City Council - Planning Committee
Regular MeetingBellingham, WA · July 7, 2014
Minutes
City of Bellingham
Planning Committee Minutes
07/07/2014, 10:30 AM
Mayor Kelli Linville Contact: (360) 778-8200, ccmail@cob.org
Council Members Jack Weiss, Gene Knutson, Cathy www.cob.org/council
Lehman, Pinky Vargas, Terry Bornemann, Michael Lilliquist All meetings are held in the City Hall Council Chambers at
and Roxanne Murphy 210 Lottie Street, Bellingham, WA unless otherwise noted.
Call to Order
Council Standing Committee Meetings:
Planning
20464 1. A Work Session to consider adoption of the Downtown Bellingham
Plan and associated development regulations
Gene Knutson moved to recommend approval to change the property adjacent to
Battersby Field to RT1 Zone.
MOTION CARRIED 3-0.
Jack Weiss moved to recommend approval to include blocks south and north of the
courthouse in the table to expand the definition with notation of Section F,
miscellaneous uses, expanding jail and booking facilities.
MOTION CARRIED 3-0.
Gene Knutson moved to recommend approval to allow the Public Works Director the
discretion to reduce or waive the landscape buffer if there is a public benefit.
MOTION CARRIED 3-0.
Gene Knutson moved to recommend approval to strike the words "be based on
market demand and supply."
MOTION CARRIED 3-0.
Gene Knutson moved to recommend approval of the adoption of the Downtown Sub-
area Plan and replacing the Central Business District Neighborhood Plan with the City
Center Neighborhood Plan to include the land use development code and to amend
the Lettered Streets, Sehome, Sunnyland, and York Neighborhood plans and zoning
tables to reflect this new overlay with the amendments provided by the Planning
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Commission, by the staff and by our committee earlier today, which have to do with
increasing the RT zone on D Street between Ellsworth and Girard Street, to increase
the notation about permitted jail and correctional facility uses to be on the south and
north blocks of the Courthouse, to allow for Planning Director approval of landscape
buffer areas, and to remove policy language in Policy 8.3 to remove the words agreed
to in the earlier motion.
MOTION CARRIED 3-0.
Adjournment
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Agenda
City of Bellingham
Planning Committee Meeting Agenda
07/07/2014, 10:30 AM
Mayor Kelli Linville Contact: (360) 778-8200, ccmail@cob.org
Council Members Jack Weiss, Chair www.cob.org/council
Michael Lilliquist, Gene Knutson All meetings are held in the City Hall Council Chambers at
210 Lottie Street, Bellingham, WA unless otherwise noted.
Call to Order
Roll Call
Council Standing Committee Meetings:
Open to the public to attend. Note: there is generally no public comment period for
Committee sessions. Standing Committee Members receive reports and information,
ask questions and, when appropriate, vote on a recommended action for consideration
by the full Council at the Regular meeting. Committee Chairs give a report of the
Committee Meeting at the Regular Meeting in the evening prior to deliberation and
formal vote in the order shown below:
Planning
Jack Weiss, Chair
Roxanne Murphy; Gene Knutson
20464 1. A Work Session to consider adoption of the Downtown p. 1
Bellingham Plan and associated development regulations
Adjournment
** INDICATES THE INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCE/RESOLUTION
Agenda Information:
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the Central Library or can be purchased in the Finance office at City Hall for $4.00.
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Next City Council Meeting
07/21/2014
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agenda packet is 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday prior to the meeting.
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