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CDS STUDY SESSION MINUTES
BOCC CONFERENCE ROOM, WEBEX
Regular Meeting
MONDAY 1:30 PM September 12, 2022
Board members present: Chair Laura Osiadacz and Vice -Chairman
Cory Wright.
Others: Dan Carlson, Jeremy Larson, Toni Berkshire, Jeremiah
Cromie, Steph Mifflin, and Jessica Miller Community Development
Services; Mark Cook, Josh Fredrickson, and Rebecca Cruse, Public
Works; Darren Higashiyama and Chris Whitsett, Sheriff's Office,
and two (2) members of the public.
At 1:30 pm Chair Osiadacz opened the Community Development
Services Study Session.
CITIZEN COMMENTS (1 MIN. TIME LIMIT)
Frank Stanford - Citizen - Commented his concerns regarding the
Noise Ordinance and requested for it to be updated to help with
consistent dog barking that affects him and his family.
NOISE ORDINANANCE RECOMMENDATION
CDS DIRECTOR DAN CARLSON shared that this topic is one that the
BoCC asked the Planning Commission to review and make
recommendations regarding potential changes. The noise ordinance
contains an exception for commercial kennels, veterinarians,
animal shelters, pet shops and those type of animal
establishments and some of those uses are allowed as permitted
uses in some of our residential zoning districts. The result of
this is that in those areas you have a usage permitted outright
and does not get any kind of land use review and it has this
potential impact of noise that can't be regulated through the
noise ordinance. The Planning Commission recommended that the
exception number 20 for those animal establishments be deleted.
This would mean that even though they are permitted in these
residential districts, they are still subject to the noise
control ordinance. The Planning Commission did observe that the
standards in the ordinance are a little bit subjective and
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difficult to enforce, things like reasonably annoyed or
disturbed. They recommend the Board adopt a minimum sound
pressure level test to determine an infraction.
CODE ENFORCEMENT PHILOSPHY
CDS DIRECTOR DAN CARLSON stated that Code Enforcement and the
Sheriff's office worked together to come up with a philosophy to
demonstrate the reasoning behind what we do. The values, mission
and vision statements were presented to the Board. The plan is
to include this in an update to the website. Next step is to
determine and create a priority list including public and
environmental safety cases at the top.
BUILDER OUTREACH
CDS DIRECTOR DAN CARLSON stated the 3rd party review is working
well. As a result, questions have come up from the builders and
CDS would like to have a meeting with the builders and do some
outreach education regarding 3rd party plan submittal and
electronic submittal during the month of October.
OTHER BUSINESS
CHAIR OSIADACZ stated she would like to get an update on
predictive mapping, the pre -approved house plans, and vacation
rentals in a future study session.
Meeting concluded at 1:55 p.m.
Jessica Miller
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KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Laura Osiadacz, Chairman