Meeting 4
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
6:00-9:00 p.m. with "Meet and Greet" from 5:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Inventory and Characterization Results,
Environmental Designations and Residential Shorelines
Notes:
DPD Planner Maggie Glowacki's presentation of the attached Summary of Code Changes drew particular interest from floating homes residents attending this SMP Revision Citizen's Advisory Committee meeting. One of her bullet points was an outright prohibition of floating homes.
Another DPD CAC staff member, Dave LaClergue, explained how the old Shorelines Environmental Designations map to the new proposed designations, which are designed to better reflect the condition of the current era's shorelines. See the Proposed ED changes list and Proposed ED changes map.
This meeting of the CAC, in fact, was delayed for a month until DPD was able to create a Characterization Map, which assigns color-coded grades to the shorelines of the city. The grades correspond to how much the shoreline has been altered from its natural state. Maggie Glowacki explained that the process was required by the state SMP's update guidelines and that Seattle's process was similar to other Washington cities'
It was barely discussed at the meeting, but some further insight into DPD's thinking about the principle of "No Net Loss" to the shorelines environment is contained in the paper on the subject they published this month.
During the time allowed for public comment, Diana Forman, a resident of Portage Bay, argued for a less toxic approach to aquatic weed control.
Other floating homes residents attending the meeting included Bob Bowman and Bill Keasler..
(This was the CAC's third meeting, but it was called "4," to enhance the confusion. The fourth meeting, a boat tour of the city shorelines in September, won't be counted, however. So by the fifth meeting, names, actual number of meetings and, dare we hope, stars, may be aligned again.)
Back to FHA SMP Revision Subcommittee's web page.
Meeting links
Agenda (PDF 19.3 KB)
Characterization map (PDF 1.06 MB)
Environment designation definitions (PDF 28.4 KB)
Proposed ED changes list (PDF 21 KB)
Proposed ED changes map (PDF 316 KB)
Residential development proposals (PDF 19.7 KB)