Building_development

37:41 And this is a mapped geologic hazard and a severe erosion hazard area. The applicant filed a critical areas permit for that reason and by the staff's own number, the project moves quote, over 1200 cubic yards, quote, of earth against 500 cubic yard exemption level. No threshold determination was ever made. Second, the central safety question, whether the hillside can hold 18 homes has been deferred, not answered. The developer's own engineer says, quote, all of the slopes are over steepened, quote, and calls my boundary severely over steepened, quote, and says walls will be necessary, end quote. Yet no walls designed, there's no factor of safety calculation as record and condition three pushes the real slope stability analysis passed to this hearing. In Knight versus the city of Yelm, our state Supreme court reinstates a ruling that these public safety findings must be made as part of plat approval. Not deferring to a later permit stage, later is not an approval standard.

38:40 Three, pedestrian access. The subdivision has no pedestrian access, none. The applicant's own letter says, quote, no ADA or pedestrian access is available into the site or along any of the roadways surrounding the site, end quote. But the state law RCW 58.17.110 forbids approving a plat without written findings of safe walking conditions for students who walk to school. The impacted schools are many, many ha-ha Jason Lee in Hudson, Spain. No findings exist because on this record, none can be made. So I ask you that you that you deny this application or a man did for CPA review and a complete geotechnical record re-notice for public comment. If you approve any over these objections, please impose the six protective conditions in my main nine comments, plus the dry season earth work limit the applicant's own console consultants recommend. The code asks them to develop, the code asks this developer to provide a hazardous hillside

39:38 can safely hold 18 homes. Their own engineer says the proof comes later. Please deny or remand. Thank you, I'm happy to answer questions. - All right, thank you very much, Mr. Grant. I appreciate it. I don't have any questions. I'm interested to hear what the city and the applicant have to say to address your comments. So thank you. Okay, who's next? Please turn on your camera and raise your hand so I may call on you.

40:11 Let's see. - I didn't raise my hand. - Okay, I'm just going through my screen. Oh, Laurie Anderson. All right, Ms. Anderson, let me swear you in. And I don't know if you, if you want to turn on your camera, that's great. You do not have to do so. - I want to clarify, I'm using Laurie's computer. - Oh, great, okay. - My name is John McLaughlin. - Okay, Mr. McLaughlin, go ahead. - M-C-L-A-U-G-H-L-I-N. - Okay, great, Mr. McLaughlin. Oh, sorry, I keep interrupting you, go ahead. - 5515 Northeast 23rd Avenue. And I do want to be a party of record. - Excellent, okay. Now I'll swear you in. Do you swear or affirm the testimony you give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? - I do.

41:10 - Okay, thank you, Mr. McLaughlin. And thank you for letting us know you'd like to be a party of record. You may proceed with your testimony. - Well, briefly, I want to iterate what Mark Anderson, Mark Erickson stated that 18 houses on a little more than two acres. The subdivision does not conserve property values and does not preserve the neighborhood's character, which is contrary to a Washington State Supreme Court ruling. For that reason, I wish that the application be denied. Furthermore, AKS Engineering submitted the final stormwater technical information report, TIR. And in section B.2.4 MR number four,

42:07 titled Preservation of Natural Drainage Systems. That report states that the existing site is primarily pasture with the majority of the runoff collecting in the city's facility. However, internal email staffs disagree that it is primarily pasture. Brandon Tizol, the city's civil engineering supervisor has agreed that it should be modeled forested, not pasture. And I quote, "I agree, I think it should be modeled as forested because that's the requirement.