Engineering Comments 3of ED40CITY OF EDMONDS
�° PLAN REVIEW COMMENTS
ENGINEERING DIVISION
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DATE: August 5, 2019 — 3rd Comment Letter
FROM: JoAnne Zulauf, Engineering Technician
Joanne.zulauf@edmondswa.gov
RE: Application #: BLD20190116
Project: Aw - Single Family Residence
Project Address: 9527 190th PI SW
During review of the above noted application, it was found that the following information,
corrections, or clarifications are needed. Please submit revised plans/documents including a written
response to each item below.
Resubmittals can be made at the Development Services Department on the 2nd floor of City Hall.
Permit Center hours are M, T, Th & F from 8am-4:30pm and on Wednesdays from 8:30am-noon.
City of Edmonds handouts, standard details, application and other forms, and development code
may be referenced on the City website: www.edmondswa.gov under Services/Permits and
Development.
GENERAL
1) Done.
2) Done.
3) Done.
4) Done.
5) 8/5/19 Stormwater covenant must be notarized. 7/1/19 Not Done. No stormwater covenant
found in the materials submitted. A Stormwater Covenant is required to be recorded against
the property based on the proposed stormwater facilities for the project. Please complete the
covenant, including notarization and any required exhibits and submit to the city. Ensure the
stormwater covenant meets Snohomish County Record Drawing requirements. The
document must be complete, but will not be recorded prior to permit issuance. Prior to
construction, final location of facilities are to be verified (by field inspection and asbuilt)
and then the covenant will be recorded.
6) Done.
7) 8/5/19 See Below. 7/1/19 Not Done. No new waiver request has been received. Without an
approved waiver of frontage improvements, all improvements shall be required. Show all
existing and proposed frontage improvements.
8) Done.
9) Done.
10) Done.
11) Done.
Sidewalk Waiver:
8/5/19 The recently submitted waiver request appeared to not address anything I mentioned below
and has been denied. The request provided no concrete information or costs that would be above
and beyond the construction of the improvements at an average site. You can't say that the normal
sidewalk construction costs are part of the "extra" costs for example.
The criteria is "special circumstances" that render the improvements economically unfeasible or
practically impossible to construct."
Please read the information below thoroughly.
Provide each special circumstance with supporting information and documentation, if another
waiver submittal is planned. Otherwise show the frontage improvements on the plan, include all
standard details etc. 7/1/19 No new request was received. In reviewing the sidewalk waiver
request, there is not enough information for us to determine the situation meets the criteria for
waiver. The two criteria are economically unfeasible and practically impossible. To meet an
economically unfeasible criteria, actual monetary amounts need to be spelled out. Comparison
between cost of project with sidewalk construction and without sidewalk construction needs to be
discussed. Included can be the additional cost of designing stormwater for a category 2 site rather
than a category 1 site. To meet practically impossible there needs to be more of a reason than the
steep slope alone. Would you need to build retaining walls to support the sidewalk? Any type of
over the top construction necessary should be included here. The road alignment doesn't come in to
this as the sidewalks would be required along the existing road. As far as the telephone pole,
developers move them behind the sidewalk all the time so maybe look at where the pole could be
moved to accommodate a sidewalk. Keep the arguments for each criteria separate.
Each special condition should be listed with an explanation of why it is special to this property and
the cost that would be extra because of this condition.
Since this seems to be so confusing I will try once more for the Aws.
The following may help:
Provide a drawing that shows constructing the sidewalks and all the above to scale. Show an 11 ft
wide westbound lane measured from the perceived centerline of the existing paved road. Show
curb/gutter and a five foot sidewalk behind it. Show a one directional curb ramp where 190th meets
Olympic View Dr. Then use the King County Bond Quantity Worksheet to estimate the costs. Do
not include anything that will be done anyway —like the driveway for example. THEN identify every
cost that is above and beyond frontage improvements at another location. What are the additional
things that need to be done at this site specifically to make the improvements work that would not
be required at most other sites. That total would be the amount you are arguing makes the
frontage improvement construction economically unfeasible.
For the slope issues, provide a road profile. Show where it is excessively steep.
Everything you identify as a special circumstance has to have an explanation of why it is over and
beyond what any "normal" property would need to spend for frontage improvements. It needs to
have a clearly estimated measure and cost -use the king county bond worksheet not a contractors
estimate. The estimate that was submitted included no measurements and included all the frontage
improvements. The driveway will be constructed regardless so is not considered a "special" cost. It
should not have been included in the estimate.
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