20171012090554.pdfDate: October 2, 2017
To: Shane Hope, City of Edmonds, Director, Developmental Services
From: Gordon Hayslip, Snohomish PUD, Distribution Engineering Services
Subject: City of Edmonds Noise Ordinance Variance Request
Snohomish PUD Distribution Engineering Services is requesting of City of Edmonds Developmental
Services that the PUD be granted administrative permission to allow electrical service construction
activity to be done between the hours of 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM (i.e. night work) to serve City of Edmonds
Commercial customers noted below. This request constitutes a variance request in accordance with
Edmonds Community Code 5.30.110.
Name of Affected Customers: *Please see below.
Location of Work to be conducted: *Please see below.
Anticipated Duration of Outage Needed for This Work: 6 to 9 hours (approximately).
Date Range Within Which Work To Be Conducted: Any Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or
Thursday of the week. Hours of work will be between 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM for a 6 to 9 hour duration
as described above.
Requested Variance Action Target Date: Monday 10/16/17.
This request for a variance exemption is submitted for the following reasons:
1. To complete the work described above with minimal disruption to the affected commercial
businesses' normal operating hours this work needs to occur during night time or weekend
hours.
2. This work, when done during night time hours will avoid significant disruption of normal traffic,
resident's normal activities or other customer needs and reduce public inconvenience.
3. Public safety is enhanced by scheduling this work during night time hours when fewer
neighborhood residents and customers of affected businesses are walking or driving in the
vicinity of the planned work.
4. The PUD will undertake the above described work in a manner to limit the necessary noise to
the minimum level attainable with the equipment to be used. Verbal communications among
PUD crew members during conduct of the work will be made with quiet noise levels in mind.
5. The PUD's strategy includes completing advance preparatory work without an outage and with
minimal impact to traffic and other business activities during normal daytime work hours.
Variance Submittal Contact Person:
Project Engineer (Yasamin Zadehgol), Distribution Engineering Services, Snohomish PUD:
425.783.5592; yxzadehgol@snopud.com
Gordon Hayslip, Distribution Engineering Services, Snohomish PUD: 425.783.4312; gwhayslip.snopud.c.
*Name of Affected Customers and Location of Work to be conducted: This is a strip mail with multiple
customers (or businesses) at ONE general location. Each customer (or business) has a different
address assigned. These addresses are:
9802-M:
1) AJ shoe repair. 9802 Edmonds Way.
2) Stay in style beauty salon. 9806 Edmonds Way.
3) Teriyaki. 9808 Edmonds Way.
4) Urban scrapbook. 9810 Edmonds Way.
5) Westgate plaza (?). 9818 unit A/ unit B Edmonds Way.
9804:
1) Q-nails. 9804 Edmonds Way.
9790-M:
1) Interstate insurance. 9790 Edmonds Way.
2) Pony mailbox. 9792 Edmonds Way.
3) Edmonds smoke shop. 9794 Edmonds Way.
4) Garlic jims. 9796 unit A/ unit B Edmonds Way.
C. Variances shall be processed as a Type 1 permit procedure under ECDC 20.01.003.13, while using the criteria found in subsection
A of this section. Factors to be b! lanced in the process include those identified as follov.,s:
1. Public convenience —Will the work result in significant delays for transportation, services, or other customer needs if done only
during the day and within the hour restrictions set out in other parts of this chapter?
2. Public Safety — Does working outside of normally allowed significantly improve safety conditions for the traveling public and/or
construction workers?
3. Public exposure — What will be the setting for any proposed work outside of regular hours? Is it located on an arterial street or in
a mostly residential area?
4. Public cost — Does a limited amount of authorized outside of regular hours established by this chapter save the public
significant cost compared to daytime work?
5. Noise reduction measures -- Have all reasonable steps been taken to reduce the impact of any necessary noise outside the
standard hours? Answering this question needs to include evaluation of (1) limiting the night time or early morning work to only
that necessary to reasonably mitigate the issues idenfified above, (2) use of quiet generators and quiet pumps (as available),
(3) drilling and placing of piles instead of driving them, as well as use of other techniques, design choices, and acoustic control
equipment and strategies necessary to minimize the night-time or early morning impacts from construction noise.
1. Public convenience: Yes. To complete the work with minimal disruption to the 10-12 commercial
businesses' normal operating hours, this work needs to be done during the night time hours.
Public safety: Yes. Public safety is enhanced by scheduling the work during night time hours
when fewer neighborhood residents and customers of the affected businesses are walking or
driving in the vicinity of the planned work. It will also avoid the disruption of normal traffic,
eliminate outage interference during normal daytime activities, provide an accessible parking lot
that won't be blocked during the day with crew trucks, and is the best way to reduce public
inconvenience.
3. Public exposure: It minimizes exposure. The pole is located south of Edmonds Way in a private
parking lot of several businesses.
4. Public cost: Yes. It will help costs of the affected commercial businesses by disrupting their
power when they are closed, as opposed to in the middle of the day during their peak hours of
operation.
5. The PUD will undertake the described work in a manner to limit the necessary noise to the
minimum level attainable with the equipment to be used. Verbal communications among PUD
crew members during conduct of the work will be made with quiet noise levels in mind.
The PUD's strategy includes completing advanced preparatory work without an outage and with
minimal impact to traffic and other business activities during normal daytime work hours. With
that said, the pole installation and most other heavy construction activities have already been
complete for this work.