HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/15/2013 09 Ahtanum-Wide Hollow Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan Adoption BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
AGENDA STATEMENT
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Item No./
For Meeting of: 10/15/2013
ITEM TITLE: Open record public hearing for consideration of the Ahtanum-
Wide Hollow Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management
Plan.
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Osguthorpe, AICP: Community Development Manager
- (509) 575 -3533
Jeff Peters, Supervising Planner - (509) 575 -6163
SUMMARY EXPLANATION:
The Ahtanum -Wide Hollow Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan (CFHMP) is °
a policy complement to other City of Yakima planning endeavors, including the City of Yakima's
Comprehensive Plan 2025, and the City of Yakima's development
regulations. The CFHMP contains recommended policy changes and flood actions, including
projects that reduce flood hazards. If adopted by local jurisdictions, the CFHMP allows the
jurisdiction to become eligible for state and federal funds for flood emergency response and
non - emergency activities to reduce property loss and threats to human life.
On April 24, 2012, the Yakima County Flood Control District presented its completed Ahtanum-
Wide Hollow Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan to the Yakima City Council in a
study session. The Flood Control District at that time indicated that following the County's
adoption of the CFHMP which occurred on October 16, 2012, each participating jurisdiction
would be required to separately adopt the plan (the City of Yakima was a participating
jurisdiction). Therefore, this agenda item requests that the Yakima City Council hold the
required open record public hearing to consider the adoption of the Ahtanum -Wide Hollow Flood
Hazard Management Plan, and adopt the accompanying resolution.
For a complete copy of the plan please refer to the attached CD within your council packet
or the following Yakima County Flood Control District web page at
http: / /www.yakimacounty.us /surfacewater /Ahtanum -Wide Hollow CFHMP.php.
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SUBMITTAL: Al& City Manager
RECOMMENDATION:
The City of Yakima Planning Division recommends that City Council hold the required public
hearing and adopt the accompanying resolution adopting by reference the Ahtanum-Wide
Hollow Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan.
ATTACHMENTS:
Description Upload Date Type
|| Ahtanum-Wide Hollow CFHMP Resolution 101/2013 Resolution
Ahtanum-Wide Hollow Fact Sheet 1 108/2013 Backup Material
Ahtanum-Wide Hollow Fact Sheet 2 10/6/2013 Backup Material
RESOLUTION NO. R -2012-
A RESOLUTION of the City of Yakima, Washington adopting the Ahtanum -Wide
Hollow Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan.
WHEREAS, Yakima County has experienced significant and repeated flood
damages throughout its history, was declared a Federal Disaster Area eight times in 27
years, and suffered 18 million dollars in damages to public infrastructure in the 1996 flood;
and
WHEREAS, Yakima County at the request of its constituents formed the
Countywide Flood Control Zone District (FCZD) in 1998 to carry out planning for flood risk
management and flood hazard reduction within the County's boundary and cities therein;
and
WHEREAS, in 2003 and 2005 (phases 1 and 2) Yakima County received State
Flood Control Assistance Account Program (FCAAP) funding to prepare a Comprehensive
Flood Hazard Management Plan (CFHMP) for streams in the Ahtanum and Wide Hollow
basins; and
WHEREAS, the FCZD, with the assistance of an advisory committee, which
included citizens, stakeholders (irrigation companies /districts), staff members of the cities
within the Yakima Valley (the City of Yakima and Union Gap), Yakima Nation, and
members of affected agencies have completed the Ahtanum -Wide Hollow CFHMP; and
WHEREAS, extensive public outreach was conducted by the Yakima County
FCZD including: (a) four public meetings, (b) five newsletter updates on plan progress, (c)
posting of progressive drafts of the plan on the County website, (d) 48 citizen and agency
Advisory Committee meetings over five years, (e) distribution of the plan to the library and
at the Yakima County public services customer counter for review, (f) conduction of six
public meetings on projects and revised flood maps which are recommended in the plan;
and
WHEREAS, environmental review under the State Environmental Protection Act
(SEPA) was completed by Yakima County on September 6, 2011, with issuance of a
Determination of Non - Significance; and
WHEREAS, the City of Yakima Planning Department adopted Yakima County's
SEPA Determination of Non - Significance on September 25, 2013; and
WHEREAS, the Ahtanum -Wide Hollow CFHMP was presented to the Yakima
Board of County Commissioners and Yakima City Council at a joint city- county study
session on April 24, 2012; and
WHEREAS, in some cases the contents of the CFHMP may overlap with the
contents of the City of Yakima Urban Area Comprehensive Plan 2025 (hereinafter "Plan
2025 ") and development regulations of the City of Yakima; and
WHEREAS, the CFHMP should not constitute an additional layer of potentially
inconsistent policies or regulations binding on and within the City of Yakima, but should
instead serve only as an advisory complement to other City of Yakima planning
endeavors, including Plan 2025 and /or the City of Yakima's development regulations
should be deemed authoritative and controlling within the City of Yakima for all purposes;
and
WHEREAS, the Yakima City Council finds and determines that it is in the pubic
interest to adopt the resolution set forth herein and that adoption for the purposes set forth
above will promote the general health, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
The Ahtanum -Wide Hollow Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan, copy
of which is on file with the City of Yakima and incorporated herein by this reference, is
adopted; provided, however, that the CFHMP shall by this resolution be limited in effect
solely to serve as an advisory complement to other City of Yakima planning endeavors,
including Plan 2025 and the City of Yakima's development regulations; and provided,
further, that in the event of any conflict between the CFHMP (including any policy, rule,
regulation, or requirement contained therein), and Plan 2025 and /or any of the City of
Yakima's development regulations, are and shall be deemed authoritative and controlling
within the City of Yakima for all purposes.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 15th day of October, 2013.
