04-13-05 MINUTES
YELM CITY COUNCIL MEETING
MINUTES
REGULAR MEETING
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2005
Call to Order
1. . Mayor Rivas called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
Roll Call
2. .
Present: Don Miller, Joe Baker, Bob Isom, Ron Harding and Pat Fetterly
3. Agenda Approval
05-29 MOTION BY PAT FETTERLY, SECONDED BY RON HARDING
APPROVING THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED. CARRIED.
Special Presentations
4. – None Scheduled
5. Public Comment
Ed Wiltsie, Reichel Rd., Rainier
, expressed his belief concerning Y-2/Y-3
Loop planning inconsistencies. As project funding is being sought from state,
county and local sources he couldn’t support use of his tax dollars for this
purpose if commercial development was allowed along the loop. His
interpretation of the Comprehensive Plan is that no commercial development
is allowed along the loop and that commercial development is therefore
inconsistent and will additionally diminish the effectiveness of the loop
project.
City representatives and staff agreed that city plans do limit commercial
development along the loop to avoid migration of the business core from
Yelm Avenue. However, the property he is questioning, at the Yelm
Ave./loop intersection was zoned C-2 (big box commercial) in the early 90s
as part of GMA planning requirements, and was intended for commercial
uses.
Discussion items: defining best available science; comparisons of the 1992
Yelm Manual vs. information in the 2001 (state) version of the Drainage
Manual being considered for adoption by Thurston Co., Lacey, Tumwater
and Yelm; incorporation of extreme wet season data into the new manual;
city mitigation requirements; the loop’s regional, rather than local
responsibilities; Mr. Wiltsie’s belief that a big box store is out of balance
with the community, and the city’s expectation that city and surrounding area
population growth over the next ten years will rebalance; and a WSDOT
(sponsored) traffic model update performed by Parametrix using a 30 year
horizon that found that traffic movement will be at acceptable levels.
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Bill Hashim, El Camino, Yelm
, announced that he took Yelm to the Growth
Management Hearings Board because the Critical Areas update due in
December of 2004 hadn’t been completed. He opined that city updating of
plans wasn’t done often enough, and requested that council enact a
moratorium on all building permits until the Critical Areas update has been
completed. Mr. Hashim stated that he had hoped that his filing with the
Growth Management Hearing Board would produce a moratorium from that
body that could be predated to include the Wal-Mart application. When
questioned he responded that he had been informed that the hearings board
does not have the authority to force a moratorium on a jurisdiction.
Mr. Hashim indicated that he is quite successful in writing EPA grants and
offered to write a grant for technical assistance in use of a ‘smart growth’
approach. He added that he believes Yelm isn’t growing smart or using any
low impact techniques and indicated that his witnessing of the Yelm City
Council and community members is that they lack education about
techniques that can help the community grow in a sustainable way.
Discussion topics: that many cities have not met the critical areas update
12/04 deadline; that enough cities have missed the deadline that the
legislature is considering an extension; and that in reality very few cities in
Washington use ‘smart growth’ guidelines.
Councilmember Isom, who also writes state grants, expressed an interest in
viewing the Mr. Hashim’s grant information, even though most grants of this
type have many requirements that small cities can’t meet. He will report back
to council at the next meeting.
05-30 MOTION BY BOB ISOM, SECONDED BY JOE BAKER THAT NO
MORATORIAMS BE IMPOSED AND THAT THE ISSUE NOT BE
BROUGHT BEFORE COUNCIL AGAIN. CARRIED.
6. Consent Agenda
a. Council Minutes:
1) March 21, 2005 Special Meeting
2) March 23, 2005 Regular Meeting
b. Payables: Checks 24790-24929 totaling $386,465.90
1) Manual Checks 24790-24819 totaling $6,993.03
2) Claims Checks 24820-24929 totaling $379,463.87
c. Payroll Approval: Final March 05, Ck 9097-9203 totaling $203,522.79
d. Park Use Requests
CMP, 5/5/05, YHPC/Reuse Sign Dedication, 1-6, 35+/-
e. Financial Report: March End of Month and End of Quarter
05-31 MOTION BY PAT FETTERLY, SECONDED BY RON HARDING
APPROVING CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS AS PRESENTED.
CARRIED.
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Public Hearing(s
7. )– None Scheduled
New Business
8. – None Scheduled
9. Old Business
a. Annexation Petition Revision Request, Denny Balascio, Grove
Rd/Sunnyland Estates (Ref. 12/8/04, Motion 04-107)
Mayor Rivas called for the staff report. Grant Beck provided an overview of
considerations leading to Council’s approval of the petition at the December
8, 2004 City Council meeting. The final action allowed Mr. Balascio to
circulate an annexation petition for an area modified to exclude the ten acre
(Tyler) parcel, and adding Sunnyland Estates, a developed property already
th
on city water and located between 100 Way SE and the Suburban Realty
parcel. Boundary changes recommended by staff at that time were intended
to create a logical and clean City boundary.
As the annexation petition drew little positive interest, Mr. Balascio is
requesting approval to circulate a new petition limited to the Suburban
Realty ten acre parcel. While this creates a ‘peninsula’ of city surrounded on
three sides by county land, Mr. Balascio felt there was precedent for this with
Longmire Community Park, which is an island of city property surrounded
by Thurston County. The reduced annexation area is within the sewer system
LID and 32 ERU connections were pre-purchased.
The current staff recommendation is to annex only 5 of the 10 Suburban
Realty acres to accommodate most of the pre-purchased sewer ERUs. Mr.
Balascio explained that annexing half of the ten acre parcel would not allow
him to use his total 32 ERUs, due to an approximate 10% loss during
development to streets, drainage, etc. Staff responded that the half
recommendation was a compromise allowing use of most, but not all of the
32 ERUs, as water rights don’t accompany the property. There is a
possibility that Mr. Balascio can find additional ERUs to purchase from a
private party to allow full development of the ten acres.
05 -32 MOTION BY BOB ISOM, SECONDED BY RON HARDING
APPROVING THE (BALASCIO) REQEST TO CIRCULATE A
PETITION TO ANNEX THE TEN ACRE SUBURBAN REALTY
PROPERTY. CARRIED.
10. Mayor and Council Reports and Initiatives and Board/Commission
Business
a. Council Reports
Councilmember Baker
attended an IT meeting where discussion concerned
financial matters, a SWAC meeting, and the Chamber After Hours program.
He requested that recycling information be included on the city web site.
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Councilmember Fetterly attended Senator Rasmussen’s Town Meeting and
distributed information concerning high bacteria levels in some parts of the
Nisqually Watershed.
b. Mayor’s Report
Mayor Rivas read a Proclamation in Support of Fort Lewis and McChord
AFB.
Executive Session
11. – None scheduled
Correspondence
12. reviewed included the AWC Annual Conference. It was
noted that correspondence was received from Mr. Hashim.
Adjourn
13. : 8:10 p.m.
_______________________________________
Adam Rivas, Mayor
Attest:
_______________________________________
Agnes Bennick, City Clerk
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