HomeMy WebLinkAboutPC Mtg Minutes 10-2-13_final JEFFERSON COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
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MEETING MINUTES
MEETING DATE Oct 2, 2013
Jefferson County Courthouse, First Floor Conference Room, Port Townsend
Time Topic Action Notes/Follow-up
(if needed)
A. Opening
Business Staff & Chair should coordinate
to start digital recorder before
gavel.
Call to Order Time: 2:49 pm
Presiding: Chair: Kevin Coker
Roll Call: Quorum 5 Indicate P – Present; AU –
Absent & Unexcused; or AE –
Absent & Excused (as noted by
Chair); Note any late arrivals;
Quorum = 5
Quorum Present @ Roll Call
Staff Present: C. Smith; S. Hoskins; Kaycee
Hathaway
Invited Guests: 0
# Public in Audience: 2
District 1 District 2 District 3
Coker Felder Miller Vacant Farmer Werch Brotherton Giske Hull
P P P P AE Arrived @
3:04
AU P
Jefferson County Planning Commission Meeting Minutes
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Time Topic Action Notes/Follow-up
(if needed)
Approval of Past Minutes:
None at this time.
If any revisions are needed,
remind Chair to hand write
them on the original document
(unless extensive), and note
them here/on the back of this
page. If minutes not approved,
make note of reasons why.
Staff Updates: Use back side of page to continue
if necessary
SH County Commissioners have the Comp Plan on
the agenda for Monday Oct 7. At this meeting
they will discuss whether to use staff
recommendations or to hold a public hearing.
Also at this meeting the Pre‐ application will be
brought up.
SH Staff is working on the I‐502 implementation.
Plan to bring to County Commissioners on Oct
14.
SH Received an application for a Planning
Commission member for District 2, staff will
interview applicant and bring to the County
Commissioners.
SH WSRC‐ Two rain gardens are in at Castlehill; One
of the gardens is functioning and one is not. We
have also received an extension on the grant (six
months), but we plan to finish in three months.
SH Two staff changes‐
Kaycee Hathaway is a clerk hire. Joel Peterson
started Oct 1 and is an associate planner working
on long range and permitting.
SH SMP – article in Leader
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Community
Reports:
Kevin
Observer
Comment:
Rob Harbor
A. Agenda Item:
Carl
B. Agenda Item:
Had a meeting Wednesday about housing and
broke into groups. Here we are trying to get
groups to work together to bring information to
DCD.
Just moved to town and was involved with Island
County planning commission.
Unified Development Code Text Amendment
(MLA12‐226)‐ Sign Code
Brief discussion of David Alvarez’s notes on the
Planning Commission’s proposition for the sign
code. Carl will bring more information hopefully
with more of David’s comments to the next
meeting, Nov 6th.
Comprehensive Plan Update 2016 (GMA Periodic
Update)
Group Conversation about how to determine the
most important items to focus on in the Periodic
Update. A table that was given to the
commission members, on which, they are to rank
each chapter’s main points. These rankings are
from 1‐3; 1 being the least important to 3 the
most important. They are to rank the
importance of each item and the items difficulty.
Each commission member is only allowed 3 3’s
and 3 2’s so as to narrow their selections. Also
there is a mandatory category that either has a
10 or a 0, 10 meaning that this part of a chapter
is state mandated, 0 meaning that it is not state
mandated.
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Board members are to email their results to DCD
so that they can all be inputted into a single
spread sheet and calculated before the
November meeting to save time.
Time Topic Action Notes/Follow-up
(if needed)
Summary
of tonight’s
meeting/
New
Business:
Waiting on more legal advice on the Sign Code.
Next meeting the committee should nail down
the important issues needed to be covered by
the comp plan.
Date of
next
Meeting:
11 / 6 / 13
Month Day Year
@BoCC Chambers
Agenda
Topics for
next
meeting:
1. Unified Development Code Text
Amendment (MLA12-226)- Sign Code
2. Comprehensive Plan Update 2016
(GMA Periodic Update)
3. Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (SEIS): Pleasant Harbor
Meeting
Adjourned
Time 3:25PM by Unanimous vote OR
Vote of: __________