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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1706 RESOLUTION NO. 1706 A RESOLUTION directing the City Attorney's Office to prepare documents to retain a designated re- sponsible official; to prepare and/or review a con- tract to retain Lee Johnson & Associates for pre- paration of an Environmental Impact Statement; and to commence to prepare and assemble any and all necessary information and documentation for a prospective hearing on a redevelopment area. WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton intends to consider the re- development of a portion of the City; and WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton finds that it will be nec- essary to retain a designated responsible official to facilitate its consideration of said redevelopment and any plan or plans proposed thereunder; and WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton finds that it will be neces- sary to retain consultants for the preparation of Environmental Im- pact Statements in accordance with state and federal laws and regula- tions in order to properly consider said redevelopment; and WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton finds that it will be nec- essary to gather information and documentation regarding areas within the City of Bremerton to be considered for redevelopment in prepara- tion for hearings on the subject of redevelopment, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF BREMERTON: That the City Attorney's Office shall prepare documents necessary for the retention of a designated responsible official to supervise the City's responsibilities in a redevel0pment program for portions of the City Of Bremerton; RESOLVED that the City Attorney's Office shall prepare and/ or review a contract for the retention of Lee Johnson and Associates for the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement for a re- development program in the City of Bremerton; and RESOLVED that the City Attorney's Office shall begin to prepare the necessary information and documentation for a prospective hearing on a redevelopment area in the City of Bremerton. - i - PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage this 9th day of March, 1977. GLENN K. JARSTAD, Mayor ATTEST: G. C. YEADON, SR., City Clerk - 2 - ESCROW AGREEMENT TO The Honorable Mayor and City Commissioners of the City of Bremerton Gentlemen: The undersigned, Bremerton Tomorrow, Incorporated, hereby proposes to the Honorable City Commission of the City of Bremerton and agrees as follows: Bremerton Tomorrow has established an Escrow Account with the Bremerton Branch of Rainier National Bank in the sum of $12,000.00 which the City of Bremerton is authorized draw upon to pay for the following services to be rendered to the City of Bremerton and the authority to draw the money is given upon fulfillment of the condi- tions as herein set forth. II. The City herein agrees and commits itself to a plan and schedule for the redevelopment of the downtown or Central Business District portion of the City of Bremerton under the Urban Renewal Laws of t~e State of Washington RCW 35.81 in accordance with the Redevelopment Schedule (copy of which is attached hereto and in- corporated herein by reference). The City also agrees to set up a redevelopment agency and follow the Urban Redevelopment proce- dures as set forth in RCW 35.81.160. As a further part of the redevelopment procedure herein set forth the City agrees: A. To hire a consultant, competent in the field of plan- ning and Urban Redevelopment to prepare and draft an adequate En- vironmental Impact Statement under RCW.43.21C and the SEPA Guide- lines established thereunder WAC 197-10 et seq for the redevelop- ment of the Bremerton Central Business District~ B. To hire and retain an expert in the field of Environ- mental Impact Statement procedures at the expense of the City oC Bremerton to act'for and be the "Responsible Official" under RCW 43.21C and the SEPA Guidelines WAC 197-10 to guide the preparation and final development and acceptance of an Environmental Impact Statement by the,City of Bremerton, said expert_to be especially assigned to this project. III. You are authorized to draw upon the money to pay for the completion of the EIS as set forth in Paragraph II-A above when 'the work is completed, written acceptance of which shall be acknowledged by the signature of Gary Sexton, Assistant City Attorney, repre- senting the City of Bremerton and Raymond Soule representing Brem- erton Tomorrow. DATED this day of March, 1977. BREMERTON TOMORROW, INC.: RAYMOND SOULE, V.P. ATTEST: CITY OF BREMERTON: REDEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE DATE 3-09-77 A) Submission of Proposal for Downtown Redevelopment 3-16-77 B) Commence Preparation of EIS 3-16-77 1). Retain Responsible Official to Represent City 3-16-77 2) Retain Firm to Prepare Preliminary 3-16 to 5-4-77 3) Prepare Preliminary EIS 5-04-77 4) Distribute Preliminary EIS 5-11-77 C) Pass Resolution and Direct Notice of Hearing on Redevelopment Area 5-18-77 l) First Publication in Newspaper 5-25-77 2) Second Publication on Second Consecutive Week 5-25-77 3) Mailing to Property Owners -- At Least Ten Days Before Hearing 6-15-77 D). Hearing on RedeveloDment Area and Determining Whether That Area is Appropriate for an UrbanRenewal Project -- AtLeast 18 Days After First Notice by Publication 6-15-77 l) Present Final Draft 6-15-77 2) Findings 6-15-77 3) Designate Area