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City of Port Orchard
Council Meeting Minutes
Work Study Session Meeting of May 16, 2023
CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
Mayor Pro-Tem Trenary called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m.
Roll call was taken by the Deputy City Clerk as follows:
Mayor Pro-Tem Trenary
Present
Councilmember Chang
Present
Councilmember Clauson
Present
Councilmember Cucciardi
Absent
Councilmember Diener
Present
Councilmember Lucarelli
Present
Councilmember Rosapepe
Present
Mayor Putaansuu
Absent
Staff present: Community Development Director Bond, Senior Planner Fisk, Planning Commissioner
Ashby, and Deputy City Clerk Floyd.
The meeting also streamed live on YouTube.
Pledge of Allegiance (Time Stamp 00:23)
Mayor Pro-Tem Trenary led the audience and Council in the Pledge of Allegiance.
1. Housing Action Plan (Time Stamp 00:45)
Community Development Director Bond spoke to the draft Housing Action Plan, noting this was
funded by a grant and the State gave us a little over a year to complete. In addition, he provided a
document, explaining it contains a wide variety of recommendations for future consideration and
attempts to assess our code for policies and make recommendations for housing affordability and
the variety of housing within the City. There is no obligation to act on these recommendations.
The Planning Commission has been holding a public hearing to take testimony on Housing Action
Plan.
Mr. Bond discussed the contents of the Draft Housing Action Plan which included background
information, regulatory strategies, programmatic strategies, citywide planning strategies, funding
strategies, and implementation.
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Planning Commissioner Ashby joined the conversation at 7:47 p.m.
Additional discussion was held regarding racially disparate impacts and equality, lack of time to digest
the information, countywide planning policies, planning for an additional 10,500 people, differences
between east and west Port Orchard and the need to discuss those two areas, design guidelines,
more housing types in more zones, significant trees and tree canopies, housing coordinator, middle
housing and accessory dwelling units, recently passed bills, McCormick Woods, affordable housing,
reaching out to the military and school districts for housing data, fine tuning the City's code, living
wages, landlord and tenant protections, safety, parking, homelessness, impact fees, Bethel Corridor,
multifamily tax exemptions, Department of Commerce oversight, housing affordability program,
anti -displacement strategies, census tract data, rental and owned homes, duplexes, code
adjustments, and displacement.
In response to Councilmember Rosapepe, Community Development Director Bond explained the
next steps for the City is to submit a final report that has been accepted by the City Council. He
suggests once this is completed the Council takes a couple items to start working on. Additionally,
Vision 2050, which is our checklist from the Puget Sound Regional Council, requires us to look at race
and equity, so this plan is actually giving us some of those tools to meet those requirements so we
can receive federal funding for transportation. We are hoping to have the resolution adopted at the
June 13th Council Meeting.
Council Direction: Provide a red -line version of the Housing Action Plan so they can see the changes
that have been suggested.
Planning Commissioner Ashby left the meeting at 8:09 p.m.
2. Development Fee Comparison (Time Stamp 1:39:10)
Community Development Director Bond provided a document which showed a comparison of
development fees from other jurisdictions, including cities and counties. Our building permits are
lower than average, but they are offset because our impact fees are higher than average. Overall,
our plan and inspection fees that are charged for a building permit are pretty reasonable.
In response to Mayor Pro-Tem Trenary, Community Development Director Bond said at this point,
we will probably move forward with the resolution for clean-up with minor changes. We could
choose to adopt a new building evaluation table, but given that our other fees are so high, this is not
needed at this time.
Additional discussion was held regarding the fees of the City and other jurisdictions.
Council Direction: No direction given to staff.
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GOOD OF THE ORDER (Time Stamp 1:44:49)
Councilmember Rosapepe asked with the new legislation, how will that impact the Community
Development Departments workload with the comprehensive plan coming up next year.
Community Development Director Bond responded they are still catching up with the mandates from
the 2019- 2020 legislative session and with these new bills passed, they are overwhelmed.
A brief discussion was held regarding the City's utility discount program for senior citizens.
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The meeting adjourned at 8:19 p.m. No other action was taken. Audio/Visual was successful.
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