Community meeting to update residents on southeast subarea plan

From the City of Shoreline

The City of Shoreline and the Briarcrest and Ridgecrest Neighborhood Associations invite you to a Community Meeting being held on Tuesday, September 21, from 6:30-8:30 pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 14901 30th Ave NE.

The purpose of the meeting is to update residents on the progress of the Southeast Neighborhoods Subarea Plan that was adopted by a Citizen’s Advisory Committee in November of 2009 and by City Council in May of 2010.

Over the coming months, this Subarea Plan will be implemented through the creation of a zoning map and changes to the Development Code, so it is important that neighbors understand the process, terminology and decisions to be made so that they may advocate for the options they desire and make reasoned arguments against elements they dislike.

Toward that end, staff will give a short presentation on the process to date, clarify some confusing land use terms, provide an outline for moving forward, and devote a significant amount of time to answering questions.

Anyone with questions before or after the meeting should contact Miranda Redinger at 206-801-2513 or mredinger@shorelinewa.gov.

The website for the project also contains background information, committee meeting minutes, and the adopted Subarea Plan document.

SE Subarea of Shoreline

Boundaries (and areas that were designated “Special Study Areas”) are on the map. The western boundary is 8th Ave, the southern one is 145th and the eastern one is Lake City/Bothell Way.

Overview and History

Portions of the Briarcrest and Ridgecrest neighborhoods are designated as "Special Study Areas." Properties in special study areas have zoning, but do not have accompanying Comprehensive Plan designations; i.e., no long-range vision. The purpose of the Southeast Neighborhoods Subarea Plan is to rectify the lack of direction in the existing Comprehensive Plan Map.

When the official City Comprehensive Zoning Map was adopted by Ordinance 292 on January 7, 2002, several segments were designated as Special Study Areas. The designation was intended to be a place-holder until the areas could be analyzed in further detail to determine a long-range vision. Two of these are the Briarcrest Special Study Area and the Paramount Special Study Area (located in the Ridgecrest neighborhood).

The City of Shoreline formed a citizen advisory committee to work with staff to develop a subarea plan to provide proper study of these areas, propose a long-range vision, implement zoning (if different than the current zoning) and develop code modifications.

The study area boundaries cover approximately half of the Briarcrest neighborhood and a portion of the Ridgecrest neighborhood, hence the name Southeast Neighborhoods Subarea Plan. Most of this area is defined as a "special study area," except for parcels between 30th Avenue NE and Bothell Way and between 8th and 15th Avenues NE which have existing Comprehensive Plan designations.