2009/03/25 Council Agenda Packet

Planning Commission Meeting January 22, 2008 Page 5 Environmental Health and Hazardous Materials Landfill impacts - Follow Consent Decree (CD) and Cleanup Action Plan (CAP) • Health and safety plan • Additional capping • Gas controls • Building use restrictions (no residences on first floor on landfill) • Piling design • Stormwater controls Other areas with contamination—cleanup and remove Noise Noise from development—follow City noise ordinance Offsite noise impacts —sufficient distance from potential sources The next steps in the EIS process include: - Comment Period open until February 4, 2008 Permit Process - Rezone and Planned Development Overlay: Spring 2008 - Shoreline Permits: Spring 2008 Initial Development Activities - Landfill Surcharge: Spring 2008 - Building Design: Through 2008 Chairman Olivers asked if commissioners had any further questions. There was no response. Citizen comments Sean Edwards, 3503 Oakes Avenue, lives in the Port Gardner neighborhood and asked if the transportation element considered the connectivity between the development and the surrounding neighborhoods. He did not want the area to become a gated community that was closed off from the surrounding neighborhoods. He was concerned about the flooding potential of the area. He understood that buildings would be constructed above the floodplain level; however, he asked if global climate change had been considered in the formula for future floodplain levels. He asked how the City and OliverMcMillan intend to implement and pay for some of the salmon habitat restoration elements and how that lines up with mitigation for impacts on this site. He asked "How do we pay for salmon habitat restoration and mitigation?" He wanted to make sure that the City was not using scarce public grant dollars to do mitigation work that should be paid by the developer. Ryan Countryman, 3312 Lombard Avenue, is excited about the Riverfront Redevelopment project. His main concern was related to flooding and the 100 year flood plain estimates. He would like to see the FEIS take into account estimates of future flooding events and referred to a chart prepared by Dr.Alexander which showed the historic flooding events. He would like to see cross sections of the existing river level, projected river level, the existing floor elevation for the sites as they will be filled 2 feet above the 100 year floodplain, and then the current FEMA depth of whatever a 100 year flood would be and projected out to 2047 estimates. He would like to see whether or not the two foot fill above the current 100 year floodplain will be sufficient. Sandee Little, 6003 Broadway, has been a real estate agent for 20 years. She had some questions about the monetary side of the project and asked about some discrepancies in the