Kirkland 2035 Plan Update

1. Kirkland 2035 Plan Update Summary of EIS Alternatives Transportation Commission – September 25, 2014

2. Kirkland 2035 Update • Parallel Plan Update and Environmental Process • City preparing Plan Element and neighborhood plan updates. • Consultants preparing environmental impact statement (EIS), based on updates. • EIS will include a Planned Action for Totem Lake to encourage development. • Plan updates and EIS to be completed in Spring 2015.

3. What is an EIS? • An informational document to inform decision making. • Evaluates the potential impacts associated with growth occurring under the updated Comprehensive Plan. • Tests multiple plan alternatives to evaluate the range of potential impacts. • Examines impacts in a variety of topic areas, including: • Land use patterns • Housing and Employment • Natural environment • Transportation • Public Services • Utilities

4. How are the Alternatives identified? • Alternatives provide a range of options for decision makers. • Alternatives show multiple ways to accomplish meeting our growth targets. • Not every possible alternative needs to be tested. • Must include a “No Action” (existing plan & regulations). Serves as baseline for comparison of other alternatives. • Must evaluate 2 alternatives. • The final Comp Plan must be within the range of the alternatives evaluated.

5. Alternatives and Growth Targets • Kirkland has enough development capacity to meet both its housing and employment targets. • Both Alternatives test the same levels of growth: • 8,361 new housing units • 22,435 new jobs • Growth Alternatives represent different ways to distribute growth throughout Kirkland.

6. Summary of Alternatives • No Action: Adopted land use plans, policies, and development regulations. • Growth Alternative 1: Focus future growth in major development centers (Totem Lake and CBD) • Growth Alternative 2: Most growth to major centers, but some portion of future development distributed to neighborhood centers and industrial areas.

7. Growth Patterns: Totem Lake • Under all alternatives, Totem Lake would be the primary growth center. • No Action: Focused on office and industrial development, with commercial and residential per adopted plans and zoning. • Growth Alternative 1: A mix of commercial, office, and industrial with slightly higher housing & employment than No Action. • Growth Alternative 2:Slightly less housing and employment than No Action.

8. Growth Patterns: CBD Subareas • CBD 5A (Parkplace) • No Action: 1.8 million sqft of office and retail, per approved plan • Alternatives 1 & 2: Anticipated revised Parkplace plan with moderate decrease in office use and moderate increase in residential. Code amendment required. • CBD 5 (MRM request) – south of Park Place • No Action: Office/commercial mix per adopted plans – low rise office • Alternative 1: Greater office with increased building heights • Alternative 2: Greater residential with increased building heights

9. Growth Patterns: Neighborhood Centers • Neighborhood Centers will receive varying levels and types of growth by alternative. • No Action:Moderate increase in commercial and residential development. Redevelopment up to 3 stories. Current code. • Growth Alternative 1: No redevelopment. Stays at 1 story retail. • Growth Alternative 2: More growth directed to neighborhood centers. Growth weighted to residential development at 4-5 stories.

10. Growth Patterns: Light Industrial Tech • No Action: Office development per adopted plans and zoning. No new industrial development. • Growth Alternative 1: Similar to No Action. • Growth Alternative 2: Mix of office, retail, residential in Norkirk. No new industrial uses. Mix of retail, hotel and office in North Rose Hill.

11. Citizen Amendment Requests • 19 CARs will be analyzed relative to Alternatives 1 & 2. • No Action assumes none of the CAR’s would be approved.

12. Questions and Comments

13. Growth Patterns: Totem Lake Subareas