Video Report - Standing Committee July 14

On July 14th I made a project status report to the Governmental Services Standing Committee of City Council. This presentation outlined the current status of the Subdivision Code Update Project and the upcoming phases and direction.

Development Services Director, Steve Powers, also provided introductory comments and commentary describing how the Project incorporates work being completed by the City in cooperation with the Puget Sound Partnership as well as a grant from CTED.

The video report below provides an account of the meeting and includes all the slides from the presentation. The video is just under 18 minutes in length.


Subdivision Project Update from Robert Voigt on Vimeo.

"Lifestyle Habits"

During the July 14th Governmental Services Standing Committee meeting, an interesting large scale issue was raised for discussion. The theme of the issue was our "community's lifestyle habits", and how we design our neighborhoods for them.

Some of the specific subdivision design elements that were included in this theme were:

1) amount of parking required (both on street and off) for neighborhoods;
2) pedestrian oriented design; and,
3) design standards for narrower neighborhood streets.

Standing Committee Meeting

On July 14th, I presented a project update to the Governmental Services Standing Committee of City Council.

The presentation outlined the project to date, including its scope; general findings; and public engagement strategies and statistics. A video of the presentation will be available shortly.

The Governmental Services Committee regularly scheduled meeting is the second Monday of each month, at 7:00 a.m. at City Hall.