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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-09-10 6:00 PM - Planning Commission - Minutes KITTITAS COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES Courthouse RM 201 , ELLENSBURG Regular Meeting TUESDAY 6 : 00 PM September 10 , 2024 Board members present: Michael Lundin, Joseph Pearson, Warren Taylor, and Pat Deneen. Not Present: Bruce Coe and Scott Carlson. Others : Chad Bala, Jamey Ayling, Cameron Curtis, Josh Fredrickson, Bradley Gasawski, Zach Torrance-Smith, Chace Pedersen, Bryan Elliot, and Jessica Miller and two (2) members of the public. Meeting was called to order at 6 : 00 P.M. CALL TO ORDER CITIZEN COMMENTS (1 min. time limit) There were no citizen comments . NEW BUSINESS PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER 2024 ANNUAL DOCKET OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS AMENDMENTS CDS DIRECTOR CHAD BALA and PLANNING MANAGER JAMEY AYLING provided a presentation regarding the 2024 Annual Docket process . DIRECTOR BALA stated that the SEPA Determination of Non-Significance was completed and has been provided tonight . Docket Item 2024-01 - Annual Comprehensive Plan Application Docket Deadline Date Changed from June 30th to March 30th of every year. This item was proposed by CDS staff. CDS DIRECTOR CHAD BALA presented. A comparison table of other jurisdiction' s annual docket application submittal dates was provided. This would allow for more time for processing the annual docket, issue state notices, issue SEPA, and scheduling public hearing requirements . CDS Staff recommends approval of this item as presented. Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Kittitas County Public Works . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN opened public comment discussion. No public comment . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN closed public comment . 2024-9-10 MINUTES 1 Discussion occurred regarding Commissioner Deneen' s proposal of May 15th as the application deadline . COMMISSIONER PEARSON moved to pass this docket item on to the Board of County Commissioners with a recommendation of approval with the amended date of April 30th. COMMISSIONER DENEEN seconded. Discussion - Further discussion occurred regarding the date and timeframe for submittals . COMMISSIONER DENEEN requested an amended motion for the date to be the first Friday in May. COMMISSION PEARSON accepted the amended motion. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR seconded. Discussion - none . Motion passed 4-0 . Docket Item 2024-02 - LAMIRD update - This item was proposed by CDS staff. CDS DIRECTOR BALA presented. CDS DIRECTOR BALA stated there was a substitute senate bill, SSB 6140, that was passed by the legislature, and it has been provided. This item proposes amending KCC 17 . 15 land use table footnote #' s 14 and 48 pertaining to Type 1 LAMIRDs . Changing footnotes 14 and 48 regarding the maximum square footage for new & existing retail or food services to not exceed a footprint greater than 10, 000 sq ft . This increase to the square footage is to comply and create consistency with state law pursuant to Senate Bill 6140 . CDS Staff recommends approval of this item as presented. Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Kittitas County Public Works . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN opened public comment discussion. No public comment . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN closed public comment . COMMISSIONER PEARSON moved to approved docket item 2024-02 with a recommendation of approval to the Board of County Commissioners . COMMISSIONER TAYLOR seconded. Discussion - none . Motion passed 4-0 . Docket Item 2024-03 - Annexation - This item was proposed by CDS staff. CDS PLANNING MANAGER AYLING presented. This item proposes to update its land use and zoning maps to reflect approved annexations that have been passed by the City of Ellensburg in 2024 . Map of location was provided. CDS Staff recommends approval of this item as presented. Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Kittitas County Public Works . 2024-9-10 MINUTES 2 VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN opened public comment discussion. No public comment . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN closed public comment . COMMISSIONER DENEEN moved to approve item 2024-03 with recommendation of approval to the Board of County Commissioners . COMMISSIONER PEARSON seconded. Discussion - none . Motion passed 4-0 . Docket Item 2024-04 - Title 2 . 56 . 020, 14 & 16 - This item was submitted by the Auditors office . CDS PLANNING MANAGER AYLING presented. This item proposes to update the Kittitas County Code 2 . 56, 14, 12 and 16 allowing surveys to be submitted and recorded on paper and mylars . The county will scan the documents for preservation and retention in accordance with the Washington State Records Management . AUDITOR BRYAN ELLIOT provided additional information. CDS Staff recommends approval of this item as presented. Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Kittitas County Public Works . Public comment was not opened for this docket item. COMMISSIONER PEARSON moved to approve docket item 2024-04 and recommend approval to the Board of County Commissioners . COMMISSIONER DENEEN seconded. Discussion - none . Motion passed 4-0 . Docket Item 2024-05 - Agricultural Tourism Definition - This item was submitted by CDS staff. CDS DIRECTOR BALA presented. This item would add a definition for Agritourism consistent with the RCW 4 .24 . 830 . This will allow for future discussion and development of requirements for short-term rentals . CDS Staff recommends approval of this item as presented. Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Kittitas County Public Works and Hilary Jensen. VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN opened public comment discussion. Amy McGuffin - Chamber of Commerce CEO and President - Ms . McGuffin stated she feels the state has a good start to the definition, she has seen in other counties that this definition does not help the locals both on the production side and the tourism side . She is requesting to not go with the state RCW and had submitted a proposed a new definition for review that would benefit our county. 2024-9-10 MINUTES 3 Hilary Jensen - Business Owner/Resident - Ms . Jensen provided clarification regarding the discussion about cattle, stating that there is no intent to exclude anyone . She also provided an explanation about the verbiage regarding commercial sales and adding "USDA recognized" . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN closed public comment . COMMISSIONER PEARSON moved to accept this docket item 2024-05, with a recommendation of approval to the Board of County Commissioner. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR seconded. Discussion - none . Motion passed 4-0 . Docket Item 2024-06 - Short Term Rental Definition - This item was submitted by the Kittitas County Short-Term Rental Committee . STAFF PLANNER CHACE PEDERSEN presented. This will allow for future discussion and development of requirements for short-term rentals . CDS Staff recommends approval of this item and adopting item 9, RCW 64 . 37 . 010 for the short-term rentals definition and not the entirety of the RCW. Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Kittitas County Public Works, and the Kittitas County Fire Marshal . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN opened public comment discussion. Amy McGuffin - Chamber of Commerce CEO and President/Short-Term Rental Committee Member - Ms . McGuffin stated she recommends accepting the entirety of the RCW definition. CDS DIRECTOR BALA stated after further review, staff is in agreement to accept RCW 64 . 37 . 010, 1-11 . Amy McGuffin - Chamber of Commerce CEO & President/Short-Term Rental Committee Member - Ms . McGuffin stated that staff' s recommendation is good regarding using the RCW language 64 . 37 . 010 1-11 but would also recommend that those other topics within the entirety of the definition become topics for the committee to continue forward discussing. VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN closed public comment discussion. Discussion occurred regarding wanting to adopt this item as a whole including the regulations, not just the definition. 2024-9-10 MINUTES 4 COMMISSIONER PEARSON moved to recommend approval of 2024-06 with the understanding that there needs to be a broader discussion and a lot more work to be done before any of this work is finaled. COMMISSIONER PEARSON amended his motion to include the recommendation to adopt of RCW 64 . 37 . 010 (1 through 11) as a definition, with the understanding that we would like to emphasize that there be a lot more work, public comment, and discussion regarding the regulations to follow and clarification of the definition. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR seconded. COMMISSIONER DENEEN requested to amend the motion to include added language that will say that KCC 17 . 15 use table has no permitted conditional administrative uses allowed for short-term rentals . COMMISSIONER PEARSON accepted the amendment and added language . COMMISSIONER TAYLOR seconded the amendment . Motion passed 4-0 . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN called for a 5 minute break at 7 : 30 PM. The hearing reconvened at 7 : 35 PM. Docket Item 2024-07 - Split Zoned Parcel (s) - This item as submitted by CDS staff. CDS DIRECTOR BALA presented. This item is regarding parcels that contain split zoning of Forest and Range 20 and Agricultural-5 zoning that is also within the City of Kittitas urban growth area. KCCDS has had further discussion with the City of Kittitas, who will address the issue during their comprehensive plan periodic update, therefore KCCDS staff proposes to withdraw Docket Item 2024-07 . Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Kittitas County Public Works . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN opened public comment discussion. No public comment . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN closed public comment . COMMISSIONER DENEEN moved to approve the withdrawal . COMMISSIONER PEARSON seconded. Discussion - none . Motion passed 4-0 . Docket Item 2024-08 - Title 14 - This item was submitted by CDS staff. PLANNING MANAGER AYLING presented. This item is proposing to amend the building code (KCC 14) creating an easier process for future updates due to WA State Code Amendments that occur. 2024-9-10 MINUTES 5 CDS Staff recommends approval of this item as presented. Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Kittitas County Public Works . Discussion occurred regarding the importance to keep the adoption of state codes to go in front of our local elected officials . They agreed that this item makes it simple to adopt the approved state codes without understanding the impacts or unintended consequences . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN opened public comment discussion. No public comment . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN closed public comment . COMMISSIONER PEARSON moved to deny recommendation of docket item 2024-08 . COMMISSIONER DENEEN seconded. Discussion - none . Motion passes 3-0, with one abstention by Commissioner Lundin for lack of sufficient information. Docket Item 2024-09 - Title 12 - This item was submitted by Kittitas County Public Works . CDS DIRECTOR BALA, PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEER CURTIS and PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR FREDRICKSON presented. This item proposes clarifications of private road standards regarding private road certifications, private road design standards (Table 12 . 04 . 04-1) , description of civil review processes, removal of an unnecessary turnaround requirement, including code language to be consistent with Ord 2022-017, 2022 Article VII . Driveway Access, and mylar submittal requirements . CDS Staff recommends approval of this item as presented. Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Kittitas County Public Works, and the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN opened public comment discussion. No public comment . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN closed public comment . COMMISSIONER DENEEN discussed concerns in various sections of the table . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN called for a 5 minute break at 8 :21 PM. The hearing reconvened at 8 :26 PM. COMMISSIONER DENEEN moved to recommend approval to the Board of County Commissioners with the following recommendations, to strike the proposed new language (2°d paragraph) under KCC 12 . 04 . 04 . 050 Private Roads, to add language to the proposed 2024-9-10 MINUTES 6 Engineer' s Certificate Report language #3, to read as follows : "3-Private Road maintenance agreement for newly developed property, to strike the proposed language Engineer' s Certificate Report language #4, to support the changes to Table 12 . 04 . 04-1, to strike 12 . 04 . 04 . 090 F.2 . , to accept 12 . 04 . 07 . 090 Driveway Access Predating the adoption of the Road Development Standards, to accept the striking of the word mylar under 12 . 04 . 10 . 050 H, to accept the proposed striking under 12 . 05 . 02 . 070 L. 3 . COMMISSIONER PEARSON seconded. Discussion - none . Motion passes 3-0, with one abstention by Commissioner Lundin for lack of sufficient information. Docket Item 2024-10 - Amendment to KCC 16 . 12 . 260 - This item was submitted by CDS staff. CDS PLANNING MANAGER AYLING presented. This item proposes to amend KCC 16 . 12 .260 to add a preliminary plat approval revision process . CDS Staff recommends approval of this item as presented. Public comments were received by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Kittitas County Public Works, and the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN opened public comment discussion. No public comment . VICE-CHAIR LUNDIN closed public comment . Discussion occurred regarding striking the language "as determined by the department" in Section B, C & E . This will not materially change the intent of the code . COMMISSIONER DENEEN moved to recommend approval of docket item 2024-10 to the Board of County Commissioners with the recommendation to remove the language "as determined by the department in Section B, C & E based on the information submitted in the record. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR seconded. Discussion - none . Motion passed 4-0 . CDS DIRECTOR BALA requested the that Planning Commission review the Findings of Fact that was provided. Corrections will be made in regard to the decisions and recommendation discussed and motioned at today' s public hearing. There was an agreement to continue this public hearing to hear and approve the Findings of Fact . COMMISSIONER TAYLOR motioned to continue the hearing to September 11, 2024 at 6 : 00 PM. COMMISSIONER PEARSON seconded. Discussion - None . Motion passed 4-0 . 2024-9-10 MINUTES 7 Meeting concluded at 8 : 52 pm. 2024-9-10 MINUTES 8