Oscar Bandelin

 Brian Thomas

 Marshall Brendan

 Matthew Hebb

 David Rockabrand

 Gwendolyn High

Gwendolyn High gave a brief description of the definition of Transportation Concurrency and laws that brought it into being as well as her involvement as the only citizen/community representative on the King County Transportation Concurrency Advisory Committee. The committee studied possible changes to the way King County measures and predicts transportation concurrency and submitted a set of recommendations to the King County Council.

Interim: Segment Averaged Volume to Capacity - very similar to current methodology - averages the scores along a corridor - yields results comparable to the Travel Time methodology - no new data collection required - must be approved before March 2003

Mid Term: Travel Time - Comprehensive Plan Update required by December 2004 - new computer model required - new data collection scheme required - this system makes a bit more sense than the current one, but new Level of Service (LOS) standards should be considered before adoption

Long Term: Components of a more Comprehensive and Mature Concurrency Methodology - Transit - Trip Mitigation - Transportation and Roads long term planning - CIP and maintenance funding

- Impacts of annexations on concurrency
- State and Federal Routes are excluded from concurrency requirements
- Mitigation fees are not covering cost of impacts
- Support Interlocal agreements so that jurisdictions consistently require infrastructure improvements
- Imminent Domain is a worry to property owners in our area. People will be impacted by any widening or new roads
- Ramifications of sewers’ progression into our area

Claudia Donnelly had been invited by David Rockabrand to speak on school related issues.

- Impact fees of $4100 per house are charged to developers to pay for schools to the Issaquah school district for development in unincorporated King County
- Only $2800 per house is charged for development inside the Renton City Limits (but Isaaquah school district)
- Issaquah has expressed no interest in pursuing equal fee structure with Renton - Ms. Donnelly sited examples of several families that believe that they are being treated unfairly by Issaquah school district in relation to their special needs students - Councilmembers discussed the boundaries of where and how we might address these issues.