Kirkland City Council responds to Planning Commission request to Assist with Interim Ordinance
The Planning Commission sent this letter to the Kirkland City Council on October 7th requesting that the Council “adopt a review process that fosters broad community involvement and support and one that can be concluded within a reasonable period of time.” They offered to assist the Council toward that end.
On November 13th, the City Council responded with this letter to the Planning Commission in which the Council declined the Planning Commission’s offer of assistance stating that the Council would likely schedule a hearing before the end of the year and they would welcome Planning Commissioners’ comments.
The City Council states that changes to the Comprehensive Plan are not contemplated and the Council’s intention is “to make the regulations more predictable for the benefit of all those involved in the the development process.”
Posted by Admin on Friday, November 14, 2008 at 10:31 am
Filed under Documents · Tagged with City Council, Development, Documents, Downtown, Moratorium, Planning Commission
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This letter from the city council appears to be dismissive. Its a month late and says that the planning commission is not needed thank you. I think the council knew what they wanted to do and the planning commission would only slow the process down.
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I will put my money on planning professionals over politicians any day.
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The Planning Commission is not composed of planning professionals. The majority of them are just citizens of Kirkland.
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Kirkland has a planning department and the planning commission that wrote the letter referenced above. Does anyone know how their respective duties are laid out?
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The mayor made a promise to the downtown community that the goal of their actions was to fix the problems in the code, clean it up and not down zone. Doing this quickly is very important and the planning commission would slow everything down.
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And you trust the Mayor?
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