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Home My WebLink About06/11/2013 03 Council General InformatonBUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL YAKIMA, WASHINGTON AGENDA STATEMENT Item No. For Meeting of: 6/11/2013 ITEM TITLE: Council General Information SUBMITTED BY: SUMMARY EXPLANATION: 1. Weekly Issues Report 2. Planning Commission study session agenda for June 12, 2013 3. Hearing Examiner agenda for June 13, 2013 4. City Meeting Schedule 5. Preliminary Future Activities Calendar 6. Preliminary Council Agenda 7. Study Session Schedule 8. Newspaper /Magazine /Internet Articles: * "A Streetcorner Serenade for the Public Plaza," The New York Times, May 31, 2013 Resolution: Ordinance: Other (Specify): Contract: Contract Term: Start Date: End Date: Item Budgeted: Amount: Funding Source /Fiscal Impact: Strategic Priority: Insurance Required? No Mail to: Phone: City Manager APPROVED FOR SUBMITTAL: RECOMMENDATION: ATTACHMENTS: Name: Description: F-] Council General Information.gdf Council General Information Mrareff EMEM FROM: Tony O'Rourke, City Manager SUBJECT: Weekly Issues Report CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION: On Tuesday, June 11 at 10:00 a.m., the Council has a study session on the mill site property. LUNCHTIME LIVE CONCERT SERIES: The first lunchtime live concert is today in Performance Park. The concert will be every Friday afternoon from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. through the end • August. DOWNTOWN SUMMER NIGHTS CONCERT SERIES: The first Downtown Live Concert will be on Thursday, June 13 from 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. in the 4 th Street Plaza. The concert series runs through the end of August, however, there will not be a concert on July 4. Allied Arts will have actives for tN; kids. In addition, food and beverages will be available for purchase. FRANKLIN PARK/ROTARY PAVILION CELEBRATION: The improvements at Franklin Park are complete and next Wednesday, June 12 at 4:00 p.m. there will be a project celebration. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT Planning Division 129 North Second Street, 2nd Floor Yakima, Washington 98901 Phone (509) 575-6183 a Fax (509) 575-6105 ask.planning@yakimawa.gov 9 hUp.11www.yakimawa.govlserviceslplanningI #A 1 1 1 2nd Floor Conference Room Wednesday June 12, 2013 2:00 pm -5 :00p YPC Members: Chair Ben Shoval, Co-Chair Dave Fonfara, Ron Anderson, Al Rose, Scoff Clark, Paul Stelzer, Bill Cook City Planning Staff: Steve Osguthorpe, Community Development Director/Planning Manager, Bruce Benson, Supervising Planner; Jeff Peters and Joseph Calhoun, Associate Planners; Chris Wilson, Assistant Planner; and Rosalinda lbarra, Administrative Assistant Agenda Announcement: This meeting is a study session on the City's Master Program in which the general public is invited to participate and comment. 11 Planning Division 129 North 2" d Street, 2 "`a Floor Yakima, Washington 98901 (509) 575-6183 - Fax (509) 575-6105 www.buildingyakima.com - www.yakimawa.govlsery iced planning III. PUBLIC HEARINGS A. SUN VALLEY PLAZA, LLC / (03/26/2013) RWV#003-13 Planner: Bruce Benson Address: Unnamed Portion of Right of Way near Ranch Rite Road & BNSF Request: Vacate a portion of an unnamed section of publicly owned right-of-way lying southwesterly of Ranch Rite Road and easterly of the BNSF railroad. If you are unable to attend the hearing, you may submit your comments in writing prior to the hearing. You may also submit written testimony at the hearing. 0 REM 0. 10111 For June 10, 2013 — June 17, 2013 Tuesday, June 11 10:00 a.m. City Council Study Session — Council Chambers 1:30 p.m. County Commissioners Agenda Meeting — Council Chambers 5:30 p.m. Parks & Recreation Commission Meeting — Council Chambers Monday, June 17 8:30 a.m. Pension Board Meetings — 1st Floor Conference Room 10:00 a.m. City Council Media Briefing — Council Chambers Office • Mayor/City Council Preliminary Future Activities Calendar tse Note: Meetings are subject to chan] Tue. June 11 10:00 a.m. City Council Study Session Scheduled Meeting Council Council Chambers 12:00 p.rn, Miscellaneous Issues Scheduled Meeting Cawley, Adkison, TBID CnffPV Wed. June 12 2:00 p.m. Yakima Planning Scheduled Meeting Ensey CED