Yelm Community Schools ChronologyYelm Community Schools Chronology
June 11, 2003 Pre-submission Conference
September 5, 2003 Variance Application submitted
November 17, 2003 Variance approved by Hearing Examiner
December 19, 2003 Site Plan Review Application submitted
December 23, 2003 Draft expanded environmental checklist submitted
January 29, 2004 Meeting with WSDOT to review expanded checklist
February 10, 2004 Meeting regarding SEPA determination
February 12, 2004 Revised site plan submitted
March 4, 2004 Meeting to review response to comments on expanded checklist
April 5, 2004 MDNS issued by District with amended expanded checklist
April 15, 2004 City assumes lead agency status and issues DS
April 21, 2004 Meeting with District to review proposed mitigation measures
April 26, 2004 MDNS issued (appeal date of May 17)
May 20, 2004 Site Plan Review approved
May 20, 2004 Civil plans submitted
June 14, 2004 Partial comments (water and sewer)
June 18, 2004 Partial response to comments (water and sewer)
June 28, 2004 Civil comments issued
July 2, 2004 response to June 14 comments
July 7, 2004 Meeting to review outstanding civil issues
July 21, 2004 Civil plans submitted (2nd review)
Notes
At the pre-sub meeting, the City noted that traffic would be a major environmental issue and that it needed to be addressed to the City’s satisfaction.
There was no reason from the City’s standpoint that the variance and site plan review had to be processed sequentially (we recommended against it).
The environmental documents were delivered to the City on December 23, 2003, were not routed to other agencies with jurisdiction (we met with WSDOT and let them have one of our copies
of the expanded checklist). The lack of coordination by the School District made this process longer than necessary.
There is no reason from the City’s standpoint that that civil plans could not have been submitted before land use approval. In fact, the plans submitted on May 20 were not complete
and I told Jim he should simply note the missing pieces and send it back to the applicant. Instead, Jim worked with the District engineer to ‘piecemeal’ a complete submission and work
through issues not addressed in the initial submission.
To date NO plans have been submitted to WSDOT for improvements to SR507… this is a 10 month review process.
Considerations
The required landscape buffer long the southern property line was waived (existing condition).
The existing septic tanks were allowed to remain and be used as STEP tanks (normally we would require replacement).
Temporary gravel parking for students, temporary (off-site) grass parking for football games.
Alternate technologies are allowed for stormwater treatment, which are not allowed under the stormwater manual we have adopted.