as Being Appropriate for Renewal PrOject 6-22-77 ~) Establish Redevelopment Agency (35.81.160) 6-23 to 7-08-77 l) Initial Organization Meetings of Redevelopment Agency 7-08 to 7-29-77 "2) Meeting with: a) General Public b) Local Businessmen C) Governmental Officials 6-23 to 10-05-77 3) Seek Grants in Aid 6-23-77 4) Develop Redevelopment Plan 8-08-77 F) Submission of Plan to Planning Commission 9-13-77 1) Return with Recommendations within 60 Days to City Council 9-14-77 G) Resolution on Notice Of Hearing On Redevelopment Plan 9-16-77 l) First Publication in Newspaper 9-23-77 2) Second Publication -- Second Consecutive Week 9-16-77 3) Mailing -- Not Less Than 10 Days Prior to Hearing 10-05-77 H) Public Hearing Concerning Proposed Redevelopment Plan 10-05-77 I) Determination on Urban Renewal Project by City Council · James D. Braman, Jr., A.I.P. Urban Planning and Development Consultant 2114 N.W, 99th St., Seattle, Wa. 98117 j~(206)783-0221 FEB 1 Mr. Gary Sexton Walgren, Sexton and McCluskey ~WALG~EN, SEXTON & McCLUS~EY 4th Avenue Building AITrORNEYS AT LAW. Bremerton, WA 98310 Dear Mr. Sexton: Thank you for the opportunity to discuss with you and your col- leagoes the situation relative to the Environmental Impact State- ment for the downtown development project. Serving as the City's representative in preparation of the E.I.S. would be a highly interesting challenge, one which I surely would enjoy. Enclosed is a relatively brief resume of ely experience. I've also enclosed a more complete Folder of my experience in specific areas. Several of these areas may be relevant to the eremorton task. The material is not completely up-to-date in regard to my recent activities in the environmental review area. In the past year, I have also completed the Following environmental work: 1. Prepared draft material For Environmental Impact Statement for $80 million redevelopment project for Providence Medical Center in Seattle. This E.I.S. is currently in its 35-day review period. 2. Prepared draft material for Environmental Impact Statement for redevelopment on Pier 69 on Seattle's central waterfront into a retail and office complex. The City will be issuing the draft Statement shortly. 3. Prepared complete Environmental Checklists for Four separate projects for Providence Medical Center. These involved more thorowgh traffic and parking studies than are normally sociated with checklists· 4. Prepared two thorough checklists for Seattle Trade a $15 million project. Both resulted in findings of non-eignii'jcance. 5. Prepared four Environnlontal Checklists fur various i~ri. vaLH projects, namely an 11-floor office building, rezoning for a cahinoL manufacturing plant, variances for a 99-unit high-rise elderly housing development, and a shoreline permit for a new machine shop. 6. I am currently participating with anenther consultant in a comprehensive review of the entire permit process of the State Department of Ecology, including actions under the State Envirnn- mental Policy Act of 1971. Bremerton E.I.S. Page Two As indicated in the attached resume material, I was responsible for operation of the Office of Environmental Management in the City of Seattle during my nearly six years as head of the Depart- ment of Community Development in that City. In that capacity I supervised establishment of environmental guidelines for the city and reviewed numerous Environmental impact Statements. I will be pleased to meet with you again if you have Further questions. Si~ely, Ja~ee~ A.I.P. OOB:tp LEE JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES, INC. CS'rnmons B'~dg. C.205 1200.112thAve. N.~. Bellerue, WA 9800,~ 455-3220 1712 PACIFIC AVENUE · EVERETT~ WA 98201 · (206) 259-6071 SEATTLE 624-4661 BELLEVUE 456-3220 February 28, 1977 PPL 77-1038 Mr. Christopher A. Washington Walgren, Sexton and McCluskey, P.S. Suite 409 245 Fourth Street Bremerton, Washington 98310 Dear Mr. Washington: Based on our February 11, 1977 meeting, the following outlines our proposed approach to the development of an environmental impact report for the adoption of the 701 study and downtown redevelopment concept. As a result of our meeting, the scope of services proposed assumes the following: 1. That the City will retain a separate consultant, to act as the "Responsible Official" for the City. 2. That the Consultant will act as coordinator for all City departments and will undertake all the functions of a "Responsible Official" as outlined under current S~E.P.A. Guidelines. 3. That the Consultant will retain primary responsibility for public hearing presentations and will direct and coordinate all public participation activities. Our responsibilities will therefore consist primarily of data collection and technical analysis. Overall project control, supervision and e~aluation will be handled by the consultant for the City, although we anticipate working very closely with the consultant from the beginning of the project. Through a cooperative effort lengthy reviews, modifications and correc- tions can be avoiaed. We have outlined a preliminary scope of work below. A final scope of work will have to be prepared after discussions with the "Responsible Official", the City, and the legal staff. The scope of work is broken down into major environmental categories as required under the State Environmental Policy Act. Architects Plannots February 28, 1977 PPL 77-1038 Page Two ENVIRONMENTAL DESCRIPTION: The EIS would include a generalized description of physical, social and economic setting of the Bremerton Region. Much of this information is contained in the Economic Base Analysis and Market Forecasts, Comprehensive Development Plan and re- lated studies completed under the 701 Planning Program.