Conference Room Commission 4:00 p.m, Franklin Park Celebration Scheduled Event Open Franklin Park 5:30 p.m. Parks & Recreation Scheduled Meeting Adkison Council Chambers Commission Thur. June 13 1:00 P.M. Harman Center Board Board Meeting Adkison Harman Center 0 L- m. YCIDA Board Board Meetin q Adkison New Vision Office Mon. June 17 8:30 a.m. Pension Boards Board Meeting Coffey 1st Floor Conference Room 10:00 a.m. Council Media Briefing Scheduled Meetin Ensey Council Chambers Tue. June 18 12:00 p.m. Miscellaneous Issues Scheduled Meeting Cawley, Adkison, TBID Bristol 5:00 p.m. City Council Executive Scheduled Meeting Council Council Chambers Session 0 �0. Cit Council Meetin Scheduled Council Council Chambers Wed. June 19 9:30 a.m. Emergency Services Board Meeting Lover Office of Emergency Executive Board Meeting Management 12:00 p.m. PAL Board Board Meeting Coffey PAL Center 3:30 Arts Commission Scheduled Meetin Adkison CED Conference Room Thur. June 20 2:00 p.m. Council Built Environment Scheduled Meeting Coffey, Ensey, CED Conference Room Committee Meetin Lover Mon. June 24 12:00 p.m. Capitol Theatre Board Board Meeting Bristol Capitol Theatre Meeting 12:00 - G Board Meetin J��reenw Board Meetin Ettl Greenway Visitors Center ---24�-U-U�m Wed. June 26 2:00 p.m. Planning Commission Scheduled Meeting Ensey Council Chambers 5:30 p.m. Historic Preservation Scheduled Meeting Bristol Council Chambers Commission Mon. July 1 10:00 a.m. Council Media Briefinn Scheduled Meetin n Ettl Council Chambers Tue. July 2 5:00 p.m. (T) Council Executive Scheduled Meeting Council Council Chambers Committee Meeting 6:00 " m. Cit Council eetin Scheduled Meetin Council Council Chambers Thur. July 4 CITY OFFICES CLOSED Fri. July 5 8:00 a.m. Sister City Meeting Scheduled Meeting Adkison CED Conference Room June 1, 2013 0 It = - -- ro I I L*= 1111561 IT in, - Trolley 0 Proclamation -- Yakima 00th anniversary '-•i Set date of July 2, 2013 as the date for a public meeting to consider the final plat of Hannon Heights Phase I I I a as] r-A&I a I a &A e� I I ta I Lei I K91w I I w is I Im I I t; I me E I I IZIV4 E [;I; g I I I [so No r. I Irgookilam 0- ..: -.• *A • • Resolution authorizing Public Defender Agreement with Richard Gilliland, Attorney Ordinance amending Sections 9.50.070 & 9.50.077 of the Yakima Municipal Code regarding parking time limits on the north side of Yakima Avenue between Avenue i 8th Avenue. Ordinance amendment regarding non-profit gambling taxes — no taxes on first rrr • ♦ a - ♦> Public hearing to receive testimony from citizens concerned with the presence • beggars and panhandlers within the City and the specific effects the presence of beggars and panhandlers have had on them. Closed record public hearing to consider the Hearing Examiner's recommendation for approval of a request right-of-way vacation of Cook Stre requested by West Valley Nursing Homes, Inc. I I *A 0 ��A• • I all IMSAM MIMI-IM111M 2013 STUDY SESSION SCHEDULE Council Chambers 10:00 a.m. July 9 Stormwater issues/ Airport Master Plan A Prescription for Plazas and Public Spaces - NYTimes.com Page I of 5 Ehe Nou flork Z'Uncs The department brought in some potted trees and chairs, closed off a short street and voilA, what had been a problem became a boon. Since the plaza opened last summer, crime has plummeted, Mr. Di Benedetto told me, crediting the local police precinct. He heads the New Lots Avenue Triangle Merchants Association. "People use the place all the time now, meaning the area is watched and safe he said. had my pizzeria since 1971, so I can tell you, this is a renaissance." Cities need public spaces like plazas. For years they have mostly been planned from the top down. In New York, zoning laws have carved many of these spaces from commercial developments, which have been given bonuses to include them. Mayor Bloomberg is pushing a new proposal to rezone east Midtown, near Grand Central, that is a variation on this same 0 And guess what? A beer garden made out of freight containers on an empty plot turns out to be a lot more popular and better for a city than a sad corporate atrium with a few cafe tables and a long list of don'ts on the wall. http://www.nytimes.com/20l3/O6/O2/arts/designla-prescription-for-plazas-and-public-space... 