01609was not excessive. He said he had been all over the site and he felt the PRO concept
was justified in this case.
Councilwoman Jaech said she would vote against it. She said the Council represents
the people of this town and the people had spoken at the hearings on the Community
Development Code with a lot of concern on the PRD, and their main concern was not
that they were against PRDs, as there are areas where a PRO can be done if it is a
single-family, unattached configuration, and that is what the people want in this
town and what she felt should be done. She noted that there is a stream going through
the site but the public would not benefit by the PRO because the stream backs to
Woodway on the other side. She said that according to what she had read in the
minutes Woodway has sectioned the area on the other side into one acre lots. She
felt the single family character of this neighborhood should be maintained. Also,
she noted that in the Planning Commission minutes Mr. Bowman had indicated that
approximately ten units in a standard development would be enough for that area, as
MOTION:. did Commissioner Hall. THEREFORE, FOR THE REASONS SHE STATED, COUNCILWOMAN JAECH
MOVED, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GOULD, TO DENY PRD-1-80. MOTION„CARRIED,'WITH
COUNCIL MEMBERS ALLEN AND KASPER VOTING N0. (Councilwoman Goetz was not present for
the vote.) A short recess was announced, during which Councilwoman Goetz arrived.
HEARING ON PETITION FOR VACATION OF RIGHT-OF-WAY AND AMENDMENT TO OFFICIAL STREET MAP
TO REMOVE A PORTION OF 8TH AVE. N., BETWEEN ALOHA AND DALEY STS. -- P.C. RESOLUTION 653
(FILE ST-17-79) and
HEARING ON PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO OFFICIAL STREET MAP TO ADD A PROPOSED CUL-DE-SAC,
VICINITY OF 8TH AVE N AND ALOHA ST -- P.C. RESOLUTION 654 (FILE ST-5-80)
Councilman Kasper left the rostrum as he is one of the petitioners in these proposals.
Associate Planner Duane Bowman reviewed the items. The,cul-de-sac is proposed to
serve the area east of 8th Ave. to provide access if the street vacation is granted.
It would be approximately 160' south of Aloha St. and east of 8th Ave. N. The portion
of 8th Ave. to be vacated begins where the cul-de-sac meets 8th Ave. N. A 15' utility
easement would be retained by the City centered over the existing sewer line. Details
of the proposal were provided in the Planning Commission minutes. A declaration of
nonsignificant environmental impact had been issued, and the Planning Divison and
Planning Commission recommended approval. Mr. Bowman recommended that the Fire
Department be included in naming and addressing the cul-de-sac street. He read a
letter filed with the City Clerk this date from the Holy Rosary Parish, signed by the
Reverend Thomas C. McEnnis for the Corporation of the Catholic Archbishop of Seattle,
stating that such corporation, being the owner of 50% of the property. abutting 8th
Ave. N., the street proposed to be vacated, objected to the proposed vacation. Mr.
Bowman stated that the property proposed to be vacated originally had been dedicated
to the City by the property owners to the east. The public portion of the hearing
was opened.
Jim Shields, 709 6th Ave. N., a member of the Holy Rosary Parish, said he had been
sent to represent the parish this evening. He said the position of the church was
that their property would be adversely impacted by this proposal because it would be
deprived of future access to 8th Ave., and no one knows what the future will hold for
the church property, which is not fully developed as yet. Their position further was
that there would appear to be no urgency to vacate, so they requested that the action
be delayed. They also felt there were some questions regarding notification of the
hearings.
Don Schroeder, 528 8th Ave. N., one of the petitioners, said the vacation wi11 make
the best of a bad situation. He commented on the educational and sports complex
which the church is building in their residential area which already had adversely
impacted his property, and he said it was very unlikely that 8th Ave. ever would go
through from Daley to Aloha as most people do not want it to go through because of
the traffic generated by the church and gymnasium. He said he had raised the issue
of whether access would be needed on 8th and Aloha several times during hearings on
the church development, being dissatisfied with the traffic reports presented, and he
could not understand why, after all this time (having filed their original request in
January of 1979), having had all this time to consider the aspects of what they
wanted to do, that they now wanted to hold up the street vacation with no specific
reasons. He noted that when their Conditional Use Permit was granted for their
development it was decided that 7th Ave. was adequate to provide safe travel to the
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