PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING

1 City of Lake Forest Park – Planning Commission 2 Regular Meeting Minutes: May 12, 2026; 7:00-9:00pm 3 Hybrid Meeting Held in the Emergency Operations Center 4 at City Hall and Virtually via Zoom 5 6 Planning Commissioners present: Chair David Kleweno, Vice Chair Janne Kaje (via Zoom), 7 John Drew, Marty Ross, Hina Shahid, Sam Castic 8 9 Staff and others present: Mark Hofman, Community Development Director; David Greetham; 10 Senior Planner (via Zoom); Josh Rosenau, City Council Liaison (via Zoom) 11 12 Members of the Public present: Maddy Larson (via Zoom); Ryan Makinster (via Zoom) 13 14 Planning Commissioners absent: Meredith LaBonte, Cherie Finazzo 15 16 Call to order: Chair Kleweno called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM 17 18 Land Acknowledgement: Cmr. Shahid read the land acknowledgement. 19 20 Approval of Agenda: Vice Chair Kaje proposed an amendment to the agenda to add a 21 conversation about tribal relations under new business. Cmr. Shahid moved to approve the agenda 22 as amended. Cmr. Castic seconded, and the motion to approve the agenda was carried unanimously. 23 24 Approval of Meeting Minutes: 25 Second Review and Approval of Meeting Minutes of February 10, 2026, Regular Meeting 26 No amendments for February minutes. 27 28 Approval of Meeting Minutes of April 14, 2026, Regular Meeting 29 Vice Chair Kaje provided edits to the minutes. Cmr. Drew made a motion to approve the April 14, 30 2026, Meeting Minutes as amended. Cmr. Castic seconded and the motion to approve the minutes 31 was carried unanimously. 32 33 Public Hearing: No public hearing. 34 35 Next meeting: The next meeting occurs on Tuesday, June 09, 2026 36 37 Public Comment: No public comments. 38 39 City Council Liaison Report: Council member Rosenau announced that the city council met with 40 the city councils of the cities of Shoreline and Kenmore for a collaborative meeting. The councils 41 discussed legislative issues as well as Public Works issues. Council member Rosenau also announced 42 that the PD Chief is retiring, and commander Zanella will be the interim chief while the search is 43 ongoing for a permanent replacement. He also stated that city hall will be closed to the public on 44 Fridays but staff will still be working. 45 46 47 48 1  1 Old Business: 2 Critical Areas Ordinance Update- Overview Presentation of LFPMC Chapter 16.16 3 Mr. Greetham gave a presentation on a high-level overview of Critical Areas. Mr. Greetham shared a 4 list of resources for critical areas and critical area mapping including local and state websites. Mr. 5 Greetham also gave an overview of the 5 main categories of the critical areas including definitional 6 and development standards. Mr. Greetham and Mr. Hofman also answered questions from the 7 planning commissioners in regard to the presentation. 8 9 Affordable Housing Purpose Statement and Objectives 10 Chair Kleweno presented the subcommittee’s proposed goals, guiding questions, and evaluation 11 criteria for affordable housing. He also outlined three potential options, as follows, for how the 12 Planning Commission could structure its work going forward: 13 14 Option 1: Given the Comprehensive plan has been updated to reflect middle housing requirements, 15 we focus on removing unnecessary barriers to middle housing development in city code and explore 16 offering pre-designed plans. 17 18 Option 2: We focus on (1) and incentivize the building of middle housing within the current code 19 parameters. Address “small A” – not incentivize one over the other. 20 21 Option 3: We focus on (1)-(2) and allow additional middle housing to increase the supply of middle 22 housing above and beyond what the current code permits. Incentivize development. For example, 23 instead of allowing 3 structures, developer is incentivized to build 6 if they promise to meet certain 24 criteria (e.g., affordability). Potentially partner with a Land Trust organization involved in housing 25 projects. 26 27 The purpose of this discussion was to determine whether the Commission wished to focus primarily 28 on identifying and reducing code-based barriers to middle-housing development, or whether it also 29 wanted to proactively encourage middle housing by pursuing Option 1, and exploring strategies to 30 support and incentivize middle-housing development. Commissioners discussed the proposed 31 options and proposed edits, then voted on which direction should guide the Commission’s efforts. 32 33 After deliberation, the Commission voted 4–2 in favor of a revised Option 1, as follows: 34 35 Option 1: Given the Comprehensive plan has been updated to reflect middle housing requirements, 36 we focus on identifying and evaluating barriers to middle housing development in Lake Forest Park 37 city code. 38 39 New Business: 40 Tribal Relations 41 Vice Chair Kaje posed the question on how the city engages with tribes with issues such as code 42 updates. Vice Chair Kaje also volunteered to work with staff on suggestions on how to engage with 43 tribes on development and code issues. 44 45 Reports and Announcements: No reports and announcements. 46 47 Agenda for Next Meeting: Discussion on tribal relations and affordable housing. 48 2 1 Adjournment: Cmr. Drew made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Vice Chair Kaje seconded, and 2 the motion was carried unanimously. Chair Kleweno adjourned at 9:08 PM. 3 4 APPROVED: 5 6 ______________________ 7 David Kleweno, Planning Commission Chair 3