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05/06/2013 - Minutes CITY OF TIGARD PLANNING COMMISSION Meeting Minutes May 6, 2013 CALL TO ORDER President Anderson called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. The meeting was held in the Tigard Civic Center,Town Hall, at 13125 SW Hall Blvd. ROLL CALL Present: President Anderson Commissioner Doherty Commissioner Fitzgerald Commissioner Gaschke Commissioner Muldoon Vice President Rogers Commissioner Schmidt Commissioner Shavey Absent: Commissioner Feeney Staff Present: Tom McGuire,Assistant Community Development Director; Doreen Laughlin, Executive Assistant;Judith Gray, Senior Transportation Planner; Cheryl Caines, Associate Planner;Agnes Kowacz,Associate Planner PLANNING COMMISSIONER COMMUNICATIONS None. CONSIDER MINUTES April 15 Meeting Minutes: President Anderson asked if there were any additions, deletions, or corrections to the April 15 minutes; there being none,Anderson declared the minutes approved as submitted. UPDATE: SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR PLAN Senior Transportation Planner Judith Gray introduced herself. She brought to the attention a flyer advertising a 5/23 (Exhibit A) regarding the Southwest Corridor Plan soliciting input on potential projects in the Southwest Corridor, including high capacity transit (HCT). Judith gave a background of the plan up to this point and went over a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (Exhibit B). She also distributed a summary of some of the I:\LRPLN\Planning Commission\2013 PC Packets\050613\tpc 050613 minutes.docx Page 1 of 4 comments from a recent Town Hall meeting (Exhibit C) and told them the if they think those comments are representative and to make sure that the commissioners and the people they talk to in the community know that they have an opportunity to share their view as well. In fact, it is very important that they do. QUESTIONS OF STAFF Both Judith Gray and Matt Bihn from Metro took questions from the commission: What questions will the Steering Committee answer in July? Among others: ❑❑What HCT mode(s) should move forward for further analysis? ❑❑Where should HCT stations be located? ❑❑What right-of-way will be needed? ❑❑What structural elements should be explored? Were there any surveys or questions asking what the community preferred? I think very strong opinions. was no content or anything Of course, t - but that was the answer. Will this be on an upcoming City of Tigard survey? Yes, at some point this will be on another survey. There was some conversation about the City of Tigard surveys traditionally get good responses, and how important it is to craft the questions so you get some good input. Who will vote in July? Members of the steering committee will vote. Where will the stations be located in Tigard? The station locations, at this point in modeling, - , but obviously, once going to ask the Steering Committee to decide now. That will come later. Station locations will not be settled at this point. The important thing that needs to be decided now Should the terminus be in Tigard, or should it be Tualatin or Sherwood? Some of those major he more things that are decided earlier, and the more analysis we can provide on things like stations and lane treatments, the better. I:\LRPLN\Planning Commission\2013 PC Packets\050613\tpc 050613 minutes.docx Page 2 of 4 Is light rail a faster way to get around? If you think about the different light rails we have now, there are two different ways to go about it. If you think specifically about the Interstate Line in North Portland versus the Green Line - The Green Line is built for speed it goes along I-205 - development. The Interstate Line [yellow] is pretty slow but, really the focus was to change the nature of Interstate Avenue and, if you drove there 10 years ago versus today, or 5 years ago versus today, you really can see a different type of development. So you need to know what a certain type of development that light rail could bring -offs. BRIEFING TIGARD TRIANGLE PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PLAN Associate Planner Cheryl Gaines s in their packets a draft public involvement plan for the Tigard Triangle. Currently, they are working with ODOT to choose a consultant for the Tigard Triangle Plan the development of that plan. In addition to the actual s going to be the public involvement piece of developing the plan and staff will be doing the majority of that work. So the consultant will do all the technical work,with staff doing the majority of the public involvement piece. They will also be hiring a facilitator for the Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) to help us in facilitating those meetings and collecting feedback to give to our consultant to utilize for developing the plan. She went over a slide giving the public involvement schedule (Exhibit D). It outlays the schedule for the Citizen Advisory and Technical Advisory committee meetings. There will be two public meetings for general presentation of the information and feedback. Throughout this process there will be Planning Commission and City Council briefings after Tasks 2 6. QUESTIONS Will there be a time when Yes, that would be on the Citizen Advisory Committee. Commissioner Fitzgerald volunteered just now putting together the names of other people we want to invite so available at the time and who wants to get involved. Commissioner Fitzgerald asked, How do you decide which developers and businesses you target? Or are you targeting specific We will try to target some specific people who and it would be nice if they had a background i interested at that time - We really want to get a good cross section of people. Between Judith [Gray] and I, we should ask them if they know of anyone else who might be interested. I:\LRPLN\Planning Commission\2013 PC Packets\050613\tpc 050613 minutes.docx Page 3 of 4 Calista suggested contacting two businesses - Gerber Blades and Graymore Development. She said she had contacts at both of those relatively large businesses in the Tigard Triangle.Jason Rogers suggested George Fox University.Jason said he had some contacts there if they need them. MOTION Commissioner Doherty made a motion; Vice President Rogers seconded it: "I move that we accept the draft as presented." The motion passed unanimously. OTHER BUSINESS — Tom McGuire,Assistant Community Development Director, introduced the new agenda item: "Call for Future Agenda Items." He said he'd spoken with President Anderson and that they'd decided it would be a good idea to formally put this on the agenda so that the Commissioners had an opportunity to bring forth their ideas about what might be good possible items for future agendas. He explained that if the commissioners come up with something for a possible item, they could discuss it during this time and then present it to staff. If staff thinks it's appropriate, they can move on it. CALL FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Commissioner Shavey suggested Kenny Asher, and possibly someone else, speak to them about successful economic development in Tigard. Tom McGuire said he thought that was a good idea too and suggested that the other person to speak might be the new Economic Development Manager. This position is taking the place of the former Principal Planner and is being advertised now. It closes on Monday, May 20th. Tom suggested that by June or July we should have this new position hired; so that would be a great opportunity for Kenny to come and talk to the commissioners - as well as bring that person to the commission to make introductions. ADJOURNMENT President Anderson adjourned the meeting at 8:45 p.m. 6Th t!5"--9-9-4-C - Doreen Laughlin, Planning Co ssion Secretary /1-- ATTEST: President Tom Anderson 1:\LRPL N\Planning Commission\2013PC Packets\050613\tin850613minutes.dacx Page 4 of 4