to do what we want to do with. It has to be held in a special interest bearing account and it has to be used for those projects that we have identified and adopted. And that's why it was so important to get the comp plan adopted first procedurally because that contains that list. So you if you adopt that list without changing it, then what you have in front of you with this TIF ordinance would all be applicable as well. So if you decide to amend any of the projects, then we would want to be amending this TIF assessment, fee assessment for the projects.

With that, I it's pretty straightforward. It's very tacky. I do have a technical support person from Fair and Piers if you had any technical questions. We have done some pretty good study sessions. So I feel confident that you have a good understanding of all this, but I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

And now this is the opportunity for citizens to address the proposed transportation impact fee. Please keep your comments directly on the proposed transportation impact fees. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to make public comment? I don't see anyone wishing to make comment. And has anyone written in comments?

We have no written comments and there's no one online.

All right. Then do any council members have questions for Director Kincaid? Seeing none, we will close the public hearing at 06:52. Now I'll turn it back over to Director Kincaid for the first reading.

Yes, please. If you would just enter the presentation or the discussion I just provided into the record. Have no further discussion.

Will do. Same thing applies if any council member wishes to make any type of amendment. Please be sure to have that written out as to what you're proposing before our next meeting so that we can do it in an orderly fashion. Right. Now we're up to approval of the consent agenda.

Chair, can I make a quick comment on that last piece? Sure. So in regards to the TIF, just as a heads up to the local council members, impact fees are extremely prescribed by law and very technical. So in terms of any amendments, please discuss them with me first because there really is no room to maneuver. We pretty much have to do it exactly the way it's prescribed by law. Just wanted to that would be fair warning for anyone who's thinking about this or has questions. I just want to say that upfront. Okay.

Tom, I think you're on.

Yeah. Deputy Mayor, I make a motion to approve the consent agenda for 02/10/2026.

Council Member Gassik.

I second.

And is there any discussion? Hearing no discussion, all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Hearing none, it passes. Now we're up to new business and we're gonna discuss resolution number 26 dash four, which would be on Hoffman Hill corrosion protection of the water system out there. And Mr. Lim, do you have a presentation beforehand and before public comment?

Oh, I just have a one slide presentation when I go into my discussion period, but we don't have to show it now. We can show it later after public comment.

Okay? Is there anyone in the audience wishing to make public comment on this new business? Is there anybody online?

Deputy Mayor, you should let Mr. Lim go through his discussion and then ask for public comment.

We will do that. Thank you. Sorry you got you and I both got overrooted. I'll go with that.

All right. Thank you. Good evening. What I have here with you today is an engineering service design for the exterior coating of the Hoffman Hill Reservoir. The graphic I'm showing you is just to show for scale because sometimes it's hidden in plain sight. I mean, you have to go there very specifically and it's hidden with other properties and trees right there. The staffer that's in front of there, his name is Dylan Thompson. He is taller than me. He's about five'ten, five'eleven or so. So the height of that reservoir is about over 30 feet tall.

It's 180 feet in diameter, about over 500 feet in perimeter. So the purpose of that just to show the scale of this because it will be important in some of the discussion here. So in this design services, previously we had executed corrosion protection on the inside of the reservoir. We had done that. It was like about $900,000 when that occurred at that time frame.

The next subsequent phase is essentially doing the exterior of this reservoir. My original thoughts on this one was we would do this during the summer time frame, but then I was reminded by some of my colleagues of, hey, Gus, when you have that glass of water in your backyard during the summertime frame, what do you see on the outside of that glass? It's condensation. So the reason why I'm showing this graphic is we now have a 3,500,000 gallon version of my glass of water in my backyard with the condensation out there. Unfortunately, there won't be enough heat to do away with that condensation just because of the sheer volume.

So we will have to do this during the winter time frame at that point. So as a companion project, one thing I'm also looking to do that does not show up here but is part of the discussion here on when we will essentially use the essentially do this work in the winter, we'll need to empty out the reservoir to ensure that we are able to get a clean condensation coating on the exterior of the reservoir. If we're going to have to end up emptying out the reservoir, then I should probably also accelerate a twenty twenty seven project, which is seismic upgrades to that reservoir. The time frame we're going to do this is during the winter months. So this will be November 2026 to March 2027.

So the design work for this would wrap up in August. So then we would essentially put out for bid and contract out the construction contract in September. And then hopefully by October, November, be able to start this work from there. So that's essentially the summary of what we're looking to do. The companion project we'll see much later, later this year, but I wanted to get started on the design work for the exterior coating component to this project then. I don't have anything further on this topic and subject to your questions.

Okay. Before we have questions from the council, we'll now go to the opportunity for public comment. Anyone in the audience wishing to comment on this work? Is there anyone online?

No. And I have no written comments.

Okay. So is there any questions for Mr. Lynn? Councilmember Elliot.

So how long will the reservoir be empty?

November through March. So is that five months? November, December, January. Five months.

And it won't impact anybody? I'm not sure it won't impact anybody's water or else they wouldn't be doing it.

Right. Yes.