~ The EIS will specifically include economic profile data with res- pect to income and retail sales, employment and financial/ fiscal such as sales tax revenues, property tax revenues, assessed valuation and tax rates. Natural systems will also be evaluated emphasizing air quality, noise, topography and hydrology. Human Systems would also be evaluated with em- phasis placed on population Characteristics, Land Use, Traffic, and Utilities. Where necessary, existing data contained in the 701 study will be updated and expanded to present as current a profile and description as possible. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The 701 Comprehensive Study included five basic elements: A Comprehensive Development Plan, a Central Business District Economic Feasibility Study, a Shoreline Plan, a Park and Recreation Plan, and three Neighborhood Development Plans. The EIS would cover the central business district development. The EIS would cover actions related to the development of the Central Business District including the establishment of any redevelopment agencies, limited improvement districts, business improvement district, etc. It would also cover the initial acquisition of land, preliminary lease negotiations, preliminary and final designs, relocation activities, etc. The EIS will assume the existing comprehensive plan adopted in 1966 and a recentralization concept and the development of Scheme G. Decentralization and Schemes A-F would be evaluated as alternatives. ,Prior to actual construction, the EIS would have to be expanded and/or modified to address the specific impacts of the final accepted design, tenant size, secondary construction and timing. ENVIRONMENTA~ IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT: All potential primary and secondary impacts would be identified. The analysis would emphasize those impacts have a significant potential effect as outlined in the following categories. Socioeconomic The socioeconomic portion of this analysis includes an identification of the major economic, employment and February 28, 1977 PPL 77-1038 Page Three fiscal impacts that will result from the planned retail redevelopment project in the Bremerton CBD. With re- spect to department merchandise expenditures, the impact statement will evaluate the effect that the downtown project will have on decreasing sales leakages to areas such as Tacoma and Seattle. It will also evaluate pro- perty and sales tax revenue impacts that result from the building of approximately 700,000 net new sq. ft. of retail space in the central business district. In addi- tion, the socioeconomic and the land use analysis will address the impacts that will likely result to the central business district area in particular and Bremerton in general if a major retail development project is under- taken. We will pay particular attention to the public costs and likely net benefits that will result. Physical The physical portion of this analysis would include sig- nificant impacts related to pedestrian and vehicular circulation, utilities, air quality, surface runoff, and related functions. The impacts will be evaluated against the impacts resulting from decentralization. Land Use Secondary impacts related to land use modifications would be evaluated including: population distribution, secondary land uses such as office, hotel/motel, multi-family and industiral, and public services such as police, fire, parks and recreation. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LOCAL SHORT TERM USES OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE MAINTENANCE AND ENHANCEMENT OF LONG TERM PRODUCTIVITY: This section will basically discuss the rationale for the redeve- lopment of the Central Business District. It will compare the short term benefits to the required long term land-use effects such as density changes, transportation, changes to regional growth patterns, etc. IRREVERSIBLE AND IRRETRIEVABLE COMMITMENTS OF RESOURCES: This section will discuss those resources committed to the project such as land, building materials and energy. This commitment will be compared to resource commitments which would occur under alternative concepts including ~ecentrali- zation and no action. February 28, 1977 PPL 77-1038 Page Four REFERENCES This section includes a precise documentation of all reference and resource materials including interviews with public officials and other interested citizens as appropriate. By necessity, the above outline is very general. A more precise scope of work would be made in cooperation with the City's Res- ponsible Official. The project as proposed includes only those actions required for downtown redevelopment to occur. Fees required to complete the work outlined cannot be precisely determined until the final scope of work has been established. Based on our experience, we anticipate that the total cost for our portion of the work would not exceed $12,000.00, including all sub-consultant work, such as traffic and economics, but excluding public hearings, legal testimony and printing. We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to continue working with you on this effort. If we can provide anymore informa- tion or can answer any questions, please let us know. Very truly yours, ~D~ce President -- . /rm