6/3/2013 wfflq� As more and more educated Americans, especially younger ones, are looking to move downtown, seeking alternatives to suburbs and cars, they're refraining the demand for public space. They want elbow room and creative sites, cooked up by the community or, like the plaza program, developed from a democratic mix of top-down and bottom-up MMIMMEM The plazas outside his building are mobbed on warm days, with people even toting Shake Shack burgers out of the park to sit next to all the traffic — partly for the view (the Flatiron building one way, the Empire State Building the other) but also for the reason people gravitate to Trafalgar Square in London or the Piazza del Campo in Siena, Italy. "It's why we congregate near the kitchen at a dinner party instead of in the living room, said Andy Wiley-Schwartz, who directs the Department of Transportation's plaza program. "That's where you see people coming and going to the fridge to grab a beer and watch stuff happen." r Sp Ilia in San francisco, 7 e city goTerninent nas long term, • the condition they be turned into parklets. Most involve little • re than benches and shrubs. But the best have become elaborate interventions, with I r dscapin]. http://www.nytimes.com/20l3/O6/O2/arts/designla-prescription-for-plazas-and-public-space... 6/3/2013 A Prescription for Plazas and Public Spaces - NYTimes.com Page 3 of 5 platforms, even mini-mini-golf I spent a morning watching kids play and adults sunbathe in a parklet outside Fourbarrel Coffee on Valencia Street. Los Angeles and Philadelphia, amonV- *,thers, have recently started parklet programs. New York is trying it out, too. Crowds flock to hang out at the Suppenkuche's Biergarten, a scene at night. The architectul j fl is simple. The vibe is friendly. The changing layout conforms to a neighborhood in flux. Local merchants feared Prox:kj would steal customers aywa-kj. Instead it has br the neighborhood. UU& Broadway to cars, Carmageddon didn't happen; business boomed. Commercial rents in Times Square have doubled during the last year alone. or UAL 1. 1. 1 _r_1 I N I lazas with an agreement to look after them; poorer communities, without Business Improvement Districts, have sometimes bad trouble with the maintenance. Not surprisingly, bottom-up design usually works better than trickle-down. That east Midtown rezoning plan I mentioned, which the Bloomberg administration is trying to ram through the City Council before the mayor's term expires, would be a bonanza for commercial developers who want to erect giant office towers on Park Avenue and around http:// .nytimes.com/2013/06/02/arts/design/a-prescription-for-plazas-and-public-space... 6/3/2013 Grand Central Station. But even as it portends to radically reshape the neighborhood, it treats the public realm (mass transit as well) as an afterthought. There's a half-baked idea to transform some of Vanderbilt Avenue into a pedestrian street and a (%Ian for Mublic si%ace beinV drawn uiw with consultants. In return for the ril to build extra big buildings, developers would contribute to a city-run fund that, someday, might act Since Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park, another POPS, owners have drawn up ever more restrictive lists of rules. At 120 Park Avenue, across from Grand Central (years ago the Whitney Museum had a branch there; now it's desolate), a guard stopped me from taking a photograph; at 590 Madison Avenue, formerly the IBM Building, the nicest of the indoor New Yorkers deserve better, and have paid for it. As with the rest • the public realm, the Vji:1tAL-JzM 4-10136% i, V'smi KAI) 1I110_A11',V_1 always take much. It's good for business. It's good for people. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/arts/design/a-prescription-for-plazas-and-public-space... 6/3/2013 A Prescription for Plazas and Public Spaces - NYTimes.com Page 5 of 5 Two captions this weekend with an article about D.I. Y. -style public spaces describe incorrectly the Pearl Street Triangle shown in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The photograph • a parking lot shows what the triangle used to look like — not its current state. And a photo illustration shows the triangle's renovations; Pearl Street Triangle is not awaiting renovation. Q