So this is the reason for doing it. We're doing it during the winter months. Our historical production for water demand or consumption, depending on how you look at it. I mean, our monthly consumption during the winter months is 2,500,000 cubic feet or another way of looking at it is 20,000,000 gallons per month. Divide that by 30, it's about 650,000 gallons per day from that point.

So from a storage capacity, our 1,000,000 gallon reservoir at Bell Hill will be able to satisfy our water demands during the winter months. During the summer months, we essentially quadruple that and peaking at August, and that's purely because of our irrigation demand throughout the whole city.

Thank you.

Are there any other questions? Councilmember Barrow.

During the winter months, is there the coating that you're going to put on the outside? I know that there's usually a temperature, a good temperature time. If we have a strange year where we all of a sudden have freezing temperatures, will that delay or impact what you were working on?

Yes. There's a there's almost like a technical aspect with this. We'll remove we'll remove the existing coating and it'll be under a tarp the same way as you'll if you ever walk back there, you'll see the work that they're working on will be under a tarp, and then there'll be temporary heating at that immediate location from there. And just that is can you actually apply this coating with a temperature that will adhere from there. Another aspect of this is, hey, we're gonna use x-ray to look at this when it's all said and done to make sure we don't have if you're like me, you know, you paint your inside your bathroom, you got little funny bubbles in pockets.

That's okay to inside my bathroom. They're probably it's not going to be okay with our reservoir. So we'll be using that with essentially some follow on testing as part of this.

Councilmember Wargo. Just curious,

the cure times and is there any flushing required after oh, this is exterior.

I'm sorry.

What's the curing time? It nonexistent? No, it's

why I'm pausing is we can't do it all at once, right? We start at one panel then we go all the way around. So is the cure time in a matter of days is what I'm thinking about because we'll have to move with our heaters and our canopy and things like that.

Seeing no other questions, is there a motion to approve resolution 26,004? Councilmember Barrow.

I make a motion to approve resolution 26,004.

And Councilmember Elliott.

I'll second.

And is there any discussion? Hearing no discussion, all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Hearing none, the motion passes. Thanks Gus. We appreciate it. Okay? Now we're up to councilmember reports. I do have one report. I wanna talk a little bit about the legislature. The date for bills to pass out of their committees has passed. The date for bills to pass out of their house of origin is February 17. That's coming up really fast. It's an important day for us to remember for bills that we either support or oppose because we either need to get them out of their house of origin or stop them where they're at.

And one bill I want to talk about is a bill of concern. It's house bill 2,489. If passed, it would require all cities to allow camping on public property unless we can demonstrate alternative shelter space. That shelter space must be in the city, must allow pets, partners, family members, other support persons, and the individual's personal property. It also allows for the city to be sued if an individual feels we're not in compliance.

Now providing support to those without shelter is critically important. It must be done. However, in my opinion, House Bill 2,489 is not the solution. If you share my concerns, I encourage and urge everyone here and anyone listening to reach out to our legislative representatives via the Washington State legislative website or through the city website. If you use the city website, simply go to government, click on government and then over on the left hand side click on state legislative representatives.

You will see their names and you will see their emails and you can email them directly from there. And is there any other council members? Councilmember Barrow.

Thank you. I have a couple of events I'd like to address. First off, tomorrow is Savvy Seniors again on Wednesdays. We do this every Wednesday. And tomorrow is a luncheon that is being prepared by the city. And I encourage any of the seniors to take advantage of that. And then on the February 18, one of our residents, Chris Fletcher, is going to do a painting class for the seniors over at Savvy Seniors. So that's another event. Coming up in March, on March 11, we have an author, a local author. She's going to be reading from her book.

It's called Pedal Pusher. It's about a true story. It's made for young people, the book. And it's a true story about a woman back in the eighteen hundreds who rode a bicycle around the world. She took a bet to ride this bicycle. And when she started, she didn't even know how to ride bicycle. And she could have had to do it within eighteen months. So it's an interesting story. It's great for the kids. It's also representing Women's History Month in March.

Also on March 16, the Historical Society is holding our annual meeting. And right after that, we're going to have a presentation about thirty minutes after our meeting starts about culturally modified trees here in our region. And I really recommend if you'd like to know more information about culturally modified trees that you come meet our new Kelsey, who is our what do I want to say? She's it's an archaeologist, but also there's another person, I think, who is a specialist in trees. Arborists.

That's it. And I would recommend that people come if they have an opportunity. That'll be on March 16. Thank you.

Is there any other council members? Hearing none, I'll turn over to the city administrator. Keith?

Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Last Wednesday, February 4, the DuPont Fire Department, Chief Gilley and Deputy Chief Creekmore had an award ceremony. I just wanted to take my time to recognize the winners of those major awards. So for Citizen Award, it was Melanie Stone. For Community Services, it was Captain Reynolds. For the Golden Kettle, it was Firefighter Kruse. For the Chiefs Award, it was Fire Marshal Turner. For the EMT of the Year, it was Firefighter Schrier. And for firefighter of the year it was firefighter child so just congratulations to all of them and their hard work and appreciate everything they do for the community and I wanted to recognize them and with that deputy mayor I'll be happy to answer any questions

are there any questions for city administrator Keith, thanks for the report. Hearing no other comments, it's 07:07 and we will adjourn the meeting. Thank you, everyone.