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Board of Yakima County Commissioners and Yakima City Council
Agenda
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 4 PM
City Council Chambers, 129 North 2nd Street, Yakima, Washington
Joint Deliberations on:
• West Valley Neighborhood Plan,
• Area -Wide Rezone, and
• Urban Area Street Standards
• 1 Roll Call
2 Joint Deliberations on West Valley Neighborhood Plan, Area -Wide Rezone,
and Urban Area Street Standards
• Review /revise Summary (attached) of decisions made at joint
deliberations on November 22, 2010
• Continue deliberations - starting with Parks, Open Space, and Natural
Environment Element (on page 45 of WVNP)
• Consider providing direction to staff to prepare final draft documents,
findings, and adopting ordinances concerning WVNP and Area -Wide
Rezone reflecting joint decisions for any changes
3 Set date for continuation of joint deliberations, if needed
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Issues for Joint Deliberations
by
• Board of Yakima County Commissioners and Yakima City Council
November 22, 2010
Concerning:
• West Valley Neighborhood Plan,
• Area -Wide Rezone, and
• Urban Area Street Standards
A summary of the decisions reached by the Board of Yakima County Commissioners
and the Yakima City Council at their deliberations on November 22, 2010 are indicated
in red below
Typos are corrected in blue below.
Area -Wide Rezone
1 Consider the Alternative #1 Zoning Map, rather than Alternative #2
• Consider the R -2 and R -3 zoning proposed by Alternative #1, rather than the
SR zoning proposed by Alternative #2 on four parcels in the area west of S
38th Avenue, south of Airport, and north of Ahtanum Road (citizen comment)
BOCC /CC decision: Use the Alternative #1 Proposed Zoning map.
® 2. Any changes to Map 4 (Future Land Use) in below items #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, etc.,
may require corresponding changes to the Area -Wide Zoning map to ensure
consistency (County staff)
BOCC /CC decision: Any changes will be indicated below
WVNP - Land Use Element
3 Consider that the north side of Occidental Road between 88th & 96th Avenues
should be all residential and all commercial should be on the south side of
Occidental Road (Apple Tree Homeowners Association comment)
BOCC /CC decision. No changes. Retain Neighborhood Commercial on Map 4
(Future Land Use) and 8 -2 (Local Business) on the Alternative #1 Proposed Zoning
map.
4 Consider R -2 Zoning /Medium Density Residential on Map 4 (Future Land Use) on
the west side of 64th Avenue north of Occidental Road and on the north side of
Occidental Road west of 64th Avenue (citizen comment)
BOCC /CC decision: Change to Medium Density Residential on Map 4 (Future
Land Use) and to R -2 (Two Family Residential) on the Alternative #1 Proposed
Zoning map.
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5 Concern about R -2 zoning /Medium Density Residential on Map 4 4 (Future Land
Use) on Zier Road Could overcrowd schools (citizen comment)
BOCC /CC decision: No changes. Retain Medium Density Residential on Map 4
(Future Land Use) and R -2 (Two Family Residential) on the Alternative #1
Proposed Zoning map.
6 Concern about Commercial zoning /Commercial on Map 4 4 (Future Land Use)
on 96th Avenue at Wide Hollow Road and at Tieton Drive due to high speed
traffic from high school on steep hill by inexperienced drivers passing by
elementary school (citizen comment)
BOCC /CC decision: No changes. Retain Community Commercial and
Neighborhood Commercial on Map 4 (Future Land Use) and SCC (Small
Convenience Center) and B -2 (Local Business) on the Alternative #1 Proposed
Zoning map.
7 Concern about R -2 zoning /Medium Residential on Map 4 4 (Future Land Use)
south of Wide Hollow Road at the south end of S 91St Avenue (citizen comment)
BOCC /CC decision: No changes. Retain Medium Density Residential on Map 4
(Future Land Use) and R -2 (Two Family Residential) on the Alternative #1
Proposed Zoning map.
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8 Transferable Development Rights Consider including a revised Goal 2.1 per
County staff's 10 -26 -10 transmittal memo (County staff)
BOCC /CC decision: Add the following new Policy on page 19 of the WVNP•
Policy 2.1 10 Investigate TDR (Transferable Development Rights) programs
in other communities by the next update required by RCW
36.70A.130(5) prior to considering such a program in
Yakima.
9 Agricultural Warehouses Consider eliminating the bullet under Policy 2.3 1 so that
the level of zoning review for agricultural warehouses and processing facilities will
be determined when amendments to the County's Urban Area Zoning
Ordinance (YCC 15A) are considered (County staff)
BOCC /CC decision: Remove the bullet under Policy 2.3.1 (on page 20 in the
WVNP)
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10 Glaring night lighting Consider adding a new goal and /or policy regarding the
control of glaring night lighting per County staff's 10 -26 -10 transmittal memo
• (citizen comment and County staff)
BOCC /CC decision: Add a new goal to the WVNP to control glaring lights.
Staff - recommended goal to add to page 20 of the WVNP
GOAL 2 5 Protect residential areas from the glaring lights of major Tight
generators such as commercial uses, schools, sports facilities,
and churches.
Staff Note The Yakima Urban Area Comprehensive Plan 2025 (YUACP
2025) currently includes the following policy in its Land Use Element
(page III -24) and in its Action Plan in Chapter Il (page II -2)
"Policy 3 8 4 - Improve standards for public and private
development to reduce noise and keep light out of
residential neighborhoods."