ATTEST: Micah Cawley, Mayor
City Clerk
Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan
(CFHMP) Process
Establish Community Participation
i. Establish CFHMP Advisory Committee
Inventory Physical Conditions
& Public Workshops
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Set Goals & Objectives
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Determine the need for
flood hazard management measures
identify alternate flood hazard management
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alternatives - structural & non - structural
Review concurrent
°' FEMA restudy flood maps
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Evaluate alternative measures with respect to
goals & objectives, cost, benefits & impacts
v
Develop a flood hazard
management strategy
Complete draft plan
Plan reviewed by local jurisdictions
Local SEPA review & approval
V
Submit final plan to local jurisdictions
for public hearing & adoption
Submit plan to Ecology
AHTANUM -WIDE HOLLOW CFHMP
(COMPREHENSIVE FLOOD HAZARD MANAGEMENT PLAN)
MILESTONES & LINKS
Meetings and notifications:
Completed
DATE JURISDICTION Communication AUDIENCE
11 -10 -10 Yakima Discussion Planning Commission — regarding flood maps
4 -12 -11 Yakima & County Presentation Intergovernmental Committee meeting
11 -17 -11 Yakima Study Session Yakima Transportation & Utilities Committee
12 -2 -12 Yakama Nation Email notice Offered to do presentation on CFHMP
1 -19 -12
Central Washington Presentation Presentation was for their governmental
Home Builders committee.
1 -23 -12 Union Gap Study Session Council sub - committee
4 -24 -12
Yakima & BOCC Study Session Joint session organized by Yakima for their
Council and County Commissioners
6 -11 -12
Union Gap Study Session Presentation during their regular council
meeting, as they requested
6 -14 -12
Yakama Nation Email Notice Sent update on CFHMP adoption status and
renewed offer of presentation
9 -18 -12 BOCC Hearing To consider adoption
10 -8 -12 BOCC Study Session To consider public comments from hearing
10 -16 -12
BOCC Regular Agenda Adopted the CFHMP, Reso. 388 -2012
mtg.
1 -28 -13
Union Gap Hearing & Adopted the CFHMP, Reso No. 1043
Adoption
Yakima Hearing
10-15-13 Scheduled
To be Scheduled
DATE JURISDICTION Communication AUDIENCE
2014? Yakama Nation Presentation If requested
Other notable milestones:
June 2002 - Yakama Nation and Yakima County Memorandum of Agreement regarding
flood management for Ahtanum Creek and the Yakima River
April 2004 - approval of Phase 1 FCAAP grant (Flood Control Assistance Account
Program), Washington State program administered by Department of Ecology
August 2004 - Golder Associates, Inc. hired to provide assistance with public and
committee meetings; document and map flood history data; and gather current
field data on project area structures
(More on back...) Contact - Dianna Woods, 509 - 574 -2300, dianna.woods®co.yakima.wa.us
November 2004 — the steering committee of staff members from the tribal, city and
county jurisdictions conducted their first meeting
February 2005 — completed the last of four public outreach meetings scheduled in
different locations throughout the plan area. More than 60 people total attended
these meetings - they identified 140 flood problems. The majority of attendees
were from rural or suburban areas.
March 2005 — more than 600 postcards were mailed to property owners in the urban
area seeking input on flooding and soliciting volunteers for the Advisory
Committee.
April 2005 — first newsletter mailed to interested members of the public
April 2005 — first Advisory Committee meeting which included property and business
owners from the jurisdictions and other stakeholders from engineering,
environmental, irrigation, regulatory, development, realty, historic, conservation
district and airport organizations
July 2005 — approval of Phase 2 FCAAP grant
August 2006 — last newsletter mailed — not continued due to large number of
alternatives which precluded the newsletter format, the 210 problems identified
by public and agencies yielded approximately 450 alternatives
October 2007 — Existing and Desired Conditions draft CFHMP submitted to Ecology for
fulfillment of grant deliverables
October 2010 — last combined Steering and Advisory Committee meeting (total of 48
meetings for Advisory Committee members)
September 2011— SEPA Determination of non - significance (DNS)
Internet links for more information:
• Yakima County Public Services Surface Water Division,
http: / /www.yaki m acounty.us!surfacewter/
• Surface Water flood control projects,
hflp://www.yakimacounty.usisurfacelNater/Projects.htm
• Surface Water CFHMPs,
http : / /www.yaki m acounty .us /surfacewater /CFHMP.ht
• Surface Water flood map projects are included in this list,
hflp://www.yakimacounty.usisurfacewater/Projects List php
(More on back...) Contact - Dianna Woods, 509 - 574 -2300, dianna.woods®co.yakima.wa.us