HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-13-17 YPC MinutesCity of Yakima Planning Commission (YPC) City Hall Council Chambers
Meeting Minutes of December 13, 2017
Call to Order
Chairwoman Patricia Byers called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m.
Roll Call
YPC Members Present: Chairwoman Patricia Byers, Vice -Chair Al Rose, Jacob
Liddicoat, Bill Cook, Rob McCormick
YPC Members Absent: Peter Marinace
Staff Present: Joseph Calhoun, Planning Manager; Lisa Maxey, Planning
Specialist; Sara Watkins, Senior Assistant City Attorney
Others: Sign -in sheet in file
Staff Announcements
Planning Manager Joseph Calhoun informed the commission that City Council
approved the proposed revisions to Yakima Municipal Code Title 14 that the Planning
Commission recommended to them, which allows final long plats to be approved
administratively. The ordinance will become effective December 24, 2017.
Calhoun reported that staff is looking at potential text amendments to take through the
public hearing process in the upcoming year.
Audience Participation
None noted.
Approval of Meetin Minutes of November 8 2017
It was motioned by Vice -Chair Rose and seconded by Commissioner Liddicoat to
approve the minutes of November 8, 2017.
Discussion: Conditions for Rezones & Processing Rezone Applications
Calhoun explained the reasoning for this discussion item (i.e. discussions from a recent
public hearing on a non -project rezone). Calhoun provided commission members with
the City of Yakima's code language pertaining to processing rezone applications, along
with code language from some other cities. He highlighted that one of the cities requires
a conceptual site plan to be submitted with the rezone application, and that some cities
require a development agreement to be entered into if there are conditions imposed on
the rezone.
Commission members discussed the pros and cons of requiring a conceptual site plan
and development agreement, and the idea of requiring SEPA review at the time of
development regardless of whether SEPA thresholds are exceeded.
*Commissioner McCormick arrived to the meeting at approximately 3:30 p.m.
The Commission had consensus to direct staff to draft language for the code that would
require a conceptual site plan to be submitted with a rezone application, indicate that
conditions imposed would need to be included in a development agreement, and allow
the Planning Commission to require SEPA review regardless of whether thresholds are
exceeded.
-1-
Other Business
Commissioner Cook reminded staff and the commission about previous discussions
where staff was asked to have someone from Yakima County come to a Planning
Commission meeting to discuss flooding concerns. Calhoun confirmed that this will be
arranged after the new flood maps from FEMA are received, which will likely be at the
beginning of the year.
The commission had consensus to cancel the next regularly scheduled meeting of
December 27, 2017.
Adjourn
A motion to adjourn to January 10, 2018 was passed with unanimous vote. This meeting
adjourned at 3:50 p.m.
Chair Date
This meeting was filmed by YPAC. Minutes for this meeting submitted by: Lisa Maxey, Planning Specialist.
-2-