The "Response to Comments on Draft Environmental Impact
Statement and Draft Comprehensive Plan" found in Appendix A -1 of
the YUACP 2025 provides the following response to a citizen's
comment on the matter of Tight glare
"6. Development of a lighting code and noise code has
been added to the Action Plan in Chapter 11. The Council will
determine when and if such codes will be developed "
11 Opposed to scatter -shot development Use zoning and infrastructure decisions to
implement plan through sequencing to preserve agricultural land until
development closer in occurs Irrigated agricultural land can't be replaced, and
it's the basis or our economy (citizen comment)
BOCC /CC decision: No changes.
WVNP Transportation Element
12. Map 6 (Street Connections Plan)
• Consider removing the distinction between Major and Minor proposed
streets (City & County staffs)
BOCC /CC decision: Remove the distinction. Merge the Major and Minor
categories so that the map simply indicates "Proposed Streets"
• Concern about extending Hennessy Road north of Tieton Drive (citizen
comment)
• BOCC /CC decision: No changes.
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• Concern about connecting S 96th Avenue between Coolidge Road and
Zier Road for north -south traffic (Apple Tree Homeowners Association)
BOCC /CC decision: No changes.
13 Westside Connector [includes information on Map 6 (Street Connections Plan)
and pages 18, 36, 42, and 43 in WVNP]
• Road needs more study but generally should be included (Jerry Craig)
• Not comfortable with Hennessy -Dazet Alignment (Multiple citizen
comments)
• Put in the Westside Connector first Things change We need that vision
(citizen comment)
• People aren't interested in the Westside Connector (citizen comment)
BOCC /CC decision: Remove all references in the WVNP to the Westside
Connector, which includes the references on pages 18, 36, 37, 42, 43
(Policy 3.1.14), and Map 6 (Street Connections Plan) Deal with any
planning for a Westside Connector in the Regional Transportation Plan,
because it is a regional - rather than a neighborhood - issue
14 "Nob Hollow"
• Don't extend Nob Hill Blvd or 88th Ave as they would have a negative
impact on Cottonwood Grove (citizen comment)
• Consider other options to meet objectives (Yakima Youth Soccer
Association comment)
• Needs more study (Jerry Craig comment)
BOCC /CC decision: The WVNP should indicate all the various options for
connecting Nob Hill Blvd. with Wide Hollow Road, rather than designating
a particular solution. To accomplish this approach, staff recommends the
following changes to the WVNP
1 Add a bullet to Policy 3 1 1 (on page 43) so that the policy will say -
3 1 1 Designate east -west and north -south through- connections
to reserve corridors for the future improvement of local
access and classified streets as indicated on Map 6 (Street
Connections Plan)
• The several connections shown between Nob Hill Blvd.
and Wide Hollow Road indicate possible options rather
than the determined connections.
2 On Map 6 (Street Connections Plan) add a proposed street showing
an extension of Nob Hill Blvd curving south to connect with Wide
Hollow Road on the west side of 96th Ave., i e , along the east side of
Yakima Valley Canal Company's irrigation ditch (Congdon's Canal)
3 On Map 6 (Street Connections Plan) show Wide Hollow Road as an
"Existing Major Street" between 80th Ave and 91St Ave
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15 Consider WSDOT- Aviation's request for formal consultation with airport groups
III This is appropriate in conjunction with consideration of the upcoming airport
master plan and zoning changes .(County staff)
BOCC /CC decision: Adoption of the WVNP and Area -Wide Rezone are not
actions that require formal consultation under RCW 36.70A.510 and 36.70.547 The
formal consultation process should occur as part of the process to adopt an
Airport Master Plan and the implementing measures, such as a revised Airport
Overlay, that would follow.
WVNP Parks, Open Space, and Natural Environment Element
16 Conduct further research on more options for creating parks (City Council
members) Consider conducting this research and review in 2011 in conjunction
with updating the City's Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Plan 2012 -2017
(County staff)
17 Consider implementing the goals for open space in the WVNP draft dated June
2000 (Connections Coalition)
18 Calculation of "need" could be calculated in miles of trails not acres of parks per
capita (Connections Coalition)
19 General support of open space, park and trail element (citizen comments)
20 Pave irrigation canals for trails (citizen comment)
21 Pave floodplains for paths (citizen comment)
22. Resident on 91st Ave south of Wide Hollow Road reflected that path on canal
and trolley corridor will impact his property (citizen comment)
WVNP Capital Facilities and Utilities Element
23 Not a short term project
24 City & County working closely together to explore funding options
General
25 Plan for ideas, even if funding does not exist now
Odds and Ends Clean -up
26 Fix mistakes in Map 6 (Street Connections Plan) inset map
27 Show the latest projects in Map 10 (6 -year Transportation Improvement Program)
28 Update all maps depicting floodplains with the latest FEMA maps, if changed
29 Update Map 15 (Waste Water Utilities) with the City's latest data showing existing
sewer line locations
30 Corrections /clarifications in Max Linden's email of 12 -1 -09
Urban Area Street Standards
31 Preference for shared lanes rather than bike lanes, especially if bike lanes won't
be swept (Several citizens comments)
32. Bike lanes are needed for certain types of cyclists, e g , families with children
(citizen comment)
33 Use larger "sharrows" in wide curb lanes (citizen comment)
34 Use smaller rock size when seal coating (citizen comment)
• 35 Need to encourage bicycling to address Yakima's highest obesity rates in state
(citizen comment)
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36 Sidewalks on both sides of all streets (Several citizens comments)
37 Consider directing City and County staffs to prepare ordinances to enable
further review process before legislative action by City Council and Board of
County Commissioners. (County staff)
BOCC /CC decision. The Urban Area Street Standards will be considered for adoption
at a later date after they are drafted into ordinance form. Staff note Prior to
returning to the BOCC /CC for final action, the ordinance will go through the review
and public participation procedures required by the State Environmental Policy Act
(SEPA), Planning Enabling Act, Growth Management Act (GMA), and local
ordinances.
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